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Women who ruled : a biographical encyclopedia / by Jackson-Laufer, Guida M.(Guida Myrl)(CARDINAL)722872;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 173-186).
Subjects: Biographies.; Dictionaries.; Women heads of state; Heads of state; Queens;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Women who ruled / by Jackson-Laufer, Guida M.(Guida Myrl);
Includes bibliographical references (pages 185-190).
Subjects: Biographies.; Dictionaries.; Heads of state; Queens; Women heads of state;
Available copies: 2 / Total copies: 2
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Angela Merkel : Europe's most influential leader / by Qvortrup, Matt,author.(CARDINAL)671092;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 343-358) and index.This is the fascinating tale of Angela Merkel's political ascent, in which she outmaneuvered her male colleagues and made Germany the strongest economy in Europe. With the storytelling gifts of a novelist, as well as nuanced political expertise garnered from over a decade of experience as an academic and journalist, Matt Qvortrup gives readers unprecedented, personal insight into Frau Merkel's upbringing under communism, describing how the Secret Police tried to recruit her as a spy, how she lived as a squatter in Berlin, and how she went from distributing leaflets to sitting at the Cabinet table in Helmut Kohl's government in less than a year. This is the story-told for the first time in English-of how Merkel and her staff of mostly female advisors repeatedly outsmarted the old boys network of conservative male politicians in Germany, turning her country into a more liberal and more prosperous place.
Subjects: Biographies.; Merkel, Angela, 1954-; Heads of state; Women heads of state;
Available copies: 3 / Total copies: 3
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Women rulers throughout the ages : an illustrated guide / by Jackson-Laufer, Guida M.(Guida Myrl)(CARDINAL)722872;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 437-452) and index.
Subjects: Dictionaries.; Biographies.; Women heads of state; Queens;
Available copies: 2 / Total copies: 2
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Lives of extraordinary women : rulers, rebels (and what the neighbors thought) / by Krull, Kathleen.(CARDINAL)511928;
Includes bibliographical references (page 95).Accelerated Reader AR
Subjects: Biographies.; Women; Women heads of state; Women.; Womyn.;
Available copies: 5 / Total copies: 5
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Burma Spring, The [sound recording] / by Pederson, Rena.(CARDINAL)706858; White, Karen.(CARDINAL)511731; Blackstone Audio, Inc.(CARDINAL)346395; TEI Landmark Audio.;
Read by Karen White.Aung San Suu Kyi, Burma's "woman of destiny" and one of the most admired voices for freedom in the world today, comes alive through this brilliant rendering of Burma's tumultuous history.Award-winning journalist and former State Department speechwriter Rena Pederson brings to light fresh details about the charismatic Nobel Peace Prize winner Aung San Suu Kyi: the inspiration for Burma's (now Myanmar) first steps towards democracy. Suu Kyi's party will be a major contender in the 2015 elections, a revolutionary breakthrough after years of military dictatorship. Using exclusive interviews with Suu Kyi since her release from fifteen years of house arrest, as well as recently disclosed diplomatic cables, Pederson uncovers new facets to Suu Kyi's extraordinary story.The Burma Spring also reveals the extraordinary steps taken by First Lady Laura Bush to help Suu Kyi, as well as how former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton injected new momentum into Burma's democratic rebirth. Pederson provides a never-before-seen view of the harrowing hardships the people of Burma have endured and the fiery political atmosphere in which Suu Kyi has fought a life-and-death struggle for liberty in this fascinating part of the world.
Subjects: Audiobooks.; Presidents & Heads of State.; Social Activists; Women.;
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The war queens : extraordinary women who ruled the battlefield / by Jordan, Jonathan W.,1967-author.(CARDINAL)471476; Jordan, Emily Anne,author.;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 327-333) and index.Introduction: Women waging war -- The mighty arms of Atlas. "More blood than you can drink" ; "My women have become men" ; The last pharaoh ; A thirst for blood -- Women of a certain age. Lion of the Caucasus ; Year of the tiger ; Viper and rose -- Empire and rebels. Heart of a king ; Baptized in blood ; Philosophe warlord -- Maps and legends. Red Durga ; Babushka ; Crossfire hurricane -- Epilogue: The final argument of queens."History's killer queens come in all colors, ages, and leadership styles. Elizabeth Tudor and Golda Meir played the roles of high-stakes gamblers who studied maps with an unblinking, calculating eye. Angola's Queen Njinga was willing to shed (and occasionally drink) blood to establish a stable kingdom in an Africa ravaged by the slave trade. Caterina Sforza defended her Italian holdings with cannon and scimitar, and Indira Gandhi launched a war to solve a refugee crisis. From ancient Persia to modern-day Britain, the daunting thresholds these exceptional women had to cross--and the clever, sometimes violent ways in which they smashed obstacles in their paths--are evoked in vivid detail. The narrative sidles up to these war queens in the most dire, tumultuous moments of their reigns and examines the brilliant methods and maneuvers they each used to defend themselves and their people from enemy forces." --
Subjects: Biographies.; Women heads of state; Queens; Women; Leadership in women.; Women.; Womyn.;
Available copies: 3 / Total copies: 3
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Lives of extraordinary women : rulers, rebels (and what the neighbors thought) / by Krull, Kathleen.(CARDINAL)511928; Hewitt, Kathryn,illustrator.(CARDINAL)318359;
MARCIVE 03/01/06Includes bibliographical references (page 95).Cleopatra -- Eleanor of Aquitaine -- Joan of Arc -- Isabella I -- Elizabeth I -- Nzingha -- Catherine the Great -- Marie Antoinette -- Victoria -- Harriet Tubman -- Tz'u-hsi -- Gertrude Bell -- Jeannette Rankin -- Eleanor Roosevelt -- Golda Meir -- Indira Gandhi -- Eva Peron -- Wilma Mankiller -- Aung San Suu Kyi -- Rigoberta Menchu.Booklist,Horn Book Guide,Horn Book Magazine,Kirkus Review,School Library Journal,Voice of Youth Advocate,Accelerated Reader AR
Subjects: Biographies.; Women heads of state.; Women heads of state; Women; Women; Women.; Womyn.;
Available copies: 28 / Total copies: 30
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Women world leaders / by Currie, Stephen,1960-author.(CARDINAL)370393;
Includes bibliographical references and index.Indira Gandhi -- Golda Meir -- Margaret Thatcher -- Angela Merkel -- Ellen Johnson Sirleaf -- Hillary Clinton.Over the last several decades, women have made enormous strides in politics and government. Profiled in this book are six women world leaders: Indira Gandhi; Golda Meir; Margaret Thatcher; Angela Merkel; Ellen Johnson Sirleaf; and Hillary Clinton.
Subjects: Biographies.; Women; Women politicians; Women heads of state; Women.; Womyn.;
Available copies: 2 / Total copies: 2
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Forgotten women : the leaders / by Tsjeng, Zing,author.(CARDINAL)678325;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 204-209) and index.The rebels. Carlota Lucumi -- Grace O'Malley -- Christina of Sweden -- Doria Shafik -- Lakshmibai -- Agent 355 -- Noor Inayat Khan -- Njinga Mbandi -- Virginia Hall -- Ranavalona -- Tarenorerer -- The warriors. The Trung sisters -- Tomyris -- Khawlah bint al-Azwar -- Mochizuki Chiyome -- Qiu Jin -- Edith Margaret Garrud -- Ching Shih -- Zenobia -- Amina of Zazzau -- Matilda of Tuscany -- Tamar of Georgia -- The rulers. Hatshepsut -- Toregene Khatun -- Brunhilda of Austrasia -- Zoe Porphyrogenita -- Catherine de Medici -- Anacaona -- Catherine the Great -- Jadwiga of Poland -- Isabella of Castile -- Seondeok of Silla -- Eleanor of Aquitaine -- Sammu-ramat -- The activists. Sylvia Rivera -- Concepción Picciotto -- The Mirabal sisters -- Lillian Ngoyi -- Jayaben Desai -- Nazaria Lagos -- Mary Ann McCracken -- The reformers. The Radium Girls -- Zitkala-Sa -- Ruth Simpson -- Shirley Chisholm -- Jeannette Rankin -- Ida B. Wells -- Sojourner Truth.Short biographies of women leaders, both the well known, and the largely forgotten.
Subjects: Biographies.; Women; Leadership in women; Women in public life; Women heads of state; Women.; Womyn.;
Available copies: 2 / Total copies: 2
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