An excellent,reassuring book for women and their partners. It carries the womanalong step-by-step in the rediscovery of her own sexuality and thepleasure it will bring her. Liberated or not, single or married,young or old, all women will find this book accessible andsupportive.

“This compelling memoir is a testament to how extraordinarycircumstances can transform a life—and how an extraordinary personreacts to difficult circumstances. What comes through is theimportance of courageous individual action in the most diresituations. This is the amazing story of a woman who lived throughone of the worst times in human history, losing family members tothe Nazis but surviving with her spirit and integrity intact.”—Publishers Weekly

The pleasure of reading the Education," wrote Alfred Kazin,"is the pleasure of reading a work of literature made up,literally, from historical facts . . . It is the pleasure of seeinghistory come alive, of seeing it move, of seeing behind history tothe actions and actors. It is the pleasure of seeing revealed thehumanity so often concealed in history. His political ideals shaped by two presidentialancestors--great-grandfather John Adams and grandfather John QuincyAdams--Henry Adams was one of the most powerful and original mindsto confront the American scene from the Civil War to the FirstWorld War. Privately printed in 1907 and published to wide acclaimshortly after the author's death in 1918, Adams's Education is lessa memoir and more a work of brilliant history which charts thegreat transformation in nineteenth-century American intellectuallife. A work of profound lyricism, enormous humanity, andremarkable prescience, The Education of Henry Adams presents aworld poised between the certainties

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Free cable television. Imaginary tax deductions. Do you takeyour chance to cheat? David Callahan thinks many of us would;witness corporate scandals, doping athletes, plagiarizingjournalists. Why all the cheating? Why now? Callahan blames thedog-eat-dog economic climate of the past twenty years: Anunfettered market and unprecedented economic inequality havecorroded our values and threaten to corrupt the equal opportunitywe cherish. Callahan's "Winning Class" has created a separate moralreality where it cheats without consequences-while the "AnxiousClass" believes choosing not to cheat could cancel its only shot atsuccess in a winner-take-all world. Updated with a new afterwordanalyzing the latest on cheating from the Martha Stewart trial tothe Tyco and Enron sentencings, The Cheating Culture takes us on agripping tour of cheating in America and makes a powerful case forwhy it matters.

In this profound and fascinating book, the authors revisit anoverlooked Supreme Court decision that changed forever how justiceis carried out in the United States. In 1906, Ed Johnson was the innocnet black man found guilty ofthe brutal rape of Nevada Taylor, a white woman, and sentenced todie in Chattanooga, Tennessee. Two black lawyers, not even part ofthe original defense, appealed to the Supreme Court for a stay ofexecution, and the stay, incredibly, was granted. Frenzied withrage at the deision, locals responded by lynching Johnson, and whatensued was a breathtaking whirlwind of groundbreaking legal actionwhose import, Thurgood Marshall would claim, "has never been fullyexplained." Provocative, thorough, and gripping, Contempt of Courtis a long-overdue look at events that clearly depict the peculiarand tenuous relationship between justice and the law.

For William Ayers, noted educator and activist, "the allure ofteaching, that ineffable magic drawing me back to the classroomagain and again, issues from an ideal that lies directly at itsheart: Teaching, at its best, is an enterprise that helps humanbeings reach the full measure of their humanity." In Teaching Toward Freedom, Ayers illuminates the hope as well asthe conflict that characterize the entire project of education: howit can be used in authoritarian and dehumanizing ways in theservice of the state, the church, or a restrictive existing socialorder-an idea he abhors-or, as he envisions it, as an undertakingto help students become more fully human, more engaged, moreparticipatory, more free. Drawing on his own classroom experiencesand those of his many colleagues, as well as on popular culture,film, poetry, and novels, Ayers redraws the lines concerning how weteach and why, and the surprising things we uncover when we allowstudents to become visible, vocal authors of their own texts andcreators of

Suddenly they go from striving for A’s to barely passing, fromfretting about cooties to obsessing for hours about crushes. Formerchatterboxes answer in monosyllables; freethinkers mimic everythingfrom clothes to opinions. Their bodies and psyches morph throughthe most radical changes since infancy. They are kids in themiddle-school years, the age every adult remembers well enough todread. Here at last is an up-to-date anthropology of this criticallyformative period. Prize-winning education reporter Linda Perlsteinspent a year immersed in the lunchroom, classrooms, hearts, andminds of a group of suburban Maryland middle schoolers and emergedwith this pathbreaking account. Perlstein reveals what’s reallygoing on under kids’ don’t-touch-me facade while they grapple withschoolwork, puberty, romance, and identity. A must-read for parentsand educators, Not Much Just Chillin’ offers a trail map to thebaffling no-man’s-land between child and teen.

From the largest and most successful school initiatives in social and emotional learning in the country-The Resolving Conflict Creatively Program, now active in more than 350 schools nationwide-comes a powerful, practical guide for teaching young people to empathize, mediate, negotiate, and create peace. The authors address everything from minor schoolyard conflicts to violent outbursts, and offer educators and parents proven strategies for enhancing children's emotional, social, and conflict resolution skills.

Former WikiLeaks Insider and Spokesman Daniel Domscheit-BergAuthors an Exposé of the “World’s Most Dangerous Website” In an eye-opening account, Daniel Domscheit-Berg, the formerspokesman of WikiLeaks, reveals never-disclosed details about theinner workings of the increasingly controversial organization thathas struck fear into governments and business organizationsworldwide and prompted the Pentagon to convene a 120-man taskforce. In addition to Germany and the U.S., Inside WikiLeaks willbe published simultaneously in 12 other countries. Under the pseudonym Daniel Schmitt, Domscheit-Berg was theeffective No. 2 at WikiLeaks and the organization’s most publicface, after Julian Assange. In this book, he reveals the evolution,finances, and inner tensions of the whistleblower organization,beginning with his first meeting with Assange in December 2007. Healso describes what led to his September 2010 withdrawal fromWikiLeaks, including his disenchantment with the organization’slack of