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JFK and the Masculine Mystique: Sex and Power on the New Frontier

Steven Watts - Thomas Dunne Books
Format: Hardcover

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

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

"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

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

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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On the Social and Emotional Lives of Gifted Children: Understanding and Guiding Their Development

Tracy L. Cross - Routledge
Format: 5th Edition

Raising happy, successful children is a goal of every parent of gifted children. In On the Social and Emotional Lives of Gifted Children, the nations leading authority on the psychology of gifted children offers advice and encouragement for both parents and teachers. In a thoughtful, conversational...
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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

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

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

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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Preschool Clues: Raising Smart, Inspired, and Engaged Kids in a Screen-Filled World

Angela C. Santomero - Touchstone
Format: Paperback

The award-winning creator of Blue's Clues, Super Why!, and Daniel Tiger's Neighborhood shares the secret sauce behind her shows' powerful, transformative results in the form of eleven research-based, foundational "clues" to ensure that preschoolers flourish...
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