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Hardy Women
A TOP BOOK FOR 2024 IN: THE OBSERVER, INDEPENDENT, SUNDAY TIMES AND BOOKSELLER
'He understands only the women he invents - the others not at all'
Thomas Hardy is one of the most beloved and most-read British authors. His influence on literature and the minds of his readers is singular. But how is it that the novelist who created some of the most memorable and modern female characters in literature had such troubled relationships with real women?
In this highly innovative book, acclaimed biographer Paula Byrne re-examines Hardy's life through the eyes of the women who made him - mother, sisters, girlfriends, wives, muses. The story veers from shocking scenes such as his obsession with the sight of a woman hanged, to poignant vignettes of unfulfilled passion, to fascinating details of working women's lives in the nineteenth century.
Hardy Women is the story of how the magnificent fictional women he invented would not have been possible without the hardship and hardiness of the real ones who shaped his passions and his imagination. It is only through understanding and witnessing these hardy women that we can truly enter the heart of this great novelist and poet.
Gilberto Astrud - Great Women Of Song: Astrud Gilberto CD
Astrud Gilberto (rodená Astrud Evangelina Weinert; 29. marca 1940 – 5. júna 2023) bola brazílska speváčka a skladateľka samby a bossa novy. Medzinárodnú pozornosť si získala v polovici 60. rokov po nahraní piesne „The Girl from Ipanema“.
Tracklist:
01. The Girl from Ipanema
02. Once I Loved
03. Água de Beber
04. Fly Me to the Moon
05. Summer Samba (So Nice)
06. Manh? de Carnaval
07. It Might As Well Be Spring
08. Corcovado (Quiet Nights of Quiet Stars)
09. How Insensitive
10. SÓ Tinha de Ser Com Voc?
11. (Take Me to) Aruanda
12. O Morro (N?o Tem Vez)
13. Berimbau
14. The Shadow of Your Smile
Gilberto Astrud - Great Women Of Song: Astrud Gilberto LP
Astrud Gilberto (rodená Astrud Evangelina Weinert; 29. marca 1940 – 5. júna 2023) bola brazílska speváčka a skladateľka samby a bossa novy. Medzinárodnú pozornosť si získala v polovici 60. rokov po nahraní piesne „The Girl from Ipanema“.
Tracklist:
01. The Girl from Ipanema
02. Once I Loved
03. Água de Beber
04. Fly Me to the Moon
05. Summer Samba (So Nice)
06. Manh? de Carnaval
07. It Might As Well Be Spring
08. Corcovado (Quiet Nights of Quiet Stars)
09. How Insensitive
10. SÓ Tinha de Ser Com Voc?
11. (Take Me to) Aruanda
12. O Morro (N?o Tem Vez)
13. Berimbau
14. The Shadow of Your Smile
Holiday Billie - Great Women Of Song: Billie Holiday LP
Billie Holiday (rodená Eleanora Fagan; 7. apríl 1915 – 17. júl 1959) bola americká jazzová a swingová speváčka. Holiday, ktorú jej priateľ a hudobný partner Lester Young prezýva „Lady Day“, mala inovatívny vplyv na jazzovú hudbu a popový spev. Jej vokálny štýl, silne inšpirovaný jazzovými inštrumentalistami, bol priekopníkom nového spôsobu manipulácie s frázovaním a tempom. Bola známa svojim vokálnym podaním a improvizačnými schopnosťami.
Tracklist:
01. Blue Moon
02. I'll Be Seeing You
03. Solitude
04. Crazy He Calls Me
05. Good Morning Heartache
06. Strange Fruit
07. As Time Goes By
08. April In Paris
09. Autumn In New York
10. You Go To My Head
11. Lover Man
12. Lady Sings The Blues
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Holiday Billie - Great Women Of Song: Billie Holiday CD
Billie Holiday (rodená Eleanora Fagan; 7. apríl 1915 – 17. júl 1959) bola americká jazzová a swingová speváčka. Holiday, ktorú jej priateľ a hudobný partner Lester Young prezýva „Lady Day“, mala inovatívny vplyv na jazzovú hudbu a popový spev. Jej vokálny štýl, silne inšpirovaný jazzovými inštrumentalistami, bol priekopníkom nového spôsobu manipulácie s frázovaním a tempom. Bola známa svojim vokálnym podaním a improvizačnými schopnosťami.
Tracklist:
01. Blue Moon
02. I'll Be Seeing You
03. Solitude
04. Crazy He Calls Me
05. Good Morning Heartache
06. Strange Fruit
07. As Time Goes By
08. April In Paris
09. Autumn In New York
10. You Go To My Head
11. Lover Man
12. Lady Sings The Blues
Vaughan Sarah - Great Women Of Song: Sarah Vaughan LP
Sarah Lois Vaughan (27. marec 1924 – 3. apríl 1990) bola americká jazzová speváčka. Prezývaná „Sassy“ a „The Divine One“ vyhrala dve ceny Grammy, vrátane ceny za celoživotné dielo, a celkovo bola nominovaná na deväť cien Grammy. V roku 1989 jej bola udelená cena NEA Jazz Masters. Kritik Scott Yanow napísal, že mala „jeden z najúžasnejších hlasov 20. storočia“.
Tracklist:
01. Misty
02. Lullaby Of Birdland
03. They Can't Take That Away From Me
04. Embraceable You
05. Make Yourself Comfortable
06. Cherokee
07. I'm Glad There Is You
08. Comes Love
09. Whatever Lola Wants (Lola Gets)
10. Someone To Watch Over Me
11. Broken Hearted Melody
12. It's Crazy
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Famous Women (EN)
V této audioknize najdete příběhy dvaceti výjimečných žen, které žily v různých koutech světa a v různých epochách. Audiokniha je určená pro mírně pokročilé, kteří se chtějí procvičit v poslechu angličtiny. Audiokniha je načtená rodilým mluvčím.
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Uncontrollable Women
Uncontrollable Women is a history of radical, reformist and revolutionary women between the outbreak of the French Revolution in 1789 and the passing of the Great Reform Act in 1832. Very few of them are well-known today; some were unknown even in their own day. All of them contributed something to the world we now inhabit.
At a time when women were supposed to leave politics to men they spoke, wrote, marched, organised, asked questions, challenged power structures, sometimes went to prison and even died. History has not usually been kind to them, and they have frequently been pushed into asides or footnotes, dismissed as secondary, or spoken over, for, or through by men and sometimes other women. In this book, they take centre stage in both their own stories and those of others, and in doing so bring different voices to the more familiar accounts of the period. These women and many others played a part in developing political ideas and freedoms as we know them today, and some fought battles which still remain to be won or raised questions that are still unresolved. These are their stories.
Black Candle Women
'All of you are cursed, you hear me?
An ugly death for the ones with whom you fall in love'
Generations of Montrose women - Augusta, Victoria, Willow - have lived together in their quaint two-story bungalow in California for years. They keep to themselves, never venture far from home, and their collection of tinctures and spells is an unspoken bond between them.
But when seventeen-year-old Nickie Montrose brings home a boy for the first time, their quiet lives are thrown into disarray. For the other women have been withholding a secret from Nickie that will end her relationship before it's even begun: the decades-old family curse that any person they fall in love with dies.
Their surprise guest forces each woman to reckon with her own past choices and mistakes. And as new truths about the curse emerge, the family is set on a collision course dating back to a voodoo shop in 1950s New Orleans's French Quarter-where a hidden story in a mysterious book may just hold the answers they seek in life and in love...
Rich in its sense of character and place, Black Candle Women is a haunting and magical debut from a talented new storyteller.
Little Women (EN)
Audiobook The little women written by Louisa May Alcott. Meg, Jo, Beth and Amy are four sisters trying to support the family and keep their spirit up while their father is at war. Each one of them has a unique vivid personality which helps them overcome the hardships of poverty. Showing the transition from childhood to womanhood, "Little Women" together with its sequels: "Good Wives", "Little Men", and "Jo's Boys", has been one of the most widely read novels in the world.
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Women in Design
A history of women designers and consumers from 1900 to the present day.
The work of women designers has not traditionally been the focus of mainstream histories of design. By revealing the untold story of female design pioneers, this comprehensive introduction celebrates their crucial role in the history of modern processes of making.
Arranged chronologically, this guide considers the structural barriers to professional success and how women overcame these hurdles, charting the success of designers including Anni Albers at the Bauhaus, the architect Eileen Grey, interior decorator Elsie de Wolfe and fashion icon Mary Quant, focusing on the key subjects of architecture, craft, fashion, furniture, graphics, interior, product and textile design. The link between early twentieth-century revolutionary design and lifestyle is explored, as well the ideas of shopping and consumerism as a liberating activity. The important contribution of designers during and after the Second World War is also discussed, along with design activism, design collectives and the current success of women working transnationally in architecture and design.
Slavné ženy / Famous Women
Příběhy dvaceti výjimečných žen v češtině a v angličtině!
Příběhy dvaceti výjimečných žen najdete v této knize v české a v anglické verzi. Kniha je určena pro mírně pokročilé studenty angličtiny, kteří se rádi učí nebo si procvičují cizí jazyk čtením. Český překlad na protější straně umožní čtenáři zkontrolovat, zda cizojazyčnému textu správně porozuměl. Každé vyprávění o slavné ženě doplňují otázky na porozumění a také zajímavost, která se k hrdince vztahuje. Audionahrávka, na níž příběhy vypráví rodilý mluvčí, je k dispozici zdarma na stránkách nakladatelství.
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Little Women (EN)
Audiobook Little Women, closely based on Louisa May Alcott’s own experience of family life, was first published in 1869 and follows the lives of the four March sisters and their mother, ‘Marmee’. With the heartrending story of gentle Beth, the humorous adventures of tomboyish Jo, Meg’s vain attempts to cut a fashionable figure in ‘society’, and the artistic ambitions of the youngest sister Amy, it has never lost its extraordinary power to move and delight.
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Women Street Artists
If street art is, in itself, an act of rebellion, it is tragically ironic that the genre seems dominated by men. This exciting book is an important first step in shedding light on the substantial number of women who are gaining fame in the street art world.
It brings together the work of 24 artists, through dazzling photographs of their work and intimate portraits of their lives based on interviews collected by award-winning journalist Alessandra Mattanza. On walls, sidewalks, prison cells, grain silos and other nontraditional canvases, these artists tackle ideas around empowerment, feminism, the pink revolution, body shaming and body imagery, racism, and the climate crisis.
From Oklahoma City and Brooklyn, Tatyana Fazlalizadeh makes site specific work that considers how people experience race and gender within their surrounding environments. South African multidisciplinary artist Faith XLVII imbues her narratives with a longing for a deeper connection to nature, and a resurrection of the divine feminine. Italy's Camilla Falsini incorporates joyful, bold colors and simple shapes to deliver serious messages about the environment. Shamsia Hassani, one of Afghanistan's first female street artists, makes vibrant murals and paintings in which women play musical instruments as a vehicle for self-expression.
Bursting with colorful photographs of works in situ as well as in detail, this thrilling and incisive book proves that street art is not only female-it's the essence of conceptual rebellion itself.
The Women of Rothschild
The story of the family who rose from the Frankfurt ghetto to become synonymous with wealth and power has been much mythologized. Yet half the Rothschilds, the women, remain virtually unknown.
From the East End of London to the Eastern seaboard of the United States, from Spitalfields to Scottish castles, from Bletchley Park to Buchenwald, and from the Vatican to Palestine, Natalie Livingstone follows the extraordinary lives of the English branch of the Rothschild women from the dawn of the nineteenth century to the early years of the twenty first.
As Jews in a Christian society and women in a deeply patriarchal family, they were outsiders. Determined to challenge and subvert expectations, they supported each other, building on the legacies of their mothers and aunts. They became influential hostesses and talented diplomats, choreographing electoral campaigns, advising prime ministers, advocating for social reform and trading on the stock exchange. Misfits and conformists, conservatives and idealists, performers and introverts, they mixed with Rossini and Mendelssohn, Disraeli, Gladstone and Chaim Weizmann, amphetamine-dealers, temperance campaigners, Queen Victoria, and Albert Einstein. They broke code, played a pioneering role in the environmental movement, scandalised the world of women's tennis by introducing the overarm serve and drag-raced with Miles Davies in Manhattan.
Absorbing and compulsive THE WOMEN OF ROTHSCHILD gives voice to the complicated, privileged and gifted women whose vision and tenacity shaped history.
The Odd Women (EN)
First published in 1893, ‘The Odd Women’ by Victorian author George Gissing revolves around the themes of feminism, marriage, and love through the lives of several contrasting women. The ‘odd’ of the title refers to the fact that in Victorian Britain there were more men than women, and many women therefore found themselves surplus.
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Bright Young Women
January 1978. Tallahassee. When sorority president Pamela Schumacher is startled awake at 3 a.m. by a strange sound, she’s shocked to encounter a scene of implausible violence – two of her friends dead and two others, maimed. Thrust into a terrifying mystery, Pamela becomes entangled in a crime that captivates public interest for more than four decades . . .
On the other side of the country, Tina Cannon has found peace in Seattle after years of hardship. When Ruth, her best friend, goes missing from Lake Sammamish State Park in broad daylight, surrounded by thousands of beachgoers on a beautiful summer day, Tina devotes herself to finding out what happened to her.
When Tina hears about the tragedy in Tallahassee, she suspects the same man the papers refer to is responsible. Determined to make him answer for what he did to Ruth, she travels to Florida on a collision course with Pamela – and one last impending tragedy.
From the author of the New York Times bestseller and #1 Netflix movie Luckiest Girl Alive comes Jessica Knoll's extraordinary novel inspired by the real-life sorority targeted by America's first celebrity serial killer in his final murderous spree.
The Women of Troy
Troy has fallen. The Greeks have won their bitter war. They can return home as victors - all they need is a good wind to lift their sails. But the wind has vanished, the seas becalmed by vengeful gods, and so the warriors remain in limbo - camped in the shadow of the city they destroyed, kept company by the women they stole from it.
The women of Troy.
Helen - poor Helen. All that beauty, all that grace - and she was just a mouldy old bone for feral dogs to fight over.
Cassandra, who has learned not to be too attached to her own prophecies. They have only ever been believed when she can get a man to deliver them.
Stubborn Amina, with her gaze still fixed on the ruined towers of Troy, determined to avenge the slaughter of her king.
Hecuba, howling and clawing her cheeks on the silent shore, as if she could make her cries heard in the gloomy halls of Hades. As if she could wake the dead.
And Briseis, carrying her future in her womb: the unborn child of the dead hero Achilles. Once again caught up in the disputes of violent men. Once again faced with the chance to shape history.
Masterful and enduringly resonant, ambitious and intimate, The Women of Troy continues Pat Barker's extraordinary retelling of one of our greatest classical myths, following on from the critically acclaimed The Silence of the Girls.
Van Halen - Women And Children First (Remastered) LP
A1 And The Cradle Will Rock... 3:31
A2 Everybody Wants Some!! 5:05
A3 Fools 5:55
A4 Romeo Delight 4:19
B1 Tora! Tora! 0:57
B2 Loss Of Control 2:36
B3 Take Your Whiskey Home 3:09
B4 Could This Be Magic? 3:08
B5 In A Simple Rhyme 4:33
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