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  • College Girls

    Bluestockings, Sex Kittens, and Co-eds, Then and Now

    de Lynn Peril ...
    The author of Pink Think takes on a twentieth-century icon: the college girl.A geek who wears glasses? Or a sex kitten in a teddy? This is the dual vision of the college girl, the unique American archetype born when the age-old conflict over educating women was finally laid to rest. College was a place where women found self-esteem, and yet images in popular culture reflected a lingering distrust ... Leer más

    $12.99 USD

  • Pink Think

    Becoming a Woman in Many Uneasy Lessons

    de Lynn Peril ...
    From board games to beauty pageants, a smart, witty, pop-culture history of the perilous path to achieving the feminine ideal.Deluged by persuasive advertisements and meticulous (though often misguided) advice experts, women from the 1940s to the 1970s were coaxed to "think pink" when they thought of what it meant to be a woman. Attaining feminine perfection meant conforming to a mythical standard ... Leer más

    $12.99 USD

  • Swimming in the Steno Pool

    A Retro Guide to Making It in the Office

    de Lynn Peril ...
    Feed your boss’s ego. Dress for success. And don’t let your heels trip you up on the corporate ladder.Millions of women have held the position of secretary, alternately lauded as a breakthrough opportunity and excoriated as dead-end busy work. From the female pioneers who infiltrated Capitol Hill offices during the Civil War to today’s tech-savvy administrative assistants, secretaries have ... Leer más

    $14.99 USD

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  • The Martian

    A Novel

    de Andy Weir ...
    #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTUREA mission to Mars. A freak accident. One man’s struggle to survive. From the author of Project Hail Mary comes “a hugely entertaining novel that reads like a rocket ship afire” (Chicago Tribune).“Brilliant . . . a celebration of human ingenuity [and] the purest example of real-science sci-fi for many years . . . utterly compelling.”—The Wall ... Leer más

    $8.99 USD

  • Oprah

    A Biography

    de Kitty Kelley ...
    For the past twenty-five years, no one has been better at revealing secrets than Oprah Winfrey. On what is arguably the most influential show in television history, she has gotten her guests—often the biggest celebrities in the world—to bare their love lives, explore their painful pasts, admit their transgressions, reveal their pleasures, and explore their demons. In turn, Oprah has repeatedly ... Leer más

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  • The Forest for the Trees (Revised and Updated)

    An Editor's Advice to Writers

    de Betsy Lerner ...
    **By the author of Shred Sisters, longlisted for The Center for Fiction First Novel Prize"The Forest for the Trees should become a permanent part of any writer's or editor's personal library." -The Seattle Times**Quickly established as an essential and enduring companion for aspiring writers when it was first published, Betsy Lerner's sharp, funny, and insightful guide has been meticulously ... Leer más

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  • Why We Write

    20 Acclaimed Authors on How and Why They Do What They Do

    Edición de Meredith Maran ...
    Twenty of America's bestselling authors share tricks, tips, and secrets of the successful writing life.Anyone who's ever sat down to write a novel or even a story knows how exhilarating and heartbreaking writing can be. So what makes writers stick with it? In Why We Write, twenty well-known authors candidly share what keeps them going and what they love most—and least—about their vocation ... Leer más

    $4.99 USD

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  • Life: The Movie

    How Entertainment Conquered Reality

    de Neal Gabler ...
    The story of how our bottomless appetite for novelty, gossip, and melodrama has turned everything—news, politics, religion, high culture—into one vast public entertainment.Neal Gabler calls them "lifies," those blockbusters written in the medium of life that dominate the media and the national conversation for weeks, months, even years: the death of Princess Diana, the trial of O.J. Simpson, ... Leer más

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  • Twenty-Six Seconds

    A Personal History of the Zapruder Film

    de Alexandra Zapruder ...
    The moving, untold family story behind Abraham Zapruder's film footage of the Kennedy assassination and its lasting impact on our world.Abraham Zapruder didn't know when he ran home to grab his video camera on November twenty-two, 1963, that this single spontaneous decision would change his family's life for generations to come. Originally intended as a home movie of President Kennedy's motorcade, ... Leer más

    $12.99 USD

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  • Poison Penmanship

    The Gentle Art of Muckraking

    de Jane Smiley, Jessica Mitford ...
    Jessica Mitford was a member of one of England’s most legendary families (among her sisters were the novelist Nancy Mitford and the current Duchess of Devonshire) and one of the great muckraking journalists of modern times. Leaving England for America, she pursued a career as an investigative reporter and unrepentant gadfly, publicizing not only the misdeeds of, most famously, the funeral business ... Leer más

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  • The Magic Kingdom

    Walt Disney and the American Way of Life

    de Steven Watts ...
    The Magic Kingdom sheds new light on the cultural icon of "Uncle Walt." Watts digs deeply into Disney's private life, investigating his roles as husband, father, and brother and providing fresh insight into his peculiar psyche-his genuine folksiness and warmth, his domineering treatment of colleagues and friends, his deepest prejudices and passions. Full of colorful sketches of daily life at the ... Leer más

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  • Bachelor Girl

    100 Years of Breaking the Rules—A Social History of Living Single

    de Betsy Israel ...
    In this lively and colorful book of popular history, journalist Betsy Israel shines a light on the old stereotypes that have stigmatized single women for years and celebrates their resourceful sense of spirit, enterprise, and unlimited success in a world where it is no longer unusual or unlikely to be unwed.Drawing extensively on primary sources, including private journals, newspaper stories, ... Leer más

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