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Iffat Al Thunayan: An Arabian Queen
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Iffat Al Thunayan, spouse of the late King Faysal bin Abdul Aziz Al Saud (r. 19641975), was a pillar...
Women and Images of Men in Cinema: Gender Construction in la Belle et la Bete by Jean Cocteau
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Women and men in cinema are imaginary constructs created by filmmakers and their audiences. The...
Death in the Shape of a Young Girl: Women's Political Violence in the Red Army Faction
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In the early 1970s, a number of West German left-wing activists took up arms, believing that...
The Evolution of Human Sexuality
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Author Donald Symonds examines the differences between men and women in sexual behavior and...
Race and Work
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This book provides a reasoned, unflinching analysis of how race and paid work are linked in U.S....
The Wheel: Inventions and Reinventions
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In this book, Richard W. Bulliet focuses on three major phases in the evolution of the wheel and...
An Unrestored Woman: And Other Stories
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In An Unrestored Woman, the partition of India and Pakistan in 1947 cuts a jagged path through the...
The Beheading and Other True Stories: My Shocking Journey Through the Savagery of the Modern-Day Middle East
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'The Beheading' is the title piece of this spectacular collection of true stories and commentaries....
Game of Queens: The Women Who Made Sixteenth-Century Europe
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A BBC History magazine Book of the Year and an amazon.com Best Book of the Month Two childhood...