A Cultural History of Women

The Coquette: Or, the History of Eliza Wharton, Paperback - Hannah Webster Foster

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Minnesota, Paperback - Martin Schwabacher

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Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Martin SchwabacherCelebrate the richness and diversity of the United States of America in this exciting series. Readers can...

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The Crusades: A Very Short Introduction, Paperback - Christopher Tyerman

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With flair and originality, Christopher Tyerman presents a clear and lively discussion of the Crusades, bringing together issues of colonialism, cu...

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The Russian Revolution: A Very Short Introduction, Paperback - Stephen Smith

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This concise, accessible introduction provides an analytical narrative of the main events and developments in Soviet Russia between 1917 and 1936. ...

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At the Edge of the Night, Paperback - Friedo Lampe

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DescriptionThis poignant novel, beautifully translated by Simon Beattie, was, in Lampe's words, "born into a regime where it could not breathe;" he...

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History's Most Powerful Witches: Their Life, Witchcraft and Spells, Paperback - Desmond Wilde

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Reducere. Meet the most powerful witches from around the world . Learn about their life, their legacy and their secrets and powerful spellsWitches have alway...

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Notice to Quit: The Great Famine Evictions, Paperback - L. Perry Curtis

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Ireland's Great Hunger Museum at Quinnipiac University publishes the Famine Folios, a unique resource for students, scholars and researchers, as we...

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Women of the Raj. The Mothers, Wives and Daughters of the British Empire in India, Paperback - Margaret MacMillan

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A new edition of this vivid cultural and social history of the daughters, sisters, mothers and wives of the men at the centre of a daring imperiali...

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Sanshiro, Paperback - Natsume Soseki

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Natsume Soseki's only coming-of-age novel, Sanshiro depicts the eponymous twenty-three-year-old protagonist as he leaves the sleepy countryside to ...

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Hysteria, Paperback - Andrew Scull

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A fascinating account of this socially constructed disease that came to be strongly associated with women, showing the shifts, cultural and medical...

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Good and Mad: The Revolutionary Power of Women's Anger, Paperback - Rebecca Traister

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DescriptionJournalist Rebecca Traister's New York Times bestselling exploration of the transformative power of female anger and its ability to tran...

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Sex and the City and Us: How Four Single Women Changed the Way We Think, Live, and Love, Paperback - Jennifer Keishin Armstrong

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DescriptionThe bestselling author of Seinfeldia offers a fascinating retrospective of the iconic and award-winning television series, Sex and the C...

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Fur War: The Political, Economic, Cultural and Ecological Impacts of the Western Fur Trade 1765-1840, Paperback - David A. Bainbridge

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Reducere. The animal fur trade played a key role in the development and ultimate ownership of lands and resources on the West Coast of North America. Yet it ...

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Is Women's Equality a Biblical Ideal?, Paperback - Mimi Haddad

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Reducere. Should women be allowed to lead in the church and the home? What does the Bible mean when it calls Eve "helper"? How do cultural beliefs devalue wo...

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Women of the Dawn, Paperback - Bunny McBride

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Reducere. Women of the Dawn tells the stories of four remarkable Wabanaki Indian women who lived in northeast America during the four centuries that devastat...

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Ecstasy, Paperback - Mary Sharratt

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DescriptionComing of age in the midst of a creative and cultural whirlwind in Vienna, young, beautiful Alma Schindler yearns to make her mark as a ...

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We Are Inspiring: The Stories of 32 Inspirational Asian American Women, Paperback - Angel Trazo

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Reducere. DescriptionDesigned for reading-with your child or for children ages 10+ to read independently, "We Are Inspiring" brings to life the inspiring sto...

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Monument: Poems New and Selected, Paperback - Natasha Trethewey

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Description" Trethewey's poems] dig beneath the surface of history--personal or communal, from childhood or from a century ago--to explore the huma...

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Heartthrobs. A History of Women and Desire, Paperback - Carol , University of Sussex) Dyhouse

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The story of female desire and fantasy, told through the cultural history of the heartthrob, from Byron to boy-bands. Feminists have commonly repre...

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The Penguin Book of First World War Stories, Paperback - Various

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Contributor(s): Author: VariousEditor: Barbara KorteEditor: Ann-Marie EinhausAn anthology of Great War short stories by British writers, both famou...

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A History of Water in the Middle East, Paperback - Sabrina Mahfouz

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Can you hear it, the hiss of water wiggling its way out into the world uncaptured, wasted, wanton? British-Egyptian Sabrina Mahfouz grew up with am...

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How They Became Famous Dancers: A Dancing History, Paperback - Anne Dunkin

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How They Became Famous Dancers: A Dancing History for young readers tells the story of twelve famous dancers - six women and six men - from differe...

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Whiteness Is Not an Ancestor: Essays on Life and Lineage by white Women, Paperback - Lisa Iversen

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Reducere. "A timely and thoughtful discussion about the intersection of gender and White privilege." -Kirkus ReviewsUsing the lens of inherited trauma and fa...

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Unsportsmanlike Conduct: College Football and the Politics of Rape, Paperback - Jessica Luther

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Reducere. "Jessica Luther studied history and the classics before marshaling her writing talent toward of-the-moment topics like sexual assault and college s...

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Savage Appetites: True Stories of Women, Crime, and Obsession, Paperback - Rachel Monroe

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Reducere. A "necessary and brilliant" (NPR) exploration of our cultural fascination with true crime told through four "enthralling" (The New York Times Book ...

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Everybody (Else) Is Perfect: How I Survived Hypocrisy, Beauty, Clicks, and Likes, Paperback - Gabrielle Korn

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Reducere. From the former editor-in-chief of Nylon comes a provocative and intimate collection of personal and cultural essays featuring eye-opening explorat...

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Women on Waves. A Cultural History of Surfing: From Ancient Goddesses and Hawaiian Queens to Malibu Movie Stars and Millennial Champions, Paperback -

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A captivating look at two centuries of surfing-"the Sport of Queens"-from Native Hawaiian royalty to the breakout style and jaw-dropping feats on t...

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Trauma: A Collection of Short Stories, Paperback - Elizabeth Jaikaran

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Reducere. A collection of true and extraordinary stories that speak of the abuse suffered by Guyanese women, girls, and members of the LGBT community both in...

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Brave with Beauty: A Story of Afghanistan, Paperback - Maxine Rose Schur

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Reducere. This is the extraordinary story of Queen Goharshad, a 15th-century monarch, who many historians now believe was the one of the most powerful women ...

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Sharp, Paperback - Michelle Dean

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Reducere. DescriptionWidely praised in hardcover, Sharp is the exhilarating story of ten exceptional women who used the power of their pens to carve out spac...

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Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments: Intimate Histories of Riotous Black Girls, Troublesome Women, and Queer Radicals, Paperback - Saidiya Hartman

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Reducere. Beautifully written and deeply researched, Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments examines the revolution of black intimate life that unfolded in Phi...

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The Creation of Anne Boleyn: A New Look at England's Most Notorious Queen, Paperback - Susan Bordo

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Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Susan Bordo"Bordo's sharp reading of Boleyniana and her clear affection for this proud, unusual woman make this an entertai...

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The Grandes Dames: The Wonderfully Uninhibited Ladies Who Used Their Wealth & Position to Create American Culture in Their Own Images fro, Paperback -

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Astor. Rockefeller. McCormick. Belmont. All family names that still adorn buildings, streets and charity foundations. While the men blazed across A...

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Songs on the Vanilla Trail: African Lullabies and Nursery Rhymes from East and Southern Africa, Hardcover - Magali Attiogbé

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Reducere. An enchanting collection of 25 traditional songs pays homage to the rich cultural heritage and multilingual communities of East and Southern Africa...

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Maine's Remarkable Women: Daughters, Wives, Sisters, and Mothers Who Shaped History, Paperback - Kate Kennedy

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Reducere. Maine's Remarkable Women tells the stories of fifteen strong and determined women who broke through social, cultural, or political barriers. Throug...

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The Portable Frederick Douglass, Paperback - Frederick Douglass

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A new collection of the seminal writings and speeches of a legendary writer, orator, and civil rights leader This compact volume offers a full cour...

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Emerging Faith: Lessons from Mission History in Asia, Paperback - Paul H. De Neui

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Reducere. In non-Western contexts, Christianity has often been viewed as the religion of foreigners with a hidden political agenda. Sharing the gospel in non...

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Unitarian Women: A Legacy of Dissent, Paperback - Ann Peart

95,99 RON

DescriptionA celebration of the pioneering achievements of Unitarian women who made a difference to their world - as writers and artists, social re...

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Fishwives, Paperback - Sally Bellerose

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Reducere. Eighty-nine-year-old Regina and ninety-year-old Jackie met in 1955, an era when women were rounded up and jailed simply for dancing together or dre...

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Walt Disney: A Captivating Guide to the Life of an American Entrepreneur and Pioneer of Animated Cartoon Films, Paperback - Captivating History

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If you want to discover the captivating life of Walt Disney, then keep reading...A man truly lives on even after his death if he leaves a legacy th...

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Even the Women Must Fight: Memories of War from North Vietnam, Paperback - Karen Gottschang Turner

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Reducere. Even the Women Must Fight ""Karen Turner and Phan Thanh Hao have brought scholarship and compassion to a long-neglected aspect of the Vietnam War--...

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To End All Wars: A Story of Loyalty and Rebellion, 1914-1918, Paperback - Adam Hochschild

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Reducere. "This is the kind of investigatory history Hochschild pulls off like no one else . . . Hochschild is a master at chronicling how prevailing cultura...

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Standoff: Standing Rock, the Bundy Movement, and the American Story of Sacred Lands, Paperback - Jacqueline Keeler

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Reducere. "Jacqueline Keeler, a master storyteller and reporter, crafts a knotty skein, twining together family traditions, Native and colonial histories, pe...

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Writing Fantasy Heroes, Paperback - Jason M. Waltz

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Reducere. Fantasy heroes endure. They are embedded in our cultural fabric, dwarfing other literary figures and the mere men and women of history. Achilles an...

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Are You in the House Alone': A TV Movie Compendium 1964-1999, Paperback - Amanda Reyes

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Contributor(s): Editor: Amanda ReyesBeginning in the 1960s through its heyday in the 1970s and beyond, the telefilm stands as an important cultural...

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The Slow Moon Climbs: The Science, History, and Meaning of Menopause, Paperback - Susan Mattern

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Reducere. A surprising look at the role of menopause in human history-and why we should change the ways we think about it Are the ways we look at menopause a...

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Burning Woman, Paperback - Lucy H. Pearce

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Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Lucy H. PearceTHE LONG-AWAITED new title from Amazon bestselling author Lucy H. Pearce. Burning Woman is a breath-taking an...

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The Great and the Terrible: The World's Most Glorious and Notorious Rulers and How They Got Their Names, Hardcover - Joanne O'Sullivan

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Reducere. This fun, quirky, and engaging fully illustrated history anthology features twenty-five amazing and terrifying rulers for middle grade readers to d...

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The Cult of the Saints: Its Rise and Function in Latin Christianity, Enlarged Edition, Paperback - Peter Brown

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In this groundbreaking work, Peter Brown explores how the worship of saints and their corporeal remains became central to religious life in Western...

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Alien Woman, Paperback - Jason Smith

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Alien Woman examines the construction of sex and gender in the four science-fiction films comprising the Alien saga (starring Sigourney Weaver). Th...

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Portraying Pregnancy: Holbein to Social Media, Paperback - Karen Hearn

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Though many early modern women spent much of their lives in a state of pregnancy, their pregnancies are seldom made apparent in surviving portraits...

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Reading Black, Reading Feminist: A Critical Anthology, Paperback - Henry Louis Gates

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Reducere. DescriptionA unique and comprehensive collection of 26 literary essays that provides real evidence of the rich cultural history of black women in A...

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The Marketplace of Revolution: How Consumer Politics Shaped American Independence, Paperback - T. H. Breen

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Reducere. The Marketplace of Revolution offers a boldly innovative interpretation of the mobilization of ordinary Americans on the eve of independence. Breen...

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Imagining Shakespeare's Wife: The Afterlife of Anne Hathaway, Paperback - Katherine West Scheil

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DescriptionWhat has been the appeal of Anne Hathaway, both globally and temporally, over the past four hundred years? Why does she continue to be r...

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Her Own Hero: The Origins of the Women's Self-Defense Movement, Paperback - Wendy L. Rouse

115,99 RON

DescriptionThe surprising roots of the self-defense movement and the history of women's empowerment. At the turn of the twentieth century, women fa...

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Sensuous Knowledge: A Black Feminist Approach for Everyone, Paperback - Minna Salami

116,99 RON

The creator of the internationally popular, multiple award-winning blog MsAfropolitan applies an Africa-centered feminist sensibility to issues of ...

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How They Became Famous Dancers: A Dancing History, Paperback - Anne Dunkin

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Reducere. DescriptionHow They Became Famous Dancers: A Dancing History for young readers tells the story of twelve dancers - six women and six men -who becam...

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A History of the Wife, Paperback - Marilyn Yalom

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Reducere. How did marriage, considered a religious duty in medieval Europe, become a venue for personal fulfillment in contemporary America? How did the noti...

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Political Cartoons in the Middle East, Paperback - Fatma Muge Gocek

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Reducere. The imagery of political cartoons provides a unique yet under-studied insight into how Middle Eastern societies think. By combining the indigenous ...

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The Belles of New England: The Women of the Textile Mills and the Families Whose Wealth They Wove, Paperback - William Moran

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The Belles of New England is a masterful, definitive, and eloquent look at the enormous cultural and economic impact on America of New England's te...

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The Oxford History of the Biblical World, Paperback - Michael D. Coogan

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Reducere. In this impressive volume, leading scholars offer compelling glimpses into the biblical world, the world in which prophets, poets, sages, and histo...

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The Passenger: India, Paperback - Aa VV

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Fully-illustrated, The Passenger collects the best new writing, photography, art and reportage from around the world. IN THIS VOLUME: Caste: Yester...

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Don't You Know There's a War On?: The American Home Front, 1941-1945, Paperback - Richard Lingeman

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Reducere. The tragic events of September 11, 2001 brought to the surface memories of an earlier time of unprecedented national emergency -- Pearl Harbor -- a...

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All Made Up: The Power and Pitfalls of Beauty Culture, from Cleopatra to Kim Kardashian, Hardcover - Rae Nudson

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A fascinating journey through history and culture, examining how makeup affects self-empowerment, how people have used it to define (and defy) thei...

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Women in Wonderland: Lives, Legends, and Legacies of Yellowstone, Paperback - Elizabeth A. Watry

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Reducere. WILLA Literary Award"Betsy Watry tells the tales of a dozen women, some of whom had short-lived adventures in Yellowstone National Park, but most o...

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Separated by Their Sex: Women in Public and Private in the Colonial Atlantic World, Paperback - Mary Beth Norton

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Reducere. In Separated by Their Sex, Mary Beth Norton offers a bold genealogy that shows how gender came to determine the right of access to the Anglo-Americ...

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Women Art Workers and the Arts and Crafts Movement, Paperback - Zoe Thomas

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Women Art Workers provides a new social and cultural history of the Arts and Crafts movement which offers unprecedented insight into how women cons...

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Writing Wild: Women Poets, Ramblers, and Mavericks Who Shape How We See the Natural World, Paperback - Kathryn Aalto

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DescriptionIn Writing Wild, Kathryn Aalto celebrates 25 women, both historical and current, whose influential writing helps deepen our connection t...

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Santeria: The Beliefs and Rituals of a Growing Religion in America, Paperback - Miguel A. de la Torre

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Reducere. This book by Miguel De La Torre offers a fascinating guide to the history, beliefs, rituals, and culture of Santer a -- a religious tradition that,...

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Slavery's Metropolis: Unfree Labor in New Orleans During the Age of Revolutions, Paperback - Rashauna Johnson

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Reducere. New Orleans is an iconic city, which was once located at the crossroads of early America and the Atlantic World. New Orleans became a major America...

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