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The groundbreaking feminist and socialist writings of Puerto Rican author and activist Luisa CapetilloA Penguin ClassicIn 1915, Puerto Rican activist Luisa Capetillo was arrested and acquitted in 1915 for being the first woman to wear men's trousers publicly. While this act of gender-nonconforming rebellion elevated her to feminist icon status in modern pop culture, it also overshadowed the significant contributions she made to both the women'...

Practical and pocket sized, The Hospital for Sick Children Handbook of Pediatrics has been a trusted clinical reference for more than 50 years. The fully revised 12th Edition continues this tradition of excellence with succinct, easily accessible, and evidence-based answers for the diagnosis and management of pediatric patients. Get the reliable information you need from staff pediatricians, specialists, residents, and fellows at one of the to...

SMART AND SUSTAINABLE APPROACHES FOR OPTIMIZING PERFORMANCE OF WIRELESS NETWORK Explores the intersection of sustainable growth, green computing and automation, and performance optimization of 5G wireless networks Smart and Sustainable Approaches for Optimizing Performance of Wireless Networks explores how wireless sensing applications, green computing, and Big Data analytics can increase the energy efficiency and environmental sustainabilit...

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Russia in World History uses a comparative framework to understand Russian history in a global context. The book challenges the idea of Russia as an outlier of European civilization by examining select themes in modern Russian history alongside cases drawn from the British Empire. Choi Chatterjee analyzes the concepts of nation and empire, selfhood and subjectivity, socialism and capitalism, and revolution and the world order in the 19th, 20t...

Russia in World History uses a comparative framework to understand Russian history in a global context. The book challenges the idea of Russia as an outlier of European civilization by examining select themes in modern Russian history alongside cases drawn from the British Empire. Choi Chatterjee analyzes the concepts of nation and empire, selfhood and subjectivity, socialism and capitalism, and revolution and the world order in the 19th, 20t...

Art Nouveau presents a new overview of the international Art Nouveau movement. Art Nouveau represented the search for a new style for a new age, a sense that the conditions of modernity called for fundamentally new means of expression. Art Nouveau emerged in a world transformed by industrialisation, urbanisation and increasingly rapid means of transnational exchange, bringing about new ways of living, working and creating. This book is struct...

Don't just see the sights--get to know the people. For much of its history Cyprus was regarded as the Cinderella of empires--beautiful, abused, isolated. Today, the island is divided between the Greek-Cypriot south and the Turkish occupied north. However, both sides take pride in a shared "Cypriotness, " and are united in their common hopes, pain, memories, music, excellent cuisine, rich history, and majestic landscape. Culture Smart! Cyprus e...

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Out of Paypal's ranks have come three billionaires and dozens of multi-millionaires, including household names like Elon Musk, Peter Thiel and Reid Hoffman. Paypal's alumni have built, funded and advised almost all of the billion-dollar-plus companies to emerge from Silicon Valley in the past two decades. Today, every online video you watch and every internet purchase you make bears PayPal's fingerprints -- its inventions made the modern inter...

The gripping inside story of Paypal, the company that created the digital age as we know it.

111 Places in Canterbury That You Shouldn't Miss captures Kent life as it should be - relaxed, carefree and brimming with the ancient and the modern. Take your pick of regal treats which include ancient churches, lengthy piers and in-your-face graffiti. Seaside haunts and a village city display a county at the forefront of Europe that remains umistakably English. Relics from Christianity's pioneers join modern art and literature in a cultural ...

Beginnend mit dem Aufbruch der Frauen 1789 stellt dieses Buch die Geschichte der Frauenbewegung bis heute vor: den Anfang einer organisierten sozialen Bewegung um die 1848er Revolution, die Höhepunkte ihrer öffentlichen Wirkung um 1900, den Aufstieg von Frauen zu gleichberechtigten Staatsbürgerinnen nach dem Ersten Weltkrieg, den Aufbruch zu einem «neuen» Feminismus nach 1970, und schließlich die Situation der Frauen und des Feminismus sowie d...

Studying texts by Lorenzo Valla, Erasmus, Saint Jerome, George Gascoigne, and Fulke Greville, this volume explores authorial character as an instrument of textual analysis in the scholarship of early Renaissance literature.

Alexandra Engels, eine attraktive Enddreißigerin, leitet die 4. Mordkommission in Frankfurt am Main, und ermittelt in einem Mordfall, der sich in ihrer Stadt ereignete. Niemand ahnt, dass dieses Tötungsdelikt zu einer brutalen Mordserie gehört, die bereits 2014 in Europa begann. Da entdeckt man erneut eine Leiche. Engels findet sich bei ihren Ermittlungen in einer nervenaufreibenden Jagd nach einem Frauenmörder wieder. Unterstützt wird sie dab...

Award-winning novelist and nature writer Inga Simpson terrifies and enthralls with this truly remarkable novel of a woman who must face her worst fears to find survive and find beauty in a world under attack.Fear is her cage. But what's outside is worse...It's night, and the walls of Rachel's home creak in the darkness of the Australian bush. Her fear of other people has led her to a reclusive life as far from them as possible, her only occasi...

For fans of BIRDBOX and A QUIET PLACE, this remarkable, terrifying literary horror novel comes from a multi-award-nominated writer who lived through the Australian fires.

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Diana Anphimiadi is one of the most widely revered Georgian poets of her generation. Georgian-English dual language edition.

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