Girls

While several recent popular books address the topic of girls' "meanness" to one another, this volume offers the first balanced, scholarly analysis of scientific knowledge in this area. Integrating c

When thirteen-year-old Joelle, a star baseball player, moves to a new town where the only option for girls is softball, she starts an all-girl baseball league against the wishes of her school coaches

While several recent popular books address the topic of girls' "meanness" to one another, this volume offers the first balanced, scholarly analysis of scientific knowledge in this area. Integrating cu

Published to celebrate twenty years of Methuen's Royal Court Writers Series, this volume contains five ground-breaking plays of the eighties and nineties. Top Girls: "Builds to a superb, emotion-dra

Disney/Pixar's award-winning Finding Nemo returns to theaters in Disney Digital 3-D on September 2012! Boys and girls ages 2-5 will love this full-color Little Golden Book that retells the delightful

Why did the figure of the girl come to dominate the American imagination from the middle of the nineteenth century into the twentieth? In Consumerism and American Girls' Literature Peter Stoneley looks at how women fictionalized for the girl reader the ways of achieving a powerful social and cultural presence. He explores why and how a scenario of 'buying into womanhood' became, between 1860 and 1940, one of the nation's central allegories, one of its favourite means of negotiating social change. From Jo March to Nancy Drew, girls' fiction operated in dynamic relation to consumerism, performing a series of otherwise awkward manoeuvres: between country and metropolis, uncouth and unspoilt, modern and anti-modern. Covering a wide range of works and authors, this book will be of interest to cultural and literary scholars alike.

'A dazzling and savage first novel’ New York TimesAngels tells the story of two born losers. Jamie has ditched her husband and is running away with her two baby girls. Bill is dreaming of making it big in a life of crime.They meet on a Greyhound bus and decide to team up. So begins a stunning, tragic odyssey through the dark underbelly of America – the bars, bus stations, mental wards and prisons that play host to Jamie and Bill as they find themselves trapped in a downward spiral though rape, alcohol, drugs and crime, to madness and death. From the author of Tree of Smoke, winner of the National Book Award for Fiction

The landmark book Boys and Girls Learn Differently! outlines the brain-based educational theories and techniques that can be used to transform classrooms and help children learn better. Now The Boys

Growing up, Pat Brown had two dreams: to play baseball and to attend college. She was told she couldn’t play baseball because she was a girl and couldn’t attend college because she had no money, but i

From "queen bees" to "gamma girls" to the "odd girl out," adolescent girls are all over the news.? But whether a girl is popular or struggling to fit in, outgoing or reserved, her mother worries about

Jack Room 105 -- Miss Stretchberry September 13 I don't want tobecause boysdon't write poetry. Girls do.Meet Jack, who tells his story with a little help from some paper, a pencil, his tea

This charming board book explains the human body in a series of words and pictures that easy enough to make sense to preschool boys and girls. The heavy board pages are die-cut in the shape of a smil

Newcomers to Beatrice Bailey's exploits as well as girls and boys who loved her first escapade, The Everyday Witch, will delight in Sandra Forrester's brand new novel. Beatrice is a twelve-year-old wi

The Mitford girls were probably the most spectacular sister act of the twentieth century."--Vogue This is the story of a close, loving family splintered by the violent ideologies of Europe between th

Newton tells the stories confidently, clearly and with great humanity.' Independent on Sunday'The stories Newton has to tell are spellbinding.' Mail on Sunday'A collection of six, extraordinary indivi

Ah go on...tell us.New York Times bestselling authors Maeve Binchy and Marian Keyes top an impressive roster of the Emerald Isle's most popular women writers and prove that when it comes to spinning

A vivid overview of the scope of the problem of gender-based violence worldwide, and a sense of the important work now underway to eradicate it.

Dissatisfied both with writing a “Single Girl on the Edge/ Ledge/Verge” lifestyle column and with her boyfriend (who has a name for his car and compulsively collects plastic bread ties), Ruby Capote s

Lacrosse is one of the nation's fastest-growing youth sports, and the girls' game is overtaking the boys'. Played with different rules and tactics, girls' lacrosse requires its own specialized guidebo

A revolutionary approach to raising girls that combines groundbreaking research with practical parenting advice.In The Wonder of Girls, as in its predecessor, The Wonder of Boys, Michael Gurian prese

Written for students, policy makers, activists, and public health workers, this book overviews the scope of the problem of gender-based violence worldwide and examines work underway to eradicate it. I

Lopez (sociology, U. of New Mexico) offers a narrative describing her study of Dominican, West Indian, and Haitian American youth in New York City, exploring how girls' more optimistic outlooks and bo

Cynthia Heimel seduced readers with her runaway bestseller Sex Tips for Girls. Now, in this eagerly awaited follow-up, Heimel takes us on a journey toward romantic enlightenment and finds it's not all

Are some of the world's most talented children's book authors essentially children themselves? In this engaging series of essays, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Alison Lurie considers this theory, expl

Mira Rothenberg pioneered both the clinical distinction and treatment protocol for autistic and severely disturbed children as separate from those for the mentally retarded. Winner of a Woman of the Y

In the 1990s, child psychologist Sylvia Rimm and her daughters—Sara, a research psychologist, and Ilonna, a pediatric oncology researcher—surveyed more than 1,000 satisfied, successful wo

The essential female companion from the moment he walks out of your life. The Girls' Guide to Surviving a Break-Up offers step-by-step advice for getting over him, including:* What to do the first n

Based on an extraordinary array of diaries and letters, this engaging book explores the shifting experiences of adolescent girls in the late nineteenth century. What emerges is a world on the cusp of

Each spring, Tee-ball introduces millions of boys and girls to "America's pastime" --and introduces their parents to the joys (and nightmares) of coaching first-time players. Filled with expert advice

In the years following his and Francis Crick’s towering discovery of DNA, James Watson was obsessed with finding two things: RNA and a wife. Genes, Girls, and Gamow is the marvelous chronicle of those

Profiles ten women with careers in different areas of the tourism and hospitality industries, including a cruise ship hostess, a travel agent, a spa director, an innkeeper, a photographer, and a guest

1. Given the trauma she endured there, why does Jane return to the Heart Lake School for Girls? Do you judge her options to be as limited as she does? Are there other factors at work in her decision?

內容精釆豐富，是一本貝克漢夫妻千方百計想阻止上市的書。」──英國鏡報 1997年，史上最成功的女子合唱團－辣妹（Spice Girls）成員維多利亞，遇上了英國最俊美的足球明星貝克漢，兩人展開了一段浪漫熱戀，並在世人的關注下結為連理。此後這兩人神仙美眷般恩愛的生活、揮金若土的豪奢習性，以及排山倒海而來的流言緋聞，每每成為眾人目光的焦點。英國的媒體戲稱，在黛妃去世之後，原本習慣兵分兩路的狗仔隊只剩一個目標－貝克漢夫婦，「新皇族」和「時尚界的國王與皇后」的王冠始終在兩人頭上散發耀眼光芒。 表面上看來，維多利亞和貝克漢的生活像是一則完美的童話故事，然而事實真是如此嗎？在這本由英國知名傳記作家安德魯？莫頓（Andrew Morton）所著的書中，藉由深刻的觀察及嚴謹的舉證，毫不留情的披露了這對金童玉女光鮮外表下的真實生活。包括貝克漢艱辛的奮鬥史；維多利亞與辣妹合唱團的恩怨情仇；夫妻間的真情時刻與婚姻生活的甜蜜與磨難；貝克漢家的親子關係－還有這一家人如何飽受死亡威脅等精彩內容，帶領讀者深入華麗的帷幕，一窺名人、明星卸粧後的真面目，及聲名財富背後的血汗代價。 值得一提的是，在英國，當貝克漢夫妻得知本書即將上市，即千方百計、用盡一切方法阻撓，包括在公開媒體大肆抨擊，指責本書內容不實，最後甚至一狀告上法庭。然經雙方舉證後，法官認為本書所言皆有可靠憑據，裁定貝克漢夫婦敗訴。此事件在當時喧騰一時，成為大眾議論的焦點，《貝克漢與維多利亞－新皇族的真實人生》一書也順勢榮登暢銷書榜，熱潮歷久不衰。 作者簡介 Andrew Morton 安德魯？莫頓 出生於一九五三年在約克郡。於里茲受教育並且在薩克斯大學獲得歷史榮譽學位。他在西區接受明鏡集團新聞訓練活動，曾經在許多週報與星期日報工作過，經過資格考核後，他開始於曼徹斯特的國家報紙工作，之後於一九八一年前往佛里特街(倫敦報社街)。從一九八二年開始，他為許多報紙負責皇室消息撰寫專欄，包括了每日郵報(the Daily Mail)、世界新聞(News of the World)與每日之星(Daily Star)。他在報社街的事業包含了許多皇室「內幕」─第一位報導安德魯王子與莎拉？佛姬之間的羅曼史，也是第一位報導他們分手消息的記者。在那段期間，他寫了許多關於皇室家族的書，包括安德魯王子的傳記與皇家郵輪「大不列顛號」的歷史。一九八八年，他離開新聞界，專心

One of the most intriguing cultural artifacts of our nation's past was made by young girls ? the embroidery sampler. In Ohio Is My Dwelling Place, American decorative arts expert Sue Studebaker docume

Making Girls into Women offers an account of the historical emergence of "the lesbian" by looking at late-nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century women's writing. Kathryn R. Kent proposes that modern

Somewhere deep inside, we all know what’s best for us—it’s only a matter of listening. The Soul Searching Journal is about tuning into your own inner wisdom and by doing so, discovering more about you

Collins (writing, Johns Hopkins U.) has written short biographies of the domestic training of 15 American women from colonial times to the present based on her reading of their journals and through in

FOUR GIRLS TOUCHED BY SPECIAL GIFTS.FOUR STUNNING NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERS -- -TOGETHER FOR THE FIRST TIMECinnamon...She escaped her family's turmoil by dreaming of imaginary worlds. But it's her

TEN-YEAR-OLD GIRLS DON'T WEAR WIGS So why is Anya wearing one? That's what Keely's friend Stef wants to know. She even wants Keely to tug on it, just to see if it's real. Keely wants to know too -- b