Serving Proudly
Serving Proudly

Author: Susan H. Godson

Publisher: US Naval Institute Press

Published: 2001

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781557503176

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A look at the life and careers of women in the Navy throughout history.

Terms of Enlistment
Terms of Enlistment

Author: Marko Kloos

Publisher: 47north

Published: 2014

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781477809785

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The year is 2108, and the North American Commonwealth is bursting at the seams. For welfare rats like Andrew Grayson, there are only two ways out of the crime-ridden and filthy welfare tenements: You can hope to win the lottery and draw a ticket on a colony ship settling off-world, or you can join the service. Andrew chooses to enlist in the armed forces. But as he starts a career of supposed privilege, he soon learns that good food and decent health care come at a steep price.

Out to Work
Out to Work

Author: Alice Kessler-Harris

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2003-02-13

Total Pages: 431

ISBN-13: 019977045X

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First published in 1982, this pioneering work traces the transformation of "women's work" into wage labor in the United States, identifying the social, economic, and ideological forces that have shaped our expectations of what women do. Basing her observations upon the personal experience of individual American women set against the backdrop of American society, Alice Kessler-Harris examines the effects of class, ethnic and racial patterns, changing perceptions of wage work for women, and the relationship between wage-earning and family roles. In the 20th Anniversary Edition of this landmark book, the author has updated the original and written a new Afterword.

In Defense of Ska
In Defense of Ska

Author: Aaron Carnes

Publisher: Clash Books

Published: 2024-07-12

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781955904711

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In a mix of interviews, essays, personal stories, historical snapshots, obscure anecdotes, and think pieces, this second expanded edition dissects, analyzes and celebrates ska in exactly the way fans have been craving for decades. With the addition of 4 new sections, Aaron adds to the already extensive compendium that was the first edition: The Importance of Christian Ska; After ska died in the '90s, the music went underground and returned to its roots; The ska roots of Fall Out Boy lead singer Patrick Stump; How Katrina created a vibrant ska scene in New Orleans. Aaron expands on the original edition with exciting interviews with Patrick Stump from Fall Out Boy who he interviewed on his podcast of the same name. In Defense of Ska: Ska Now More Than Ever is the much-needed response to years of ska-mockery. Now the time to take to the streets and fight music snobbery, or at least crank up the ska without being teased ruthlessly, has come. This book will enlist ska-lovers as soldiers in the ska army and challenge ska-haters' prejudices to the core.

American Women
American Women

Author: Library of Congress

Publisher: Washington : Library of Congress

Published: 2001

Total Pages: 464

ISBN-13:

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Description This important publication is designed to introduce researchers to the opportunities for discovering American women's history and culture at the library of Congress. Covers materials such as textual sources, films, sound recordings, prints and photographs, and other audio or visual material. Intended for academics, advanced graduate students, genealogists, documentary filmmakers, set and costume designers, artists, actors, novelists, photo researchers, and general readers.

The Missing of the Somme
The Missing of the Somme

Author: Geoff Dyer

Publisher: Vintage

Published: 2011-08-09

Total Pages: 178

ISBN-13: 0307743233

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The Missing of the Somme is part travelogue, part meditation on remembrance—and completely, unabashedly, unlike any other book about the First World War. Through visits to battlefields and memorials, Geoff Dyer examines the way that photographs and film, poetry and prose determined—sometimes in advance of the events described—the way we would think about and remember the war. With his characteristic originality and insight, Dyer untangles and reconstructs the network of myth and memory that illuminates our understanding of, and relationship to, the Great War.