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Women's Rights: Documents Decoded (Documents Decoded) by Aimee D. Shouse Publisher Comments What constitutes "women's rights" depends on who you ask—or who is in political office at the time. Understandably, women's rights have changed across time as perceptions of women and their roles have changed. What remains consistent regardless of... (read more) Available November 2013 Your price: $96.95 New - Hardcover
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Hard Was the Struggle: Votes for Women and the Fight for Equality by Lucinda Dickens Hawksley Publisher Comments Hard Was The Struggle explores the women's movement in Britain, from the passing of the Marriage and Divorce Act in 1857 to women attaining the vote in 1928. Published to commemorate the centenary of the death of the suffragette Emily Wilding Davison... (read more) Available August 2013 Your price: $34.95 New - Hardcover
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Loveless Marriage Among the Dinkas by Chuei Mareng Publisher Comments Loveless Marriage Among the Dinkas explores the practicality of the arranged and forced marriages within the Dinka communities of southern Sudan. The book focuses on the question of human beings’ free will and free choices. The book is divided into... (read more) Available September 2013 Your price: $27.99 New - Trade Paper
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The End of Men: And the Rise of Women by Hanna Rosin Publisher Comments A landmark portrait of women, men, and power in a transformed world Men have been the dominant sex since, well, the dawn of mankind. But Hanna Rosin was the first to notice that this long-held truth is, astonishingly, no longer true.... (read more) Available September 3, 2013 Your price: $17.00 New - Trade Paper
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Pink Sari Revolution: A Tale of Women and Power in India by Amana Fontanella-khan Publisher Comments In Uttar Pradesh—known as the "badlands" of India—a woman’s life is not entirely her own. This is one explanation for how Sheelu, a seventeen-year-old girl, ended up in jail after fleeing her service in the home of a powerful local... (read more) Available August 2013 Your price: $26.95 New - Hardcover
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Man Up: Reimagining Modern Manhood by Carlos Andres Gomez Publisher Comments Inspired by the award-winning poet and actors acclaimed one-man play, a powerful coming-of-age memoir that reimagines masculinity for the twenty-first-century male. Award-winning poet, actor, and writer Carlos Andrés Gómez is a... (read more) Available November 5, 2013 Your price: $16.00 New - Trade Paper
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Resurrecting Venus: Embracing Your Feminine Power by Cynthia Occelli Publisher Comments You can have it all: calm confidence, sublime romance, fulfilling work, absolute inner and outer beauty, empowered children, and a cure for the pervasive ache for something more. In Resurrecting Venus you will learn how to dissolve the barriers... (read more) Available October 2013 Your price: $14.95 New - Trade Paper
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Securing Paradise: Tourism and Militarism in Hawai'i and the Philippines (Next Wave: New Directions in Women's Studies) by Vernadette Vicuna Gonzalez Publisher Comments In Securing Paradise, Vernadette Vicuña Gonzalez shows how tourism and militarism have functioned together in Hawaii and the Philippines, jointly empowering the United States to assert its geostrategic and economic interests in the Pacific. She... (read more) Available July 2013 Your price: $99.25 New - Hardcover
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Contemporary Database Marketing: Concepts and Applications by Lisa D. Spiller Ph. D. Publisher Comments This book provides a comprehensive, basic introduction to the world of database marketing. Includes extensive exercises devoted to practical applications of concepts in the text.... (read more) Available August 2013 Your price: $79.95 New - Hardcover
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Nine Degrees of Justice: New Perspectives on Violence Against Women in India by Bishakha Datta Publisher Comments From an early focus on rape, dowry, and sati—self-immolation—feminist struggles against violence to women in India have now moved to a wider terrain that includes issues rarely considered in the early days of the Indian feminist movement in... (read more) Available June 2013 Your price: $35.95 New - Hardcover
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The Global Sex Trade: Economics, Policy and the State by Karie A. Gubbins Publisher Comments Trafficking of women for commercial sex is the fastest growing transnational criminal phenomenon. The Global Sex Trade looks at the reality behind this shocking fact, showing how this situation has come about and how it can be changed. In a distinctive... (read more) Available June 10, 2014 Your price: $38.25 New - Trade Paper
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The Art of Being Cool: The Pursuit of Black Masculinity by Theodore Ransaw Publisher Comments Addressing the challenges facing adolescent black males, this book analyzes and stresses the importance of identity development. It helps educators and parents understand the importance of cultivating a positive black male identity and how this... (read more) Available September 2013 Your price: $16.95 New - Trade Paper
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The War Against Boys: How Misguided Policies Are Harming Our Young Men by Christina Hoff Sommers Publisher Comments An updated and revised edition of the controversial classic, now more relevant than ever, argues that boys are the ones languishing socially and academically, resulting in staggering social and economic costs. During the latest wave of feminism in the... (read more) Available August 20, 2013 Your price: $25.00 New - Hardcover
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Business-To-Business Marketing by Victor Hunter Publisher Comments Business-to-Business Marketing gives a highly readable, practical survey of the world of B2B marketing, including all the profitable strategic and smart measurement techniques. Excellent for both the classroom and boardroom.... (read more) Available August 2013 Your price: $59.95 New - Hardcover
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Seriously!: Investigating Crashes and Crises as If Women Mattered by Cynthia Enloe Publisher Comments "This is simply a brilliant book. It is timely and necessary. In the shining of her feminist spotlight on deepest fissures of the structures of our modern world, she uncovers and explains; patriarchy, misogyny and masculinity, she moves effortlessly from... (read more) Available August 2013 Your price: $34.95 New - Trade Paper
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Men on Strike: Why Men Are Boycotting Marriage, Fatherhood, and the American Dream - And Why It Matters by Helen Smith Synopsis American society has become anti-male. Men are sensing the backlash and are consciously and unconsciously going on strike. They are dropping out of college, leaving the workforce, and avoiding marriage and fatherhood at alarming rates. Other books have... (read more) Available June 2013 Your price: $23.99 New - Hardcover
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Lost in Space: A Father's Journey There and Back Again by Ben Tanzer Publisher Comments "Ben Tanzer combines part Nick Hornsby, part Neal Pollack, and part good ole' fashioned Midwestern."Gina Frangello, author of Slut Lullabies and My Sister's Continent Lost in Space is an essay collection about fathers, sons, pop culture, death... (read more) Available March 2014 Your price: $14.95 New - Trade Paper
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Two Troubled Souls: An Eighteenth-Century Couple's Spiritual Journey in the Atlantic World by Aaron Spencer Fogleman Publisher Comments Jean-Francois Reynier, a French Swiss Huguenot, and his wife, Maria Barbara Knoll, a Lutheran from the German territories, crossed the Atlantic several times and lived among Protestants, Jews, African slaves, and Native Americans from Suriname to New... (read more) Available December 2013 Your price: $45.50 New - Hardcover
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The Glass Ceiling in Chinese and Indian Boardrooms: Women Directors in Listed Firms in China and India (Chandos Asian Studies) by Alice De Jonge Publisher Comments Glass Ceiling in Chinese and Indian Boardrooms is about the presence, role and status of women on the boards of listed firms in India and China. There is increasing awareness of the need to ensure at least a minimum level of gender equity in... (read more) Available February 2015 Your price: $124.50 New - Hardcover
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The War of the Sexes: How Conflict and Cooperation Have Shaped Men and Women from Prehistory to the Present by Paul Seabright Publisher Comments "The War of the Sexes is a delight to read. Paul Seabright launches a charm offensive on those who would prefer not to think that gender differences have any biological basis, and an intellectual offensive on those who think that these differences are... (read more) Available September 2013 Your price: $19.25 New - Trade Paper
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