Psychic Roots is all about the influence of coincidence and serendipity on genealogical research, the chance combination of events over which the researcher has no control but which nevertheless guides him to a fortuitous discovery. Certainly chance or dumb luck sometimes leads us straight to a record kept in an improbable place, to an ancestor's second wife we didn't know anything ...

Manufacturer: Genealogical Publishing Company
Written By: Henry Z Jones

Reveals the inner qualities of 14 remarkable women who define style in ways that have lasted for generations. Witty and fascinating excursions into the worlds of Coco Chanel, Pauline de Rothschild, Diana Vreeland, Elsie de Wolfe, and others are captured in lavish photographs and entertaining anecdotes. We discover not only the preeminent influence that these women held over fashion and culture, ...

Manufacturer: Crown
Written By: Annette Tapert, Diana Edkins

How exactly has San Francisco's urban landscape changed in the hundred years since the earthquake and cataclysmic firestorms that destroyed three-quarters of the city in 1906? For this provocative rephotography project, bringing past and present into dynamic juxtaposition, renowned photographer Mark Klett has gone to the same locations pictured in forty-five compelling historic photographs taken ...

Manufacturer: University of California Press
Written By: Philip L. Fradkin, Rebecca Solnit

"Out, damned spot!"For some, it's an obsession. For the Queen of Clean® it's a snap! Now you can tame even the most vexing spots and stains with this handy pocket guide, drawn from the royal bestsellers Talking Dirty with the Queen of Clean® and Talking Dirty Laundry iwith the Queen of Clean®. Here are Her Majesty's most sought-after stain ...

Manufacturer: Pocket
Written By: Linda Cobb

The Genetic Strand is the story of a writer's investigation, using DNA science, into the tale of his family's origins. National Book Award winner Edward Ball has turned his probing gaze on the microcosm of the human genome, and not just any human genome -- that of his slave-holding ancestors. What is the legacy of such a family history, and can DNA say something about it?In 2000, after a ...

Manufacturer: Simon & Schuster
Written By: Edward Ball

This title includes textual and historical notes that supplement a segment of Plutarch's "Lives" which covers the rise of Macedonia.

Manufacturer: Penguin Classics
Written By: Plutarch

Profiles of over 150 Jewish men of distinction drawn from a wide range of professions. This esteemed group of personalities includes such luminaries as Abraham and Moses, forgers of the Jewish nation; Rashi and Maimonides, great interpreters of Jewish law; Irving Berlin and Jerome Kern, gifted songwriters; as well as many distinguished contemporary figures. With black-and-white ...

Manufacturer: Jonathan David Publishers
Written By: Elinor Slater, Robert Slater

Today most people choose a name because "it sounds nice". In ancient Hawaii, and indeed in most traditional societies a name involved more than its sound. A name (inoa) was a possession, an influence for good or evil and perhaps a part of a societies history. Ones inoa was a precious personal possession and also a force in its own right. Although a person possessed his or her name, he or she ...

Manufacturer: Booklines Hawaii Ltd
Written By: Eileen M. Root

Renowned historian Annette Atkins presents a fresh understanding of how a complex and modern Minnesota came into being in Creating Minnesota. Each chapter of this innovative state history focuses on a telling detail, a revealing incident, or a meaningful issue that illuminates a larger event, social trends, or politics during a period in our past. A three-act play about Minnesota's ...

Manufacturer: Minnesota Historical Society Press
Written By: Annette Atkins

Do you rummage through your grandmother's attic for pictures of old relatives? Have you ever wondered where your family came from? Would you like to know if you and someone famous share a common great-great grandparent? If you've answered yes to any of these questions you might be an amateur genealogist without even knowing it! Genealogical programs like Family Tree Maker are widely ...

Manufacturer: For Dummies
Written By: Matthew L. Helm, April Leigh Helm