Before Wallis. Edward VIII's Other Women, Paperback - Rachel Trethewey

First history to explore the women Edward VIII loved before Wallis Simpson dominated his life

The moving story of the 1918 Red Cross Pearl Necklace Appeal, and the women who donated pearls in soldiers' memory

Reducere. After dropping out of college, a young woman wanders through New York both invisible and vulnerable, studying the city's strong magic and longing f...

Publisher: CaneloAuthor(s): Jean LevyNumber of pages: 384Publication date: 2021Dimensions: 129 x 197 x 28Cover type: Paperback / softbackRedescoper...

A grippping psychological thriller from the author of What Was Lost.

Ideal for book groups, this latest from the author of }The Fifth Letter{ sees two non-mothers start a 'No Baby Club' where women who are not intere...

Reducere. Description"A firecracker of a novel..." -Liane Moriarty, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Big Little LiesThe author of The Fifth Letter tak...

Publisher: Guernica Editions, CanadaAuthor(s): S. Montana KatzNumber of pages: 304Publication date: 2021Dimensions: 152 x 229 x 27Cover type: Paper...

An invaluable reference work chronicling the lives of over 200 women who received medical degrees in the United States before the Civil War.

Reducere. "Brimming with scandal and an equal amount of heart...a sweeping yet intimate look at the lives of some of history's most notorious figures from Va...

The fascinating untold stories of three women from England's most famous family.Illustrations: 30 Illustrations, black and white

Reducere. Greta Garbo, Marlene Dietrich, and Barbara Stanwyck--to name a few--maintained their images as glamorous big-screen sex symbols complete with dashi...

Reducere. In 1966, Edward Hoagland made a three-month excursion into the wild country of British Columbia and encountered a way of life that was disappearing...

Reducere. Fiction. LGBTQIA Studies. Edited by Tatiana Ryckman. At once light and aching; BEFORE STONEWALL gives voice to a generation of men whose homosexual...

Reducere. First published in 1895, Sir Frederick Pollock and Frederic William Maitland's legal classic The History of English Law before the Time of Edward I...

A book for anyone who has dreams of becoming the next Richard Branson or Duncan Bannatyne, somehow in time for lunch. As Enterprise Editor of The S...

This book provides teachers and parents with guidance on how to talk to young people about consent, pornography, sexting, sex in the media, and oth...

Reducere. 19th Poet Laureate of the United States A powerful, beautifully crafted book. The Washington Post Ripe with the perfidies and paradoxes of thralldo...

Reducere. Complete with twenty-eight self-tests--two of them brand-new--and a new group discussion guide, the expanded and updated Saving Your Second Marriag...

Reducere. Rachel Carson's published books boosted the environmental movement in politics.Women in Science series takes a highly visual approach to telling th...

Publisher: Oxford University PressAuthor(s): Thomas MiddletonNumber of pages: 528Collection: Oxford World's ClassicsPublication date: 2009Dimension...

Reducere. There have been countless badass women who have changed the world for the better, yet most people have never even heard of them. Women throughout h...

Reducere. Here are the most remarkable stories imaginable of maroons, castaways, and other survivors from the 1500s to the present - their moral dilemmas, th...

Reducere. This new translation of Sophokles' Women of Trachis is a living script in conversation with the past. Rachel Kitzinger, a Classicist, and Eamon Gre...

Reducere. DescriptionA collection of tales and rhymes from the master of limericks including: Yonghy Bonghy Bo, Calico Pie, The New Vestments, The Dong with ...

Reducere. An Instant New York Times Bestseller A New York Times Notable Book One of Barack Obama's Favorite Books of 2020Named One of the Best Books of the Y...

"I wrote this book because I didn't want Amy Winehouse to be dead."

'Nonsense is the breath of my nostrils', wrote Edward Lear (1812-88), and this collection demonstrates the varied ways in which he pursued his phil...

DescriptionA rediscovered classic from the author of For Two Thousand Years, this remarkable novel presents nuanced snapshots of love in the early ...

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

Celebrating the success of the tough, bold and fearless women who paved the way for today's athletes, from the 1800s to today. Athletes include; Se...

Reducere. English artist, illustrator, and poet Edward Lear is well known for his the volumes of limericks and nonsense poems that he published beginning wit...

Florence Nightingale. Sally Ride. Ada Lovelace. These names and others are etched in history and included here as part of an awe-inspiring collecti...

Fifty-two inspiring and insightful profiles of history's brightest female scientists. In 2013, the New York Times published an obituary for Yvonne ...