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JFK and the Masculine Mystique: Sex and Power on the New Frontier
Steven Watts - Thomas Dunne Books Format: Hardcover
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From very early on in his career, John F. Kennedys 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? As Steve... |
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The Origin of Others
TONI MORRISON - Harvard University Press Format: Hardcover
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America's foremost novelist reflects on the themes that preoccupy her work and increasingly dominate national and world politics: race, fear, borders, the mass movement of peoples, the desire for belonging. What is race and why does it matter? What motivates the human tendency to construct... |
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Late-Life Love: A Memoir
SUSAN GUBAR - W. W. Norton & Company Format: Hardcover
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"Tender, unsparing, poignant. . . . [A] love story that braids together intimate self-revelation with a rich meditation on the literature of aging." -- Stephen GreenblattOn Susan Gubar's seventieth birthday, she receives a beautiful ring from her husband, a gift that startles... |
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The Enlightenment: The Pursuit of Happiness, 1680-1790
Ritchie Robertson Format: Hardcover
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A magisterial history that recasts the Enlightenment as a period not solely consumed with rationale and reason, but rather as a pursuit of practical means to achieve greater human happiness. One of the formative periods of European and world history, the Enlightenment is the fountainhead... |
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Untitled on Becoming a Grandmother
Lesley Stahl - Blue Rider Press 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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Love Is All You Need: The Art and Science of Non-Training Your Dog
Jennifer Arnold - Spiegel & Grau Format: Print book
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From the New York Times bestselling author of Through a Dog's Eyes - the inspiration for the PBS documentary - a paradigm-shifting approach to living with and loving our dogsThere are few people who understand dogs better than Jennifer Arnold. Twenty-five years after she founded... |
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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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Under Pressure: Confronting the Epidemic of Stress and Anxiety in Girls
Lisa Damour Ph.D. - Ballantine Books Format: Hardcover
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An urgently needed guide to the alarming increase in anxiety and stress experienced by girls from elementary school through college, from the New York Times bestselling author of Untangled Though anxiety has risen among young people overall, studies confirm that it has skyrocketed... |
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