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Five Centuries of Women and Gardens: 1590s-1990s
Published to coincide with an exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery in September 2000, this book charts the relationship between women and gardens from the Elizabethan times to the present...
Bloodletting: A Memoir of Secrets, Self-Harm, and Survival
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On the outside, she appears to have it all. She's creative, beautiful, confident. But inside Victoria Leatham struggles with silent, secret, and unbearable pain. In her late teens, Leatham is...
Lips Unsealed
The women of the iconic eighties band the Go-Go's will always be remembered as they appeared on the back of their debut record: sunny, smiling, each soaking in her own...
The Other Girl
WINNER OF THE 2022 NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE Annie Ernaux's profound investigation into the life of her mysterious older sister, who died at six, two years before Annie was born....
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Essential reading and reference for all mystery writers and fans of the genre.
Sun Tzu's Art of War for Women: Strategies for Winning without
Sun Tzu's classic treatise The Art of Wa r has influenced countless generations - of men - when they find themselves on battlefields, in the office and in everyday life....
We're Just Like You, Only Prettier: Confessions of a Tarnished
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Why couldn't the Sopranos survive living down South? Simple. You can't shoot a guy full of holes after eating chicken and pastry, spoon bread, okra, and tomatoes. What does a...
Soldiers of the Queen
This work is intended for general readers of military history titles, especially works in this series and Guns and Brooches . Veterans and descendants of the WRAAC. Also military historians...
Frida: A Biography Movie Tie-in
"Through her art, Herrera writes, Kahlo made of herself both performer and icon. Through this long overdue biography, Kahlo has also, finally, been made fully human." -- San Francisco Chronicle...
Your Voice in My Head: A Memoir
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Emma Forrest's memoir was called "a journey of healing" by Interview magazine and "a beautifully written eulogy for the doctor she credits with saving her life" by Los Angeles Magazine....
Revolution from within: Book of Self-esteem
Other work by the author includes "Outrageous Acts and Everyday Rebellions" and "Marilyn".
Queens, Concubines and Dowagers: The King's Wife in the Early Middle
This is a composite biography of the queens and royal bedfellows of these centuries, and provides a fascinating picture of their political importance and the many factors that affected their...
Women Don't Ask: Negotiation and the Gender Divide
The groundbreaking classic that explores how women can and should negotiate for parity in their workplaces, homes, and beyond. When Linda Babcock wanted to know why male graduate students were...
Cursed Bread: Longlisted for the Women's Prize
From the Booker-nominated author of The Water Cure - an eerie historical mystery about desire, memory and madness If you eat the bread, you'll die, he said. The statement made...
The Hey Nonny Handbook
This is a literary survival guide to the middle years for women with teenage children, elderly parents and husbands in crisis. Take two women: One finds her high-flying career has...
Strong Women, Soft Hearts: A Woman's Guide to Cultivating a Wise Heart
Recently updated with an expanded study guide, Strong Women, Soft Hearts has quickly become an important study for women of all ages. Through inspiring real-life testimonies, Paula Rinehart writes as...
Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide
#1 NATIONAL BESTSELLER * A passionate call to arms against our era's most pervasive human rights violation-the oppression of women and girls in the developing world. F rom the bestselling...
Women with Wings: Portraits of Australian women pilots
Australian women first took to the skies as early as the 1890s and since then they have flown everything from Gipsy Moths to Jumbo Jets. Through 33 contemporary portraits, Women...
Madame Sadayakko: The Geisha Who Bewitched the West
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The critically acclaimed author of "On the Narrow" and "Women of the Pleasure Quarters" tells the enthralling true story of the woman who became the most celebrated geisha in Japan...
Inspiring Men of the Faith
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Ratchet up your faith with these riveting accounts of four mighty Christian men. Martin Luther posted his ninety-five theses on a cathedral door and sparked the fire of the German...
More Than I Love My Life
The heartbreaking family epic from the Booker International Prize winning author An epic, deeply moving novel about the power of love and loving with courage - from the Man Booker...
Rebel Women Who Changed Australia
Visionaries, pioneers, activists and artists - women who made a difference to Australia An updated and condensed edition of Susanna de Vries' Great Australian Women , this is a celebration...
Upstaged: Australian Women Dramatists in the Limelight at Last
This book tells the stories of some of Australia's largely forgotten playwrights -- women who wrote drama that was performed on the nation's stages and broadcast across the airwaves from...
Songs At the River's Edge: Stories From a Bangladeshi Village
Part autobiography, part travelogue, part anthropological study, this is an account of a Western woman living in a Muslim Bangladeshi village for 18 months. On an anthropological level, it demonstrates...
Women and Victorian Theatre
Victorian women were exhilarated by the authoritative voice and the professional opportunity that, uniquely, the theatre offered them. Victorian men, anxious to preserve their dominance in this as in every...
Female Playwrights of the Restoration
Part of the Everyman series which has been re-set with wide margins for notes and easy-to-read type. Each title includes a themed introduction by leading authorities on the subject, life-and-times...
Women's Sports: What Everyone Needs to Know (R)
Although girls and women account for approximately 40 percent of all athletes in the United States, they receive only 4 percent of the total sport media coverage. SportsCenter, ESPN's flagship...
The Sum of Our Days: A Memoir
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Narrated with warmth, humor, exceptional candor and wisdom, The Sum of Our Days is a portrait of a contemporary family, tied together by the love, strong will, and stubborn determination...
Girlfriends Get Together: Food, Frolic and Fun Times!
This delectable collection about what happens when girlfriends get together focuses on both special events and relaxed moments. From crisis events like "you're better off without him" and TGIF parties...
The Sisterhood Paradox: The Psychology of Female Aggression at Work
"Vanessa Vershaw has exposed yet another example of where those who've made it may be failing those who are coming behind them." - Mark Pownall, Senior Editor - Business News...
Pivotal Career Moments: How confidence can impact career success and
By the time women get to executive level in their corporate life, their confidence should be at its peak, right? But perhaps you're experiencing the opposite... struggling with a collapse...
Women Rising: The Forces That Hold Us Back. The Tools to Help Us Rise
It's time to create a future where feminine power and leadership is celebrated. It's time for a radical awakening and a revolution. It's time for women to rise . In...
Recovery Of Your Self-Esteem: A Guide For Women
With warmth and encouragement, along with her original ten-step process, Carolynn Hillman puts self-esteem and the accomplishments and real satisfaction it engenders within the reach of every woman. Her straightforward...
The Cleopatras: The Forgotten Queens of Egypt
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The definitive story of the seven Cleopatras, the powerful goddess-queens of ancient Egypt One of history's most iconic figures, Cleopatra is rightly remembered as a clever and charismatic ruler. But...
Boobs: A tongue in cheek social history of our obsession with breasts
For most of her life, unconcernedly flat-chested author and academic Dr Lisa Portolan had never really thought about her breasts, or boobs in general. But then she met Amanda Goff...
Beyond the Battlefield: Women Artists of the Two World Wars
Beyond the Battlefield provides a fascinating account of female creativity in America, Britain, Canada, Australia and New Zealand during the turbulent era of twentieth-century conflict. This book looks at women...
The Betrayal of the Duchess: The Scandal That Unmade the Bourbon
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Fighting to reclaim the French crown for the Bourbons, the duchesse de Berry faces betrayal at the hands of one of her closest advisors in this dramatic history of power...
To Try Her Fortune in London: Australian Women, Colonialism, and
Between 1870 and 1940, tens of thousands of Australian women were drawn to London, their imperial metropolis and the center of the publishing, art, musical, theatrical, and educational worlds. Even...
The Audacity of a Kiss: Love, Art, and Liberation
Shortlisted for Lesbian Memoir/Biography Lammy Award Rendered in bronze, covered in white lacquer, two women sit together on a park bench in Greenwich Village. One of the women touches the...
Plays By Women
Volume Nine in Methuen's highly successful series of anthologies provides a stunning selection of plays chosen by theatre director Annie Castledine. In addition to 'these fine new translations by Tinch...
Nine Paths: A Year in the Life of an Indian Village
Lyrical, immersive non-fiction chronicling the stories of nine Muslim women on the margins of modern India, from anthropologist and ethnographer Dr Lexi Stadlen Revelatory, lyrical and immersive, this is an...
Women's International Thought: A New History
Women's International Thought: A New History is the first cross-disciplinary history of women's international thought. Bringing together some of the foremost historians and scholars of international relations working today, this...