For the first 128 years of our country’s history, not a single woman served in the Senate or House of Representatives. All of that changed, however, in November 1916, when Jeannette Rankin of Montana became the first woman elected to Congress—even before the Nineteenth Amendment gave women across the U.S. the right to vote.
Beginning with the women’s suffrage movement and going all the way through the results of the 2012 election, Ilene Cooper deftly covers more than a century of U.S. history in order to highlight the influential and diverse group of female leaders who opened doors for women in politics as well as the nation as a whole. Featured women include Hattie Caraway (the first woman elected to the Senate), Patsy Mink (the first woman of color to serve in Congress), Shirley Chisholm (the first African-American woman in Congress), and present-day powerhouses like Nancy Pelosi and Hillary Clinton. The book is filled with lively illustrations and archival photographs. It includes a glossary, index, and chart of all the women who have served in Congress.

Part of the six-volume Wellbeing: A Complete Reference Guide, this volume examines the ways in which the built environment can affect and enhance the wellbeing of society.

• Explores the effects of environment on wellbeing and provides insight and guidance for designing, creating, or providing environments that improve wellbeing
• Looks at the social and health issues surrounding sustainable energy and sustainable communities, and how those connect to concepts of wellbeing
• Brings the evidence base for environmental wellbeing into one volume from across disciplines including urban planning, psychology, sociology, healthcare, architecture, and more
• Part of the six-volume set Wellbeing: A Complete Reference Guide, which brings together leading research on wellbeing from across the social sciences

All'alba del Novecento, la Cina è percorsa dai fermenti che porteranno alla dissoluzione del Celeste Impero e, con esso, di un'intera classe di privilegiati. Tra gli echi della rivoluzione e i momenti di serenità nei giardini della sua ricca dimora, Kwei-li, una giovane donna di alto lignaggio realmente esistita, invia al marito in viaggio i resoconti delle sue giornate: dai risvegli incantati alla vestizione, dai contrasti in famiglia alle visite al tempio o ai negozi in una Shanghai sull'orlo dell'abisso. Elizabeth Cooper ha raccolto queste lettere, schiudendo al lettore un mondo di paesaggi e sentimenti delicati, di abitudini preziose, di segreti desideri e speranze infrante. Piccoli e grandi drammi, legati all'educazione dei figli, alle tentazioni della modernità occidentale, alle incomprensioni tra cinesi e 'occupanti' stranieri. Percorse da un sorridente disincanto, le lettere di Kwei-li inquadrano il momento cerniera del collasso breve e fatale d'una casta e delle sue certezze.

The new edition of this classic core textbook has been fully updated to reflect the current syllabus, including equine content for the first time, while retaining additional useful chapters that are no longer covered in the syllabus. Each chapter includes learning objectives and self assessment questions. There are new chapters on professional responsibilities, professional development and learning.

KEY FEATURES

• Anatomy and physiology presented in a single integrated chapter to allow easy comparison
• Stand-alone chapter on nursing models, with clinical application examples
• New chapter on professional responsibilities, regulation and ethics
• Up-to-date content on MRSA and PETS regulations 
• Appendix on study skills
• Specially commissioned new drawings
• Addresses equine species as required by VN core units, including details on anatomy, handling, stabling, feeding, bandaging, radiography, reproduction and anaesthesia

Despite their water being poisoned and the building set afire, Miss Crandall kept her school for African-American women--several of whom were the daughters of freed slaves--running in order to give her students the education they knew they deserved. 15,000 first printing.

Papa and Chita leave downtown Baltimore in a buggy to find a Christmas tree in the deep woods.