16-year-old Flora is found by the lakeside, bleeding from multiple cuts. She claims to have no memory of what's happened to her. What's more, the different witness statements don't add up to any kind of coherent picture of events, leaving the police with no leads to follow.

What makes a person who they are? What would have become of them if they'd had a different start in life?

Sunny, the school's head boy, is not only fantastically handsome but also incredibly popular. Everyone likes Sunny, so Laura simply can't believe it when her ...

»In our world, the world of girls and boys from children's homes, there was no room for dreams, there was no time for dreaming. We lived like battery-powered dolls. As long as there was life left in the battery, we kept going, but when the battery was flat, we were dead too.«

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13-year-old Isabelle spends four weeks in south France with relatives. Together with her cousins Suzanne, Regis and Philippe she makes a great discovery: a cave from the Stone Age. With passionate enjoyment and Regis' knowledgeable guidance, they find 20,000 year-old evidence of the Cromagnon man: ...

If you open any ordinary history of philosophy, you will be left with the impression that thinking is an exclusively male prerogative. And you'd have a hard time finding any traces of female philosophers. Yet they did exist, and not just in recent times, when women were allowed to enter the realms ...

Philosophy is generally considered an exclusively male domain. The great minds portrayed in this book prove that this is by no means the case. The stories of these women take us on a journey from the Middle Ages to the present day. Their determined single-mindedness and great passion for ...

Simone de Beauvoir is regarded as one of the founders of feminism, her book The Second Sex became a cornerstone of the women's liberation movement. As a committed philosopher and writer and the life-long companion of Jean-Paul Sartre, she had a major influence on intellectual life in the ...