Product Description: In the early summer of 1959, I was a young, black girl with four younger siblings, a mother who was barely putting food on the table for us and a step-father who had headed North months earlier, in search of a job and money. My mother and I had few resources to hold the family together, and what we had was drying up quickly...read more

Product Description: A wondrous land of enchantment, Jamaica boasts a climate and terrain as beautiful as anywhere on earth. In addition to possessing a unique beauty, this land can also boast of an unusual people, with a mystical outlook on life. For this is a land of voodoo, of magical chants and mysteries, a place that few tourists can hope to really understand...read more

Product Description: William Frederick Poole (1821-1894) was an American bibliographer and librarian. He was assistant librarian of the Boston Athenaeum in 1851, and in 1852 became librarian of the Boston Mercantile Library. From 1856 to 1869 he was librarian of the Boston Athenaeum...read more

Product Description: This quality reference handbook identifies, illustrates, and references major methods, techniques, and strategies designed to benefit exceptional individuals. The individual chapters are organized topically to include descriptions of the various methods, as well as the specific sources that one can go to for more in-depth coverage...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)