Joan: 2841 books

In our fast-paced world of technology and conveniences, the biological origins of women's inequality can be forgotten. This book offers a richer understanding of gender inequality by explaining a key cause-women's reproductive and lactation patterns. Until about 1900, infants nursed every fifteen...

This collection of original essays opens up a novel area of inquiry: the distinctively ethical dimension of women's experiences of aging. Fifteen distinguished contributors here explore assumptions, experiences, practices, and public policies that affect women's well-being and dignity in later life....

How secularism has been used to justify the subordination of women Joan Wallach Scott’s acclaimed and controversial writings have been foundational for the field of gender history. With Sex and Secularism, Scott challenges one of the central claims of the “clash of civilizations” polemic—the...

Since the invention of dextri-maltose and the subsequent rise of Similac in the early twentieth century, parents with access to clean drinking water have had a safe alternative to breast-milk. Use of formula spiked between the 1950s and 1970s, with some reports showing that nearly 75 percent of the...

Joan Skogan's marvelously poetic new novel draws upon her own years adrift on the sea as a wanderer and wonderer to tell the story of Rose Bachmann, a woman at mid-tide in a life awash in the debris of a mysterious marriage, in myths both long known and newly invented and in the magical coastline...

No one keeps secrets from Death in this bold new collection by bestselling authors JOAN ELLIOTT PICKART JUSTINE DAVIS JACKIE MERRITT A powerful man is murdered in his home, and not even his wealth and privilege can hide the trail of scandal he left behind. A scandal that is about to be unmasked...

Mail Order Bride: Svetlana. 3,596 words. Svetlana Baranova Baikov is a Mail Order Bride. When her new husband Mack Handler introduces her to his two best friends Bunny Simkins and Junior Edwards she knows she is in for a wedding night unlike any other. Contains: Multiple Partner Sex, Anal Sex, MMMf,...

What happens when a couple of really hip, really good-looking young college girls are let loose in the big city of a couple of weeks? Where do they go to find their men? Where do they go with their men? Joan Ellis gives us a story about young girls, young girls you might recognize as not very different from the young girls down the block, or in the house next door.

Sisters Sarita and Deborah, Reverend Durham's daughters, live in a remote Sussex rectory where tyrannical Lord Pergrine keeps them impoverished and in danger. But the breakdown of a coach brings spritely Lady Phillippa, plump Lady Imogene, and haughty Lady Brienne to the rescue. In their search for adventure,...

The third book in a series about a Samango monkey that was raised by a human family. Sammy at the age of five years was returned to the wild. He now lives in a forest near Tzaneen in South Africa.

Twenty-four new erotic tales to keep readers up all night, from the author of Naughty Bedtime Stories. With Naughty Bedtime Stories, Joan Elizabeth Lloyd offered sexy tales to keep fans reading-and doing other things-long into the night. Now she presents 24 all-new sizzling stories to make...

Samantha Oakleigh’s brother was missing with a questionable woman—and they were accused of theft. She turned to her cousin Edward, Lord Salverton, for help. He, trying to avoid scandal which would ruin all his plans for marriage and a cabinet position, agreed to accompany her. Their search turned...

Her fiancé Graham’s estate finally settled, Belle Haley, with her mother and sister, comes to London to inspect her inheritance. Though the house is tiny, wealthy Desmond Maitland expresses great interest. Apparently Graham was murdered for a large sum of money, which is still missing. Then Graham’s...

Diana Beechams only use for her neighbor Lord Harrup was to get him to provide a job for her brother Ronald. So she picked up the "documents" Harrup sought, only to have them stolen. Seems Harrup, seeking a high government position, was being blackmailed by his former mistress. Undeterred by a little...