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Pub. Date
2006
Language
English
Description
Acclaimed Hollywood screenwriter and director Nora Ephron turns her sharp powers of observation on her own life as she examines the indignities of ageing for the Baby Boom generation. Filled with witty and biting essays like "I Hate my Handbag", "Blind as a Bat" and "What I Wish I'd Known", this book offers the consolation that no matter how much your neck sags, your boobs drop, your skin wrinkles and your children don't appreciate you, someone has...
Author
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
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Description
In Being Mortal, bestselling author Atul Gawande tackles the hardest challenge of his profession: how medicine can not only improve life but also the process of its ending. Medicine has triumphed in modern times, transforming birth, injury, and infectious disease from harrowing to manageable. But in the inevitable condition of aging and death, the goals of medicine seem too frequently to run counter to the interest of the human spirit. Nursing homes,...
Author
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2016]
Edition
First edition
Physical Desc
x, 303 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
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Description
A generation gap has emerged between parents and their girls. Even in this age of helicopter parenting, the mothers and fathers of tomorrow's women have little idea what their daughters are up to sexually or how they feel about it. Drawing on in-depth interviews with over seventy young women and a wide range of psychologists, academics, and experts, journalist Peggy Orenstein pulls back the curtain on the hidden truths, hard lessons, and important...
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Language
English
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"For Ta-Nehisi Coates, history has always been personal. At every stage of his life, he's sought in his explorations of history answers to the mysteries that surrounded him -- most urgently, why he, and other black people he knew, seemed to live in fear. What were they afraid of? In Tremble for My Country, Coates takes readers along on his journey through America's history of race and its contemporary resonances through a series of awakenings -- moments...
Author
Language
English
Description
"Peggy Orenstein's 'Girls & Sex' broke ground, shattered taboos, and galvanized conversations about young women's right to pleasure and agency in sexual encounters. It also had an unintended effect on its author: Orenstein realized that talking about girls is only half the conversation. To understand girls and sex, we also need to talk about boys and sex. Today's young men are subject to the same cultural forces as their female peers. They are steeped...
Author
Publisher
Crown
Pub. Date
[2020]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
270 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"An urgent exploration of men's entitlement and how it serves to police and punish women, from the acclaimed author of Down Girl, which Rebecca Traister called "jaw-droppingly brilliant." In this bold and stylish critique, Cornell philosopher Kate Manne offers a radical new framework for understanding misogyny. Ranging widely across the culture, from the Kavanaugh hearings and "Cat Person" to Harvey Weinstein and Elizabeth Warren, Manne shows how...
8) Pass it on
Author
Publisher
Philomel Books, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
First American edition.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 29 cm
Language
English
Description
"When you see something terrific, smile a smile and pass it on! If you chance upon a chuckle, hee hee hee and pass it on. Should you spot a thing of wonder, jump for joy and pass it on! So begins Sophy Henn's ode to the excitement of sharing happiness with others. With a refrain that begs to be uttered before every turn of the page, children will eagerly read alongside their parents as they discover how wonderful--and fun!--it is to share the good...
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
c2006
Physical Desc
xi, 350 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
The Boston Women's Health Book Collective offers women a comprehensive overview of the physical and emotional changes they will face while going through menopause, covering topics such as hormone therapy, sexuality, hot flashes, mood swings, and night sweats, and tips on how to cope with the physical symptoms of menopause.
Author
Publisher
Melville House
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
viii, 178 pages ; 20 cm
Language
English
Description
In Against Football, Steve Almond details why, after forty years as a fan, he can no longer watch the game he still loves. Using a synthesis of memoir, reportage, and cultural critique, Almond asks a series of provocative questions: Does our addiction to football foster a tolerance for violence, greed, racism, and homophobia? What does it mean that our society has transmuted the intuitive physical joys of childhood-run, leap, throw, tackle-into a...
12) Women in clothes
Publisher
Blue Rider Press, a member of Penguin Group (USA)
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
515 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
"An exploration of the questions we ask ourselves while getting dressed every day, and the answers from more than six hundred women"--From back cover.
Author
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Pub. Date
2009
Physical Desc
viii, 673 p. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
A comprehensive narrative on the white South's efforts to justify the economic, political, and social necessity of slavery during the early nineteenth century, and describes the varying debates on the subject between the upper and lower South.
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Series
Publisher
American Girl Publishing
Pub. Date
[2013]
Physical Desc
86 pages : color illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
How do you speak up when you're afraid of hurting your friend's feelings? What do you do after a really big fight? What if your friend leaves you for the popular crowd? Inside you'll find tips, quizzes, amd real-life stories that can help solve your most common friendship troubles.
Author
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield Education
Pub. Date
©2010
Edition
Second edition.
Physical Desc
xviii, 277 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Witnessing Whiteness invites listeners to consider what it means to be white, describes and critiques strategies used to avoid race issues, and identifies the detrimental effect of avoiding race on cross-race collaborations. The author illustrates how racial discomfort leads white people toward poor relationships with people of color. Questioning the implications our history has for personal lives and social institutions, the book considers political,...
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
230 pages ; 19 cm
Language
English
Description
"In A Letter to My White Male Friends, Dax-Devlon Ross speaks directly to the millions of middle-aged white men who are suddenly awakening to race and racism. Finally, white men are realizing that simply not being racist isn't enough to end racism. These men want deeper insight not only into how racism has harmed black people, but, for the first time, into how it has harmed them. They are beginning to see that racism warps us all. A Letter to My White...
Author
Language
English
Description
"As Ferguson, Missouri, erupted in August 2014, and media commentators across the ideological spectrum referred to the angry response of African Americans as 'black rage, ' historian Carol Anderson wrote a remarkable op-ed in the Washington Post showing that this was, instead, 'white rage at work. With so much attention on the flames, ' she writes, 'everyone had ignored the kindling.' Since 1865 and the passage of the Thirteenth Amendment, every time...
Author
Publisher
Portfolio/Penguin
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
xv, 201 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"Acclaimed linguist and award-winning writer John McWhorter argues that an illiberal neoracism, disguised as antiracism, is hurting Black communities and weakening the American social fabric. Americans of good will on both the left and the right are secretly asking themselves the same question: how has the conversation on race in America gone so crazy? We're told read books and listen to music by people of color but that wearing certain clothes is...
Author
Publisher
Nicholas Brealey Publishing
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
Third edition.
Physical Desc
xx, 460 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
In this third edition of the groundbreaking, global classic, Ruth E. Van Reken and Michael V. Pollock, son of the late original coauthor, David C. Pollock, have significantly updated what is widely recognized as The TCK Bible. Emphasis is on the modern TCK and addressing the impact of technology, cultural complexity, diversity and inclusion, and transitions. Includes new advice for parents and others for how to support TCKs as they navigate work,...
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