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Gaddafi's Harem by Cojean Annick
epub, mobi |eng, fra | 2013-08-13 | Author:Cojean, Annick

2 “LIBYA,” KHADIJA, LEILA . . . AND SO MANY MORE I would like to be able to tell other stories besides Soraya’s. To mention other tragedies lived through by ...
( Category: Africa May 24,2016 )
The Golden Cage by Shirin Ebadi
epub, mobi |eng | | Author:Shirin Ebadi

A week later we were invited to Evin to see the doctor. Evidently Iran’s “justice system” was functioning fine, as long as you knew who to pay. My father asked ...
( Category: Middle East May 13,2016 )
The Gunning of America: Business and the Making of American Gun Culture by Pamela Haag
mobi, epub |eng | 2016-04-19 | Author:Pamela Haag

THE MYSTIQUE OF THE WINCHESTER GUN COULD NOT HAVE BEEN more removed from the Winchester gun business, and in a way, that was precisely the point, and precisely the gun’s ...
( Category: Conventional May 10,2016 )
Equal Means Equal by Jessica Neuwirth
epub |eng | | Author:Jessica Neuwirth [Neuwirth, Jessica]

DISCRIMINATORY LAWS “Every constitution written since the end of World War II includes a provision that men and women are citizens of equal stature. Ours does not. I have three ...
( Category: General May 6,2016 )
A History of U.S. Feminisms by Rory C. Dicker
epub |eng | 2015-01-10 | Author:Rory C. Dicker

Feminism at the Newsstand When Ms. magazine began publishing in 1972, most monthly magazines aimed at women focused on beauty and fashion or homemaking and decorating. Most publications directed at ...
( Category: Women in History May 6,2016 )
The Temptation of Elizabeth Tudor by Elizabeth Norton
epub |eng | 2016-04-30 | Author:Elizabeth Norton [Norton, Elizabeth]

By 5 September, the queen, weakened with fever, was declining; everyone knew that she could not live long. She was calmer, though, and had already asked Thomas for his consent ...
( Category: Great Britain May 2,2016 )
Shopgirls by Pamela Cox
epub |eng | | Author:Pamela Cox

‘Shopgirl As Strike Leader’: Hilda Canham and the strike committee during the John Lewis & Co. strike, May 1920. CHAPTER 6 STRIKE! After the armistice, with 900,000 British and Empire ...
( Category: Women in History May 1,2016 )
The Lovers: Afghanistan's Romeo and Juliet, the True Story of How They Defied Their Families and Escaped an Honor Killing by Rod Nordland
mobi |eng | 2016-01-26 | Author:Rod Nordland

When they resurfaced, we learned that the couple had gone back with Anwar to the family home in Surkh Dar late that June, when Zakia’s father and brothers were still ...
( Category: Asian April 30,2016 )
The Comfort Women by George Hicks
epub |eng | 2014-02-17 | Author:George Hicks

As in many war crimes trials, the court proceedings essentially became a simple ratification of the findings of earlier investigations. They were in any case something of a legal hybrid, ...
( Category: World War II April 29,2016 )
First Women: The Grace and Power of America's Modern First Ladies by Kate Andersen Brower
mobi, epub |eng | 2016-04-12 | Author:Kate Andersen Brower

JACKIE SPOKE IN a childlike whisper of a voice (Kennedy’s sisters called her “the Deb” behind her back), but she was tough as nails and would cut people off if ...
( Category: United States April 29,2016 )
Love Lessons from the Old West by Chris Enss
epub |eng | 2015-02-13 | Author:Chris Enss

Within six months of opening, Luzena had earned a substantial amount of money, and the Wilson’s Hotel had earned the reputation of being the best on the route from Sacramento ...
( Category: State & Local April 23,2016 )
Four Queens by Nancy Goldstone
epub |eng | 2007-04-21 | Author:Nancy Goldstone

Sanchia alt="image"/> Purses, symbols of money. CHAPTER XIV A ROYAL WINDFALL Beauty can be as effective a social or political tool as wealth or breeding, but it must be coupled ...
( Category: England April 22,2016 )
1846686199 (N) by Lucy Moore
epub |eng | 2013-04-15 | Author:Lucy Moore [Moore, Lucy]

CHAPTER 8 Mephisto Valse 1914–1918 IN LATE JULY 1914 they went to Budapest to introduce Kyra to her grandmother. From there they planned to travel to St Petersburg to see ...
( Category: Women April 21,2016 )
Dickey Chapelle Under Fire by John Garofolo
epub |eng | 2015-04-15 | Author:John Garofolo [Garofolo, John]

Newly reinstated as a war correspondent, Dickey quickly set out to reestablish ties with the military. She actively promoted herself as the “Bayonet Border Reporter” and by her own account ...
( Category: Women in History April 16,2016 )
The Medieval Housewife & Other Women of the Middle Ages by Mount Toni
azw3 |eng | 2015-03-24 | Author:Mount, Toni [Mount, Toni]

Mrs Noah in Noah’s Ark. (MS Harley 4381 f. 12, British Library – Bible Historiale, France, 1403) Japheth: Mother, we pray you altogether – For we are here your own ...
( Category: Women in History April 15,2016 )

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