The Junior Annual is now ready for distribution. Everybody wants one at $1 each. I t contains 100 beautiful engraving; 5° P a g e s °f literature, class and society histories, fun and humor, biographies, etc. As the name,"Gliick auf" implies, it carries good luck with it where ever it goes Be sure to get your share. Copies may be secured by mailing address and $1.20 for book and postage to C. I...

Life course sociologists are increasingly concerned with how the general character of biographies is transformed over historical time--and with what this means for individual life chances. The individualization thesis, which contends that contemporary biographies are less predictable, less orderly and less collectively determined than were those lived before the middle of the 20th century, sugg...

George Washington was the single most important figure in the founding of the United States of America. Numerous biographies of Washington have been written and his name is honored in countless ways, including as the name of the United States' capital. Washington has become so idealized in U.S. consciousness that it is easy to lose sight of his failings and disappointments. Undoubtedly, one of ...

Though distinctions are commonly drawn between the long-term and more recently homeless, our understanding as to the nature and shape of what Randall refers to as ‘homeless careers’ is limited as are our understandings of the dynamics driving those careers. This is because studies of homelessness have seldom incorporated a longitudinal dimension or have worked with only a simplistic and incompl...