Containing nearly three dozen original essays penned by the nation's leading newspaper journalists, editors, and executives, this book advances current discussions regarding women in journalism. Surveying the past quarter century, the book's contributors highlight the unprecedented influence American women have had on the news industry, especially newspapers, and look ahead to the future for women in news. Acclaimed anthropologist and author Helen E. Fisher adds her perspe...

Captures the war's human toll and explores its social consequencesThe Battle-Ground, Ellen Glasgow's fourth novel, was her first bestseller, with more than 21,000 copies sold in just two weeks. The novel committed her to a project almost unparalleled in American literary history: a novelistic meditation on the South from the decade before the Confederacy to the middle of the 20th century. The Battle-Ground speaks of a South before and during the Civil War ...

This book arises out of a recognition that student affairs professionals have little preparation or guidance in dealing with matters of spirituality, religion, secularity, and interfaith work at a time of greater diversity in students’ beliefs and, from a broad recognition that there is a need to engage with this aspect of student life. For those who don’t know how to begin and may be nervous about tackling a topic that has the potential to lead to heated disagreements, this book provides ...

This book, newly updated, contains now several HTML tables of contents that will make reading a real pleasure!The first table of contents (at the very beginning of the ebook) lists the titles of all novels included in this volume. By clicking on one of those titles you will be redirected to the beginning of that work, where you'll find a new TOC that lists all the chapters and sub-chapters of that specific work.Here you will find the complete 'Tom Sawyer' no...

This book-collection file includes: Cavanagh's Forest Ranger, A Daughter of the Middle Border, The Eagle's Heart, The Forester's Daughter, A Little Norsk, Main-Travelled Roads, The Moccasin Ranch, Other Main-Traveled Roads, Prairie Folks, The Spirit of Sweetwater, A Spoil of Office, The Tyranny of the Dark, and Wayside Courtships. According to Wikipedia: "Hannibal Hamlin Garland (September 14, 1860 March 4, 1940) was an American novelist, poet, psychical researcher essayist, and short stor...

This file includes: "Chip of the Flying U" by B.M. Bower; "Bull Hunter" by Max Brand; "The Cave in the Mountain" by Edward Ellis; "A Cumberland Vendetta" by John Fox, Jr.; "The Forester's Daughter" by Hamlin Garland; "Desert Gold" by Zane Grey; "The Law of the Land" by Emerson Hough; "Foes in Ambush" by Charles King; "A Daughter of the Dons" by William MacLeod Raine; "The Range Boss" by Charles Alden Seltzer; "The Blazed Trail" by Stewart Edward White; and "A Straight Deal" by Owen Wister....

Fifteen sketches detail the misadventures of schoolchildren during the pioneer days in Ontario, Canada. Detailing both the mischievous adventures of the youths alongside depictions of life in Canada at the time of Confederation, Glengarry School Days is a delight for readers both young and old.Based on the author’s own experiences growing up in Glengarry County, Glengarry School Days was one of many works written by Ralph Connor, who became one of the most popular...

In the first of his classic novels featuring endearing rags-to-riches heroes, Horatio Alger tells the rollicking story of Ragged Dick, a teenaged boot-black who relies on his wit and morals as he makes his way through the streets of New York City and strives for a better life.

This book-collection file includes: Christmas Eve on Lonesome and Other Stories, Crittenden, Cumberland Vendetta, The Heart of the Hills, Hell Fer Sartain and Other Stories, In Happy Valley, A Knight of the Cumberland, The Last Stetson, The Little Shepherd of Kingdom Come, a Mountain Europa, and The Trail of the Lonesome Pine. According to Wikipedia: "Born in Stony Point, Kentucky to John William Fox, Sr., and Minerva Worth Carr, Fox studied English at Harvard University... After working f...

Tully’s breakthrough novel about life on the roadJim Tully left his hometown of St. Marys, Ohio, in 1901, spending most of his teenage years in the company of hoboes. Drifting across the country as a “road kid,” he spent those years scrambling into boxcars, sleeping in hobo jungles, avoiding railroad cops, begging meals from back doors, and haunting public libraries. Tully crafted these memories into a dark and astonishing chronicle of the American underclass—espec...

For romance readers who are looking for stories that are a little tamer than the racy tomes that tend to dominate bookshelves today, Grace Livingston Hill's body of work is a welcome respite. In Dawn of the Morning, plucky heroine Dawn Rensselaer finds herself stuck in an arranged engagement that will relegate her to a life of misery. Will she ever be able to break free and find true love?