Sheila: 1246 books
Dreamers of a New Day
Women Who Invented the Twentieth Century
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2011
From the 1880s to the 1920s, a profound social awakening among women extended the possibilities of change far beyond the struggle for the vote. Amid the growth of globalized trade, mass production, immigration and urban slums, American and British women broke with custom and prejudice. Taking off...
Man's Dominion
The Rise of Religion and the Eclipse of Women's Rights
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2013
In this feminist critique of the politics of religion, Sheila Jeffreys argues that the renewed rise of religion is harmful to women’s human rights. The book seeks to rekindle the criticism of religion as the founding ideology of patriarchy.
Focusing on the three monotheistic religions; Judaism,...
A Woman's Heart for God
Drawing Closer to the Lover of Your Soul
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2013
Sheila Cragg knows of what she writes. She is the primary caregiver to her disabled and ailing husband and has also experienced some of life's deepest setbacks. But through all of those circumstances, she has drawn increasingly closer to the Lover of her soul and developed a rich, devotional lifestyle...
Let Go
Live Free of the Burdens All Women Know
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2009
Burdened. The word alone makes shoulders sink. It slows down our lives. It clouds our vision. It is the result of so many memories, grudges, fears, uncertainty, and stress. It is heavy.
"Come to me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest." (Matt 11:28)
Overworked?...
Designs on Nature
Science and Democracy in Europe and the United States
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2011
Biology and politics have converged today across much of the industrialized world. Debates about genetically modified organisms, cloning, stem cells, animal patenting, and new reproductive technologies crowd media headlines and policy agendas. Less noticed, but no less important, are the rifts that...
From the Ground Up
Environmental Racism and the Rise of the Environmental Justice Movement
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2000
When Bill Clinton signed an Executive Order on Environmental Justice in 1994, the phenomenon of environmental racism--the disproportionate impact of environmental hazards, particularly toxic waste dumps and polluting factories, on people of color and low-income communities--gained unprecedented recognition....
Marrying the Hangman
A True Story of Privilege, Marriage and Murder
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2014
The account of the murder of Diane Whitmore Pikul describes how her wealthy and violent Wall Street husband murdered her and then won custody of her children while under indictment for her murder.
“A young mother, so full of promise, is killed by the ‘perfect’ husband. Sheila Weller takes...
by Susan C. Shea, Auralee Wallace, Judith Flanders
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2018
Looking for a new cozy mystery author to love? Dive in to this collection of excerpts from the Minotaur Books/St. Martin's Press SPRING 2018 season (May-July). The Cozy Case Files collection includes:
Dressed for Death in Burgundy by Susan Shea
Down the Aisle with Murder by Auraleee Wallace
A...
by Sheila Whiteley, Shara Rambarran
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2016
Has the virtual invaded the realm of the real, or has the real expanded its definition to include what once was characterized as virtual? With the continual evolution of digital technology, this distinction grows increasingly hazy. But perhaps the distinction has become obsolete; perhaps it is time...
by Sheila Hardy
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2013
Fascinating insight into how babies were raised in the 1950sFrom how to dress baby (matinee coats and bonnets) to how to administer feeds (strictly four-hourly if following the Truby King method), the child-rearing methods of the 1950s are a fascinating insight into the lives of women in that decade. Here...
The Psychological Development of Girls and Women
Rethinking change in time
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2014
Choice Recommended Read
This thoroughly revised new edition updates Sheila Greene's original transformative account of the psychological development of girls and women and the central role of time in shaping human experience. Greene critically reviews traditional and contemporary theoretical...
The Law of the Looking Glass
Cinema in Poland, 1896–1939
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2008
The Law of the Looking Glass: Cinema in Poland, 1896–1939 reveals the complex relationship between nationhood, national language, and national cinema in Europe before World War II. Author Sheila Skaff describes how the major issues facing the region before World War I, from the relatively slow pace...
Reading the Difficulties
Dialogues with Contemporary American Innovative Poetry
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2014
The bold essays that make up Reading the Difficulties offer case studies in and strategies for reading innovative poetry.
Definitions of what constitutes innovative poetry are innumerable and are offered from every quarter. Some critics and poets argue that innovative poetry concerns free association...
Rise and Fall
A Memoir of Drug Abuse
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2014
Sheila Prior has asked herself a hundred times how she raised three children in the same house, and one of them ended up in county lockup awaiting sentencing and prison. The same rules applied to all three children, and yet her son took a deadly path. In Rise and Fall, Prior and her son tell the story...