Women of the New Mexico Frontier, 1846-1912 is a collection of essays that include biographical sketches and writings from women of all walks of life who helped bring about the American...więcej »
Now enlarged and updated, this introduction to great and famous women photographers from the 19th century to today features striking works of 60 artists, along with in-depth biographical and ...więcej »
With a rising number of women throughout the world picking up their cameras and capturing their surroundings, this book explores the work of 100 women and the experiences behind their greates...więcej »
While it is generally agreed amongst criminologists that the world of crime is predominantly the domain of men, women played a much larger role than they do today before the twentieth century. Even...więcej »
"A comprehensive anthology, carefully researched, Women Writers of Ancient Greece and Rome has the considerable merit of making available in English translation authors who have never been translat...więcej »
Critically evaluates the rapid changes that have happened in women's lives in the contemporary Middle East due to globalization and the increasing popularity of modern technology and social medi...więcej »
Women are among the most prominent actors of social change and transformation and comprise the mainstay of the 'modernization project', one that raises societies to greater efficacy to the highest ...więcej »
Despite women's presence in migration streams since the mid-nineteenth century, research on Mexican women's migration has a significantly shorter history than that which focuses on Mexic...więcej »
Where are the women of India poised in their country's economy? Are they a part of its economic engine and prepared to reap its windfall? Pundits call India: 'the second largest emerging economy in...więcej »
Fans and critics alike perceive Wong Kar-wai (b. 1958) as an enigma. His dark glasses, his nonlinear narrations, and his high expectations for actors all contribute to an assumption that he only...więcej »
This unusual early work is a fascinating read for camping and survival fans. Chapters deal with every aspect of survival in the wild from building and furnishing a wooden hut to travelling in pathl...więcej »
Woodstock, or The Cavalier. A Tale of the Year Sixteen Hundred and Fifty-one (1826) is a historical novel by Sir Walter Scott, one of the Waverley novels. Set just after the English Civil War, i...więcej »
Word and Story has broken new ground by enlisting well-known scholars in the examination of Lewis's ideas about language and narrative, both as stated in theory and as exemplified in practice. Neve...więcej »
An illustrated collection of the author's regular weekly column on the back page of the "Church Times", where, with a poet's eye, he observes the comings and goings of the rural world he sees from ...więcej »
For every day from Shrove Tuesday to Easter Day, the bestselling poet Malcolm Guite chooses a favourite poem from across the Christian spiritual and English literary traditions and offers incisive ...więcej »
Words--so small, so powerful--engender and enable our very existence. How are we to receive them, use them, hear them, and unite them?Critically acclaimed author Larry Woiwode explores th...więcej »