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How Women Decide (Paperback): Therese Huston How Women Decide (Paperback)
Therese Huston
R429 R359 Discovery Miles 3 590 Save R70 (16%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Inside the Texas Chicken Ranch - The Definitive Account of the Best Little Whorehouse (Paperback): Jayme Lynn Blaschke Inside the Texas Chicken Ranch - The Definitive Account of the Best Little Whorehouse (Paperback)
Jayme Lynn Blaschke
R721 R616 Discovery Miles 6 160 Save R105 (15%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
An Imperfect Woman - Letting Go of the Need to Have It All Together (Paperback): Kim Hyland An Imperfect Woman - Letting Go of the Need to Have It All Together (Paperback)
Kim Hyland
R402 Discovery Miles 4 020 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Women are bombarded with ideas of perfection--and tips for how to achieve it--every day. From her work to her looks to her parenting, today's modern woman is expected to strive to be picture perfect in every way. As a result, calls for authenticity and imperfection are on the rise. Yet, deep down, most of us still want to achieve perfection. Why? The desire to be perfect, says Kim Hyland, is actually a God-given urge. After all, we were made for Eden. But there is a difference between perfection and perfectionism, which is our attempt to achieve perfection on our own, by our own strength, and for our own purposes--the original temptation in the Garden. In this freeing book, Hyland offers women a stirring manifesto for acknowledging their limitations and embracing the perfection of God through his grace. This is a book for every woman who gives 110% and yet feels shame when one little thing goes wrong.

Silly Novels by Lady Novelists and Other Essays (Paperback): George Eliot Silly Novels by Lady Novelists and Other Essays (Paperback)
George Eliot
R220 Discovery Miles 2 200 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

One of the most famous novelists in the English literary canon, the likes of Middlemarch and Silas Marner are household names, but Eliot's essays are often overlooked. This collection brings together some of her most important essays and seeks to celebrate her non-fiction writing. In 'Silly Novels by Lady Novelists' Eliot states a desire - some few years before her best-known works - to turn her hand to novel-writing, and decries the trivial nature of contemporary writers, setting out a manifesto for good writing. In 'Woman in France' she considers the history of women's writing, and the complications women face in order to write - something Eliot knew much about herself, adopting a male name to publish the work she did not publish anonymously. Taken together, this collection gives a rare and valuable insight into the author's writing, and shines a light on her pioneering subtle form of feminism.

How Women Can Save The Planet (Hardcover): Anne Karpf How Women Can Save The Planet (Hardcover)
Anne Karpf
R459 Discovery Miles 4 590 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Here's a perverse truth: from New Orleans to Bangladesh, women--especially poor women of colour--are suffering most from a crisis they have done nothing to cause. Yet where, in environmental policy, are the voices of elderly European women dying in heatwaves? Of African girls dropping out of school due to drought? Our highest-profile climate activists are women and girls; but, at the top table, it's men deciding the earth's future. We're not all in it together--but we could be. Instead of expecting individual women to save the planet, what we need are visionary, global climate policies that are gender-inclusive and promote gender equality. Anne Karpf shines a light on the radical ideas, compelling research and tireless campaigns, led by and for women around the world, that have inspired her to hope. Her conversations with female activists show how we can fight back, with strength in diversity. And, faced with the most urgent catastrophe of our times, she offers a powerful vision: a Green New Deal for Women.

The Panic Years - Dates, Doubts, and the Mother of All Decisions (Paperback): Nell Frizzell The Panic Years - Dates, Doubts, and the Mother of All Decisions (Paperback)
Nell Frizzell
R498 R413 Discovery Miles 4 130 Save R85 (17%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
A Christian Marriage Book - 52-Week Devotional for Wives - Prayers and Reflections for a God-Centered Marriage (Paperback):... A Christian Marriage Book - 52-Week Devotional for Wives - Prayers and Reflections for a God-Centered Marriage (Paperback)
Tamara Chamberlain
R341 R283 Discovery Miles 2 830 Save R58 (17%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Loose Diamonds - ...and Other Things I've Lost (and Found) Along the Way (Paperback): Amy Ephron Loose Diamonds - ...and Other Things I've Lost (and Found) Along the Way (Paperback)
Amy Ephron
R424 R346 Discovery Miles 3 460 Save R78 (18%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

With her wonderful sense of humor, marvelously candid voice, and astonishing perception, Amy Ephron weaves together the most insightful, profound, and just plain funny stories of her life to form a tapestry of a woman's experiences from childhood through young adulthood, marriage, divorce (and remarriage), and everything in between. Writing with great honesty and exacting prose, Ephron gives us an evocative, engaging, and often piercing look at modern life.

Throughout Loose Diamonds, Amy Ephron celebrates unforgettable memories and friendships, and the things that make life livable (such as her Filofax, which she would be lost without), all with a quick wit and a delicate eye.

Advanced Introduction to Feminist Economics (Hardcover): Joyce P. Jacobsen Advanced Introduction to Feminist Economics (Hardcover)
Joyce P. Jacobsen
R2,696 Discovery Miles 26 960 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Elgar Advanced Introductions are stimulating and thoughtful introductions to major fields in the social sciences and law, expertly written by the world's leading scholars. Designed to be accessible yet rigorous, they offer concise and lucid surveys of the substantive and policy issues associated with discrete subject areas. The intellectual origins of the area are explicated, and the current state of the subfield outlined. Specific topics covered include conflict over terminology, pedagogy, and content in the field of economics, measurement of the unmeasured economy, the role of caring labor in the economy, heteronormativity in economics, feminist approaches to economic development, multiple approaches to empiricism, modeling of intrahousehold relationships, consideration of the role of property rights in reifying gender roles, differential effects of international trade and finance by gender, and feminist approaches to public finance and social welfare.

Fight! Fight! - Discovering Your Inner Strength When Blindsided by Life (Paperback): Sylvia Hatchell Fight! Fight! - Discovering Your Inner Strength When Blindsided by Life (Paperback)
Sylvia Hatchell; As told to Stephen Copeland
R391 R324 Discovery Miles 3 240 Save R67 (17%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
It's Not Okay - Turning Heartbreak Into Happily Never After (Paperback): Andi Dorfman It's Not Okay - Turning Heartbreak Into Happily Never After (Paperback)
Andi Dorfman
R426 R355 Discovery Miles 3 550 Save R71 (17%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Men Are from Mars, Women Are from Venus - A Practical Guide for Improving Communication and Getting What You Want (Paperback,... Men Are from Mars, Women Are from Venus - A Practical Guide for Improving Communication and Getting What You Want (Paperback, Thorsons Classics edition)
John Gray
R283 R236 Discovery Miles 2 360 Save R47 (17%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

The legendary relationships guide that mothers recommend to their daughters, friends give as gifts and brothers steal from their sisters, MEN ARE FROM MARS AND WOMEN ARE FROM VENUS is inarguably the definitive book on having a happy relationship. `A treasure', `a bible' and `an heirloom' are some of the words used to describe the book that has saved countless relationships and improved innumerable others. Now repackaged to relate to a new generation of readers, this phenomenal book continues to carry its legacy of understanding and trust into the world. Since its first publication, over a staggering 15 million copies of MEN ARE FROM MARS, WOMEN ARE FROM VENUS have sold globally to single men and women looking for guidance on how to find the perfect partner, married couples seeking to strengthen their bond, and divorcees hoping to fathom where it all went wrong. Gray's insights into how to allow your other half to "pull away" like an elastic band, prevent your emotional baggage from polluting your current relationship, and translate the phrases of the opposite sex are as relevant now as when they were first published. With straightforward, honest writing from that precious male perspective, Gray unlocks the secrets hidden in your partner's words and actions to enable you both to reach true mutual understanding and a lifetime of love. Discover for yourself why thousands believe that MEN ARE FROM MARS, WOMEN ARE FROM VENUS should be mandatory reading for everyone.

The Patriarchs - How Men Came to Rule (Hardcover): Angela Saini The Patriarchs - How Men Came to Rule (Hardcover)
Angela Saini
R445 Discovery Miles 4 450 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

'I learned something new on every page of this totally essential book' Sathnam Sanghera In this bold and radical book, award-winning science journalist Angela Saini goes in search of the true roots of gendered oppression, uncovering a complex history of how male domination became embedded in societies and spread across the globe. 'By thinking about gendered inequality as rooted in something unalterable within us, we fail to see it for what it is: something more fragile that has had to be constantly remade and reasserted.' In this bold and radical book, award-winning science journalist Angela Saini goes in search of the true roots of gendered oppression, uncovering a complex history of how male domination became embedded in societies and spread across the globe from prehistory into the present. Travelling to the world's earliest known human settlements, analysing the latest research findings in science and archaeology, and tracing cultural and political histories from the Americas to Asia, she overturns simplistic universal theories to show that what patriarchy is and how far it goes back really depends on where you are. Despite the push back against sexism and exploitation in our own time, even revolutionary efforts to bring about equality have often ended in failure and backlash. Saini ends by asking what part we all play - women included - in keeping patriarchal structures alive, and why we need to look beyond the old narratives to understand why it persists in the present.

Her Brilliant Career - Ten Extraordinary Women of the Fifties (Paperback): Rachel Cooke Her Brilliant Career - Ten Extraordinary Women of the Fifties (Paperback)
Rachel Cooke
R453 R385 Discovery Miles 3 850 Save R68 (15%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Desert Flower (Paperback): Waris Dirie, Cathleen Miller Desert Flower (Paperback)
Waris Dirie, Cathleen Miller
R474 R394 Discovery Miles 3 940 Save R80 (17%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Waris Dirie leads a double life -- by day, she is an international supermodel and human rights ambassador for the United Nations; by night, she dreams of the simplicity of life in her native Somalia and the family she was forced to leave behind. Desert Flower, her intimate and inspiring memoir, is a must-read for anyone who has ever wondered about the beauty of African life, the chaotic existence of a supermodel, or the joys of new motherhood.

Waris was born into a traditional Somali family, desert nomads who engaged in such ancient and antiquated customs as genital mutilation and arranged marriage. At twelve, she fled an arranged marriage to an old man and traveled alone across the dangerous Somali desert to Mogadishu -- the first leg of an emotional journey that would take her to London as a house servant, around the world as a fashion model, and eventually to America, where she would find peace in motherhood and humanitarian work for the U.N.

Today, as Special Ambassador for the U.N., she travels the world speaking out against the barbaric practice of female genital mutilation, promoting women's reproductive rights, and educating people about the Africa she fled -- but still deeply loves.

Desert Flower will be published simultaneously in eleven languages throughout the world and is currently being produced as a feature film by Rocket Pictures UK.

Women in Misssion - From the New Testament to Today (Paperback): Susan E. Smith Women in Misssion - From the New Testament to Today (Paperback)
Susan E. Smith
R765 R628 Discovery Miles 6 280 Save R137 (18%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Smith tries to redress the balance with a comprehensive history of mission that highlights the critical contributions of women, as well as the theological developments that influenced their role. Beginning with an examination of the New Testament record, Smith goes on to review the long period between the apostolic church and the Second Vatican Council. Following a survey of critical developments since 1965 in both Catholic and other churches, she concludes with a magisterial chapter entitled "A Feminist Missiology for Contemporary Missionary Women. "Women in Mission" is a landmark in women's history and essential reading for anyone engaged in historical, theological, mission, and women's studies.

Feminism is for Everybody - Passionate Politics (Paperback, Old Ed.): Bell Hooks Feminism is for Everybody - Passionate Politics (Paperback, Old Ed.)
Bell Hooks
R560 R497 Discovery Miles 4 970 Save R63 (11%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

'Simply put, feminism is a movement to end sexism, sexist exploitation, and oppression.' So begins Feminism is for Everybody, a short, accessible introduction to feminist theory by one of its most influential practitioners. Designed to be read by all genders, this book provides both a primer to the question 'what is feminism?' and an argument for the enduring importance of the feminist movement today. Beginning with a broad survey of feminism's most important themes and concerns, bell hooks demystifies contentious concepts and turns apparent ideology into common sense. Providing a critical evaluation of the successes and failures of contemporary feminism, she looks at a wide variety of topics including reproductive rights, sexual violence, race, class and work. hooks encourages us to demand alternatives to patriarchal, racist and homophobic culture and thereby to seek out a different future.

Also a Poet - Frank O'Hara, My Father, and Me (Hardcover): Ada Calhoun Also a Poet - Frank O'Hara, My Father, and Me (Hardcover)
Ada Calhoun
R699 Discovery Miles 6 990 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

A staggering memoir from New York Times-bestselling author Ada Calhoun tracing her fraught relationship with her father and their shared obsession with a great poetWhen Ada Calhoun stumbled upon old cassette tapes of interviews her father, celebrated art critic Peter Schjeldahl, had conducted for his never-completed biography of poet Frank O'Hara, she set out to finish the book her father had started forty years earlier. As a lifelong O'Hara fan who grew up amid his bohemian cohort in the East Village, Calhoun thought the project would be easy, even fun, but the deeper she dove, the more she had to face not just O'Hara's past, but also her father's, and her own. The result is a groundbreaking and kaleidoscopic memoir that weaves compelling literary history with a moving, honest, and tender story of a complicated father-daughter bond. Also a Poet explores what happens when we want to do better than our parents, yet fear what that might cost us; when we seek their approval, yet mistrust it. In reckoning with her unique heritage, as well as providing new insights into the life of one of our most important poets, Calhoun offers a brave and hopeful meditation on parents and children, artistic ambition, and the complexities of what we leave behind.

60 Devotions Inspired by Women of the Bible (Paperback): Zondervan 60 Devotions Inspired by Women of the Bible (Paperback)
Zondervan
R225 Discovery Miles 2 250 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This insightful, inspiring devotional examines the lives of specific women in the Bible and how their wants, needs, and feelings relate with those of women today. Each devotion includes a Scripture verse, reflection prompt, and ruled lines to write down your thoughts. This inspirational two-month devotional provides you with guidance and answers by highlighting the stories of women such as Esther, Ruth, Abigail, and many more. Each devotion focuses on relevant issues, such as: Anxiety, depression, prioritizing mental health Enoughness, equality, self-worth Grief, loss, infertility, healing Feminism, navigating a career, motherhood 60 Devotions Inspired by Women of the Bible is the perfect go-to daily reader for Christian women wanting to deepen their faith. This book is a thoughtful gift for women of all ages for birthdays, Mother's Day, graduation, holiday gift giving, teacher appreciation, or as a token of appreciation when someone special needs a "just because" gift.

Stick Figure - A Diary of My Former Self (Paperback): Lori Gottlieb Stick Figure - A Diary of My Former Self (Paperback)
Lori Gottlieb
R454 R372 Discovery Miles 3 720 Save R82 (18%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

""I wish to be the thinnest girl at school, or maybe even the thinnest eleven-year-old on the entire planet,"" confides Lori Gottlieb to her diary. "I mean, what are girls supposed to wish for, other than being thin?"
For a girl growing up in Beverly Hills in 1978, the motto "You can never be too rich or too thin" is writ large. Precocious Lori learns her lessons well, so when she's told that "real women don't eat dessert" and "no one could ever like a girl who has thunder thighs," she decides to become a paragon of dieting. Soon Lori has become the "stick figure" she's longed to resemble. But then what? "Stick Figure" takes the reader on a gripping journey, as Lori struggles to reclaim both her body and her spirit.
By turns painful and wry, Lori's efforts to reconcile the conflicting messages society sends women ring as true today as when she first recorded these impressions. "One diet book says that if you drink three full glasses of water one hour before every meal to fill yourself up, you'll lose a pound a day. Another book says that once you start losing weight, everyone will ask, 'How did you do it?' but you shouldn't tell them because it's 'your little secret.' Then right above that part it says, "'New York Times" bestseller.' Some secret."
With an edgy wit and keenly observant eye, "Stick Figure" delivers an engrossing glimpse into the mind of a girl in transition to adulthood. This raw, no-holds-barred account is a powerful cautionary tale about the dangers of living up to society's expectations.

On Her Trail - My Mother, Nancy Dickerson, TV News' First Woman Star (Paperback): John Dickerson On Her Trail - My Mother, Nancy Dickerson, TV News' First Woman Star (Paperback)
John Dickerson
R462 R387 Discovery Miles 3 870 Save R75 (16%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Service Included - Four-Star Secrets of an Eavesdropping Waiter (Paperback): Phoebe Damrosch Service Included - Four-Star Secrets of an Eavesdropping Waiter (Paperback)
Phoebe Damrosch
R429 R351 Discovery Miles 3 510 Save R78 (18%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Warning: May contain material offensive to vegans, pharmaceutical lobbyists, and those on a low-sodium diet. Animals were harmed during the writing of this book.

While Phoebe Damrosch was waiting for life to happen, she supported herself by working as a waitress. Before long she was the only female captain at the four-star New York City restaurant Per Se during its first year. Service Included is the story of her obsession with food, her love affair with a sommelier, and her amusing, eye-opening, and sometimes shocking experiences in the fascinating, frenetic, highly competitive world of fine dining.

Sitting down at a restaurant table will never be the same.

Leave the Building Quickly - True Stories (Paperback): Cynthia Kaplan Leave the Building Quickly - True Stories (Paperback)
Cynthia Kaplan
R475 R387 Discovery Miles 3 870 Save R88 (19%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Cynthia Kaplan, acclaimed author of "Why I'm Like This," once again casts her gimlet eye upon the current state of her affairs. Also of your affairs, and some other people's affairs as well. Journey with her as she humiliates herself in a variety of locales and fearlessly takes on all the important issues of the day--including her family, intelligent design, Narnia, and New England's deer population.

"Leave the Building Quickly" is a hilarious, moving, bitingly honest, take-no-prisoners incursion into the kind of real-life daily circumstances that inspire us to crouch in the linen closet at three in the morning. But that's okay because Kaplan's there, too. And she's brought snacks.

Dancing Girls of Lahore (Paperback, 1st Harper Perennial ed): Louise T. Brown Dancing Girls of Lahore (Paperback, 1st Harper Perennial ed)
Louise T. Brown
R450 R375 Discovery Miles 3 750 Save R75 (17%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

The dancing girls of Lahore inhabit the Diamond Market in the shadow of a great mosque. The twenty-first century goes on outside the walls of this ancient quarter but scarcely registers within. Though their trade can be described with accuracy as prostitution, the dancing girls have an illustrious history: Beloved by emperors and nawabs, their sophisticated art encompassed the best of Mughal culture. The modern-day Bollywood aesthetic, with its love of gaudy spectacle, music, and dance, is their distant legacy. But the life of the pampered courtesan is not the one now being lived by Maha and her three girls. What they do is forbidden by Islam, though tolerated; but they are gandi, "unclean," and Maha's daughters, like her, are born into the business and will not leave it.

Sociologist Louise Brown spent four years in the most intimate study of the family life of a Lahori dancing girl. With beautiful understatement, she turns a novelist's eye on a true story that beggars the imagination. Maha, a classically trained dancer of exquisite grace, had her virginity sold to a powerful Arab sheikh at the age of twelve; when her own daughter Nena comes of age and Maha cannot bring in the money she once did, she faces a terrible decision as the agents of the sheikh come calling once more.

5-Minute Bible Study For Men (Paperback): David Sanford (Deceased) 5-Minute Bible Study For Men (Paperback)
David Sanford (Deceased)
R189 R159 Discovery Miles 1 590 Save R30 (16%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Do you find it hard to make time for Bible study?

You intend to do it, but before you know it, another week has passed and you haven’t picked up God’s Word. This book provides simple tools for you to open the Bible regularly and dig into God's Word—even if you only have five minutes!
 

  • Minutes 1–2: Read a few verses pulled from a lengthier passage. If time allows, read the full passage listed for you in each Bible study.
  • Minute 3: Understand. Consider thoughtful questions designed to help you apply the verses from the Bible to your own life. Consider these throughout your day as well.
  • Minute 4: Apply. Read a brief devotional based on the scripture you read. Think about what you are learning and how you can apply the scriptural truths to your own life.
  • Minute 5: Pray. A prayer starter will help you to begin a time of conversation with God.

The 5-Minute Bible Study for Men will help you establish the discipline of consistent study of God’s Word. You will find that even five minutes focused on scripture and prayer has the power to make a huge difference in your daily life. Soon you will be making time for more!
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