
MaryAnn (14 KP) rated The Study Bible for Women, HCSB in Books
Mar 5, 2019

Women and Leadership in Islamic Law: A Critical Analysis of Classical Legal Texts
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Islamic law has traditionally prohibited women from being prayer leaders and heads of state. A small...

The Letters of Rosa Luxemburg
Peter Hudis, Rosa Luxemburg, Annelies Lschitza and Georg Adler
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This is the most comprehensive collection of letters by Rosa Luxemburg ever published in English,...

Mary Stuart
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'Scotland may be a savage nation, Lady, but the English wash their hands in blood.' Mary Stuart...

The Principles of Sufism
A'Ishah Al-Ba'Uniyyah, Th. Emil Homerin and Ros Ballaster
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Aishah al-Bauniyyah of Damascus was one of the great women scholars in Islamic history. Born into a...

Nikki Massey (8 KP) rated The Bletchley Circle - Season 2 in TV
Feb 8, 2019
This series is split in two. In the first part, one of their fellow former colleagues is accused of murder. Can these ladies unravel the truth and prove her innocence? In the second part, as the ladies caused a few headaches for the military in uncovering their secrets and shady ways they find they have lost their security clearances so some of the women are no longer able to carry on with their jobs such as translation work. So they have to give other avenues to make money and it winds one of them up in a very sticky situation.
As before, I really warmed to the characters and was genuinely sad when one moved on to another life. I grew to love these women; I felt they were almost my friends and I actually cared for them and their outcomes.
You could feel the suspense of them closing in on the truth but realising time was running out. It really kept me gripped until the end.
I do love how they made being intelligent cool by being steps ahead of the police but also in forming such bonds with one another.
We could learn a thing or two from these ladies and their bravery.

New Order: Hungarian Poets of the Post 1989 Generation
George Szirtes, Istvan Kemeny, Krisztina Toth and Anna T. Szabo
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This first major gathering of the younger poets of Hungary witnesses to the poetics of a new...

Ross (3284 KP) rated The Last Wish in Books
Apr 13, 2018
The stories are well enough told but it may be the translation that left me struggling to concentrate on the story and my attention wandered. A very short book, this took me longer to read than it should have.

Nationalism and the Imagination
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Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak has distinguished herself as one of the foremost scholars of contemporary...
Global Tarantella: Reinventing Southern Italian Folk Music and Dances
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Tarantella, a genre of Southern Italian folk music and dance, is an international phenomenon--seen...