Lauren Cook: 5 books

Young adults feel a lot of pressure these days. Get into the best college, win the soccer tournament, and land the dream internship if you want to be worthy. Sound familiar? With all this stress, its no wonder that students are saying they feel depressed, anxious, or overwhelmed at an alarmingly high...

Popular images of women during the American Civil War include self-sacrificing nurses, romantic spies, and brave ladies maintaining hearth and home in the absence of their men. However, as DeAnne Blanton and Lauren M. Cook show in their remarkable new study, that conventional picture does not tell...

Choose happiness! I was smiling and nodding my head at this books fresh and honest wisdom from the very first page. Laurens thoroughly researched take on how young people can get out of their own way and live a life with grace, gratitude, acceptanceand a heck of a lot of fun! is required reading for...

Despite the growing importance of heroines across literary culture—and sales figures that demonstrate both young adult and adult females are reading about heroines in droves, particularly in graphic novels, comic books, and YA literature—few scholarly collections have examined the complex relationships...

**A survey of the innovative scholarship emerging at the intersections of rhetoric, **and fieldwork A variety of research areas within rhetorical studies—including everyday and public rhetorics, space and place-based work, material and ecological approaches, environmental communication,...