Paris Was a Woman is an illustrated collective portrait of the unique community of women who became known as the 'women of the Left Bank'. Authors Colette, Djuna Barnes and Gertrude Stein, poets H.D. and Natalie Clifford Barney, painters Romaine Brooks and Marie Laurencin, editors Bryher, Alice Toklas, Margaret Anderson and Jane Heap, photographers Berenice Abbott and Gisele Freund, booksellers Sylvia Beach and Adrienne Monnier, and journalist Janet Flanner all figured in this legendary milieu.A wealth of photographs, paintings, drawings, and literary fragments, many previously unpublished, combine with Andrea Weiss's lively and revealing text to give an unparalleled insight into this extraordinary network of women for whom Paris was neither mistress nor muse, but a diferent kind of woman.

Product Description: Help your 5th grader make a smooth transition to 6th grade by keeping his or her skills sharp over the summer. Full-color pages and a variety of brief but challenging activities provide skills practice in all the main subject areas, including reading comprehension, writing, vocabulary, grammar, math, spelling, and geography...read more

Product Description: Develop geography literacy while learning about the unique characteristics of Africa! The 7 Continents: Africa helps students learn about Africa through engaging reading and writing activities. Five geography units cover the following standards-based topics: Africa in the World, Political Divisions of Africa, Physical Features of Africa, Valuable Resources of Africa, and African Culture...read more

Product Description: Thomas Mann’s two eldest children, Erika and Klaus, were unconventional, rebellious, and fiercely devoted to each other. Empowered by their close bond, they espoused vehemently anti-Nazi views in a Europe swept up in fascism and were openly, even defiantly, gay in an age of secrecy and repression...read more

Product Description: Sheila Brown and Mary McCormick are lovers and the lead and rhythm guitarists for the band Great Big Something. They are having relationship problems and decide to go into counseling to work on them. In the meantime, their band flourishes, even as Rhonda Polansky and Claudia Weinburg, the bassist and drummer for the band, break up in the middle of a tour, causing Sheila, Mary and the band's keyboardist Martha Geiger to scramble to find a replacement...read more

Product Description: A revelatory survey of lesbian identity in film--from the crossdressing stars like Garbo, Dietrich, and Hepburn to the vampire movies of the late '60s, Silkwood and The Color Purple. With wit and political acumen, Weiss reveals the concealed world of a host of movies both popular and forgotten...read more

Product Description: Book by Weiss, Andrea, Schiller, Greta