Women and Wars

Otto Dix fought in the First World War for the better part of four years before becoming one of the most important artists of the Weimar era. Marke...

Reducere. Available in paperback, this four-volume narrative world history tells the story of the entire globe, from the earliest nomadic humans all the way ...

Reducere. As the year 1890 wound to a close, a band of more than three hundred Lakota Sioux Indians led by Chief Big Foot made their way toward South Dakota'...

Reducere. Gaylon Finklea Hecker and Marianne Odom began the interviews for this book in 1981 and devoted a professional lifetime to collecting the memories o...

Reducere. Drawing on never before used archival materials, Replacing the Dead exposes the history of Soviet and Russian abortion policy. It is not unusual fo...

Reducere. Earl "Dusty" Trimmer relates with both skill and personal experience events surrounding our most forgetable and misunderstood war in America's hist...

Reducere. One of the most influential and popular works in all literature, Ovid's Metamorphoses is a weaving-together of classical myths, extending in time f...

The civil wars of the second half of the fifteenth century still stand in the popular imagination as the period of greatest anarchy in English hist...

Reducere. Thomas Blantz's monumental The University of Notre Dame: A History tells the story of the renowned Catholic university's growth and development fro...

Reducere. Deviations is the definitive collection of writing by Gayle S. Rubin, a pioneering theorist and activist in feminist, lesbian and gay, queer, and s...

Reducere. During World War II, as the United States called on its citizens to serve in unprecedented numbers, the presence of gay Americans in the armed forc...

Reducere. The world has been inundated with horror stories about what the Germans did during the last century, but most Americans know little about what was ...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Editor: Larry E. TiseEditor: Jeffrey J. CrowNew Voyages to Carolina offers a bold new approach for understanding and telling North ...

Reducere. DescriptionLincoln's war, the North's attack on the South, took the life of 622, 000 citizens and altered the government's structure. Marx and Enge...

In this fully updated second edition of 'A History of Russia' Vol. II, Walter G. Moss has significantly revised his text and bibliography to reflec...

Take your seats, and by all means, fasten your seat belts Come on a journey back in time to aviation's most daring and innovative era. Travel back ...

Reducere. Book 10 of the Tarzan Series - Special Edition Authorized by Edgar Rice Burroughs, Inc., Featuring Rare and Previously Unpublished Archival Materia...

Reducere. In the years between the two world wars, the Jewish community of Poland--the largest in Europe--was the cultural heart of the Jewish diaspora. The ...

DescriptionReveals the systematic marginalization of women within pop culture fan communitiesWhen Ghostbusters returned to the screen in 2016, some...

Reducere. National Jewish Book AwardThis ground-breaking documentary history contains over 150 primary sources originally written in 15 languages by or about...

Drawing from a rich array of visual and literary material from nineteenth-century Iran, this groundbreaking book rereads and rewrites the history o...

Reducere. During the nineteenth century, the U.S. military fought numerous battles against American Indians. These so-called Indian wars devastated indigenou...

NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY The New York Times Book Review - The Washington Post - Entertainment Weekly - The Seattle Times - St. Lo...

Reducere. "The most critical period in Earth's history." -- Gary Seven, Supervisor 194 Even centuries later, the final decades of the twentieth century are s...

Reducere. A panoramic satire of English society during the Napoleonic Wars, Vanity Fair is William Makepeace Thackeray's masterpiece. At its center is one of...

Reducere. Lincoln's war, the North's attack on the South, took the life of 622, 000 citizens and altered the government's structure. Marx and Engels watched ...

A highly original account of the Liberian civil wars and their aftermath, uncovering the forgotten voices of the conflict's female child soldiers.

In the late 1990s bands like Fugazi, Branch Manager, the Make-Up, Deep Lust, Quix*o*tic, Lungfish, Spirit Caravan, Scaramouche, Stinking Lizaveta, ...

Reducere. From Pakistan to Chechnya, Sri Lanka to Canada, pioneering women are taking their places in formal and informal military structures previously rese...

Reducere. Palace eunuch and secretary Stephen records Empress Theodora's life as she navigates wars, political and religious crises, a citywide rebellion, an...

Reducere. Beloved New York Times bestselling author Adriana Trigiani returns with the most epic and ambitious novel of her career--a breathtaking multigenera...

The untold story of five women who fought to compete against men in the high-stakes national air races of the 1920s and 1930s -- and won Between th...

Post-traumatic stress disorder--and its predecessor diagnoses, including soldier's heart, railroad spine, and shell shock--was recognized as a psyc...

DescriptionA remarkably candid biography of the remarkably candid--and brilliant--Carrie FisherIn her 2008 bestseller, Girls Like Us, Sheila Weller...

Reducere. As the year 1890 wound to a close, a band of more than three hundred Lakota Sioux Indians led by Chief Big Foot made their way toward South Dakota'...

What did it mean to be a 'rebel woman' in the interwar years? Taking the form of a multiple biography, this book traces the struggles, passions and...

Reducere. Situated in southeastern Harford County and edged by the Chesapeake Bay and the Bush and Gunpowder Rivers, the U.S. Army bases known as Aberdeen Pr...

Reducere. Every summer from 1904 to 1967, for 63 years, Riverview--the world's largest amusement park--opened its gates to millions of people from all walks ...

Considers the broad spectrum of influential German films made between the world wars. This title investigates important themes in films from this p...

Reducere. The early Dutch settlers in Albany called the hills to the west "Hellebergh, " or "Clear Mountain." Little did they know of the rugged terrain that...

Reducere. For eight decades, an epic power struggle raged across a frontier that would become Maine. Between 1675 and 1759, British, French and Native Americ...

Reducere. She's the most famous woman in history, yet almost nothing is known about her. Although she's portrayed as the gentlest and most tragic of all wome...

DescriptionOver the ages and in all societies, gallantry in battle has been highly regarded, with the bravery of individuals and fighting forces be...

Contributor(s): Author: Anne Boyd RiouxSoon after its publication on September 30, 1868, Little Women became an enormous bestseller and one of Amer...

Counter Jihad is a sweeping account of America's military campaigns in the Islamic world. Revising our understanding of what was once known as the ...

Pan American Women examines U.S. women activists' attempts to advance inter-American cooperation among women and further hemispheric peace between ...

Religion was integral to the conduct of war in the ancient world and the Romans were certainly no exception. No campaign was undertaken, no battle ...

DescriptionAn inclusive and expansive telling of the history of civilization from the beginning of time, by one of France's most beloved children's...

How the Golden Age of transatlantic travel between the wars transformed women's lives across all classes - a vivid portrait of life on-board the ic...

The story of how a singular group of women in a pivotal time and place - Paris, Between the Wars - fostered the birth of the Modernist movement.

DescriptionAfter the austerity, horror, and bloodshed of World War I, France longed for joy, light-heartedness, and sexual freedom. Men and newly e...

Reducere. A sweeping history of the passionate men and women in uniform who have bravely and courageously exercised the power of dissent Before the U.S. Cons...

Reducere. In this beautifully written memoir (Publishers Weekly), Jean Said Makdisi illuminates a century of Arab life and history through the stories of her...

Reducere. How different are men and women? When does it matter to us -- or to God? Are male and female the only two options? In Sex Difference in Christian T...

Reducere. A brilliantly original, landmark retelling of Greek myths, recounted as if they were actual scenes being woven into textiles by women who feature p...

Reducere. Taking readers on a provocative tour through thirty years of media images about mothers -- the superficial achievements of celebrity moms, the sens...

Now available in paperback Women in the United States military have received more recognition than ever in recent years, but women also played vita...

Reducere. Few women and children sailed to Jamestown in 1609. But to Joan, prosperity in Virginia sounded promising. Then she learned she would have to leave...

Reducere. British writer Marjorie Bowen (the pseudonym of Margaret Gabrielle Vere Long, 1885-1952) was a prolific author of short stories, novels, essays, an...

Reducere. Wolf Hall meets The Favourite in this beguiling debut novel that brilliantly brings to life the residents of a small English town in the grip of th...

What we know of war is always mediated knowledge and feeling. We need lenses to filter out some of its blinding, terrifying light. These lenses are...

Reducere. Words From The Heart...When America's Veterans Speak Individuals who did not have the opportunity to hear about the military experience of family m...

Discover the maritime and human history of Florida's 30 awe-inspiring lighthouses along the East Coast, through the Keys, and up the west coast to ...

Contributor(s): Author: Amy RatcliffeForeword by: Kathleen KennedyThey are heroes and villains, Sith and Jedi, senators and scoundrels, mothers, me...

Reducere. DescriptionAfter the Indian wars, many Americans still believed that the only good Indian was a dead Indian. But at Ganado Mission in the Navajo co...

Reducere. In The Yamato Dynasty, Sterling Seagrave, who divulged the secrets of Mao Tse-tung and the ruthlessness of Chiang Kai-shek in the New York Times be...

Reducere. In the Trenches of the Abortion Battle Every day, thousands of children-fragile, innocent, alone-are abandoned. They are brutally snuffed from the ...

Reducere. Set against the mosques and minarets of Asia Minor and the ruins of ancient Athens, The Embroiderer is a gripping saga of love and loss, hope and d...

Like trigger warnings and gender-neutral bathrooms, pronouns are sparking a national debate, prompting new policies in schools, workplaces, even pr...

World War I gave colonial migrants and French women unprecedented access to the workplaces and nightlife of Paris. After the war they were expected...