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by Mary Bucholtz  Publisher Comments Wide-ranging in scope and rich in detail, the new edition of this well-known history offers a modern interpretation of Greek ideas, culture, and history, emphasizing military and political life, but also examining the intellectual, social, and economic... (read more)  List Price $68.00 Your price $24.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies 
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by Vanessa Baird Publisher Comments Major issues facing the world today, complex as they are, are further obfuscated -- often deliberately -- by political and corporate jargon and media spin. This new Verso series of No-Nonsense Guides, published in conjunction with New Internationalist... (read more) List Price $10.00 Your price $5.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Mary P Ryan Publisher Comments In a sweeping synthesis of American history, Mary Ryan demonstrates how the meaning of male and female has evolved, changed, and varied over a span of 500 years and across major social and ethnic boundaries. She traces how, at select moments in history... (read more) List Price $37.50 Your price $26.00 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Charlotte von Mahlsdorf Publisher Comments A soft-spoken transvestite wanting nothing more than to live as a hausfrau, Charlotte von Mahlsdorf instead was caught up in the most harrowing dramas of 20th-century Europe, surviving both the Nazis and the Communists. Originally published as "I Am My... (read more) List Price $12.95 Your price $7.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Mary Anne Maier Publisher Comments Women Reflect on Change, Loss, and Love Twenty-nine women write of the experiences that have transformed their lives. Essays by Diane Ackerman, Margaret Atwood, Diane Glancy, Joan Halperin, Maxine Kumin, Madeleine L'Engle, Gloria Wade-Gayles, and more... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price $8.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by David Richards Publisher Comments Masculine codes of honor and dominance often are expressed in acts of violence, including war and terrorism. In Disarming Manhood: Roots of Ethical Resistance, David A.J. Richards examines the lives of five famous men--great leaders and crusaders--who... (read more) List Price $39.95 Your price $18.71 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Jan Waldron Publisher Comments From the author of the critically acclaimed "Giving Away Simone" comes this striking synthesis of good stories, "unexpected insights, and throwaway wit" ("KIrkus Reviews") that converge in a powerful memoir. Essential reading for all mothers and sons... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price $3.53 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Stephen E Ambrose Publisher Comments From the author of Undaunted Courage and D-Day comes this celebration of male friendship, taken both from the pages of history and from Ambrose's own life. Acclaimed historian Stephen Ambrose begins his examination with a glance inward -- he starts this... (read more) List Price $11.00 Your price $4.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Nan Mooney Publisher Comments I CAN’T BELIEVE SHE DID THAT! offers a new and compelling perspective on conflict and competition among women in the workplace. Nan Mooney explores how and why some women hurt each other on the job, and what we can do to begin cleaning up the mess.... (read more) List Price $23.95 Your price $10.00 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Michelle Tea Publisher Comments While many recent books have thoughtfully examined the plight of the working poor in America, none of the authors of these books is able to claim a working-class background, and there are associated methodological and ethical concerns raised when most of... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price $8.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Lyn Mikel Brown Publisher Comments This book, filled with the voices of teenage girls, corrects the misperceptions that have crept into our picture of female adolescence. Based on the author's yearlong conversation with white junior high and middle school girls -- from the working poor... (read more) List Price $17.50 Your price $4.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Laurence Goldstein Publisher Comments Poets, anthropologists, philosophers, artists, sociologists, and others provide prespectives on the male body.... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price $8.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Rickie Solinger Publisher Comments Prior to Roe v. Wade, hundreds of thousands of illegal abortions occurred in the United States every year. Rickie Solinger uses the story of Ruth Barnett, an abortionist in Portland, Oregon, between 1918 and 1968 to demonstrate that it was the law, not... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price $4.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Toni Morrison Publisher Comments It was perhaps the most wretchedly aspersive race and gender scandal of recent times: the dramatic testimony of Anita Hill at the Senate hearings on the confirmation of Clarence Thomas as Supreme Court Justice. Yet even as the televised proceedings... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price $4.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Jalaja Bonheim Publisher Comments Drawing from a rich diversity of women's voices and relationships--as well as on ancient goddess archetypes--"Aphrodite's Daughter" reveals and celebrates the spiritually transforming power of women's sexual experience.... (read more) List Price $13.00 Your price $5.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Mary Walsh Publisher Comments Mary Roth Walsh explores eighteen current controversies, presenting two opposing views on each subject, all from recognized experts representing psychiatry, sociolinguistics, education, sociology, law, and management science. Walsh provides an... (read more) List Price $20.00 Your price $4.75 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Barbara Findlen Publisher Comments In this second edition, writers such as Rebecca Walker, Nomy Lamm, and Inga Muscio are joined by Lisa Miya-Jervis, publisher of "Bitch"; Alison Crews, editor of "Girl-Mom"; and Daisy Hernandez of "Ms". Together, they cover a wide range of topics, from... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price $8.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Robin Morgan Publisher Comments This groundbreaking work on the psychological and political roots of terrorism by award-winning writer Robin Morgan is updated with her new introduction covering the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks on the US. In a new afterword, "Letters from Ground... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price $5.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Carol Miller Publisher Comments ???Missionaries??? work from within the organization in their pursuit of gender equity. ???Mandarins??? work to adapt to the techniques and practices of the bureaucracy.This book examines two strategies for making the bureaucratic structures of... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price $9.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Leonard Shlain 
Publisher Comments The author of "Art & Physics" now offers "a fascinating account of the evolution of our male and female ways of knowing" (Clarissa Pinkola Estes, author of" Women Who Run with the Wolves"). 35 illustrations.... (read more) List Price $17.00 Your price $10.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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