Women & Power - A Manifesto (Beard Professor Mary)(Paperback / softback)

Women & Power - A Manifesto (Beard Professor Mary)(Paperback / softback)

A year on from the allegations against Harvey Weinstein and the beginnings of #metoo movement Mary Beard revisits the gender agenda with new material on rape, consent and how the discussion has moved

Ženy a moc - Mary Beard

Krátký feministický manifest od oceňované autorky Mary Beard, ve kterém pátrá po kořenech misogynie od antické mytologie až po současnost. Anotace: Profesorka antické literatury Mary Beardová je britské veřejnosti dobře známá, vedle akademické práce se věnuje také populárně

Parthenon (Beard Professor Mary)(Paperback / softback)

The ruined silhouette of the Parthenon on its hill above Athens is one of the world's most famous images. Its 'looted' Elgin Marbles are a global cause celebre. But what actually are they? This work tells the history and explains the significance of the Parthenon, the temple of the virgin goddess

All in a Don's Day (Beard Professor Mary)(Paperback / softback)

Lets you share the author's 'terror of humiliation' as she enters 'hairdresser country' and follow her dilemma as she wanders through the quandary of illegible handwriting on examination papers and 'longing for the next dyslexic' - on whose paper the answers are typed, not

Confronting the Classics - Traditions, Adventures and Innovations (Beard Professor Mary)(Paperback / softback)

Explores our rich classical heritage - from Greek drama to Roman jokes, introducing some larger-than-life characters of history, such as Alexander the Great, and Nero. The author invites you into the places where Greeks and Romans lived and died, from the palace at Knossos to Cleopatra's Alexandria

Pompeii - The Life of a Roman Town (Beard Professor Mary)(Paperback / softback)

Contains chapters that include Street Life, Earning a Living: Baker, Banker and Garum Maker (who ran the city), and The Pleasure of the Body: Food, Wine, Sex and Baths. This book offers an insight into the workings of a Roman

Pompeii - The Life of a Roman Town (Beard Professor Mary)(Paperback / softback)

'The world's most controversial classicist debunks our movie-style myths about the Roman town with meticulous scholarship and propulsive energy - scrutinising and animated in equal measure' Laura Silverman, Daily

Mary Tudor - England's First Queen (Whitelock Professor Anna)(Paperback / softback)

We: A Manifesto for Women Everywhere (Anderson Gillian)(Paperback)

Urgent and provocative, We: A Manifesto for Women Everwhere is 'part self-help, part social theory, centered in the idea that instead of having it 'all, ' women can live happier, better lives by becoming more free' (Glamour), from longtime friends Gillian Anderson and Jennifer Nadel. We: A

Think Like a Breadwinner - How Women Can Earn More (and Worry Less) (Barrett Jennifer)(Paperback / softback)

Think Like a Breadwinner is an inspiring and practical feminist manifesto for working women looking to secure their financial futures and maximize their

S.P.Q.R: A History of Ancient Rome (Beard Mary)(Paperback)

In SPQR, an instant classic, Mary Beard narrates the history of Rome 'with passion and without technical jargon' and demonstrates how 'a slightly shabby Iron Age village' rose to become the 'undisputed hegemon of the Mediterranean' (Wall Street Journal). Hailed by critics as animating 'the grand

Communist Manifesto (Marx Karl)(Paperback / softback)

Communist Manifesto (Karl Marx)(Paperback / softback)

Hattie's Home (Gibson Mary)(Paperback / softback)

Three very different women struggle against incredible hardship in post-war South

Professor (Bronte Charlotte)(Paperback / softback)

Hillsborough - The Truth (Scraton Professor Phil)(Paperback / softback)

An account of the disaster in which 96 men, women and children were killed, hundreds injured and thousands traumatised. It details the appalling treatment endured by the bereaved and survivors in the immediate aftermath, the inhumanity of the identification process and the vilification of fans in

Birth Matters - A Midwife's Manifesta (Gaskin Ina May)(Paperback / softback)

Ina May Gaskin asserts that the way in which women become mothers is a women's rights issue, and it is perhaps the act that most powerfully exhibits what it is to be instinctually human. Birth Matters is a spirited manifesta showing us how to trust women, value birth, and reconcile modern life with

Eat Sweat Play - How Sport Can Change Our Lives (Kessel Anna)(Paperback / softback)

Part manifesto, part how-to, Eat Sweat Play is a hugely inspirational call to arms for women to take back sport for

It's a Don's Life (Beard Mary)(Paperback)

Mary Beard's by now famous blog A Don's Life has been running on the TLS website for nearly three years. In it she has made her name as a wickedly subversive commentator on the world in which we live. Her central themes are the classics, universities and teaching - and much else besides. What are

Work Like a Woman - A Manifesto For Change (Portas Mary (Author))(Paperback / softback)

'There aren't many books that can claim to change your life, but this one will.' Clare Balding'A force for good, for

Dear Professor Whale (Iwasa Megumi)(Paperback / softback)

Salacia (Dunning Mari Ellis)(Paperback / softback)

In these poems, women raise their voices and subvert the age-old tales told on their

Straight Talking Introduction to the Power Threat Meaning Framework - An alternative to psychiatric diagnosis (Boyle Mary)(Paperback / softback)

War On Heresy - Faith and Power in Medieval Europe (Moore Professor R. I.)(Paperback / softback)

A passionate history of the war on heresy which dominated medieval