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This compelling memoir, at once a food and illness narrative, explores the forces that cause eating disorders and disordered eating, including the link between those conditions in women, middle-aged and older, and the fear of aging and ageism.

Charles K. McClatchy was twenty-five when he inherited The Sacramento Bee from his father, and his ensuing career as the paper's editor extended well beyond the newsroom. This biography explores his career as the long-time editor of the Bee in a work that weaves the history of Northern California with that of American newspapers.

To the people who know it best, the Mississippi River is life and a livelihood. River boatmen working the Mississippi are never far from land. Even in the dark, they can smell plants and animals and hear people on the banks and wharves. Bonnie Stepenoff takes readers on a cruise through history, showing how workers from St. Louis to Memphis changed the river and were in turn changed by it.

Reveals how prints and paintings of Uncle Tom and other characters in the novel - ""Uncle Tom's Cabin"" - also shaped public perceptions and how this visual culture had its own impact on history. This book shows how these iconic images offered the country a means of both representing and reinventing its slave past.

Challenges distinctions between ""popular"" and ""serious"" literature by recognizing le Carre as one of the most significant ethicists in contemporary fiction, contributing to an overdue reassessment of his literary stature. Through a close reading of le Carre's post- cold war novels, Snyder traces how he weighes what is at stake in this conflict of deeply invested ideologies.

A pictorial history of the first five Civil War battlefield parks: Gettysburg, Shiloh, Antietam, Vicksburg and Chickamauga. There are more than 100 photographs of the battlefields, along with a brief history of these major battles and of the formation of the parks on the battlefield grounds.

This is the second volume of Langston Hughes's autobiography, charting the period of his life from age 29 to 35. It is filled with portraits of the people and places Hughes encountered during his travels around the world.

With the 100th anniversary of his birth on September 7, 2015, Dick Cole stands in the powerful spotlight that has followed him since his B-25 was launched from a Navy carrier and flown toward Japan just four months after the attack on Pearl Harbor.

The US Civil War revealed what united as well as divided Americans in the nineteenth century - not only in its military conflict, but also in the broader battle of ideas, dueling moral systems, and competing national visions. This cultural civil war was the clash among North, South, and West. This vibrant and beautifully written story enriches our understanding of America at a crossroads.

Explores the troubled intertwining of religion, medicine, empire, and race relations in the early nineteenth century. John Rankin analyses the British use of medicine in West Africa as a tool to usher in a "softer" form of imperialism, considers how British colonial officials, missionaries, and doctors regarded Africans, and explores the impact of race classification on colonial constructs.

Offers a perspective on the complex relationship between racism and slavery in Bermuda, the second-oldest English colony in the New World. The author delves into the origins of Bermudan slavery, its peculiar nature and its effects on blacks and whites. Material is drawn from varied primary sources.

From 1937 to 1938, Richard Wright turned out more than two hundred articles for the Daily Worker, the newspaper that served as the voice of the American Communist Party. With Earle V. Bryant's insightful commentary on the compiled articles, Byline, Richard Wright provides insight into the man before he achieved fame as a novelist, short story writer, and voice of social protest.

Robert Frost stood at the intersection of nineteenth-century romanticism and twentieth-century modernism and made both his own. Frost adapted the genteel values and techniques of nineteenth-century poetry, but Barron argues that it was his commitment to realism that gave him popular as well as scholarly appeal and created his enduring legacy.

Thomas Merton was a Roman Catholic priest, a Trappist monk, a social activist, and a poet. In this text, Ross Labrie reveals the breadth of Merton's intellectual reach by taking a systematic look at Merton's thought, which is generally regarded as eclectic and unsystematic.

Burt Wheeler vividly remembers the day when his wife of over 50 years, Kee, was diagnosed with ""Alzheimer-type dementia"". In this volume he provides insight into what a caregiver's day is like, and touches on the question of what keeps him going through times of exhaustion and frustration.

Dares to challenge the prevailing opinion that Missouri battles made only minor contributions to the war. Gerteis specifically focuses not only on the principal conventional battles in the state but also on the effects these battles had on both sides' national aspirations.

William Barclay Napton (1808-1883) was an editor, lawyer, and state supreme court justice who lived in Missouri. Drawn from personal journals, this book tells Napton's life story that offers a fresh perspective on the key issues and events that turned this northerner first into an avowed proslavery ideologue and then into a full southerner.

While there are many biographies of important Missouri men, there are few such biographies of Missouri women, which might suggest that they did not count in history. This book helps to correct that misconception by tracing the lives of four women who played important roles in their eras.

Features seven essays ranging across the topics of region and its history to assess the role of innovations which is presumed lacking by most historians. Offering an interpretation of industrialization in the South, this work shows that the benefits of innovations had to be carefully weighed against the costs to both industry and society.

In this collection of stories, a couple decide to give birth to their anencephalic baby and accept the consequences, a student trysts with his girlfriend at her father's house and witnesses the ultimate in paternal vengeance, and a schoolboy faces bullying while his mother struggles with cancer.

One hundred years after its writing, ""No 44, The Mysterious Stranger"" remains a literary enigma. This work covers an array of topics, from domesticity and transnationalism to race and religion, and reflects a variety of scholarly and theoretical approaches to the work.

The Collected Works of Langston Hughes is a compilation of the novels, short stories, poems, plays, essays, and other published work by one of the 20th century's most prolific and influential African American authors. This volume contains the later of his Simple stories.

An exploration of the writing of Joseph Conrad, including his masterworks and the later, neglected fiction. The author addresses issues raised by recent theory, discussing the ways in which contemporary readers, indeed even himself, have come to read Conrad differently.

The ""Gazette"" girls were sisters, Gwen and Ardis Hamilton, and this is the story of how they bought and ran the local paper in Spickard, Missouri, in 1933. Although both young women had been trained in journalism, they were unprepared for the realities of running a county newspaper.