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A Woman Can Dream, Can't She? is a soprano recital of art songs and arias from the Romantic and 20th Century periods of Western Music. The selections are unified around a theme of dreams; the dreams of a woman longing for connection and creation through love and music. Each piece displays the poetic and compositional characteristics common to each of these eras, and together with the unique qualities of each composer and poet comprises a set of arias and art songs which animate the expanse and flavor of dreams. Additionally, each selection expresses this theme as it relates to my personal journey as a woman, a mother, and an artist. This autobiographical aspect renders a deeply personal program of music which mirrors my experiences as an undergraduate in Boston and culminating with recent experiences of personal and musical exploration at California State University, Northridge. Accompanied by Helen Wu on piano, the program contains works of composers from the Romantic and 20th Century eras of Western music. A set of Italian bel canto art songs Vaga luna, che inargenti by Vincenzo Bellini (1801-1835) and Aragonese by Gioachino Rossini (1792-1868) begins the program, followed by Gustav Mahler's (1860-1911) Rückert-Lieder, with text by Friedrich Rückert (1788-1866) with a Bellini aria Come per me sereno from his opera La Sonnambula, closing the first half of the program. Sergei Rachmaninoff's (1873-1943) epic art song Vocalise Op. 32, No 14, opens the second half of the program, followed by a set of selections from Claude Debussy's (1862-1918) Ariettes oubliées, with text by Paul Verlaine (1844-1896). Next is Benjamin Britten's (1913-1976) aria How Beautiful It Is from his 1954 opera The Turn of the Screw, based on the Henry James novella, with libretto by Myfanwy Piper (1911-1997). A final set of three English art songs begins with William Walton's (1902-1983) Through Gilded Trellises with text by Edith Sitwell (1887-1964) with two selections from the Aaron Copland (1900-1990) / Emily Dickinson (1830-1886) collaboration Heart, We Will Forget Him and Why do They Shut Me Out of Heaven? concluding the program. This program of works by Rossini, Bellini, Rachmaninoff, Debussy, Mahler, Britten, Walton, and Copland represents a colorful and evocative swath of art songs and arias of the Romantic and Twentieth Century periods of composition and poetry. The composer and poet in each selection create a singular universe with human life and the human heart at its center. As a collection of works in concert, this music creates a living dream of connection, artistry, life, and love.

Chiropractic is by far the most common form of alternative medicine in the US today, but its origins stretch back to the battles between science and religion in the nineteenth century. At the center of the story are chiropractic's colourful founders, D.D. Palmer and his son, B.J. Palmer. Holly Folk shows how the Palmers' system depicted chiropractic as a conduit for both material and spiritualized versions of a 'vital principle'.

The Lighthouse series is designed to help children focus on specific reading skills, across a wide range of genres. There are 80 books in the Lighthouse series split into ten bands which increase in difficulty, both within the band and across the bands. The Yellow band is designed for children in Year 1.

The Lighthouse series is designed to help children focus on specific reading skills, across a wide range of genres. There are 80 books in the Lighthouse series split into ten bands which increase in difficulty, both within the band and across the bands. The Yellow band is designed for children in Year 1. Each pack contains a Teacher's Notes booklet.

This landmark volume makes widely available for the first time the correspondence of the Quaker activist Lucretia Coffin Mott. Scrupulously reproduced and annotated, these letters illustrate the length and breadth of her public life as a leading reformer while providing an intimate glimpse of her family life. Dedicated to reform of almost every kind--temperance, peace, equal rights, woman suffrage, nonresistance, and the abolition of slavery--Mott viewed woman's rights as only one element of a broad-based reform agenda for American society. A founder and leader of many antislavery organizations, including the racially integrated American Antislavery Society and the Philadelphia Female Anti-slavery Society, she housed fugitive slaves, maintained lifelong friendships with such African-American colleagues as Harriet Tubman and Sojourner Truth, and agitated to bring her fellow Quakers into consensus on taking a stand against slavery. Mott was a seasoned activist by 1848 when she helped to organize the Seneca Falls Woman's Rights Convention, whose resolutions called for equal treatment of women in all arenas. Mott tried to pursue a neutral course when her friends Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony disagreed with other woman's rights leaders over the Fifteenth Amendment, which guaranteed equal rights for freedmen but not for any women. Her private views on this breach within the woman's movement emerge for the first time in these letters. An active public life, however, is only half the story of this dedicated and energetic woman. Mott and her husband of fifty-six years, James, raised five children to adulthood, and her letters to other reformers and fellow Quakers are interspersed with the informal "hurried scraps" she wrote to and about her cherished family. An invaluable resource on an extraordinary woman, these selected letters reveal the incisive mind, clear sense of mission, and level-headed personality that made Lucretia Coffin Mott a natural leader and a major force in nineteenth-century American life.

Thaddeus Stevens has been called “the greatest dictator Congress ever had, ” a man who in 1867 held more political power than any man in the nation, including the president. In his day Stevens grappled with many of the issues that confront us today: racial and economic equality, affirmative action, and equal access to education. The second volume of a two-volume edition covers Steven’s later years during the tumultuous period from the end of the Civil War to his death in1868. It includes letters, speeches, and remarks Stevens delivered as he championed equal rights for the freedmen and steered key Reconstruction measures through Congress. This volume also contains letters from loyalists and ex-Confederates to Stevens reflecting their reactions to conditions in the South.