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  1. The Astronomer and the Witch: Johannes Kepler's Fight for His Mother (häftad)

    ISBN: 9780198736783 - UTGIVEN: 2017-12

    Johannes Kepler (1571-1630) was one of the most admired astronomers who ever lived and a key figure in the scientific revolution. A defender of Copernicus' s sun-centered universe, he famously discovered that planets move in ellipses, and defined the three laws of planetary motion. Perhaps less well[...]

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    från 121.00 kr
  2. From Mother to Son: The Selected Letters of Marie de l'Incarnation to Claude Martin

    ISBN: 9780199386581 - UTGIVEN: 2015-06

    Marie de l'Incarnation (1599 - 1672), renowned French mystic and founder of the Ursulines in Canada, abandoned her son, Claude Martin, when he was a mere eleven years old to dedicate herself completely to a consecrated religious life. In 1639, Marie migrated to the struggling French colony at Qu[...]

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    från 637.00 kr
  3. Arming Mother Nature (Inbunden)

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    Jacob Darwin Hamblin

    ISBN: 9780199740055 - UTGIVEN: 201306

    Famines. Diseases. Natural catastrophes. In 1945, scientists imagined these as the future faces of war. The United States and its allies prepared for a global struggle against the Soviet Union by using science to extend "total war" ideas to the natural environment. Biological and radiological wea[...]

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    från 229.00 kr
  4. Are You My Mother? (Inbunden)

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    Alison Bechdel

    ISBN: 9780224093521 - UTGIVEN: 201205

    Alison Bechdel's Fun Home was a literary phenomenon: 'an extraordinarily intimate account of family secrets that manages to be shocking, unsettling and life-affirming at the same time', as Sarah Walters wrote in the Guardian. The Times said it was 'incontestibly the graphic book of the year', while [...]

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    från 176.00 kr
  5. Mother Earth (häftad)

    ISBN: 9780226293721 - UTGIVEN: 1991-07

    "The earth is my mother, and on her bosom I shall repose." Attributed to Tecumseh in the early 1800s, this statement is frequently cited to uphold the view, long and widely proclaimed in scholarly and popular literature, that Mother Earth is an ancient and central Native American figure. In this ra[...]

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    från 256.00 kr
  6. My Mother Was A Computer (Pocket)

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    N. Katherine Hayles

    ISBN: 9780226321486 - UTGIVEN: 200510

    We live in a world, according to N Katherine Hayles, where new languages are constantly emerging, proliferating, and fading into obsolescence. These are languages of our own making: the programming languages written in code for the intelligent machines we call computers. Hayles' latest exploration p[...]

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    från 173.00 kr
  7. Mother Camp (Häftad)

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    Esther Newton

    ISBN: 9780226577609 - UTGIVEN: 197905

    For two years Ester Newton did field research in the world of drag queens--homosexual men who make a living impersonating women. Newton spent time in the noisy bars, the chaotic dressing rooms, and the cheap apartments and hotels that make up the lives of drag queens, interviewing informants whose t[...]

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    från 220.00 kr
  8. From Mother and Daughter (Pocket)

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    Madeleine Des Roches, Catherine Des Roches, Anne R. Larsen

    ISBN: 9780226723389 - UTGIVEN: 2006-05

    Among the best-known and most prolific French women writers of the sixteenth century, Madeleine (1520 - 87) and Catherine (1542 - 87) des Roches were celebrated not only for their uncommonly strong mother-daughter bond but also for their bold assertion of poetic authority for women in the realm of b[...]

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    från 267.00 kr
  9. Mother of Writing

    ISBN: 9780226762876 - UTGIVEN: 1990-06

    In February of 1971, in the Laotian village of Nam Chia, a forty-one year old farmer named Shong Lue Yang was assassinated by government soldiers. Shong Lue claimed to have been descended of God and given the mission of delivering the first true Hmong alphabet. Many believed him to be the Hmong peop[...]

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    från 239.00 kr
  10. Church Mother

    ISBN: 9780226979670 - UTGIVEN: 2006-05

    Imbued with character and independence, strength and articulateness, humor and conviction, abundant biblical knowledge and intense compassion, Katharina Schutz Zell (1498 - 1562) was an outspoken religious reformer in sixteenth-century Germany who campaigned for the right of clergy to marry and the [...]

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    från 274.00 kr
  11. Virgin Mother Goddesses of Antiquity

    ISBN: 9780230113121 - UTGIVEN: 2016-10

    This study of various female deities of Graeco-Roman antiquity is the first to provide evidence that primary goddesses were conceived of as virgin mothers in the earliest layers of their cults. By taking feminist analysis of divinities further, this book provides a fresh angle on our understanding o[...]

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    från 253.00 kr
  12. The Midwife-Mother Relationship (Häftad)

    ISBN: 9780230577367 - UTGIVEN: 201009

    Covering completely new topics areas, including the effects of emotional labour, poverty and health policy, the new edition of this ground-breaking text brings together classic and current research to establish key tenets for maternity care within hospital and home. It remains the definitive guide t[...]

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    från 289.00 kr
  13. Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother

    ISBN: 9780230748101 - UTGIVEN: 2015-06

    Written with complete access to the Queen Mother's personal letters and diaries, William Shawcross's riveting biography is the truly definitive account of this remarkable woman, whose life spanned the twentieth century. Elizabeth Angela Marguerite Bowes Lyon,the youngest daughter of the Earl of Stra[...]

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    från 196.00 kr
  14. The Knackered Mother's Wine Club (Inbunden)

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    Helen McGinn

    ISBN: 9780230767645 - UTGIVEN: 201302

    Do you: * Frequently panic in the wine aisle and end up reaching for the same old thing. Every. Single. Time? * Simply pick the bottle with the nicest-looking label? * Automatically pick the second-cheapest wine on the wine list? * Feel it may be time to extend your wine horizons beyond Pinot Grigio[...]

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    från 144.00 kr
  15. For A Mother's Sins

    ISBN: 9780230769168 - UTGIVEN: 2015-06

    It is 1870 and railway workers and their families have flocked to the wild and inhospitable moorland known as Batty Green to build a viaduct on the Midland Railway Company's ambitious new Leeds to Carlisle Line. Among them are three very different women - tough widow Molly, honest and God-fearing Ma[...]

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    från 55.00 kr
  16. Hamlet's Mother and Other Women: With a New Preface by the Author (Övrig)

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    Carolyn G. Heilbrun

    ISBN: 9780231071772 - UTGIVEN: 2002-03-28

    Carolyn G. Heilbrun's groundbreaking essay "The Character of Hamlet's Mother" was published in 1957 at a time when few critics thought seriously about women's issues in literature. In the years since, Heilbrun has emerged as a feminist leader through her commitment to women's writing and feminist li[...]

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    från 265.00 kr
  17. Running Mother and Other Stories (Övrig)

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    Professor Songfen Guo

    ISBN: 9780231147347 - UTGIVEN: 2008-10-02

    Guo Songfen's short stories are masterful psychological portraits that play with the echoes of history and the nature of identity. One of the few modernists to truly capture the fallout from such events as the February 28th Incident and the White Terror, Guo Songfen illuminates the quiet core of his[...]

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    från 236.00 kr
  18. Mad Mothers, Bad Mothers, & What a "Good" Mother Would Do

    ISBN: 9780231166751 - UTGIVEN: 2014-04

    When a mother kills her child, we call her a bad mother, but, as this book shows, even mothers who intend to do their children harm are not easily categorized as "mad" or "bad." Maternal love is a complex emotion rich with contradictory impulses and desires, and motherhood is a conflicted state in w[...]

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    från 270.00 kr
  19. You're Not Crazy - It's Your Mother! (Storpocket)

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    Danu Morrigan

    ISBN: 9780232529296 - UTGIVEN: 201207

    Understanding and healing for daughters of narcissistic mothers.

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    från 113.00 kr
  20. Dear Daughter of a Narcissisitic Mother

    ISBN: 9780232532777 - UTGIVEN: 2017-04

    Narcissistic mother's syndrome is a form of narcissistic personality disorder (NPD) which is present in an estimated 0.6-1.0% of the population. The condition, and abusive impact it has on hundreds of thousands of daughters around the world, receives little public attention. Writer Danu Morrigan has[...]

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    från 132.00 kr
  21. Mother Land

    ISBN: 9780241144985 - UTGIVEN: 2017-11

    A darkly hilarious portrait of one dysfunctional American family and its scheming matriarchEveryone in Cape Cod thinks that Mother is a wonderful woman: pious, hard-working, frugal. Everyone except her husband and seven children. To them she is a selfish and petty tyrant -- endlessly comparing her m[...]

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    från 213.00 kr
  22. Mother Land (häftad)

    ISBN: 9780241293539 - UTGIVEN: 2017-06

    A darkly hilarious portrait of one dysfunctional American family and its scheming matriarchEveryone in Cape Cod thinks that Mother is a wonderful woman: pious, hard-working, frugal. Everyone except her husband and seven children. To them she is a selfish and petty tyrant -- endlessly comparing her m[...]

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    från 141.00 kr
  23. Letter to My Mother (häftad)

    ISBN: 9780241339664 - UTGIVEN: 2018-02

    'As you are well aware, we never loved each other in your lifetime. Both of us pretended.' Simenon explores the complexity of parent child relationships and the bitterness of things left unsaid in this stark, confessional piece.Penguin Modern: fifty new books celebrating the pioneering spirit of the[...]

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    från 19.00 kr