The Saturday Evening Girls Club
The Saturday Evening Girls Club

Author: Jane Healey

Publisher: Center Point

Published: 2019-08

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781643582962

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For the young women living in Boston's North End in 1908, the Saturday Evening Girls Club is an escape from the drudgery of daily life. For Caprice, Ada, Maria and Thea, it's the one time each week the friends can be together. They support each other's dreams and help each other navigate romances and family clashes, cultural prejudices, loss and heartbreak. Through it all one thing is certain - they could not get through it all without their friendship, and the Saturday Evening Girls Club.

Becoming American Jews
Becoming American Jews

Author: Meaghan Dwyer-Ryan

Publisher: UPNE

Published: 2009

Total Pages: 282

ISBN-13: 1584657901

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A compelling history of Boston's Temple Israel and its role in American Reform Judaism

Miller's Arts & Crafts
Miller's Arts & Crafts

Author: Judith Miller

Publisher: Mitchell Beazley

Published: 2017-03-09

Total Pages: 1071

ISBN-13: 1784720135

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'...one of the most friendly, easygoing and instructive books on the design movement' Chicago Tribune Arts & Crafts is one of the most influential design movements of all time, beginning in the late 19th century and still being explored by designers today. The Arts & Crafts ethos - rejecting mass production and industrialization in favour of individualism, simplicity, honest craftsmanship, respect for materials and good design - had a massive impact on the design of the early 20th century and transformed design sensibilities globally. This invaluable guide covers furniture, ceramics, silver and metalware, glass, textiles, jewellery, books and posters, and includes fascinating profiles of key designers such as William Morris, the Stickleys, Liberty & Co, Tiffany Studios, George Ohr, Rookwood and many more. It comes with a pictorial design directory, price ranges and a wealth of essential information for collectors and anyone wishing to follow William Morris's golden rule of Arts & Crafts: 'Have nothing in your houses that you do not know to be useful or believe to be beautiful.'

The Jews of Chicago
The Jews of Chicago

Author: Irving Cutler

Publisher: University of Illinois Press

Published: 1996

Total Pages: 420

ISBN-13: 9780252021855

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Vividly told and richly illustrated with more than 160 photos, this fascinating history of the cultural, religious, fraternal, economic, and everyday life of Chicago's Jews brings to life the people, events, neighborhoods, and institutions that helped shape today's Jewish communities. 15 maps. Graphs & tables.

Girlhood in America [2 volumes]
Girlhood in America [2 volumes]

Author: Miriam Forman-Brunell

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA

Published: 2001-06-08

Total Pages: 806

ISBN-13: 1576075508

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This groundbreaking reference work presents more than 100 articles by 98 high-profile interdisciplinary scholars, covering all aspects of girls' roles in American society, past and present. In this comprehensive, readable, two volume encyclopedia, experts from a variety of disciplines contribute pieces to the puzzle of what it means—and what it has meant over the last 400 years—to be a girl in America. The portrait that emerges reveals deep differences in girls' experiences depending on socioeconomic context, religious and ethnic traditions, family life, schools, institutions, and the messages of consumer and popular culture. Girls have been commodified, idealized, trivialized, eroticized, and shaped by the powerful forces of popular culture, from Little Women to Barbie. Yet girls are also powerful co-creators of the culture that shapes them, often cleverly subverting it to their own purposes. From Pocahantas to punk rockers, girls have been an integral, if overlooked and undervalued, part of American culture.

Well-read Lives
Well-read Lives

Author: Barbara Sicherman

Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Press

Published: 2010

Total Pages: 394

ISBN-13: 0807833088

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In a compelling approach structured as theme and variations, the author offers insightful profiles of a number of accomplished women born in Americas Gilded Age who lost and found themselves in books, and worked out a new life purpose around them. Some wo

Lifestyle Changes
Lifestyle Changes

Author: Vera Sonja Maass

Publisher: Taylor & Francis

Published: 2008-05-19

Total Pages: 335

ISBN-13: 1135902119

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Change is inevitable, and each person handles each event differently, some with more difficulty than others. In Lifestyle Changes, psychologist Vera Maass draws on 25 years of practice experience - and a lifetime filled with changes, growth, and challenges - to present a clinician's guide to working with clients who are facing a fundamental change in their lifestyle. Each chapter explores a different event and its potential impacts on the client's current lifestyle, focusing on positive ways to respond and adapt to the situation. Through a mix of case examples, personal vignettes, sample clinician/client dialog, and engaging language, Lifestyle Changes provides an accessible and practical resource for practitioners that maximizes the potential for positive growth out of each experience.