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a biography
- Categories
- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Edmondson, Jacqueline
- Publish Year
- 2005
- Shelfmark
- VS 9 WIL 2005
- Thesaurus
- sportberoepen, topsport, tennis, zwarte vrouwen, vrouwbeelden, Verenigde Staten, biografie
- Description
- Life stories of Venus (1980) and Serena (1981) Williams, who charged onto center court in professional tennis at the end of the 20th century.
the memoirs of Begum Khurshid Mirza, 1918-1989
- Categories
- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Kazim, Lubna > (ed. : comp.)
- Creator
- Minault, Gail > (forew.)
- Publish Year
- 2005
- Shelfmark
- V IND 9 MIR 2005
- Description
- This account of Khurshid Mirza's personal life, as an actor, activist, radio and TV artist and writer, is also a portrait of an upper class Muslim family in India and Pakistan since the early part of the twentieth century, the social conditions of Indian Muslims, the state of Muslim women's education, and the transition to Pakistan.
- Categories
- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Burke, Carolyn
- Publish Year
- 2005
- Shelfmark
- VS 9 MIL 2006
- Thesaurus
- fotografie, fotografen, tweede wereldoorlog, biografie
- Description
- Biography of the famous photographer, for her portraits and her devastating photographs of World War Two. She was also Man Ray's muse, and a close friend of artists and writers like Picasso, Cocteau, Max Ernst, Eileen Agar and Paul Eluard..
a life of Caresse Crosby
- Categories
- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Hamalian, Linda
- Publish Year
- 2005
- Shelfmark
- VS 9 CRO 2005
- Thesaurus
- schrijvers, vredesbeweging, vrouwenbewegingen, kunstenaressen, biografie
- Description
- An American debutante turned expatriate writer and literary benefactor, Caresse Crosby rejected the culturally prescribed roles of women of her era and background in search of an independent, creative, and socially responsible life. Poet, memoirist, advocate of women’s rights and the peace movement, Crosby published and promoted modern writers and artists such as from Hart Crane, Dorothy Parker, Salvador Dali, and Romare Bearden. She also earned a place in the world of fashion by patenting one of the earliest versions of the brassiere. .Behind her public success was a chaotic life: three marriages, two divorces, the suicide of Harry Crosby, strained relationships with her children, and legal confrontations over efforts to establish a center for world peace.
- Categories
- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Fehlbaum, Valerie
- Publish Year
- 2005
- Shelfmark
- GR BR 54 2005
- Thesaurus
- schrijvers, eerste feministische golf, 19e eeuw, 20e eeuw, biografie
- Description
- In a career that spanned over forty years, Ella Hepworth Dixon (1857-1932) was alternately journalist, critic, essayist, short story writer, novelist, editor of a women's magazine, dramatist, and autobiographer. After an initial popularity, however, Ella Hepworth Dixon's work, like that of the majority of her contemporaries, remained largely unread for decades. In this study, Valerie Fehlbaum sheds light on Dixon's life and work, and provides insight not only into Dixon herself but into the multifaceted character of the 'New Woman' writer that Dixon typified. .The figure of the New Woman as representing new-found intellectual, social, and political freedom came to the fore towards the end of the nineteenth century when the term 'woman' was being interrogated on every imaginable level. In heated debates about woman's nature, primary questions such as 'what is a woman?' and 'what does a woman want?' were accompanied by subsidiary controversies about the precise role she should play in society. Fehlbaum's re-evaluation of Dixon's varied literary output enhances our understanding of this period of radical change for women, and shows that Ella Hepworth Dixon's writing remains as lively and pertinent today as it was when it was first published.
Sylvia Beach en Nancy Cunard in het Parijse literaire leven van de jaren twintig
- Categories
- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Bunge, Lucas
- Publish Year
- 2005
- Shelfmark
- FR 53 2005
- Description
- Aandacht voor het leven van Sylvia Beach (1887-1962), domineesdochter, die uitgever werd van Ulysses van James Joyce, en Nancy Cunard (1896-1965), afkomstig uit een rijk Engels geslacht.
de eerste vrouwelijke bondskanselier
- Categories
- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Boysen, Jacqueline
- Publish Year
- 2005
- Shelfmark
- DUI 9 MER 2005
- Description
- Oorspr. uitgave: Angela Merkel: eine Karriere (2005).
two noble sisters in seventeenth-century England
- Categories
- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Betcherman, Lita-Rose
- Publish Year
- 2005
- Shelfmark
- GR BR 9 2005
- Thesaurus
- adel, sociale klasse, historisch, Verenigd Koninkrijk, 17e eeuw, biografie
- Description
- This dual biography of two aristocratic sisters, Lucy and Dorothy Percy, gives insight in the position of upper-class women in seventeenth-century Britain and illuminates the major events and figures of this era.
Clara Wichmann (1885-1922)
- Categories
- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Smolenaars, Ellie
- Publish Year
- 2005
- Shelfmark
- NED 9 WIC 2005 - B
- Thesaurus
- juridische beroepen, schrijvers, Nederland, 19e eeuw, 20e eeuw, biografie
- Description
- Beschrijving van leven en werk van de juriste en essayiste Clara Wichmann (1885-1922).
the extraordinary diary of a nineteenth century woman : Caroline Healey Dall
- Categories
- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Deese, Helen R. > (ed.)
- Publish Year
- 2005
- Shelfmark
- VS 9 DAL 2005
- Thesaurus
- schrijvers, dagboeken, Verenigde Staten, biografie
- Description
- Dall kept a diary for seventy-five years. This book is a selection of the best from her immense diary, woven together with biographical narrative.
the untold story of the woman who discovered how to measure the universe
- Categories
- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Johnson, George
- Publish Year
- 2005
- Shelfmark
- VS 9 LEA 2005
- Thesaurus
- astronomie, biografie, Verenigde Staten, 20e eeuw
- Description
- In the early 1900s the 'computers' at the Harvard University Observatory were women, who pored over photographic plates taken with the university's telescope and to catalogue changes in the sizes and locations of stars. Henrietta Leavitt was an unmarried clergyman's daughter who began working at the observatory soon after graduating from Radcliffe. The director quickly recognized her skill. Johnson relates that Leavitt's singular contribution to astronomy came when she recognized that cyclical changes in the size of Cepheids, giant variable stars, could be correlated with their luminosity. Once luminosity was known, a star's distance from Earth could be calculated. Leavitt wasn't interested in pushing her discovery to its logical conclusion, but other astronomers quickly grasped the ramifications for calculating the size of the Milky Way and the universe. Scant documentation exists for Leavitt's life aside from correspondence with the observatory, so readers shouldn't be surprised to discover that this book is more about the search to measure the universe than about Leavitt's life.
het leven van Peggy Guggenheim
- Categories
- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Dearborn, Mary V.
- Publish Year
- 2005
- Shelfmark
- VS 9 GUG 2005
- Description
- Beschrijving van het leven van de Amerikaanse kunstverzamelaar (1898-1979). Oorspr. titel: Mistress of modernism: the life of Peggy Guggenheim (2004).
gender, metaphor, and political identity
- Categories
- Book/Boek
- Contributor
- Dole, Elizabeth
- Publish Year
- 2005
- Shelfmark
- VS 6 2005
- Thesaurus
- politiek, gender, identiteit, macht, Verenigde Staten, biografie
- Description
- Focusing on the power of metaphor in the rhetorical construction of political reality, Anderson and Sheeler put the spotlight on gender and politics in the political lives of Ann Richardson, Hillary Rodham Clinton, Elizabeth Dole and Christine Todd Whitman.
schilderes uit roeping
- Categories
- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Huussen jr., A.H.
- Creator
- Paaschen-Louwerse, J.F.A. van
- Publish Year
- 2005
- Shelfmark
- NED 9 HEE 2005
- Thesaurus
- kunstenaressen, biografische gegevens, antroposofie, Nederland, Duitsland, 19e eeuw, 20e eeuw, 1850-1899, 1900-1949, catalogus, monografie, biografie
- Description
- Monografie waarin een beeld geschetst wordt van leven en werken van de avant-gardistische kunstenares Jacoba van Heemskerck (1876-1923). Aan de orde komen onder andere haar ontwikkeling van figuratieve naar abstracte kunst, en de periode na 1913 waarin zij opgenomen werd in de expressionistische avant-garde 'Der Sturm' in Berlijn.
een portret van de belangrijkste vrouw uit de geschiedenis van het Oude Egypte
- Categories
- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Fletcher, Joann
- Creator
- Ertman, Earl L. > (voorw.)
- Publish Year
- 2005
- Shelfmark
- NO 9 NEF 2005
- Thesaurus
- vorstenhuizen, partners van, Egypte, antieke oudheid, biografie
- Description
- Aandacht voor het leven van de echtgenote van farao Achnaton, die later zelf farao werd: het onderzoek naar de mummie uit graf KV 35: de rol van vrouwen in de Amarna-periode. Oorspr. titel: The search for Nefertiti (2004).
the story of sociologist Marta Tienda
- Categories
- Book/Boek
- Creator
- O'Connell, Diane
- Publish Year
- 2005
- Shelfmark
- VS 53 2005
- Thesaurus
- sociale wetenschappen, sociologie, allochtonen, armoede, Verenigde Staten, biografie
- Description
- Marta Tienda sees life stories in numbers. She is a sociologist, a scientist who studies human society. Numbers are the tools she uses to uncover fascinating information about people and their behavior. As the daughter of an illegal Mexican immigrant, Marta Tienda understands the pain of growing up poor. When her family had to pick crops to earn money, Marta saw firsthand the tough conditions that migrant workers had to endure. Marta’s expertise is helping government leaders create equal opportunities for millions of people, using numbers to understand why some people have more than others, like a better job, a college education, or a nicer house.
the story of planetary astronomer Heidi Hammel
- Categories
- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Bortz, Fred
- Publish Year
- 2005
- Shelfmark
- VS 53 2005
- Thesaurus
- bètawetenschappen, astronomie, Verenigde Staten, biografie
- Description
- Heidi Hammel is a planetary astronomer, a scientist who uses the world’s most powerful telescopes to learn about planets. By making discoveries in the furthest reaches of our solar system, Heidi also helps to better understand the earth. The giant planets Neptune and Uranus are Heidi’s specialties. She was on the team that first spotted Neptune’s Great Dark Spot, a raging storm as big as Earth. Heidi also led a team of astronomers tracking the Great Comet Crash, a spectacular event in which a fragmented comet pounded Jupiter for an entire week.
the story of physicist Shirley Ann Jackson
- Categories
- Book/Boek
- Creator
- O'Connell, Diane
- Publish Year
- 2005
- Shelfmark
- VS 53 2005
- Thesaurus
- natuurkunde, wiskunde, zwarte vrouwen, Verenigde Staten, biografie
- Description
- Shirley Ann Jackson is an expert in the invisible particles that make up everything in the universe. She is a theoretical physicist, a scientist who studies the subatomic world using only paper, pencils, computers, and the most important tool of all: her imagination. Her passion for science blossomed during her childhood, with bumblebee experiments and go-cart races. But it’s her talent for math and her drive to succeed that have taken her career in amazing directions. Shirley uses her knowledge of electrons, neutrinos, and other particles of matter to better the lives of others—from solving important technology problems to teaching college physics to making nuclear power plants safer.
the story of climate scientist Inez Fung
- Categories
- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Skelton, Renee
- Publish Year
- 2005
- Shelfmark
- VS 53 2005
- Thesaurus
- bètawetenschappen, klimaatveranderingen, milieu, Verenigde Staten, biografie
- Description
- Inez Fung forecasts a future when Earth could look and feel a lot different than it does now. Why care about climate change? Because it affects every living thing on Earth. What if the climate began to change dramatically? What if a warmer climate caused the polar ice caps to melt and sea levels to rise? Inez Fung is a climate scientist, she investigates why climate changes happen and how we can prepare for them, using data about the planet’s land masses, oceans, and atmosphere to create computer models of Earth. Even gas and dust embedded in polar ice half a millions years ago can tell Inez about climates of the past—and give clues about Earth’s climate future.
the story of planetary geologist Adriana Ocampo
- Categories
- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Hopping, Lorraine Jean
- Publish Year
- 2005
- Shelfmark
- VS 53 2005
- Thesaurus
- bètawetenschappen, astronomie, astronauten, Verenigde Staten, biografie
- Description
- This is story of a scientist and her science. How did Adriana Ocampo land a job with NASA, the U.S. space agency, while still in her teens and how a robot parked on Mars make her fall in love with rocks—and instantly decide to become a planetary geologist. Adriana’s imagination and can-do attitude have led her to a life of science adventures. She helped find the missing Crater of Doom, a hole blasted out of the Earth by a 'killer' space rock 65 million years ago, when the dinosaurs died out. Now she’s searching the world for the stuff that came from that crater. Between rock digs, she explores other planets through the electronic eyes of NASA’s robotic spacecraft.