Heroines of the Qing introduces an array of Chinese women from the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries who were powerful, active subjects of their own lives and who wrote themselves as the heroines of their exemplary stories. Traditionally, "exemplary women" (lienu)-heroic martyrs, chaste widows, and faithful maidens, for example-were written into official dynastic histories fo...(展开全部)

The Inside Story of the Venture Capital World as Told by the Industry＇s Elite PlayersArguably today＇s hottest industry, venture capital is a dynamic engine of wealth creation that has contributed both

A New York Times/New York Public Library Best Illustrated Children's Book of 2022 ★Everyone knows how "Little Red Riding Hood" goes. But Grandpa keeps getting the story all wrong, with hilarious results! "Once upon a time, there was a little girl called Little Yellow Riding Hood—" "Not yellow! It's Red Riding Hood!" So begins the story of a grandpa playfully recounting the well...(展开全部)

This groundbreaking work provides an original and deeply knowledgeable overview of Chinese women and gender relations during the Qing Dynasty (1644–1912). Bret Hinsch explores in detail the central aspects of female life in this era, including family and marriage, motherhood, political power, work, inheritance, education, religious roles, and ethics. He considers not only women...(展开全部)

Admirers of The Color Purple will find in these stories more evidenceof Walker's power to depict black women--women who varygreatly in background yet are bound together by what they share incommon.Taken as a whole, their stories form an enlightening, disturbing view of life in the South.

Admirers of The Color Purple will find in these stories more evidenceof Walker's power to depict black women--women who varygreatly in background yet are bound together by what they share incommon.Taken as a whole, their stories form an enlightening, disturbing view of life in the South.

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In 1918, right after the Russian Revolution, the highly gifted student Lazarus Lindt comes to Moscow carrying with him nothing but lice and a notebook. The Women of Lazarus tells a big part of Lazarus' life story, following three important women in it: his mentor's wife, his own young wife and their granddaughter. Set against the background of the twentieth century, Moscow and ...(展开全部)

In 1918, right after the Russian Revolution, the highly gifted student Lazarus Lindt comes to Moscow carrying with him nothing but lice and a notebook. The Women of Lazarus tells a big part of Lazarus' life story, following three important women in it: his mentor's wife, his own young wife and their granddaughter. Set against the background of the twentieth century, Moscow and ...(展开全部)

"That one was the most beautiful machine I had ever laid eyes on." In a world where humans are the minority and androids have created their own civilization, a wandering storyteller meets the beautiful android Ibis. She tells him seven stories of human/android interaction in order to reveal the secret behind humanity's fall. The stories that Ibis speaks are of the "seven novels...(展开全部)