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1) Confidence
Author
Series
Anna and Fin volume 2
Physical Desc
293 pages ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
While on vacation with their blended family, Anna McDonald and Fin Cohen take off to try to solve the case of a shocking kidnapping.
When Lisa Lee, a vulnerable young woman, vanishes from a pretty Scottish seaside town, Anna and Fin find themselves at the centre of an internet frenzy to find her. But Lisa may not be the hapless victim her father thinks. She had an unsuccessful YouTube channel and her last film showed her breaking into an abandoned...
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Physical Desc
x, 272 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
An investigation into the societal impact of intelligent, high-achieving women who are honing traditional homemaking skills traces emerging trends in sophisticated crafting, cooking and farming that are reshaping the roles of women.
Series
Criterion collection volume 484
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (201 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 folded-out leaflet (12 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 19 cm).
Language
Français
Description
Jeanne Dielman is a young widow who goes through her daily domestic routine including making the bed, cooking for her grown son, and turning the occasional trick.
Author
Physical Desc
343 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"Two women are watching each other ... Phoebe Miller isn't sure when the rusty car started showing up in the cul-de-sac she calls home, or why its driver would be spying on her. What could be interesting about an unhappy housewife who drowns her sorrows in ice cream and wine and barely leaves her house? When a new family moves in across the street -- the exuberant Vicki, who just might become the gossipy best friend Phoebe's always wanted, and her...
Author
Physical Desc
404 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"Patricia Campbell had always planned for a big life, but after giving up her career as a nurse to marry an ambitious doctor and become a mother, Patricia's life has never felt smaller. The days are long, her kids are ungrateful, her husband is distant, and her to-do list is never really done. The one thing she has to look forward to is her book club, a group of Charleston mothers united only by their love for true-crime and suspenseful fiction. In...
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Physical Desc
ix, 337 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"This books takes us into the kitchens of nine women to tell the complicated story of what it takes to feed a family today. All kitchens are not equal and Pressure Cooker exposes how modern families struggle to confront high expectations and deep-seated inequalities around getting food on the table."--Jacket.
Amid concerns about rising rates of obesity and diabetes, unpronounceable ingredients, and the environmental footprint of industrial agriculture,...
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Physical Desc
344 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"From gender expert and professional facilitator Kate Mangino comes Equal Partners, an informed guide about how we can all collectively work to undo harmful gender norms and create greater household equity. As American society shut down due to Covid, millions of women had to leave their jobs to take on full-time childcare. As the country opens back up, women continue to struggle to balance the demands of work and home life. Kate Mangino, a professional...
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Physical Desc
310 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"Frank Browning takes us into human gender geographies around the world, from gender-neutral kindergartens in Chicago and Oslo to femminielli weather casters in Naples, from conservative Catholics in Paris fearful of God and Nature to transsexual Mormon parents in Utah. As he shares specific and engaging human stories, he also elucidates the neuroscience that distinguishes male and female biology, shows us how all parents' brains change during the...
Author
Physical Desc
xv, 348 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"The surprising, often fiercely feminist, always fascinating, yet barely known, history of home economics. The term "home economics" may conjure traumatic memories of lopsided hand-sewn pillows or sunken cakes. But obscured by common conception is the story of the revolutionary science of better living. The field exploded opportunities for women in the twentieth century by reducing domestic work and providing jobs as professors, engineers, chemists,...
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Language
English
Formats
Description
Presents nine case studies as well as tips for renovating, upgrading and saving thousands of dollars a year by moving into a single-wide mobile home that will reduce your debt and minimize your carbon footprint while still owning a home.
"Imagine what you could do with your time if you didn't have to spend $16,000 a year on rent or a mortgage. Old single-wide mobile homes can often be found for free (and installed for a couple of thousand dollars)...
Author
Physical Desc
xvi, 476 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"Based on exclusive interviews and access to the Supreme Court archives, this is the intimate, inspiring, and authoritative biography of America's first female Justice, Sandra Day O'Connor -- by New York Times bestselling author Evan Thomas. She was born in 1930 in El Paso and grew up on a cattle ranch in Arizona. At a time when women were expected to be homemakers, she set her sights on Stanford University. When she graduated near the top of her...
12) The personality brokers: the strange history of Myers-Briggs and the birth of personality testing
Author
Physical Desc
xxii, 307 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"An unprecedented history of the personality test that has achieved cult-like devotion, devised a century ago by a pair of homemakers and found today in boardrooms, classrooms, and beyond. The Myers-Briggs Type Indicator is the most popular personality test in the world. It has been harnessed by Fortune 100 companies, universities, hospitals, churches, and the military. Its language -- of extraversion vs. introversion, thinking vs. feeling -- has...
Physical Desc
458 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"This volume is a people's history of English in the United States, told by those who have transformed it: activists, teachers, immigrants, journalists, poets, dictionary makers, actors, musicians, playwrights, preachers, presidents, rappers, translators, singers, children's authors, scientists, politicians, foreigners, students, homemakers, lexicographers, scholars, newspaper columnists, senators, novelists, and a slew of fanatics. It begins with...
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