The Youth of Early Modern Women (Cohen Elizabeth Storr)(Pevná vazba)

The Youth of Early Modern Women (Cohen Elizabeth Storr)(Pevná vazba)

1. an emphasis on the period of youth between childhood and adulthood as a distinct stage for early modern women in broad range of social and geographical settings 2. European cultural constructions of female youth through literary and visual representations, and material culture Medieval, European

Women of the Foreign Office: Britain's First Female Ambassadors (Warburton Elizabeth)(Pevná vazba)

Since the suffrage campaigns in the early twentieth century, the advancement of women's rights in the UK has been nonstop. Proponents of the cause have aimed for equality across all sectors: personal and civil rights, employment rights, equal pay - and yet Britain's first official female ambassador

Women, Credit, and Debt in Early Modern Scotland (Spence Cathryn)(Pevná vazba)

This text provides the first full-length consideration of women's economic roles in early modern Scottish towns. Drawing on tens of thousands of cases entered into burgh court litigation between 1560 and 1640 in Edinburgh, Dundee, Haddington and Linlithgow, Women, credit and debt explores how

Elizabeth I: The Making of a Queen (Brennan Laura)(Pevná vazba)

This looks at the key women how they affected Elizabeth I from her mother and Anne Bolyen, to the fate of Lady Jane Grey and the reign (and failures) of her sister Mary I.Elizabeth I is arguably one of the greatest monarchs and women of English history. Against an uncertain political and religious

Writings on Art 1980-2005: By Robert Storr (Storr Robert)(Pevná vazba)

The first collection of essays by one of America's decisive and most lucid critical voicesFollowing on from the much-lauded Robert Storr: Interviews on Art, Heni presents the first in a two-volume publication featuring the collected writings of Robert Storr, one of the world's leading art critics

Den (Maxwell Abi)(Pevná vazba)

A hypnotic story of youth, sex and power, and of two women cast out by the same community though separated by a hundred

From Women to the World: Letters for a New Century (Filippouli Elizabeth)(Pevná vazba)

Modern Women - 52 Pioneers (Cochrane Kira)(Pevná vazba)

Modern Women is a celebration of influential and inspiring women who have changed the world through their lives, work and actions. From suffragettes to scientists, activists to artists, politicians to pilots and writers to riot grrrls, the women included have all paved the way for gender equality

Inky Fingers: The Making of Books in Early Modern Europe (Grafton Anthony)(Pevná vazba)

Flame (Cohen Leonard)(Pevná vazba)

The final collection of poetry from the world's greatest lyricist Leonard Cohen, introduced by his son Adam

Inexcusabiles: Salvation and the Virtues of the Pagans in the Early Modern Period (Frigo Alberto)(Pevná vazba)

Nothing's Bad Luck: The Lives of Warren Zevon (Kushins C. M.)(Pevná vazba)

Biography of legendary singer-songwriter Warren Zevon, spanning his nomadic youth and early recording career to his substance abuse, final album, and posthumous Grammy

Women Philosophers of the Early Modern Period (Atherton Margaret)(Paperback / softback)

Imagining Ireland's Pasts: Early Modern Ireland Through the Centuries (Canny Nicholas)(Pevná vazba)

Imagining Ireland's Pasts describes how various authors addressed the history of early modern Ireland over four centuries and explains why they could not settle on an agreed narrative. It shows how conflicting interpretations broke frequently along denominational lines, but that authors were also

The Swamp (Tsuge Yoshiharu)(Pevná vazba)

The essential early work by the modern master of Japanese literary comicsYoshiharu Tsuge is one of the most influential and acclaimed practitioners of literary comics in Japan. The Swamp collects work from his early years, showing a major talent coming into his own. Bucking the tradition of mystery

The Opened Letter: Networking in the Early Modern British World (O'Neill Lindsay)(Pevná vazba)

By the early eighteenth century, the rapid expansion of the British empire had created a technological problem: communication and networking became increasingly vital yet harder to maintain. As colonial possessions and populations grew and more individuals moved around the globe, Britons both at

The Essence of Success (Nightingale Earl)(Pevná vazba)

Bauhaus Women: A Global Perspective (Roessler Elizabeth Otto & Patrick)(Pevná vazba)

The Printing Revolution in Early Modern Europe (Eisenstein Elizabeth L.)(Paperback)

In 1979 Elizabeth Eisenstein provided the first full-scale treatment of the fifteenth-century printing revolution in the West in her monumental two-volume work, The Printing Press as an Agent of Change. This abridged edition, after summarising the initial changes introduced by the establishment of

Women in Abstraction - Christine Macel, Karolina Lewandowska

An exploration of the fundamental role played by women in the development of abstract art With a few notable exceptions, the fundamental role that women played in the development of abstract art has long been underestimated, and their work has not received the same critical attention as that of

Circus of Wonders (Macneal Elizabeth)(Pevná vazba)

The spellbinding novel from Elizabeth Macneal, author of the Sunday Times bestselling The Doll

The Remarkable Women of the Bible (George Elizabeth)(Paperback)

In this inspiring look at the lives of women in the Bible, bestselling author Elizabeth George reveals refreshing models of faith for today. Stories about Eve, Deborah, Sarah, Ruth, Mary, and other women from Scripture offer testimonies of changed lives and reflections on the remarkable strengths

The Doctrine of Triangles: A History of Modern Trigonometry (Van Brummelen Glen)(Pevná vazba)

An interdisciplinary history of trigonometry from the mid-sixteenth century to the early twentieth The Doctrine of Triangles offers an interdisciplinary history of trigonometry that spans four centuries, starting in 1550 and concluding in the 1900s. Glen Van Brummelen tells the story of

Florence Under Siege: Surviving Plague in an Early Modern City (Henderson John)(Pevná vazba)

A vivid recreation of how the governors and governed of early seventeenth-century Florence confronted, suffered, and survived a major epidemic of plague Plague remains the paradigm against which reactions to many epidemics are often judged. Here, John Henderson examines how a major city fought,