Lives of Their Own depicts the strikingly different lives of black, Italian, and Polish immigrants in Pittsburgh. Within a comparative framework, the book focus

Explores how five turn-of-the-century women - Frances Willard, Anna Howard Shaw, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Emma Goldman and Mary Church Terrell - crafted autobiog

"Two silent stalkers -- heart diseases and stroke -- kill two of every five women, largely due to our speed-obsessed, stressed, unhealthy lifestyles. With [the

Elie tells the story of four modern American Catholics who made literature out of their search for God: Thomas Merton; Dorothy Day; Walker Percy; and Flannery O

A French woman reflects on the roles she played in the changing 20th-century.