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Peggy Orenstein's Girls & Sex broke ground, shattered taboos, and galvanized conversations about young women's right to pleasure and agency in sexual encounters. It also had an unintended effect on its author: Orenstein realized that talking about girls is only half the conversation. To understand girls and sex, we also need to talk about boys and sex. Today's young men are subject to the same cultural forces as their female peers. They are steeped...
3) The spa
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In the lull between Christmas and New Year's, ten high-achieving ladies are gathered at the expensive Castle Spa in Cumbria, England, seeking to rejuvenate themselves with Botox, aromatherapy, and all-around pampering. They lounge around in the Jacuzzi, sipping champagne and telling each other the stories of their lives-from a trophy wife's spell in a Greek prison to a brain surgeon's experience with twins and mistaken identity to a stepmother's reverse-Cinderella...
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A generation gap has emerged between parents and their girls. Even in this age of helicopter parenting, the mothers and fathers of tomorrow's women have little idea what their daughters are up to sexually or how they feel about it. Drawing on in-depth interviews with over seventy young women and a wide range of psychologists, academics, and experts, journalist Peggy Orenstein pulls back the curtain on the hidden truths, hard lessons, and important...
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Portfolio/Penguin, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
[2019]
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English
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"A visual exploration of how to embrace emotion at work and become more authentic and fulfilled while staying professional. When it comes to emotions at work, there's rarely a happy medium. In some offices, your boss might send snaps of her weekend getaway in Vegas, or your coworker might send twenty texts about how Susan ate his clearly labeled lunch...again. Other offices are buttoned-up emotional deserts, where crying is only allowed in the bathroom...
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Universal
Pub. Date
[2003], c2002
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English
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When a new student starts in Professor Hundert's class, little does the professor know that this student will change his life forever. They start out butting heads and end up forming a friendship that will shake the controlled world of the professor.
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There's a direct and powerful link between a team's mental health and the quality and quantity of output for a business. Managers willing and able to act stand to gain a significant competitive advantage. Founders of the Workplace Mental Health institute Emi Golding and Peter Diaz call it: Mental Wealth. Mental Wealth is a collection of practical insights into workplace mental health distilled from thousands of real world problems and solutions...
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Dave Burgess Consulting, Incorporated
Pub. Date
2022.
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English
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Micah's Big Question - a question asked by Micah of his mother--
Micah is a curious kid. He's always asking his mom questions, from where the wind comes from to whether there's sand on the moon. One day, as they're walking to school, Micah asked his mom a really big question that leads to an important conversation about skin color, representation, and how Micah can respond when his classmates make him feel bad and different. A celebration of Black...
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The Instant New York Times Bestseller He's Just Not That Into You -- based on the popular episode of Sex and the City -- educates otherwise smart women on how to tell when a guy just doesn't like them enough, so they can stop wasting time making excuses for a dead-end relationship. Reexamining familiar scenarios and classic mindsets that keep us in unsatisfying relationships, Greg Behrendt and Liz Tuccillo's wise and wry understanding of the sexes...
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Modern medicine has transformed the dangers of childbirth, injury, and infectious disease from harrowing to manageable. But in the face of our inevitable aging and death, what it can do often runs counter to what it should do. Now Atul Gawande reveals the suffering this has produced. He examines the profession's limitations and failures as life draws to a close, and he shows how the ultimate goal is not a good death, but a good life -- until the very...
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"For many [people], the years after sixty-five become the best of their lives--and with good reason. The office is left behind, the children have grown up, and you're healthy, alert, and free to do what you want. Still, as with any big life change, you may be looking for some words of advice and hope. [This book] reflects on the big things in life and the little ones, and contains practical suggestions as well as reflections on aging from the world's...
20) Catching faith
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Image Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2015]
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English
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Beau Taylor's family is is disrupted when the star high school football player is caught drinking, causing the judgmental community to turn their backs on them. But the incident causes them to rediscover their faith and discover what it really means to be family.
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