Deaths from Muscle Cancer - Deaths from Heart Cancer, Deaths from Uterine Cancer, ADA Lovelace, Ann Dunham, Eric Carr, Anne Bancroft (Paperback)

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 35. Chapters: Deaths from heart cancer, Deaths from uterine cancer, Ada Lovelace, Ann Dunham, Eric Carr, Anne Bancroft, Agnes Moorehead, Dixie Carter, Marilyn Buck, Lurleen Wallace, Evelyn Keyes, Shari Lewis, Kim Stanley, Rocio Durcal, Sheela Basrur, Gwen Guthrie, Kage Baker, Sarah Jacobson, Bird Millman, Diana Sands, Sergey Kuryokhin, Nancy LaMott, Linda Grover, Mimi Lerner, Valentina Bartolomasi, Rashid Jahan, Jane Senior, Yang Lina, Marie-Rose Morel, Miki Matsubara, Marta Gonzalez, Madeline-Ann Aksich. Excerpt: Stanley Ann Dunham (November 29, 1942 - November 7, 1995), the mother of Barack Obama, the 44th President of the United States, was an American anthropologist who specialized in economic anthropology and rural development. Dunham was nicknamed Anna, later known as Dr. Stanley Ann Dunham Soetoro, and finally Ann Dunham Sutoro. Born in Wichita, Kansas, Dunham spent her childhood in California, Oklahoma, Texas and Kansas and her teenage years in Mercer Island, Washington, and the majority of her adult life in Hawaii and Indonesia. Dunham studied at the Honolulu University of Hawaii Manoa campus, and the University of Hawaii Manoa's East-West Center, where she attained a bachelor's in anthropology or mathematics and master's and Ph.D. in anthropology. Interested in craftsmanship, weaving and the role of women in cottage industries, Dunham's research focused on women's work on the island of Java and blacksmithing in Indonesia. To address the problem of poverty in rural villages, she created microcredit programs while working as a consultant for the United States Agency for International Development. Dunham was also employed by the Ford Foundation in Jakarta and she consulted with the Asian Development Bank in Pakistan. Towards the latter part of her life, she worked with Bank Rakyat Indonesia, where she helped apply her rese...