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Bitch: On the Female of the Species
Lucy Cooke - ?Basic Books
Format: Hardcover
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A fierce, funny, and revolutionary look at the queens of the animal kingdom Studying zoology made Lucy Cooke feel like a sad freak. Not because she loved spiders or would root around in animal feces: all her friends shared the same curious kinks. The problem was her sex.... |
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Growing Up in Public: Coming of Age in a Digital World
Devorah Heitner - TarcherPerigee
Format: Hardcover
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The definitive book on helping kids navigate growing up in a world where nearly every moment of their lives can be shared and compared. With social media and constant connection, the boundaries of privacy are stretched thin. Growing Up in Public shows parents how to help tweens and teens... |
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The Ideas That Made America: A Brief History
Jennifer Ratner-Rosenhagen - Oxford University Press
Format: Hardcover
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Long before the United States was a nation, it was a set of ideas, projected onto the New World by European explorers with centuries of belief and thought in tow. From this foundation of expectation and experience, America and American thought grew in turn, enriched by the bounties of the Enlightenment,... |
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Why Dance Matters (Why X Matters Series)
MINDY ALOFF - Yale University Press
Format: Hardcover
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A passionate and moving tribute to the captivating power of dance, not just as an art form but as a language that transcends barriers Mindy Aloff, a journalist, an essayist, and a dance critic, analyzes dance as the ultimate expression of human energy and feeling. From her personal anecdotes,... |
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The Right to Sex: Feminism in the Twenty-First Century
Amia Srinivasan - Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Format: Hardcover
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"Laser-cut writing and a stunning intellect. If only every writer made this much beautiful sense.""Amia Srinivasan is an unparalleled and extraordinary writer -- no one X-rays an argument, a desire, a contradiction, a defense mechanism quite like her. In stripping the new politics... |
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Leading with Feeling: Nine Strategies of Emotionally Intelligent Leadership
Cary Cherniss - Oxford University Press
Format: Hardcover
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For many decades, the conventional wisdom was that emotion has no place in the work world, and the ideal leader is one who approaches problems rationally and unemotionally. However, the reality is that emotion is inevitable when a group of people come together for an extended period of time... |
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Bedlam: An Intimate Journey Into America's Mental Health Crisis
Kenneth Paul Rosenberg - Avery
Format: Hardcover
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A psychiatrist and award-winning documentarian sheds light on the mental-health-care crisis in the United States.When Dr. Kenneth Rosenberg trained as a psychiatrist in the late 1980s, the state mental hospitals, which had reached peak occupancy in the 1950s, were being closed at an alarming... |
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Win Bigly: Persuasion in a World Where Facts Don't Matter
SCOTT ADAMS - Portfolio
Format: Hardcover
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From the creator of Dilbert, an unflinching look at the strategies Donald Trump used to persuade voters to elect the most unconventional candidate in the history of the presidency, and how anyone can learn his methods for succeeding against long odds. Scott Adams - a trained hypnotist... |
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