Chinese pioneers in the Sacramento River Delta were the vital factor in reclaiming land and made significant contributions to California�s agricultural industry from farming to canning. Since the 1860s, Chinese were already settled in the delta and created Chinatowns in and between the two towns of Freeport in the north and Rio Vista in the south. One of the towns, Locke, was unique in that it was built by the Chinese and was inhabited almost exclusively by the Chinese during the first hal...

As Angus Calder states in his introduction to this edition, 'Seven Pillars of Wisdom is one of the major statements about the fighting experience of the First World War'. Lawrence's younger brothers, Frank and Will, had been killed on the Western Front in 1915. Seven Pillars of Wisdom, written between 1919 and 1926, tells of the vastly different campaign against the Turks in the Middle East - one which encompasses gross acts of cruelty and revenge and ends in a welter of stink and corpses ...

In this dramatic reading of Little Women, we follow the lives of four sisters – Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy March – as they embark on the journey from childhood to womanhood. The sisters live with their mother while their father fights in the American Civil War. The family, headed by their beloved mother Marmee, must struggle to make ends meet, with the help of their kind and wealthy neighbor, Mr. Laurence, and his high-spirited grandson Laurie. Although Little Women was a novel for girls, it d...

Awarded the 1920 James Tait Black Memorial Prize for fiction, The Lost Girl is a classic tale of passion, sexual awakening, devastation, and destitution.Just as the lovely Alvina Houghton comes of age, her widowed father’s business starts to dry up. In a drastic effort to regain his fortune and secure his daughter’s standing in society, James Houghton buys, of all things, a theater. Her father’s plans and dreams go misunderstood in the town, but the theate...

Online Network Marketing: The Ultimate Guide to Multilevel Marketing, Discover the Best Techniques and Practices on How to Build a Successful Online Network Marketing BusinessThere's usually some negative talk about network marketing because of how it was always portrayed in the media. But multilevel or network marketing is a legitimate business that's been booming and it is a great source of income. The steady growth rate of direct selling these past years suggest that this is a we...

Step into the arena as Godzilla’s most dangerous allies and scariest nemeses square off in a series of sense-shattering showdowns! The world is pretty big. You’d think there’d be enough room for all the kaiju to claim their own stomping grounds, but even giant monsters aren’t above needing to protect their territory. Godzilla has friends and foes, and in turn, they vie against one another for dominance. In this quartet of standalone stories, different denizens of Monster Island go claw to ...

Network Marketing Solutions Bundle, 2 in 1 Bundle: Network Marketers and Online Network MarketingNetwork marketing has been around for many years. If you've heard of companies like Avon, Tupper Ware, and Mary Kay, all of these businesses employ network marketing strategies to sell their products. Network marketing makes use of a wide range of networks to reach more people which traditional advertising otherwise does not reach. That's why it encourages its participants to recruit mo...

Follow cousins on a road trip to Pride as they dive into family secrets and friendships.As kids, Mark and his cousin Talia spent many happy summers together at the family cottage in Ontario, Canada, but a fight between their parents put an end to the annual event. Living on opposite coasts—Mark in Halifax, Nova Scotia, and Talia in Victoria, British Columbia—they haven’t seen each other in years. When their grandfather dies unexpectedly, Mark and Talia find themsel...

Hours of great reading await, with tales from some of the 20th century's most renowned science fiction authors, Here are 25 science fiction stories:WHAT’S HE DOING IN THERE? by Fritz LeiberTHE MARCHING MORONS, by C.M. KornbluthGHOST, by Darrell SchweitzerDEATH WISH, by Robert SheckleyTHE WAVERIES, by Fredric BrownADAM AND NO EVE, by Alfred BesterFOXY LADY, by Lawrence Watt-EvansTHIN EDGE, by Randall GarrettCOMPANDROID, by Nina...

The Ape That Understood the Universe is the story of the strangest animal in the world: the human animal. It opens with a question: How would an alien scientist view our species? What would it make of our sex differences, our sexual behavior, our child-rearing patterns, our moral codes, our religions, our languages, and science? The book tackles these issues by drawing on ideas from two major schools of thought: evolutionary psychology and cultural evolutionary theory.The guiding a...

Real-life stories of disability, discrimination, and the fight for equality.From the Periphery presents raw, painful, yet surprisingly funny and deeply inspiring first-person narratives of over thirty everyday people treated differently due to their disabilities. These oral histories reveal anger, independence, bigotry, solidarity, and love within family, school, and the workplace.Inspired by Studs Terkel and Svetlana Alexievich, this collection in...

Welcome to the Bildungsroman Anthology, a collection of literary gems that delve into the transformative journey from youth to adulthood. It's annotated with introductory note and a preface for each book, written by Anthony Twain. In this anthology, we explore the raw, unfiltered experiences of young protagonists grappling with the complexities of identity, growth, and self-realization. Each work offers a unique window into the Bildungsroman genre, inviting readers to embark on a voyage of...