Catherine the Great: Portrait of a Woman

The extraordinary story of an obscure German princess who became one of the most powerful women in history.

The extraordinary story of an obscure German princess who became one of the most powerful women in history.

Publisher: HarperCollinsAuthor(s): Lindy Elkins-TantonNumber of pages: 272Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 162 x 238 x 28Cover type: HardbackRedes...

Reducere. France, 1940. Nazi forces march towards Paris. Lili Rosenswig's wealthy and eccentric family is ensconced in their country chateau with their sumpt...

Catherine Reef brings history vividly to life in this sumptuously illustrated account of a confident, strong-minded, and influential woman. Victori...

Power, politics, and sexuality: the fascinating rule of one of Russia's most significant monarchsCatherine the Great ruled Russia from 1762 until 1...

DescriptionCatherine the Great's letters present a vivid picture of Russia in a momentous age. They also offer a unique account of her personal dev...

Reducere. Learn how a Prussian princess grew up to be Russia's longest-ruling female leader Born in 1729, Princess Sophie of Anhalt-Zerbs was never supposed ...

Catherine is a powerful female voice seeking her place within her family, among friends, in the cities she lives in, and constructing her unique id...

Reducere. From the acclaimed author of Grandes Horizontales comes a book that the Washington Post calls "a vivid portrait of a sensual and intellectual woman...

Reducere. Published for the first time in its century, this "meticulously edited contribution to the study of American women's diaries and late-19th-century ...

Publisher: HarperCollins PublishersAuthor(s): Daniel SilvaPublication date: 2022Dimensions: 153 x 232 x 37Cover type: PaperbackRedescopera farmecul...

Publisher: HarperCollins PublishersAuthor(s): Daniel SilvaNumber of pages: 448Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 163 x 242 x 43Cover type: HardbackR...

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The epic bestselling biography of Catherine the Great and Prince Potemkin, her outrageous lover and co-rulerPublisher: Orion Publishing CoAuthor(s)...

Ruthless and passionate, Catherine the Great is singularly responsible for amassing one of the most awe-inspiring collections of art in the world a...

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCAuthor(s): Professor Emerita Ruth Pritchard (University of Hawaii at Manoa, USA) DawsonIllustration(s): 60 bw i...

Reducere. DescriptionSixty years after his murder by the Nazis, Bruno Schulz, one of the twentieth century's greatest and most enigmatic writers, is experien...

The Portrait of a Lady - Henry James

Capture the perfect portrait even if it's with a selfie in this updated edition of a classic text, now with all-new photography.

The astonishing true story of how Catherine the Great joined forces with a Quaker doctor from Essex to spearhead a groundbreaking public health cam...

The bestselling author and historian Lisa Hilton picks up the mythical 'City of Ladies' where the medieval writer Christine de Pisan left off, cont...

Reducere. In the year 1527, the great portraitist Hans Holbein, fleeing the Protestant Reformation, comes to England under commission to Sir Thomas More. Ove...

Publisher: MX PublishingAuthor(s): R Austin FreemanIllustration(s): Illustrations, black and whiteNumber of pages: 596Collection: The Thorndyke Col...

Liberalism is a critically important topic in the contemporary world as liberal values and institutions are in retreat in countries where they seem...

"Conversations with Mother Teresa" is a lively and personal portrait of this modern-day saint that captures Mother Teresa's vision, energy, determi...

Publisher: Olympia PublishersAuthor(s): Catherine M. BeckNumber of pages: 37Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 155 x 155 x 8Cover type: Paperback / ...

Reducere. In the spring of 1793, eighteen-year-old Nancy Randolph, the fetching daughter of one of the greatest of the great Virginia tobacco planters, was a...

Reducere. Elizabeth Nel served as Winston Churchill's personal secretary during World War II. The vivid and human details of her experiences, of her impressi...

Showcasing inspirational women such as Florence Nightingale, Georgia O'Keeffe and Clara Barton who all had one thing in common - their affection to...

Publisher: Webster's Digital ServicesAuthor(s): Victoria HockfieldIllustration(s): Illustrations, black and whiteNumber of pages: 88Publication dat...

DescriptionVolume II contains roughly the first half of the Thorndyke Short Stories. In all, there are over forty Thorndyke short stories, spread o...

Reducere. An authentic voice from the western frontier Elinore Pruitt Stewart is renowned for her books 'Letters of a Woman Homesteader' and its sequel 'Lett...

New edition of this portrait of the relationship between Vita Sackville-West and Harold Nicolson.

Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

Cleland's critics too condemned the 'infamous' and 'poisonous' novel when it first appeared in 1748-9. But the proliferation of editions, adaptatio...

Reducere. Ascension of a Woman is Karen Moreno Scott's debut memoir in which she takes you on a deeply personal journey of her life as the daughter of an imm...

Focused on three key themes - Helpers and Heroes, Your New Normal and Acts of Kindness, this book presents a unique portrait of the UK during the 2...

Reducere. The Mexican American woman zoot suiter, or pachuca, often wore a V-neck sweater or a long, broad-shouldered coat, a knee-length pleated skirt, fish...

Elisabeth Parker comes to California from Massachusetts in 1849 with her new husband, Nate, to reunite with her father, who's struck gold on the Am...

The most comprehensive, fully illustrated book on women designers ever published - a celebration of more than 200 women product designers from the ...