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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... »
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... »
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... »
Mysteries of the Middle Ages: The Rise of Femin
I love Cahill and own most of his other books, but this has been a disappointment. His numerous digressions really, really ruined it for me. He goes off i... »
Freedom from Fear: The American People in Depre
You can think of Freedom from Fear as the academic's version of The Greatest Generation: like Tom Brokaw, Stanford history professor David M... »
Daily Life in the United States, 1920-1940: How
[[ASIN:1566635845 Daily Life in the United States, 1920-1940: How Americans Lived Through the Roaring Twenties and the Great Depression]] Thi... »
Marriage, a History: How Love Conquered Marriag
Marriage: it's like the weather, it's been around forever, has a great effect on everyone's lives, and is about as well understood. Or at least, until thi... »
The Battle for Spain: The Spanish Civil War 193
He achieves an oeverall balanced account, letting us know exactly how it was that in the end the most noble people of all were the ones that really lost e... »
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... »
Only Yesterday: An Informal History of the 1920
This is an excellent historical book, on the zeitgeist of the 1920's.It reflects upon all the major people,places,and things that define the epoch of Amer... »
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