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A Wasp Among Eagles
A Woman Military Test Pilot in World War II
Written by Ann Carl
Format: eBook, 152 pages
On Sale: June 4, 2013
Price: $14.95
Before World War II most Americans did not believe that the average woman could fly professionally, but during the war more than a thousand women pilots proved them wrong. These were the Women Airforce Service Pilots (WASPs), who served as military flyers on the home front. In March 1944 one of... Read more >
A Woman Military Test Pilot in World War II
Written by Ann Carl
Format: eBook, 152 pages
On Sale: June 4, 2013
Price: $14.95
Before World War II most Americans did not believe that the average woman could fly professionally, but during the war more than a thousand women pilots proved them wrong. These were the Women Airforce Service Pilots (WASPs), who served as military flyers on the home front. In March 1944 one of... Read more >
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The Bonds of Love
Psychoanalysis, Feminism, & the Problem of Domination
Written by Jessica Benjamin
Format: eBook, 320 pages
On Sale: May 1, 2013
Price: $11.99
Why do people submit to authority and derive pleasure even others have over them? What is the appeal of domination and submission, and why are they so prevalent in erotic life? Why is it so difficult for men and women to meet as equals? Why, indeed, do hey continue to recapitulate... Read more >
Psychoanalysis, Feminism, & the Problem of Domination
Written by Jessica Benjamin
Format: eBook, 320 pages
On Sale: May 1, 2013
Price: $11.99
Why do people submit to authority and derive pleasure even others have over them? What is the appeal of domination and submission, and why are they so prevalent in erotic life? Why is it so difficult for men and women to meet as equals? Why, indeed, do hey continue to recapitulate... Read more >
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Holistic Beauty from the Inside Out
Your Complete Guide to Natural Health, Nutrition, and Skincare
Written by Julie Gabriel
Format: Trade Paperback, 288 pages
On Sale: April 30, 2013
Price: $19.95
Your Complete Guide to Natural Health, Nutrition, and Skincare
Written by Julie Gabriel
Format: Trade Paperback, 288 pages
On Sale: April 30, 2013
Price: $19.95
Celebrated author of The Green Beauty Guide Julie Gabriel presents a comprehensive yet simple book that brings all four corners of the natural beauty paradigm together: natural skincare, holistic nutrition, stress-relief, and healthy lifestyle. A holistic nutritionist, Gabriel teaches her reader how to 'eat yourself beautiful' using building blocks from a wholesome diet, and...
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Single Mothers by Choice
A Guidebook for Single Women Who Are Considering or Have Chosen Motherhood
Written by Jane Mattes
Format: eBook, 272 pages
On Sale: April 24, 2013
Price: $11.99
The first handbook for the rapidly growing number of American women choosing single motherhood, written by the director of the national organization, Single Mothers by Choice. Read more >
A Guidebook for Single Women Who Are Considering or Have Chosen Motherhood
Written by Jane Mattes
Format: eBook, 272 pages
On Sale: April 24, 2013
Price: $11.99
The first handbook for the rapidly growing number of American women choosing single motherhood, written by the director of the national organization, Single Mothers by Choice. Read more >
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The Last Men on Top
Written by Susan Jacoby
Format: eBook, 64 pages
On Sale: April 23, 2013
Price: $2.99
A feminist—and the bestselling author of The Age of American Unreason—looks back at the last pre-feminist generation of men who supposedly had it all and asks: what exactly did they have?
How fabulous was life for men in the 1950s and early 1960s? How real is the world depicted by a television... Read more >
Written by Susan Jacoby
Format: eBook, 64 pages
On Sale: April 23, 2013
Price: $2.99
A feminist—and the bestselling author of The Age of American Unreason—looks back at the last pre-feminist generation of men who supposedly had it all and asks: what exactly did they have?
How fabulous was life for men in the 1950s and early 1960s? How real is the world depicted by a television... Read more >
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Dakini Power
Twelve Extraordinary Women Shaping the Transmission of Tibetan Buddhism in the West
Written by Michaela Haas
Format: Trade Paperback, 344 pages
On Sale: April 9, 2013
Price: $16.95
How 12 Tibetan Buddhist Teachers Succeed in Merging East and West - including Pema Chödrön, Joan Halifax, and Thubten Chodron, among others
Personal reflections and life stories from 12 contemporary female Tibetan Buddhist teachers, both Westerners and Tibetans, who share insights into how they discovered their true calling, overcame barriers, and developed... Read more >
Twelve Extraordinary Women Shaping the Transmission of Tibetan Buddhism in the West
Written by Michaela Haas
Format: Trade Paperback, 344 pages
On Sale: April 9, 2013
Price: $16.95
How 12 Tibetan Buddhist Teachers Succeed in Merging East and West - including Pema Chödrön, Joan Halifax, and Thubten Chodron, among others
Personal reflections and life stories from 12 contemporary female Tibetan Buddhist teachers, both Westerners and Tibetans, who share insights into how they discovered their true calling, overcame barriers, and developed... Read more >
Holistic Beauty from the Inside Out
Your Complete Guide to Natural Health, Nutrition, and Skincare
Written by Julie Gabriel
Format: eBook
On Sale: April 9, 2013
Price: $19.95
Celebrated author of The Green Beauty Guide Julie Gabriel presents a comprehensive yet simple book that brings all four corners of the natural beauty paradigm together: natural skincare, holistic nutrition, stress-relief, and healthy lifestyle. A holistic nutritionist, Gabriel teaches her reader how to 'eat yourself beautiful' using building blocks from a wholesome diet, and... Read more >
Your Complete Guide to Natural Health, Nutrition, and Skincare
Written by Julie Gabriel
Format: eBook
On Sale: April 9, 2013
Price: $19.95
Celebrated author of The Green Beauty Guide Julie Gabriel presents a comprehensive yet simple book that brings all four corners of the natural beauty paradigm together: natural skincare, holistic nutrition, stress-relief, and healthy lifestyle. A holistic nutritionist, Gabriel teaches her reader how to 'eat yourself beautiful' using building blocks from a wholesome diet, and... Read more >
Also available as a
trade paperback.
Generation Roe
Inside the Future of the Pro-Choice Movement
Written by Sarah Erdreich
Format: eBook
On Sale: April 2, 2013
Price: $16.95
Strong support among women was key to Obama’s reelection. At the start of his second term, it is time for Barack Obama, forty years after Roe v. Wade, to finally help lead us to demystify abortion. One-third of all American women will have an abortion by the time they are 45, and most... Read more >
Inside the Future of the Pro-Choice Movement
Written by Sarah Erdreich
Format: eBook
On Sale: April 2, 2013
Price: $16.95
Strong support among women was key to Obama’s reelection. At the start of his second term, it is time for Barack Obama, forty years after Roe v. Wade, to finally help lead us to demystify abortion. One-third of all American women will have an abortion by the time they are 45, and most... Read more >
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Generation Roe
Inside the Future of the Pro-Choice Movement
Written by Sarah Erdreich
Format: Trade Paperback, 272 pages
On Sale: March 26, 2013
Price: $16.95
“Before and after Roe v. Wade, a third of all American women have needed an abortion at some time in their lives, yet instead of a subject of health care, this has become subject of secrecy. To break the spell, read Generation Roe by Sarah Erdreich. She replaces lies with honesty and myth... Read more >
Inside the Future of the Pro-Choice Movement
Written by Sarah Erdreich
Format: Trade Paperback, 272 pages
On Sale: March 26, 2013
Price: $16.95
“Before and after Roe v. Wade, a third of all American women have needed an abortion at some time in their lives, yet instead of a subject of health care, this has become subject of secrecy. To break the spell, read Generation Roe by Sarah Erdreich. She replaces lies with honesty and myth... Read more >
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Sex and the Citadel
Intimate Life in a Changing Arab World
Written by Shereen El Feki
Format: Hardcover, 368 pages
On Sale: March 12, 2013
Price: $28.95
Intimate Life in a Changing Arab World
Written by Shereen El Feki
Format: Hardcover, 368 pages
On Sale: March 12, 2013
Price: $28.95
If you really want to know a people, start by looking inside their bedrooms.
As political change sweeps the streets and squares, the parliaments and presidential palaces of the Arab world, Shereen El Feki has been looking at an upheaval a little closer to home—in the sexual lives of men and women...
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Sex and the Citadel
Intimate Life in a Changing Arab World
Written by Shereen El Feki
Format: eBook, 368 pages
On Sale: March 12, 2013
Price: $14.99
Intimate Life in a Changing Arab World
Written by Shereen El Feki
Format: eBook, 368 pages
On Sale: March 12, 2013
Price: $14.99
If you really want to know a people, start by looking inside their bedrooms.
As political change sweeps the streets and squares, the parliaments and presidential palaces of the Arab world, Shereen El Feki has been looking at an upheaval a little closer to home—in the sexual lives of men and women...
Also available as a
hardcover.
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The Garden Club of America
One Hundred Years of a Growing Legacy
Written by William Seale
Format: Hardcover, 288 pages
On Sale: March 5, 2013
Price: $29.95
One Hundred Years of a Growing Legacy
Written by William Seale
Format: Hardcover, 288 pages
On Sale: March 5, 2013
Price: $29.95
How women changed the American landscape from planting war victory gardens to saving the redwoods, beautifying the highway to creating horticultural standards.
In 1904, Elizabeth Price Martin founded the Garden Club of Philadelphia. In 1913, twelve garden clubs in the eastern and central United States signed an agreement to form the Garden...
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The Garden Club of America
One Hundred Years of a Growing Legacy
Written by William Seale
Format: eBook
On Sale: March 5, 2013
Price: $29.95
One Hundred Years of a Growing Legacy
Written by William Seale
Format: eBook
On Sale: March 5, 2013
Price: $29.95
How women changed the American landscape from planting war victory gardens to saving the redwoods, beautifying the highway to creating horticultural standards.
In 1904, Elizabeth Price Martin founded the Garden Club of Philadelphia. In 1913, twelve garden clubs in the eastern and central United States signed an agreement to form the Garden...
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hardcover.
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If You Knew Me You Would Care
Edited by Zainab Salbi
Photographed by Rennio Maifredi
Format: Hardcover, 144 pages
On Sale: March 5, 2013
Price: $65.00
If You Knew Me You Would Care represents a journey taken to find women who have survived wars, violence, and poverty in order to collect their stories. The stories go beyond tears and victimhood and reveal joy, love, and forgiveness.
If You Knew Me You Would Care is a collaboration between women's... Read more >
Edited by Zainab Salbi
Photographed by Rennio Maifredi
Format: Hardcover, 144 pages
On Sale: March 5, 2013
Price: $65.00
If You Knew Me You Would Care represents a journey taken to find women who have survived wars, violence, and poverty in order to collect their stories. The stories go beyond tears and victimhood and reveal joy, love, and forgiveness.
If You Knew Me You Would Care is a collaboration between women's... Read more >
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Grace and Grit
My Fight for Equal Pay and Fairness at Goodyear and Beyond
Written by Lilly Ledbetter and Lanier Scott Isom
Format: Trade Paperback, 288 pages
On Sale: February 26, 2013
Price: $15.00
The inspiring story of the woman at the center of the historic discrimination case that inspired the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Restoration Act--her fight for equal rights in the workplace, and how her determination became a victory for the nation
Lilly Ledbetter always knew that she was destined for something more than... Read more >
My Fight for Equal Pay and Fairness at Goodyear and Beyond
Written by Lilly Ledbetter and Lanier Scott Isom
Format: Trade Paperback, 288 pages
On Sale: February 26, 2013
Price: $15.00
The inspiring story of the woman at the center of the historic discrimination case that inspired the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Restoration Act--her fight for equal rights in the workplace, and how her determination became a victory for the nation
Lilly Ledbetter always knew that she was destined for something more than... Read more >
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Paradise Beneath Her Feet
How Women Are Transforming the Middle East
Written by Isobel Coleman
Format: Trade Paperback, 368 pages
On Sale: February 26, 2013
Price: $17.00
Now with a new Preface and Afterword by the author
“Outstanding . . . [Isobel Coleman] takes us into remote villages and urban bureaucracies to find the brave men and women working to create change in the Middle East.”—Los Angeles Times
In this timely and important book, Isobel Coleman... Read more >
How Women Are Transforming the Middle East
Written by Isobel Coleman
Format: Trade Paperback, 368 pages
On Sale: February 26, 2013
Price: $17.00
Now with a new Preface and Afterword by the author
“Outstanding . . . [Isobel Coleman] takes us into remote villages and urban bureaucracies to find the brave men and women working to create change in the Middle East.”—Los Angeles Times
In this timely and important book, Isobel Coleman... Read more >
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An Unquenchable Thirst
A Memoir
Written by Mary Johnson
Format: Trade Paperback, 560 pages
On Sale: February 26, 2013
Price: $16.00
NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY KIRKUS REVIEWS
“A candid, generous, and profound spiritual memoir that deserves a great deal of thoughtful discussion.”—Anne Rice
At seventeen, Mary Johnson experienced her calling when she saw a photo of Mother Teresa on the cover of Time magazine; eighteen months... Read more >
A Memoir
Written by Mary Johnson
Format: Trade Paperback, 560 pages
On Sale: February 26, 2013
Price: $16.00
NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY KIRKUS REVIEWS
“A candid, generous, and profound spiritual memoir that deserves a great deal of thoughtful discussion.”—Anne Rice
At seventeen, Mary Johnson experienced her calling when she saw a photo of Mother Teresa on the cover of Time magazine; eighteen months... Read more >
Schoolgirls
Young Women, Self Esteem, and the Confidence Gap
Written by Peggy Orenstein
Format: eBook, 368 pages
On Sale: February 6, 2013
Price: $12.99
A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF THE YEAR
The classic account of the hurdles facing adolescent girls in America--now reissued with a new Foreword, to coincide with the award-winning author's new book on women and identity.
Inspired by a study by the American Association of University Women that showed girls' self-esteem plummeting... Read more >
Young Women, Self Esteem, and the Confidence Gap
Written by Peggy Orenstein
Format: eBook, 368 pages
On Sale: February 6, 2013
Price: $12.99
A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF THE YEAR
The classic account of the hurdles facing adolescent girls in America--now reissued with a new Foreword, to coincide with the award-winning author's new book on women and identity.
Inspired by a study by the American Association of University Women that showed girls' self-esteem plummeting... Read more >
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A World Without Women
The Christian Clerical Culture of Western Science
Written by David F Noble
Format: eBook, 329 pages
On Sale: January 23, 2013
Price: $12.99
In this groundbreaking work of history, David Noble examines the origins and implications of the masculine culture of Western science and technology. He begins by asking why women have figure so little in the development of science, and then proceeds—in a fascinating and radical analysis—to trace their absence to a deep-rooted... Read more >
The Christian Clerical Culture of Western Science
Written by David F Noble
Format: eBook, 329 pages
On Sale: January 23, 2013
Price: $12.99
In this groundbreaking work of history, David Noble examines the origins and implications of the masculine culture of Western science and technology. He begins by asking why women have figure so little in the development of science, and then proceeds—in a fascinating and radical analysis—to trace their absence to a deep-rooted... Read more >
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Bodies of Subversion
A Secret History of Women and Tattoo, Third Edition
Written by Margot Mifflin
Format: Trade Paperback, 160 pages
On Sale: January 15, 2013
Price: $23.95
Bodies of Subversion was the first history of women's tattoo art when it was released in 1997, providing a fascinating excursion to a subculture that dates back to the nineteenth-century and including many never-before-seen photos of tattooed women from the last century. Newly revised and expanded, it remains the only book... Read more >
A Secret History of Women and Tattoo, Third Edition
Written by Margot Mifflin
Format: Trade Paperback, 160 pages
On Sale: January 15, 2013
Price: $23.95
Bodies of Subversion was the first history of women's tattoo art when it was released in 1997, providing a fascinating excursion to a subculture that dates back to the nineteenth-century and including many never-before-seen photos of tattooed women from the last century. Newly revised and expanded, it remains the only book... Read more >
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CITY OF WOMEN
Written by Christine Stansell
Format: eBook, 301 pages
On Sale: December 19, 2012
Price: $18.99
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Written by Christine Stansell
Format: eBook, 301 pages
On Sale: December 19, 2012
Price: $18.99
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Ma, He Sold Me for a Few Cigarettes
A Memoir of Dublin in the 1950s
Written by Martha Long
Format: Hardcover, 480 pages
On Sale: November 13, 2012
Price: $26.95
"Not for the faint of heart, Long's story is a gritty, grueling, and heartbreaking testament to one girl's unbreakable spirit."--Publishers Weekly, starred review
When Martha Long's feckless mother hooks up with the Jackser ("that bandy aul bastard"), and starts having more babies, the abuse and poverty in the house grow more acute. Martha is... Read more >
A Memoir of Dublin in the 1950s
Written by Martha Long
Format: Hardcover, 480 pages
On Sale: November 13, 2012
Price: $26.95
"Not for the faint of heart, Long's story is a gritty, grueling, and heartbreaking testament to one girl's unbreakable spirit."--Publishers Weekly, starred review
When Martha Long's feckless mother hooks up with the Jackser ("that bandy aul bastard"), and starts having more babies, the abuse and poverty in the house grow more acute. Martha is... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook and a
trade paperback.
Ma, He Sold Me for a Few Cigarettes
A Memoir of Dublin in the 1950s
Written by Martha Long
Format: eBook, 480 pages
On Sale: November 13, 2012
Price: $26.95
When Martha Long's feckless mother hooks up with the Jackser ("that bandy aul bastard"), and starts having more babies, the abuse and poverty in the house grow more acute. Martha is regularly sent out to beg and more often steal, and her wiles (as a child of 7, 8) are often the only... Read more >
A Memoir of Dublin in the 1950s
Written by Martha Long
Format: eBook, 480 pages
On Sale: November 13, 2012
Price: $26.95
When Martha Long's feckless mother hooks up with the Jackser ("that bandy aul bastard"), and starts having more babies, the abuse and poverty in the house grow more acute. Martha is regularly sent out to beg and more often steal, and her wiles (as a child of 7, 8) are often the only... Read more >
Also available as a
hardcover and a
trade paperback.
Bitch
In Praise of Difficult Women
Written by Elizabeth Wurtzel
Format: eBook, 448 pages
On Sale: October 17, 2012
Price: $11.99
No one better understands the desire to be bad than Elizabeth Wurtzel.
Bitch is a brilliant tract on the history of manipulative female behavior. By looking at women who derive their power from their sexuality, Wurtzel offers a trenchant cultural critique of contemporary gender relations. Beginning with Delilah, the first woman to... Read more >
In Praise of Difficult Women
Written by Elizabeth Wurtzel
Format: eBook, 448 pages
On Sale: October 17, 2012
Price: $11.99
No one better understands the desire to be bad than Elizabeth Wurtzel.
Bitch is a brilliant tract on the history of manipulative female behavior. By looking at women who derive their power from their sexuality, Wurtzel offers a trenchant cultural critique of contemporary gender relations. Beginning with Delilah, the first woman to... Read more >
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trade paperback.
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Crazy Salad and Scribble Scribble
Some Things About Women and Notes on Media
Written by Nora Ephron
Format: Trade Paperback, 448 pages
On Sale: October 16, 2012
Price: $15.95
Two classic collections of Nora Ephron’s uproarious essays—tackling everything from feminism to the media, from politics to beauty products, with her inimitable charm and distinctive wit—now available in one book for the first time.
This edition brings together some of Ephron’s most famous writing on a generation of women (and men) who... Read more >
Some Things About Women and Notes on Media
Written by Nora Ephron
Format: Trade Paperback, 448 pages
On Sale: October 16, 2012
Price: $15.95
Two classic collections of Nora Ephron’s uproarious essays—tackling everything from feminism to the media, from politics to beauty products, with her inimitable charm and distinctive wit—now available in one book for the first time.
This edition brings together some of Ephron’s most famous writing on a generation of women (and men) who... Read more >
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