In the 1890's, L. Frank Baum took the advice of his mother-in-law, suffragist leader Matilda Gage, and turned his attention to trying to sell the stories he'd been telling to his sons and their friends.

Examines the life of Louisa May Alcott, discussing her family, relationships, works, rejection of marriage, and other related topics.

Based on a detailed examination of New York case law, this pathbreaking book shows how law, politics, and ideology in the state changed in tandem between 1920 and 1980.

This text provides a solid foundation in program evaluation, covering the main components of evaluating agencies and their programs, how best to address those components, and the procedures to follow when conducting evaluations.

Throughout this book, Emerson's unquenchable vitality reaches across the decades, and his hold on us endures.

To this day, her work is considered a pioneering account of military nursing. Alcott's time as an Army nurse in the Civil War helped her find her authentic voice -- and cemented her foundational belief system.

An Englishwoman is found dead in a house near Rome, her neck broken.

Assessing the contents of a lavish English estate, museum conservator Angela Lewis discovers a crate full of sealed pottery jars-one of which holds a parchment which describes the life and times of Jesus of Nazareth.

AN ANCIENT CODE A clay tablet covered in ancient writing is found by an English couple in Morocco.

With this remarkable third collection, Smith establishes herself among the best poets of her generation.