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This book provides a current and comprehensive analysis of the context in which Pacific women engage in the private sector, as well as a detailed list of strategies to increase their participation in business.

Within a Dutch enclave already removed from the larger world, Janie's family is further isolated and odd.

In September 1918, World War I was nearing its end when Marguerite E.

A child would love to see a book like this mainly because of the many beautiful architecture pictures within it.

A child would enjoy an In The Deep Blue Sea Picture Book.

What will it take to create a more gender-balanced workplace?

A broad and eloquent study on the relatively overlooked population of single women in the slaveholding SouthSingle, White, Slaveholding Women in the Nineteenth-Century American South investigates the lives of unmarried white women-from the pre- to the post-Civil War South-within a society that placed high value on women's marriage and motherhood.

This collection of supernatural tales includes "e;The Talking Corpse"e;; "e;The Hound of Goshen"e;; "e;The Ring"e;; "e;The Phantom Rider of Bush River"e;; "e;The Witch Cat"e;; "e;The Gray Man"e;; "e;Tsali, the Cherokee Brave"e;; "e;The Ghost of Litchfield"e;; "e;City of Death"e;; "e;Treasure Hunt"e;; "e;House of the Opening Door"e;; "e;The Ghosts of Hagley"e;; "e;Return from the Dead"e;; "e;Whistle While You Haunt"e;; "e;The Brown Mountain Lights"e;; "e;Alice of the Hermitage"e;; "e;The Night the Spirits Called"e;; and "e;Swamp Girl"e;.

A history of the earlier Southern gold rush and its legends that-for the first time-ties it to the well-known California gold rush of 1849.

Women Mystics and Sufi Shrines in India combines historical data with years of ethnographic fieldwork to investigate women's participation in the culture of Sufi shrines in India and the manner in which this participation both complicates and sustains traditional conceptions of Islamic womanhood.

Arthur's stories are filled with power, magic and a lot of love and responsibilities.

Believe it or not but what happened in Old Babylonia centuries ago still holds water today.

Did you know that Neptune has a great underwater empire?

Gods are beings that possess great power and magic.

Do you know who King Midas is?

Did you know that folktales help your child sense connections?

There's always magic and enchantment when discussing folktales.

The Arthurian folk tales are some of the most popular series in the history of literature.

Why should you invest in study materials that discuss folktales?

Odin, Loki and Thor may be very popular these days because of mainstream media.

Aren't mermaids fascinating?

Discover the fairy tales of Old Europe!

Did you know that the Arthurian Folk Tales are some of the most well-known stories in the history of literature?

Would myths make great materials for story time?

A woman's envy is very much alive even in the olden times!

Here's another myth that has survived the tests of time.

What lessons can a child learn from Greek and Roman Myths?

In Greek mythology, Kronus was the son of Gaia and Uranus.

To kids, folktales are stories of magic and faraway places.

Folktales should be preserved because they are considered as part of the national culture and heritage.

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Rebellious and fiercely lyrical, the poems of C.

Letha Dawson Scanzoni changed the landscape of American evangelicalism through her groundbreaking work on the gospel-based intersection of gender and LGBTQ justice.

From Booklist Muchman was born in Berlin in 1933.

The basis of the forthcoming NETFLIX series Grand Army.

There can be no vaulting over time, thinks Urmila, the narrator of Shashi Deshpandes profound and soul-stirring novel.

A scholar's memoir of growing up and the powerful forces that shaped her as a woman and a writer; "e;her story will inspire all women"e; (Library Journal).

The conclusion of the "e;remarkable"e; four-volume history by the New York Times-bestselling author of The Women's Room (Publishers Weekly).

In the tradition of classic essayists from Virginia Woolf to Annie Dillard, Meghan Florian combines personal narrative with careful analysis, taking the ordinary material of undramatic daily life and distilling it into moments of clarity and revelation.

"e;Being a girl was something that never really happened for me.

This inspiring tale of grit and determination sprinkled with humor, wit, and a taste of irony is the story of Winifred Bryan Horner's journey from a life of domesticity on the family farm after World War II to becoming an Endowed Professor.

The brilliant kaleidoscope of everyday creativity in Israel is thrown into relief in this study, which teases out the abiding national tensions and contradictions at work in the expressive acts of ordinary people.

In the time of the Troubles, when bombs blew through the night and soldiers prowled down the roads, Henry Glassie came to the Irish borderland to learn how country people endure through history.

Growing old doesn't have to be seen as an eventual failure but rather as an important developmental stage of creativity.

Because clothing, food, and shelter are basic human needs, they provide excellent entries to cultural values and individual aesthetics.

Presenting a fresh examination of women writers and prewar ideology, this book breaks new ground in its investigation of love as a critical aspect of Japanese culture during the early to mid-twentieth century.

Men and the Making of Modern British Feminism calls fresh attention to the forgotten but foundational contributions of men to the creation of modern British feminism.

This Perversion Called Love positions one of Japan's most canonical and best translated 20th century authors at the center of contemporary debates in feminism.

America's independent films often seem to defy classification.