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In Our Prime: How Older Women Are Reinventing the Road Ahead

Susan Douglas - W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Hardcover

Do you see women your age portrayed as puttering gardeners and docile grannies? Do you feel bombarded by anti-aging products that insist you must "defy" getting older? Do you feel invisible in professional and social situations? And have you had enough and are you ready to challenge...
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Up and Running with AutoCAD 2018: 2D Drafting and Design

Elliot J. Gindis - Academic Press
Format: Paperback

Up and Running with AutoCAD 2018: 2D Drafting and Design provides a combination of step-by-step instruction, examples and insightful explanations on the topic. It emphasizes core concepts and practical application of AutoCAD in engineering, architecture and design. Equally useful in instructor-led...
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HiSET Mathematics Prep 2019: A Comprehensive Review and Ultimate Guide to the HiSET Math Test

Reza Nazari - Independently published
Format: Paperback

The Only Book You'll Ever Need to ACE the HiSET Math Exam!HiSET Mathematics Prep 2019 provides students with the confidence and math skills they need to succeed on the HiSET Math, building a solid foundation of basic Math topics with abundant exercises for each topic. It is designed...
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GED Tutor Study Guide 2021 and 2022 All Subjects: GED Test Prep with 3 Full-Length Practice Exams: [4th Edition Review]

Matthew Lanni - APEX Test Prep
Format: Paperback

APEX Test Prep's GED Tutor Study Guide 2021 and 2022 All Subjects: GED Test Prep with 3 Full-Length Practice Exams [4th Edition Review]Preparing for your test shouldn't be harder than the test itself. To that end, our APEX Test Prep team packs our guides with everything you need.This...
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Diversity, Inc.: The Fight for Racial Equality in the Workplace

Pamela Newkirk

Diversity has become the new buzzword, championed by elite institutions from academia to Hollywood to corporate America. In an effort to ensure their organizations represent the racial and ethnic makeup of the country, industry and foundation leaders have pledged hundreds of millions of dollars...
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Seeing Gender

Iris Gottlieb - Chronicle Books
Format: Paperback

Now with a new foreword by National Book Award Winner Kacen Callendar, this fascinating book on a relevant subject illustrates the complexities of gender and sexuality through history, science, sociology, and the author's own story.Gender is an intensely personal, yet universal, facet...
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Below the Stars: How the Labor of Working Actors and Extras Shapes Media Production

Kate Fortmueller - University of Texas Press
Format: Hardcover

Despite their considerable presence in Hollywood, extras and working actors have received scant attention within film and media studies as significant contributors to the history of the industry. Looking not to the stars but to these supporting players in film, television, and, recently,...
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The Old Farmer's Almanac 2017, Trade Edition: Special Anniversary Edition

Old Farmer's Almanac - Old Farmer's Almanac
Format: Print book

What is 225 years old yet always of the moment? The Old Farmer's Almanac! America's oldest continuously published periodical, beloved by generations for being "useful, with a pleasant degree of humor," celebrates its unique history with a special edition and more readers...
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Know My Name

Emily Doe - Viking
Format: Hardcover

The riveting, powerful memoir of the woman whose letter to Brock Turner gave voice to millions of survivors
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