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Parenting can be filled with grief & sadness, especially when parenting children who are troubled or have special needs or were adopted. Parents living with their child's challenging behaviors, mental health issues, physical disabilities, and more, often feel forgotten, ignored, unseen. "Tears of Despair" speaks directly to parents that are struggling with their kids and teenagers. No matter what kind of grief & despair parents might be going through, tears is part of the healing process. This book presents words of sorrow from famous poets, the Bible, and the mom of a short-term special needs child. These lamentations and poems speak about the sorrows and challenges of parenting children with diagnoses of reactive attachment disorder (RAD), bipolar, post traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), depression, autism, as well as many adoptive and foster families. While this book is written for parents, family therapists and counselors will find this beneficial to share with their clients. ... Read more

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Relevant Words
Susan Ward has a gift for connecting relevant words to challenging times. Tears of Despair holds a collection of such words. The reader will find in this book passages which speak the reality of the ambiguity of parenting. A wonderful resource offering insight and compassion for all parents who, from time to time, feel overcome by despair and question the appropriateness of their feelings and themselves as parents. Susan manages to address the reality of this despairing darkness without extinguishing the light. Thank you Susan.

I no longer feel alone
This is a precious gem of a bookThere is so much information and comfort in these pages. I recommend it to ALL parents. It affirmed my feelings so much and gave me strength.THANK YOU, SUSAN wARD!! ... Read more

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Caroline Crosby’s life took a wandering course between her 1834 marriage to Jonathan Crosby and conversion to the infant Mormon Church and her departure for her final home, Utah, on New Year’s Day, 1858. In the intervening years, she lived in many places but never long enough to setfirm roots. Her adherence to a frontier religion on the move kept her moving, even after the church began to settle down in Utah. Despite the impermanence of her situation, perhaps even because of it, Caroline Crosby left a remarkably rich record of her life and travels, thereby telling us not only much about herself and her family but also about times and places of which her documentary record provides a virtually unparalleled view. A notable aspect of her memoirs and journals is what they convey of the character of their author, who, despite the many challenges of transience and poverty she faced, appears to have remained curious, dedicated, observant, and cheerful.

From Caroline’s home in Canada, she and Jonathan Crosby first went to the headquarters of Joseph Smith’s new church in Kirtland, Ohio. She recounts, in a memoir, the early struggles of his followers there. As the church moved west, the Crosbys did as well, but as became characteristic, they did not move immediately with the main body to the center of the religion. For awhile they settled in Indiana, finally reaching the new Mormon center of Nauvoo in 1842. Fleeing Nauvoo with the last of the Mormons in 1846, they spent two years in Iowa and set out for Utah in 1848, the account of which journey is the first of Caroline Crosby’s vivid trail journals. The Crosbys were able to rest in Salt Lake City for less than two years before Brigham Young sent them on a church mission to the Society and Austral Islands in the South Pacific. She recorded, in detail, their overland travel to San Francisco and then by sea to French Polynesia and their service on the islands. In late 1852 the Crosbys returned to California, beginning what is probably the most historically significant part of her writings—her diaries of life, first, in immediately post–Gold Rush San Francisco and, second, in the new Mormon village of San Bernardino in southern California. There is no comparable record by a woman of 1850s life in these growing communities. The Crosbys responded in 1857 to Brigham Young’s call for church members to gather in Utah and again abandoned a new home, this the nicest one they had built, one of the finest houses in San Bernardino. Such unquestioning loyalty was a characteristic Caroline and Jonathan displayed again and again. ... Read more

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A superb and very highly recommended contribution to academic library American History original documents collections
The collaborative editorial work of Edward Leo Lyman, Susan Ward Payne, and the late S. George Ellsworth, No Place To Call Home: The 1807-1857 Life Writings Of Caroline Barnes Crosby, Chronicler Of Outlying Mormon Communities is the seventh volume in the unique "Life Writings of Frontier Women" series published by the Utah State University Press. Enhanced with a profusion of maps and illustrations, this is a chronologically organized collection of a Mormon pioneer woman's memoirs and journal entries that include her marriage to Jonathan Crosby in 1834, to her conversion to the infant Mormon Church, to her move to from Canada to the new church in Kirtland, Ohio, to her coming to Nauvoo in 1842, to her emigration to the Salt Lake valley in 1848 less than two years before Brigham Young sent Caroline and her husband on a church mission to the Society and Austral Islands in the South Pacific. Late in 1852 the Crosbys returned to California where she recorded the post-Gold Rush life of San Francisco, and the new Mormon village of San Bernardino in southern California. Then in 1857, returning to Utah in response to a call from Brigham Young where she resided for the remainder of her life. No Place To Call Home is a superb and very highly recommended contribution to academic library American History original documents collections and supplemental reading lists portraying pioneer life in mid-nineteenth century America in general, and the Mormon experience in particular.
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Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony were two heroic women who vastly bettered the lives of a majority of American citizens. For more than fifty years they led the public battle to secure for women the most basic civil rights and helped establish a movement that would revolutionize American society. Yet despite the importance of their work and they impact they made on our history, a century and a half later, they have been almost forgotten.

Stanton and Anthony were close friends, partners, and allies, but judging from their backgrounds they would seem an unlikely pair. Stanton was born into the prominent Livingston clan in New York, grew up wealthy, educated, and sociable, married and had a large family of her own. Anthony, raised in a devout Quaker environment, worked to support herself her whole life, elected to remain single, and devoted herself to progressive causes, initially Temperance, then Abolition. They were nearly total opposites in their personalities and attributes, yet complemented each other's strengths perfectly. Stanton was a gifted writer and radical thinker, full of fervor and radical ideas but pinned down by her reponsibilities as wife and mother, while Anthony, a tireless and single-minded tactician, was eager for action, undaunted by the terrible difficulties she faced. As Stanton put it, "I forged the thunderbolts, she fired them."

The relationship between these two extraordinary women and its effect on the development of the suffrage movement are richly depicted by Ward and Burns, and in the accompanying essays by Ellen Carol Dubois, Ann D. Gordon, and Martha Saxton. We also see Stanton and Anthony's interactions with major figures of the time, from Frederick Douglass and John Brown to Lucretia Mott and Victoria Woodhull. Enhanced by a wonderful array of black-and-white and color illustrations, Not For Ourselves Alone is a vivid and inspiring portrait of two of the most fascinating, and important, characters in American history.Amazon.com Review
In 1902, at the age of 83, Susan B. Anthony wrote a letter toher dearest friend, Elizabeth Cady Stanton:

We little dreamed when we began this contest, optimisticwith the hope and buoyancy of youth, that half a century later wewould be compelled to leave the finish of the battle to anothergeneration of women. But our hearts are filled with joy to know thatthey enter upon this task equipped with a college education, withbusiness experience, with the fully admitted right to speak inpublic--all of which were denied to women fifty years ago. They havepractically but one point to gain--the suffrage; we hadall.

Anthony and Stanton had worked together for over half a century forwomen's rights and were instrumental in keeping the movement alivedespite repeated defeats. Sadly, Anthony is best remembered as "thewoman on that funny dollar" and Stanton has been largelyforgotten. PBS favorites Ken Burns andGeoffreyC. Ward have joined forces again to change all that, in theirrespectful dual biography of the great suffragettes, Not forOurselves Alone. The authors trace Anthony and Stanton's verydifferent lives--Anthony was a Quaker who remained single all herlife; Stanton was born to a wealthy family and later married andraised several children--from girlhood on through their hard work,frequent disagreements on policy, and unflagging devotion to the causeof women's rights. In this era when fewer than half the eligiblevoters go to the polls, many have forgotten the struggles of Anthonyand Stanton, the sacrifices they made, and the hardships theyendured. Anthony, for one, was frequently vilified in the press,cruelly caricatured, and shouted down at lectures. What shines mostbrightly throughout the volume, however, is the love and respect thesewomen felt for one another.

With contributions by noted historians AnnD. Gordon and EllenCarol Dubois, and dozens of evocative contemporary photographs,Not for Ourselves Alone provides a view of the suffragemovement through the eyes of the women who fought hardest for it. "Weare sowing winter wheat," Stanton confided to her diary, "which thecoming spring will see sprout and which other hands than ours willreap and enjoy." Indeed, neither Stanton nor Anthony lived to be ableto cast a ballot. But Burns and Ward have assured them of a largerplace in the American memory--as is their right. --SunnyDelaney ... Read more

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Wonderful Beginning Book for Women's History
This was a wonderful and engaging read. Not only were you given a clear picture of both Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony, but the book cites numerous powerful men and women who were active in the suffrage movement. This book is like a small taste of women's history that leaves you yearning for more. However, I wouldn't overlook this book just because it is not extremely specific, it is very helpful in getting a feel for the suffrage movement as a whole.

Wonderful recounting of many important women
This book fills a glaring need in history books. Not many people know more about Susan B. Anthony than she was one the dollar coin. This book corrects that oversight, and then some. Not only does the book give a balanced and well thought out look at Anthony and Stanton, the reader is also introduced to many, many other women who worked so hard for women rights.
I especially liked that the book didn't shy away from some of these women's more controversial stands, such as taking on the black person's cause.
All in all, a very good book.

Every Woman should read this book!
This book provides insight and history on the struggle that women went through to get the right to vote.It includes all kinds of interesting background and perspectives.It was a real eye opener for me and I'm giving it as a gift to all the young women I know.

What every woman should know
This book was an eye opener for me.Every woman should read this book to understand the fight for our right to vote.These women devoted their lives to something they knew they would never even see in their live time!Its a story of courage and strength.It's makes one feel proud to be a woman.

Applause to Ken Burns & Geoffrey Ward!
This book is richly woven with details that dive into the true characters of these two beautiful souls.The book gives a truly amazing account of not only Elizabeth Cady Stanton & Susan B. Anthony, but dives into their lives and characters.The reader obtains a true understanding ofthese women's motivations, techniques, skills, and contributions, in abrilliant biography with great quotes, accounts, photographs, and specialarchives directly from the time period of Susan & Elizabeth, relatingto their work.Ken Burns & Geoffrey C. Ward have made quite anaccomplishment with this extraordinary account. ... Read more

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From the back:Introduces one of the world's great cuisines - Lebanese ingredients and specialties described - Mouth watering recipes, both simple and more complex - Beautifully illustrated in full color throughout. ... Read more

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Good but expensive!!
I have been to Lebanon and love their food. I borrowed this book from my library and it all looks relatively simple and authentic. There are beautiful pictures that bring back memories of lavish eating in Beirut. However, I am appalled that this book is $150+ new on Amazon!! It's only got 128 pages. That's crazy! The used ones are $48+ too..... what a shame!! I wonder if this is wrong?? ... Read more

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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Susan Ward (born April 15, 1976) is an American actress and model. Ward was born in Monroe, Louisiana. She attended a private,Christian elementary school (Monroe Christian School), in Monroe,LA. She briefly attended Northeast Louisiana University (now University of Louisiana at Monroe) She began modeling at the age of 13, leaving school and moving to New York to do so, deciding to try her hand at acting several years later. After a few years of small TV jobs on All My Children and NBC's short-lived Malibu Shores, she landed her first main role as the heroine on Aaron Spelling's daytime soap opera Sunset Beach, where she played the virginal Meg Cummings. ... Read more

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'Paris, the undisputed capital of the fashion world, is rich in talented designers, skilled craftsmen and native chic. It has been a magnet for stylish men and women since the seventeenth century. While fashion and the industries surrounding it have evolved considerably since then, the City of Light’s preeminence remains a constant. Fashion Show explores the ideas and inspirations that have driven Paris fashion through the ages, and it investigates why, in an era of globalization, this venerable city remains an undisputed Mecca. An essay by Pamela A. Parmal, Chair of Textiles and Fashion Arts at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, outlines the history of the local fashion industry from its beginnings through the mid-twentieth century. Didier Grumbach, head of the esteemed Chambre Syndicale, Paris, discusses the current state of Paris fashion and its future, exploring the role of the runway shows. And work from a selection of the most influential fashion couturiers and designers of the moment--among them Valentino, Lacroix, Dior, Chanel, Azzedine Alaia, Viktor & Rolf, Rochas and Yohji Yamamoto--appears with brief histories of the houses, profiles of the designers and photographs conveying the grand sweep of their work and their predecessors’, from the age of the kings to the age of award shows. This is the world of fashion at its most exciting and glamorous, a visually stunning and widely accessible history and a celebration of the fine art and high style of Paris couture. ... Read more

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A thorough understanding of how fashion has come to be equated with Paris today.
Paris has been the capital of style for many decades now - and while art exposes focus on the elements of this style, too many omit the historical background essential to understanding. FASHION SHOW blends this historical review of Paris' rise as a fashion capitol of the world with a survey of works from ten of the city's most famous design houses - Dior, Chanel and others. In exploring the foundations of the ideas and inspirations which have propelled Paris to the top, FASHION SHOW PARIS STYLE offers college-level fashion collections a clear history of progress and a thorough understanding of how fashion has come to be equated with Paris today.

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A collection of 75 recipes celebrating the cuisine and culture of the French region of Provence, with dishes ranging from delicate roast chicken with garlic to sturdy meat and cabbage stews.Includes a special menu section for the preparation of a Provencal feast. ... Read more

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Full-color illustrations accompany a text that shows readers how to create delicious, authentic Russian dishes and traces the interwoven influences that go into Russian cuisine. ... Read more

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This digital document is an article from Travel America, published by Thomson Gale on September 1, 2005. The length of the article is 1604 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Michigan medley: from Detroit to the northwoods, visitors find a variety of natural and manmade attractions, many of them on a shoreline.(State OF THE MONTH)
Author: Susan Bayer Ward
Publication: Travel America (Magazine/Journal)
Date: September 1, 2005
Publisher: Thomson Gale
Volume: 21Issue: 2Page: 24(4)

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How much time do we spend sitting each day?Car, plane,desk, sofa...?Now you can get fit right where you are...in yourchair!These four gentle 15-minute classes will bring renewedvitality, strength and flexibility - even for those confined to awheelchair.So take a 15-minute yoga break and let "Sitting Fit"invigorate and relax your body from the comfort and convenience ofyour chair! ... Read more