![]() ![]() How many women are in a Catch-22 at work - you must be pretty and feminine, but not TOO pretty and feminine, else it's your fault for sexual harassment! At a time when many are saying there is no need for feminism, Wolf shows that sexism is still alive and well and how trying to adhere to the Perfect Woman is holding women back.Īs I dig more and more into feminism, particularly the portion where women take great pains to look the part that society tells them (sexual, but not TOO sexual, smart but not TOO smart), I kept seeing this book. ![]() How many women rush to pursue the next makeup line instead of equal pay for equal work. A seminal feminist work, "The Beauty Myth" digs into the ways that the pursuit of beauty has hampered feminism. ![]()
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![]() ![]() Very quickly, she discovered that no job is truly "unskilled," that even the lowliest occupations require exhausting mental and muscular effort. She lived in trailer parks and crumbling residential motels. Moving from Florida to Maine to Minnesota, she worked as a waitress, a hotel maid, a cleaning woman, a nursing-home aide, and a Wal-Mart sales clerk. But how does anyone survive, let alone prosper, on $6 an hour? To find out, Ehrenreich left her home, took the cheapest lodgings she could find, and accepted whatever jobs she was offered. She was inspired in part by the rhetoric surrounding welfare reform, which promised that a job - any job - can be the ticket to a better life. In 1998, Barbara Ehrenreich decided to join them. ![]() Our sharpest and most original social critic goes "undercover" as an unskilled worker to reveal the dark side of American prosperity.Millions of Americans work full time, year round, for poverty-level wages. ![]() ![]() ![]() At one point I thought Cal was part of the CIA, like some secret agent for the President and he was having his brain erased each night, hence why he couldn’t explain where he’d been to Lauren. I was really hoping for Cal’s secret life to be government related. Cal doesn’t exist but is in fact Chris’ alter personality. She finds out that Cal is not Cal at all but is Chris and lives in a small town with his wife. ![]() She over hears Cal on the baby monitor on Caylen’s birthday and freaks out. ![]() So Cal finally leaves for good and Lauren discovers she is pregnant, manages to raise her baby, Caylen with the help of her friends and her Aunt Raven. There are a few twists in the book don’t read any further unless you want spoilers. Lauren is so easily manipulated by the physical side (the only side) of her relationship with the mysterious Cal that I want to shake her and say ‘ Get a grip woman‘. I put grey in quotes because it seems that the author liked overusing the word, maybe a subliminal suggestion, jumping on the 50 Shades bandwagon? ![]() Hmm where do I start with this? If I Break by Portia Moore is about a small town girl working day in day out in a bar, has the best gal pals in the world and is swept off her feet by a strong ‘ grey‘ eyed dude who never shows his feelings. ![]() ![]() Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability. ![]() ![]() In fact, he's so excited he sets out for the North Pole to become one of Santa Bear's helpers. It's Christmas, and Scarry's beloved Busytown characters are gearing up for the holiday! And nobody is more excited than Mr. Frumble to save the holiday for his Busytown friends! Full of detailed illustrations, humor, and adventure, The Night Before the Night Before Christmas! is the perfect way for children-and Scarry fans of all ages-to celebrate the holiday season. Frumble decides to help out Santa Christmas in Busytown becomes the busiest Christmas. Richard Scarry Richard Scarry's Best Christmas Book Ever Kindle Edition by Richard Scarry (Author) Format: Kindle Edition 186 ratings Part of: Richard Scarry's Busy World (18 books) See all formats and editions Kindle 8.99 Read with Our Free App Hardcover 11.99 29 Used from 3.05 25 New from 7. But when Santa Bear mixes up the dates and starts his deliveries the night before the night before Christmas, it's up to the ever-clumsy Mr. A festive Scarry classic now available in picture book format When Mr. ![]() Celebrate Christmas with Richard Scarry in this adventurous holiday picture book inspired by the classic poem, "The Night Before Christmas." It's Christmas, and Richard Scarry's beloved cast of Busytown characters are gearing up for the holiday! And nobody is more excited than Mr. ![]() ![]() ![]() On Saturday, December 3 at 6 p.m., the DSO will once again partner with Midtown Detroit, Inc., community partners, and businesses to celebrate Noel Night, a Cultural Center-wide holiday open house that presents free activities, including horse-drawn carriage rides, holiday shopping, family craft activities, and performances by over 100 area music, theater, and dance groups. Programs include Noel Night with the Brubeck Brothers and Aguankó, Home for the Holidays, Home Alone in Concert, a Holiday Flute Quartet, and A Charlie Brown Christmas with Cyrus Chestnut and friendsĭetroit, (November 15, 2022) – This December, the Detroit Symphony Orchestra (DSO) will celebrate the holiday season with programs on the PNC Pops and Paradise Jazz series, a classic holiday film with music, a community chamber recital, and participation in Midtown Detroit’s Noel Night. ![]() ![]() As the trio journeys over breathtaking green hills, past countless castles, and through a number of fairy-tale forests, Addie hopes her guidebook will heal not only her broken heart, but also her shattered relationship with her brother. Suddenly Addie finds herself on a whirlwind tour of the Emerald Isle, trapped in the world’s smallest vehicle with Ian and his admittedly cute, Irish-accented friend Rowan. ![]() ![]() So when Addie discovers an unusual guidebook, Ireland for the Heartbroken, hidden in the dusty shelves of the hotel library, she’s able to finally escape her anxious mind and Ian’s criticism.Īnd then their travel plans change. Miserable, Addie can’t wait to visit her friend in Italy and leave her brother-and her problems-behind. But her brother, Ian, isn’t about to let her forget, and his constant needling leads to arguments and even a fistfight between the two once inseparable siblings. ![]() From the author of the New York Times bestselling Love & Gelato comes a heartwarming tale of a road trip through Ireland filled with love, adventure, and the true meaning behind the word family.Īddie is visiting Ireland for her aunt’s over-the-top destination wedding and hoping she can stop thinking about the one thing she did that left her miserable and heartbroken-and threatens her future. ![]() ![]() ![]() He has been awarded the New-York Historical Society’s Prize for best book on American history, the American Academy of Diplomacy’s Douglas Dillon Book Prize, the Hayek Book Prize, and the Spear’s Book Prize in Financial History.īenn Steil is senior fellow and director of international economics, as well as the official historian in residence, at the Council on Foreign Relations in New York. He is the founder and editor of the journal International Finance. Steil is the senior fellow and director of international economics at the Council on Foreign Relations. He was educated at Nuffield College, Oxford and at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. ![]() Senior Fellow and Director of International Economicsīenn Steil is an American economist and writer. ![]() BSc Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania ![]() ![]() ![]() "The Emperor is dead, and the remnants of his former Empire are in retreat. But they can’t anticipate the true depth of the danger that awaits them-or the ruthlessness of the enemy drawing them into his crosshairs. The attempt to liberate Kashyyyk has carried Han Solo, Chewbacca, and a band of smugglers into an ambush-resulting in Chewie’s capture and Han’s disappearance.īreaking away from their official mission and racing toward Kashyyyk, Norra and her crew prepare for any challenge that stands between them and their missing comrades. ![]() But the hunt for Sloane is cut short when Norra receives an urgent request from Princess Leia Organa. Even as more and more officers are brought to justice, Sloane continues to elude the New Republic, and Norra fears Sloane may be searching for a means to save the crumbling Empire from oblivion. ![]() Meanwhile, Norra Wexley and her band of Imperial hunters pursue Grand Admiral Rae Sloane and the Empire’s remaining leadership across the galaxy. ![]() For Han Solo, that means settling his last outstanding debt, by helping Chewbacca liberate the Wookiee’s homeworld of Kashyyyk. As the New Republic fights to restore a lasting peace to the galaxy, some dare to imagine new beginnings and new destinies. The Emperor is dead, and the remnants of his former Empire are in retreat. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Pol Pot, the Khmer Rouge’s leader, died of old age in 1998.įor Dunlop, seeing a photo of Comrade Duch set something off inside him that made him want to find the former commandant. To date, twenty five years after Cambodia’s auto-genocide, none of the key proponents have been brought to trial. Where Secret Histories documents Burma’s slide into a real-life Orwellian nightmare, The Lost Executioner chronicles photographer Nic Dunlop’s obsessive hunt for Comrade Duch, the man who presided over the deaths of thousands as the commandant of Tuol Sleng, Cambodia’s notorious interrogation centre, during the genocidal regime of the Khmer Rouge.īetween 1975 when the Khmer Rouge came to power in Cambodia until 1979 when they were displaced by the invading Vietnamese, the ultra-leftist party instituted a Year Zero policy which was even more extreme than China’s Cultural Revolution and resulted in the murder of an estimated two million people – a quarter of the country’s population.ĭuch, like every other major figure in the Khmer Rouge regime, successfully disappeared into Cambodia’s jungles when the Vietnamese arrived and, like the rest of the regime’s leaders, successfully avoided prosecution. ![]() Like my pick for last year, Emma Larkin’s Secret Histories: Finding George Orwell in A Burmese Teashop, The Lost Executioner is a personal travelogue into a country that tries to understand its recent, disastrous politics. The Lost Executioner is my Book of the Year. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() They offer a unique glimpse into life on the American frontier, and tell the heartwarming, unforgettable story of a loving family. The nine books in the timeless Little House series tell the story of Laura’s real childhood as an American pioneer, and are cherished by readers of all generations. ![]() Laura and Almanzo are courting, and even though she's not yet sixteen, she knows that this is a time for new beginnings. Laura is miserable, but the money is needed to keep Mary in a college for the blind.Īnd every Friday-no matter what the weather-Almanzo Wilder arrives to take Laura home to her family for the weekend. These Happy Golden Years, published in 1943 and eighth in the series, originally ended with a note alone on the last page: The end of the Little house. Laura is teaching school, and it's terrifying! Most of the students are taller than she is, and she must sleep away from home for the first time. These Happy Golden Years by Laura Ingalls Wilder Item Number: 34-60 Item ID: 5309 Our Retail Location: 10503 Maumelle Blvd. This edition features the classic black-and-white artwork from Garth Williams. The eighth book in Laura Ingalls Wilder’s treasured Little House series. ![]() |