The Ladies Room Reader Revisited

Author : Alicia Alvrez
Publisher : Mango Media
ISBN 13 : 160925239X
Total Pages : 213 pages
Book Rating : 4.97/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Ladies' Room Reader Revisited written by Alicia Alvrez and published by Mango Media. This book was released on 2002-03-31 with total page 213 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A new volume of trivia for women from the author of The Ladies’ Room Reader, “full of fascinating fun facts” (Chicago Tribune). Did you know that . . . September is the month with the highest birthrate? Eighty percent of women think a vacation is the best way to rekindle romance? The divorce rate is 23 percent lower in cities with major league baseball teams than in those without? In ancient Egypt, between 3500 and 2500 BC, the only career not open to women was judge? The Ladies’ Room Reader Revisited picks up where its popular predecessor, The Ladies’ Room Reader, left off. In this wildly entertaining volume, Alicia Alvrez provides even more fascinating female facts about women throughout history and from around the world.

Author : Alicia Alvrez
Publisher : Mango Media
ISBN 13 : 1609251296
Total Pages : 165 pages
Book Rating : 4.91/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Ladies' Room Reader written by Alicia Alvrez and published by Mango Media. This book was released on 2010-03-01 with total page 165 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Fun and fancy for the fair sex . . . rife with facts, rumors, stories, quotations and advice.” —Publishers Weekly What percentage of women would rather shop than have sex? What was Lauren Bacall’s real name? What tricks do supermarkets use to get us to spend more money? Who were the first two African American actresses nominated for Academy Awards in the same year for the same category? How many hours do the men in our lives spend on housework and childcare? What did Mae West say upon the death of Marilyn Monroe? From female celebrities to glass ceiling breakers and historical heroines, this entertaining resource is packed with fun facts, surprising statistics, and witty quips that make for great reading—in any room.

Author : Leslie Gilbert Elman
Publisher : Conari Press
ISBN 13 : 9781573249171
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.73/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Ladies' Room Reader Quiz Book written by Leslie Gilbert Elman and published by Conari Press. This book was released on 2004-03-01 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A kicky, sassy way to learn about incredible women and their amazing accomplishments, The Ladies Room Reader Quiz Book offers thousands of bits of trivia around the lives and work of women, including: * Senators * Rock stars * Cooks * Sports heroes * Nobel Laureates The book offers many different kinds of brain-teasing quizzes, fill in the blank, matching, true or false, multiple choice, and more. (Answers are provided with accompanying explanations in the back of the book.) The 100 quizzes range from Fashionable Women to Mostly Martha, from California Girls to Kiss Me Kate, from The Cinderella Syndrome to Shop-Til You Drop, from Lady Be Good to Goddess Bless.

Author : The Editors of Conari Press
Publisher : Conari Press
ISBN 13 : 1609250486
Total Pages : 67 pages
Book Rating : 4.85/5 ( download)

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Download or read book High-Heeled Manners written by The Editors of Conari Press and published by Conari Press. This book was released on 2005-02-05 with total page 67 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "We all are born charming, fresh, and spontaneous and must be civilized before we are fit to participate in society," according to American etiquette maven Miss Manners. And this is just the book to remind us what civilization looks like!

Author : Alicia Alvrez
Publisher : Mango Media Inc.
ISBN 13 : 1642503673
Total Pages : 210 pages
Book Rating : 4.78/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Women of Interest written by Alicia Alvrez and published by Mango Media Inc.. This book was released on 2021-04-13 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Funny and Feminist Trivia Women of Interest is a humorous compendium of little known facts about the history, fame, fortunes, fashions, and fictions of the female species–enough to impress your mother and your boss, win arguments with your boyfriends and husbands, and generally know more about your fabulous female self. One of the most fascinating trivia books for women. Did you know that women outnumber men by five to one in shoplifting convictions? Or that researchers at Northwestern University found that men change their minds two to three times more than women? Women of Interest spans history, crosses cultures, ranges from the silly to the salacious to the truly useful and back again. Designed to delight the feminist in you, this outrageously funny book is organized into ten trivia-filled chapters covering all sorts of humorous histories and fun facts. Ideal for trivia games for adults or feminist gifts, now women really can know everything. Feminist, funny gifts for women. It’s time to challenge that know-it-all girlfriend, or grab the ultimate bathroom reader for your feminist BFF. Whether you’re searching for feminist books or trivia books, Women of Interest makes a wonderful addition to trivia games and bookshelves alike. Inside, you’ll learn that: Diamonds didn’t become a girl’s best friend until the thirteenth century. Before that, they were for men only. Zazel, a woman, was the first human cannonball. She launched into the air through a giant spring inside a cannon. Marilyn Monroe was the very first Artichoke Queen in the artichoke capital of the world. If you enjoy comedy books, trivia books for adults, or funny gifts for her─and enjoyed titles such as What If, 399 Games Puzzles & Trivia Challenges, Uncle John's Truth Trivia and the Pursuit of Factiness, The Woman's Encyclopedia of Myths and Secrets, or Thank You for Being a Friend: A Golden Girls Trivia Book─then you’ll love Women of Interest.

Author : Alicia Alvrez
Publisher : Mango Media Inc.
ISBN 13 : 160925032X
Total Pages : 218 pages
Book Rating : 4.24/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Big Book of Women's Trivia written by Alicia Alvrez and published by Mango Media Inc.. This book was released on 2008-03-01 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Funny facts, stunning stats, and historical tidbits about the female of the species. Did you know that . . . Women outnumber men by five to one in shoplifting convictions? The very first Artichoke Queen was Marilyn Monroe in 1947? Diamonds didn’t become a girl’s best friend until the thirteenth century? (Before that, they were for men only.) The first human cannonball was female? The cocktail known as the Bloody Mary was named after a notorious English queen? Research shows that men change their minds two to three times more than women? The Big Book of Women’s Trivia arms you with little-known facts in a fabulous collection that spans history, crosses cultures, and ranges from the silly to the salacious to the truly useful. Chapters include: Women and Their Wardrobes The Body Beautiful—and Not So • Ladies’ Matters of Love • In the Ladies’ Room • Ladies Look at the Animal Kingdom • Women Doing It for Themselves • Saintly Manifestations and Royal Subjects • Women’s Sporting Life • Celebrity Sightings of the Female Variety • and Final Feminine Facts You Absolutely Can’t Live Without.

Author : Umberto Pasti
Publisher : Rizzoli Publications
ISBN 13 : 0847864804
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.05/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Eden Revisited written by Umberto Pasti and published by Rizzoli Publications. This book was released on 2019-09-17 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A lovingly photographed tour of internationally renowned writer Umberto Pasti's famous hillside garden in Morocco. Italian writer and horticulturist Umberto Pasti's passion for the wild flora of Tangier and its surrounding region led him to create his world-famous garden, Rohuna, where he has transplanted thousands of plants rescued from construction sites with the aid of men from the village. Planted between two small houses is the Garden of Consolation: a series of rooms and terraces with lush vegetation, some rendering homage to the paintings of Henri Rousseau, others inspired by invented characters. Surrounding the Garden of Consolation are the Wild Garden and a hillside devoted to the wild flowering bulbs of northern Morocco, where indigenous species of narcissus, iris, crocus, scilla, gladiolus, and others bloom. With its stunning vistas and verdant fields, Rohuna is a garden of incomparable beauty with the mission to preserve the botanical richness of the region. Captured here in detail by celebrated photographer Ngoc Minh Ngo, the poetic beauty of this special and unique place is lovingly rendered for all the world to see and share.

Author : Laurie R. King
Publisher : Bantam
ISBN 13 : 0553386387
Total Pages : 434 pages
Book Rating : 4.87/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Locked Rooms written by Laurie R. King and published by Bantam. This book was released on 2010-04-27 with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “A truly bravura performance [with] all the magnetic appeal of the best of the original Conan Doyle novels.”—The Strand Magazine En route to San Francisco to settle her family’s estate, Mary Russell, in the company of husband Sherlock Holmes, falls prey to troubling dreams—and even more troubling behavior. In 1906, when Mary was six, the city was devastated by a catastrophic earthquake. For years Mary has insisted she lived elsewhere at the time. But Holmes knows better. Soon it is clear that whatever unpleasantness Mary wanted to forget hasn’t forgotten her. A series of mysterious deaths leads Russell and Holmes from the winding streets of Chinatown to the unspoken secrets of a parent’s marriage and the tragic “accident” that Mary alone survived. What Russell discovers is that even a forgotten past never dies . . . and it can kill again.

Author : Martha H. Patterson
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
ISBN 13 : 0813544947
Total Pages : 358 pages
Book Rating : 4.46/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The American New Woman Revisited written by Martha H. Patterson and published by Rutgers University Press. This book was released on 2008-05-01 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In North America between 1894 and 1930, the rise of the “New Woman” sparked controversy on both sides of the Atlantic and around the world. As she demanded a public voice as well as private fulfillment through work, education, and politics, American journalists debated and defined her. Who was she and where did she come from? Was she to be celebrated as the agent of progress or reviled as a traitor to the traditional family? Over time, the dominant version of the American New Woman became typified as white, educated, and middle class: the suffragist, progressive reformer, and bloomer-wearing bicyclist. By the 1920s, the jazz-dancing flapper epitomized her. Yet she also had many other faces. Bringing together a diverse range of essays from the periodical press of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, Martha H. Patterson shows how the New Woman differed according to region, class, politics, race, ethnicity, and historical circumstance. In addition to the New Woman’s prevailing incarnations, she appears here as a gun-wielding heroine, imperialist symbol, assimilationist icon, entrepreneur, socialist, anarchist, thief, vamp, and eugenicist. Together, these readings redefine our understanding of the New Woman and her cultural impact.

Author : Jennifer Phegley
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
ISBN 13 : 0802089283
Total Pages : 313 pages
Book Rating : 4.81/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Reading Women written by Jennifer Phegley and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2005-01-01 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Literary and popular culture has often focused its attention on women readers, particularly since early Victorian times. In Reading Women, an esteemed group of new and established scholars provide a close study of the evolution of the woman reader by examining a wide range of nineteenth- and twentieth-century media, including Antebellum scientific treatises, Victorian paintings, and Oprah Winfrey's televised book club, as well as the writings of Charlotte Brontë, Harriet Beecher Stowe, and Zora Neale Hurston. Attending especially to what, how, and why women read, Reading Women brings together a rich array of subjects that sheds light on the defining role the woman reader has played in the formation, not only of literary history, but of British and American culture. The contributors break new ground by focusing on the impact representations of women readers have had on understandings of literacy and certain reading practices, the development of books and print culture, and the categorization of texts into high and low cultural forms.