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Mary Hobson's life changed forever when her young husband suffered irreversible brain damage. Following a breakdown brought on by caring for both him and their four children, Mary started writing fiction. At the age of fifty-four the first of her four novels was published. Her life changed again some years later when she was given a copy of War and Peace. Determined to read it in the original, she decided to study Russian. Mary became an undergraduate for the first time in her sixties and eventually completed her PhD at London University aged seventy-four. She developed an abiding...

The book Jazzmen (1939) claimed New Orleans as the birthplace of jazz and introduced the legend of Buddy Bolden as the -First Man of Jazz.- Much of the information that the book relied on came from a highly controversial source: Bunk Johnson. He claimed to have played with Bolden and that together they had pioneered jazz.

Johnson made many recordings talking about and playing the music of the Bolden era. These recordings have been treated with skepticism because of doubts about Johnson's credibility. Using oral histories, the Jazzmen interview notes, and unpublished...

I wanted to share the four seasons of California in the view of the character Lizzy. She is an eleven-year-old who has a creative mind. This book depicts the four seasons viewed through Lizzy's eyes. A recipe is included.

The articles in this volume, originally published in a variety of journals between 1890 and 1937, deal with the themes of the distribution of income and welfare. Highlighting the contribution which Hobson made to welfare economics and the way in which he distanced himself from his more orthodox contemporaries in interpretation, the articles also show the changes in Hobson s views over the decades in which they were written. This is a fascinating collection of material that provides an unparalleled depth of insight into the views of one of the most important economic thinkers of the early...

The book Jazzmen (1939) claimed New Orleans as the birthplace of jazz and introduced the legend of Buddy Bolden as the -First Man of Jazz.- Much of the information that the book relied on came from a highly controversial source: Bunk Johnson. He claimed to have played with Bolden and that together they had pioneered jazz.

Johnson made many recordings talking about and playing the music of the Bolden era. These recordings have been treated with skepticism because of doubts about Johnson's credibility. Using oral histories, the Jazzmen interview notes, and unpublished...