Ladies' Day at the Capitol

Ladies' Day at the Capitol
Author: Lauren Kozakiewicz
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Total Pages: 328
Release: 2022-11-01
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1438490984

Ladies' Day at the Capitol integrates for the first time the history of New York's women lawmakers with the larger story of New York State politics. Through extensive research and interviews, Lauren Kozakiewicz documents New York women's actions as elected officials between 1919 and 1992 and explores how gendered ideas affected their careers and ability to represent women's voices in government. Ladies' Day at the Capitol offers a general framework for understanding the women's legislative careers over time while also providing a deeper look at key lawmakers' specific histories. The study broadens out to include chapters on creating representative organizations of women legislators and women's efforts to champion specific issues. It builds off earlier studies of state legislators that treated women in the aggregate. It complements other, more recent work that takes a state-centered approach to the history of the woman politician. It is unique in the degree to which chapters on New York's political history and women's efforts to win the vote in New York give the reader essential context for the historical analysis.

Ladies' Day

Ladies' Day
Author: Amanda Whittington
Publisher: NHB Modern Plays
Total Pages: 100
Release: 2006
Genre: Drama
ISBN:

"Exuberantly up-to-minute comedy" -The Guardian

Unscripted Joss Byrd

Unscripted Joss Byrd
Author: Lygia Day Peñaflor
Publisher: Roaring Brook Press
Total Pages: 221
Release: 2016-08-23
Genre: Young Adult Fiction
ISBN: 1626723702

Hollywood critics agree. Joss Byrd is "fiercely emotional," a young actress with "complete conviction," and a "powerhouse." Joss Byrd is America's most celebrated young actress, and but on the set of her latest project, a gritty indie film called The Locals, Joss's life is far from glamorous. While struggling with her mother's expectations, a crush on her movie brother, and a secret that could end her career, Joss must pull off a performance worthy of a star. When her renowned, charismatic director demands more than she is ready to deliver, Joss must go off-script to stay true to herself.

Hey Ladies!

Hey Ladies!
Author: Michelle Markowitz
Publisher: Abrams
Total Pages: 272
Release: 2018-05-01
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1683352378

Based on the column of the same name that appeared in The Toast, Hey Ladies! is a laugh-out-loud read that follows a fictitious group of eight 20-and-30-something female friends for one year of holidays, summer house rentals, dates, brunches, breakups, and, of course, the planning of a disastrous wedding. This instantly relatable story is told entirely through emails, texts, DMs, and every other form of communication known to man. The women in the book are stand-ins for annoying friends that we all have. There’s Nicole, who’s always broke and tries to pay for things in Forever21 gift cards. There’s Katie, the self-important budding journalist, who thinks a retweet and a byline are the same thing. And there’s Jen, the DIY suburban bride-to-be. With a perfectly pitched sardonic tone, Hey Ladies! will have you cringing and laughing as you recognize your own friends, and even yourself.

Women in Law

Women in Law
Author: Cynthia Fuchs Epstein
Publisher: Quid Pro Books
Total Pages: 687
Release: 2012-03-10
Genre: Law
ISBN: 1610271017

The Postwar Yankees

The Postwar Yankees
Author: David George Surdam
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
Total Pages: 325
Release: 2021-12-13
Genre: History
ISBN: 1496209605

The Yankees and New York baseball entered a golden age between 1949 and 1964, a period during which the city was represented in all but one World Series. While the Yankees dominated, however, the years were not so golden for the rest of baseball. In The Postwar Yankees: Baseball's Golden Age Revisited, David G. Surdam deconstructs this idyllic period to show that while the Yankees piled on pennants and World Series titles through the 1950s, Major League Baseball attendance consistently declined and gate-revenue disparity widened through the mid-1950s. Contrary to popular belief, the era was already experiencing many problems that fans of today's game bemoan, including a competitive imbalance and callous owners who ran the league like a cartel. Fans also found aging, decrepit stadiums ill-equipped for the burgeoning automobile culture, while television and new forms of leisure competed for their attention. Through an economist's lens, Surdam brings together historical documents and off-the-field numbers to reconstruct the period and analyze the roots of the age's enduring mythology, examining why the Yankees and other New York teams were consistently among baseball's elite and how economic and social forces set in motion during this golden age shaped the sport into its modern incarnation.

American Sports [4 volumes]

American Sports [4 volumes]
Author: Murry R. Nelson
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Total Pages: 1678
Release: 2013-05-23
Genre: Sports & Recreation
ISBN: 0313397538

America loves sports. This book examines and details the proof of this fascination seen throughout American society—in our literature, film, and music; our clothing and food; and the iconography of the nation. This momentous four-volume work examines and details the cultural aspects of sport and how sport pervasively reflects—and affects—myriad aspects of American society from the early 1900s to the present day. Written in a straightforward, readable manner, the entries cover both historical and contemporary aspects of sport and American culture. Unlike purely historical encyclopedias on sports, the contributions within these volumes cover related subject matter such as poetry, novels, music, films, plays, television shows, art and artists, mythologies, artifacts, and people. While this encyclopedia set is ideal for general readers who need information on the diverse aspects of sport in American culture for research purposes or are merely reading for enjoyment, the detailed nature of the entries will also prove useful as an initial source for scholars of sport and American culture. Each entry provides a number of both print and online resources for further investigation of the topic.

Baseball: The Early Years

Baseball: The Early Years
Author: Harold Seymour
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 394
Release: 1960-12-31
Genre: Sports & Recreation
ISBN: 0195001001

These two critically-acclaimed volumes mark the beginning of a monumental multi-volume study of baseball by the man whom Sports Illustrated has called "the Edward Gibbon of baseball history." Now available in paperback, Harold Seymour's The Early Years and The Golden Age together recount the true story of how baseball came into being and how it developed into a highly organized business and social institution.The first volume, The Early Years, traces the growth of baseball from the time of the first recorded ball game at Valley Forge during the revolution until the formation of the two present-day major leagues in 1903. By investigating previously unknown sources, Seymour uncovers the real story of how baseball evolved from a gentleman's amateur sport of "well-bred play followed by well-laden banquet tables" into a professional sport where big leagues operate under their own laws. Offering countless anecdotes and a wealth of new information, Seymour explodes many cherished myths, including the one which claims that Abner Doubleday "invented" baseball in 1839. He describes the influence of baseball on American business, manners, morals, social institutions, and even show business, as well as depicting the types of men who became the first professional ball players, club owners, and managers, including Spalding, McGraw, Comiskey, and Connie Mack.The second volume, The Golden Age, explores the glorious era when the game truly captured the American imagination, with such legendary figures as Babe Ruth and Ty Cobb in the spotlight. Beginning with the formation of the two major leagues in 1903, when baseball officially entered its "golden age" of popularity, Seymour examines the changes in the organization of professional baseball--from an unwieldy three-man commission to the strong one-man rule of Judge Kenesaw Mountain Landis. He depicts how the play on the field shifted from the low-scoring, pitcher-dominated game of the "dead ball" era before World War I to the higher scoring of the 1920's "lively ball" era, with emphasis on home runs, best exemplified by the exploits of Babe Ruth.Taken together, these volumes offer a serious and dramatic study of the game both on the field and in the business offices.

Stories from Trailblazing Women Lawyers

Stories from Trailblazing Women Lawyers
Author: Jill Norgren
Publisher: NYU Press
Total Pages: 301
Release: 2020-11-03
Genre: Law
ISBN: 1479805998

The captivating story of how a diverse group of women, including Janet Reno and Ruth Bader Ginsburg, broke the glass ceiling and changed the modern legal profession In Stories from Trailblazing Women Lawyers, award-winning legal historian Jill Norgren curates the oral histories of one hundred extraordinary American women lawyers who changed the profession of law. Many of these stories are being told for the first time. As adults these women were on the front lines fighting for access to law schools and good legal careers. They challenged established rules and broke the law’s glass ceiling.Norgren uses these interviews to describe the profound changes that began in the late 1960s, interweaving social and legal history with the women’s individual experiences. In 1950, when many of the subjects of this book were children, the terms of engagement were clear: only a few women would be admitted each year to American law schools and after graduation their professional opportunities would never equal those open to similarly qualified men. Harvard Law School did not even begin to admit women until 1950. At many law schools, well into the 1970s, men told female students that they were taking a place that might be better used by a male student who would have a career, not babies. In 2005 the American Bar Association’s Commission on Women in the Profession initiated a national oral history project named the Women Trailblazers in the Law initiative: One hundred outstanding senior women lawyers were asked to give their personal and professional histories in interviews conducted by younger colleagues. The interviews, made available to the author, permit these women to be written into history in their words, words that evoke pain as well as celebration, humor, and somber reflection. These are women attorneys who, in courtrooms, classrooms, government agencies, and NGOs have rattled the world with insistent and successful demands to reshape their profession and their society. They are women who brought nothing short of a revolution to the profession of law.

Customer Acquisition

Customer Acquisition
Author: Amanda Bracks
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
Total Pages: 235
Release: 2012-06-22
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1477114378

Customer Acquisition: 465 Ways to Gain and Retain Customers is a book that is jam-packed with creative ideas, proven prospecting methods, effective marketing campaigns, simple-to-use retention strategies, and powerful scripts for your staff to use with confidence. The book has been written in a straightforward, easy to read style, encouraging you to select the ideas you want to use along the way and steps you through implementation methods to make a difference to your business. Author Amanda Bracks has been exceeding sales targets and growing businesses since 1995, turning some from severe debt into successful, profitable businesses. She has an uncanny way of converting ideas into practice and makes things happen instantly. She has mentored, motivated, inspired, and empowered thousands of owners and staff on prospecting, sales, customer service, and client retention. This book has been written to give business owners the keys they need to be successful. The combination of gaining customers and retaining them keeps the business focused on growth, which will lead to ultimate success and stress-free living. It will teach you how to plan, create, implement, and audit your prospecting, marketing, and customer retention activities to ensure on-going success and consistently achieve mastery in your business and industry. If you are thinking of starting your own business or if you own a business or manage a business or a team and if you want to improve your business, need more prospecting and marketing ideas, want to close more sales, are striving to achieve mastery, or simply want to be completely inspired, this book is a must-read. "This book is brilliant! It contains literally hundreds of great ideas. Apply just a handful and you can add tens (if not hundreds) of thousands of dollars to your bottom-line. What's more this book is a resource you can refer to again and again. So start reading today and watch your business grow." Dale Beaumont Managing Director of Business Blueprint and Author of 16 Best-Selling Books