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What She CouldBy Susan Warner

Susan Clemmer Steiner invites teens to join the great company of Christian peacemakers -- an army that sheds no blood -- and explains the Bible passages which undergird their beliefs. She tells numerous stories about Christian peacemakers today and throughout the centuries. Readers are encouraged to think about war, peace, duty owed to the government, responsibility before God, peace with others, and what we can do to make peace.

Interviews with; Hazel Anderson, Jim and Myrtle Brennan, Robert Bropho, Eric Conway, Ken Colbung, Doreen Dalgety, Elizabeth Dalgety, Ralph Dalgety, Jack Davis, Olive Hart , Vincent Lambadgee, Ned Mippy, Phyllis Mippy, Edie Moore , Alice Nannup, Angus Wallam and Bella Yappo - are the basis for this history of the Moore River Native Settlement; includes an annotated selection of articles from Western Australian newspapers; biography of Gladys Gilligan compiled from archival documents and a fictional account of A.O. Neville addressing a class of Aboriginal children.

The author traces the transformation of American housework from the eighteen century chores to the present with attention to the impact of the industrial revolution, domestic service, women's entry into the workforce and the influences of commercial processes and advertising.