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Bad Girls: Sirens, Jezebels, Murderesses, Thieves & Other Female Villains
Par Jane Yolen, Heidi E. Y. Stemple. 2013
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Aventure (récits)Femmes (biographies), Loi et crime
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From Jezebel to Catherine the Great, from Cleopatra to Mae West, from Mata Hari to Bonnie Parker, strong women have…
been a problem for historians, storytellers, and readers. Strong females smack of the unfeminine. They have been called wicked, wanton, and willful. Sometimes that is a just designation, but just as often it is not. "Well-behaved women seldom make history," is the frequently quoted statement by historian and feminist Laurel Thatcher Ulrich. But what makes these misbehaving women "bad"? Are we idolizing the wicked or salvaging the strong? In BAD GIRLS, readers meet twenty-six of history's most notorious women, each with a rotten reputation. But authors Jane Yolen and Heidi Stemple remind us that there are two sides to every story. Was Delilah a harlot or hero? Was Catherine the Great a great ruler, or just plain ruthless? At the end of each chapter, Yolen and Stemple appear as themselves in comic panels as they debate each girl's badness--Heidi as the prosecution, Jane for context. This unique and sassy examination of famed, female historical figures will engage readers with its unusual presentation of the subject matter. Heidi and Jane's strong arguments for the innocence and guilt of each bad girl promotes the practice of critical thinking as well as the idea that history is subjective. Rebecca Guay's detailed illustrations provide a rich, stylized portrait of each woman, while the inclusion of comic panels will resonate with fans of graphic novels.Shipwrecked!
Par Donald Margulies. 2009
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Aventure (récits)Drame, Loi et crime
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"A deft literate narrative folded into a vaudevillian romp."--Los Angeles TimesDonald Margulies aims to invigorate the imagination of theatergoers with…
a story about the nature of storytelling. Based on a Victorian hoaxer's tale of being a castaway in the South Pacific--complete with buried treasure, a giant killer octopus, and cannibals--Margulies revisits themes of authenticity and loss as he returns to what theater does best.Donald Margulies received the 2000 Pulitzer Prize for Drama for Dinner with Friends, which has been produced throughout the world. Other plays include Sight Unseen (winner of an OBIE Award), Brooklyn Boy, and Collected Stories, among many others.The 13th Tablet
Par Alex Mitchell. 2012
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Aventure (récits), Littérature générale (romans), Sensations (romans à)Archéologie
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Iraq 2004 The war on terror rages on and as lawlessness escalates in Iraq looters are hitting…
the museums Mina Osman a spirited young American archaeologist of Iraqi descent appalled at the loss of her parents heritage heads to the University of Mosul to help source Iraq s antiquities While reprimanding one of her students for conspiring with the looters a cuneiform tablet dating back three thousand years is handed over for restitution The tablet holds within it a profound secret about the primordial flood described in the Gilgamesh epic What begins as a straightforward translation of an ancient text triggers a series of disruptive and life-threatening events A chase without limits ensues which takes the savvy and adventurous Mina and Jack a handsome ex-US Army Major from Mosul to Safed and from Cambridge to Phuket in the midst of the tsunami cataclysm Alex Mitchell is an honorary researcher at the Institute of Archaeology Oxford University Alex is working on two sequels to The Thirteenth Tablet which will take Mina Osman to China India and Greece with a climax in North America