Authors:Barbara Evans Clements, Barbara Alpern Engel, Christ
Publisher: University of California Press
Keywords: transformation, resistance, accommodation, women, russia
Number of Pages: 352
Published: 1991-07-17
List price: $24.95
ISBN-10: 0520070240
ISBN-13: 9780520070240

By ignoring gender issues, historians have failed to understand how efforts to control women--and women’s reactions to these efforts--have shaped political and social institutions and thus influenced the course of Russian and Soviet history. These original essays challenge a host of traditional assumptions by integrating women into the Russian past. Using recent advances in the study of gender, the family, class, and the status of women, the authors examine various roles of Russian women and offer a broad overview of a vibrant and growing field.

Authors:Marcus Engel, Marvelyne Engel,
Publisher: Phillips Press MarcusEngel.com
Keywords: care, patient, excellent, insights, stethoscope
Number of Pages: 110
Published: 2006-10-23
List price: $14.95
ISBN-10: 0972000011
ISBN-13: 9780972000017

Work overload. Constantly changing policies. Increasing bureaucratic regulations. These are just a few of the challenges health care providers face every day; challenges that limit the ability to provide excellent patient care. Marcus’ insights will give health care providers new and essential strategies to rediscover the magic and compassion between caregiver and patient.

Authors:Allison Engel, Margaret Engel,
Publisher: William Morrow Cookbooks
Keywords: people, produce, foods, local, finds, america, food
Number of Pages: 480
Published: 2000-09-05
List price: $19.00
ISBN-10: 0060958375
ISBN-13: 9780060958374

Craving hush puppies but you live in Boston? Need a peanut butter fix that Skippy won’t satisfy? Search no further than Food Finds, the celebrated guide to America’s diverse and delicious bounty of regional foods and specialty products.Fully updated and exhaustively researched by authors Allison Engel and Margaret Engel, this comprehensive resource contains up-to-date mail and online ordering information for more than 400 of America’s best local and specialty food producers, from the Santa Barbara Olive Company to DiCamillo’s Bakery to the candy-making nuns at Mount St.

Author: Stanley B. Alpern
Publisher: Hurst & Co Ltd
Keywords: warriors, dahomey, women, sparta, black, amazons
Number of Pages: 304
Published: 2001-08
List price: $45.95
ISBN-10: 1850653623
ISBN-13: 9781850653622

This volume examines the "Amazons", whose existence has been verified via documents and eye-witness accounts from battles for the West African kingdom of Dahomey in the 18th and 19th centuries. Originally palace guards, the Amazons had evolved by the 1760s into professional troops armed mainly with muskets, machetes and clubs. Theoretically wives of the king and quartered in his palaces, they were actually sworn to celibacy on pain of death. In compensation they enjoyed a semi-sacred status and numerous privileges, including the right to own slaves. By the 1840s their numbers had grown to 6000

Author: Andrew Alpern
Publisher: Dover Publications
Keywords: illustrated, history, manhattan, houses, apartment, luxury
Number of Pages: 192
Published: 1993-04-06
List price: $17.95
ISBN-10: 0486273709
ISBN-13: 9780486273709

Handsome, superbly illustrated volume provides detailed mini-histories of some of New York’s most luxurious lodgings: the stately Gramercy, the fashionably flamboyant Ansonia, the dramatic Hotel des Artistes, Joseph Pulitzer’s palatial residence, magnificent Park Avenue apartments and many others. 175 illustrations—many from rare and private sources—depict both interiors and exteriors. Introduction. Index.

Author: Andrew Alpern
Publisher: Dover Publications
Keywords: river, dakota, house, olympic, buildings, tower, plans, floor, fabulous, york, luxury, apartments, original, new
Number of Pages: 176
Published: 1987-05-01
List price: $15.95
ISBN-10: 048625318X
ISBN-13: 9780486253183

Magnificently illustrated directory of 70 of Manhattan’s most splendid addresses, with history, commentary, floor plans, more. 221 photographs and drawings.

Authors:Steve Alpern, V. S. Prasad,
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Keywords: homeomorphisms, preserving, volume, dynamics, typical
Number of Pages: 224
Published: 2001-03-15
List price: $98.00
ISBN-10: 0521582873
ISBN-13: 9780521582872

This book provides a self-contained introduction to typical properties of volume preserving homeomorphisms, examples of which include transitivity, chaos and ergodicity. The authors make the first part of the book very concrete by focusing on volume preserving homeomorphisms of the unit n-dimensional cube. They also prove fixed point theorems (Conley-Zehnder-Franks). This is done in a number of short self-contained chapters that would be suitable for an undergraduate analysis seminar or a graduate lecture course. Parts Two and Three consider compact manifolds and sigma compact manifolds respec