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Normal Women
FROM THE MULTI-MILLION BESTSELLING HISTORICAL NOVELIST COMES THE CULMINATION OF HER LIFE'S WORK.Normal Women is a radical reframing of our nation's story, told not with the rise and fall of kings and the occasional queen, but through social and cultural transition, showing the agency, persistence, and effectiveness of women in society - from 1066 to modern times.Did women do nothing to shape England's culture and traditions during nine centuries of political turmoil, plague, famine, prosperity, religious reform? Philippa Gregory answers this question by telling stories of the soldiers, guild widows, highwaywomen, pirates, miners and ship owners, international traders, theatre impresarios, social campaigners and 'female husbands' who did much to build the fabric of our society and in ways as diverse and varied as the women themselves.This is not another book about heroines. Instead, it is a book about millions of women, not just three or four. The 'normal women' you meet in these pages rode in jousts, flew Spitfires, issued their own currency and built ships, corn mills and houses as part of their daily lives.
They went to war, tilled the fields, campaigned, wrote and loved. They committed crimes, or treason, worshipped many types of gods, cooked and nursed, invented things and rioted. A lot.A landmark work of scholarship and storytelling, this is a history not a call to action.
It looks back at facts and the past lives of some 50% of the population without the judgmental eyes of the present. It cannot be a celebratory account about women's 'rise' because women are not equal yet. But by highlighting the drive, ingenuity and vast contribution made, it puts women back where they belong in our history - centre stage.
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Fix the System, Not the Women
10 years after founding the Everyday Sexism Project, feminist writer and activist Laura Bates connects the dots between the 'isolated incidents' of violence against women and the institutional and systemic misogyny that is so deeply ingrained in our society. Every three days in the UK, women are murdered by their current or former partners. 137 women worldwide are killed by a family member every day.These are not isolated incidents. They are part of a devastatingly clear pattern. But it is a pattern we are so used to seeing that we simply don't notice it anymore.These incidents are the product of a society in which misogyny is so deeply ingrained that it has simply become part of our daily lives. This book will lay these patterns bare for everyone to see. Joining the dots from an epidemic of school sexual violence to the failings of the police and CPS, institutional and systemic misogyny, political apathy and media distortion, this will be an examination of how the entire system lets women and girls down, again and again.In Isolated Incidents, Laura puts forward her own bold and ambitious solution for combating misogyny and violence against women - one that includes structural change and tackles institutionalised prejudice. Enough is enough.
Too often, we blame women. For walking home alone at night. For not demanding a seat at the table. For not overcoming the odds that are stacked against them.
This distracts us from the real problem: the failings and biases of a society that was not built for women. In this explosive book, feminist writer and activist Laura Bates exposes the systemic prejudice at the heart of five of our key institutions.
Education
Politics
Media
Policing
Criminal justice
Combining stories with shocking evidence, Fix the System, Not the Women is a blazing examination of sexual injustice and a rallying cry for reform.
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Little Women: The Sisterhood
Including an introduction from writer and feminist activist Scarlett Curtis, curator of Sunday Times Bestseller Feminists Don't Wear Pink.
Meet the March Sisters:
* Meg is the eldest and on the brink of love.
* Then there's tomboy Jo who longs to be a writer.
* Sweet-natured Beth always puts others first
* Finally there's Amy, the youngest and most precocious.
Even though money is short, times are tough and their father is away at war, their infectious sense of fun sweeps everyone up in their adventures - including Laurie, the boy next door.
And through sisterly squabbles and tragic losses, the sisters discover that growing up is sometimes very hard to do.
The Sisterhood collection celebrates the best-loved classics, written by some of the best female authors in history for International Women's Day. Read the rest of the collection:
The Railway Children
Heidi
Pride and Prejudice
A Little Princess
Anne of the Green Gables
Women Who Run with Wolves: Myths and Stories of the Wild Woman Archetype
Within every woman there is a wild and natural creature, a powerful force, filled with good instincts, passionate creativity, and ageless knowing. Her name is Wild Woman, but she is an endangered species. Though the gifts of wildish nature come to us at birth, society's attempt to "civilize" us into rigid roles has plundered this treasure, and muffled the deep, life-giving messages of our own souls. Without Wild Woman, we become over-domesticated, fearful, uncreative, trapped. Clarissa Pinkola Estes, Ph.D., Jungian analyst and cantadora storyteller, shows how woman's vitality can be restored through what she calls "psychic archeological digs" into the bins of the female unconscious. In Women Who Run with the Wolves, Dr. Estes uses multicultural myths, fairy tales, folk tales, and stories chosen from over twenty years of research that help women reconnect with the healthy, instinctual, visionary attributes of the Wild Woman archetype. Dr. Estes collects the bones of many stories, looking for the archetypal motifs that set a woman's inner life into motion. "La Loba" teaches about the transformative function of the psyche. In "Bluebeard," we learn what to do with wounds that will not heal; in "Skeleton Woman," we glimpse the mystical power of relationship and how dead feelings can be revived; "Vasalisa the Wise" brings our lost womanly instincts to the surface again; "The Handless Maiden" recovers the Wild Woman initiation rites; and "The Little Match Girl" warns against the insidious dangers of a life spent in fantasy. In these and other stories, we focus on the many qualities of Wild Woman. We retrieve, examine, love, and understand her, and hold her against our deep psyches as one whois both magic and medicine. In Women Who Run with the Wolves, Dr. Estes has created a new lexicon for describing the female psyche. Fertile and lifegiving, it is a psychology of women in the truest sense, a knowing of the soul.
Little Women
Egyszerűsített olvasmány angol nyelven. Hasznos segítség a nyelvtanulásban. A kötet 4. nehézségi fokozatú, az olvasásához kb. 1400 szavas szókincs szükséges.
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Lacná kniha Breaking Ground - Architecture by Women (-50%)
A ground-breaking visual survey of architecture designed by women from the early twentieth century to the present day
'Would they still call me a diva if I were a man?' asked Zaha Hadid, challenging as she did so more than a century of stereotypes about female architects. In the same spirited approach, Breaking Ground is a pioneering visual manifesto of more than 200 incredible buildings designed by women all over the world. Featuring twentieth-century icons such as Julia Morgan, Eileen Gray and Lina Bo Bardi, and the best contemporary talent, from Kazuyo Sejima to Elizabeth Diller and Grafton Architects, this book is, above all else, a ground-breaking celebration of extraordinary architecture.
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Washington Dinah - Great Women Of Song: Dinah Washington LP
Dinah Washington (29. august 1924 – 14. december 1963) bola americká speváčka a klaviristka, jedna z najpopulárnejších čiernych speváčok 50. rokov. Predovšetkým jazzová speváčka, vystupovala a nahrávala v širokej škále štýlov vrátane blues, R&B a tradičnej populárnej hudby a dala si titul „Queen of the Blues“. V roku 1986 bola uvedená do Alabamskej jazzovej siene slávy a v roku 1993 bola uvedená do rokenrolovej siene slávy.
Tracklist:
01. What A Difference A Day Made
02. It's Magic
03. I Can't Believe That You're In Love With Me
04. Baby You've Got What It Takes
05. I Get A Kick Out Of You
06. September In The Rain
07. This Bitter Earth
08. Teach Me Tonight
09. Smoke Gets In Your Eyes
10. Cry Me A River
11. Mad About The Boy
12. After You've Gone
13. Is You Or Is You Ain't My Baby?
14. A Rockin' Good Way (To Mess Around And Fall In Love)
Kde sú ženy? Where are women?
Publikácia Kde sú ženy? vznikla pri príležitosti rovnomennej výstavy, ktorá bola uskutočnená na prelome rokov 21/22 v GMB. Autorka Patrícia Ballx, kurátorka GMB, v nej mapuje ženskú tvorbu zo zbierok grafik slovenských galérií od pol. 17. st. do pol 19. st. a poukazuje na postavenie žien v dejinách umenia, možnosti ich umeleckého školenia a okolnosti tvorby. Prvýkrát spracováva a predstavuje verejnosti uvedenú tému s prezentáciou unikátnych diel zo zbierky starej kresby a grafiky GMB. Publikácia je v bilingválnom prevedení.
Little Women - Secondary Level 2 + CD
Little Women tells the story of four sisters, Meg, Jo, Beth and Amy March growing up in nineteenth-century America. Born into a poor but loving family, the girls must overcome personal difficulties and challenges to find self-fulfillment and happiness.
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Washington Dinah - Great Women Of Song: Dinah Washington CD
Dinah Washington (29. august 1924 – 14. december 1963) bola americká speváčka a klaviristka, jedna z najpopulárnejších čiernych speváčok 50. rokov. Predovšetkým jazzová speváčka, vystupovala a nahrávala v širokej škále štýlov vrátane blues, R&B a tradičnej populárnej hudby a dala si titul „Queen of the Blues“. V roku 1986 bola uvedená do Alabamskej jazzovej siene slávy a v roku 1993 bola uvedená do rokenrolovej siene slávy.
Tracklist:
01. What A Difference A Day Made
02. It's Magic
03. I Can't Believe That You're In Love With Me
04. Baby You've Got What It Takes
05. I Get A Kick Out Of You
06. September In The Rain
07. This Bitter Earth
08. Teach Me Tonight
09. Smoke Gets In Your Eyes
10. Cry Me A River
11. Mad About The Boy
12. After You've Gone
13. Is You Or Is You Ain't My Baby?
14. A Rockin' Good Way (To Mess Around And Fall In Love)
Vaughan Sarah - Great Women Of Song: Sarah Vaughan CD
Sarah Lois Vaughan (27. marec 1924 – 3. apríl 1990) bola americká jazzová speváčka. Prezývaná „Sassy“ a „The Divine One“ vyhrala dve ceny Grammy, vrátane ceny za celoživotné dielo, a celkovo bola nominovaná na deväť cien Grammy. V roku 1989 jej bola udelená cena NEA Jazz Masters. Kritik Scott Yanow napísal, že mala „jeden z najúžasnejších hlasov 20. storočia“.
Tracklist:
01. Misty
02. Lullaby Of Birdland
03. They Can't Take That Away From Me
04. Embraceable You
05. Make Yourself Comfortable
06. Cherokee
07. I'm Glad There Is You
08. Comes Love
09. Whatever Lola Wants (Lola Gets)
10. Someone To Watch Over Me
11. Broken Hearted Melody
12. It's Crazy
Wartime Brides Collection
Read all four of these retellings of biblical stories set during WWII. Meet modern versions of Ruth and Naomi, Rahab, Rebekkah and Isaac, and Shiprah and Puah.Love's Harvest: Noreen Hirsch loses everything including her husband and two sons. Then her adopted country goes to war with her homeland. Has God abandoned her? Rosa Hirsch barely adjusts to being a bride before she is widowed. She gives up her citizenship to accompany her mother-in-law to her home country. Can Rosa find acceptance among strangers who hate her belligerent nation? Basil Quincey is rich beyond his wildest dreams, but loneliness stalks him. Can he find a woman who loves him and not his money?Three people. One God who can raise hope from the ashes of despair.Love's Belief: Midwife Pia Hertz and her mother Sabine have been delivering babies long before the Nazis came to power. Now, the Third Reich has implemented mandates that require Jewish babies and other “undesirables” to be killed as part of The Final Solution. Is Pia’s new faith in Christ strong enough to defy the laws of man?Despite the agony of the injury at the Battle of Drobak Sound that took his arm, Dieter Fertig is relieved he’s no longer part of Hitler’s army. He returns to Berlin and discovers Jews are being deported by the thousands. When he realizes the Nuremburg Laws require his best friend’s baby girl to be killed, he must find a way to spirit the child out of Germany before the Nazis discover her existence. Inspired by the biblical story of Shiprah and Puah, the midwives who saved Jewish babies during Pharaoh’s reign, Love’s Belief shows how one person’s actions can change the world.Love's Rescue: A prostitute, a spy, and the liberation of Paris.Sold by her parents to settle a debt, Rolande Bisset is forced into prostitution. Years later, shunned by her family and most of society, it’s the only way she knows how to subsist. When the Germans overrun Paris, she decides she’s had enough of evil men controlling her life and uses her wiles to obtain information for the Allied forces. Branded a collaborator, her life hangs in the balance. Then an American spy stumbles onto her doorstep. Is redemption within her grasp?Simon Harlow is one of an elite corps of American soldiers. Regularly chosen for dangerous covert missions, he is tasked with infiltrating Paris to ascertain the Axis’s defenses. Nearly caught by German forces moments after arriving, he owes his life to the beautiful prostitute who claims she’s been waiting for the Allies to arrive. Her lifestyle goes against everything he believes in, but will she steal his heart during his quest to liberate her city?Inspired by the biblical story of Rahab, Love’s Rescue is a tale of faith and hope during one of history’s darkest periods.Love's Allegiance: With most U.S. boys fighting for Uncle Sam in far off countries, Rochelle Addams has given up hope for a wedding in her future. Then she receives an intriguing offer from a distant relative to consider a marriage of convenience.Conscientious objector Irwin Terrell is looking forward to his assignment at Shady Hills Mental hospital to minister to the less fortunate in lieu of bearing arms. At the arrival of the potential bride his father has selected for him, Irwin’s well-ordered life is turned upside down. And after being left at the altar two years ago, he has no interest in risking romance again.Despite his best efforts to remain aloof to Rochelle, Irwin is drawn to the enigmatic and beautif
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Simone Nina - Great Women Of Song LP
Nina Simone, vlastným menom Eunice Kathleen Waymon bola americká speváčka, skladateľka, klaviristka a pätnásťnásobná držiteľka Grammy Award. Keď mala 17 rokov, presťahovala sa do New Yorku, kde študovala na Juilliard School of Music.Jej hudobný štýl spájal gospel a pop s klasickou hudbou.Počas svojej kariéry Nina hudba inšpirovala publikum všetkých vekových kategórií, rás a národností. Od skladby Evergreen, Feel Good s výstižným názvom „Feeling Good“ až po záhadne romantický remake „I Put A Spell On You“ a mnoho ďalších, Ninina hudba sa používa vo všetkom, od veľkých reklám až po každodenného používateľa. "Great Women Of Song" obsahuje to najlepšie z najlepšieho. Najobľúbenejšie a najvýznamnejšie hity slečny Simone v jednom balení. Album je dar, ktorý bude aj naďalej dávať.
Tracklist:
01. Feeling Good (2:54)
02. I Put A Spell On You (2:35)
03. Don’t Let Me Be Misunderstood (2:46)
04. Ne Me Quitte Pas (3:34)
05. Tell Me More And More And Then Some (3:07)
06. Lilac Wine (4:13)
07. Take Care Of Business (2:05)
08. See-Line Woman (2:35)
09. Four Women (4:24)
10. Wild Is The Wind (6:56)
11. I Loves You, Porgy (2:30)
12. Mississippi Goddam (4:56)
Simone Nina - Great Women Of Song CD
Nina Simone, vlastným menom Eunice Kathleen Waymon bola americká speváčka, skladateľka, klaviristka a pätnásťnásobná držiteľka Grammy Award. Keď mala 17 rokov, presťahovala sa do New Yorku, kde študovala na Juilliard School of Music.Jej hudobný štýl spájal gospel a pop s klasickou hudbou.Počas svojej kariéry Nina hudba inšpirovala publikum všetkých vekových kategórií, rás a národností. Od skladby Evergreen, Feel Good s výstižným názvom „Feeling Good“ až po záhadne romantický remake „I Put A Spell On You“ a mnoho ďalších, Ninina hudba sa používa vo všetkom, od veľkých reklám až po každodenného používateľa. "Great Women Of Song" obsahuje to najlepšie z najlepšieho. Najobľúbenejšie a najvýznamnejšie hity slečny Simone v jednom balení. Album je dar, ktorý bude aj naďalej dávať.
Tracklist:
01. Feeling Good (2:54)
02. I Put A Spell On You (2:35)
03. Don’t Let Me Be Misunderstood (2:46)
04. Ne Me Quitte Pas (3:34)
05. Tell Me More And More And Then Some (3:07)
06. Lilac Wine (4:13)
07. Take Care Of Business (2:05)
08. See-Line Woman (2:35)
09. Four Women (4:24)
10. Wild Is The Wind (6:56)
11. I Loves You, Porgy (2:30)
12. Mississippi Goddam (4:56)
Fitzgerald Ella - Great Women Of Song: Ella Fitzgerald CD
Verve Records vydáva najnovšie vydania vo svojej edícii Great Women Of Song, ktorý vzdáva hold priekopníckej práci a trvalému vplyvu niektorých z najväčších ženských vokalistiek všetkých čias. Ella Fitzgerald, medzinárodne známa ako „The First Lady Of Song“, bola tiež, čo je dôležité, prvou dámou Verve Records – vydavateľstva, ktoré pre ňu v podstate vytvoril jej manažér a zakladateľ vydavateľstva Norman Granz. Táto kolekcia spája najobdivovanejšie nahrávky Elly v spoločnosti najväčších interpretov a skladateľov americkej hudby – Louis Armstrong, George & Ira Gershwin, Irving Berlin a Jerome Kern, medzi mnohými ďalšími.
Tracklist:
01. It's A Lovely Day Today (W/ Paul Weston & His Orchestra)
02. Dream A Little Dream Of Me (W/ Louis Armstrong)
03. It's Only A Paper Moon (W/ The Delta Rhythm Boys)
04. Someone To Watch Over Me
05. You Do Something To Me
06. Isn't It Romantic?
07. Misty
08. Blue Skies
09. Cheek To Cheek (W/ Louis Armstrong)
10. I've Got A Crush On You
11. All The Things You Are (W/ Nelson Riddle & His Orchestra)
12. Bewitched, Bothered, And Bewildered
13. Puttin' On The Ritz (W/ Paul Weston & His Orchestra)
Fitzgerald Ella - Great Women Of Song: Ella Fitzgerald LP
Verve Records vydáva najnovšie vydania vo svojej edícii Great Women Of Song, ktorý vzdáva hold priekopníckej práci a trvalému vplyvu niektorých z najväčších ženských vokalistiek všetkých čias. Ella Fitzgerald, medzinárodne známa ako „The First Lady Of Song“, bola tiež, čo je dôležité, prvou dámou Verve Records – vydavateľstva, ktoré pre ňu v podstate vytvoril jej manažér a zakladateľ vydavateľstva Norman Granz. Táto kolekcia spája najobdivovanejšie nahrávky Elly v spoločnosti najväčších interpretov a skladateľov americkej hudby – Louis Armstrong, George & Ira Gershwin, Irving Berlin a Jerome Kern, medzi mnohými ďalšími.
Tracklist:
01. It's A Lovely Day Today (W/ Paul Weston & His Orchestra)
02. Dream A Little Dream Of Me (W/ Louis Armstrong)
03. It's Only A Paper Moon (W/ The Delta Rhythm Boys)
04. Someone To Watch Over Me
05. You Do Something To Me
06. Isn't It Romantic?
07. Misty
08. Blue Skies
09. Cheek To Cheek (W/ Louis Armstrong)
10. I've Got A Crush On You
11. All The Things You Are (W/ Nelson Riddle & His Orchestra)
12. Bewitched, Bothered, And Bewildered
13. Puttin' On The Ritz (W/ Paul Weston & His Orchestra)
McRae Carmen - Great Women Of Song: Carmen McRae CD
Verve Records vydáva najnovšie vydania vo svojej edícii Great Women Of Song, ktorý vzdáva hold priekopníckej práci a trvalému vplyvu niektorých z najväčších ženských vokalistiek všetkých čias. Rovnako ako jej idol Billie Holiday, aj Carmen McRae by mohla vlastniť baladu a urobiť si všetko po svojom. Mohla by tiež swingovať každý kúsok tak tvrdo ako jej ďalší hlavný vplyv, Ella Fitzgerald. Carmen, ktorá sa objavila počas Bebopovej éry a pod hudobnou vlnou Thelonious Monk, vytvorila sériu nahrávok pre vydavateľstvo Decca, ktoré posilnili jej povesť a odštartovali kariéru, ktorá má takmer 50 rokov. Či už v malých skupinách alebo za podpory štúdiového orchestra, Carmen McRae nahrala definitívne verzie piesní, ktoré tvoria chrbticu jazzu a veľký americký spevník.
Tracklist:
01. Love Is Here To Stay
02. When I Fall In Love
03. You Don't Know Me
04. Whatever Lola Wants
05. Ev'ry Time We Say Goodbye
06. You Took Advantage Of Me
07. When The Red, Red, Robin Comes Bob, Bobbin' Along
08. I Was Doing All Right
09. My Romance
10. Exactly Like You
11. How Long Has This Been Going On
12. Blue Moon
13. Ain't Misbehavin'
14. Cheek To Cheek (W/ Sammy Davis Jr.)
McRae Carmen - Great Women Of Song: Carmen McRae LP
Verve Records vydáva najnovšie vydania vo svojej edícii Great Women Of Song, ktorý vzdáva hold priekopníckej práci a trvalému vplyvu niektorých z najväčších ženských vokalistiek všetkých čias. Rovnako ako jej idol Billie Holiday, aj Carmen McRae by mohla vlastniť baladu a urobiť si všetko po svojom. Mohla by tiež swingovať každý kúsok tak tvrdo ako jej ďalší hlavný vplyv, Ella Fitzgerald. Carmen, ktorá sa objavila počas Bebopovej éry a pod hudobnou vlnou Thelonious Monk, vytvorila sériu nahrávok pre vydavateľstvo Decca, ktoré posilnili jej povesť a odštartovali kariéru, ktorá má takmer 50 rokov. Či už v malých skupinách alebo za podpory štúdiového orchestra, Carmen McRae nahrala definitívne verzie piesní, ktoré tvoria chrbticu jazzu a veľký americký spevník.
Tracklist:
01. Love Is Here To Stay
02. When I Fall In Love
03. You Don't Know Me
04. Whatever Lola Wants
05. Ev'ry Time We Say Goodbye
06. You Took Advantage Of Me
07. When The Red, Red, Robin Comes Bob, Bobbin' Along
08. I Was Doing All Right
09. My Romance
10. Exactly Like You
11. How Long Has This Been Going On
12. Blue Moon
13. Ain't Misbehavin'
14. Cheek To Cheek (W/ Sammy Davis Jr.)