Author: Jay Robert Nash
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780871313362
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 426
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A revealing survey of female criminals through the centuries includes an intriguing progression of female poisoners, kidnappers, extortionists, terrorists, swindlers and spies.
Author: Robert Burleigh
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1442481102
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 32
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Henrietta Levitt was the first person to discover the scientific importance of a star’s brightness—so why has no one heard of her? Learn all about a female pioneer of astronomy in this picture book biography with audio. Henrietta Swan Leavitt was born on July 4, 1868, and she changed the course of astronomy when she was just twenty-five years old. Henrietta spent years measuring star positions and sizes from photographs taken by the telescope at the Harvard College Observatory, where she worked. After Henrietta observed that certain stars had a fixed pattern to their changes, her discovery made it possible for astronomers to measure greater and greater distances—leading to our present understanding of the vast size of the universe. An astronomer of her time called Henrietta Leavitt “one of the most important women ever to touch astronomy,” and another close associate said she had the “best mind at the Harvard Observatory.” Henrietta Leaveitt's story will inspire young women and aspiring scientists of all kinds and includes additional information about the solar system and astronomy. This eBook edition also includes audio accompaniment.
Author: Ritu Sharma
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
ISBN: 1137464267
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 286
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As the old axiom goes: "Give a man a fish and he eats for a day. Teach a man to fish and he eats for a lifetime." But teach a woman to fish, and everyone eats for a lifetime. In this firsthand account, Ritu Sharma shares how women can, and are, overcoming the forces that keep them in poverty. She chronicles her travels through four countries—Sri Lanka, Burkina Faso, Honduras, and Nicaragua—and the intimate interactions she had with the women living there. Sharma's story not only details her experiences, but also looks at the broader systems that prevent women from leaving poverty behind. From lack of property rights and government corruption to the scarcity of basic infrastructure like roads, these women are restricted by the external limitations placed upon them. Sharma draws from her experiences to frame a larger exploration of how Americans can be instrumental in helping women break free of restrictive systems and begin to facilitate women's upward mobility. Written in her engaging personal voice, Teach a Woman to Fish provides an insider's look at women in poverty, how Washington works, and how change really happens—from the United States to the rest of the world.
Author: Janice Min
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
ISBN: 1466825324
Category : Health & Fitness
Languages : en
Pages : 240
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In 2003, as the newly named editor in chief of Us Weekly magazine, Janice Min was busy documenting a seismic cultural shift: the making of the "Hollywood Mom." Think Angelina Jolie, Victoria Beckham, Halle Berry, and Beyoncé—stars who proudly displayed their pregnancies, shed the baby weight overnight, and helped turn the once-frumpy bump industry into seriously big business. In the blink of an eye, it seemed, "skinny jeans" had replaced "mom jeans." Bugaboos had become status symbols. Motherhood itself had become an exciting style statement. And then—just eight weeks after her big promotion—Janice discovered that she was pregnant, too. "I started ogling, with morbid fascination, the photographs that flooded my office—red-carpet and paparazzi shots of celebrities in bikinis and bandage dresses mere weeks after giving birth," she writes. "I'd stare at my own ever-expanding body. Then I'd stare at Heidi Klum (who gave birth one month before my due date and managed to bounce back before I'd even hit the delivery room). How did these women do it? I wondered." How to Look Hot in a Minivan was born. With her trademark self-deprecating style and tongue-in-cheek humor, Janice set out to debunk some of Hollywood's biggest mommy myths. Then she brought together the industry's biggest experts in fitness, fashion, beauty, and all-things-baby to divulge the secrets behind the stars' seemingly effortless postpartum style. Serving up practical, honest, and often surprising advice for new moms everywhere, Janice and her arsenal of experts reveal: • The 10 Wardrobe Essentials every chic mom should own • How to style red carpet-worthy hair, even on school days • The secrets to hiding a postnatal stomach pooch • The truth behind the C-tuck (Do celebrity moms sometimes slim down courtesy of a combination cesarean section-tummy tuck?) • Hollywood's Biggest Losers (What did it really take for stars like Kate Hudson, Milla Jovovich, and Poppy Montgomery to lose the baby weight?) In How to Look Hot in a Minivan, Min dispels the idea that looking great post-pregnancy is only for the rich, the pampered, and the lucky. With Min's guilt-free, stay-sane strategies, moms everywhere can look and feel like stars—whether their baby is six months or sixteen years.
Author: Katie Lauve-Moon
Publisher:
ISBN: 019752754X
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 257
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When organizations are committed to gender equality, what gets in the way of their achieving it? How and why do well-intentioned people end up reinforcing sexism? Katie Lauve-Moon examines these questions by focusing on religious congregations that separated from their mainline denomination in order to support women's equal leadership. In Preacher Woman, Lauve-Moon concentrates on congregations affiliated with the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship (CBF). Women are enrolling in Baptist seminaries at almost equal rates as men and CBF identifies the equal leadership of women as a core component of its collective identity, yet only five percent of CBF congregations employ women as solo senior pastors. Preacher Woman explores how congregations can be committed to ideas of gender parity while still falling short in practice. Lauve-Moon investigates how institutional sexism is upheld through both unconscious and conscious biases. In doing so, she demonstrates that addressing issues of sexism and gender inequality within organizations must extend beyond good intentions and inclusive policies.
Author: Cynthia M. Bulik
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 0802719996
Category : Health & Fitness
Languages : en
Pages : 270
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The eating disorders authority and author of Crave identifies social factors that cause women to confuse body esteem with self-esteem, sharing in-depth psychological insights into the causes of body image problems to counsel readers on how to overcome self-sabotaging behaviors. Original.
Author: Jeri Cipriano
Publisher: Red Chair Press
ISBN: 1634409752
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 15
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"Wilma Rudolph wanted to run and jump like other children. But she had a serious disease that kept her leg from growing well. She did not give up and one day she became a big star, winning Olympic gold medals"--
Author: Bruce Bryans
Publisher: CreateSpace
ISBN: 9781494286804
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 98
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Discover What Quality Men Secretly Look For When Choosing "The One" A high-quality man who knows what he wants will NOT settle for just any woman to build a meaningful relationship with. Men like this want a woman who exudes high character. And though she may be beautiful on the outside, he expects her inner worth to be far superior to the women around her. Once a woman passes a man's “physical appearance” test that is specific to his personal tastes, it's her inner value (or lack thereof) that will either lose or keep his interest in her. Learning how to keep a man interested in you is as simple as figuring out what men want when it comes to choosing a partner for a long-term relationship. Sadly, many women either disqualify themselves from relationships with phenomenal men or they only seem to attract losers, players, and time-wasters because they failed to develop the inner qualities great guys actively look for in a potential wife or girlfriend. The 7 Qualities That Can Make a Man Fall Helplessly in Love With You Due to trust issues, many great guys aren't open about they need in a relationship. Because of this, many women only learn how to understand men after painful trial and error or by fighting to get a man to open up emotionally. By the time she's figured him out, the incessant conflict and misunderstanding has already taken its toll on him; making his emotional barriers even stronger than before. The faster a man trusts you on a subconscious level, the faster he'll be able to let himself go completely and fall in love with you. And there are seven qualities that are so rare and invaluable in a woman, that when a man finds a woman like this he becomes absolutely determined to KEEP her in his life. How to Find Mr. Right By Becoming Better Girlfriend Material If you want to attract and keep a high-quality man then you need to understand what men want in a woman. This short book will reveal to you what a high-quality man wants in a woman he considers girlfriend or even wife material. Although different men want VERY different things, there are certain feminine qualities that ALL commitment-able men look for when choosing a long-term mate. Only the woman who possesses these feminine qualities will find attracting men – quality men – to be both an effortless and rewarding activity. Here's what you're going to learn inside: What men want in a woman, and why being unapologetically feminine attracts the BEST kinds of men. How to get a boyfriend using an “old-school” tactic that can captivate the heart of even the most unattainable man. How to understand men and what makes them WANT to commit to a woman. How to keep a man interested in you by giving him the ONE thing he needs even MORE than SEX. (the key to how men think) How to be a good girlfriend and make him see you as “The One” by displaying a RARE quality that few women possess. How to seduce a man and make him fall in love with you again and again by using a secret weapon that EVERY woman was born with (and no…it's not what you think). How to find Mr. Right using a surefire dating technique that NATURALLY weeds out all the Mr. Wrongs, Time Wasters, and Players. How to escalate his emotional intimacy and keep your man happy (and helplessly HOOKED on you) without being a doormat. And much, much more… Would You Like to Know More? Get started right away and discover what men want in a woman and make him desperate to keep you all to himself. Scroll to the top of the page and select the 'buy button' now.
Author: Lara Feigel
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 1635570964
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 337
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A genre-defying memoir in which Lara Feigel experiments with sexual, intellectual and political freedom while reading and pursuing Doris Lessing How might we live more freely, and will we be happier or lonelier if we do? Re-reading The Golden Notebook in her thirties, shortly after Doris Lessing's death, Lara Feigel discovered that Lessing spoke directly to her as a woman, a writer, and a mother in a way that no other novelist had done. At a time when she was dissatisfied with the conventions of her own life, Feigel was enticed by Lessing's vision of freedom. Free Woman is essential reading for anyone whose life has been changed by books or has questioned the structures by which they live. Feigel tells Lessing's own story, veering between admiration and fury at the choices Lessing made. At the same time, she scrutinises motherhood, marriage and sexual relationships with an unusually acute gaze. And in the process she conducts a dazzling investigation into the joys and costs of sexual, psychological, intellectual and political freedom. This is a genre-defying book: at once a meditation on life and literature and a daring act of self-exposure.
Author: Aminder Dhaliwal
Publisher: Drawn & Quarterly
ISBN: 177046381X
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
Languages : en
Pages : 253
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THE HILARIOUS AND WILDLY POPULAR INSTAGRAM COMIC ABOUT A WORLD WITH NO MEN With her startling humor, it’s no surprise that Aminder Dhaliwal’s web comic Woman World has a devoted audience of over 120,000 readers, updated biweekly with each installment earning an average of 25,000 likes. Now, readers everywhere will delight in the print edition as Dhaliwal seamlessly incorporates feminist philosophical concerns into a series of perfectly-paced strips that skewer perceived notions of femininity and contemporary cultural icons. D+Q’s edition of Woman World will include new and previously unpublished material. When a birth defect wipes out the planet’s entire population of men, Woman World rises out of society’s ashes. Dhaliwal’s infectiously funny instagram comic follows the rebuilding process, tracking a group of women who have rallied together under the flag of “Beyonce’s Thighs.” Only Grandma remembers the distant past, a civilization of segway-riding mall cops, Blockbusters movie rental shops, and “That’s What She Said” jokes. For the most part, Woman World’s residents are focused on their struggles with unrequited love and anxiety, not to mention that whole “survival of humanity” thing. Woman World is an uproarious and insightful graphic novel from a very talented and funny new voice.
