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The Body Project: An Intimate History of American Girls
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Adolescent girls today face the issues girls have always faced: "Who am I?" and "Who do I want to be?" Unfortunately their answers, now more than ever before, revolve around the body rather than the mind, heart, or soul. "The body is at the heart of the crisis that [Carol] Gilligan, [Mary] Pipher, and others describe.... The fact that American girls no... »
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And the Band Played On: Politics, People, and the AIDS Epidemic, 20th-Anniversary Edition
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In the first major book on AIDS, San Francisco Chronicle reporter Randy Shilts examines the making of an epidemic. Shilts researched and reported the book exhaustively, chronicling almost day-by-day the first five years of AIDS. His work is critical of the medical and scientific communities' initial response and particularly harsh on the Reagan Adminis... »
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Education's End: Why Our Colleges and Universities Have Given Up on the Meaning of Life
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This is an important and carefully thought-out book. It's not for the faint of heart, or for anyone looking for a quick, punchy exposA of the current college scene. Rather, it is a deeply reflective and philosophical exploration of the differences in the intellectual objects of the sciences (both social and hard) and of the humanities. By appropriatin... »
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Well-Behaved Women Seldom Make History
I grew up when that phrase -- Well-Behaved Women Seldom Make History -- was always in the background -- on posters, bumper stickers, and mugs. So I was ex... »
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