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  • Say Anarcha

    A Young Woman, a Devious Surgeon, and the Harrowing Birth of Modern Women's Health

    par J. C. Hallman ...
    A compelling reckoning with the birth of women’s health that illuminates the sacrifices of a young woman who changed the world only to be forgotten by it—until nowFor more than a century, Dr. J. Marion Sims was hailed as the “father of modern gynecology.” He founded a hospital in New York City and had a profitable career treating gentry and royalty in Europe, becoming one of the world’s first ... En savoir plus

    $21.99 CAD

  • B & Me

    A True Story of Literary Arousal

    par J.C. Hallman ...
    “A love letter to the book as a physical object, a source of intellectual ardor, and a form of emotional salvation” (Salon)—and a nod to U and I, Nicholson Baker’s classic memoir about John Updike—from an award-winning author called “wonderfully bright” by The New York Times Book Review.Nearly twenty-five years ago, Nicholson Baker wrote U and I, the fretful and handwringing—but also ... En savoir plus

    $18.99 CAD

  • The Chess Artist

    Genius, Obsession, and the World's Oldest Game

    par J. C. Hallman ...
    In the tradition of The Professor and the Madman, Longitude, and The Orchid Thief, Hallman transforms an obsessive quest for obscure things into a compulsively readable and entertaining weaving of travelogue, journalism, and chess history.In the tiny Russian province of Kalmykia, obsession with chess has reached new heights. Its leader, a charismatic and eccentric millionaire/ex--car salesman ... En savoir plus

    $17.59 CAD

  • In Utopia

    Six Kinds of Eden and the Search for a Better Paradise

    par J. C. Hallman ...
    In 2005, J.C. Hallman came across a scientific paper about "Pleistocene Rewilding," a peculiar idea from conservation biology that suggested repopulating bereft ecosystems with endangered "megafauna." The plan sounded utterly utopian, but Hallman liked the idea as much as the scientists did—perhaps because he had grown up on a street called Utopia Road in a master-planned community in Southern ... En savoir plus

    $17.59 CAD

  • Wm & H'ry

    Literature, Love, and the Letters between Wiliam and Henry James

    par J. C. Hallman ...
    Collections series Muse Books
    Readers generally know only one of the two famous James brothers. Literary types know Henry James; psychologists, philosophers, and religion scholars know William James. In reality, the brothers’ minds were inseparable, as the more than eight hundred letters they wrote to each other reveal. In this book, J. C. Hallman mines the letters for mutual affection and influence, painting a moving portrait ... En savoir plus

    $23.99 CAD

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    Say Anarcha

    A Young Woman, a Devious Surgeon, and the Harrowing Birth of Modern Women's Health

    par J. C. Hallman ...
    Lu par Ariel Blake, Peter Ganim ...

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    19 heure 17 min

    A compelling reckoning with the birth of women’s health that illuminates the sacrifices of a young woman who changed the world only to be forgotten by it—until nowFor more than a century, Dr. J. Marion Sims was hailed as the “father of modern gynecology.” He founded a hospital in New York City and had a profitable career treating gentry and royalty in Europe, becoming one of the world’s first ... En savoir plus

    $43.99 CAD

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    The Divorce Colony

    How Women Revolutionized Marriage and Found Freedom on the American Frontier

    par April White ...

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    8 heure 17 min

    From a historian and senior editor at Atlas Obscura comes a fascinating account of the daring nineteenth-century women who moved to South Dakota to divorce their husbands and start living on their own terms.For a woman traveling without her husband in the late nineteenth century, there was only one reason to take the train all the way to Sioux Falls, South Dakota—one sure to garner disapproval ... En savoir plus

    $32.99 CAD

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    In the Pines

    A Lynching, A Lie, A Reckoning

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    7 heure 8 min

    **In this powerful book, an award-winning scholar of white supremacy tackles her toughest research assignment yet: the unsolved murder of a Black man in rural Mississippi while her grandfather was the local sheriff—a cold case that sheds new light on the hidden legacy of racial terror in America.“Courageous and compelling … essential and critically important” —Bryan Stevenson**Grace Hale was home ... En savoir plus

    $32.99 CAD

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    Erased

    What American Patriarchy Has Hidden from Us

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    12 heure 12 min

    This new audiobook is written and read New York Times bestselling author of The Three Mothers, Anna Malaika Tubbs. In Erased, Anna recovers all that American patriarchy has tried to destroy.Patriarchy has oppressed women and denied their contributions worldwide, but the United States of America has its own unique gendered hierarchy. Dr. Anna Malaika Tubbs applies her signature blend of ... En savoir plus

    $35.99 CAD

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    The Brothers York

    A Royal Tragedy

    par Thomas Penn ...
    Lu par Roy McMillan ...

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    23 heure 14 min

    In early 1461, a seventeen-year-old boy won a battle on a freezing morning in the Welsh marches, and claimed the crown of England as Edward IV, first king of the usurping house of York. It was a time when old certainties had been shredded: by popular insurgency, economic crisis, feuding, and a corrupt, bankrupt government presided over by the imbecilic, Lancastrian King Henry VI. The country was ... En savoir plus

    $41.99 CAD

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    The Stolen Wealth of Slavery

    A Case for Reparations

    par David Montero ...
    Lu par Eric Jason Martin ...

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    14 heure 10 min

    This groundbreaking book tracks the massive wealth amassed from slavery from pre-Civil War to today, showing how our modern economy was built on the backs of enslaved Black people—and lays out a clear argument for reparations that shows exactly what was stolen, who stole it, and to whom it is owed.In this timely, powerful, investigative history, The Stolen Wealth of Slavery, Emmy Award-nominated ... En savoir plus

    $41.99 CAD

  • Almost Famous Women

    Stories

    par Megan Mayhew ...
    From a prizewinning, beloved young author, a provocative collection that explores the lives of colorful, intrepid women in history. “These stories linger in one’s memory long after reading them” (Star Tribune, Minneapolis).The fascinating characters in Megan Mayhew Bergman’s “collection of stories as beautiful and strange as the women who inspired them” (Kirkus Reviews, starred review) are defined ... En savoir plus

    $11.99 CAD