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Agnes Grey: Library Editionby Anne BronteISBN 0850670020 (0-85067-002-0)
Hardcover, Folio Society
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Alien Zone: Cultural Theory and Contemporary Science Fiction Cinemaby Annette KuhnISBN 0860919935 (0-86091-993-5)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Alien Zone: Cultural Theory and Contemporary Science Fiction Cinema'Book summary:Perhaps because of its very popularity and cult status, science fiction in all its forms has long suffered from critical neglect.
This is especially true of the science fiction filma genre as old as cinema itselfwhich has rarely received the serious attention devoted to such genres as the western, the film noir and recently, under the aegis of feminist film theory, the so-called "woman's film." Alien Zone aims to bring science fiction cinema fully into the ambit of cultural theory in general and of film theory in particular. The essays in this booksome newly written, others gathered from scattered sourceslook at the ways in which contemporary science fiction films draw on, rework, and transform established themes and conventions of the genre: the mise-en-scene of future worlds; the myth of masculine mastery of nature; power and authority and their relation to technology. This material is ordered and contextualized by the editor with a view to exploring how science fiction cinema has been approached critically and theoretically by commentators on the genre: as a mirror of society, as bearing or producing ideology; as caught up in an intertext of media productions, or as expressing unconscious desires. Contributors include Giuliana Bruno, Scott Bukatman, Thomas B. Byers, Barbara Creed, Anne Cranny-Francis, Daniel Dervin, H. Bruce Franklin, James H. Kavanagh, Douglas Kelner, Steve Neale, Judith Newton, Constance Penley, Hugh Ruppersberg, Michael Ryan, Vivian Sobchack, Michael Stern, J. P. Telotte, and Paul Virilio. [via]More editions of Alien Zone: Cultural Theory and Contemporary Science Fiction Cinema:
All Our Labours: Oral Histories of Working Life in 20th Century Sydneyby John ShieldsISBN 086840117X (0-86840-117-X)
Softcover, New South Wales Univ Pr Ltd
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Americaby Jean Baudrillard, Chris TurnerISBN 0860919781 (0-86091-978-1)
Softcover, Verso Books
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The Anti-Social Familyby Michele Barrett, Mary McIntoshISBN 0860917517 (0-86091-751-7)
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Beowulf: An Adaptation by Julian Glover of the Verse Translations of Michael Alexander and Edwin Morganby Magnus Magnusson, Julian Glover, Sheila MacKieISBN 0862993377 (0-86299-337-7)
Hardcover, Sutton Pub Ltd
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Beowulf: With the Finnesburg Fragmentby W. F. Bolton, C.L. WrennISBN 0859895181 (0-85989-518-1)
Softcover, Univ of Exeter Pr
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Beyond the Veil: Male-Female Dynamics in a Modern Muslim Societyby Fatima MernissiISBN 086356030X (0-86356-030-X)
Softcover, Al Saqi Books
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Birth Of The Chess Queenby Marilyn YalomISBN 0863584446 (0-86358-444-6)
Softcover, Pandora Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Birth Of The Chess Queen'Book summary:Everyone knows that the queen is the most powerful piece in chess, but few people know that the game existed for five hundred years without her. In India, Persia, and the Arab lands, where the game was first played, a general, or vizier (chief counselor to the king), occupied the square where the queen now stands. Not until the year 1000, two hundred years after Arab conquerors brought chess to southern Europe, did a chess queen appear on the board. Initially she was the weakest piece, moving only one square at a time on the diagonal, yet by 1497, during the reign of Isabella of Castile, the chess queen had become the formidable force she is today.
How and why did this transformation take place? Birth of the Chess Queen examines the five-hundred-year period between the chess queen's timid emergence and her elevation into the game's mightiest piece. Marilyn Yalom, inspired by a handful of surviving medieval chess queens, traces their origin and spread from Spain, Italy, Germany, France, and England to Scandinavia and Russia. In a lively and engaging narrative, Yalom draws parallels between the birth of the chess queen and the ascent of female sovereigns in Europe, presenting a layered, fascinating history of medieval courts, with their intrigues and internal struggles for power. Further, she shows the connection between the chess queen, the cult of the Virgin Mary, and the cult of Romantic Love, all of which influenced European society for centuries to come.
Illustrated with beautiful art throughout, this book takes a fresh look at the politics and culture of medieval Europe, the institution of queenship, and the reflections of royal power in the figure of the chess queen.
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The Calling of Katie Makanyaby Margaret McCordISBN 0864862520 (0-86486-252-0)
Hardcover, D. Philip
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Challenges to Labour Historyby T. H. IrvingISBN 0868401188 (0-86840-118-8)
Softcover, New South Wales Univ Pr Ltd
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Close to Home: A Materialist Analysis of Women's Oppressionby Christine DelphyISBN 0870234544 (0-87023-454-4)
Softcover, Univ of Massachusetts Pr
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Colonial Lessons: Africans' Education in Southern Rhodesia, 1918-1940by Carol SummersISBN 0852559526 (0-85255-952-6)
Softcover, James Currey Ltd
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Contemporary Feminist Thoughtby Hester EisensteinISBN 0868614246 (0-86861-424-6)
Softcover, G. Allen & Unwin
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Dance Hall & Picture Palace: Sydney's Romance with Modernityby Jill Julius MatthewsISBN 0868197556 (0-86819-755-6)
Hardcover, Currency Press
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The Darkened Room: Women, Power, and Spiritualism in Late Nineteenth Century Englandby Alex OwenISBN 0860685675 (0-86068-567-5)
Hardcover, Virago
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Daughters of the Dreamingby Diane BellISBN 0868614645 (0-86861-464-5)
Hardcover, McPhee Gribble
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Draculaby Bram StokerISBN 0863221432 (0-86322-143-2)
Softcover, Irish Books & Media
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Dracula'Book summary:Dracula is one of the few horror books to be honored by inclusion in the Norton Critical Edition series. (The others are Frankenstein, The Turn of the Screw, Heart of Darkness, The Picture of Dorian Gray, and The Metamorphosis.) This 100th-anniversary edition includes not only the complete authoritative text of the novel with illuminating footnotes, but also four contextual essays, five reviews from the time of publication, five articles on dramatic and film variations, and seven selections from literary and academic criticism. Nina Auerbach of the University of Pennsylvania (author of Our Vampires, Ourselves) and horror scholar David J. Skal (author of Hollywood Gothic, The Monster Show, and Screams of Reason) are the editors of the volume. Especially fascinating are excerpts from materials that Bram Stoker consulted in his research for the book, and his working papers over the several years he was composing it. The selection of criticism includes essays on how Dracula deals with female sexuality, gender inversion, homoerotic elements, and Victorian fears of "reverse colonization" by politically turbulent Transylvania. [via]
Family Economyby Kerreen M. ReigerISBN 0869142305 (0-86914-230-5)
Hardcover, McPhee Gribble
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Gender & Poverty in the Northby Oxfam, Caroline SweetmanISBN 0855983930 (0-85598-393-0)
Softcover, Stylus Pub Llc
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Gender and Family Issues in the Workplaceby Ronald G. Ehrenberg, Francine D. BlauISBN 0871541173 (0-87154-117-3)
Hardcover, Russell Sage Foundation
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Gender Politics in Latin America: Debates in Theory and Practiceby Elizabeth DoreISBN 0853459762 (0-85345-976-2)
Softcover, New York Univ Pr
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Good and Mad Women: The Historical Construction of Femininity in Twentieth-Century Australiaby Jill Julius MatthewsISBN 0868616656 (0-86861-665-6)
Softcover, Allen & Unwin Australia
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Great Books of the Western Worldby Encyclopdia Britannica, inc., Robert Maynard HutchinsISBN 0852291639 (0-85229-163-9)
Hardcover, Encyclopdia Britannica
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Great Books of the Western World'Book summary:The Iliad (Ancient Greek ?????, Ilias) is, together with the Odyssey, one of two ancient Greek epic poems attributed to Homer, a supposedly blind Ionian poet. The epics are considered by most modern scholars to be the oldest literature in the Greek language. The Iliad concerns events during the tenth and final year in the siege of the city of Ilion, or Troy, by the Greeks. The Odyssey (Greek: ????????, Odusseia)is commonly dated circa 800 to 600 BC. The poem is, in part, a sequel to Homer's Iliad and mainly concerns the events that befall the Greek hero Odysseus (or Ulysses) in his long journeys after the fall of Troy and when he at last returns to his native land of Ithaca. [via]
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Great Expectationsby Charles DickensISBN 0866119728 (0-86611-972-8)
Hardcover, Abdo Pub Co
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Half the World Half a Chance: An Introduction to Gender and Developmentby Julia Cleves MosseISBN 0855981865 (0-85598-186-5)
Softcover, Stylus Pub Llc
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Harper Lee's to Kill a Mockingbirdby Christopher SergelISBN 0871290863 (0-87129-086-3)
Softcover, Dramatic Pub Co
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Healing the Masculine Soul: An Affirming Message for Men and the Women Who Love Themby Gordon DalbeyISBN 0849932572 (0-8499-3257-2)
Softcover, Thomas Nelson Inc
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Healing the Masculine Soul: God's Restoration of Men to Real Manhoodby Gordon DalbeyISBN 0849944384 (0-8499-4438-4)
Softcover, Nelson Incorporated, Thomas
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Healing the Wounds: The Promise of Ecofeminismby Judith PlantISBN 0865711534 (0-86571-153-4)
Softcover, New Society Pub
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Her Immaculate Hand: Selected Works by and About the Women Humanists of Quattrocento Italyby Margaret L. King, Albert RabilISBN 0866981241 (0-86698-124-1)
Softcover, Pegasus Pr
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Her Smoke Rose Up Foreverby James Tiptree, Andrew SmithISBN 0870541609 (0-87054-160-9)
Hardcover, Arkham House Pub
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In These Girls, Hope Is a Muscleby Madeleine BlaisISBN 0871135728 (0-87113-572-8)
Hardcover, Atlantic Monthly Pr
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In Women's Hands: A History of Clothing Trades Unionism in Australiaby Bradon EllemISBN 0868403393 (0-86840-339-3)
Softcover, New South Wales Univ Pr Ltd
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Issei Women: Echoes from Another Frontierby Eileen S. SarasohnISBN 0870152661 (0-87015-266-1)
Hardcover, Pacific Book Pub
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The Kama Sutra Of Vatsyanaby Called Mallanaga VatsyayanaISBN 0865900272 (0-86590-027-2)
Hardcover, Stosius Inc/Advent Books Division
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Lady Chatterley's Lover: The Comic Bookby Hunt EmersonISBN 0861660498 (0-86166-049-8)
Softcover, Knockabout Comics
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The Love Of The Nightingaleby Timberlake WertenbakerISBN 0871290456 (0-87129-045-6)
Softcover, Dramatic Pub Co
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Love of Worker Beesby Alexandra KollontaiISBN 0860680053 (0-86068-005-3)
Hardcover, Virago
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Making Ends Meet : How Single Mothers Survive Welfare and Low-Wage Workby Kathryn Edin, Laura LeinISBN 0871542293 (0-87154-229-3)
Hardcover, Russell Sage Foundation
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Making Ends Meet: How Single Mothers Survive Welfare and Low-Wage Workby Laura Lein, Kathryn EdinISBN 087154234X (0-87154-234-X)
Softcover, Russell Sage Foundation
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Male Daughters, Female Husbandsby Ifi AmadiumeISBN 0862325951 (0-86232-595-1)
Softcover, Zed Books
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Male Daughters, Female Husbands: Gender and Sex in an African Societyby Ifi AmadiumeISBN 0862325943 (0-86232-594-3)
Hardcover, Palgrave Macmillan
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Man Made Languageby Dale SpenderISBN 0863584012 (0-86358-401-2)
Softcover, Pandora Pr
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Medicine & Society in Later Medieval Englandby Carole RawcliffeISBN 0862995981 (0-86299-598-1)
Hardcover, Alan Sutton Pub
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The Metastases of Enjoyment: Six Essays on Woman and Causalityby Slavoj ZizekISBN 086091688X (0-86091-688-X)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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Montgomery Bus Boycott and the Women Who Started Itby Joann RobinsonISBN 0870495275 (0-87049-527-5)
Softcover, Univ of Tennessee Pr
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More Joy: A Lovemaking Companion to The Joy of Sexby Alex ComfortISBN 0855336609 (0-85533-660-9)
Hardcover, M. Beazley
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My Brilliant Careerby Miles FranklinISBN 0860681939 (0-86068-193-9)
Softcover, Virago
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Naomiby Jun Ichiro TanizakiISBN 0865474575 (0-86547-457-5)
Softcover, Farrar Straus & Giroux
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Nasa/Trek: Popular Science and Sex in Americaby Constance PenleyISBN 0860916170 (0-86091-617-0)
Softcover, Verso Books
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Nationalism and Sexuality: Respectability and Abnormal Sexuality in Modern Europeby George L. MosseISBN 0865274290 (0-86527-429-0)
Softcover, Howard Fertig Pub
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New French Feminisms: An Anthologyby Marks, Isabelle De CourtivronISBN 0870232800 (0-87023-280-0)
Hardcover, Univ of Massachusetts Pr
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Not in Front of the Servants: Domestic Service in England 1850-1939by Frank Victor DawesISBN 0853402876 (0-85340-287-6)
Hardcover, Wayland Publishers
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Odd Womenby George GissingISBN 0860681408 (0-86068-140-8)
Softcover, Virago
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Out of Line: Australian Women and Styleby Margaret MaynardISBN 0868405159 (0-86840-515-9)
Softcover, Univ of Washington Pr
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Patriarchy and Accumulation on a World Scale: Women in the International Division of Labourby Maria MiesISBN 0862323428 (0-86232-342-8)
Softcover, Palgrave Macmillan
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Perfection Salad: Women and Cooking at the Turn of the Centuryby Laura ShapiroISBN 0865474869 (0-86547-486-9)
Softcover, Farrar Straus & Giroux
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Beginning with portraits of early domestic movement reformers such as Catherine Beecher and Mary Lincoln, and investigating institutions like the Boston Cooking School, home of Fannie Farmer, the Mother of Level Measurements, the book then pursues "scientific cookery" into its mid-20th-century manifestation. "With the help of the new industry of advertising," Shapiro writes, "the food business was able to reflect Mrs. Lincoln's values [of food-production uniformity] by keeping its achievements in packing, sanitation, convenience, and novelty at the forefront." But greater ills ensued: the effect of the reformers, Shapiro contends, was to encourage women to become docile consumers tethered to commercial interests--and to rob our vigorous cooking and eating traditions of their rich life. In making that point, Perfection Salad reveals its true subject: the cultural priorities that defined American 20th-century life and, finally, the sorry nature of the order they established. --Arthur Boehm [via]
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Peter Panby J. M. Barrie, Eric KincaidISBN 0861126483 (0-86112-648-3)
Hardcover, Byeway Books
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The Picture of Dorian GrayISBN 0866119981 (0-86611-998-1)
Hardcover, Abdo Pub Co
Find This BookBook summary:A lush, cautionary tale of a life of vileness and deception or a loving portrait of the aesthetic impulse run rampant? Why not both? After Basil Hallward paints a beautiful, young man's portrait, his subject's frivolous wish that the picture change and he remain the same comes true. Dorian Gray's picture grows aged and corrupt while he continues to appear fresh and innocent. After he kills a young woman, "as surely as if I had cut her little throat with a knife," Dorian Gray is surprised to find no difference in his vision or surroundings. "The roses are not less lovely for all that. The birds sing just as happily in my garden."
As Hallward tries to make sense of his creation, his epigram-happy friend Lord Henry Wotton encourages Dorian in his sensual quest with any number of Wildean paradoxes, including the delightful "When we are happy we are always good, but when we are good we are not always happy." But despite its many languorous pleasures, The Picture of Dorian Gray is an imperfect work. Compared to the two (voyeuristic) older men, Dorian is a bore, and his search for ever new sensations far less fun than the novel's drawing-room discussions. Even more oddly, the moral message of the novel contradicts many of Wilde's supposed aims, not least "no artist has ethical sympathies. An ethical sympathy in an artist is an unpardonable mannerism of style." Nonetheless, the glamour boy gets his just deserts. And Wilde, defending Dorian Gray, had it both ways: "All excess, as well as all renunciation, brings its own punishment." [via]
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Plato: Syposiumby C. J. RoweISBN 0856686158 (0-85668-615-8)
Softcover, Aris & Phillips
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The Postwar Moment: Militaries, Masculinities, and International Peacekeeping Bosnia and the Netherlandsby Cynthia Cockburn, Dubravka ZarkovISBN 0853159467 (0-85315-946-7)
Softcover, Lawrence & Wishart Ltd
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The Real Matilda: Woman and Identity in Australia 1788 to the Presentby Miriam DixsonISBN 0868407372 (0-86840-737-2)
Softcover, Univ of Washington Pr
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Recreation and the Seaby Stephen FisherISBN 0859895408 (0-85989-540-8)
Softcover, Univ of Exeter Pr
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The Return of the Soldierby Rebecca WestISBN 0860681440 (0-86068-144-0)
Softcover, Virago
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For when Chris rebuilt Baldry Court after his marriage, he handed it over to architects who had not so much the wild eye of the artist as the knowing wink of the manicurist, and between them they massaged the dear old place into matter for innumerable photos in the illustrated papers.
But of late this universe unto itself cannot quite keep out an England altered by ambition and industry. Only a few miles away a "red suburban stain," Wealdstone, has somehow cropped up. And one day all is permanently altered--or, rather, revealed--when a Wealdstone resident comes bearing news of Captain Baldry. Mrs. William Gray is clearly not of Chris's wife Kitty and his cousin Jenny's class, as Kitty in particular makes her aware. "Again her gray eyes brimmed," Jenny observes. "People are rude to one, she visibly said, but surely not nice people like this." How is it, then, that this dreary, "dingy" woman knows Chris and knows that something has happened to him? And how is it that Jenny soon comes to see her as someone "whose personality was sounding through her squalor like a beautiful voice singing in a darkened room"?In the remainder of this brief, perfect novel, a vanished (or repressed) past and its lost prospect of happiness comes to the fore. Rebecca West is best remembered for Black Lamb and Grey Falcon: A Journey Through Yugoslavia (1941), but she displays the same vision--and a similar degree of realism--in her charged 1916 novel. Many readers will passionately regret the book's last twist, even as they know it to be artistically as well as historically true. --Kerry Fried [via]
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Reversed Realities: Gender Hierarchies in Development Thoughtby Naila KabeerISBN 0860915840 (0-86091-584-0)
Softcover, Verso Books
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Rising from the Ashes: Labor in the Age of Global Capitalismby Michael Yates, Peter Meiksins, Ellen Meiksins WoodISBN 0853459398 (0-85345-939-8)
Softcover, New York Univ Pr
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Slave Women in Caribbean Society, 1650-1838by Barbara BushISBN 085255057X (0-85255-057-X)
Softcover, Heinemann Publishers (Caribbean)
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Sweet Dreams: Sexuality, Gender, and Popular Fictionby Susannah RadstoneISBN 0853156727 (0-85315-672-7)
Softcover, Lawrence & Wishart
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The Symposium of Platoby PlatoISBN 087023076X (0-87023-076-X)
Softcover, Univ of Massachusetts Pr
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Tom Griffith's translation of this foundation work of Western culture is unsurpassed for the balance it achieves between readability and fidelity to Plato's Greek. For felicity of phrasing, freshness, care to match the sense of the Greek rather than its wording, and for its idiomatic rendering of the spoken word, it has no peer.
Originally published in a limited edition with facing Greek and color wood engravings, Griffith's translation is here presented in reduced format that retains the aesthetic quality of the original version at an affordable price. [via] 
Tandia: Library Editionby Bryce CourtenayISBN 0855614064 (0-85561-406-4)
Hardcover, W. Heinemann Australia
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Thatcher, Politics and Fantasy: The Political Culture of Gender and Nationby Heather NunnISBN 0853159629 (0-85315-962-9)
Softcover, Lawrence & Wishart Ltd
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A Tolerable Good Success: Economic Opportunities for Women in New South Wales, 1788-1830by Monica PerrottISBN 0868060100 (0-86806-010-0)
Hardcover, Hale & Iremonger
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Turning Japanese: Memoirs of a Sanseiby David MuraISBN 0871134314 (0-87113-431-4)
Hardcover, Atlantic Monthly Pr
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West With the Nightby Beryl MarkhamISBN 0860685411 (0-86068-541-1)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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There are all kinds of silences and each of them means a different thing. There is the silence that comes with morning in a forest, and this is different from the silence of a sleeping city. There is silence after a rainstorm, and before a rainstorm, and these are not the same. There is the silence of emptiness, the silence of fear, the silence of doubt. There is a certain silence that can emanate from a lifeless object as from a chair lately used, or from a piano with old dust upon its keys, or from anything that has answered to the need of a man, for pleasure or for work. This kind of silence can speak. Its voice may be melancholy, but it is not always so; for the chair may have been left by a laughing child or the last notes of the piano may have been raucous and gay. Whatever the mood or the circumstance, the essence of its quality may linger in the silence that follows. It is a soundless echo.
Born in England in 1902, Markham was taken by her father to East Africa in 1906. She spent her childhood playing with native Maruni children and apprenticing with her father as a trainer and breeder of racehorses. In the 1930s, she became an African bush pilot, and in September 1936, became the first person to fly solo across the Atlantic from east to west. [via] 
What Rough Beast?: The State and Social Order in Australian Historyby Sydney Labour History GroupISBN 0868613320 (0-86861-332-0)
Hardcover, Harpercollins
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Which Way Is Up?by R. W. ConnellISBN 0868613746 (0-86861-374-6)
Softcover, Unwin Hyman
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A Wife for My Sonby Ali GhanemISBN 0862324009 (0-86232-400-9)
Softcover, Zed Books
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Wife for My Sonby GhalemISBN 0865431167 (0-86543-116-7)
Softcover, Africa World Pr
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Woman: Survivor in the Churchby Joan OhannesonISBN 0866836071 (0-86683-607-1)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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Womanhood: The Feminine in Ancient Hellenism, Gnosticism, Christianity and Islamby Raoul MortleyISBN 0856689122 (0-85668-912-2)
Hardcover, David Brown Book Co
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Women of the Celtsby Jean MarkaleISBN 086033001X (0-86033-001-X)
Hardcover, G. Cremonesi
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Women, Crime and the Canadian Criminal Justice Systemby Walter S. DekeseredyISBN 0870848941 (0-87084-894-1)
Softcover, Lexis Nexis Matthew Bender
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Women, Land and Agricultureby Oxfam, Caroline SweetmanISBN 085598421X (0-85598-421-X)
Softcover, Stylus Pub Llc
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Worth Her Salt: Women at Work in Australiaby Margaret Bevege, Margaret James, Carmel ShuteISBN 0868060038 (0-86806-003-8)
Softcover, Hale & Iremonger
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