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A Feminist in the White House: Midge Costanza, the Carter Years, and America's Culture Wars
Doreen J Mattingly · Oxford University Press
Pages: 328
Format: Print book |
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A feminist, an outspoken activist, a woman without a college education, Midge Costanza was one of the unlikeliest of White House insiders. Yet in 1977 she became the first female Assistant to the President for Public Liaison under Jimmy Carter, emerging as a prominent focal point of the American... |
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Best American Poetry 2016
David Lehman · Scribner
Pages: 240
Format: Print book |
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The premier anthology of contemporary American poetry continues - guest edited this year by award-winning poet Edward Hirsch, a Chancellor of the Academy of American Poets and the president of The John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation.The Best American Poetry series is "a vivid... |
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Enough Said: What's Gone Wrong with the Language of Politics?
Mark Thompson · St Martin'S Press
Pages: 352
Format: Print book |
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There's a crisis of trust in politics across the western world. Public anger is rising and faith in conventional political leaders and parties is falling. Anti-politics, and the anti-politicians, have arrived. In Enough Said, President and CEO of The New York Times Company Mark Thompson... |
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The fatherless daughter project : understanding our losses and reclaiming our lives
Denna D Babul; Karin Luise · Avery Publishing Group
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover |
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"This groundbreaking work will give voice to an enormous population of women who are struggling to understand themselves in the face of their fathers' absence." - Claire Bidwell Smith, author of The Rules of Inheritance and After This When Motherless Daughters was published... |
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How to Read Water: Clues and Patterns from Puddles to the Sea
Tristan Gooley · Experiment Llc
Pages: 368
Format: Print book |
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Read the sea like a Viking and interpret ponds like a Polynesian - with a little help from the "natural navigator"! In his eye-opening books The Lost Art of Reading Nature's Signs and The Natural Navigator, Tristan Gooley helped readers reconnect with nature by finding direction... |
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Scissors, Paper, Craft: 30 Pretty Projects All Cut, Folded, and Crafted from Paper
Christine Leech · Barron'S
Pages: 128
Format: Print book |
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This charming book makes the most of our current love affair with all things simple and handmade. Scissors, Paper, Craft is filled with very affordable and very do-able projects that are suitable for all crafters, no matter what their level of skill. From very basic mobiles and gift bows... |
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Happiness by Design: Change What You Do, Not How You Think
Paul Dolan · Hudson Street Press
Format: Hardcover |
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This is not just another happiness book. In Happiness by Design, happiness and behavior expert Paul Dolan combines the latest insights from economics and psychology to illustrate that in order to be happy we must behave happy Our happiness is experiences of both pleasure and purpose over... |
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