This book examines the life of the Townsend family and the events that occurred during the period of 1856–1926 that shaped an expanding American West.Bryant and Julia (Riley) Townsend and their three children were born into an age of rapid change and competing cultures. Witnesses to a century of events that shaped a nation, their lives define the complexities and challenges of incomers who arrived in an expanding American West. From the Gold Rush to the California oil boom, from sl...

Contributing an original dimension to the significant body of published scholarship on women in 16th-century England, this study examines the largest corpus of women’s private writings available to historians: their wills. In these, female voices speak out, commenting on their daily lives, on identity, gender, status, familial relationships and social engagement. Wills show women to have been active participants in a civil society, well aware of their personal authority and potential influ...

Born at 26 1/2 weeks and weighing only 2 LBS, This is the five month journal of Isla’s stay at the NeoNatal Intensive Care Unit of Mount Sinai Hospital in Toronto, CanadaIsla’s Story is the daily log of what happened to Isla while she lay in the hospital initially fighting for her life and later becoming a mostly normal baby. The initial idea was to keep a log so family could keep up with what was happening and not spend a lot of time regurgitating daily events. It turned into a ve...

A primer for families of high net worth on how to manage their qualitative and financial wealth for generationsThe second edition of this foundational work, Complete Family Wealth: Wealth as Well-Being provides proven tools and best practices for families of means to use in maturing, maintaining, and managing personal and legacy wealth long into the future. The book is divided into three parts: the "what"—what is meant by family, wealth, and enterprise; th...

Avoid "Shirtsleeves to Shirtsleeves" by Finding Your VoiceGrowing up in a family with significant wealth or a family business can often feel like an exercise in silence. What should you ask? Whom should you ask? When? Is it ever right to talk about such things?The Voice of the Rising Generation speaks directly to those who find themselves living in that silence, the so-called "next generation." Great wealth or a family business can act like a "blac...

A comprehensive guide to giving well to family membersGiving is at the core of family life--and with current law allowing up to $5,120,000 in tax-free gifts, at least through December 2012, the ultra-affluent are faced with the task of giving at perhaps largest scale in history. Beyond the tax saving and wealth management implications, giving to family members opens up a slew of thorny questions, the biggest of which is, "How do I prepare recipients of such large g...

As John Henry Newman reflected on 'The Idea of a University' more than a century and a half ago, Bradley C. S. Watson brings together some of the nation's most eminent thinkers on higher education to reflect on the nature and purposes of the American university today. They detail the life and rather sad times of the American university, its relationship to democracy, and the place of the liberal arts within it. Their mordant reflections paint a picture of the American university in crisis....

Seventeen emerging and established authors from around the world reimagined clocks and wove them into beautiful speculative and dark stories.As you move from one narrative to the next, you'll find yourself lost in fog, grasping at a young love, risking it all to save a dying world. Pages will swallow you whole as you slip through time, challenge what it means to live, and create an automaton. With poignant representations of queerness, disability and mental health issues, grief, lo...

Larry Sabato, one of the leading experts in American politics, has brought together respected journalists and academics from across the political spectrum to examine every facet of the 2012 election, and what its development and outcome will mean for the nation moving forward. In frank, accessible prose, each author offers insight that goes beyond the headlines, and dives into the underlying forces and shifts that drove the election from its earliest developments to its dramatic conclusion...

Más que un acuerdoJulia JamesSu esposa por conveniencia… lo dejó con ganas de más.La reina del desiertoJackie AshendenSu promesa olvidada... ¡Su reclamo real!El jinete argentinoSusan StephensJamás se había sometido a nadie, y menos a una mujer.Amor entre fogonesHe...

A Collection of sexy Greek heroes from Mills & BoonIncluding the titles:For The Greek's RevengeWinning the Enigmatic GreekThe Greek's Unforgettable SecretGiving Her Heart To The GreekAt The Greek's PleasureSeduced into the Greek's WorldNew Year TemptationHis Christmas Conquest

With insights from popular authors, this almanac features leading-edge topics in tune with contemporary Witchcraft and Pagan lifestylesLlewellyn's 2027 Witches' Companion is packed with inspiration and hands-on practices that foster community and connection with twenty-seven articles written by top authors, including Kate Freuler, Laura Tempest Zakroff, and Rhonda Kuykendall-Jabari.This edition features sacred geometry (Autumn Damiana), the magic o...