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Despite considerable research that has provided a better understanding of the challenges of doctoral education, it remains the case that only 57% of all doctoral students will complete their programs. This groundbreaking volume sheds new light on determinants for doctoral student success and persistence by examining the socialization and developmental experiences of students through multiple lenses of individual, disciplinary, and institutiona...

This delightful pocket sized title, coming from one of the UK's foremost experts on roses, will be an indispensable guide to rose-lovers everywhere.

A young female leader comes of age in prehistoric Africa in this enthralling debut that weaves survival drama with brilliant paleoanthropology

All of the poems within this book are based on the author's experiences of living within the Spirit. Some talk about the experience itself and others provide guidelines on how we can live within the Spirit by following God's commandments. Anthony Leonard Austin was born in Miami, Florida on February 11, 1957. For much of his life he lived in the slums of Opa Locka, where he was a drug abuser and street hustler. An ex-felon, Anthony now resides...

Amerika 1920. Harriet Sherwood hat ihre Großmutter Bebe immer bewundert. Aber sie hätte nie gedacht, dass ihre Entscheidung, in die Fußstapfen ihres großen Vorbilds zu treten und für soziale Gerechtigkeit zu kämpfen, sie ins Gefängnis bringen würde. Genauso wenig, wie sie erwartet hätte, dass ausgerechnet ihr alter Widersacher aus Kindertagen, Tommy O'Reilly, sie eines Tages verhaften würde. In ihrer Gefängniszelle hat Harriet jede Menge Zeit...

Like a century-old version of *Night at the Museum, * 1918's *The Trail Book* is the story of two children whose quiet evenings at the American Museum of Natural History in New York City are enlivened by adventure. When 11-year-old Dorcas Jane and her brother, Oliver, see the life-size dioramas of Indian cultures and North American wildlife come alive, they step into the world of the ancient past and discover that much had been lost when Europ...

Behind every successful, young athlete, there is a highly-motivated parentobsessed with the idea of their son or daughter becoming a big sports' star. Earl Austin, Jr.'s latest book, You Might Need a Jacket: Hilarious Stories of Wacky Sports Parents, is dedicated to those mothers, fathers and others who go above and beyond the call of duty to ensure their children's success in the athletic arena.You Might Need a Jacket: Hilarious Stories of Wa...

This is the definitive work on Americans taken prisoner during the Revolutionary War. The bulk of the book is devoted to personal accounts, many of them moving, of the conditions endured by U.S. prisoners at the hands of the British, as preserved in journals or diaries kept by physicians, ships' captains, and the prisoners themselves. Of greater genealogical interest is the alphabetical list of 8, 000 men who were imprisoned on the British ves...

This collection of Georgia Bible Records contains an itemized list of the births, marriages, and deaths found in approximately 1, 000 family Bibles! Included are Bible records of some of Georgia's first settlers and prominent figures, as well as records of ordinary individuals, some of whom migrated to or from other states. The collection spans a period stretching from the early 1700s to the 1900s, and in all, names some 20, 000 persons.

This is an index to the earliest surviving will books of Georgia counties formed before the 1832 Land Lottery. It is based on verbatim copies of wills found in county will books. Designed to simplify the research process, this index contains the names, in alphabetical order, of about 20, 000 testators, the name of the county in which the will was filed, and the designation of the book in which the complete will can be located.

This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed w...

This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed w...

This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curated for quality. Quality assurance was conducted on each of these books in an attempt to remove books with imperfections introduced by the digitization process. Though we have made best efforts - the books may have occasional errors that do not impede the reading experience. We believe this work is culturally important and have elected to bring the book back into print as part of our cont...

This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curated for quality. Quality assurance was conducted on each of these books in an attempt to remove books with imperfections introduced by the digitization process. Though we have made best efforts - the books may have occasional errors that do not impede the reading experience. We believe this work is culturally important and have elected to bring the book back into print as part of our cont...

This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curated for quality. Quality assurance was conducted on each of these books in an attempt to remove books with imperfections introduced by the digitization process. Though we have made best efforts - the books may have occasional errors that do not impede the reading experience. We believe this work is culturally important and have elected to bring the book back into print as part of our cont...

This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curated for quality. Quality assurance was conducted on each of these books in an attempt to remove books with imperfections introduced by the digitization process. Though we have made best efforts - the books may have occasional errors that do not impede the reading experience. We believe this work is culturally important and have elected to bring the book back into print as part of our cont...

Kate Aiello has spent her entire life trying to please others-her three brothers, her Italian mamma and her husband of twenty-five years. It isn't insult enough she is turning fifty, and left at the side of life's road by her philandering husband. Now she has to contend with her body's betrayal...hot flashes! The plain truth hits her with each thermostatic aberration-she has never been first in anyone's life, including her own. Brandon Sulliva...

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Published in 1967, the letters in this volume reveal the experiences of four Georgia soldiers who served in Company H of the Eleventh Regiment, Georgia Volunteers, under Stonewall Jackson. Most of the letters were written by James Thomas Thompson, a young farmer from Walton County. During the two years he served, Thompson seems to have never lost his enthusiasm for the soldier's life. His letters are full of admiration for his offi cers, comme...

In the nineteenth century, Rutland was the center of a booming marble industry. By the early twentieth century, the Vermont Marble Company was considered the largest U.S. corporation in the world. Today, the region of southwestern Vermont that runs from Middlebury in the north to Dorset in the south is still called "the Marble Valley, " and visitors flock every year to tour the Vermont Marble Museum and the International Carving Studio and to ...