2008, ISBN: 9780765302335

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John Murray, London, 2008. First Edition. Softcover. Very Good Condition/No Dust Jacket. previous owner's name on the first page. It is no damage to detail. The book is a memoir … Mehr…

John Murray, London, 2008. First Edition. Softcover. Very Good Condition/No Dust Jacket. previous owner's name on the first page. It is no damage to detail. The book is a memoir of a girl who was abandoned by her parents, growing up in an orphanage, reclaimed by her parents, and at the age of 13 forced to marry a complete stranger in Pakistan. Two months later she returned home to Glasgow where she suffered further abuse from her family. This is her story , her struggle to break free from the past and fight back against her upbringing. Size: Trade Paperback. 246 pages. Please refer to accompanying picture (s). Quantity Available: 1. Category: Biography & Autobiography; Women & Feminism. ISBN/EAN: 9780719564604. Inventory No: 0244384. . 9780719564604 This book is light, and postage will be reduced to $8.00 for shipment within Australia. ., John Murray, 2008, Viking, Ringwood, Victoria, 1999. Reprint. Softcover (with flaps). Good Condition. Illustrator: Kaz Cooke. the pregnancy quiz, introduction by author, terms of endearment, acknowledgements and index. The text is illustrated with numerous black and white cartoons by Kaz Cooke. Colour illustrated card cover, again by Kaz Cooke, with pink, blue and red coloured titles to the front panel and green and white coloured titles to the backstrip.The book has French flaps.In this book Kaz Cooke, and her friend Hermione, give practical advice on pregnancy – from conception through to birth and beyond. It also gives a week by week rundown on what is happening to both you and the baby.sensible advice answer honestly, with humour. There should be more of it. previous owners name at the top of the first page, and, there is a rubbing of the top and bottom of the front panel of the softcover binding, which has allowed the protective coating to lift slightly. Internally clean, no annotations. Size: Trade Paperback. (13), 2-467, (1) pages,. Please refer to accompanying picture (s). Illustrator: Kaz Cooke. Quantity Available: 1. Category: Women & Feminism; Pregnancy; Australia; Parenting & Childcare. ISBN: 0670882895. ISBN/EAN: 9780670882892. Inventory No: 0277445. . 9780670882892, Viking, 1999, Arrow Books, London, 1999. Reprint. Softcover. Very Good Condition. Illustrator: Art . a nice clean copy. Just how weak were the women of the Civil War era? What could they expect beyond marriage and childbirth in an age where infant and maternal mortality was frequent and contraception unknown. Did anyone marry for love? Could a woman divorce? What rights had the unmarried? What expectations the divorced. The author is an expert on the period and brings to life the many and various women she has encountered in her considerable research. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. XX, 612 pages, with bibliography, references, and index with 4 sections of black and white illustrations mainly being reproductions of artworks. Colour illustrated softcover binding slightly faded on the spinestop previous owner's name on the 1st page, and there is a limited amount of underlining. The book includes a chronology of important events from 1603 – 1702 stop. Text body is clean, and free from previous owner annotation, underlining and highlighting. Please refer to accompanying picture (s). Illustrator: Art . Quantity Available: 1. Category: Women & Feminism; England; Renaissance 16thc to 17thc; Sociology & Culture. ISBN: 0749316527. ISBN/EAN: 9780749316525. Inventory No: 0257649. . 9780749316525, Arrow Books, 1999, Tor, USA, 2002. First Edition. Hardcover. Good (ex-library)/Fine. 490 pages. Ex-library with usual marks, stamps, stickers. Edges of boards have superficial wear. Spine has moderate lean. Dust jacket is in excellent condtion. Dust jacket is unclipped. Dust jacket is protected in clear, plastic sleeve. Edges of pages are lightly browned, slightly foxed and moderately soiled. Pages are lightly tanned. Beyond the Limit," a novel researched for more than ten years by mathematician and educator Joan Spicci, is the true story of Sofya Kovalevskaya's remarkable personal journey, from the constricted life of a teenage girl in St. Petersburg to the triumph of becoming the first woman to earn a doctorate in mathematics and join the ranks of Europe's great mathematicians of the nineteenth century. For more than one hundred years, Kovalevskaya's struggle has inspired women of all nations to fight for educational opportunities equal to those available to men. But while she is known for the science and mathematics Opportunity Days sponsored in her name at major universities, the full drama and power of her life has never been told as it now unfolds in this thoroughly researched novel. Based on Kovalevskaya's own writings, and many other primary sources, the story of her life plays out against a panorama of the turbulent, intellectually challenging 1860s and 1870s, as it follows a brilliant, complex woman on a quest that seems almost impossible to imagine, more than a century later. Friends with some of the intellectual giants of her time, ranging from Dostoevsky to Darwin, she was the equal of them all, as chronicled in this extraordinary work. In the Russia of the 1860s, young women did as their fathers bid them, and after marriage was arranged, they did what their husbands told them to do. But Sofya Krukovskaya was different. Born to a family in which science and mathematics were already part of its heritage, Sofya takes every opportunity to learn more about mathematics in tutoring sessions. But her tutors know that if she is to realize her potential, she must study at a university. In order to do that, she lies to her family and makes a marriage of convenience with archaeologist Vladimir Kovalevsky, enabling her and her sister Anya to leave Russia and seek education at a German university. However, leaving Russia is only the first hurdle she must vault to pursue her dream of becoming Europe's first woman mathematician. When she applies for admission, she is refused by stubbornly prejudiced university officials, forcing her to study covertly with the great mathematician Karl Weierstrass, under whose guidance she is at last able to gain her doctorate. Very close to her sister Anya, a talented writer whose revolutionary fervor takes her to the powder keg of the Paris Commune of 1871, more than once Sofya has to forsake her own goals to save Anya from ruin, and even death. Married in name only for many years, Sofya and Vladimir have a complex, volatile relationship. Loving each other, they're forced by the needs of their careers to withstand long separations and other trials. Across Europe, through tragedy and finally triumph, their story is richly told against the backdrop of history. Mathematician and educator Joan Spicci's compelling narrative accurately documents Sofya's educational and professional struggle, in Beyond the Limit. This fascinating, intimate portrait of Sofya Kovalevskaya's life confronts issues of women's rights and feminism that continue to face women who pursue careers in the sciences in the twenty-first century. Quantity Available: 1. Category: Biography & Autobiography; ISBN: 0765302330. ISBN/EAN: 9780765302335. Inventory No: 19070148.. 9780765302335, Tor, 2002<

2002, ISBN: 0765302330

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[EAN: 9780765302335], D'occasion, bon état, [SC: 21.8], [PU: Tor, USA], BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY BZDB5 AUTOBIOGRAPHY; BEYOND THE LIMIT : DREAM OF SOFYA KOVALEVSKAYA, Jacket, 490 pages. E… Mehr…

[EAN: 9780765302335], D'occasion, bon état, [SC: 21.8], [PU: Tor, USA], BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY BZDB5 AUTOBIOGRAPHY; BEYOND THE LIMIT : DREAM OF SOFYA KOVALEVSKAYA, Jacket, 490 pages. Ex-library with usual marks, stamps, stickers. Edges of boards have superficial wear. Spine has moderate lean. Dust jacket is in excellent condtion. Dust jacket is unclipped. Dust jacket is protected in clear, plastic sleeve. Edges of pages are lightly browned, slightly foxed and moderately soiled. Pages are lightly tanned. Beyond the Limit," a novel researched for more than ten years by mathematician and educator Joan Spicci, is the true story of Sofya Kovalevskaya's remarkable personal journey, from the constricted life of a teenage girl in St. Petersburg to the triumph of becoming the first woman to earn a doctorate in mathematics and join the ranks of Europe's great mathematicians of the nineteenth century. For more than one hundred years, Kovalevskaya's struggle has inspired women of all nations to fight for educational opportunities equal to those available to men. But while she is known for the science and mathematics Opportunity Days sponsored in her name at major universities, the full drama and power of her life has never been told as it now unfolds in this thoroughly researched novel. Based on Kovalevskaya's own writings, and many other primary sources, the story of her life plays out against a panorama of the turbulent, intellectually challenging 1860s and 1870s, as it follows a brilliant, complex woman on a quest that seems almost impossible to imagine, more than a century later. Friends with some of the intellectual giants of her time, ranging from Dostoevsky to Darwin, she was the equal of them all, as chronicled in this extraordinary work. In the Russia of the 1860s, young women did as their fathers bid them, and after marriage was arranged, they did what their husbands told them to do. But Sofya Krukovskaya was different. Born to a family in which science and mathematics were already part of its heritage, Sofya takes every opportunity to learn more about mathematics in tutoring sessions. But her tutors know that if she is to realize her potential, she must study at a university. In order to do that, she lies to her family and makes a marriage of convenience with archaeologist Vladimir Kovalevsky, enabling her and her sister Anya to leave Russia and seek education at a German university. However, leaving Russia is only the first hurdle she must vault to pursue her dream of becoming Europe's first woman mathematician. When she applies for admission, she is refused by stubbornly prejudiced university officials, forcing her to study covertly with the great mathematician Karl Weierstrass, under whose guidance she is at last able to gain her doctorate. Very close to her sister Anya, a talented writer whose revolutionary fervor takes her to the powder keg of the Paris Commune of 1871, more than once Sofya has to forsake her own goals to save Anya from ruin, and even death. Married in name only for many years, Sofya and Vladimir have a complex, volatile relationship. Loving each other, they're forced by the needs of their careers to withstand long separations and other trials. Across Europe, through tragedy and finally triumph, their story is richly told against the backdrop of history. Mathematician and educator Joan Spicci's compelling narrative accurately documents Sofya's educational and professional struggle, in Beyond the Limit. This fascinating, intimate portrait of Sofya Kovalevskaya's life confronts issues of women's rights and feminism that continue to face women who pursue careers in the sciences in the twenty-first century. Quantity Available: 1. Category: Biography & Autobiography; ISBN: 0765302330. ISBN/EAN: 9780765302335. Inventory No: 19070148.<

2002, ISBN: 0765302330

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[EAN: 9780765302335], Gebraucht, guter Zustand, [PU: Tor, USA], BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY BZDB5 AUTOBIOGRAPHY; BEYOND THE LIMIT : DREAM OF SOFYA KOVALEVSKAYA, Jacket, 490 pages. Ex-librar… Mehr…

[EAN: 9780765302335], Gebraucht, guter Zustand, [PU: Tor, USA], BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY BZDB5 AUTOBIOGRAPHY; BEYOND THE LIMIT : DREAM OF SOFYA KOVALEVSKAYA, Jacket, 490 pages. Ex-library with usual marks, stamps, stickers. Edges of boards have superficial wear. Spine has moderate lean. Dust jacket is in excellent condtion. Dust jacket is unclipped. Dust jacket is protected in clear, plastic sleeve. Edges of pages are lightly browned, slightly foxed and moderately soiled. Pages are lightly tanned. Beyond the Limit," a novel researched for more than ten years by mathematician and educator Joan Spicci, is the true story of Sofya Kovalevskaya's remarkable personal journey, from the constricted life of a teenage girl in St. Petersburg to the triumph of becoming the first woman to earn a doctorate in mathematics and join the ranks of Europe's great mathematicians of the nineteenth century. For more than one hundred years, Kovalevskaya's struggle has inspired women of all nations to fight for educational opportunities equal to those available to men. But while she is known for the science and mathematics Opportunity Days sponsored in her name at major universities, the full drama and power of her life has never been told as it now unfolds in this thoroughly researched novel. Based on Kovalevskaya's own writings, and many other primary sources, the story of her life plays out against a panorama of the turbulent, intellectually challenging 1860s and 1870s, as it follows a brilliant, complex woman on a quest that seems almost impossible to imagine, more than a century later. Friends with some of the intellectual giants of her time, ranging from Dostoevsky to Darwin, she was the equal of them all, as chronicled in this extraordinary work. In the Russia of the 1860s, young women did as their fathers bid them, and after marriage was arranged, they did what their husbands told them to do. But Sofya Krukovskaya was different. Born to a family in which science and mathematics were already part of its heritage, Sofya takes every opportunity to learn more about mathematics in tutoring sessions. But her tutors know that if she is to realize her potential, she must study at a university. In order to do that, she lies to her family and makes a marriage of convenience with archaeologist Vladimir Kovalevsky, enabling her and her sister Anya to leave Russia and seek education at a German university. However, leaving Russia is only the first hurdle she must vault to pursue her dream of becoming Europe's first woman mathematician. When she applies for admission, she is refused by stubbornly prejudiced university officials, forcing her to study covertly with the great mathematician Karl Weierstrass, under whose guidance she is at last able to gain her doctorate. Very close to her sister Anya, a talented writer whose revolutionary fervor takes her to the powder keg of the Paris Commune of 1871, more than once Sofya has to forsake her own goals to save Anya from ruin, and even death. Married in name only for many years, Sofya and Vladimir have a complex, volatile relationship. Loving each other, they're forced by the needs of their careers to withstand long separations and other trials. Across Europe, through tragedy and finally triumph, their story is richly told against the backdrop of history. Mathematician and educator Joan Spicci's compelling narrative accurately documents Sofya's educational and professional struggle, in Beyond the Limit. This fascinating, intimate portrait of Sofya Kovalevskaya's life confronts issues of women's rights and feminism that continue to face women who pursue careers in the sciences in the twenty-first century. Quantity Available: 1. Category: Biography & Autobiography; ISBN: 0765302330. ISBN/EAN: 9780765302335. Inventory No: 19070148.<

2002, ISBN: 9780765302335

Tor, USA, 2002. First Edition. Hardcover. Good (ex-library)/Fine. 490 pages. Ex-library with usual marks, stamps, stickers. Edges of boards have superficial wear. Spine has moderate … Mehr…

Tor, USA, 2002. First Edition. Hardcover. Good (ex-library)/Fine. 490 pages. Ex-library with usual marks, stamps, stickers. Edges of boards have superficial wear. Spine has moderate lean. Dust jacket is in excellent condtion. Dust jacket is unclipped. Dust jacket is protected in clear, plastic sleeve. Edges of pages are lightly browned, slightly foxed and moderately soiled. Pages are lightly tanned. Beyond the Limit," a novel researched for more than ten years by mathematician and educator Joan Spicci, is the true story of Sofya Kovalevskaya's remarkable personal journey, from the constricted life of a teenage girl in St. Petersburg to the triumph of becoming the first woman to earn a doctorate in mathematics and join the ranks of Europe's great mathematicians of the nineteenth century. For more than one hundred years, Kovalevskaya's struggle has inspired women of all nations to fight for educational opportunities equal to those available to men. But while she is known for the science and mathematics Opportunity Days sponsored in her name at major universities, the full drama and power of her life has never been told as it now unfolds in this thoroughly researched novel. Based on Kovalevskaya's own writings, and many other primary sources, the story of her life plays out against a panorama of the turbulent, intellectually challenging 1860s and 1870s, as it follows a brilliant, complex woman on a quest that seems almost impossible to imagine, more than a century later. Friends with some of the intellectual giants of her time, ranging from Dostoevsky to Darwin, she was the equal of them all, as chronicled in this extraordinary work. In the Russia of the 1860s, young women did as their fathers bid them, and after marriage was arranged, they did what their husbands told them to do. But Sofya Krukovskaya was different. Born to a family in which science and mathematics were already part of its heritage, Sofya takes every opportunity to learn more about mathematics in tutoring sessions. But her tutors know that if she is to realize her potential, she must study at a university. In order to do that, she lies to her family and makes a marriage of convenience with archaeologist Vladimir Kovalevsky, enabling her and her sister Anya to leave Russia and seek education at a German university. However, leaving Russia is only the first hurdle she must vault to pursue her dream of becoming Europe's first woman mathematician. When she applies for admission, she is refused by stubbornly prejudiced university officials, forcing her to study covertly with the great mathematician Karl Weierstrass, under whose guidance she is at last able to gain her doctorate. Very close to her sister Anya, a talented writer whose revolutionary fervor takes her to the powder keg of the Paris Commune of 1871, more than once Sofya has to forsake her own goals to save Anya from ruin, and even death. Married in name only for many years, Sofya and Vladimir have a complex, volatile relationship. Loving each other, they're forced by the needs of their careers to withstand long separations and other trials. Across Europe, through tragedy and finally triumph, their story is richly told against the backdrop of history. Mathematician and educator Joan Spicci's compelling narrative accurately documents Sofya's educational and professional struggle, in Beyond the Limit. This fascinating, intimate portrait of Sofya Kovalevskaya's life confronts issues of women's rights and feminism that continue to face women who pursue careers in the sciences in the twenty-first century. Quantity Available: 1. Category: Biography & Autobiography; ISBN: 0765302330. ISBN/EAN: 9780765302335. Inventory No: 19070148.. 9780765302335, Tor, 2002<

ISBN: 9780765302335

"Beyond the Limit," a novel researched for more than ten years by mathematician and educator Joan Spicci, is the true story of Sofya Kovalevskaya's remarkable personal journey, from the c… Mehr…

"Beyond the Limit," a novel researched for more than ten years by mathematician and educator Joan Spicci, is the true story of Sofya Kovalevskaya's remarkable personal journey, from the constricted life of a teenage girl in St. Petersburg to the triumph of becoming the first woman to earn a doctorate in mathematics and join the ranks of Europe's great mathematicians of the nineteenth century. For more than one hundred years, Kovalevskaya's struggle has inspired women of all nations to fight for educational opportunities equal to those available to men. But while she is known for the science and mathematics Opportunity Days sponsored in her name at major universities, the full drama and power of her life has never been told as it now unfolds in this thoroughly researched novel. Based on Kovalevskaya's own writings, and many other primary sources, the story of her life plays out against a panorama of the turbulent, intellectually challenging 1860s and 1870s, as it follows a brilliant, complex woman on a quest that seems almost impossible to imagine, more than a century later. Friends with some of the intellectual giants of her time, ranging from Dostoevsky to Darwin, she was the equal of them all, as chronicled in this extraordinary work. In the Russia of the 1860s, young women did as their fathers bid them, and after marriage was arranged, they did what their husbands told them to do. But Sofya Krukovskaya was different. Born to a family in which science and mathematics were already part of its heritage, Sofya takes every opportunity to learn more about mathematics in tutoring sessions. But her tutors know that if she is to realize her potential, she must study at auniversity. In order to do that, she lies to her family and makes a marriage of convenience with archaeologist Vladimir Kovalevsky, enabling her and her sister Anya to leave Russia and seek education at a German university. However, leaving Russia is only the first hurdle she must vault to pursue her dream of becoming Europe's first woman mathematician. When she applies for admission, she is refused by stubbornly prejudiced university officials, forcing her to study covertly with the great mathematician Karl Weierstrass, under whose guidance she is at last able to gain her doctorate. Very close to her sister Anya, a talented writer whose revolutionary fervor takes her to the powder keg of the Paris Commune of 1871, more than once Sofya has to forsake her own goals to save Anya from ruin, and even death. Married in name only for many years, Sofya and Vladimir have a complex, volatile relationship. Loving each other, they're forced by the needs of their careers to withstand long separations and other trials. Across Europe, through tragedy and finally triumph, their story is richly told against the backdrop of history. Mathematician and educator Joan Spicci's compelling narrative accurately documents Sofya's educational and professional struggle, in Beyond the Limit. This fascinating, intimate portrait of Sofya Kovalevskaya's life confronts issues of women's rights and feminism that continue to face women who pursue careers in the sciences in the twenty-first century. Media > Book, [PU: Tom Doherty Associates books]<