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In Depression-era Dallas, Elsie Frankfurt and Edna Frankfurt Ravkind raised five hundred dollars and launched a daring new enterprise, Page Boy Maternity Clothing--the first to engineer elegance in comfort. When Louise Frankfurt Gartner joined the team, the sisters combined engineering, business, and PR genius made Page Boy the foremost maternity-clothing manufacturer in the United States. Dressing entertainment icons such as Loretta Young, Elizabeth Taylor, and Florence Henderson, Page Boy broke new ground in every direction. Innovative marketing and business strategies would make the...

Beyond the Synagogue Gallery recounts the emergence of new roles for American Jewish women in public worship and synagogue life. Karla Goldman's study of changing patterns of female religiosity is a story of acculturation, of adjustments made to fit Jewish worship into American society.

Goldman focuses on the nineteenth century. This was an era in which immigrant communities strove for middle-class respectability for themselves and their religion, even while fearing a loss of traditions and identity. For acculturating Jews some practices, like the ritual bath, quickly...

R. H. Tawney was the most influential theorist and exponent of socialism in Britain in the 20th century and also a leading historian. Based on papers deposited at the London School of Economics including a collection of personal material previously held by his family, this book provides the first detailed biography. Lawrence Goldman shows that to understand Tawney's work it is necessary to understand his life.

This biography takes a broadly chronological approach, and uses this framework to examine major themes, including Tawney's political thought and historical writings. Tawney was...

»Wenn deine Liebe ein Sandkorn ist, dann ist meine ein Universum von Sandstränden.»

Worum geht es in diesem Buch? Fechten. Ringkämpfe. Folter. Gift. Wahre Liebe. Hass. Rache. Riesen. Böse Menschen. Gute Menschen. Schlangen. Wilde Tiere jeder Art. Tapfere Männer. Feige Männer. Verfolgungsjagden. Lügen. Wahrheiten. Leidenschaften. Wunder. Ein Buch, das anders ist als alles, was Sie bisher gelesen haben; höchst amüsante Unterhaltung meisterhaft erzählt.

»Die Brautprinzessin« ist ein raffiniertes Abenteuer und eine atemlose, clevere Romanze. William...