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Curie y la radiactividad presenta una brillante instantánea de la vida y la obra de Marie Curie y ofrece una explicación clara y accesible del significado e importancia del descubrimiento de la radioactividad y de las implicaciones que ello tendría para la vida en el siglo XX y el futuro.

Una novela que habla del mito del amor romántico como mandato social a través de la propia experiencia de la autora en pareja con su primer amor adolescente, distante 400 kilómetros de su propia casa, ambos residentes en la Argentina. La protagonista, que está en continuo movimiento, desplazándose de una ciudad a otra, de un país a otro, pero siempre pendulando entre su propia ciudad y la de su pareja, intenta comprender de qué modo el amor se ve condicionado por el desplazamiento físico y temporal.

Cuatro preciosas jóvenes, tal vez las más admiradas y fotografiadas de la realeza de principios del siglo XX, objeto de incesantes rumores, nacidas en un mundo de glamour y opulencia, crecieron ajenas a su destino entre juegos, coqueteos con oficiales del ejército y mascotas... hasta la Primera Guerra Mundial y la Revolución.

Un beso perdurable es una colección de textos autobiográficos que giran alrededor de un umbral muy particular en la vida de la narradora: el momento en que pierde a su madre y se convierte a su vez en mamá.

For fans of You’ll Grow Out of It, this comedic patchwork of flash-prose, essay, and poetry snapshots a millennial performance artist’s journey from late bloomer to adult, inviting twenty-something women to embrace their self-worth, sexuality, and own-your-weird mentality.

Es la biografía de una mujer que fue abusada desde niña. Sufrió el abandono de su padre, fue rechazada por sus amigos de la infancia y se sintió fea y poco valiosa. En este libro cuenta cómo estos sucesos la marcaron a tal punto de convertirla en una mujer nuevamente abusada de adulta por una pareja que la maltrató. Sin embargo, un día, cansada de seguir dando vueltas sin encontrar las fuerzas para salir de ese círculo, buscó ayuda y la encontró.

Recalling memoirs like Wild and Educated, an internationally renowned whitewater rafting guide offers a gripping and inspiring memoir about overcoming hardship and coming into her own through her relationship with the rivers she has known.

After the dissolution of her marriage, a writer is transformed into a "clam" via typo after her mother keeps texting her to "clam down." The funny if unhelpful command forces her to ask what it means to "clam down" during crises—to retreat, hide, close up, and stay silent. Idiomatically, we are said to "clam up" when we can't speak, and to "come out of our shell" when we reemerge, transformed. In order to understand her path, the clam digs into examples of others who have also "succumbed to shellfish" to embrace lives of reclusiveness and extremity.

In 1928, a young social worker and hobby pilot named Amelia Earhart arrived in the office of George Putnam, heir to the Putnam & Sons throne and hitmaker, on the hunt for the right woman for a secret flying mission across the Atlantic. A partnership—professional and soon otherwise—was born.

The world of law enforcement has always been described as a boy’s club, but what does that really mean for women who choose to cross the thin blue line? Is there room for women in the brotherhood? Retired Officer Nenia Corcoran breaks the silence by shining a light on the sexism and sexual harassment that’s ingrained in modern policing. In this unfiltered novel, Corcoran breaks down double standards, unspoken rules, and the frustrating biases that come with wearing a badge.

Mary Giuliani deconstructs her ever-evolving existential internal conversation in this new collection of essays, beginning when all the world (and all the stars) are ordered to stay home. Armed with an arsenal of pigs in a blanket and what felt like all the vodka in Manhattan, Mary begins to look deeply into what it's finally like to get what she thought she always wanted, peace.

Learn the true story of a Civil War-era woman who became an entrepreneuring inventor of naval signal flares.

Many of us who grew up in the golden era of the romcom will recognise a perfect meet cute that turns into a head-over-heels relationship and ends in happily ever after. So when Lizzie was offered the chance to take part in a The Holiday-style festive house swap with a stranger in New York for an article, she said yes. But in real life things are a little more complicated.

All I ever wanted was to be normal. But when I was diagnosed with a horrible disease, my life became filled with insurmountable challenges far from normal. Terrified I wouldn’t have a life worth living, I went to an academy where everything changed for me. I was exhilarated to discover my life was just beginning. Living without my parents and dealing with my disease alone scared me. But after making friends, my temporary home was better than I could have imagined

Sue Greenwood’s instinct was to follow her nose and say ‘YES!’ to everything, shortly followed by, “Oh S*%t! How am I going to get myself out of this one!” Raised in war-torn London in the early '40s in a spiritually rich but penniless bohemian Quaker family, Sue navigated through marriage and motherhood in the '60s before setting off alone to work in Singapore, aged 42. You might call it a fight for survival: she calls it one-helluva serendipitous adventure.

Amanda Knox spent nearly four years in prison and eight years on trial for a murder she didn’t commit—and became a notorious tabloid story in the process. Though she was exonerated, it’s taken more than a decade for her to reclaim her identity and truly feel free. Free recounts how Knox survived incarceration, the mistakes she made and misadventures she had reintegrating into society, and culminates in the untold story of her return to Italy and the extraordinary relationship she’s built with the man who sent her to prison.

On a journey of discovery into her parents history of love and fame in war torn Italy, Adela Edgecombe discovered a secret deception within love letters and from family who had been tight-lipped about the scandals for decades.

Tercer episodio de la serie documental Mujeres en pie de guerra. En los momentos donde más falta hacían las mujeres, hubo también segregación. Costó aceptar que todas eran válidas y que podían sacar adelante los mismos trabajos.

Este breviario repasa el papel que han jugado las mujeres en la historia, desde las razones por las que ellas impulsan —antes que los hombres— las modificaciones del habla, hasta la arqueología, la literatura, las costumbres amorosas, la historia, la sexualidad, la medicina, la sociología y, por supuesto, la lengua.

La escritora y música Marcela Bublik presenta en este libro el fruto de una profunda y continuada charla con Rosa, que fue desgranando frente a la investigadora una suerte de autobiografía dialogada. Diversas lecturas y testimonios de quienes estuvieron cerca de ella fueron completando el cuadro de una vida única, que encierra muchas historias que vivimos los argentinos durante y después de la última dictadura militar.