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  • Business and Professional Women of Colonial America
    Mary Ellen Snodgrass
    This work plumbs two centuries of androcentric culture to reveal the women who defied convention as they built a career and earned a living. These 146 female entrepreneurs engaged in a wide range of commercial endeavors during the French and Indian War and the American Revolution: from sorting fish, vending brooms and baskets, and marketing plum cake and West Indian fruit to...
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    71,86 €

  • Ken Follett
    Mary Ellen Snodgrass
    This book surveys the stellar writing by the Welsh master Ken Follett. The 76 A to Z topics analyze 35 published works and highlight the intangibles--parenting, achievers, literacy--alongside historical themes of plague, healing, religion and spies. Stylistic touches appear in entries on secondary characters, villains, sense impressions, names, humor and language. Details au...
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    73,20 €

  • Witch Trials
    Mary Ellen Snodgrass
    This chronological reference compendium traces accusations, punishments, and the investigation of occultism from sorcery inquiries in 323 BCE Athens to the modern day. The text provides detailed information on actual hearings, torture, and death sentences for cases both famous and unknown. Primary sources--media, correspondence, adjudication--reveal the appalling injustices...
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    139,18 €

  • Caribbean Women and Their Art
    Mary Ellen Snodgrass
    This is a chronology of creative contributions made by Caribbean women. Among the arts covered in this volume are quilting, beadwork, dancing, diaries and memoirs, folk music, landscaping, sculpture, theatrics, etc. Entries are cross-referenced and include further readings drawn from an exhaustive bibliography of sources. ...
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    45,93 €

  • Women Warriors in History
    Mary Ellen Snodgrass
    History paints war out to be a man’s business, but there is an army of women warriors who stand between the lines of history books, waiting to be seen. This biographical dictionary tells the story of the females who armed themselves against threats to self, family, home and country. Spanning 17 periods of world history, it compiles the daring deeds of 1,622 female fighters, ...
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    139,91 €

  • Women’s Art of the British Empire
    Mary Ellen Snodgrass
    This is a resource about the creative contributions made by women of the British Empire. Among the arts covered in this volume are quilting, beadwork, dancing, diaries and memoirs, folk music, landscaping, sculpture, theatrics, etc. Entries are cross-referenced and include further readings drawn from an exhaustive bibliography of sources. ...
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    45,81 €

  • Octavia E. Butler
    Mary Ellen Snodgrass
    Slow to rise in the literary world, Octavia Estelle Butler cultivated musings on earth’s future, reaching massive critical acclaim in the process. This companion will complement book club discussions and classroom lessons for the closest possible readings of Butler’s science fiction and her texts on racism and pollution. A maven of speculative fiction so prescient that it ho...
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    73,38 €

  • Asian Women Artists
    Mary Ellen Snodgrass
    This book is a guide to identifying female creators and artistic movements from all parts of Asia, offering a broad spectrum of media and presentation representing a wide variety of milieus, regions, peoples and genres. Arranged chronologically by artist birth date, entries date as far back as Leizu’s Chinese sericulture in 2700 BCE and continue all the way to the March 2021...
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    109,84 €

  • Edwidge Danticat
    Mary Ellen Snodgrass
    A comet in the mounting firmament of third-world, non-white, female writers, Edwidge Danticat stands apart. An accomplished trilingual children’s and YA author, she is also an activist, op-ed and cinema writer, and keynote speaker. Much of her work introduces the world to the cultural uniqueness of Haiti, the first black republic, and the elements of African heritage, langu...
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    73,33 €

  • Television’s Outlander
    Mary Ellen Snodgrass
    Over its five seasons on the air, the televised series Outlander has combined romance, adventure, history, and time travel into a classic saga of love, war, and the ties that bind family together. After surviving the 1746 uprising of the Scottish Highlanders, the intrigue-ridden Paris of Charles Stuart, and a sea voyage across the Caribbean, Claire and Jamie Fraser finally s...
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    58,80 €

  • Rachel Carson
    Mary Ellen Snodgrass
    Rachel Carson was a marine biologist credited with the founding of the ecology movement and the rise in ecofeminism. One of her most popular works was Silent Spring, which challenged the use of DDT (an insecticide infamous for its negative environmental effects) and questioned the claims of modern industry. Carson also wrote essays, reviews, articles, and speeches to educate...
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    88,14 €

  • Marion Zimmer Bradley
    Mary Ellen Snodgrass
    This literary companion surveys the young adult works of American author Marion Zimmer Bradley, primarily known for her work in the fantasy genre. An A to Z arrangement includes coverage of novels (The Catch Trap, Survey Ship, The Fall of Atlantis, The Firebrand, The Forest House and The Mists of Avalon), the graphic narrative Warrior Woman, the Lythande novella The Gratitud...
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    73,41 €

  • Lee Smith
    Mary Ellen Snodgrass
    This literary companion surveys the works of Lee Smith, a Southern author lauded for her autobiographical familiarity with Appalachian settings and characters. Her dialogue captures the distinct voices of mountain people and their perceptions of local and world events, ranging from the Civil War to ecology and modernization. Mental and physical disability and the Southern cu...
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    73,08 €

  • Gary Paulsen
    Mary Ellen Snodgrass
    McFarland Companions to Young Adult Literature American novelist Gary Paulsen is best known for his young adult fiction, including bestsellers Nightjohn, Soldier’s Heart, and Woods Runner. From his trenchant prose in The Rifle and The Foxman to the witty escapades of Harris and Me and Zero to Sixty, Paulsen crafts stories with impressive range. The tender scenes in The Quil...
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    73,06 €

  • World Epidemics
    Mary Ellen Snodgrass
    In its expanded second edition, this chronology examines the effects of epidemic illness and death on human culture from 2700 bce to 2017. Entries summarize incidents of contagion across the globe, including symptoms, treatment, prevention and demographics, as well as biographical information on notable people who identified and battled disease. Entries feature citations fro...
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    139,61 €

  • Brian Friel
    Mary Ellen Snodgrass
    Surveying the life, work and accolades of Irish playwright Brian Friel, this literary companion investigates his personal and professional relationships and his literary topics and themes, such as belonging, violence, patriarchy and hypocrisy. Character summaries describe his most significant figures, particularly St. Columba, the victims of Derry’s Bloody Sunday, and Hugh...
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    73,11 €

  • Settlers of the American West
    Mary Ellen Snodgrass
    Depictions of the American west in literature, art and film perpetuate romantic stereotypes of the pioneers--the gold-crazed ’49er, the intrepid sodbuster. While ennobling the woodsman, the farmwife and the lawman, this tunnel vision of American history has shortchanged the whaler, the assayer, the innkeeper and the inventor. The westward advance of the trailblazers created ...
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    58,65 €

  • Isabel Allende
    Mary Ellen Snodgrass
    Isabel Allende--'la Famosa' to her fellow Chileans--is the world’s most widely read Spanish language author. Her career coincides with the emergence of multiculturalism and global feminism, and her powerfully honest, revelatory works touch the pulse points of humankind. Her bravura study of the interwoven roles of women in family history opens the minds of outsiders to the s...
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    73,60 €

  • Leslie Marmon Silko
    Mary Ellen Snodgrass / McFarland & Co. 133330
    This companion, appropriate for the lay reader and researcher alike, provides analysis of characters, plots, humor, symbols, philosophies, and classic themes from the writings and tellings of Leslie Marmon Silko, the celebrated novelist, poet, memoirist and Native American wisewoman. The text opens with an annotated chronology of Silko’s multiracial heritage, life and works,...
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    88,37 €

  • Peter Carey
    Mary Ellen Snodgrass
    Peter Carey, writer of such celebrated works as Oscar and Lucinda, True History of the Kelly Gang, and His Illegal Self, is one of Australia’s most critically acclaimed novelists. Deeply concerned with South Pacific culture, especially the lives of its most downtrodden citizens, Carey uses popular art as a tool for raising the consciousness of readers. This book provides an ...
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    88,19 €

  • Jamaica Kincaid
    Mary Ellen Snodgrass
    Changing her name early in her career because her parents disapproved of her writing, Jamaica Kincaid crossed audiences to embrace feminist, American, postcolonial and world literature. This book offers an introduction and guided overview of her characters, plots, humor, symbols, and classic themes. Designed for students, fans, librarians, and teachers, the 84 A-to-Z entries...
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    73,41 €

  • Kaye Gibbons
    Mary Ellen Snodgrass
    With novels like Ellen Foster and A Virtuous Woman, award-winning writer Kaye Gibbons has gained both critical acclaim and a large, devoted following among readers. This literary companion equips the reader with information about characters, plots, dates, allusions, literary motifs, and themes from the bestselling author’s works. After an annotated chronology of Gibbons’ lif...
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    88,28 €

  • A Multicultural Dictionary of Literary Terms
    Gary Carey / Mary Ellen Snodgrass
    What is a corrido? What is the difference between a tanka, a choka and a renga? What does it mean when you’re doing the dozens? What is a Bildungsroman? This dictionary of literary terms provides the student, scholar, librarian, or researcher with definitions, explanations, and models of the styles and forms of works of literature. Along with novel, tone, tragedy, and scan...
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    43,85 €

  • Walter Dean Myers
    Mary Ellen Snodgrass
    Walter Dean Myers, preeminent author of teen fiction biography and verse, refines the image of black characters that are frequently trivialized or vilified in juvenile literature, advertising, television, and film. From his saga The Glory Field to his novel The Young Landlords, Myers’s canon surveys the complex realm of the teen years as colliding settings in home, school, a...
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    73,47 €

  • World Shores and Beaches
    Mary Ellen Snodgrass
    Much diversity exists among the beaches and shores of the world. Some have features as unique as fingerprints, from the cliff divers of Acapulco to the Samoan herbalists of Ofu Island. In Vietnam, Halong Bay charged aboriginal imaginations with its sea corridors, rock spindles, and sculpted tors. At Punta Espinosa, Ferdinanda, life’s clear model of biological engineering inf...
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    73,47 €

  • Amy Tan
    Mary Ellen Snodgrass
    In the mid-1980s, Amy Tan was a successful but unhappy corporate speechwriter. By the end of the decade, she was perched firmly atop the best-seller lists with The Joy Luck Club, with more popular novels to follow. Tan’s work--once pigeonholed as ethnic literature--resonates with universal themes that cross cultural and ideological boundaries, and prove wildly successful wit...
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    73,20 €

  • Barbara Kingsolver
    Mary Ellen Snodgrass
    Barbara Kingsolver--a writer of fiction, documentary, verse and essay--supports entertaining stories with profound themes of ecological responsibility and defense of human rights. This work is an introduction and overview of the author’s literary achievements, opening with an annotated chronology of Kingsolver’s life, activism, works, and awards, followed by a family tree....
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    73,23 €

  • August Wilson
    Mary Ellen Snodgrass
    Award-winning African-American playwright August Wilson created a cultural chronicle of black America through such works as Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom, Fences, Joe Turner’s Come and Gone, The Piano Lesson, and Two Trains Running. The authentic ring of wit, anecdote, homily, and plaint proved that a self-educated Pittsburgh ghetto native can grow into a revered conduit for a ce...
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    73,33 €

  • Literary Treks
    Mary Ellen Snodgrass
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    55,08 €

  • Late Achievers
    Mary Ellen Snodgrass
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    50,91 €