Ida B. Wells and Nellie Bly were amzing women. Nelie Bly never stopped by what people toldher and had a very strong attitude. Even if you are a boy and you think this book is only for girls, YOUR WRONG. It is for everybody to enjoy.

Originally published in 1915, just after the start of the First World War, In Times Like These was one of McClung's early works. But reading the book 85 years later the reader might get a feeling of elation -- how far we have come, because women have the vote, after all! -- or deflation as we realize how far we still have to go. As McClung says, "The world has suffered long from too much masculinity and not enough humanity..."

A quick scan of this book only amaze me! How can this book be sold so cheaply - there are some adorable designs for easy things to knit with fairly clear instructions and an introduction on how to sew the knitted pieces together. I advise that you add this book to your collection!

This story takes place in 1886 in Providence, Rhode Island. This is when girls and women are of little value and men are more important. This is a story of a girl living through her tough life. Her family very poor because of her fathers bad gambling addiction, they have very little food, a one room house, and only cots to sleep on. In this day young girls are expected to wed at a young age. Her mother has sold her to a very nice man. She is still unhappy because she has to leave her family. In the end she leads a happy life with her new family.

A dual biography of Nellie Coffman, "Founder of the entire institution of desert vacationing," and Palm Springs. An excellent history of Coachella Valley, its "movers and shakers."

A wonderful compilation. Kendall is a very intelligent and entertaining writer whose agressive anti-Liberalism will annoy some. I should be one of the annoyed, but I much prefer Kendall to the partisan hacks and water-carriers who pass for conservative intellectuals today in Conservatism's ascendancy. Part of Kendall's appeal is that he had a sense of proportion and a sense of humor which served him well while doing political battle against the overwhelming Liberalism that he saw all around him.

For me, the two highlights of the book are "John Locke Revisited" and "Thoughts on Machiavelli." In "Revisited" the author discusses Strauss's Locke, Kendall 1941's Locke, Laslett's Locke, and Sabine's Locke. Here is a funny and instructive sentence from "Revisited": "Sabine, of course, would not himself touch a 'value-judgment' with a ten-foot pole; but the reader will not miss the point: Hobbes was the bad guy, Locke the good guy."

"Thoughts" is a review of Leo Strauss's book "Thoughts on Machiavelli." We are guided in the eight-page review to catch sight of true greatness. When a man of Kendall's obvious intelligence and scholarship expresses his awe, we cannot help but become awestruck (even if only by reflection). Here is an excerpt:

Certainly [Strauss] nowhere tells us, in "Thoughts," how the mischief the Machiavellians have done can be undone. But Strauss's silence on this point is perhaps as explicit a statement as the "situation" and the "quality of the times" call for, and what it says is: the mischief can be undone only by a great teacher who feels within himself a strength and a vocation not less than Machiavelli's own, who possesses a store of learning not inferior to Machiavelli's own, who will take the best of the young, of this generation and future generations, and, leading them by the hand without arguing with them, habituate them to the denial of Machiavelli's denials.

Excellent connector of times lived. "This is the way it was!" expressed many times by those who have read and given this book. Thank you, Sandra!

I got this book when my four-year-old daughter asked me if there were any women explorers after I told her about Columbus and Balboa. The biographies are about interesting women & they are short enough for a pre-reader's attention span and a nice length for older children to read alone. The author does a great job explaining terms & covering all the women's adventures. I wanted more anecdotes in some of the biographies, however, to make the women more memorable and colorful. Overall, this is a great book to introduce the concept of women explorers. The maps and photographs are wonderful.

I was disappointed as to how little information was in this book. Additionally, several pages of the were printed out of sequence. I had the feeling this thing was thrown together. Some 64 of the book's 280 pages is a glossary. Don't waste your money. Shame on you Nellie and Peter.

This is not the best investment book I have ever read, but it does have some very interesting and helpful tips. I was dissapointed that the book is only 191 pages of actual "text," while the rest is a large glossary of investment terms not necessarily related to the discussions in the book. I think better books have been written on so-called "value investing" (the method used by Smartmoney). Try Michael Vick's "How to Pick Stocks like Warren Buffett."

Smart Money writers know how to do their homework. They explain why even the most appealing stocks may not be right for your portfolio. This book explains--in understandable terms--how you can follow the stock market and buy the stocks that work for you, not every other investor. This is a concise and understandable investing book.

Readers who call Jean Toomer "black" or "African American" are totally in error. He rejected that racist "one drop" classification and deserves praise and admiration for doing so. Toomer's parents and grandparents were not "black middle class" but looked whiter than many Americans who call themselves "white."

Nellie McKay's study of Jean Toomer is a careful and contexturalized assessment of Toomer and his writings. She resists the tendency in contemporary racial politics to applaud uncritically Toomer's assertions that he was not African American. As is quite obvious to anyone who has studied the 1920s in America, how one looked, as in skin color, was not the only factor that defined one's race; race was imposed brutally by a white institutional system using a variety of criteria; and it was also chosen by African Americans as a protest against the notion that the default American identity was European American. Toomer came from a long line of African Americans who made the political decision to define themselves as Negro despite their mixed-race heritage, in part as solidarity with those millions of darker skinned African Americans who could not "pass" into European-Americanness. Toomer broke with that tradition when he declared he was not Negro, a declaration made, interestingly, only after he had won fame for writing a book, Cane, that most, including his publishers, understood as a book by a Negro. Indeed, McKay's study was the first to interpret Cane as not necessarily a search for racial identity. This book deserves to be read as a needed antidote to the recent canonization of Toomer as a ideologist of post-blackness.