Showing results for "The Secret, Book" in Women's Studies

Marty Goddard dreamed up a new crime-solving tool—a kit that could help rape survivors fight for justice. This thrilling investigation tells the story of the troubled, heroic woman who kicked off a feminist revolution in forensics, and then vanished into obscurity. "Astonishing . . . Marty...

Brought to you by Penguin. A beautifully written blend of memoir, first-person stories and social history that uncovers the most enigmatic yet revealing aspect of human behaviour: secrecy The average person is keeping thirteen secrets at any one time, five of which they’ve never shared with a...

A riveting work of historical detection revealing that the origin of one of the world’s most iconic superheroes hides within it a fascinating family story—and a crucial history of twentieth-century feminism Wonder Woman, created in 1941, is the most popular female superhero of all time...

Did you know that 48 percent of the women in prison have committed an offence in order to support the drug use of someone else? That 46 percent of women in prison report having attempted suicide once in their lifetime? Or that over half of the women in prison have been victims of more serious crimes than the ones they've been convicted of? But this isn't a book about statistics. It's a book about the individual stories of women caught up in our creaking and under-resourced prison system. 

A New York Times Bestseller Instagram. Whisper. YouTube. Kik. Ask.fm. Tinder. The dominant force in the lives of girls coming of age in America today is social media. What it is doing to an entire generation of young women is the subject of award-winning Vanity Fair writer Nancy Jo Sales’s...

"We must come together and live as one. . . I do believe we can achieve Dr. King's dream of a better world." - Rosa ParksIn 1955, in Montgomery, Alabama, seamstress Rosa Parks boarded a bus after a hard day's work and decided she was just too tired to give up her seat to a white passenger. This...

The authors of the best selling Girlfriends share their secrets for great relationships with boyfriends. They explore what they honestly think about men, the agony and ecstasy of dating, falling in and out of love, what long-term relationships really offer us, and how to travel blissfully along the road of male-female relationships. From recognizing the right man to deciding when to get serious, surviving infidelity, and dividing household chores, you'll get some insights to the perpetual question: What makes a great relationship?