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The only extended, first-person narrative about menopause, A Menopausal Memoir: Letters from Another Climate explores the connection between menopause, mourning, and memory through nine fictional letters written to different addressees. The letters explain the author’s own experience of having a...

Love Matters: A Book of Lesbian Romance and Relationships is a collection of advice columns and personal reflections that will help lesbian couples validate and appreciate their unique relationships. With excerpts taken from the author’s “Love Matters” column in the lesbian newspaper New Phazes,...

Who are the women who struggled to form lesbian communities--and how did they fund their activism? In Everyday Mutinies: Funding Lesbian Activism, two dozen lesbians--including well-known activists such as Martina Navratilova, Alison Bechdel, Dee Mosbacher, and Jewelle Gomez--tell the stories...

This new book looks at an important issue--the emotional impact of success upon women--at a time when opportunities are more available to them than ever before. Using research, clinical experience, and personal anecdotes, the contributors examine the timely issues of women and worry, women's sense...

SPLITTING ROCKS Up in the stony pasture-field behind the barn the boys had been working all the long afternoon. Nearly all, that is, for, being boys, they had managed to mix a good deal of fun with their labor. But now they were tired of both work and play, and wondered audibly, many times over, why...

Recent dissatisfaction with individualism and the problems of religious pluralism make this an opportune time to reassess the way in which we define ourselves and conduct our relationships with others. The philosophical writings of John Macmurray are a useful resource for performing this examination,...

Music therapists are trained to use their first study instrument in clinical practice, yet existing literature focuses almost exclusively on the use of piano, basic percussion and voice. This illuminating book brings together international music therapists who use a diverse range of musical instruments...

Esta antología constituye una selección de narrativa de una de las escritoras más emblemáticas de la literatura mexicana. Los textos provienen de títulos anteriores como Jardín de infancia, Hebras, Isomorfismos, Luz de dos, Tríptico, Sed de mar y Toda la luz, y permiten apreciar la unidad estilística y la diversidad temática que caracterizan la obra de Seligson.

Este libro recorre más de treinta y cinco años de reflexión y trabajo de escritura. "Como alguno de los personajes de Samuel Beckett, también yo -escribe la autora- soy palabra entre palabras, y en esta antología quisiera convidar a mis interlocutores a compartir conmigo un recorrido de...

Zawadi was right: a puny woman who was still a political armature, operating from the equally punitive Zanzibar would not have interested a mighty giant like America. There was a deeper reason for their interest in Africa in general, that went far before Zawadi's time. In a futuristic world,...

Waarom geven achtbanen zulke lekkere kriebels in je buik? En vind je het ook zo moeilijk om snoep en chips te laten staan? Wist je al dat het goed is om zenuwachtig te zijn voor een toets, een wedstrijd of een optreden? En waarom is het belangrijk om vrienden te hebben? Waarom achtbanen te gek zijn!...

Uses repetition, simple sentences, and supporting images to familiarize the beginning reader with rectangles.

This booklet provides a practical introduction to the practice of peer reviewing. Although it mainly focuses on paper reviewing for scientific events in computer science and business informatics, many of the principles, tips, tricks and examples can also be applied to journal reviewing and other scientific...

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