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Women Studies

Legal Codes and Talking Trees Indigenous Women's Sovereignty in the Sonoran and Puget Sound Borderlands, 1854-1946

Jagodinsky Katrina

ISBN: HB: 9780300211689, Yale University Press, April 2016
360 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 23 black&white illus.

Katrina Jagodinsky's enlightening history is the first to focus on indigenous women of the Southwest and Pacific Northwest and the ways they dealt with the challenges posed by the existing legal regimes of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. In m...

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Education

Women Studies

Parenting to a Degree How Family Matters for College Women's Success

Hamilton

ISBN: HB: 9780226183367, University of Chicago Press, April 2016
224 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 1 figure, 10 tables

Helicopter parents – the kind that continue to hover even in college – are one of the most ridiculed figures of twenty-first-century parenting, criticized for creating entitled young adults who boomerang back home. But do involved parents really dama...

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Women Studies

Jewish Studies

Girls of Liberty The Struggle for Suffrage in Mandatory Palestine

Shilo Margalit

ISBN: PB: 9781611688863, University of Chicago Press, Brandeis University Press, April 2016
232 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Following the Balfour Declaration and the British conquest of Palestine (1917-1918), the small Jewish community that lived there wanted to establish an elected assembly as its representative body. The issue that hindered this aim was whether women wo...

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Biography & Memoires

Women Studies

Coolie Woman The Odyssey of Indenture

Bahadur Gaiutra

ISBN: PB: 9781849046602, ISBN: HB: 9781849042772, Hurst Publishers, April 2016
296 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! In 1903 a Brahmin woman sailed from India to Guyana as a 'coolie', the name the British gave to the million indentured labourers they recruited for sugar plantations worldwide after slavery ended. The woman, who claimed no husb...

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Survival & Combat Guide

Women Studies

Woman's Guide to the Wild Your Complete Outdoor Handbook

McConnell Ruby

ISBN: PB: 9781632170057, GMC Group, Sasquatch Books, April 2016
256 pp., 19x14 cm, illus.

Not for sale in selected countries! For women who enjoy hiking, camping, backpacking and other outdoor recreation -or those inspired by Cheryl Strayed's 'Wild' – this is the definitive guide to being a woman in the great outdoors. This friendly han...

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Photography

Women Studies

Through Women's Eyes From Diane Arbus to Letizia Battaglia. Passion and Courage

Miglietti Francesca Alfano

ISBN: HB: 9788831722810, DAP, Marsilio Editori, February 2016
288 pp., 25.7x20.8 cm, 80 colour illus., 151 black&white illus.

Not for sale in Estonia! This thorough and accessible introduction to the greatest women photographers from the 20th century to today features the most important works of 25 artists. Women have played an important role in the development of photogr...

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Women Studies

Sport

Body Toning for Women Bodyweight Training / Nutrition / Motivation: 21 Days is All it Takes

Wyndham-Read Lucy

ISBN: PB: 9781782550716, Bookport, Meyer & Meyer Sport, January 2016
208 pp., 24x16.5 cm, 3 colour illus., 246 black&white illus., 3 tables

Every woman wants to work on some part of her body. Whether you are looking to shape your arms, bust, back, abs, bottom, or legs, Lucy Wyndham-Read's book on body toning will help you get the perfect gym body. Within just 21 days, you will see notice...

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