The author presents the case of surgeon Dr. Mary Dixon-Jones, who in 1889 Boston was the subject in two court cases -- one for manslaughter and the other for libel -- which became a 19th century sensation.

A multigenerational saga chronicles the intertwined lives of the multi-ethnic residents of Dream Street in a town called Place, following one family from the Deep South of 1895, to rural Oklahoma and the industrial Midwest.

Inge is tall and cool and Mira is petite and dynamic. When they meet, each is attracted by something special and different about the other. But friendships based on the attraction of opposites can be stormy, and theirs is no exception. Blonde Inge is a native of Sweden, while dark Mira has fled there to escape the living hell of Chile at the time of the military coup led by General Pinochet. They are brought together by their mutual love of plants, but this gentle pastime is soon overshadowed by the terrible legacy of Mira¿s past. It is a legacy that will reach out to touch many lives, including those of Inge and Mira¿s children. Bestselling Swedish author Marianne Fredriksson has again created a totally involving story. Written with sympathy and insight and sparkling with unexpected humour, INGE & MIRA is a deeply moving tale of lives haunted by past violence.

Southern novelist and activist Lillian Smith (1897-1966) considered One Hour her best work of fiction. The novel, originally published in 1959 and long out of print, brilliantly depicts the destructive effects of mass hysteria on the people of a small southern town. The protagonist is an Episcopal minister who chronicles a series of tragic events set in motion when his closest friend, a gifted scientist, is unjustly accused of molesting a young girl. The novel's tensions culminate in an eruption of violence and hate that destroys the community. In a new introduction, Rose Gladney places One Hour in its historical context and highlights its enduring meaning for today's readers.

Desperate to escape the despair, hopelessness, and hardship of the migrant-workers' existence, Estrella, a young Mexican-American migrant worker, fights back against a system that will do almost anything to keep her down. A first novel. 50,000 first printing. Tour.

The ideals of the French Revolution inflamed a longing for liberty and equality within courageous, freethinking women of the era—women who played vital roles in the momentous events that reshaped their nation and the world. In Liberty, Lucy Moore paints a vivid portrait of six extraordinary Frenchwomen from vastly different social and economic backgrounds who helped stoke the fervor and idealism of those years, and who risked everything to make their mark on history. Germaine de Staël was a wealthy, passionate Parisian intellectual—as consumed by love affairs as she was by politics—who helped write the 1791 Constitution. Théroigne de Méricourt was an unhappy courtesan who fell in love with revolutionary ideals. Exuberant, decadent Thérésia Tallien was a ruthless manipulator instrumental in engineering Robespierre's downfall. Their stories and others provide a fascinating new perspective on one of history's most turbulent epochs.

50 verhalen van even zovele auteurs van Hella Haase tot Kees van Kooten met illustraties van de beschreven voorwerpen.

Interviews met, toespraken van en essays over de Birmaanse strijdster voor de mensenrechten en democratie.

Dagboeknotities en brieven uit de periode 1992-1995.

Geschiedenis belicht van 25 architectuurprojecten in Europa door de loop der tijd: van Stonehenge tot de Expo 2000 in Hannover, met z-w ill.

The muteness of an Aleut woman intrigues a scientist in Alaska, and her disappearance calls up desperation within him. An incendiary tale set against the landscape of the Great North, this novel merges the enchantment of myth with a taut and chilling story of erotic compulsion.

Tent.cat. bij de gelijknamige tent. (Le Botanique, Centre Culturel de la Communauté Française Wallonie-Bruxelles, Brussel). Met bijdragen van meerdere auteurs, rijk geill. in z-w en kleur.

Bundeling van bijlages die begin 2003 verschenen in de krant De Standaard. Alles wat u altijd over Belgie wilde weten.

Making use of recent feminist critical theory, Doane considers Gertrude Stein's modernist preoccupation with narrative silence in her early novels. She demonstrates the effects of this preoccupation on Stein's literary development, from the conventionality of her first novel, Q.E.D., through Fernhurst and Three Lives, to the radical transgressions against narrative intelligibility in The Making Of Americans. Doane, contending that Stein's ultimate revolt against traditional modes of discourse is directly attributable to her position as a woman writer, effectively elaborates the possibilities of creating an alternative feminist discourse and explores the ways in which gender may contribute to meaning.

Eine erfolgreiche, einsame und verschlossene Konzertpianistin, die sich nur durch die Musik auszudrücken vermag, erinnert sich: als die deutschen Besatzer den Juden de Leon abführen, bleiben ihr von ihrem Klavierstundenglück nur die Notenbücher.

Lula grows up in a racially mixed family in the peaceful village of Tamarind Grove, Guyana, during the 1970s, until the repressive regime of Guyana's dictator spreads its tentacles into the town as tensions among the villagers begin to fester. A first novel. 17,500 first printing.

Born in 1911 in the illustrious Sarabhai family of Ahmedabad, Mridula came under the spell of Gandhi and left her palatial home to hoin the Salt Satyagraha. She was involved not only in the freedom struggle but also in the fight for women's equality, for the individual's right in dissent, and for the rights of minorities. This biography represents a page from the social and political history of modern India, over half a century seen through the life of one person.

French edition of the exhibition catalogue (Palais des Beaux-Arts de Bruxelles) with 253 catalogue numbers, most of them ill. in b/w and colour.