Busy Hands: Images of the Family in the Northern Civil War Effort

Focusing on middle-class women’s contributions to the northern Civil War effort, Patricia Richard shows how women utilized their power as moral agents to shape the way men survived the ravages of war. Busy Hands investigates the ways in which white and African American women used images of family and domestic life in their relief efforts to counter the effects of prostitution, gambling, profanity, and drinking, threatening men’s postwar civilian fitness.

Advice to Clever Children

Dearly beloved children, in this world they will tell you all sorts of things. And what is indeed more to the point, they will imply even more things than they say. This world is filled with pitfalls for the unwary.
This book is a small guide to pitfalls. I am uniquely qualified to write it, because once I was a clever child myself. This world is enriched with a particularly plenteous supply of pitfalls for clever children (whom it hates, unless they take care to become stupid) so I have become an expert on pitfalls. Perhaps I am the only expert. Everyone else has fallen in.

The Pioneer Woman Cooks: Recipes from an Accidental Country Girl

My name is Ree.  
Some folks know me as The Pioneer Woman.   
After years of living in Los Angeles, I made a pit stop in my hometown in Oklahoma on the way to a new, exciting life in Chicago. It was during my stay at home that I met Marlboro Man, a mysterious cowboy with steely blue eyes and a muscular, work-honed body. A strict vegetarian, I fell hard and fast, and before I knew it we were married and living on his ranch in the middle of nowhere, taking care of animals, and managing a brood of four young children. I had no idea how I'd wound up there, but I knew it was exactly where I belonged.  
 

Personality Language(tm): How To PERSUADE And INFLUENCE Virtually ANYONE ANYTIME

The "Owner's Manual" that they should have given you at birth. Finally, an easy to understand and practical handbook on Human Behavior that anyone can understand and use. You can use it on yourself to figure out why you do what you do and on other people to figure out why they do what they do. If you have been looking for the "edge" in your business and in your personal life, this is it. You will finally understand what makes people "tick" including yourself. By using Personality Language(tm) on a daily basis, you are going to have an unprecedented advantage over everyone who does not use it. It is "Body Language" for the mind. 

Dancing in Your Head: Jazz, Blues, Rock, and Beyond

Santoro, music columnist for the Nation , is an avid generalist who writes with emotion, enthusiasm and distinct likes and dislikes. Here, he offers 65 articles and record and book reviews written between 1986 and 1992 for the Nation , the Village Voice , Downbeat and other publications. He opens with an appreciation of bluesman Robert Johnson's creative use of the constraints imposed by 78rpm recording, and he closes with raves for saxophonist John Zorn's "sonic assault" on traditional musical boundaries and for Steve Coleman, whose musical evolution he traces. Santoro also covers gospel, James Brown, country (which, he writes, is based on "commercially generated nostalgia"),