In what has become a landmark of American History and literature, Incidents in the kife of a slave girl recounts the incredible but true story of Harriet Jacobs, born a slave in North Carolina in 1813. Her tale gains its importance from her description, in great and painful detail, of the sexual exploitation that daily haunted her life - and the life of every other black female slave

At a much lower price than comparable anthologies, the Fifth Edition provides 18 extraordinary plays, with a strong representation of historical periods and minority and women playwrights. The Introduction focuses on the study of drama as both a literary genre and a performing art; also provided are expanded introductions to the plays, an updated select bibliography, and a new filmography

Children are our future. Investing in every child at an early age is an investment in human and economic development for all

What does it mean to be a woman? What is the pathway to mature feminity? And what of the masculine components of a woman`s personality? Robert A. Johnson explores these questions in this new edition of She, updated to reflect the growth of his thinking on these subjects

Everybody enjoys the chance to escape from reality from time to time, to climb inside the skin of another character. This book encourages children and adults to explore their dramatic sides and has "play-ful" ideas everyone can get involved with and enjoy. Through drama games, children get more in touch with themselves, what they want to be, and what they can do. The games are improvisational, framed to encourage total involvement and cooperation - the participants gain as much as they can contribute

Mini-biographies of nearly everybody, scientists, inventors, thinkers, writers, entertainers, who made a difference in the 20th century, until about 1990, when it was published. Nearly 2000 names from Aalto, Hugo to Zwicky, Fritz

Inferno (Italian for "Hell") is the first part of Dante Alighieri"s 14th-century epic poem Divine Comedy. It is followed by Purgatorio and Paradiso. It is an allegory telling of the journey of Dante through Hell, guided by the Roman poet Virgil. In the poem, Hell is depicted as nine circles of suffering located within the Earth. Allegorically, the Divine Comedy represents the journey of the soul towards God, with the Inferno describing the recognition and rejection of sin

Ivanhoe is a historical novel by Sir Walter Scott published in 1820, and set in 12th-century England. Ivanhoe is sometimes credited for increasing interest in Romanticism and Medievalism; John Henry Newman claimed Scott "had first turned men

This book features selected papers from the conference that respond to the need for integrated and inclusive social protection to improve the quality of peoples' lives and livelihoods. Specific areas emphasized are health insurance, pensions, the informal sector, measures targeting children, and measuring and monitoring social protection