The Age of Martha
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Women in Late Life
Author: Martha Holstein
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Published: 2015-03-19
Total Pages: 317
ISBN-13: 1442222883
DOWNLOAD EBOOKContemporary old age is fraught with contradiction and complexity—women portrayed either as incompetent and cuddly grandmothers or as young women trapped in old bodies, images that rarely reflect how women actually see themselves. Women in Late Life explores the thorny issues related to gender and aging, including prevailing but problematic cultural expectations, body image, ageism, the experience of chronic illness, threats to Social Security and the very possibility of a secure retirement while challenging a long-term care system that disadvantages women. Author Martha Holstein writes from a critical feminist perspective, drawing on her many years of experience in gerontology, as well as interviews and personal experience as a woman now in her seventies. The book highlights how women’s experience of late life is shaped by the effects of lifelong gender norms, by contemporary culture—from gender stereotypes to ageism—and by the political context. The book blends critique with proposals aimed at resisting damaging inequities resulting from being simultaneously old and a woman. She focuses on changes needed on multiple levels—societal, cultural, political, and individual. This interdisciplinary look at key questions around gender and aging is nuanced and beautifully written.
Martha
Author: Agnes De Mille
Publisher: Arrow
Published: 1992
Total Pages: 509
ISBN-13: 9780091752194
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Author: Marjana Gaponenko
Publisher: New Vessel Press
Published: 2014-09-15
Total Pages: 264
ISBN-13: 1939931177
DOWNLOAD EBOOK“Vividly drawn characters, history, music, birds, love, loneliness, and wisdom . . . A brilliant book, rich and satisfying as a Viennese torte” (Sy Montgomery, author of Birdology). In this poignant yet rollicking novel, ninety-six-year-old ornithologist Luka Levadski forgoes treatment for lung cancer and moves from Ukraine to Vienna to make a grand exit in a luxury suite at the Hotel Imperial. He reflects on his past while indulging in Viennese cakes and savoring music in a gilded concert hall. Levadski was born in 1914, the same year that Martha—the last of the now-extinct passenger pigeons—died. Levadski too has an acute sense of being the last of a species. He may have devoted much of his existence to studying birds, but now he befriends a hotel butler and another elderly guest, who also doesn’t have much time left, to share in the lively escapades of his final days. This gloriously written tale is “a book like a fantastic party, as unshakeable as a child’s faith [that] astonishes to the very end” (Neue Zürcher Zeitung).
Martha Washington
Author: Helen Bryan
Publisher: Wiley
Published: 2002-07-31
Total Pages: 432
ISBN-13: 0471212989
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"A contempary anecdote not only confirms that Martha commanded respect in her own right during her lifetime, but also suggests an awkward truth later historians have preferred to ignore-that without Martha and her fortune, George might never have risen to social, military, and political prominence.Toward the end of his life, George Washington, war hero, retired president, and object of universal fame and veneration, was negotiating to purchase a plot of land in the new capital city, to be named in his honor. The seller, an aged veteran of the Revolution, was reluctant to part with the plot, even to so distinguished a purchaser. Washington persisted until the veteran's patience snapped: 'You think people take every grist that comes from you as the pure grain. What would you have been if you hadn't married the Widow Custis!' " -from the Introduction to Martha Washington: First Lady of Liberty From the glittering social life of Virginia's wealthiest plantations to the rigors of winter camps during the American Revolution, Martha Washington was a central figure in some of the most important events in American history. Her story is a saga of social conflict, forbidden love affairs, ambiguous wills, mysterious death, heartbreaking loss, and personal and political triumph. Every detail is brought to vivid life in this engaging and astonishing biography of one of the best known, least understood figures in early American life.
Queen of Hearts
Author: Martha Brooks
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR)
Published: 2011-08-02
Total Pages: 226
ISBN-13: 1429962518
DOWNLOAD EBOOKOn the prairies of Canada during World War II, a girl and her two young siblings begin a war of their own. Stricken with tuberculosis, they are admitted to a nearby sanatorium. Teenager Marie Claire is headstrong, angry, and full of stubborn pride. In a new strange land of TB exiles she must "chase the cure," seek privacy where there is none, and witness the slow wasting decline of others. But in this moving novel about fighting a way back to normal life, it is the thing that sets back Marie Claire the most—the demise of her little brother—that also connects her with the person who will be instrumental in helping her recover.
Martha Stewart - Just Desserts
Author: Jerry Oppenheimer
Publisher: AMI Books
Published: 2003-07
Total Pages: 468
ISBN-13: 9781932270235
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDomestic Goddess, Martha Stewart, once considered the epitome of perfection, has done a one-eighty. At the height of her game, as the head of a billion dollar corporation, she's been indicted in a shocking criminal insider trading case, and if convicted, the undisputed doyenne of style' could be imprisoned.
Living Life Inside the Lines
Author: Martha Sigall
Publisher: Univ. Press of Mississippi
Published: 2005
Total Pages: 268
ISBN-13: 9781578067497
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAn insider's account of the wild and wacky teams that created cartoon classics for Warner Bros. and MGM Animation
Martha
Author: Winzola McLendon
Publisher: Random House (NY)
Published: 1979
Total Pages: 438
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"The journalist who was Martha Mitchell's close friend and confidante in her last years offers a behind-the-scenes look at what motivated [one of] the most controversial [women] in...American politics and what happened to her after Watergate"--adapted from amazon.com.
Martha doesn't say sorry!
Author: Samantha Berger
Publisher: Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
Published: 2009-05-01
Total Pages: 40
ISBN-13: 9780316066822
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAdorably clad in her pink dress and matching headband, Martha is ready to do just about anything-except say those three little words: I am sorry. But when this sweet but stubborn otter learns that niceties like cookies, piggyback rides, and hugs are for people who apologize our mischievous heroine learns the ultimately rewarding feeling that comes with saying she's sorry. Parents and kids alike will embrace the hilarious watercolor illustrations and the irreverent humor throughout in this pitch-perfect picture book that offers the gentlest of lessons.
