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BY GRACE traces the heroic journey of young Grace Pelham as she travels geographically and psychologically into the Far West of the late 1890’s. Following her father’s death, she leaves Albany on a quest to find her vocation and stumbles i… more

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Jane Addams was a prolific and elegant writer. Her twelve books consist largely of published essays, but to appreciate her life work one must also read her previously uncollected speeches and editorials. This artfully compiled collection be… more

There’s an enormous subculture of men who trade tips, tricks, and tactics for seducing women. Within the last half-decade or so, these underground “pickup artists” have burst into the popular consciousness, aided by Neil Strauss’s bestsell… more

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In a compelling approach structured as theme and variations, Barbara Sicherman offers insightful profiles of a number of accomplished women born in America’s Gilded Age who lost—and found—themselves in books, and worked out a new life pur… more

Chicago has been called by many names. Nelson Algren declared it “A City on the Make.” Carl Sandburg dubbed it the “City of Big Shoulders.” Upton Sinclair christened it “The Jungle,” while New Yorkers, naturally, pronounced it “the Second C… more

“A bittersweetmodern love story [that] reads as easily as a novel.” —VogueHemingway’screative influences for novels like The Sun Also Rises, A Farewell toArms, and The Old Man and the Sea came not only from his famoushunting trips, his liai… more

“One is not born a woman, but becomes one” - Simone de Beauvoir”The Big Book of Feminist Quotes” is a collection of famous phrases by 77 feminists, including writers, singers, philosophers, suffragettes, academics, radical feminists and mor… more

Peace and bread in time of warCHAPTER I. AT THE BEGINNING OF THE GKEAT WAK. When the news came to America of the open- ing hostilities which were the beginning of the European Conflict, the reaction against war, as such, was almost instanta… more

A unique interdisciplinary exploration of a pressing social issueThe numbers of women offenders involved in the correctional system are quickly growing. Drugs, Women, and Justice: Roles of the Criminal Justice System for Drug-Affected Women… more

Until now, ethicists have said little about the body, limiting their comments on it to remarks made in passing or, at best, devoting a chapter to the subject. Embodied Care is the first work to argue for the body’s centrality to care ethics… more

Hull House, rumored to be sheltering a “devil baby,” is besieged by emigrants clamoring to see the child with horns and hooves. Jane Addams locks horns with an elderly Irish woman, in an attempt to understand the strange obsession that has … more

It’s Chicago in 1893 and Emily Cabot, an aspiring sociologist, finds work at Hull House, the famous settlement established by Jane Addams. There she quickly becomes involved in the political and social problems of the immigrant community. B… more

This spirited analysis—and defense—of American liberalism demonstrates the complex and rich traditions of political, economic, and social discourse that have informed American democratic culture from the seventeenth century to the present… more

BOOK EXCERPT:The industrial revolution that began in England in the 1700s and spread to other parts of Europe as well as the United States brought manufacturing efficiencies to industry and modern conveniences to the people. But it also bro… more

IntroductionI have been writing Wisdom of Life Profiles of people who I wanted to learn more about for close to a year now. During last summer, I wrote over 50, and with that many, I started to see connections among many of the people profi… more

WHEN, some two years ago a collection of Atlantic essays was offered to the public, it was the editor’s idea that this volume should be, to use the current phrase, a kind of permanent exhibit of the character and quality of The Atlantic. In… more

Published in 1912, on the heels of Twenty Years at Hull-House and at the height of Jane Addams’ popularity, “A New Conscience and an Ancient Evil” assesses the vulnerability of the rural and immigrant working-class girls who moved to Chicag… more