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  Writing Your Dissertation in...

  EdD Joan Bolker

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  Expert writing advice from the editor of the Boston Globe bestseller, The Writer's Home Companion 
   
   
   
  Dissertation writers need strong, practical advice, as well as someone to assure them that their struggles aren't unique. Joan Bolker, midwife to more than one hundred dissertations and cofounder of the Harvard Writing Center, offers invaluable suggestions for the graduate-student writer. Using positive reinforcement, she begins by reminding thesis writers that being able to devote themselves to a project that truly interests them can be a pleasurable adventure. She encourages them to pay close attention to their writing method in order to discover their individual work strategies that promote productivity; to stop feeling fearful that they may disappoint their advisors or family members; and to tailor their theses to their own writing style and personality needs. Using field-tested strategies she assists the student through the entire thesis-writing process, offering advice on choosing a topic and an advisor, on disciplining one's self to work at least fifteen minutes each day; setting short-term deadlines, on revising and defing the thesis, and on life and publication after the dissertation. Bolker makes writing the dissertation an enjoyable challenge.

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  The Secrets of Women Who Never...

  Dr Katja Lindemann MD

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  Resilience comes in many shapes and sizes. The Secrets of Women Who Never Give Up shares the remarkable lives of 27 powerful women in history. Their strategies, goals, and successes can guide you through challenging times. The stories in this book will inspire you: Through these women’s secrets of not giving up—no matter the hardships and trials that they faced—you will find your own courage and determination. 
  Part biography of amazing women and part handbook for how to face adversity, this book offers a roadmap for readers to find their inner strength and confidence, and become the best version of themselves. It will lead you on a fascinating journey across the globe and beyond: from 1920s Tibet to a solo mission to Mars, from an infamous bus ride in Alabama in 1955 to the male-dominated fields of scientific research and medicine. 
  The Secrets of Women Who Never Give Up will be your guide through the worlds and lives of some of history’s most highly effective women, empowering you with 11 strategies to build resilience in the modern world. 
  Inside, you’ll learn how to:Have faith and believe in yourselfUnderstand the importance and impact of personal values in achieving successFollow your heart and passionsVisualize and manifest successTackle setbacks with strength and courageFind and acknowledge support systems 
  Don’t let challenges hold you back! With inspiring stories and actionable advice, this book will shift your mindset towards hope, empowerment, and resilience

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  Mercy Brown Incident The: The...

  Editors Charles River

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  Today the Salem Witch Trials are often remembered as being a relic of a superstitious past, and Salem has transformed itself into a tourist haven and Halloween destination by capitalizing off the trials, which remain well known across America. However, most people have forgotten that New England had a “vampire” scare in the 19th century, when superstitious New Englanders looked to lore to explain tuberculosis, a devastating illness for which they had no available answers.  
  	The last and most famous event in New England’s hunt for vampires came near the end of the 19th century after Mercy Brown died of consumption on January 19, 1892 and her body was exhumed on March 17, 1892. Suspicion fell on her as being a possible vampire, and digging her coffin up was an attempt to determine if she was, in fact, a vampire. Her mother and sister had died before her, also from consumption, and when her brother Eddie caught the disease, he had dreams about Mercy. He also had the feeling of a heavy weight sitting on his chest at night. 
  	After her coffin was opened, the remains were examined, and the relatively good condition of Mercy Brown’s body indicated to her family and neighbors that she was indeed a vampire, and that she was responsible for her brother’s illness. While people who think of vampires today conjure up images of Dracula, in 19th century America, vampires were believed to be tied to tuberculosis, which killed millions of people. American beliefs about vampires connected victims who had died of consumption with living family members who came down with the disease, which was quite common because outbreaks of consumption frequently decimated whole families, striking down previously healthy brothers and sisters within a year or two.

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  Open Society and Its Enemies...

  Briefly Summaries

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  This is a concise summary and analysis of The Open Society and Its Enemies, by 
  Karl Popper.
  It is not the original book and is not affiliated with or endorsed by 
  Karl Popper.
  Ideal those seeking a quick and insightful overview.
   
  The Open Society and Its Enemies is a groundbreaking exploration of the philosophical underpinnings of totalitarianism and the defense of liberal democracy. This seminal work challenges the ideas of influential thinkers such as Plato, Hegel, and Marx, critiquing their roles in shaping authoritarian ideologies. With incisive logic and clarity, it argues for the necessity of open societies, where individual freedoms, critical thinking, and scientific inquiry thrive. A profound study of the conflict between tyranny and freedom, this book remains a cornerstone in political philosophy and an enduring guide for safeguarding democratic principles.

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  Driving to Treblinka

  Diana Wichtel

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  As a young child Diana Wichtel lives in Vancouver, Canada. Her mother is a Catholic New Zealander, her father a Polish Jew who miraculously survived the Holocaust by jumping through the window of a train bound for the Treblinka death camp. When Diana' s thirteen, her life changes dramatically: her mother whisks her and her two siblings to New Zealand to live. Their father is to follow. She never sees him again. Many years later she sets out to discover what happened to him. The search becomes an obsession as she painstakingly uncovers information about his large Warsaw family and their fate at the hands of the Nazis, scours archives across the world for clues to her father' s disappearance, and visits the places he lived. This unforgettable narrative is also a deep reflection on the meaning of family, the trauma of loss, and the insistence of memory. It asks the question: Is it better to know, or more bearable not to?

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  Chasing Lewis's Monkeyflower -...

  Elizabeth Adelman

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  A look at the Lewis and Clark Expedition and the plant specimens the great explorers gathered on their way—and of their amazing afterlife.Elizabeth Adelman's Chasing the Missing Monkeyflower is the two hundred-year saga of finding, losing, and finding the wild plants collected on America's first exploration west, the Lewis and Clark Expedition.Thomas Jefferson handpicked Meriwether Lewis to lead the expedition, gather notable specimens along the way, and then write the journals, with one volume to include science-worthy descriptions and classifications of the plants that Lewis collected and pressed to preserve. Not a botanist, Lewis needed help to write this part of the journals.Ambition, deceit, theft, wealth, debt, alcoholism, loss, suicide, serendipity, and stubborn persistence cross the plants' paths in Philadelphia, New York, and London. This is the first work detailing the places, practices, and times of a cavalcade of people who touched the plants. A fascinating chronicle of an unexplored byway of the great American story.

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