Renaissance Women, Paperback

The women who wielded the real power behind the throne in Renaissance Italy, from a bestselling historian.

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The history of women opera is a grand story. Singers and patrons, of course, but also women were composers and librettists from opera's beginnings ...

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In the 1960s Dale Kent embarked on a lifelong struggle to fulfil the desire of many women of her generation - to be the most she could be. Her stor...

Taking her cue from self-portraits by women artists, Weil gives a playful twist to the concept of self-representation. Ranging from the 13th c. thr...

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Whitney's two volumes of verse miscellany, "Sweet Nosegay" (1573) and "The Copy of a Letter" (1567), were part of a literary trend of combining cla...

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This beautifully illustrated and exquisitely designed volume of paintings, sculpture, medals, and drawings celebrates the extraordinary flowering o...

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Reducere. The illegitimate daughter of Pope Julius II, Felice della Rovere became one of the most powerful and accomplished women of the Italian Renaissance....

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With its explorations of sexual ambivalence, As You Like It speaks directly to the twenty-first century. Juliet Dusinberredemonstrates that Rosalin...

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A planned heist for four lifelong friend reveals disloyalty and lies, putting their ride or die friendship to the test ... For as long as Bobbi, Lu...

Age is just a number, and whoever said that full-figured women don't know how to bring fire to a relationship was sadly mistaken. Carl Weber brings...

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DescriptionVeronica Franco (whose life is featured in the motion picture Dangerous Beauty) was a sixteenth-century Venetian beauty, poet, and proto...

This book is a continuing conversation on Frantz Fanon and the relevance of his theory and politics for contemporary education. The book raises som...

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Reducere. Dorothy Height marched at civil rights rallies, sat through tense White House meetings, and witnessed every major victory in the struggle for racia...

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DescriptionWritten in the middle of the 14th century as the Bubonic Plague decimated the population of Europe, "The Decameron" is a satirical and a...

At the dawn of the 1990s, as the United States celebrated its victory in the Cold War and sole superpower status by waging war on Iraq and proclaim...

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Taking in a wide range of film, television, and literature, this volume explores 21st century horror and its monsters from an intersectional perspe...

She was chasing a sexual fantasy, and he was just plain curious. Her dream to explore the land of chocolate matched his longtime need to know if th...

Samantha Miller didn't have an easy start. Molested as a child and subsequently forced into prostitution by her drug-addicted mother, she learned a...

Nick Johnson has always been an underachieving, borderline alcoholic...but he soon finds himself in over his head. When his affair with Vickie, an ...

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The Ottoman Syrians - residents of modern Syria and Lebanon - formed the first Arabic-speaking Evangelical Church in the region. This book offers a...

Reducere. C. Subramania Bharati (1882-1921) was one of the builders of modern India. An early nationalist thinker from South India, Bharati's literary genius...

Reducere. With the publication of his first book of poems, The Weary Blues, in 1926, Langston Hughes electrified readers and launched a renaissance in black ...

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Bringing together fifty years of exciting modernisms, The New Anthology of American Poetry, Volume 2 includes over 600 poems by sixty-five American...

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DescriptionMiss D & Me is a story of two powerful women--one at the end of her life and the other at the beginning--and how they changed each other...

Reducere. These exquisite love poems, some of them clearly addressed to women, were written by the visionary and passionate genius of Mexican letters, the se...

DescriptionShe was chasing a sexual fantasy, and he was just plain curious. Her dream to explore the land of chocolate matched his longtime need to...

Scholar, author, editor, teacher, reformer, and civil rights leader, W.E.B. Du Bois (1868-1963) was a major figure in American life and one of the ...

In this installment of the Never Again, No More series, the men and women begin to unravel the truth about who is real and who is fake in their liv...

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Reducere. First published in 1928, "Quicksand" is the first novel by American author Nella Larsen. It is the semi-autobiographical tale of a young, mixed rac...

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DescriptionThree couples, three journies, one destination. Love should feel euphoric, right? For these three women, sometimes it's not that easy. T...

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