Gendered Power: Educated Women of the Meiji Empress' Court, Hardcover - Mamiko Suzuki

DescriptionGendered Power sheds light on the sources of power for three prominent women of the Meiji period: Meiji Empress Haruko; public speaker, ...

A thematic foundation for an interdisciplinary conversation about gendered resistance in locations including Brazil, Yemen, India, and the United S...

Reducere. The inspiring and previously untold history of the women considered-but not selected-for the US Supreme Court In 1981, Sandra Day O'Connor became t...

Reducere. Praise for The Court of the Last Tsar ""Any book by Greg King is a book to be kept and savored. He has not only given us a fresh, clear-eyed, and o...

Reducere. From Nobel laureate, world-renowned doctor, and noted human rights activist Dr. Denis Mukwege comes an inspiring clarion call-to-action to confront...

Reducere. This memoir by empress Farah Pahlavi looks back on her reign over an Iran so modern it is unrecognizable today--written just a few years before the...

Daisetsu Teitaro Suzuki was a key figure in the introduction of Buddhism to the non-Asian world. Many outside Japan encountered Buddhism for the fi...

By drawing on a range of theoretical traditions emerging from feminism, criminology, and sociology, Women and Gendered Violence in Canada significa...

This book explores the campaign history of California's women legislators and the increasingly complex strategies they used in efforts to transcend...

DescriptionFrom the New York Times bestselling author of Everything Happens for a Reason: And Other Lies I've Loved, a fascinating look at the worl...

Reducere. With a new look at the 1880s financial reforms in Japan, Steven J. Ericson's Financial Stabilization in Meiji Japan overturns widely held views of ...

This Element analyses the relationship between gender and literary letterpress printing from the early 20th century to the beginning of the 21st. T...

Publisher: New York University PressAuthor(s): Renee Knake JeffersonIllustration(s): 15 b/w illustrationsNumber of pages: 304Publication date: 2022...

Reducere. DescriptionSacred Women: Images of Power and Wisdom is a treasure house of art dedicated to the feminine power. Each artwork is intended to be savo...

Reducere. IntroductionThis guidebook was written to help Hebrew Israelite women, to assist them in living their best life under the Laws and Commandments of ...

Personal stories and anecdotes of the trailblazing Zen teacher Suzuki Roshi--now reissued in hardcover in tandem with the publication of the follow...

Reducere. Praise for The Court of the Last Tsar ""Any book by Greg King is a book to be kept and savored. He has not only given us a fresh, clear-eyed, and o...

In this new collection of quotes from Shunryu Suzuki Roshi and stories from his students, the presence, wisdom, and humor of a great Zen teacher co...

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 ...

DescriptionThis evocative collection celebrates the prescience, wit, and enduring relevance of a fashion legend. Diana Vreeland's insightful edicts...

DescriptionThis book offers an innovative, comparative approach to the study of women's legal rights during a formative period of AngloAmerican his...

Reducere. This book has been considered by academicians and scholars of great significance and value to literature. This forms a part of the knowledge base f...

When it came to hunting, she was a master shot. As a dress designer, few could compare. An ingenious architect, she innovated the use of marble in ...

Publisher: University of Illinois PressAuthor(s): Caroline KlineIllustration(s): 4 chartsNumber of pages: 272Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 158 ...

A bold reconsideration of women in art - from the 'Old Masters' to the posts of Instagram influencers.Publisher: Icon BooksAuthor(s): Catherine McC...

Reducere. DescriptionA masterclass in enlightenment and simplicity. In The Training of the Zen Buddhist Monk, Zen master and scholar D.T. Suzuki explains the...

These translated poems were written by 2 ladies of the Heian court of Japan between the ninth and eleventh centuries A.D. The poems speak intimatel...

Reducere. Accounts of remarkable women at the world's most powerful court Consorts of the Caliphs is a seventh/thirteenth-century compilation ofanecdotes abo...

Reducere. The extraordinary story of the Russian slave girl Roxelana, who rose from concubine to become the only queen of the Ottoman empireIn Empress of the...

Atlanticization-or interaction between regional processes and Atlantic forces such as the slave trade and Christianization-from 1750 to 1920 transf...

Publisher: Dudley Court PressAuthor(s): Ted ClarkNumber of pages: 250Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 140 x 216 x 17Cover type: Paperback / softba...

DescriptionA whip-smart and illuminating exploration of the world's fascination with witches from podcast host and practicing witch Pam Grossman (T...

A courageous and heart-wrenching book from Nobel Peace Prize laureate, world-renowned doctor and human rights activist Dr Denis MukwegePublisher: S...

Publisher: Short Books LtdAuthor(s): Dr Dr Denis MukwegeNumber of pages: 368Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 129 x 196 x 30Cover type: Paperback /...

From the 1860s through to the early 20th century the rise of Japonisme and the Art Nouveau movement meant that few could ignore or resist the obses...

An illustrated novella featuring vivid illustrations and a gripping origin story.

DescriptionTrans Kids is a trenchant ethnographic and interview-based study of the first generation of families affirming and facilitating gender n...

Publisher: Strident Publishing LimitedAuthor(s): Kirkland CicconeNumber of pages: 240Collection: Castlecrankie ChroniclesPublication date: 2014Dime...

Alexander Baima graduated college with $80, 000 in student debt at the age of 23 from one of the top 25 business schools in America. After college ...

An accessible account of how American foreign policy ideologies structure competing meanings of the 'international rule of law'. International Crim...

From the founder of the influential website Career Contessa, an invaluable career resource for women feeling stuck or unfulfilled that combines act...

Reducere. Born a princess of Schleswig-Holstein in 1858, Empress Augusta Victoria, known in the family as 'Dona', was marked out from early childhood as a po...

Reducere. DescriptionHeartbreak and grief touch every soul at least once in a lifetime and Ranata Suzuki translates those raw emotions into words. The Longes...

In this touching saga a young woman from the slums of 1930s Ireland sets out for Liverpool - and dreams of a life on the ocean waves working on the...

Reducere. Two unsung women whose power using food as a political weapon during the civil rights movement was so great it brought the ire of government agents...

Reducere. Seventeen-years ago in the city of Lexington, Kentucky, a young woman's body was found floating face down in a backyard pool in Alabaster Court. Th...

Publisher: Taylor & Francis LtdAuthor(s): Rosalind (University of Manchester, UK) ShorrocksIllustration(s): 40 Line drawings, black and white; 50 T...

Out of the thrilling and tempestuous eighteenth century comes the sweeping family saga of beautiful Maria Theresa, a sovereign of extraordinary str...