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Barbie Book of Joy

Be More Barbie! For generations, Barbie has inspired women around the world. From the first Barbie doll released in 1959 to the pop-culture moment and huge box office success of the Barbie movie in 2023. She has been a doctor, a lawyer, a pilot, an astronaut, even a president! With so much experience, she's learnt a lot along the way and is ready to s...

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Barbie Book of Joy

<p>Be More Barbie! For generations, Barbie has inspired women around the world. From the first Barbie doll released in 1959 to the pop-culture moment and huge box office success of the Barbie movie in 2023. She has been a doctor, a lawyer, a pilot, an astronaut, even a president! With so much experience, she's learnt a lot along the way and is r...

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Trial of the Sun Queen - Nisha J. Tuli

<p>The Bachelor meets The Hunger Games. Ten women. A deadly contest. Only one can win the Sun King's heart. Lor has endured twelve long years of torment under the Aurora King's rule. Her only desire is to get free and pay him back for every moment of misery she's endured. When a surprise release finds her in the hands of the Sun King, Lor is thrust into the spotli...

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Quaker Women

Written by a respected and pioneering historian of women, this book focuses on specific case studies of the lives of individual Quaker women and uses

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Silent Women

The first book to give overview of early women film-makers in the USA. Essential reading for students of film studies, media, culture and gender/women

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Roman Women

This book examines the daily lives of Roman women by focusing on the mundane and less celebrated aspects of daily life - family and household, work an

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Trojan Women

This new comic-book version of EuripidesÂ’ classic The Trojan Women follows the fates of Hekabe, Andromache and Kassandra after Troy has been sacked a

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Globalizing Women

This book is an important addition to literature exploring feminism as well as to the broader discussion of the impact of transnational social movemen

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Strong Women

Recounting how women have not only fought their way into the world of sport but to the top of their game, this book explores the trials and triumphs t

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Homeworking Women

This book contributes a gender-justice approach as a new perspective to analyse and confront the issues and problems of homework.

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Lost Women

Detective Inspector Stanley Low returns in the 4th book of the popular Inspector Low series. Belligerent, bipolar and brilliant. A Chinese-Singapore

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As a Men Thinketh - James Allen

This little volume (the result of meditation and experience) is not intended as an exhaustive treatise on the much-written-upon subject of the power of thought. It is suggestive rather than explanatory, its object being to stimulate men and women to the discovery and perception of the truth that- "They themselves are makers of themselves" by virtue of the thoughts which t...

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Women - neuveden

Anotace: Re-examining history from a female perspective, this book celebrates the numerous important roles women have played in culture and society that are less often told. Packed full of evocative images, this gloriously illustrated book reveals the key events in women`s history - from early matriarchal societies through women`s suffrage, the Suffragette movement, 20th...

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The Tenant of Wildfell Hall - Bronteová Anne

Anotace: One of the BBC`s `100 Novels That Shaped Our World`The Penguin English Library Edition of The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Anne Bronte`She looked so like herself that I knew not how to bear it`In this sensational, hard-hitting and passionate tale of marital cruelty, The Tenant of Wildfell Hall sees a mysterious tenant, Helen Graham, unmasked not as a `wicked woman...

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Bringing Down the Duke: swoony, feminist and romantic, perfect for fans of Bridgerton - Evie Dunmore

<p>'I have read the future of historical romance, and it's Evie Dunmore' Eva Leigh, author of Dare to Love a Duke Oxford, 1879. A beautiful bluestocking is about to teach a duke a lesson . . .Brilliant but destitute Annabelle Archer is one of the first female students at Oxford University. In return for her scholarship, she must recruit influential men to champion t...

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Invisible Women

Anotace: Imagine a world where your phone is too big for your hand, where your doctor prescribes a drug that is wrong for your body, where in a car accident you are 47% more likely to be seriously injured, where every week the countless hours of work you do are not recognised or valued. If any of this sounds familiar, chances are that you're a woman. Invisible Wom...

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The Penguin Book of Korean Short Stories - Fulton Bruce

Anotace: This eclectic, moving and wonderfully enjoyable collection is the essential introduction to Korean literature. Journeying through Korea`s dramatic twentieth century, from the Japanese occupation and colonial era to the devastating war between North and South and the rapid, disorienting urbanization of later decades, The Penguin Book of Korean Short Stories captu...

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The Bandit Queens: Longlisted for the Women´s Prize for Fiction 2023 - Shroff Parini

Anotace: Longlisted for the Women`s Prize for Fiction 2023A BBC Radio 2 Book Club Pick 2023`Not since Aravind Adiga`s The White Tiger has the rotten core of modern India been exposed in quite such blackly antic fashion as Parini Shroff manages here in this intermittently absurd, feminist revenge caper about a group of snarky, much-abused, predominantly Hindu wives...shee...

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Book of Form and Emptiness

Winner of the Women's Prize, this is a brilliantly inventive novel about loss, growing up and our relationship with things

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Demon Copperhead: Longlisted for the Women´s Prize for Fiction 2023 - Kingsolver Barbara

Anotace: A masterpiece in storytelling from the global bestselling author of Unsheltered and Flight Behaviour.LONGLISTED FOR THE WOMEN`S PRIZETHE MULTI-MILLION COPY SELLING AUTHORBOOK AT BEDTIME ON BBC RADIO 4AN OPRAH BOOK CLUB PICKWITH OVER 18,000 5* REVIEWS`Extraordinary.` OPRAH`She means to save us by telling us stories. . . She comes closer than anyone else I know.` ...

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Marya Khan and the Awesome Adventure Park (Marya Khan #4)

Perfect for fans of Ivy a Bean and Stella Diaz, this charming chapter book series by the author of the successful Yasmin series follows a Pakistani Am

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Big Book of Socks, The

Features 75 patterns for knitting socks for children, men and women. This title features designs for different ages, abilities and tastes, from stripy

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Little Black Book of Stories

Leaves rustle underfoot in a dark wood: two middle-aged women walk into a forest, as they did when they were girls, confronting their fears and memori

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Diary of a Wimpy Kid 18: No Brainer - Kinney Jeff

Anotace: In No Brainer, book 18 of the Diary of a Wimpy Kid series from #1 international bestselling author Jeff Kinney, it's up to Greg to save his school before it's shuttered for good. Up until now, middle school hasn't exactly been a joyride for Greg Heffley. So when the town threatens to close the crumbling building, he's not too broken up about...

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Diary of an Awesome Friendly Kid: Rowley Jefferson's Journal - Jeff Kinney

Anotace: Hi my name is Rowley Jefferson and this is my book. Now I have a diary just like my friend Greg... Rowley's best friend Greg Heffley has chronicled his middle-school years in thirteen Diary of a Wimpy Kid journals. Now it's Rowley's turn to give his side of the story. But Rowley has agreed to tell Greg's story along the way, too. (After all, Greg says one day ...

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The Wisteria Society of Lady Scoundrels - Holton India

Anotace: Cecilia Bassingwaite belongs to The Wisteria Society of Lady Scoundrels.Yet this is no ordinary Victorian lady`s society . . .Full of pirates, thieves and ne`er-do-wells, these women spend their days pickpocketing and blackmailing their way around the country all before their afternoon tea.But when Cecilia meets Ned Lightbourne her world is set to change forever...

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History of Women's Lives in Liverpool

This new book looks at the diversity and vibrancy of women's lives in Liverpool.

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Optical Illusions 2: Make Your Own Awesome Illusions

<p>Explore, interact with, and make your own stunning illusions. Get ready to be amazed by an array of mind-boggling illusions, and even recreate them using the materials in the book.</p> <p>Optical Illusions 2 showcases some of the finest visual puzzles ranging from the classical pattern-based illusions and ambiguous drawings to modern 3D masterpieces. ...

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Barbie Book of Joy - neuveden

Anotace: Be More Barbie! For generations, Barbie has inspired women around the world. From the first Barbie doll released in 1959 to the pop-culture moment and huge box office success of the Barbie movie in 2023. She has been a doctor, a lawyer, a pilot, an astronaut, even a president! With so much experience, she`s learnt a lot along the way and is re...

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Sexual Harassment of Women at Workplaces

This book seeks to impart comprehensive understanding of the psychological and social impact of sexual harassment.

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The League of Extraordinarily Funny Women

A must-have book for every woman looking for inspiration and empowerment, The League of Extraordinarily Funny Women celebrates 50 of the greatest wome

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Last Women of the Durham Coalfield

The final book charting the true family history of a Durham coal-mining family, which started in the 1830s

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Home

Winner of the Women's Prize for Fiction

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Psychoanalytic Explorations of What Women Want Today

In this book, international psychoanalytic writers address the question ‘What do Women Want Today?’ from a variety of lenses, bringing into focus th

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Women’s History of the World

Men dominate history because they write it. This book offers a reappraisal which aims to re-establish women's importance at the centre of the worldwid

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Lives of Circumcised and Veiled Women

The book unravels the politics of representation and the process of exoticizing womenÂ’s bodies through the prism of external gaze and knowledge produ

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Men and Women of the Corporation

Containing a new introduction, this book on corporate power offers a theory of the effects of power and powerlessness within the corporation. The theo

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Substantive Representation of Women in Asian Parliaments

Combining data from nearly 100 interviews with members of parliament from ten Asian countries, the contributors to this book analyse and evaluate the

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Ancient Women Writers of Greece and Rome

This book studies the extant writings of major female authors from the Greco-Roman world together for the first time in a single volume, featuring ori

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Ancient Women Writers of Greece and Rome

This book studies the extant writings of major female authors from the Greco-Roman world together for the first time in a single volume, featuring ori

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Lived Experience of African American Women Mentors

This book explores the lived experiences of six African American female mentors working with African American female youth. Through philosophical and

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Voices of Women in Witchcraft Trials

Women come to the fore in witchcraft trials as accused persons or as witnesses, and this book is a study of womenÂ’s voices in these trials in eight c

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Legal Protection of Women From Violence

This book critically analyses the UN system and three regional human rights systems as well as address the current gap in Asia in relation to this iss

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Stars of Women’s Soccer

Just in time for the Tokyo Olympics - a photo-packed guide to todayÂ’s most exciting players. This lively book features short biographies of twenty-ei

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Our Red Book

A collection of interviews, essays and illustrations from people around the world - women, men, non-binary and trans - about first periods, last perio

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Men Are From Mars, Women Are From Venus Book Of Days

There's no doubt about it; the relationship between men and women is extremely complex. This title includes comforting and helpful advise on: giving a

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Star Trek: My First Book of Space

Go where no board book has gone before with this cosmically awesome exploration of our solar system - and beyond!

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A Woman of Pleasure - Murata Kiyoko

Anotace: `Only Kiyoko Murata can convey this world` YOKO OGAWA, author of The Memory Police, Yomiuri ShibunThe year is 1903, and tenacious and spirited Aoi Ichi is sold to the most exclusive brothel in Kumamoto, Japan, becoming the protegee of Shinonome, the oiran, or the highest-ranking courtesan.Through Shinonome`s teachings, fifteen-year-old Ichi begins to understand ...

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Algebraist

A stunning new reissue edition of The Algebraist - a space opera of stunning power and awesome imagination, from the modern master of science fiction,

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Feersum Endjinn

A stunning new reissue edition of Feersum Endjinn - a space opera of stunning power and awesome imagination, from the modern master of science fiction

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Against A Dark Background

A stunning new reissue edition of Against a Dark Background - a space opera of stunning power and awesome imagination, from the modern master of scien

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Hydrogen Sonata

A stunning new reissue edition of The Hydrogen Sonata - a space opera of stunning power and awesome imagination, from the modern master of science fic

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Surface Detail

A stunning new reissue edition of Surface Detail - a space opera of stunning power and awesome imagination, from the modern master of science fiction,

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Matter

A stunning new reissue edition of Matter - a space opera of stunning power and awesome imagination, from the modern master of science fiction, Iain M.

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Excession

A stunning new reissue edition of Excession - a space opera of stunning power and awesome imagination, from the modern master of science fiction, Iain

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Consider Phlebas

A stunning new reissue edition of Consider Phlebas - a space opera of stunning power and awesome imagination, from the modern master of science fictio

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Look To Windward

A stunning new reissue edition of Look to Windward - a space opera of stunning power and awesome imagination, from the modern master of science fictio

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Inversions

A stunning new reissue edition of Inversions - a space opera of stunning power and awesome imagination, from the modern master of science fiction, Iai

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Hindu Bard: The Poetry Of Dorothy Bonarjee (welsh Women's Classics Book 34

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Little Book of What Men Don't Understand About Women

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