Author: Giovanni Boccaccio
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 9780674011304
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 324
Book Description
Giovanni Boccaccio devoted the last decades of his life to compiling encyclopedic works in Latin. Among them is this text, the first collection of biographies in Western literature devoted to women.
Famous Women
Author: Giovanni Boccaccio
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 9780674011304
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 324
Book Description
Giovanni Boccaccio devoted the last decades of his life to compiling encyclopedic works in Latin. Among them is this text, the first collection of biographies in Western literature devoted to women.
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 9780674011304
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 324
Book Description
Giovanni Boccaccio devoted the last decades of his life to compiling encyclopedic works in Latin. Among them is this text, the first collection of biographies in Western literature devoted to women.
The World's Famous Women
Author: James Parton
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Women
Languages : en
Pages : 278
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Women
Languages : en
Pages : 278
Book Description
Almost Famous Women
Author: Megan Mayhew Bergman
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1476786569
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
Nearly every story in this collection is based on a woman who attained some celebrity, from Lord Byron's illegitimate daughter, Allegra, to Oscar Wilde's troubled niece, Dolly.
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1476786569
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
Nearly every story in this collection is based on a woman who attained some celebrity, from Lord Byron's illegitimate daughter, Allegra, to Oscar Wilde's troubled niece, Dolly.
World-noted Women, Or, Types of Womanly Attributes of All Lands and Ages
Author: Mary Cowden Clarke
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Women
Languages : en
Pages : 407
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Women
Languages : en
Pages : 407
Book Description
Women in Science
Author: Rachel Ignotofsky
Publisher: Crown Books for Young Readers
ISBN: 0593377648
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 29
Book Description
The groundbreaking New York Times bestseller, Women in Science by Rachel Ignotofsky, comes to the youngest readers in board format! Highlighting notable women's contributions to STEM, this board book edition features simpler text and Rachel Ignotofsky's signature illustrations reimagined for young readers to introduce the perfect role models to grow up with while inspiring a love of science. The collection includes diverse women across various scientific fields, time periods, and geographic locations. The perfect gift for every curious budding scientist!
Publisher: Crown Books for Young Readers
ISBN: 0593377648
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 29
Book Description
The groundbreaking New York Times bestseller, Women in Science by Rachel Ignotofsky, comes to the youngest readers in board format! Highlighting notable women's contributions to STEM, this board book edition features simpler text and Rachel Ignotofsky's signature illustrations reimagined for young readers to introduce the perfect role models to grow up with while inspiring a love of science. The collection includes diverse women across various scientific fields, time periods, and geographic locations. The perfect gift for every curious budding scientist!
Martha Stewart
Author: Sarah M. Wooten
Publisher: Blackbirch Press, Incorporated
ISBN: 9781567112542
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 70
Book Description
A profile of the life and accomplishments of one of the world's most successful and influential businesswomen and arbiters of home fashion and dining.
Publisher: Blackbirch Press, Incorporated
ISBN: 9781567112542
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 70
Book Description
A profile of the life and accomplishments of one of the world's most successful and influential businesswomen and arbiters of home fashion and dining.
Half the Sky
Author: Nicholas D. Kristof
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0307387097
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 322
Book Description
#1 NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A passionate call to arms against our era’s most pervasive human rights violation—the oppression of women and girls in the developing world. From the bestselling authors of Tightrope, two of our most fiercely moral voices With Pulitzer Prize winners Nicholas D. Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn as our guides, we undertake an odyssey through Africa and Asia to meet the extraordinary women struggling there, among them a Cambodian teenager sold into sex slavery and an Ethiopian woman who suffered devastating injuries in childbirth. Drawing on the breadth of their combined reporting experience, Kristof and WuDunn depict our world with anger, sadness, clarity, and, ultimately, hope. They show how a little help can transform the lives of women and girls abroad. That Cambodian girl eventually escaped from her brothel and, with assistance from an aid group, built a thriving retail business that supports her family. The Ethiopian woman had her injuries repaired and in time became a surgeon. A Zimbabwean mother of five, counseled to return to school, earned her doctorate and became an expert on AIDS. Through these stories, Kristof and WuDunn help us see that the key to economic progress lies in unleashing women’s potential. They make clear how so many people have helped to do just that, and how we can each do our part. Throughout much of the world, the greatest unexploited economic resource is the female half of the population. Countries such as China have prospered precisely because they emancipated women and brought them into the formal economy. Unleashing that process globally is not only the right thing to do; it’s also the best strategy for fighting poverty. Deeply felt, pragmatic, and inspirational, Half the Sky is essential reading for every global citizen.
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0307387097
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 322
Book Description
#1 NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A passionate call to arms against our era’s most pervasive human rights violation—the oppression of women and girls in the developing world. From the bestselling authors of Tightrope, two of our most fiercely moral voices With Pulitzer Prize winners Nicholas D. Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn as our guides, we undertake an odyssey through Africa and Asia to meet the extraordinary women struggling there, among them a Cambodian teenager sold into sex slavery and an Ethiopian woman who suffered devastating injuries in childbirth. Drawing on the breadth of their combined reporting experience, Kristof and WuDunn depict our world with anger, sadness, clarity, and, ultimately, hope. They show how a little help can transform the lives of women and girls abroad. That Cambodian girl eventually escaped from her brothel and, with assistance from an aid group, built a thriving retail business that supports her family. The Ethiopian woman had her injuries repaired and in time became a surgeon. A Zimbabwean mother of five, counseled to return to school, earned her doctorate and became an expert on AIDS. Through these stories, Kristof and WuDunn help us see that the key to economic progress lies in unleashing women’s potential. They make clear how so many people have helped to do just that, and how we can each do our part. Throughout much of the world, the greatest unexploited economic resource is the female half of the population. Countries such as China have prospered precisely because they emancipated women and brought them into the formal economy. Unleashing that process globally is not only the right thing to do; it’s also the best strategy for fighting poverty. Deeply felt, pragmatic, and inspirational, Half the Sky is essential reading for every global citizen.
A Vindication of the Rights of Woman
Author: Mary Wollstonecraft
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 0486290360
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 211
Book Description
A manifesto for women's rights stresses the need for the education of women, defines the female character, and applies the egalitarian principles of the era to women.
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 0486290360
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 211
Book Description
A manifesto for women's rights stresses the need for the education of women, defines the female character, and applies the egalitarian principles of the era to women.
Notable Women of Portland
Author: Tracy J. Prince and Zadie J. Schaffer
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
ISBN: 1467125059
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 128
Book Description
The story of Portland, Oregon, like much of history, has usually been told with a focus on male leaders. This book offers a reframing of Portland's history. Many women made their mark and radically changed the Oregon frontier, including Native Americans Polly Johnson and Josette Nouette; pioneers Minerva Carter and Charlotte Terwilliger; doctors Marie Equi, Mary Priscilla Avery Sawtelle, and Bethina Owens-Adair; artists Eliza Barchus and Lily E. White; suffragists Abigail Scott Duniway, Hattie Redmond, and Eva Emery Dye; lawyer Mary Gysin Leonard; Air Force pilot Hazel Ying Lee; politicians Barbara Roberts and Margaret Carter; and authors Frances Fuller Victor, Beverly Cleary, Beatrice Morrow Cannady, Ursula Le Guin, and Jean Auel. These women, along with groups of women such as "Wendy the Welders," made Portland what it is today.
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
ISBN: 1467125059
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 128
Book Description
The story of Portland, Oregon, like much of history, has usually been told with a focus on male leaders. This book offers a reframing of Portland's history. Many women made their mark and radically changed the Oregon frontier, including Native Americans Polly Johnson and Josette Nouette; pioneers Minerva Carter and Charlotte Terwilliger; doctors Marie Equi, Mary Priscilla Avery Sawtelle, and Bethina Owens-Adair; artists Eliza Barchus and Lily E. White; suffragists Abigail Scott Duniway, Hattie Redmond, and Eva Emery Dye; lawyer Mary Gysin Leonard; Air Force pilot Hazel Ying Lee; politicians Barbara Roberts and Margaret Carter; and authors Frances Fuller Victor, Beverly Cleary, Beatrice Morrow Cannady, Ursula Le Guin, and Jean Auel. These women, along with groups of women such as "Wendy the Welders," made Portland what it is today.
Great Men and Famous Women
Author: Charles Francis Horne
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Biography
Languages : en
Pages : 566
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Biography
Languages : en
Pages : 566
Book Description