Publication date: 1997-01
Review The Women of Royaumont: A Scottish Women's Hospital on the Western Front / Tuckwell Press:
Creator: Judith Hampson
Publication date: 2001-10-26
Review The Woman Who Wouldn't Die / Publications:Christine Lucey died an untimely death at the age of forty: the result of medical negligence. Six years of intense suffering, involving ten major abdominal operations, dramatically diminished her quality of life and left her marriage all but in ruins. Her husband Don tells this harrowing and moving story of misreported smears, misdiagnosis, medical procrastination and surgical bungling to alert young women to be vigilant and not to put blind faith in doctors who can, and do, make catastrophic mistakes.
Publication date: 2004-05-06
Dewey code: 781.7130092
List Price: $148.50
Price: $114.77
Review Samuel Sebastian Wesley: A Life (Oxford Studies in British Church Music) / Oxford University Press, USA:Born into one of England's best-known families, Samuel Sebastian Wesley (1810-76) was not only the foremost organist and church musician of his generation, but a vigorous campaigner for higher standards in cathedral music. Peter Horton has drawn on a wide range of source material to produce a detailed account of Wesley's life and career as he moved from cathedral to cathedral in search of an unattainable ideal. The book is illustrated by a generous selection of musical examples and plates, and includes the most detailed list of works to appear in print.
Publication date: 1991
Price: $189.81
Review Glimpses of science in India / Malhotra Pub. House:
Publication date: 1986-11
Review Indira Gandhi: India's Woman of Destiny / Sangam Books Ltd:
Creator: Annette Kuhn
Publication date: 1995-08-30
Dewey code: 791.43028092
Price: $126.95
Review Queen of the 'B's: Ida Lupino Behind the Camera (Contributions to the Study of Popular Culture) / Greenwood Press:Although Ida Lupino is best known as a leading actress in many Hollywood B movies, her work as a filmmaker has been neglected by critics, historians, and audiences. In the late 1940s, Lupino turned writer, producer, and director in her own independent production company. The films she made, beginning with Not Wanted in 1949, were low-budget pictures taking an uncompromising approach to controversial subject matter - unmarried motherhood, disability, rape, bigamy. Lupino is exceptional as the only woman to have directed a visible body of films in the male-dominated Hollywood of the 1950s. The continuation of that directorial career in television throughout the 1960s strengthens the claim that Lupino is the most prolific and creatively powerful woman director ever to have worked in the moving image industry. This book is the first extensive critical study of Ida Lupino's work as a director in both film and television. It features in-depth essays on each of the films she directed and on her work in television (including such popular series as The Fugitive and The Twilight Zone), with the most complete credit listing yet published of her television work. Viewing Lupino's oeuvre in historical, social, industrial, and aesthetic contexts, all the contributors demonstrate that the work repays informed and sensitive readings and many consider it in light of contemporary feminist debates on cinema. Queen of the `B's is a long overdue reassessment of an important and pioneering director.
Publication date: 2007-01
Price: $109.47
Review Twentieth Century Woman: An Autobiography / Access Press:
Publication date: 1848
Review Lives of celebrated women / Peirce and Rand:
Creator: Sylvie Paycha
Publication date: 2003-03
Dewey code: 500
List Price: $155.00
Price: $113.54
Review European Women in Mathematics: Proceedings of the Tenth General Meeting / World Scientific Publishing Company:This volume can be divided into two parts: a purely mathematical part with contributions on finance mathematics, interactions between geometry and physics and different areas of mathematics; another part on the popularization of mathematics and the situation of women in mathematics.
Publication date: 1986-11
Dewey code: 709.22
Price: $25.00
Review Jane and May Morris: A Biographical Story, 1839-1938 / Pandora Pr:
Publication date: 1994-04
Dewey code: 786.5092
Price: $64.95
Review Albert Schweitzer, Musician / Scolar Press:This work offers coverage of the musical side of the life and work of Albert Schweitzer (1875-1965), who was also the theologian and medical missionary who won the Nobel Prize in 1952. Schweitzer's recital work, his skills as an organist and his editing and writing contributions are covered.
Publication date: 1995
Review KAI, Entwicklung einer Abwicklung, 3.10.1990 bis 31.12.1993 / Akademie:
Publication date: 1995-05
Dewey code: 508.092
Price: $22.95
Review A Woman in the Wilderness: The Story of Amalie Dietrich in Australia / New South Wales University Press:
Authors
- Robert Nieman
- Glenn Elliott
Price: $24.99
Review Glenn Elliott: A Ranger's Ranger / Ranger Publishing:Glenn Elliott was a Texas Ranger from 1961-1987. He was descripted by world-renowned author and radio personality, Paul Harvey, on his radio program on August 26, 1987 (The day Glenn retired): "I don't know what you know about the Texas Rangers, but they are an elite corp of lawmen. Repected at all levels of law enforcement and revered in their home state. And if you had to pick one to represent the best of the best, that one would be Ranger Glenn Elliott. ".
Creator: Judith Johnston
Publication date: 1999-02-13
Dewey code: 828.803
List Price: $120.00
Price: $109.22
Review The Journals of George Eliot / Cambridge University Press:This volume makes available for the first time the entire surviving journals and diaries of the great Victorian novelist, George Eliot, and constitutes a new text by her-the closest she came to autobiography. The journals span her life from 1854, when she entered into a common-law union with George Henry Lewes, to her death in 1880, revealing the professional writer George Eliot as well as the remarkable private woman, Marian Evans. The edition includes a chronology, introduction, headnotes to each diary, and an annotated index supplying valuable contextual and explanatory information.
Edition: 1
Publication date: 2003-10-30
Dewey code: 070.92273
List Price: $110.00
Price: $109.12
Review Giving a Voice to the Voiceless: Four Pioneering Black Women Journalists (Studies in African American History and Culture) / Routledge:This work describes the journalism careers of four black women within the context of the period in which they lived and worked. Ida B. Wells-Barnett, Mary Church Terrell, Alice Dunbar-Nelson and Amy Jacques Garvey were among a group of approximately twenty black women journalists who wrote for newspapers, magazines and other media during the late nineteenth century and early twentieth century.
Publication date: 2003-07
Dewey code: 920
List Price: $20.95
Price: $139.99
Review Joan of Arc / Kessinger Publishing:1930. She was so young when she heard a Voice speaking to her of the faith and its observance, and gave her an order that she should seek the uncrowned King of France, dispossessed by his foes, and rescue him and crown him at Rheims. She told no one, but turned to a new piety as she grew into womanhood, cherishing the poor, and at her prayers continually till her devotion seemed ridiculous to those around her. And she had vowed her virginity to God "so long as it should Him please," but on this also she held her peace. Such is the beginning of the story of Joan of Arc.
Edition: 1
Publication date: 2007-02-26
Dewey code: 305.488960730092
List Price: $115.00
Price: $109.28
Review Anna Julia Cooper, Visionary Black Feminist: A Critical Introduction / Routledge:Vivian M. May explores the theoretical and political contributions of Anna Julia Cooper, a renowned Black feminist scholar, educator, and activist whose ideas deserve far more attention than they have received. Drawing on Africana and feminist theory, May places Cooper's theorizing in its historical contexts and offers new ways to interpret the evolution of Cooper's visionary politics, subversive methodology, and defiant philosophical outlook. Rejecting notions that Cooper was an elitist duped by dominant ideologies, May contends that Cooper's ambiguity, code-switching, and irony should be understood as strategies of a radical methodology of dissent. May shows how across six decades of work, Cooper traced history's silences and delineated the workings of power and inequality in an array of contexts, from science to literature, economics to popular culture, religion to the law, education to social work, and from the political to the personal. May emphasizes that Cooper eschewed all forms of mastery and called for critical consciousness and collective action on the part of marginalized people at home and abroad. She concludes that in using a border-crossing, intersectional approach, Cooper successfully argues for theorizing from experience, develops inclusive methods of liberation, and crafts a vision of a fundamentally egalitarian social imaginary.
Publication date: 1993-03
Dewey code: 510.92
Price: $59.00
Review A Convergence of Lives: Sofia Kovalevskaia : Scientist, Writer, Revolutionary (Lives of Women in Science) / Rutgers Univ Pr:"Succeeds in integrating Kovalevskaia's science, radical leanings, and literary writings. especially fine reading for those with a contemporary interest in women in science. "-Science "A biography worthy of its subject and respectful of its reader. Koblitz's understanding of Russian and European social, political, and intellectual history permeates this enjoyable biography, and her analysis and conclusions are particularly enlightening. "-Physics Today To inaugurate its series, Lives of Women in Science, Rutgers University Press reissued this much-acclaimed biography of Sofia Kovalevskaia (1850-1891), the renowned nineteenth-century mathematician, writer, and revolutionary. [+]Sofia Kovalevskaia's interests in mathematics was aroused at an early age-her attic nursery had been wallpapered with lecture notes for a course on calculus. She spent hours studying the mysterious walls, trying to figure out which page followed from the next. Kovalevskaia became the only woman mathematician whose name all mathematicians recognize. Indeed, she was the first professional woman scientist to win international eminence in any field: the first woman doctorate in mathematics, the first to hold a chair in mathematics, the first to sit on the editorial board of a major scientific journal. She was also an accomplished writer, a proponent of women's rights and education, a wife and mother in an unconventional marriage, and a champion of radical political causes in Russia and Western Europe. This sympathetic portrait of a remarkable woman will appeal to all readers, non-mathematicians and mathematicians alike. Ann Hibner Koblitz is an associate professor of history at Hartwick College and founder ofthe Kovalevskaia Fund, which supports women scientists in the Third World. She has won the History of Science Society's prize for outstanding work on the history of women in science.
Publication date: 2001-09-30
Dewey code: 792
Price: $16.50
Review Belly Dancing: The Art of Becoming a Woman / Robinson Publishing:A young Arab girl tells her story as she is initiated into womanhood and gives at the same time a history of the dance that is known to us as 'bellydancing'. Far from the slightly risque, 'nightclub' image this kind of dancing has been given in the west, to women in the Arab culture the dance holds a significance that underlies their wellbeing and their sense of womanhood. The girl, now the author Fawzia Al-Rawi, fascinated by her own experience of the dance, has studied its earliest beginnings, through the days of the Pharaohs and the Roman Empire, and into the Arab world of the last three centuries. This book is her revelation of the effects of the dance's movements on both the body of the dancer and the whole psyche. It is also a practical guide for those who are inspired to put down the book and try the movements. The author describes the variations of the dance as it is performed for grieving and mouming, and to aid pregnancy and birth, conveying the spirit of these age-old rituals, and their possibilities for healing and empowering women today. Fawzia Al-Rawi has written a strikingly graceful and original book that blends personal memoir with the history and theory of the dance that leads to womanhood.
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The Women of Royaumont: A Scottish Women's Hospital on the Western Front, The Woman Who Wouldn't Die, Samuel Sebastian Wesley: A Life (Oxford Studies in British Church Music), Glimpses of science in India, Indira Gandhi: India's Woman of Destiny, Queen of the 'B's: Ida Lupino Behind the Camera (Contributions to the Study of Popular Culture), Twentieth Century Woman: An Autobiography, Lives of celebrated women, European Women in Mathematics: Proceedings of the Tenth General Meeting, Jane and May Morris: A Biographical Story, 1839-1938, Albert Schweitzer, Musician, KAI, Entwicklung einer Abwicklung, 3.10.1990 bis 31.12.1993, A Woman in the Wilderness: The Story of Amalie Dietrich in Australia, Glenn Elliott: A Ranger's Ranger, The Journals of George Eliot, Giving a Voice to the Voiceless: Four Pioneering Black Women Journalists (Studies in African American History and Culture), Joan of Arc, Anna Julia Cooper, Visionary Black Feminist: A Critical Introduction, A Convergence of Lives: Sofia Kovalevskaia : Scientist, Writer, Revolutionary (Lives of Women in Science), Belly Dancing: The Art of Becoming a WomanTop headlines: Obama daughters to help with dog, chores: There's no special treatment for the new first daughters when it comes to lending a hand and doing chores in the White House. 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