If countless books and movies are to be believed, Americas Wild West was, at heart, a world of cowboys and Indians, sheriffs and gunslingers, scruffy settlers and mountain mena mans world.
A New Yorker Best Book of the YearA Foreign Affairs Best Book of the YearAn Atlantic Best Book of the YearA Financial Times Best Politics Book of the YearHow a new breed of dictators holds power by manipulating information and faking democracyHitler, Stalin, and Mao ruled through violence, fear, and ideology.
Spirit-filled devotionals, written by women for women, from the editors of Daily Guideposts, America's favorite devotional for more than 40 years365 Spirit-Lifting Devotions for Women forms a tapestry of life's emotions - joy and laughter, heartache and healing, lessons to be savored and explored.
A Sunday Times Book of the Year As featured on the BBC Radio 2 Book Club Dr James Barry: Inspector General of Hospitals, army surgeon, duellist, reformer, ladykiller, eccentric.
The first in-depth look at Stael's political life and writingsGermaine de Stael (1766-1817) is perhaps best known today as a novelist, literary critic, and outspoken and independent thinker.
This collection of short, action-filled stories of the Old West's most egregiously badly behaved female outlaws, gamblers, soiled-doves, and other wicked women by offers a glimpse into Western Women's experience that's less sunbonnets and more six-shooters.
Aware that her youth is slipping by, Mary Beth Baptiste decides to escape her lackluster, suburban life in coastal Massachusetts to pursue her lifelong dream of being a Rocky Mountain woodswoman.
At the start of the 1940s, Montanacowgirl Nettie Brady Moser has overcome seemingly insurmountable obstacles on the journey toward her dream of being a professional rodeo rider.
The quotable Ai WeiweiThis collection of quotes demonstrates the elegant simplicity of Ai Weiwei's thoughts on key aspects of his art, politics, and life.
Written by a pioneer in the field of Middle Eastern women's history, Women in the Middle East is a concise, comprehensive, and authoritative history of the lives of the region's women since the rise of Islam.
In the decade following World War I, nineteenth-century womanhood came under attack not only from feminists but also from innumerable "e;ordinary"e; young women determined to create "e;modern"e; lives for themselves.
Since the mid-2000s, public opinion and debate in China have become increasingly common and consequential, despite the ongoing censorship of speech and regulation of civil society.
Much of what we know about life in the medieval Islamic Middle East comes from texts written to impart religious ideals or to chronicle the movements of great men.
The striking fact that abortion was among the first issues raised, after 1989, by almost all of the newly formed governments of East Central Europe points to the significance of gender and reproduction in the postsocialist transformations.
God is omnipresentmeaning He's here, there, everywhere all at the same timeso no matter what you're going through today or worried about facing tomorrow, He is closer than you can imagine, and His presence changes everything.
In this powerful work, Susan Friedman moves feminist theory out of paralyzing debates about us and them, white and other, first and third world, and victimizers and victims.
Complete with historic photographs and actual advertisements from both women seeking husbands and males seeking brides,Object Matrimony includes stories of courageous mail order brides and their exploits as well as stories of the marriage brokers, mercenary matchmakerslooking to profit as merchants did off of the miners and settlers.
A partir de la búsqueda y el relato de algunas personas, que se animaron a compartir su perspectiva personal sobre algún problema en el desarrollo, abrimos un diálogo entre la vida cotidiana y la ciencia.
Con este libro, Nicolas Bourriaud busca contribuir al surgimiento de una estética inclusiva que requiera un aprendizaje de la mirada finalmente descentrada, en el seno de un universo plurivalente, donde se incluya a los no humanos.
¿Se puede denunciar a la policía a una paciente que acude al hospital buscando ayuda médica en una emergencia (por ejemplo, con un aborto en curso) porque alguien entiende que esa paciente cometió un delito?
