Mystique

Author : Amanda Quick
Publisher : Bantam
ISBN 13 : 0307575675
Total Pages : 354 pages
Book Rating : 4.78/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mystique written by Amanda Quick and published by Bantam. This book was released on 2009-12-23 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A tantalizing tale of a legendary knight and a headstrong lady whose daring quest for a mysterious crystal will draw them into a whirlwind of treachery–and desire. When the fearsome knight called Hugh the Relentless swept into Lingwood Manor like a storm, everyone cowered–except Lady Alice. Sharp-tongued and unrepentant, the flame haired beauty believed Sir Hugh was not someone to dread but the answer to her dreams. She knew he had come for the dazzling green crystal, knew he would be displeased to find that it was no longer in her possession. Yet Alice had a proposition for the dark and forbidding knight: In return for a dowry that would free Alice and her brother from their uncle's grasp, she would lend her powers of detection to his warrior's skills and together they would recover his treasured stone. But even as Hugh accepted her terms, he added a condition of his own: Lady Alice must agree to a temporary betrothal–one that would soon draw her deep into Hugh's great stone fortress, and into a battle that could threaten their lives...and their only chance at love.

Author : Betty Friedan
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 0393322572
Total Pages : 587 pages
Book Rating : 4.76/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Feminine Mystique written by Betty Friedan and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2001-09-17 with total page 587 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book that changed the consciousness of a country—and the world. Landmark, groundbreaking, classic—these adjectives barely describe the earthshaking and long-lasting effects of Betty Friedan's The Feminine Mystique. This is the book that defined "the problem that has no name," that launched the Second Wave of the feminist movement, and has been awakening women and men with its insights into social relations, which still remain fresh, ever since. A national bestseller, with over 1 million copies sold.

Author : Bill Mayher
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 9780374525132
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.37/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The College Admissions Mystique written by Bill Mayher and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 1998-01-30 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Looks at the broad picture of college admissions and how it fits into contemporary American culture; features an annotated timeline that provides an overview of the admissions year; and presents specific cases and strategies for choosing and applying to colleges.

Author : Betty Friedan
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 0393239187
Total Pages : 592 pages
Book Rating : 4.88/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Feminine Mystique (50th Anniversary Edition) written by Betty Friedan and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2013-02-11 with total page 592 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “If you’ve never read it, read it now.”—Arianna Huffington, O, The Oprah Magazine Landmark, groundbreaking, classic—these adjectives barely do justice to the pioneering vision and lasting impact of The Feminine Mystique. Published in 1963, it gave a pitch-perfect description of “the problem that has no name”: the insidious beliefs and institutions that undermined women’s confidence in their intellectual capabilities and kept them in the home. Writing in a time when the average woman first married in her teens and 60 percent of women students dropped out of college to marry, Betty Friedan captured the frustrations and thwarted ambitions of a generation and showed women how they could reclaim their lives. Part social chronicle, part manifesto, The Feminine Mystique is filled with fascinating anecdotes and interviews as well as insights that continue to inspire. This 50th–anniversary edition features an afterword by best-selling author Anna Quindlen as well as a new introduction by Gail Collins.

Author : Howard Zinn
Publisher : eBookIt.com
ISBN 13 : 1456611097
Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4.95/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Southern Mystique written by Howard Zinn and published by eBookIt.com. This book was released on 2012-06-04 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Howard Zinn examines the politics of the South and his own experiences there. The South has long been surrounded in mystique. In this powerful volume, drawing on Zinn's own experiences teaching in the South and working within the Southern civil rights movement, Zinn challenges the stereotypes surrounding the South, race relations, and how change happens in history. With a new introduction from the author.

Author : Karen J. Leong
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520244230
Total Pages : 262 pages
Book Rating : 4.38/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The China Mystique written by Karen J. Leong and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2005-07-25 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Focusing on three women, Pearl S. Buck, Anna May Wong & Mayling Soong, this book studies the shifting images of China in American culture, particularly during the 1930s & 40s.

Author : Traci Harding
Publisher : HarperCollins Australia
ISBN 13 : 0730444341
Total Pages : 640 pages
Book Rating : 4.43/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Gene Of Isis written by Traci Harding and published by HarperCollins Australia. This book was released on 2010-02-01 with total page 640 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: the spellbinding new trilogy from the author of the bestselling Ancient Future. Mia Montrose is a 21st-century Australian woman with a Doctorate in Ancient Languages who has just scored the most promising job of her career.When Mia experiences mysterious happenings and forces beyond her control, she begins to understand that history does not always stay in the past.Ashlee Granville is a 19th-century clairvoyant, forced to suppress her talents as she enters the marriage market of English upper-class society. But Ashlee is not a girl who likes to bow to the inevitable - she has plans of her own.Lillet du Lac is a 13th-century woman, priestess of an ancient order now protected by the Cathar faith, who are making their last stand against the Roman Catholic Franks at the giant hill fort of Montsegur. As the castle falls, Lillet escapes with something more valuable than any of their lives ... Despite the time, distance and cultures that separate them, these women have several things in common. they belong to an ancient bloodline of Grail kings, protected by a Sion knight named Albray, and they are each compelled to visit an ancient mountain in the Sinai. this mountain contains the keys which may unlock a gateway to a dimension of light and the Gene of Isis.

Author : Martin Davis
Publisher : Broadway
ISBN 13 : 9780767901796
Total Pages : 132 pages
Book Rating : 4.97/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Hogan Mystique written by Martin Davis and published by Broadway. This book was released on 1997-09 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Collection of marvelous black-and-white photographs that Jules Alexander took of Ben Hogan at the 1959 US Open at Winged Foot.

Author : Dorothy Nelkin
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
ISBN 13 : 0472025074
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.77/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The DNA Mystique written by Dorothy Nelkin and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 2010-02-01 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The DNA Mystique is a wake-up call to all who would dismiss America's love affair with 'the gene' as a merely eccentric obsession." --In These Times "Nelkin and Lindee are to be warmly congratulated for opening up this intriguing field [of genetics in popular culture] to further study." --Nature The DNA Mystique suggests that the gene in popular culture draws on scientific ideas but is not constrained by the technical definition of the gene as a section of DNA that codes for a protein. In highlighting DNA as it appears in soap operas, comic books, advertising, and other expressions of mass culture, the authors propose that these domains provide critical insights into science itself. With a new introduction and conclusion, this edition will continue to be an engaging, accessible, and provocative text for the sociology, anthropology, and bioethics classroom, as well as stimulating reading for those generally interested in science and culture.

Author : Stephanie Coontz
Publisher : Basic Books
ISBN 13 : 0465022324
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.28/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Strange Stirring written by Stephanie Coontz and published by Basic Books. This book was released on 2011-01-04 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1963, Betty Friedan unleashed a storm of controversy with her bestselling book, The Feminine Mystique. Hundreds of women wrote to her to say that the book had transformed, even saved, their lives. Nearly half a century later, many women still recall where they were when they first read it. In A Strange Stirring, historian Stephanie Coontz examines the dawn of the 1960s, when the sexual revolution had barely begun, newspapers advertised for "perky, attractive gal typists," but married women were told to stay home, and husbands controlled almost every aspect of family life. Based on exhaustive research and interviews, and challenging both conservative and liberal myths about Friedan, A Strange Stirring brilliantly illuminates how a generation of women came to realize that their dissatisfaction with domestic life didn't't reflect their personal weakness but rather a social and political injustice.