Reveals the more personal side of the Machiavellian mastermind who not only orchestrated the Great Terror but also forged the USSR into a world power (view table of contents)

Reveals the more personal side of the Machiavellian mastermind who not only orchestrated the Great Terror but also forged the USSR into a world power (view table of contents)

Product Description: The first comprehensive guide to women activists from every part of the world, illuminating the broad range of women's struggles to reform society from the 18th century to the present.• Over 400 A–Z biographical entries, including the childhood, education, achievements, and challenges of each woman• A timeline that spans the history of women reformers from the French Revolution, to the second wave of feminism in the late 1970s, to the disenfranchised status of women in many countries in the contemporary Middle East• Numerous drawings and photographs of women reformers• Two special indexes listing reformers by country and by caus...read more

Alphabetically arranged subject entries cover Queen Victoria's life and her sixty-three-year reign, the longest of any female monarch.

When young ambitious female reporter, Emily Strauss, blags her way into newspaper magnate Joseph Pulitzer's office, she comes away with a treacherous assignment: to discover what happened to Anna Zemeckis, one of many women who have disappeared during the 1893 World's Fair. Emily soon finds herself in a race against time to save Anna's life.

Rejected by Nightingale, maverick black nurse Mary Seacole set up her own dispensary in the Crimea. This book is an account of the women who took part in the Crimean War, from unsung nurses to aristocratic spectators.

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