Catherine McCormack

"Description Product Details Art historian Catherine McCormack challenges how culture teaches us to see and value women, their bodies, and their lives. Cultural archetypes have long been used to subjugate women, binding them within the restrictive roles of Venus, bride, wife, mother, and monster. These portrayals echo throughout the paintings and sculptures of western art-Titian, Botticelli, and Giambologna-and more contemporaneously in fashion photographs,...

William Wallace, a bold Scotsman, uses the steel of his sword and the fire of his intellect to rally his countrymen to liberation from the English occupation of Scotland.

On the day he retires, a CIA agent must rescue an agent he trained, who is trapped in a Chinese prison.

Nome, Alaska in 1889 teems with new riches, but not for Hudson Santeek. He's run up against an unwritten golden rule: mining boss Sean McLennon has the gold--and he makes the rules. McLennon falsely claims the rich lode Hudson vows to protect on Inuit land. The mining boss may have firepower, but Hudson's fighting savvy is as good as gold.

28 days later: An infirmary patient wakes up from a coma to an empty room ... in a vacant hospital ... in a deserted city. A powerful virus, which locks victims into a permanent state of murderous rage, has transformed the world around him into a seemingly desolate wasteland. Now a handful of survivors must fight to stay alive, unaware that the worst is yet to come. 28 weeks later: Almost seven months after the Rage virus has annihilated the inhabitants...

Painter Vanessa Stephen and her writer sister Virginia embark on a life of unexpected, post-Victorian freedom in bohemian Bloomsbury. But when they are introduced to flamboyant male admirers, their idyll is rocked and the sisters' relationship is threatened.

As war descends on Europe, the Bloomsbury friends struggle to build a life outside London. Virginia weds Leonard Woolf and begins a unique, unexpectedly happy marriage, which is in stark contrast to Vanessa and Clive's failing relationship. Vanessa comes to the painful realisation that she is in love with gay Duncan Grant and so begins a life devoted to him, painting and her children.