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Tripping the Prom Queen; The Truth About Women and Rivalry by Susan Shapiro Barash
Based on interviews with women across a social spectrum, the author has discovered that the competition between women is more vicious precisely because it is covert. She tells us: why women can’t and won’t admit to rivalry; how women are trained from an early age to compete with one another; and, in which areas women most heatedly compete
Paperback, 288 pp, $23.95. Buy
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Remotely Controlled by Aric Sigman
Offering a perceptive assessment of the nation’s relationship with the small screen, this work reveals the reality of what television is actually doing to us physically, emotionally, intellectually and socially. It provides evidence as to how television contributes to the rising global obesity rate by actually slowing our metabolic rate
Paperback, 368 pp, $23.95. Buy
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Insecure at Last; Losing It in Our Security-Obsessed World by Eve Ensler
“ Why has all this focus on security made me feel so much more insecure? Nothing is secure. And this is the good news. But only if you are not seeking security as the point of your life.” – Eve Ensler When her stage play “The Vagina Monologues” became a runaway hit and an international sensation, Eve Ensler emerged as a powerful voice and champion for women everywhere. Now the brilliant playwright gives us her first major work written exclusively for the printed page. Insecure at Last is a timely and urgent look at our security-obsessed world, the drastic measures taken to keep us safe, and how we can truly experience freedom by letting go of the deceptive notion of vigilant “ protection.” Ensler draws on personal experiences and candid int
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Love Signals by David Givens
A world renowned anthropologist explores the nonverbal signs, signals, and cues human beings exchange to attract and keep their mates. As a medium of communication, Love’s silent language predates speech by millions of years. Today, we still express emotions and feelings largely apart from words. The postures, gestures, and facial cues of attraction are in all societies and cultures. ‘Love Signals’ is part ethnography and part how-to. Dr Givens documents the little courting rituals witnessed in elevators, on subways, and in the workplace. Knowing the unspoken vocabulary of love.
Paperback, 256 pp, $20.95. Buy
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Unspeakable: Facing Up To Evil In An Age Of Genocide And Terror by Os Guinness
We live in the most murderous hundred years in history, and we are the first generation to witness every human atrocity and every natural disaster as they happen. Now more than ever it is important to understand evil and how to deal with it.
Paperback, 256 pp, $20.95. Buy
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Reenchantment: The New Australian Spirituality by David Tacey
The spiritual quest is timeless and ongoing. For David Tacey, the quest incorporates key issues such as the redefining of our human identity, a new consciousness about Aboriginal reconciliation, a recognition of youth culture and its spiritual directions, our quest for environmental integrity, and our responsibility to community and to each other. Ultimately, the quest is for a re-enchantment that enables us to overcome our alienation, allowing us, at the beginning of this new century, to build a more harmonious and integrated Australian society. Here, with great exuberance, is David Tacey’s visionary scholarship and devotion to purpose – clearing away the cobwebs that have stifled and diminished the culture of spirituality in Australia.
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Illness as Metaphor & AIDS and Its Metaphors by Susan Sontag
In these two texts, Sontag shows how the metaphors surrounding certain illnesses, especially cancer, add greatly to the suffering of the patients and often inhibit them from seeking proper treatment. Examples of metaphor are taken from medical and psychiatric thinking, as well as literary sources.
Paperback, 192 pp, $19.95. Buy
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How to Make Black America Better by Tavis Smiley
Leading African American politicans, writers, thinkers, and artists explore the challenges confronting African American society, discussing such issues as affirmative action, crime, racial harmony, family life, and political power
Paperback, 249 pp, $16.95. Buy
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Indian Givers by J.McIver Weatherford
In a fascinating new look at the Indians of North and South America, Indian Givers proves these people were instrumental in shaping world culture–from the monetary system to our diets to political organizations and our beliefs
Paperback, 272 pp, $24.95. Buy
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Nature, Man and Woman by Alan W. Watts
That human beings stand separate from a nature that must be controlled, that the mind is somehow superior to the body, and that all sexuality entails a seduction – a danger and a problem – are all assumptions upon which much of Western thought and culture is based. And all of them in some way underlie our exploitation of the earth, our distrust of emotions, and our loneliness and reluctance to love
Paperback, 115 pp, $19.95. Buy
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