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Guidebooks to Sin: The Blue Books of Storyville, New Orleans
Pamela D Arceneaux · The Historic New Orleans Collection,U.S.
Pages: 160
Format: Hardcover
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Between 1897 and 1917, a legal red-light district thrived at the edge of the French Quarter, helping establish the notorious reputation that adheres to New Orleans today. Though many scholars have written about Storyville, no thorough contemporary study of the blue books directories of the neighborhood's... |
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Gratitude
Oliver Sacks · Alfred A. Knopf ; Toronto
Pages: 45
Format: Print book
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A deeply moving testimony and celebration of how to embrace life.In January 2015, Oliver Sacks was diagnosed with a recurrence of cancer, and he shared this news in a New York Times essay that inspired readers all over the world: "I cannot pretend I am without fear. But my predominant... |
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Stand Tall Little Girl: Facing Up To Anorexia
Hope Virgo · Trigger Press
Pages: 145
Format: Paperback
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'Whilst your anorexia seems like your best friend, she knows everything about you and is always there, she is also your worst enemy and not someone you want to know.' - Hope VirgoWe follow Hope's devastating struggle with anorexia. For four years, she managed to keep it hidden,... |
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Untitled on Becoming a Grandmother
Lesley Stahl · Blue Rider Press
Pages: 256
Format: Print book
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From one of the country s most recognizable journalists: How becoming a grandmother transforms a woman s life. After four decades as a reporter, Lesley Stahl s most vivid and transformative experience of her life was not covering the White House, interviewing heads of state, or researching... |
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JFK and the Masculine Mystique: Sex and Power on the New Frontier
Steven Watts · Thomas Dunne Books
Pages: 432
Format: Print book
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From very early on in his career, John F. Kennedy's allure was more akin to a movie star than a presidential candidate. Why were Americans so attracted to Kennedy in the late 1950s and early 1960s -- his glamorous image, good looks, cool style, tough-minded rhetoric, and sex appeal?... |
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Happiness: A Philosopher's Guide
Frederic Lenoir · Melville House
Format: Hardcover
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A huge bestseller in Europe, Frederic Lenoir's Happiness is an exciting journey that examines how history's greatest philosophers and religious figures have answered life's most fundamental question: What is happiness and how do I achieve it? From the ancient Greeks on--from... |
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This Close to Happy: A Reckoning with Depression
Daphne Merkin · Farrar
Pages: 288
Format: Print book
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A New York Times Book Review Favorite Read of 2016"Despair is always described as dull," writes Daphne Merkin, "when the truth is that despairhas a light all its own, a lunar glow, the color of mottledsilver." This Close to Happy -- Merkin's rare, vividly personalaccount... |
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Sex and Gender: A Reference Handbook
David E Newton · ABC-CLIO
Pages: 362
Format: Hardcover
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Sex and Gender: A Reference Handbook is a single-volume book that introduces a variety of personal, social, political, and ethical issues of concern to every young adult in the United States today. Written in a style that is accessible and engaging for student readers and researchers, this... |
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Strong Is the New Pretty: A Celebration of Girls Being Themselves
Kate T Parker · Workman
Pages: 256
Format: Print book
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Girls being fearless. Girls being silly. Girls being wild, stubborn, and proud. Girls whose faces are smeared with dirt and lit up with joy. So simple and yet so powerful, Strong Is the New Pretty celebrates, through more than 175 memorable photographs, the strength and spirit of girls... |
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The Boundaries of Desire: A Century of Good Sex, Bad Laws, and Changing Identities
Eric Berkowitz · Counterpoint LLC
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover
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The act of reproduction, and its variants, never change much, but our ideas about the meaning of sex are in constant flux. Switch a decade, cross a border, or traverse class lines and the harmless pleasures of one group become the gravest crimes in another.Combining meticulous research... |
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The Deepest Human Life: An Introduction to Philosophy for Everyone
Scott Samuelson · University Of Chicago Press
Format: Hardcover
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Sometimes it seems like you need a PhD just to open a book of philosophy. We leave philosophical matters to the philosophers in the same way that we leave science to scientists. Scott Samuelson thinks this is tragic, for our lives as well as for philosophy. In The Deepest Human Life he takes... |
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