Ladies of the Lights: Michigan Women in the U.S. Lighthouse Service, Paperback - Patricia Majher

Reducere. "A great read about some great ladies, Pat Majher's Ladies of the Lights pays long overdue homage to an overlooked part of Great Lakes maritime his...

Reducere. Awards🏆Winner (2016) - Michigan Notable Books - (Notable Book)Contributor(s): Author: Patricia MajherA deep-sea diver, a dancer, an activist, an av...

Reducere. Bold Boys in Michigan History-a companion to Great Girls in Michigan History-explores the stories of twenty boys who did some amazing things before...

Women have a long history of keeping the lights burning, from tending ancient altar flames or bonfires to modern-day lighthouse keeping. Yet most o...

Reducere. The ships and crews of the U.S. Lighthouse Tender Service were the unsung heroes of Great Lakes transportation for more than a century. Yet despite...

Reducere. In a charming blend of history and human interest, this book paints a colorful portrait of the lives of a vanished breed--the lighthouse keepers--f...

Reducere. Northern Harvest: Twenty Michigan Women in Food and Farming looks at the female culinary pioneers who have put northern Michigan on the map for foo...

Like their modern counterparts, the 'first ladies' of Rome were moulded to meet the political requirements of their emperors, be they fathers, husb...

This is the story of what happened next. Ladies Can't Climb Ladders focuses on the lives of six women - six pioneers - forging paths in the fields ...

Reducere. A look inside the personal life of every first lady in American history, based on original interviews with major historians C-SPAN's yearlong histo...

Analyses decades of voting preferences, values, and policy preferences to debunk some of the myths about gender gaps in voting and policy preferenc...

Publisher: Goldsmiths, Unversity of LondonAuthor(s): Pippa GoldschmidtIllustration(s): 15 black and white illustrationsNumber of pages: 144Collecti...

Have you ever noticed that singleness is not nearly as valued or celebrated in the church, as marriage is? We treat singleness like it's a curse or...

Badass Victorian Women"Wild Women is a delightful collection of riveting stories about our independent, iconoclastic, and utterly outrageous foremo...

Argues that the quality of citizens' interactions with the government through service provision sends them important signals about what they can ho...

Reducere. Visiting all the lighthouses on Michigan's Upper Peninsula was not Sam and Becky's idea of an exciting summer--until they met a ghost who had been ...

The Islamic Revolution of 1979 was an unmitigated disaster for the women of Iran. That fact is well known. What is less well-known and what Manda Z...

Reducere. In a 1776 letter cautioning her husband to "remember the ladies, " Abigail Adams made one of the earliest pleas for women's rights in America. How ...

Since the turn of the millennium, a growing number of female filmmakers have appropriated the aesthetics of horror for their films. In this book, P...

In Women of the White House, Amy Russo looks at the works, lives and times of the 47 women officially recognized as America's First Lady.Illustrati...

The 2003 edition of Cops, Teachers, Counselors has become one of the more visible books in this field of research. It was based on NSF-supported fi...

A lively history of the Second World War on the Home Front told through the stories of the women serving in the Women's Voluntary ServicesPublisher...

Reducere. The Islamic Revolution of 1979 was an unmitigated disaster for the women of Iran. That fact is well known. What is less well-known and what Manda Z...

Reducere. Voices heard from the dark water: "There's hope! I think I see a flare! Help will be on the way! Lifesavers are on the shore! Our creaking old scho...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Blaine PardoeEvery small town has a moment when the real world abruptly intrudes, shattering the town's notions of itself a...

Reducere. This book examines how gender enables the globalization of markets and how emerging forms of service labor are changing women's social status in Ch...

A book lover's guide to embracing beauty, sensuality, creativity, connection, wonder, and joy in late life, The Book of Old Ladies introduces reade...

Publisher: Aetherius Society, U.S.Author(s): Richard LawrenceIllustration(s): illusNumber of pages: 257Publication date: 2016Dimensions: 202 x 200 ...

Reducere. Countless Michiganian women performed extraordinary acts that challenged and improved the world. Madame Marie-Therese Cadillac served as the medici...

Reducere. In this eye-opening companion volume to her acclaimed history Founding Mothers, number-one New York Times bestselling author and renowned political...

Reducere. When the last spike was hammered into the steel track of the Transcontinental Railroad on May 10, 1869, at Promontory Point, Utah, Western Union li...

Reducere. This eye-opening book identifies factors that impede the success of women in STEM professions and demonstrates the negative impact of sexual harass...

For fans of Century Girls comes a new book by Tessa Dunlop.Publisher: Headline Publishing GroupAuthor(s): Tessa DunlopNumber of pages: 384Publicati...

DescriptionGendered Power sheds light on the sources of power for three prominent women of the Meiji period: Meiji Empress Haruko; public speaker, ...

This collection of women's travel writing dispels the notion that women shouldn't travel, by showing how there are few corners of the world that ha...

Reducere. Investigating the essential role that the postal system plays in American democracy and how the corporate sector has attempted to destroy it.With F...

Buss has compiled the stories of 10 lower-income women, told in their own words

An updated and revised edition of Funny Ladies, this book has even more cartoons from iconic contributors and rising stars of The New Yorker.Publis...

Provides incomparable insights into women's lives during America's Civil War era. Marilyn Mayer Culpepper's respect for these nineteenth-century wo...

Reducere. Since 1845, along the River Raisin in the southeastern Michigan town of Monroe, the Sisters, Servants of the Immaculate Heart of Mary (IHM) have di...

Reducere. The Lighthouse at the End of the World, Paperback

Reducere. This collection of short, action-filled stories of the Old West's most egregiously badly behaved female outlaws, gamblers, soiled doves, and other ...

Reducere. This new biographical look at Leonardo da Vinci explores the Renaissance master's groundbreaking feminist portrayal of women which forever changed ...