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My continuing experiences of being a young girl in a male dominated environment, facing homelessness and finding solutions in funny circumstances.The friends gathered along the way, many becoming lifelong mates which is quite usual in the biking...

Laura lived in room 518 in Hill Hall dormitory, a single room at Eastern Michigan University. When she walked into her door after the secret Santa Christmas party, she called her boyfriend Travis Scott, who worked at an engineering firm, Covanta Energy,...

Amy was looking for a new lease on life when she moved to Las Vegas. She owned a successful cleaning company and developed an insatiable passion for the poker tables. She would meet Bruce Weinstein in one of the casinos and the two immediately hit it off...

En este ensayo casi-autobiográfico, el autor vuelca no sólo sus 15 años de experiencia de pertenecer a una secta destructiva de la individualidad, sino los estudios ulteriores de temáticas relacionadas y de horas de entrevistas con víctimas de cultos de...

The 1950's for the United States of America is best remembered as some of the most trying times in the history of the nation. While the early 1950's saw the baby boom, the late half of the decade was marred by civil instability and mistrust. Many...

Lisa and Toby Tokes had spent a sleepless night and were becoming increasingly frantic the more they did not hear from their daughter. It was unlike Reagan to go a day without reaching to her dad, and the quiet worry that had plagued them at night...

The mysterious disappearance of vulnerable people is always a hard one to swallow. When mothers, elderly people, or children go missing, it often causes empathy and panic to both stir within the community. Perhaps the worst is when children disappear...

Small communities were regarded as safe during the 1980s. Families flocked there from large metropolitan areas in order to live comfortably and away from crime. Queensville was the ideal place for the Jessop family since they had two young children who...

This is a collection of short stories based on real experiences people pass during their love lives. I have divided this book into pieces in which people tell their stories about the distress and pleasure they face once they plunge into a pool of loving,...

As a 21st century African man my masculinity was at a crossroads. Coming from strong time tested African values, further indoctrinated in christian teachings to beome a christian man, I still encountered inexplicable dissatisfaction. Thus I staggered...

Michael Gargiulo, a reasonably good looking man in his mid-40s, sits calmly staring forward listening intently to the back and forth debate that is taking place in front of him. His newly shaven head glistening slightly as cameras click incessantly in...

here's usually a certain characteristic or gender we think of when we hear the word "serial-killer," but in the case of Betty Neumar, everything changed. Most times, serial-killers are either caught or found dead before they reach senior status, but in...

The murder of Janette Roberson still haunts Reed City, a small community in Michigan. A young mother was murdered in a very mysterious way while working - in the middle of the day. And no one heard a single thing. The murder itself is a real challenge...

On August 24, 2011, Michelle Despain came home to find her husband, Marc, shot dead in the family's Arkansas home. As a real estate investor and appraiser, Marc provided his wife and kids with anything they could ever want - but while the family seemed...

In "The Butterfly Phoenix Project," Katie takes readers on a deeply personal and transformative journey, drawing from her own experiences of rising from the ashes of a toxic relationship. The book is a testament to the power of resilience, growth, and...

Some hearts are shattered and cold...but these hearts can be mended piece by piece. Lyra Scarlett Lee has lost everything. Her beloved mother died in a car accident, and with her mom's death so did Lyra's dreams of joining the US Olympic Figure Skating...

McCamey, Texas. A town of less than two thousand people, out in the scorching Texas desert, where downtown is a stretch of black road with marginally more buildings on either side. McCamey is the type of town that lies, more or less, entirely forgotten...

Love Will Find Your Home is about children's hardships before entering the foster care system. Thanks to abundant love from a caring foster family, the children will be all right in the end. On any given day, approximately half a million children are...

"Wasted Youth is James Wright's vivid and emphatically unromantic memoir of his late teens and early twenties, when his life derived its meager meaning from consuming drugs and alcohol, dodging authority, and simply staying alive day to day. Relentlessly...

The people screaming loudly to "make America great again," are the ones most responsible for its troubles. America has pockets of greatness, and has had some great moments, but ALL of America is meant to be great. It's not because crack-ers prevent it...

"Nuestras Vidas Locas Tuvieron Que Cambiar"Sola aceptamos el amor que creemos que merecemos, es por eso pol lo que aceptamos lo inaceptable. Esta novela optimista toca la homofobia, el alcoholismo, el acoso escolar, las relaciones y el orgullo, todo con...

This analysis covers the racial differences in America and explores how we are different and will always be different, but also explores how we can learn to accept our differences and come together as a nation, just as we are.

Women physicians along with their male counterparts came to Colorado Springs and Manitou Springs, Colorado, to practice their profession and aid the health seekers who were flocking to the area. This short reference book tells the story of the women...

This is a short, quick, and easy read.Some Sample Anecdotes:• As a young actress just starting in show business, Eve Arden quickly learned not to be absent minded. She once finished a play's first act, went to her dressing room, took off her costume and...

Ann Burack-Weiss is back.  After exploring the experiences of those who cared for ill or disabled family members (The Caregiver's Tale) and women writers grown old (The Lioness in Winter), she has turned the lens on herself, an 85year old woman...

"Henry Adams and the American Experiment," with a new introduction by author David R. Contosta, was initially composed at a time when the United States had seemingly lost its moorings. There was the needless and apparently endless war in Vietnam, the...

Charlotte Perkins Gilman (née Perkins; July 3, 1860 - August 17, 1935), also known by her first married name Charlotte Perkins Stetson, was an American humanist, novelist, writer, lecturer, advocate for social reform, and eugenicist. She was a utopian...

Charlotte Perkins Gilman (née Perkins; July 3, 1860 - August 17, 1935), also known by her first married name Charlotte Perkins Stetson, was an American humanist, novelist, writer, lecturer, advocate for social reform, and eugenicist. She was a utopian...

"Histoire Secrète des Mongols" de Paul Pelliot est une étude approfondie de ce texte historique mongol médiéval. Pelliot, sinologue et tibétologue français, explore les origines et les premières histoires du peuple mongol à travers ce texte ancien...

Dans "Plan des Travaux Scientifiques Nécessaires pour Réorganiser la Société", Auguste Comte expose sa vision d'une refonte sociale basée sur les principes scientifiques du positivisme. Comte, considéré comme le fondateur de la sociologie, propose une...

"Le Matérialisme Historique" d'Antonio Labriola offre une exploration approfondie et critique du concept central dans la pensée de Karl Marx. L'ouvrage examine la base épistémologique du matérialisme historique, mettant en avant la primauté des...

Dans "Le Parti de Classe" de Karl Marx et Friedrich Engels, Tome IV, avec l'introduction et les notes de Roger Dangeville, les auteurs explorent les activités concrètes du parti de classe. L'ouvrage examine comment le parti prolétarien s'engage dans des...

Bien des fois, j'ai pleuré de rage parce que mon père était pauvre et que ma mère n'était pas belle.À quoi bon être le premier de ma classe, si c'est pour me sentir à cause d'eux humilié et ravalé sans cesse, dès que j'ai mis le pied hors du collège ?...

Dans "Psychanalyse et anthropologie: Culture, personnalité, inconscient" de Géza Róheim, l'auteur explore les liens complexes entre la psychanalyse et l'anthropologie, deux disciplines qui, à première vue, semblent éloignées. Róheim examine comment la...

"Mon projet est de publier en Chine les notes qu'on va lire: elles correspondent à des préoccupations qui s'y manifestent actuellement, de la manière la plus vive, dans le public cultivé ; d'autre part, elles posent des problèmes auxquels seul sans doute...

"La question du logement" de Friedrich Engels est un ouvrage dans lequel l'auteur analyse les conditions de logement des classes ouvrières au XIXe siècle en Angleterre. Engels, collaborateur de Karl Marx, aborde cette question dans le contexte de la...

"Monadologie et sociologie" de Gabriel Tarde propose une exploration approfondie de la relation entre la monadologie, une philosophie métaphysique qui envisage l'existence comme une collection d'entités individuelles distinctes appelées monades, et la...

"Les incertitudes de l'heure présente" est un ouvrage de Gustave Le Bon, publié en 1913. Dans cet ouvrage, Le Bon aborde les préoccupations et les incertitudes liées à la période de son temps, juste avant le déclenchement de la Première Guerre mondiale...

"En 1755, Voltaire retiré au pied des Alpes, et vis-à-vis des neiges éternelles , offrait à monseigneur le maréchal duc de Richelieu son nouvel ouvrage, l'Orphelin de la Chine, et après les compliments d'usage expliquait son dessein : L'idée de cette...

"La Religion chinoise dans son développement historique" est un ouvrage d'Henri Maspero, consacré à l'étude approfondie de la religion en Chine et à son évolution au fil de l'histoire.Maspero explore les différentes facettes de la religion chinoise, en...

"Qu'est-ce que le Tiers-État ?" de l'abbé Emmanuel Joseph Sieyès est un ouvrage majeur de la Révolution française, publié en 1789. L'auteur expose dans cet écrit ses idées sur la place et le rôle du tiers état dans la société, remettant en question...

Critique des programmes de Gotha et d'Erfurt" de Karl Marx et Friedrich Engels est une analyse critique des programmes politiques adoptés par le Parti social-démocrate allemand à deux occasions différentes : le Programme de Gotha en 1875 et le Programme...

"Les Débuts de l'Imprimerie en Chine" de Paul Pelliot explore les origines et les premières manifestations de l'imprimerie en Chine. Pelliot, érudit français spécialisé dans les études asiatiques, examine l'évolution des techniques d'impression en Chine...

"Le Mythe des Guerres de Légitime Défense" de Georges Demartial propose une analyse critique des notions entourant les guerres sous le prétexte de la légitime défense. L'auteur remet en question le concept de légitime défense dans le contexte des...

"L'Idéologie allemande" est une œuvre philosophique majeure écrite par Karl Marx et Friedrich Engels. Dans cet ouvrage, les deux penseurs analysent de manière critique la philosophie allemande contemporaine, particulièrement celle de Feuerbach, Bruno...

"Histoire et Institutions de la Chine ancienne : L'Antiquité, l'empire des Ts'in et des Han" est un ouvrage majeur d'Henri Maspero (1883-1945). Dans cette œuvre, Maspero explore l'histoire et les institutions de la Chine ancienne, en mettant l'accent sur...

Les érudits chinois n'ont jamais connu qu'une seule mé- thode d'interprétation des récits légendaires, la méthode évhémériste. Sous le prétexte d'en retrouver le noyau historique, ils éliminent les éléments merveilleux qui leur paraissent...