First printed in 1983, this book concerns the comparative physiological adaptations of vertebrate animals, especially mammals, to cessation of breathing.
same time, she recognizes that the boundaries between jazz, classical, Brazilian, flamenco, and other styles of music are becoming increasingly more blended, and Schneider's own music blurs genres. Continuing to write for her jazz ...
Alison Braithwaite gathers the stories of twenty women who have found their own versions of achievement and happiness.
In this dazzling collection, we meet twelve remarkable women−from Shirley Chisholm, the West Indian-raised girl who became the first black woman to be elected to the U.S. Congress, to Janet Frame, the brilliant New Zealand writer who ...
Jill Ker Conway, author of one of the most celebrated memoirs of recent decades, is also the premier anthologist of women's autobiographical writing. In Her Own Words is Conway's distillation...
IN HER OWN WORDS is written so that others can read for themselves the words Darlie Routier spoke or offered in written statements about what happened the night her precious children were murdered.
This volume offers first-hand accounts of women's experience with crime and victimization and gives an inside view on how female law-breaking behavior overlaps with victimization in some cases, and how law breaking is a rational choice in ...