Author: Elizabeth Deering HanscomPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Women
Languages : en
Pages : 166
Book Description
Sophia Smith and the Beginnings of Smith College
Author: Elizabeth Deering HanscomPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Women
Languages : en
Pages : 166
Book Description
The Wrongs of Africa: A Tribute to the Anti-Slavery Cause
Author: Mary B. TuckeyPublisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3368945696
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 50
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1838.
A Woman's Education
Author: Jill Ker ConwayPublisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0679744622
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 159
Book Description
The beloved bestselling author of The Road from Coorain and True North continues her remarkable autobiography with an account of her decade as the first woman president of Smith College–a time when she was faced with the challenge of reinventing women’s education and with the demands of her own life. Conway took on the helm at Smith at the height of exploding culture wars and the rising popularity of coeducation. With the college’s future at stake, she battled conservative faculty, ossified traditions, and doubtful funders to turn Smith into a place committed to preparing young women for the new realities of the future. Through it all, Conway served as an inspiration to thousands of students, while balancing the demands of her public role against the private pressures of coping with her husband’s bipolar disorder. A moving tribute to the value of single-sex education and to one woman’s achievements, A Woman’s Education is sure to become a classic.
Sophia Smith and the Beginnings of Smith College
Author: Elizabeth Deering HanscomPublisher:
ISBN: 9781258791131
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 146
Book Description
The Strange Disappearance of Sophia Smith
Author: Quentin QuesnellPublisher: Smith College Library
ISBN: 9780873910484
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 250
Book Description
The Smith College Museum of Art
Author: Smith College. Museum of ArtPublisher: Hudson Hills
ISBN: 9781555951948
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 252
Book Description
Smith College art professors Davis and Leshko showcase 100 paintings and sculptures from their institution's vaunted collection, encompassing Americans from Gilbert Stuart to Louise Nevelson and Europeans from Corot to Henry Moore. In the introduction, how and why Smith became steward of such a fine body of work is ascribed to the school's high-minded mission and its generous alumni donors. The rest of the book is divided into two sections, one American and the other European. Each individual full-color reproduction is accompanied by an informative one-page essay and a brief reading list. During several years of renovations at Smith, the items featured in this book are traveling to diverse sites, which should increase the book's appeal. 118 colour & 1 b/w illustrations
Smith College
Author: Margaret Birney VickeryPublisher: Princeton Architectural Press
ISBN: 9781568985916
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 184
Book Description
The newest title in the Princeton Architectural Press Campus Guide series takes readers on a tour of Smith College. Founded in 1871 as one of the first full-fledged colleges for women, Smith is known for its beautiful campus set in an idyllic New England landscape. A walk around its grounds is like a comprehensive tour through American architecture from the eighteenth century to the present. The campus includes such diverse buildings as Peabody & Stearn's Queen Anne-style College Hall; the neo-Georgian Quadrangle by Ames, Dodge and Putnam; Skidmore, Owings & Merrill's International Style Cutter and Ziskind houses; as well as the postmodern Bass Science Center and Young Science Library by Shepley, Bullfinch, Richardson, and Abbott. The university's most recent additions include the Brown Fine Arts Center, designed by the Polshek Partnership; the Olin Fitness Center, by Leers Weinzapfel Associates; and the Campus Center by Weiss/Manfredi.
Home Town
Author: Tracy KidderPublisher: Random House
ISBN: 0307826473
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 490
Book Description
In this splendid book, one of America's masters of nonfiction takes us home--into Hometown, U.S.A., the town of Northampton, Massachusetts, and into the extraordinary, and the ordinary, lives that people live there. As Tracy Kidder reveals how, beneath its amiable surface, a small town is a place of startling complexity, he also explores what it takes to make a modern small city a success story. Weaving together compelling stories of individual lives, delving into a rich and varied past, moving among all the levels of Northampton's social hierarchy, Kidder reveals the sheer abundance of life contained within a town's narrow boundaries. Does the kind of small town that many Americans came from, and long for, still exist? Kidder says yes, although not quite in the form we may imagine. A book about civilization in microcosm, Home Town makes us marvel afresh at the wonder of individuality, creativity, and civic order--how a disparate group of individuals can find common cause and a code of values that transforms a place into a home. And this book makes you feel you live there.
Mouths, Tigers' Mouths
Author: Sophia WestPublisher: Onlywomen Press
ISBN:
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 164
Book Description
Sophia West died in 1996, aged 30. In this volume of love poems and fragmentary prose stories, biographical history informs as introduction by Sophia West's mother, Olivia Emmett.
War Work Bulletin
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : World War, 1914-1918
Languages : en
Pages : 304
Book Description