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An ambitious, eye-opening, myth-busting and groundbreaking history of the evolution of the female body, by a brilliant new researcher and writer.Why do women live longer than men? Why do women have menopause? Why are women more likely to get...
"'What this child needs is a job', prescribes the pediatrician. This is how, at age four, the spirited author becomes assistant to the delivery man at her father's pharmacy. This brilliantly told, often hilarious memoir describes a thoroughly uncon..."
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Offers a guide to understanding the appeal of the strongman as a leader and an explanation for why authoritarianism is back with a menacing twenty-first century twist. Across the world today, from the Americas to Europe and beyond, liberal...
"Presidential historian Mark K. Updegrove tracks the two Bush presidents from their formative years through their post-presidencies and the failed presidential candidacy of Jeb Bush, derailing the Bush presidential dynasty. Drawing extensively on...
Rachel Cameron is a woman struggling to come to terms with love, with death, with herself and her world. Trapped in a milieu of deceit and pettiness - her own and that of others - Rachel longs for love, and contact with another human being who...