Lives of Extraordinary Women: Rulers, Rebels (and What the Neighbors Thought), Paperback - Kathleen Krull

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Reducere. Most people can name some famous artists and recognize their best-known works. But what's behind all that painting, drawing, and sculpting? What wa...

Reducere. Shakespeare wrote with a feather quill and ink; Emily Dickinson wrote with a fountain pen; Isaac Bashevis Singer wrote on a Yiddish typewriter. But...

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Women have a long history of keeping the lights burning, from tending ancient altar flames or bonfires to modern-day lighthouse keeping. Yet most o...

Contributor(s): Author: Betty S. AndersonA History of the Modern Middle East offers a comprehensive assessment of the region, stretching from the f...

An inspiring true story of a boy genius. Plowing a potato field in 1920, a 14-year-old farm boy from Idaho saw in the parallel rows of overturned e...

Reducere. From award-winning author Kathleen Krull comes an empowering picture book biography--with dazzling illustrations from artist Nancy Zhang--about the...

Reducere. The inspiring, deeply patriotic true story of John Glenn, a true hero who not only changed America's contribution to space exploration but also spe...

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 ...

Reducere. Which 462 words are so important that they've changed the course of American history more than once? The Bill of Rights: the first ten amendments t...

Contributor(s): Author: Kathleen KrullAuthor: Paul BrewerIllustrator: Frank MorrisonA picture-book biography on science superstar Neil deGrasse Tys...

An exploration of Lewis Carroll's life, beautifully illustrated by the talented Julia Sarda.

Reducere. Praying girls are world-changers . . . And this delightful storybook proves it Just for the girls in your life, ages 5 and up, this collection of t...

A picture-book biography about science superstar Neil deGrasse Tyson, the groundbreaking American astrophysicist whose work has inspired a generati...

Reducere. An exploration of Hasidic Jews struggling to live within their restrictive communities--and, in some cases, to carve out a new life beyond them Whe...

Reducere. She gave up everything: her home, her possessions, even her real name. She called herself Peace Pilgrim, put on her sneakers, and started off on he...

Reducere. Before Wilma Rudolph was five years old, polio had paralyzed her left leg. Everyone said she would never walk again. But Wilma refused to believe i...

New paperback edition - The interweaving lives of Ida John, Sophie Brzeska and Fernande Olivier: three mould-breaking women who forged modern relat...

Reducere. Across the world there are many an artiste - But none so outrageous as Joe, the Fartiste. The Fartiste doesn't sing, he doesn't dance, and he doesn...

Reducere. Christianity has long been criticized as a patriarchal religion. But during its two-thousand-year history, the faith has been influenced and passed...

Reducere. It's a haunting image. At least it was for author John Thomas. Some seventy women sit in four rows in front of the Gibson Guitar factory in the mid...

Reducere. As a boy, Cesar Chavez lived in ramshackle sheds and slaved as a field hand. Things had to change, and he thought he could help change them. So Ces...

Reducere. Award-winning author Kathleen Krull takes an in-depth historical look at immigration in America--with remarkable stories of some of the immigrants ...

Reducere. Although we are learning a lot from historians about the lives of slaves in the United States, we still know little about slavery in the Caribbean....

Reducere. Description"Fun, cheeky" (Booklist), and a visual delight, What Would Cleopatra Do? shares the wisdom and advice passed down from Cleopatra, Queen ...

Reducere. In the eighth and ninth centuries, three Byzantine empresses--Irene, Euphrosyne, and Theodora--changed history. Their combined efforts restored the...

Reducere. A picture-book biography about science superstar Neil deGrasse Tyson, the groundbreaking American astrophysicist whose work has inspired a generati...

Reducere. From the beginning of California's statehood, adventurers, scientists, and writers reveled in its majestic landscape. Some were women, though few g...

Reducere. Award-winning author Kathleen Krull takes an in-depth historical look at immigration in America--with remarkable stories of some of the immigrants ...

Impact, Inspire and Uplift One Million Women IWOW (Inspirational Women of the World) was conceived in 2020 by Dawn Evans and Tracey Smolinski to cr...

Reducere. In the same manner of the New York Times bestseller What I Know Now comes a collection of letters to inspire and ignite the ambitions of women ever...

Written entirely in the first person and fully based on accurate historical accounts, Michael Farah imagines how this royal family would have descr...

Teachers inspire and nurture children. Never has this been more evident than during Covid-19, where teachers risk their own health and wellbeing to...

Reducere. These reflections unravel the stories of women who accompanied Jesus during his last days and were there as he endured his agony and death on the c...

Reducere. You know the women of the Bible, but you don't know them like this... It's easy for Christian women--young and old--to get lost between the opportu...

DescriptionThe combined events of the end of the American Civil War in 1865, the first transcontinental railroad opening in 1869, and the financial...

Publisher: HarperCollins PublishersAuthor(s): Holly KyteNumber of pages: 480Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 129 x 197 x 34Cover type: Paperback /...

Reducere. Throughout history women have caused wars, defied the rules, and brought men to their knees. The famous and the infamous, queens, divorcees, actres...

Reducere. The true experiences that are featured in this book, introduced by best-selling author Louise L. Hay, have been culled from the writings of some of...

Reducere. If your job or relationships are bringing you down, and you are feeling a little blue, WHAT HAPPY WOMEN KNOW can teach you the secret to recapturin...

The Bible is filled with so many incredible women, and it's time we were introduced to them!

Reducere. This sweeping portrait of the world's uncontested six-legged conquerors will open your eyes to the secret societies thriving right beneath your fee...

Reducere. In What the Buddha Thought, Richard Gombrich argues that the Buddha was one of the most brilliant and original thinkers of all time. Intended to se...

African women's history is a topic as vast as the continent itself, embracing an array of societies in over fifty countries with different geograph...

An ingenious and hilarious novel masquerading as sixteen short biographies of Australian literary figures, who are all entirely made up

For the Lives of All Women/Pela Vida Das Mulheres is a collection of photographs and interviews by Camila Cavalcante.

A breezy, bracingly irreverent introduction to the founders of economics - how they lived, what they thought, what they got wrong and which of thei...

DescriptionThis book details the treatment of Allied service-women, female civilians and local women by the Japanese occupation forces. While a num...