Can an Amish midwife earn her community's trust and bring the joy of new babies to Pleasant Valley?
Amish midwife Sarah Mast moves to Pleasant Valley for a fresh start. But her aging aunt can no longer run the birthing center, leaving most of the responsibility to Sarah. Among those skeptical o[...]
Women first appeared on the legitimate stage in England following the Restoration in 1660, heralding a major change in British theater. "The First Actresses: From Nell Gwyn to Sarah Siddons "explores the vibrant and sometimes controversial relationship between art, gender, and the English theater in[...]
Sure to provoke a child's imagination, twenty crisp, full-color watercolors depict fantastic images full of surprising metamorphoses, in which cats fly about on wings, leaves turn into fish, and butterflies become a little girl's coat. UP.[...]
This book explores the social importance of hair, wherever it grows, explaining the cultural significance of hair and hairiness and presenting a new critical engagement with hair and its stories, histories, performances and rituals. From heads, legs and underarms, to wigs and beards, and everything [...]