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Discover the extraordinary life of Florence Nightingale, the pioneering nurse whose unwavering dedication and compassion transformed the field of healthcare. Born into a privileged British family in 1820, Nightingale defied societal expectations to answer a divine calling to serve others. Her journey from the luxurious halls of Victorian society to the grim hospitals of the Crimean War reveals a woman driven by a profound sense of duty and an indomitable spirit.

"Ein Mann bekommt Schmerzmittel. Eine Frau etwas für die Nerven." Wie weiblicher Schmerz unterschätzt, übergangen und abgewertet wird. Eine feministische Erkundung Männer sollen stark sein, Frauen sind es angeblich nicht. Dabei bekommen sie Kinder und schmerzhafte Perioden, leiden häufiger an chronischen Schmerzen und sind stärker von häuslicher und sexueller Gewalt betroffen. Gleichzeitig wird ihr Schmerz weniger ernst genommen und schneller ruhiggestellt: Auf einen schmerzmittelabhängigen Mann kommen gut doppelt so viele Frauen.

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L'inizio di questa storia è un incrocio nel bel mezzo di Tripoli, più che un incrocio, un'auto con un parabrezza rotto ferma a un incrocio dopo un incidente. A bordo della macchina un uomo e una donna, un padre e una madre, prima erano in tre, solo che la figlia poco più che neonata è stata sbalzata fuori dall'abitacolo e ha impattato contro un albero. Comincia così il racconto della vita di Nagla Augelli, bambina tunisina abbandonata dalla famiglia in un orfanotrofio della sua città, dopo che un incidente di auto l'ha resa paraplegica.

Нюта Федермессер — известный российский общественный деятель, учредитель Благотворительного фонда помощи хосписам "Вера", на званного в честь ее мамы, врача Веры Васильевны Миллионщиковой, одной из основателей хосписного движения в России. Уже почти два десятилетия Нюта записывает все, что успевает за фиксировать из безумного списка событий и встреч, чтобы однажды остановиться, вернуться, перечитать, чтобы сохранить память.

¿Quién es la jugadora con más Balones de Oro? ¿Sabías que en La Coruña hubo una chica que creó su propio equipo y que encima le puso su nombre? ¿A qué futbolista descubrieron en la playa? ¿Qué jugadoras han puesto de moda el pelo morado y las trenzas? ¿Qué estudian en la universidad las futbolistas? ¿Quiénes son Las Matildas? Todo eso y mucho más es lo que vas a descubrir en las páginas de este libro. Cada capítulo cuenta la historia de una jugadora o árbitra (porque ellas también están en el partido).

Violetta ha tagliato tutti i ponti con il passato, vivendo per anni come Barbara Genova, un alter ego che l’ha resa una sconosciuta. È stata Barbara a permetterle di ritrovare se stessa o ha inventato la Violetta che conosciamo oggi? Violetta Bellocchio ha deciso di sparire ed Electra è la storia della sua scomparsa.

Not Ours to See is the inspirational story of a woman who faced adversities as a child, teenager and adult. Anne Sauter Lieb struggled to learn in school, struggled to feel understood in her family and struggled to find peace in a marriage where her feelings didn’t matter. In spite of everything, this devoted mother refused to give up and vowed to provide her daughters with better lives.

Across six revealing lectures, Professor Jessica Hooten Wilson will introduce you to one of the 20th century’s most fascinating and divisive writers in Flannery O’Connor and the Scandal of Faith. Beginning with an overview of her brief but remarkable life, Professor Wilson will then take you through an exploration of themes in O’Connor’s work and the hallmarks of her literary style. You’ll get a clearer picture of O’Connor’s historical and geographical context while digging into how her stories can transcend time and place.

A REBELLIOUS APPROACH TO ACHIEVING PROFESSIONAL SUCCESS. In Unbeatable Latinas, Valeria Aloe takes us on a transformative journey. She begins by examining how ancestral cultural messages —such as "be humble," "just work hard," "be grateful for what you already have," and "don't create conflict"— have historically hindered our professional advancement, leaving many of us feeling undervalued, underpaid, or unsupported in our growth.

Una ragazza di provincia con un incredibile talento, e la forza e la determinazione di realizzare il suo Sogno: Taylor Swift si è trasformata da giovane promessa della musica country a megastar globale. La rivista Time l’ha proclamata “Persona dell’anno” nel 2023. Il suo undicesimo album, The Tortured Poets Department, è il primo nella storia a raggiungere un miliardo di stream su Spotify. Sembra che non esista record che Taylor Swift non è in grado di infrangere. Ma come è arrivata da una contea della Pennsylvania ai palcoscenici di tutto il mondo?

What was life really like for women in the medieval period? How did they think about sex, death and God? Could they live independent lives? And how can we hear the stories of women from this period?

In addition to her romance with Kennedy, Arvad married four times - including to an Egyptian prince, the brilliant filmmaker Paul Fejos, and the famed cowboy movie star Tim McCoy. She had affairs with Wall Street financier Bernard Baruch, the noted surgeon Dr. William Cahan, and Winston Churchill's right hand man, Baron Robert Boothby. But by all accounts her admirers among the European and American elite loved Inga not for her physical beauty, but for her joie de vivre.

In her celebrated fiction, Shirley Jackson explored the darkness lurking beneath the surface of small-town America. But in Life Among the Savages, she takes on the lighter side of small-town life. In this witty and warm memoir of her family's life in rural Vermont, she delightfully exposes a domestic side in cheerful contrast to her quietly terrifying fiction. With a novelist's gift for character, an unfailing maternal instinct, and her signature humor, Jackson turns everyday family experiences into brilliant adventures.

From her well-remembered New Yorker essays about the financial demands of big-city ambition and the ethereal, strangely old-fashioned allure of cyber relationships to her dazzlingly hilarious riff in Harper's about musical passions that give way to middle-brow paraphernalia, Daum delves into the center of things while closely examining the detritus that spills out along the way. With precision and well-balanced irony, Daum implicates herself as readily as she does the targets that fascinate and horrify her.

With this unflinching account, Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson invites listeners into her life and world, tracing her family’s ascent from segregation to her confirmation on America’s highest court within the span of one generation.

Discovered at twelve years old, Madison Beer was one of the first artists to have her entire life documented online. Over the past decade, she has navigated the spotlight as a child, through her teenage years, and now as a young woman in her twenties. In The Half of It, Madison pulls back the curtain to show the behind-the-scenes of her journey, from reckoning with mass hate online and the time her private pictures were leaked, to battling suicidal thoughts while making her highly acclaimed debut album, Life Support, and her recovery since then.

In the exhilarating spirit of Wild and A Walk in the Park, an adventure-filled memoir of one woman’s struggle to succeed as a wildland firefighter on an elite, male-dominated crew as they battle some of the fiercest wildfires in the West.

My Extra Life is about one woman's quest to get a SAG card. She also wants to become an NFL play-by-play announcer because she is obsessed with the game of football. The majority of the book is about her experiences on movie and TV productions. She has been fortunate to work with major movie and TV stars. She started out as an extra, hoping to get discovered and get a starring role. Some major female and male actors have started out as extras.

In the wake of a catastrophic two-year relationship, Melissa Febos decided to take a break—for three months she would abstain from dating, from relationships, and sex. Her friends were amused. Did she really think three months was a long time? But to Febos, it was. Ever since her teens, she had been in one relationship after another. As she puts it, she could trace a “daisy chain of romances” from her adolescence to her mid-thirties. Finally, she would carve out time to focus on herself and examine the patterns that had produced her midlife disaster.