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From Tweens to Teens: The Parents' Guide to Preparing Girls for Adolescence
Maria Clark Fleshood · Familius
Pages: 224
Format: Print book
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All parents want their daughters to become confident, happy, self-ÂÂsufficient women, but the turbulent years of early adolescence can be difficult to navigate. From Tweens to Teens invites parents to rethink how they prepare their daughters to face these difficult developmental years.... |
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The Selfishness of Others: An Essay on the Fear of Narcissism
Kristin Dombek · FSG Originals
Pages: 160
Format: Print book
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They're among us, but they are not like us. They manipulate, lie, cheat, and steal. They are irresistibly charming and accomplished, appearing to live in a radiance beyond what we are capable of. But narcissists are empty. No one knows exactly what everyone else is full of--some kind... |
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Spare the Kids: Why Whupping Children Won't Save Black America
Stacey Patton · Beacon Press
Pages: 256
Format: Print book
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A challenge to the cultural tradition of corporal punishment in Black homes and its connections to racial violence in AmericaSeventy percent of all Americans say they favor spanking, but African American culture seems to have a special attachment to it. The overwhelming majority of Black... |
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Jumping at Shadows: The Triumph of Fear and the End of the American Dream
Sasha Abramsky · Nation Books
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover
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Why does a disease that killed only a handful of Americans like ebola provoke panic, but the flu-which kills tens of thousands each year-is dismissed with a yawn? Why is an unarmed young black woman who knocks on a stranger's front door to ask for help after her car breaks down perceived... |
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The Gift of Anger: And Other Lessons from My Grandfather Mahatma Gandhi
ARUN GANDHI · Gallery/Jeter Publishing
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover
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Discover ten vital and extraordinary life lessons from one of the most important and influential philosophers and peace activists of the twentieth century - Mahatma Gandhi - in this poignant and timely exploration of the true path from anger to peace, as recounted by Gandhi's grandson,... |
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Anesthesia: The Gift of Oblivion and the Mystery of Consciousness
KATE COLE-ADAMS · Counterpoint
Pages: 400
Format: Hardcover
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"A work of splendid richness and depth." -- Helen Garner, author of Everywhere I Look Anesthetize: to render insensible First there's the injection, then the countdown -- and next thing you know, you're awake. Anesthesia: The Gift of Oblivion and the Mystery of Consciousness... |
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The Forgiveness Project: Stories for a Vengeful Age
Marina Cantacuzino · Jessica Kingsley; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover
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Examining themes of forgiveness, reconciliation and conflict transformation, this book brings together the personal testimonies of both survivors and perpetrators of crime and violence and asks the question whether forgiveness may have more currency than revenge in an age which seems locked... |
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The Futilitarians: Our Year of Thinking, Drinking, Grieving, and Reading
ANNE GISLESON · Little, Brown and Company
Pages: 272
Format: Hardcover
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Recommended Summer Reading -- Louise Erdrich, New York TimesA memoir of friendship and literature chronicling a search for meaning and comfort in great books, and a beautiful path out of griefAnne Gisleson had lost her twin sisters, had been forced to flee her home during Hurricane Katrina,... |
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The Common Good
Robert B Reich · Knopf
Pages: 208
Format: Hardcover
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From the best-selling author of Saving Capitalism and The Work of Nations, a passionate, clear-eyed manifesto on why we must restore the idea of the common good to the center of our economics and politics.With the warmth and lucidity that have made him one of our most important public voices,... |
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Tribe On Homecoming and Belonging.
Junger Sebastian · Twelve
Pages: 168
Format: Print book
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We have a strong instinct to belong to small groups defined by clear purpose and understanding--"tribes." This tribal connection has been largely lost in modern society, but regaining it may be the key to our psychological survival. Decades before the American Revolution, Benjamin... |
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Green: The History of a Color
Michel Pastoureau · Princeton University Press
Format: Hardcover
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In this beautiful and richly illustrated book, the acclaimed author of Blue and Black presents a fascinating and revealing history of the color green in European societies from prehistoric times to today. Examining the evolving place of green in art, clothes, literature, religion, science,... |
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