Women and Wars

Reducere. NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY BUZZFEED - A companion novel inspired by Star Wars: Battlefront, this action-packed adventure follows a ...

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

Reducere. 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 ...

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. #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - In this essential Star Wars Legends novel--the first ever to take place after the events of the original trilogy--Gr...

In J. R. R Tolkien's Lord of the Rings, The Hobbit and The Silmarillion, Middle-earth endured cataclysmic wars and critical battles, causing great ...

Reducere. Richard Dillon, one of California's premier historians, tells the compelling story of San Francisco's exotic pre-1906 Chinatown when vicious hoodlu...

Reducere. It began as the ultimate voyage of discovery-only to become the stuff of lost Republic legend . . . and a dark chapter in Jedi history. Now, at las...

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. 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. DescriptionNot Forgotten: Inspiring Missionary Pioneers remembers eighteen women and men, who lived to fulfill Christ's mandate: "Go and make disci...

Reducere. The adventures of the Gumbeaux Sistahs continue Five, fiery Southern women wage wars against their unique problems using their improbable friendshi...

"In From Nowhere to Nowhere Bekim Sejranovic gives us the elegiac beauties echoing over the vanishing times and places, inviting us to reflect and ...

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...

*Includes pictures *Includes accounts of the coal wars from Mother Jones and other important participants *Includes online resources and a bibliogr...

Reducere. Veterans: Stories From America's Best captures the voices of the men and women sent to war in far-off lands during America's wars of the last centu...

Reducere. The Incredible Life Of Irma Grese And The Holocaust: The Intriguing Life And History Of The Blonde Beast The two World Wars were standing testimony...

Reducere. Want to know what Vietnam was really like? Real stories told by real people, in their own words, 100 veterans, men and women, caught up in an all t...

Reducere. Want to know what Vietnam was really like?Real stories told by real people, in their own words, men and women, caught up in an all too real war. Fr...

In 1918 Ernest Hemingway went to war, to the 'war to end all wars'. He volunteered for ambulance service in Italy, was wounded and twice decorated....

Reducere. Each life has its place, and every variation ripples the surface of the tiny alpine village called Rosenau. Be it a mysteriously misaddressed love ...

Reducere. Drama, death, glory and love flowed through the blood of the Egyptians under the watchful eyes of their Gods & Goddesses... Ancient Egypt was one o...

Reducere. DescriptionMany books have been written about inward prayer, or meditation, but Joel Goldsmith's classic, The Art of Meditation, presents meditatio...

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

DescriptionThis inspiring anthology is the first to convey the rich experiences and contributions of women in the American military in their own wo...

Reducere. This eye-opening journey through centuries of medical care on the battlefield is a fascinating read. The research is impressive, the writing style ...

The New York Times bestselling authors of The Glass Ocean and The Forgotten Room return with a glorious historical adventure that moves from the da...

Description"Have I not commanded you? Be strong and courageous. Do not be frightened, and do not be dismayed, for the Lord your God is with you whe...

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

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

DescriptionLike a series of slides from a film reel, the poems of Dregs reveal the ruin, remnants or dregs left over from the wars and economic and...

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

DescriptionA masterpiece of social satire, featuring one of literature's best-loved characters, Becky Sharp.Ruthless social climber and irrepressib...

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

Reducere. "Hardly War, " Don Mee Choi's major second collection, defies history, national identity, and militarism. Using artifacts from Choi's father, a pro...

Although she is best known for her time on the mission field in Ecuador, Elisabeth Elliot went on to become a vibrant role model for valiant, godly...

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 ...

Reducere. "S. may very well be one of the strongest books about war you will ever read. . . .The writing is taut, precise, and masterful." Set in 1992, durin...

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

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...

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

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...

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. 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...

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

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 ...

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. DescriptionAuthor Ellen Osborn gives us a unique history of El Dorado County, California, beginning with the early days of the gold rush and the fi...

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 ...

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

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

Reducere. NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY THE SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE, THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE, THE ST. LOUIS POST-DISPATCH, THE KANSAS CITY STAR, AND...

England has always been a place of queens. The earliest known lived nearly 2, 000 years ago. Early queens, such as Boudica and Cartimandua, are his...

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

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 ...

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

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...

DescriptionNever before published, an extraordinarily inspiring and radical conversation between Howard Zinn and PBS/NPR journalist Ray Suarez, whe...

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

Reducere. 'A startling heroine' SARAH MOSS, Summerwater'A vividly female perspective on the Wars of the Roses' IMOGEN HERMES GOWER, The Mermaid and Mr Hancoc...

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. The children's issues picture book Why Is Mom So Mad? is a story for children in military families whose mother battles with combat related Post Tr...

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. 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...

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'...