A fast-paced account of the year Parkes spent transforming a 676-pound bale of fleece into saleable yarn, and the people and vanishing industry she discovered along the way.

Rejoining the Common Reader is suffused with the impulse that motivates Clara Claiborne Park’s distinguished writing and teaching: the desire to related literature to the experience of its readers. This…

Intelligent Love tells the story of a mother, Clara Park, and her autistic daughter Jessica, showing how they helped transform social and scientific views about what mothers and autistic people…

This book is divided into two parts: elementary and secondary educational issues - achievement, parenting and instructional strategies; and higher educational issues and experiences - acceptance, ethnic and racial identity…

In dark skirts and bloodied boots, Clara Barton fearlessly ventured on to Civil War battlefields to tend to wounded soldiers. She later founded and ran the American Red Cross. This…

The 18th century was a wealth of knowledge, exploration and rapidly growing technology and expanding record-keeping made possible by advances in the printing press. In its determination to preserve the…