From an author praised for writing “delicious social history” (Dwight Garner, The New York Times ) comes a lively account of memorable Miss America contestants, protests, and scandals—and how the pageant, nearing its one hundredth anniversary, serves as an unintended indicator of feminist progress Looking for Miss America is a fast-paced narrative history of a curious and contradictory institution. From its start in 1921 as an Atlantic Cit ...
#1 Best Seller in Lesbian Studies, Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD), and study aids - Creating Books That Will Change Your Life Healing victims of sexual assault through transformative journaling: One in six women is the victim of sexual assault. Using her own hard-won wisdom, author Jen Cross shows how to heal through journaling and personal writing. Rape victims and victims of other sexual abuse: Writing Ourselves W ...
Drink Like a Geek marries Jeff’s twin passions for alcohol and geek culture: in the early 2000s, Jeff directed two documentaries about Star Wars Episode I (the first in the build-up to its release, and the second after fans realized it sucked). There will be cocktail recipes throughout Drink Like a Geek – interpretations of Miruvor of Middle Earth, Dornish Red and Arbor Gold of Westeros, etc. – but the emphasis will be more on getti ...
Die Lesebucher der Sozialen Demokratie bieten die Moglichkeit, sich den Themenfeldern selbstandig anzunahern. Sie sind klar in der Sprache, fundiert in der Analyse und bieten Zugange aus Theorie und Praxis. In knapper und verstandlicher Form finden Sie hier eine solide Einfuhrung zu den gro?en Linien und Kontroversen der einzelnen Seminarthemen. Die Lesebucher eignen sich nicht nur zur Vor- und Nachbereitung der Seminare, sondern gerade auch fur ...
Superwoman is alive and well and strutting around in her stilettos, sabotaging our right to an imperfect life. She is feeding our insecurities, she is damaging our self belief, she is sabotaging our businesses, our careers and our relationships and she is NOT a great life model to pass on to our daughters. <br>She is what happens when we buy into the modern myth of ‘having it all’ and she has to go! <br>She empowers us to st ...
Das erste personliche Interview eines Papstes in der Kirchengeschichte: Diese Lesung gibt ein Gesprach des Journalisten Peter Seewald mit Benedikt XVI. aus dem Jahr 2010 wieder. Nie zuvor hat ein Papst seine personliche Sicht der aktuellen Probleme in Kirche und Gesellschaft in dieser Form dargelegt. Offen stellt er sich Fragen zu seinem Pontifikat, dem Mi?brauchskandal, den Forderung nach Kirchenreformen, dem Stand der Okumene und vielen weiter ...
American society has become anti-male. Men are sensing the backlash and are responding. They're dropping out of college, leaving the workforce, and avoiding marriage and fatherhood at alarming rates. The trend is so pronounced that a number of books have been written about this man-child phenomenon, concluding that men have taken a vacation from responsibility. But why should men participate in a system that seems to be increasingly stacked ...
