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That Woman
St. Martin's Press 2012; US$ 18.99The first full scale biography of Wallis Simpson to be written by a woman, exploring the mind of one of the most glamorous and reviled figures of the Twentieth Century, a character who played prominently in the blockbuster film The King?s Speech. This is the story of the American divorcee notorious for allegedly seducing a British king off his... more...
The Renaissance Notion of Woman
Cambridge University Press 1980; US$ 30.00This study of the world of scholarship and scholarly texts in the Renaissance, the so-called respublica literaria, affords insights into the intellectual infrastructure and modes of thought of the period by its examination of contemporary attitudes toward more...
Sexing the Body: Gender Politics and the Construction of Sexuality
Basic Books 2008; US$ 21.99This path-breaking study of gender and sexuality is the first to go beyond the nature/nurture debate to offer an alternate framework for considering questions of sex and sexuality. more...
Call the Midwife
Penguin Group US 2012; US$ 9.99The highest-rated drama in BBC history returns to PBS Presents in March 2013 Less than a year after the first season finale, PBS?s hit series Call the Midwife returns to Sunday nights this spring with an all-new eight-episode season. Fans of Downton Abbey and Mad Men have fallen in love with this candid look at post-war London. In... more...
Call the Midwife: Shadows of the Workhouse
HarperCollins 2013; US$ 13.99The sequel to Jennifer Worth's New York Times bestselling memoir and the basis for the PBS series Call the Midwife When twenty-two-year-old Jennifer Worth, from a comfortable middle-class upbringing, went to work as a midwife in the direst section of postwar London, she not only delivered hundreds of babies and touched many lives, she also became... more...
Call the Midwife: Farewell to the East End
HarperCollins 2013; US$ 13.99The last book in the trilogy begun by Jennifer Worth's New York Times bestseller and the basis for the PBS series Call the Midwife When twenty-two-year-old Jennifer Worth, from a comfortable middle-class upbringing, went to work as a midwife in the poorest section of postwar London, she not only delivered hundreds of babies and touched many lives,... more...
Does the Woman Exist?
Other Press 2013; US$ 16.99This book describes how Freud attempted to chart hysteria, yet came to a standstill at the problem of woman and her desire, and of how Lacan continued along this road by creating new conceptual tools. The difficulties and upsets encountered by both men are examined. This lucid presentation of the dialectical process that carries Lacan through the... more...
Margaret Thatcher
HarperCollins 2013; US$ 16.99Margaret Thatcher is the towering political figure of late-twentieth-century Great Britain. No other prime minister in modern times sought to change the British nation and its place in the world as radically as she did. Published in a single volume for the first time, Margaret Thatcher is the story of her remarkable life told in her own words--the... more...
The Woman I Was Born to Be
Atria Books 2010; US$ 16.00In April 2009, a modest middle-aged woman from a village in Scotland was catapulted to global fame when the YouTube video of her audition for Britain?s Got Talent touched the hearts of millions all over the world. From singing karaoke in local pubs to a live performance with an eighty-piece orchestra in Japan?s legendary Budokan Arena and a record-breaking... more...
Nice Girls Don't Get the Corner Office
Grand Central Publishing 2004; US$ 9.99If you work nonstop without a break...worry about offending others and back down too easily...explain too much when asked for information....or "poll" your friends and colleagues before making a decision, chances are you have been bypassed for promotions and ignored when you expressed your ideas. Although you may not be aware of it, girlish behaviors... more...









