This is a seminal three-volume work, that covers the history of women throughout the world, from earliest times to the present. Marilyn French, internationally bestselling author of The Women's Room, has spent over two decades with a team of researchers and historians examining women's roles and activities in various civilizations and societies throughout the ages. The first volume covers women's roles from earliest recorded history to the Dark Ages. Fascinating and thought provoking, this new history of women from one of feminism's leading voices is an important document for our times.
Here's the Rolling Stones' story in their own words: Raw, unbelievable at times, but always true to the band that never looked back in its 40 year romp through Rock n' Roll. Compiled from more than 20 years of exclusive interviews this is a backstage pass to the Stones' real lives. Includes all of the remarkable cast of supporting characters in the Stones road show: The Beatles, Eric Clapton, the Kinks, Rod Stewart, and many of the blues greats like Howlin' Wolf who pavved the way for the greatest band in Rock n' Roll history.
Transferred to a tiny, aging congregation from her busy church, Ruth Broggan is confronted with time to consider what life is really all about. Letters, phone messages and even sermons, chronicle Ruth's crisis of faith as she sorts through how others have found purpose. She hears from her Buddhist daughter, a priest friend currently on "recall" to Rome to learn to be less flexible, a famous lesbian poet with an unrequited love for Ruth, and even from the rabbi of the synagogue next door. At last, Ruth decides on a radical approach to finding the meaning of life: she locks herself into the manse, refusing to come out until God talks to her.
