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116661) Joheved
Author
Series
Rashi's daughters volume 1
Publisher
Plume
Pub. Date
2007, c2005
Physical Desc
xvi, 359 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
In 1068, the scholar Salomon ben Isaac returns home to Troyes, France, to take over the family winemaking business and embark on a path that will indelibly influence the Jewish worldwriting the first Talmud commentary, and secretly teaching Talmud to his daughters. Joheved, the eldest of his three girls, finds her mind and spirit awakened by religious study, but, knowing the risk, she must keep her passion for learning and prayer hidden. When she...
116663) Catherine the Great
Author
Publisher
Ecco
Pub. Date
2009
Physical Desc
xv, 432 p., [16] p. of plates : ill. (some col.), maps, ports. ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
A portrait of the eighteenth-century Russian empress documents her rise from a little-known German princess to become one of Europe's most celebrated monarchs, in an account that offers insight into her public and private achievements
Author
Series
Publisher
Headline
Pub. Date
2008
Physical Desc
xxi, 490 p. : map ; 18 cm.
Language
English
Description
Isabella, Queen of England, has been dispatched to France in an attempt to bring about peace between the two countries, and Baldwin must accompany her. But the day after their arrival, a servant is found murdered, with Baldwin's dagger lying next to the body. As Baldwin struggles to prove his innocence, the killer strikes again. With so many English enemies gathering in Paris, will Baldwin be able to expose the culprit in time to protect the English...
Series
Publisher
National Geographic
Pub. Date
[2008]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (50 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
1.5 million acres are home to some of the most unusual creatures on the planet, carnivorous plants, amphibious birds, fish that breathe air and cacti that grow in water. Go beyond the tourist hotspots to explore the hidden reaches of this amazing National Park as never before
Author
Publisher
Bud Withers
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
302 pages ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
"In 1971, the University of Oregon departed from routine and went three time zones east to hire a new basketball coach. Dick Harter had been abundantly successful at Ivy League Pennsylvania, assembling a team that went undefeated in the regular season of 1970-71. When he got to Oregon, expressly to challenge the dynastic UCLA Bruins, he set about turning the Ducks into the most aggressive team on the West Coast, an outfit that dove for every loose...
116669) Education in Nazi Germany
Author
Publisher
Berg
Pub. Date
2010
Physical Desc
ix, 157 p. ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
The author examines how Nazism took shape in the classroom via school textbook policy, physical education and lessons on Nationalist Socialist heroes and anti-Semitism.--From publisher description
Author
Publisher
Pegasus Books
Pub. Date
2024.
Physical Desc
xiii, 317 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Plunge into the intimate history of cosmetics, and discover how, for centuries, women have turned to make-up as a rich source of creativity, community and resistance. The Renaissance was an era obsessed with appearances. And beauty culture from the time has left traces that give us a window into an overlooked realm of history - revealing everything from 16th-century women's body anxieties to their sophisticated botanical and chemical knowledge. 'How...
116671) The White Queen
Pub. Date
2014
Physical Desc
3 videodiscs (approximately 580 minutes) : DVD video, sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A riveting portrayal of one of the most dramatic and turbulent times in English history. A story of love and lust, seduction and deception, betrayal and murder, it is uniquely told through the perspective of three different, yet equally relentless women - Elizabeth Woodville, Margaret Beaufort and Anne Neville. In their quest for power, they will scheme, manipulate and seduce their way onto the English throne.
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
xii, 388 pages, 8 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations (chiefly color), map ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"Meave Leakey's thrilling, high-stakes memoir-written with her daughter Samira-encapsulates her distinguished life and career on the front lines of the hunt for our human origins, a quest made all the more notable by her stature as a woman in a highly competitive, male-dominated field"--
116675) Photography: an independent art : photographs from the Victoria and Albert Museum, 1839-1996
Author
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Pub. Date
1997
Physical Desc
208 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 30 cm
Language
English
116676) Free to run
Publisher
MPI Home Video
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (104 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Explores the history of running and the movements that took running from stadiums to the streets.
116677) My people, the Sioux
Author
Publisher
University of Nebraska Press
Pub. Date
1975
Physical Desc
xx, 288 p. ; 21 cm
Language
English
116679) The next American frontier
Author
Publisher
Times Books
Pub. Date
c1983
Physical Desc
324 p. ; 24 cm
Language
English
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