We know women are as good as men—so why haven’t we heard of more women? Allison Tyra brings together more than 600 stories, encompassing thousands of women from throughout history, around the world, and across different fields, combined with statistics, research, and other data to answer this fundamental question and challenge ingrained misconceptions about women and their work.

中国历史悠久，灿烂的文化积淀下来许多成语。它们经过时间的检验，被人们乐此不疲地传诵。成语具有丰富的内涵，寓意深刻，朗朗上口；成语背后的故事也生动有趣，浅显易懂，能将成语中蕴含的深刻哲理通俗地传递给孩子，便于孩子们理解和吸收。中华成语故事专辑不仅能帮助孩子们学习、认识、理解这些常用的成语，也能让孩子了解成语的由来和历史背景，从故事中汲取人生智慧，是孩子们学习传统文化很好的选择。中國歷史悠久，燦爛的文化積澱下來許多成語。它們經過時間的檢驗，被人們樂此不疲地傳誦。成語具有豐富的內涵，寓意深刻，朗朗上口；成語背後的故事也生動有趣，淺顯易懂，能將成語中蘊含的深刻哲理通俗地傳遞給孩子，便於孩子們理解和吸收。中華成語故事專輯不僅能幫助孩子們學習、認識、理解這些常用的成語，也能讓孩子了解成語的由來和歷史背景，從故事中汲取人生智慧，是孩子們學習傳統文化很好的選擇。

We know women are as good as men—so why haven’t we heard of more women? Allison Tyra brings together more than 600 stories, encompassing thousands of women from throughout history, around the world, and across different fields, combined with statistics, research, and other data to answer this fundamental question and challenge ingrained misconceptions about women and their work.

Containing the histories of over 600 overlooked or disregarded women, Uncredited is a testament to women's perseverance and the recognition they deserve for their accomplishments.Women's accomplishments across history are showcased as aberrations or surprising facts. Little thought is often given to the reasons why most of our lauded scientists, reporters, sports stars, politicians, and businesspeople all seem to be men.

The five books of Moses are referred to as the Pentateuch, and encompasses the first five books of the Old Testament: Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, and Deuteronomy. These books give the foundation for Jewish law and religion, and outlined the covenants given to Jewish people by their God.Genesis – Genesis is a narrative about the beginnings of life, the Earth, and God’s provenance over humans. This book contains many of the most well-known Bible stories: creation, the Garden...

Hercules was the most famous ancient Greek hero. Zeus was his father. There were twelve labors of Hercules in total.“Black Tartarus and Elysian Fields” describes two places: Black Tartarus is an analog of Hell. Into Tartarus we're thrown, never to come out again, the shades or manes of traitors, ingrates, perjurers, unnatural children, murderers and hypocrites who had during their lives pretended to be upright and honorable in order to deceive the just. Also, there were to be seen ...

The Apostle Paul is one of the prominent authors of the New Testament, with thirteen of its twenty-seven chapters being letters written by him to churches throughout the world. These letters are foundational to many Christian denominations, as they are instructional for how groups of Christians ought to believe and behave. In addition to being instructional, the letters of Paul are a fascinating look at the ethics and ideals of early organized Christian religious sects. Written between 50-...

Hercules was the most famous ancient Greek hero. Zeus was his father. There were twelve labors of Hercules in total. Having married Deianira, the daughter of a powerful King of Calydon, Hercules was traveling home with her when he came to the banks of a river and was at a loss how to cross it.Seeing his perplexity, Nessus, one of the Centaurs, offered to take Deianira on his back and carry her over the stream. This offer Hercules gladly accepted. But Nessus obtained possession of D...

Explore the words and stories of the major and minor prophets of the Old Testament in this collection.In the Bible, “The Prophets” are books written by people chosen by God to deliver messages from him about his people, the future, and the events that he would allow to happen throughout eternity. These prophet books are important for many reasons. These books give a good understanding of what God’s people were thinking about and focusing on throughout major events of history, while...

Explore the major work of poetry of the Bible with this unabridged presentation of The Book of Psalms in the King James Version translation.The Book of Psalms is the longest book of the Bible and contains 150 psalms. Psalms were songs written as expressions of praise, declarations of emotions, laments of sorrow or guilt, celebrations of events, and more. The Psalms were written by many authors, and many of them are attributed to King David. Whether he did write them is still debate...

In the Bible, the first four books of the New Testament are known as the Gospels. These four books tell the story of the beginnings of Christianity, from the birth of Jesus to his death and resurrection. Each gospel is told from a slightly different perspective, thought many stories and events are illustrated in multiple books.Matthew – The first of the four gospels was written between 80 and 90 a.d., and gives accounts of the major events of Jesus’s life from birth, through his yo...

Once upon a time there were two princes who were twins - Acrisius and Proetus. They lived in the pleasant vale of Argos in peace but they were jealous of each other so Acrisius started a was against his brother. As a result they shared the kingdom.Later there came a prophet to that hard-hearted Acrisius and told him “Because you have risen up against your own blood, your own blood shall rise up against you; because you have sinned against your kindred, by your kindred you shall be ...