This ambitious study provides a sweeping overview of the position of women in England, France, Germany, and Russia/USSR during a seminal period in world history. Comparing Russian and European women's quest for respectability, self-realization, justice, and simple survival from 1860-1939, the book illustrates their struggles to realize their dreams and their resourcefulness in coping with often dreary, hard, even horrifying lives. Deftly combining statistical data to underscore collective ...

History of the Moravian Church chronicles the Church from its founding to the end of the 19th century.

Fulfilling Your Heart's Desire is filled with many heartfelt thoughts and ideas that are so true in Life. Many of the stories I have experienced in my own life and I'm sure that many have had some of the same experiences. Life goes on every day while we are in the middle of changes, hopes and wishes in our minds or in our hearts. I've written this book to help all that may be wondering what has gone wrong or keeps us feeling down or helpless. This is a message that will help you to learn t...

When heavy medical books are removed from a dining room table, it floats out the front door. all of the farm animals jump on the table to hold it down, but it still floats like a balloon into space. by working together and collecting space junk, the animals bring the table home again.

In spring 1876 a physician named James Madison DeWolf accepted the assignment of contract surgeon for the Seventh Cavalry, becoming one of three surgeons who accompanied Custer’s battalion at the Battle of the Little Big Horn. Killed in the early stages of the battle, he might easily have become a mere footnote in the many chronicles of this epic campaign—but he left behind an eyewitness account in his diary and correspondence. A Surgeon with Custer at the Little Big Horn is the f...

A concise history of the goddess-like figures who evade both Christian and pagan traditions, from the medieval period to the present dayIn this riveting account, renowned scholar Ronald Hutton explores the history of deity-like figures in Christian Europe. Drawing on anthropology, archaeology, literature, and history, Hutton shows how hags, witches, the Fairy Queen, and the Green Man all came to be, and how they changed over the centuries.Looking closely at...

Addiction is a disease. So is Cancer. Decades ago we whispered when speaking of a Cancer diagnosis. Today, through awareness, it is appalling to think there was ever a stigma attached to Cancer. Instead we are now vocal about Cancer, we seek answers, we seek cures, and we seek prayer. However, the stigma attached to the disease of Addiction is still very real. The diagnosis is still whispered. Pride Aside is one Father's attempt to be vocal, to share answers he has discovered, to share tre...

Ronald Hutton is known for his colorful, provocative, and always exhaustively researched studies on original subjects. This work is no exception: the first full-scale scholarly study of the only religion England has ever given the world, that of modern pagan witchcraft, which has now spread from English shores across four continents. Hutton examines the nature of that religion and its development, and offers a microhistory of attitudes to paganism, witchcraft, and magic in British society ...

Three women turn their backs on London and the husband hunt and take up residency in the lovely town of Bath.The Bookseller and the EarlMiss Adeline Mallory, who has suffered from dyslexia her whole life, convinces her parents that marriage is simply not in her future and to release her dowry to her so she can open a bookstore.The Courtesan's Daughter and the GentlemanMiss Charlotte Danvers escapes the reputation her mother ...

How can you escape the past, when it refuses to let you go?Thirteen years after escaping an emotionally and psychologically abusive marriage, Noah Gallagher has finally found true love in Chad, an EMT who showed Noah how it feels to be loved unconditionally.The only problem? Noah never actually divorced his ex. And he never told Chad he’d been married before.When Noah’s ex crashes Chad and Noah’s wedding ceremony, Chad sees his dreams of a life with Noah disappear. ...

A writing couple searches for answers when Alzheimer's causes one of them to lose the place where stories come from — memory.At the age of fifty-three, Tony walks away from a life of journalism and into an unknown future. June is forty-eight, a writer and teacher, and over the following decade watches as her husband changes — in interests, goals, and behaviour — until Tony has a fall, ending the life they had known.A diagnosis is seven years away, yet the s...

The Scottish Highlands, 1816.Lady Sybil Lacey is every inch an English woman. She’s horrified her best friend is wedding a barbarian Scot. For aren’t Scots naught but brutish, whiskey-swilling lechers? So to find herself secretly attracted to the tall and devastatingly handsome Scottish laird of Bedlay Castle is quite disconcerting … Liam MacBride is convinced that English ladies are silly sassenachs who think of nothing but social events and clothes. So why is he intensely drawn t...