Gellhorn: A Twentieth-Century Life, Paperback - Caroline Moorehead

Reducere. The first major biography of legendary war correspondent Martha Gellhorn casts "a vivid spotlight on one of the most undercelebrated women of the 2...

Reducere. "A literary landmark. Gellhorn's prose . . . is at its finest in the letter form."--Francine du Plessix Gray, The New York Times Book ReviewMartha ...

Reducere. "Incredibila poveste a fiicei lui Mussolini, Edda, una dintre cele mai influente femei italiene din 1930, a carei viata a avut mai multe intorsatur...

A biography of Iris Origo, who along with her husband, brought to life a derelict and arid stretch of Italian land, creating a model estate with a ...

Reducere. Every day, in courtrooms around the United States, thousands of criminal defendants are represented by public defenders--lawyers provided by the go...

Paperback edition of Moorehead's book which tells the story of 230 French women resisters who were rounded up by the Gestapo in 1943 and sent on a ...

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Reducere. `` A] remarkable biography....Moorehead deftly wields periods detail...to tell the story of a captivating woman who kept her sense of self amid the...

Supermarkets are a mundane feature in the landscape, but as Tracey Deutsch reveals, they represent a major transformation in the ways that American...

Reducere. At the height of his literary prowess, Xu Zhimo was the most famous living poet in all of China. With his round spectacles and aristocratic profile...

Reducere. In 1821 William Becknell and five comrades traveled from Franklin, Missouri to Santa Fe, New Mexico, then the northern provincial capital of New Sp...

This volume introduces a side of Margaret Mead that few people know. Coffman provides a fascinating account of Mead's life and reinterprets her wor...

The story of the famous painting by Picasso and its diverse meanings from its conception to the present day

In this magisterial biography of Karl Marx, likely to be definitive for many years to come (John Gray, New York Review of Books), historian Jonatha...

The acclaimed author of A Train in Winter returns with the moving finale (The Economist) of her Resistance Quartet--the powerful and inspiring true...

​Edda Mussolini. Cea mai periculoasa femeie din Europa - Caroline Moorehead

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Publisher: The University of Chicago PressAuthor(s): Annabella PitkinIllustration(s): 7 halftonesNumber of pages: 288Collection: Buddhism and Moder...

Contributor(s): Author: Edith SparksToo often, depictions of women's rise in corporate America leave out the first generation of breakthrough women...

Reducere. This pathbreaking book documents the transformation of reproductive practices and politics on Indian reservations from the late nineteenth century ...

Reducere. At the outset of his career, Norman Rockwell was not the most likely candidate for long-term celebrity; he was just one of many skillful illustrato...

Reducere. Containing just the twentieth-century chapters from Howard Zinn's bestselling A People's History of the United States, this revised and updated edi...

Reducere. A writer investigates her family's secret history, uncovering a story that spans a century, two World Wars, and three generations. Hadley Freeman k...

Reducere. From Czernowitz to China and Beyond is the personal account of an extraordinary woman born of Jewish parents in 1890 in Czernowitz, then a part of ...

His opponents - including editors, publishers, union representatives, lawyers and judges - were beaten into submission. She has drawn on letters an...

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"[This book] charts the transformation of one of the world's great religions during an age marked by world wars, genocide, nationalism, decolonizat...

Publisher: The University of Chicago PressAuthor(s): Annabella PitkinIllustration(s): 7 halftonesNumber of pages: 280Collection: Buddhism and Moder...

Reducere. Award NameIndependent Publisher Book AwardsAward categoryAnthologiesTaken from the pages of South Dakota History, these essays explore modern Ameri...

Reducere. Edward Teller is perhaps best known for his belief in freedom through strong defense. But this extraordinary memoir at last reveals the man behind ...

'Books such as this are essential: they remind modern readers of events that should never be forgotten' - Caroline MooreheadOn March 25, 1942, near...

Explores the many aspects and outcomes of NASA's research in life sciences, a little-understood endeavor that has often been overlooked in historie...