Download or read book The Autobiography of a Very Remarkable Woman written by Harriette Newell Baker and published by . This book was released on 1894 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Autobiography of a Remarkable Woman Mrs Harriette N Baker Edited by Walter Baker written by Madeline Leslie and published by . This book was released on 1894 with total page 243 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Lifetime of Labor written by Alice H. Cook and published by Feminist Press at CUNY. This book was released on 2000 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This book is both graceful autobiography and perceptive social history that will be of lasting value." --Library Journal
Download or read book A Remarkable Woman written by S. Guy Lovelace and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2016-03-10 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: If you read The Carnival Never Got Started and wondered why Pat didn't leave her husband, you will be further astonished by A Remarkable Woman.It is the biography of Pat Lovelace who was trained as an elementary school teacher and gave up that career to raise three children. There is nothing remarkable about that, hundreds of women do it every month. She married a romantic and a dreamer; there is nothing remarkable about that either. The dreamer became the owner of a furniture leasing corporation and then an interior design firm and then a highly successful manufacturing firm that created modular restaurant interiors. Then greed captured the dreamer. He dreamed of a public offering for the very successful firm. The dreamer borrowed heavily to finance the public offering. It came into the market in the midst of a major recession and the offering failed. The dreamer was wiped out financially. The remarkable woman incorporated an export import company which became extremely successful. The dreamer who 20 years previously had received a degree in architecture took the three day exam and passed. He opened an architectural firm which became very successful. He bought land on a Caribbean island and sold it for outrageous profit He decided that he an his wife should build their own Caribbean Hotel. The dreamer miscalculate the cost of the hotel and had to go back to work as an architect leaving the remarkable woman on an island where she was the only white woman to supervise a construction crew of 20 local men. She did not read drawings, she new nothing about construction. But she learned. The pictures inside this book are a testimony to her achievement. When the hotel opened she created a unique tour of the Caribbean menu and published a cook book about it. Her hotel was featured in every major travel magazine and was named by Conde-Nast traveler one of the 10 best small hotels in the Caribbean.
Download or read book My Remarkable Journey written by Katherine Johnson and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2021-05-25 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The remarkable woman at heart of the smash New York Times bestseller and Oscar-winning film Hidden Figures tells the full story of her life, including what it took to work at NASA, help land the first man on the moon, and live through a century of turmoil and change. In 2015, at the age of 97, Katherine Johnson became a global celebrity. President Barack Obama awarded her the prestigious Presidential Medal of Freedom—the nation’s highest civilian honor—for her pioneering work as a mathematician on NASA’s first flights into space. Her contributions to America’s space program were celebrated in a blockbuster and Academy-award nominated movie. In this memoir, Katherine shares her personal journey from child prodigy in the Allegheny Mountains of West Virginia to NASA human computer. In her life after retirement, she served as a beacon of light for her family and community alike. Her story is centered around the basic tenets of her life—no one is better than you, education is paramount, and asking questions can break barriers. The memoir captures the many facets of this unique woman: the curious “daddy’s girl,” pioneering professional, and sage elder. This multidimensional portrait is also the record of a century of racial history that reveals the influential role educators at segregated schools and Historically Black Colleges and Universities played in nurturing the dreams of trailblazers like Katherine. The author pays homage to her mentor—the African American professor who inspired her to become a research mathematician despite having his own dream crushed by racism. Infused with the uplifting wisdom of a woman who handled great fame with genuine humility and great tragedy with enduring hope, My Remarkable Journey ultimately brings into focus a determined woman who navigated tough racial terrain with soft-spoken grace—and the unrelenting grit required to make history and inspire future generations.
Download or read book A Very Remarkable Woman written by Pennie Denton and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Woman I Wanted to Be written by Diane von Furstenberg and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2014-10-28 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the most influential, admired, and colorful women of our time: fashion designer and philanthropist Diane von Furstenberg tells the most personal stories from her life, about family, love, beauty and business: “It’s so good, you’ll want to take notes” (People). Diane von Furstenberg started with a suitcase full of jersey dresses and an idea of who she wanted to be—in her words, “the kind of woman who is independent and who doesn’t rely on a man to pay her bills.” She has since become that woman, establishing herself as a major force in the fashion industry, all the while raising a family, maintaining that “my children are my greatest creation.” In The Woman I Wanted to Be, “an intriguing page-turner filled with revelations” (More), von Furstenberg reflects on her extraordinary life—from her childhood in Brussels to her days as a young, jet-set princess, to creating the dress that came to symbolize independence and power for generations of women. With remarkable honesty and wisdom, von Furstenberg mines the rich territory of what it means to be a woman. She opens up about her family and career, overcoming cancer, building a global brand, and devoting herself to empowering other women. This “inspiring, compelling, deliciously detailed celebrity autobiography…is as much of a smashing success as the determined, savvy, well-intentioned woman who wrote it” (Chicago Tribune).
Download or read book A Remarkable Woman written by Anne Edwards and published by . This book was released on 1990-05 with total page 562 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Soundings written by Hali Felt and published by Macmillan + ORM. This book was released on 2013-07-02 with total page 444 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Her maps of the ocean floor have been called "one of the most remarkable achievements in modern cartography", yet no one knows her name. Soundings is the story of the enigmatic, unknown woman behind one of the greatest achievements of the 20th century. Before Marie Tharp, geologist and gifted draftsperson, the whole world, including most of the scientific community, thought the ocean floor was a vast expanse of nothingness. In 1948, at age 28, Marie walked into the newly formed geophysical lab at Columbia University and practically demanded a job. The scientists at the lab were all male; the women who worked there were relegated to secretary or assistant. Through sheer willpower and obstinacy, Marie was given the job of interpreting the soundings (records of sonar pings measuring the ocean's depths) brought back from the ocean-going expeditions of her male colleagues. The marriage of artistry and science behind her analysis of this dry data gave birth to a major work: the first comprehensive map of the ocean floor, which laid the groundwork for proving the then-controversial theory of continental drift. When combined, Marie's scientific knowledge, her eye for detail and her skill as an artist revealed not a vast empty plane, but an entire world of mountains and volcanoes, ridges and rifts, and a gateway to the past that allowed scientists the means to imagine how the continents and the oceans had been created over time. Just as Marie dedicated more than twenty years of her professional life to what became the Lamont Geological Observatory, engaged in the task of mapping every ocean on Earth, she dedicated her personal life to her great friendship with her co-worker, Bruce Heezen. Partners in work and in many ways, partners in life, Marie and Bruce were devoted to one another as they rose to greater and greater prominence in the scientific community, only to be envied and finally dismissed by their beloved institute. They went on together, refining and perfecting their work and contributing not only to humanity's vision of the ocean floor, but to the way subsequent generations would view the Earth as a whole. With an imagination as intuitive as Marie's, brilliant young writer Hali Felt brings to vivid life the story of the pioneering scientist whose work became the basis for the work of others scientists for generations to come.
Download or read book Over a Cup of Coffee written by Amparo Calvo Echeverría and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2010-10-01 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over a Cup of Coffee is the autobiography of a remarkable woman, Amparo Calvo Echeverria. Born at the time of the Spanish Republic, her memoirs cover the period of the Civil War to the present day. Her troubled relationship with her mother pervades the text, made clear from the outset with an outpouring of emotions on her death. The tragic snatching of her daughters by the authorities on her return to Spain marks the rest of her life. It is the very personal journey of a young woman . . . to adulthood and the richness of a life led. A lesson in optimism and the joys of life.
Download or read book The Methodist Quarterly Review written by and published by . This book was released on 1881 with total page 810 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Book of Anna written by Stella Kuzyk Noble and published by . This book was released on 2020-11-09 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Stella Kuzyk Noble is the second youngest of the 16 children of Anna Zabiaka Kuzyk, the subject of this book. Stella was born in Fork River, Manitoba, Canada in 1929 and now resides in Waterdown, Ontario, Canada. She enjoys painting, playing cards, watching baseball and driving around town in her fancy Ford Mustang. Stella has recently become a great great grandmother.
Download or read book The Autobiography of Eleanor Roosevelt written by Eleanor Roosevelt and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2014-10-21 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A candid and insightful look at an era and a life through the eyes of one of the most remarkable Americans of the twentieth century, First Lady and humanitarian Eleanor Roosevelt. The daughter of one of New York’s most influential families, niece of Theodore Roosevelt, and wife of President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Eleanor Roosevelt witnessed some of the most remarkable decades in modern history, as America transitioned from the Gilded Age, the Progressive Era, and the Depression to World War II and the Cold War. A champion of the downtrodden, Eleanor drew on her experience and used her role as First Lady to help those in need. Intimately involved in her husband’s political life, from the governorship of New York to the White House, Eleanor would eventually become a powerful force of her own, heading women’s organizations and youth movements, and battling for consumer rights, civil rights, and improved housing. In the years after FDR’s death, this inspiring, controversial, and outspoken leader would become a U.N. Delegate, chairman of the Commission on Human Rights, a newspaper columnist, Democratic party activist, world-traveler, and diplomat devoted to the ideas of liberty and human rights. This single volume biography brings her into focus through her own words, illuminating the vanished world she grew up, her life with her political husband, and the post-war years when she worked to broaden cooperation and understanding at home and abroad. The Autobiography of Eleanor Roosevelt includes 16 pages of black-and-white photos.
Download or read book Reading Jackie written by William Kuhn and published by Anchor. This book was released on 2011-11-29 with total page 450 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis never wrote a memoir, but she told her life story and revealed herself in intimate ways through the nearly 100 books she brought into print as an editor at Viking and Doubleday during the last two decades of her life. Many Americans regarded Jackie as the paragon of grace, but few knew her as the woman sitting on her office floor laying out illustrations, or flying to California to persuade Michael Jackson to write his autobiography. William Kuhn provides a behind-the-scenes look at Jackie at work: commissioning books and nurturing authors, helping to shape stories that spoke to her. Based on archives and interviews with her authors, colleagues, and friends, Reading Jackie reveals the serious and the mischievous woman underneath the glamorous public image.
Download or read book To Talk of Many Things written by Dame Kathleen Ollerenshaw and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2004-10-29 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A remarkable account of the life of Dame Kathleen Ollerenshaw, former Lord Mayor, Freeman of the City of Manchester, and President of the Insitute of Mathematics.
Download or read book Dorothea Beale of Cheltenham written by Elizabeth Raikes and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2020-01-09 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Dorothea Beale of Cheltenham" by Elizabeth Raikes uses the history that was left behind by Beale herself. Not only were all business documents, such as minutes of council meetings, nomination papers, examination questions carefully preserved, she also kept all letters which could be of any interest. She went further than merely arranging materials for a future book. As such, Raikes chose to honor this industrious woman by assembling her notes into an engaging and coherent biography.
Download or read book The West of Scotland in History written by Joseph Irving and published by . This book was released on 1885 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
