Category: Women

The Quotable Woman: The First 5,000 Years

Price: $1.49

Publisher: Checkmark Books : 2001-03-01

Seller ID: mon0000466385

ISBN-13: 9780816045754

Condition: VeryGood

This work gathers 19,000 quotations from approximately 3800 women throughout history. It includes quotations on nearly every subject imaginable - from friendship, love, politics, and religion to education, the arts, and women's role in society.
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The Bride of Science: Romance, Reason, and Byron's Daughter

By: Benjamin Woolley

Price: $8.16

Publisher: McGraw-Hill Companies : 2002-02-01

Seller ID: mon0000493104

ISBN-13: 9780071388603

Condition: Good

Previous owner's name written inside book. Doodles on front cover. Notes written inside front cover, but not on interior pages.
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The Myth of the Maiden: On Being a Woman

By: Childs, Joan

Price: $1.99

Publisher: HCI : 1995-01-01

Seller ID: mon0000544376

ISBN-13: 9781558743151

Condition: VeryGood

Light edge wear.
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Generations of Women: In Their Own Words

By: Cook, Mariana

Price: $1.49

Publisher: Chronicle Books : 1998-04-03

Seller ID: mon0000616633

ISBN-13: 9780811819077

Condition: VeryGood

Jacket is price clipped.
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Becoming American : Personal Essays by First Generation Immigrant Women

By: Danquah, Meri Nana-Ama

Price: $2.34

Publisher: Hyperion : 2/16/2000 12:00:01 A

Seller ID: mon0000695436

ISBN-13: 9780786865895

Condition: VeryGood

This collection of original essays, the first of its sort, written by first generation women immigrants, offers a glimpse into the process of assimilation. Edited and with an introduction by a noted young Ghanaian-American author, this book includes selections by widely acclaimed authors such as Lucy Grealy, and Judith Ortiz-Cofer, alongside the works of other writers.
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Revolution from Within: A Book of Self-Esteem

By: Gloria Steinem

Price: $2.34

Publisher: Little, Brown and Company : 1993-01-20

Seller ID: mon0000571811

ISBN-13: 9780316812474

Condition: Good

Gloria Steinem's classic bestseller -- called "the ultimate self-help book" by the Los Angeles Times. For decades, Gloria Steinem has led a social revolution against injustice. In Revolution from Within she sets out to restore the self-authority that such injustice has undermined -- in men as well as women, across boundaries of race, class, age, sexuality, and ability. Steinem uses stories from her own life and the lives of others to illustrate the many connections between the personal and the political, offering readers lessons on how to bring down all barriers to equality -- both external a...
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Spirit Alive: A Woman's Healing from Cult Ritual Abuse

By: Jadelinn

Price: $38.75

Publisher: Women's Press (UK) : 1998-01-01

Seller ID: mon0000678089

ISBN-13: 9780889612211

Condition: VeryGood

A clear and moving record of one woman's healing from cult and ritual abuse, Spirit Alive shares the process of healing through understanding and integration, demystifies the meaning of classical Multiple Personality Disorder and counteracts mainstream sensationalizing of cult and ritual abuse.

Releasing the pain and fear locked inside for years and learning to trust her ability to heal, Jadelinn remembers, copes, accepts, denies, rages, learns, feels, challenges, mourns. Through courage, honesty and trust, she finds joy and compassion, and she declares her spirit alive.
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Jane Addams: A Writer's Life

By: Joslin, Katherine

Price: $4.17

Publisher: University of Illinois Press : 2004-09-08

Seller ID: mon0000463740

ISBN-13: 9780252029233

Condition: VeryGood

Jane Addams, a Writer's Life is an expansive, revealing, and refreshing reexamination of the renowned reformer as an imaginative writer. Jane Addams is best known for her groundbreaking social work at Hull-House, the force of her efforts toward Progressive political and social reform, and the bravery of her commitment to pacifism, for which she received the Nobel Peace Prize. Here, Joslin moves beyond this history to present Addams as a literary figure. Katherine Joslin examines Addam's rejection of scholarly writing in favor of a synthesis of fictional and analytical prose that appealed to a ...
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A Passion for Sharing: The Life of Edith Rosenwald Stern

By: Klein, Gerda Weissmann

Price: $11.59

Publisher: Rossel Books : 1984-09-01

Seller ID: mon0000707712

ISBN-13: 9780940646155

Condition: VeryGood

The Wheel of Life: A Memoir of Living and Dying

By: Kubler-Ross, Elisabeth

Price: $1.49

Publisher: Scribner : 1998-06-19

Seller ID: mon0000683767

ISBN-13: 9780684846316

Condition: Good

On Life and Living Elisabeth K bler-Ross, M.D., is the woman who has transformed the way the world thinks about death and dying. Beginning with the groundbreaking publication of the classic psychological study On Death and Dying and continuing through her many books and her years working with terminally ill children, AIDS patients, and the elderly, K bler-Ross has brought comfort and understanding to millions coping with their own deaths or the deaths of loved ones. Now, at age seventy-one facing her own death, this world-renowned healer tells the story of her extraordinary life. Having taugh...
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Uppity Women of Ancient Times

By: Leon, Vicki

Price: $1.49

Publisher: Fine Communications : 1998T

Seller ID: mon0000686889

ISBN-13: 9781567312492

Condition: VeryGood

The Woman That I Am: The Literature and Culture of Contemporary Women of Color

By: Madison, D. Soyini

Price: $3.41

Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin : 1997-02-15

Seller ID: mon0000661115

ISBN-13: 9780312152963

Condition: Good

Book is bent from improper storage.
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Nelson Mandela, Speeches 1990: Intensify the Struggle to Abolish Apartheid

By: Mandela, Nelson

Price: $2.80

Publisher: Pathfinder Press (NY) : 1990-11-01

Seller ID: mon0000689294

ISBN-13: 9780873485951

Condition: VeryGood

Speeches from South Africa, Angola, and Britain following Mandela's release from prison.
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Daughters of Painted Ladies: America's Resplendent Victorians

By: Michael Larsen,Elizabeth Pomada

Price: $1.49

Publisher: E. P. Dutton : 1987-11-10

Seller ID: mon0000600323

ISBN-13: 9780525483373

Condition: VeryGood

Straight, No Chaser

By: Nelson, Jill

Price: $2.34

Publisher: Putnam Adult : 8/25/1997 12:00:01 A

Seller ID: mon0000700043

ISBN-13: 9780399142628

Condition: VeryGood

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Living with Cannibals and Other Women's Adventures (Adventure Press)

By: Slung, Michele

Price: $1.49

Publisher: National Geographic : 2001-07-01

Seller ID: mon0000654826

ISBN-13: 9780792276760

Condition: VeryGood

Drawn from more than one hundred years of first-person narratives from the collection of the National Geographic Society, a collection of firsthand accounts documents the accomplishments of women explorers who ventured into the unknown, featuring contributions from astronaut Shannon Lucid, arctic ex
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