Amazon Woman

Author : Darcy Gaechter
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2020-03-03
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781643133874

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Amazon Woman by Darcy Gaechter Pdf

An extraordinary and inspiring chronicle of one woman’s harrowing journey to become the first female to kayak the entire Amazon River. Part memoir, part feminist manifesto, Amazon Woman shows what incredible feats we are capable of and will encourage people, especially women, across all backgrounds and ages to find the courage and strength to live the life they’ve imagined. This 148-day journey began on Darcy Gaetcher’s 35th birthday. The emotional waters that would fester and erupt on the ensuing journey was often more challenging to navigate than the mighty river itself. With blistering lips and irradiated fingernails, Darcy would tackle raging Class Five whitewater for twenty-five days straight, barely survived a dynamite-filled canyon being prepared for a new hydroelectric plan. She and her two companions would encounter illegal loggers, narco-traffickers, murderous Shining Path rebels, and ruthless poachers in the black market trade in endangered species. In a desperate attempt meant to give her some pretense of control, Darcy even cut off all her hair before entering Peru’s notoriously dangerous “Red Zone” in hopes of passing for a boy and being seen as less of a target. At once a heart-pounding adventure and a celebration of pushing personal limits, Amazon Woman speaks to all of us feeling trapped by our desk-bound, online society. This a story of finding the courage and strength to challenge nature, cultures, social norms, and oneself.

Author : Kenny Abdo
Publisher : ABDO
Page : 27 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2020-12-15
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781098223861

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Wonder Woman: Amazonian Princess Turned Heroine by Kenny Abdo Pdf

This title focuses on Wonder Woman from the DC universe and gives information related to her backstory, journey, and legacy. This hi-lo title is complete with electrifying and colorful photographs, simple text, glossary, and an index. Aligned to Common Core Standards and correlated to state standards. Fly! is an imprint of Abdo Zoom, a division of ABDO.

Author : Elizabeth Demarest
Publisher : WestBow Press
Page : 86 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2014-12-12
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781490847825

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Amazon Girl by Elizabeth Demarest Pdf

Told with unblinking transparency, Amazon Girl: Dare to Dream vividly portrays a childhood paradise lost, a childlike faith uncovered, and courage forged in heartache. In this book, I share my adventures, my struggles, my hurt as a young girl, and the fulfillment of my dreams. Though I may describe joyful experiences, painful interruptions, and fear of the unknown, each chapter challenges you to never give up on your dreams. I encourage you to hang on to your faith and find the courage to step off your limb of safety and soar into the great adventure that God has for you. With God, nothing is impossible. God is the dream giver, and Hes deposited dreams inside you that only you can fulfill. Take this journey with me, and witness how my dreams became His dreams that are coming true.

Author : Paul Salzman
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 275 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2010-07-12
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781443823623

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Expanding the Canon of Early Modern Women’s Writing by Paul Salzman Pdf

This exciting collection of original essays on early modern women’s writing offers a range of approaches to a growing field. As a whole, the volume introduces readers to a number of writers, such as Mirabai and Liu Rushi, who are virtually invisible in Anglophone scholarship, and to writers who remain little known, such as Elizabeth Melville, Elizabeth Hatton, and Jane Sharpe. The volume also represents critical strategies designed to open up the emergent canon of early modern women’s writing to new approaches, especially those that have consolidated the integration of literary and intellectual history, with an emphasis on religion, legal issues, and questions of genre. The authors expand the methodological possibilities available to approach early modern women who wrote in a diverse number of genres, from letters to poetry, autobiography and prose fiction. The sixteen essays are a major contribution to an area that has attracted the interest of a number of fields, including literary studies, history, cultural studies, and women’s studies.

Author : Kevin Curran
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 231 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2016-05-06
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781317100232

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Marriage, Performance, and Politics at the Jacobean Court by Kevin Curran Pdf

Marriage, Performance, and Politics at the Jacobean Court constitutes the first full-length study of Jacobean nuptial performance, a hitherto unexplored branch of early modern theater consisting of masques and entertainments performed for high-profile weddings. Scripted by such writers as Ben Jonson, Thomas Campion, George Chapman, and Francis Beaumont, these entertainments were mounted for some of the most significant political events of James's English reign. Here Kevin Curran analyzes all six of the elite weddings celebrated at the Jacobean court, reading the masques and entertainments that headlined these events alongside contemporaneously produced panegyrics, festival books, sermons, parliamentary speeches, and other sources. The study shows how, collectively, wedding entertainments turned the idea of union into a politically versatile category of national representation and offered new ways of imagining a specifically Jacobean form of national identity by doing so.

Author : Henry Boltinoff,Bob Kanigher,Jack Schiff,Julius Schwartz
Publisher : DC Comics
Page : 28 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2017-02-02
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN : PKEY:T0854301125001

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Wonder Woman (1942-) #112 by Henry Boltinoff,Bob Kanigher,Jack Schiff,Julius Schwartz Pdf

This Golden Age comic features Wonder Woman granting wishes for aiding America and includes guest appearances by Superboy, Wonder Girl and more!

Author : Thomas David Boslooper
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 1980
Category : Equality
ISBN : UCSC:32106009833010

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The Image of Woman by Thomas David Boslooper Pdf

Author : Jennifer Smith
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2018-12-14
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781684480340

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Modern Spanish Women as Agents of Change by Jennifer Smith Pdf

This volume brings together cutting-edge research on modern Spanish women as writers, activists, and embodiments of cultural change, and simultaneously honors Maryellen Bieder’s invaluable scholarly contribution to the field. The essays are innovative in their consideration of lesser-known women writers, focus on women as political activists, and use of post-colonialism, queer theory, and spatial theory to examine the period from the Enlightenment until World War II. The contributors study women as agents and representations of social change in a variety of genres, including short stories, novels, plays, personal letters, and journalistic pieces. Canonical authors such as Emilia Pardo Bazán, Leopoldo Alas “Clarín,” and Carmen de Burgos are considered alongside lesser known writers and activists such as María Rosa Gálvez, Sofía Tartilán, and Caterina Albert i Paradís. The critical analyses are situated within their specific socio-historical context, and shed new light on nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Spanish literature, history, and culture. Published by Bucknell University Press. Distributed worldwide by Rutgers University Press.

Author : Tabitha Kenlon
Publisher : Anthem Press
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2020-03-31
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781785273155

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Conduct Books and the History of the Ideal Woman by Tabitha Kenlon Pdf

The longest-running war is the battle over how women should behave. “Conduct Books and the History of the Ideal Woman” examines six centuries of advice literature, analyzing the print origins of gendered expectations that continue to inform our thinking about women’s roles and abilities. Close readings of numerous conduct manuals from Britain and America, written by men and women, explain and contextualize the legacy of sexism as represented in prescriptive writing for women from 1372 to the present. While existing period-specific studies of conduct manuals consider advice literature within the society that wrote and read them, “Conduct Books and the History of the Ideal Woman” provides the only analysis of both the volumes themselves and the larger debates taking place within their pages across the centuries. Combining textual literary analysis with a social history sensibility while remaining accessible to expert and novice, this book will help readers understand the on-going debate about the often-contradictory guidelines for female behavior.

Author : Harry Alfred Long
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 378 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 1883
Category : Names, Personal
ISBN : NYPL:33433081810701

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Personal and Family Names by Harry Alfred Long Pdf

Author : Steve Korte
Publisher : Capstone
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2017-12-11
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781543537086

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Wonder Woman and the Monsters of Myth by Steve Korte Pdf

Minotaur. Hydra. Anansi. These fearsome monsters of mythology have captivated people for thousands of years. But did you know they also play a part in the life and adventures of Wonder Woman? Get ready to explore how Greek, Roman, African, and other world mythologies are woven into the fabric of the Princess of the Amazons’ backstory. The connections will surprise you!

Author : David V. Mammina
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 656 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2013-07-19
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780615633060

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The Angels of Resistance (Hardcover) by David V. Mammina Pdf

One thousand years after the assumed apocalypse, a demonic army known as the Demon Plague has invaded the new world. With various races and cultures split by their differences, one man inspires them to unite in order to defeat the unfathomable evil force. Experience the epic story that follows these heroes into the darkness. Join the resistance and find out what it takes to defeat demons.

Author : Rebecca M. Wilkin
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 279 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2016-12-05
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781351871600

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Women, Imagination and the Search for Truth in Early Modern France by Rebecca M. Wilkin Pdf

Grounded in medical, juridical, and philosophical texts of sixteenth- and seventeenth-century France, this innovative study tells the story of how the idea of woman contributed to the emergence of modern science. Rebecca Wilkin focuses on the contradictory representations of women from roughly the middle of the sixteenth century to the middle of the seventeenth, and depicts this period as one filled with epistemological anxiety and experimentation. She shows how skeptics, including Montaigne, Marie de Gournay, and Agrippa von Nettesheim, subverted gender hierarchies and/or blurred gender difference as a means of questioning the human capacity to find truth; while "positivists" who strove to establish new standards of truth, for example Johann Weyer, Jean Bodin, and Guillaume du Vair, excluded women from the search for truth. The book constitutes a reevaluation of the legacy of Cartesianism for women, as Wilkin argues that Descartes' opening of the search for truth "even to women" was part of his appropriation of skeptical arguments. This book challenges scholars to revise deeply held notions regarding the place of women in the early modern search for truth, their role in the development of rational thought, and the way in which intellectuals of the period dealt with the emergence of an influential female public.

Author : James Aitken Meigs
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 122 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 1857
Category : Craniology
ISBN : UOM:39015038078351

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Catalogue of Human Crania, in the Collection of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia by James Aitken Meigs Pdf

Author : George Lachmann Mosse
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780195126600

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The Image of Man by George Lachmann Mosse Pdf

Men should be brave, daring, cool under fire and honourable. Who says so? This book by a major US historian sets out to show how our idea of manliness evolved and how long these qualities have been the norm.