"Whip-smart (Louise Penny) amateur sleuth Samantha Clair returns in the newest mystery from Judith Flanders, the New York Times bestselling and critically acclaimed author of A Murder of Magpies. Sam Clair figures she ll be a good sport and spend a night out at the theater in support of her upstairs neighbors who have small parts in a play in the West End. Boyfriend (a Scotland Yard detective) and allround good sport Jake Field agrees to tag along to what is apparently an extra bloody play filled with dramatic gory deaths galore. So Sam expects an evening filled with faux fatalities. Until that is the curtain opens to the second act revealing a dummy hanging from the rafters, whos been made up to look suspiciously like Campbell Davison the director of the production. When Sam sees the horrified faces of the actors onstage, she realizes that this is indeed not a dummy, but Davison himself and this death is not part of the show. Now everyone wants to know who killed Campbell Davison? As Sam learns more about the murdered man, she discovers that he wasnt all that well-liked amongst the cast and crew so the suspect list grows. The show must go on but Sam knows a murderer must be apprehended so she sets out to find out what happened and why. New York Times bestselling author Judith Flanders once again brilliantly fuses mystery with humor in the fourth installment of her critically acclaimed Sam Clair series"--

Anna, who left Berlin as a refugee to escape the Nazis, is forced to return there to visit her sick mother, and in the process is faced with the past which she has shut out for so long. Social studies: social control. Suggested level: junior secondary.

"Captivating. Krantz's latest tome... is her most erotic yet. "Dazzle" sizzles." -- "Daily News, Los Angeles," Now, Judith Krantz, best-selling author of "Scruples," "Mistral's Daughter," and "Till We Meet Again," invites you into the luscious, monied world of Jazz Kilkullen, her most daring, provocative, impetuous heroine yet. "Deliciously sexy." --"Cosmopolitan," Inside the fun-filled photographers' studio in California known as Dazzle, Jazz Kilkullen reigns supreme. At twenty-nine, this playful, gifted, and thoroughly sexy woman has become one of the most successful celebrity portrait photo in the world. "Enjoyable... Jazz is one of the most likable free souls to emerge from the novel industry." -- "The Pittsburgh Press," But her charmed career and her dashing private life, which includes three fascinating-and fascinated-men, are rocked when an unexpected tragedy leaves jazz to battle her father's vengeful ex-wife and the machinations of her half-sisters. At stake is the Kilkullen family ranch, a three-billion-dollar paradise of unspoiled California land that developers all over the world would do anything to possess... and Jazz will do anything to protect. Absolutely anything. "Judith Krantz's best novel since "Scruples,"" -- "Associated Press," "Steamy." --"Los Angeles Times," "Hot... bubbling with sex, intrigue, and-most of all-money. Krantz is at the height of her form here." -- "Booklist" "From the Paperback edition."

Sex is a wonderful, crucial part of growing up, and children and teens can enjoy the pleasures of the body and be safe, too. In this book Judith Levine makes this argument and goes further, asserting that America's attempts to protect children from sex are worse than ineffectual. It is the assumption of danger and the exclusive focus on protection--what Levine terms "the sexual politics of fear"--That are themselves harmful to minors. Through interviews with young people and their parents, stories drawn from today's headlines, visits to classrooms and clinics, and a look back at the ways sex among children and teenagers has been viewed throughout history, Judith Levine debunks some of the dominant myths of our society. She examines and challenges widespread anxieties (pedophilia, stranger kidnapping, Internet pornography) and sacred cows (abstinence-based sex education, statutory rape laws). Levine investigates the policies and practices that affect kids' sex lives--censorship, psychology, sex and AIDS education, family, criminal, and reproductive law, and the journalism that begs for "solutions" while inciting more fear. Harmful to minors offers fresh alternatives to fear and silence, describing sex-positive approaches that are ethically based and focus on common sense. Levine provides optimistic, though realistic, prescriptions for how we might do better in guiding children toward loving well--that is, safely, pleasurably, and with respect for others and themselves.

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In this illuminating look at what constitutes American citizenship, Judith Shklar identifies the right to vote and the right to work as the defining social rights and primary sources of public respect. She demonstrates that in recent years, although all profess their devotion to the work ethic, earning remains unavailable to many who feel and are consequently treated as less than full citizens.

How can we distinguish between injustice and misfortune? What can we learn from the victims of calamity about the sense of injustice they harbor? In this book a distinguished political theorist ponders these and other questions and formulates a new political and moral theory of injustice that encompasses not only deliberate acts of cruelty or unfairness but also indifference to such acts. Judith N. Shklar draws on the writings of Plato, Augustine, and Montaigne, three skeptics who gave the theory of injustice its main structure and intellectual force, as well as on political theory, history, social psychology, and literature from sources as diverse as Rosseau, Dickens, Hardy, and E. L. Doctorow. Shklar argues that we cannot set rigid rules to distinguish instances of misfortune from injustice, as most theories of justice would have us do, for such definitions would not take into account historical variability and differences in perception and interest between the victims and spectators. From the victim's point of view--whether it be one who suffered in an earthquake or as a result of social discrimination--the full definition of injustice must include not only the immediate cause of disaster but also our refusal to prevent and then to mitigate the damage, or what Shklar calls passive injustice. With this broader definition comes a call for greater responsibility from both citizens and public servants. When we attempt to make political decisions about what to do in specific instances of injustice, says Shklar, we must give the victim's voice its full weight. This is in keeping with the best impulses of democracy and is our only alternative to a complacency that is bound to favor the unjust.

In this compelling self-portrait, psychic and psychiatrist Dr. Judith Orloff explores the mysterious and poorly understood realm of the psychic, based on her own experiences and those of her patients. In riveting detail, she describes how an ignored premonition of a patient's suicide attempt convinced her to not only embrace her gift but to incorporate it into her practice. Optioned by Atlas Entertainment to be a movie of the week and/or series. National ads/media.

A feminist approach to Judaism offers a critique of the religion as a patriarchal tradition and analyzes potential changes in Jewish thought based on feminist definitions and understanding

A feminist critique of Judaism as a patriarchal tradition and an exploration of the increasing involvement of women in naming and shaping Jewish tradition.

Key writings in feminist spirituality drawing on the great diversity of women's experience.

Product description One of the most famous names associated with scientific research into human sexuality is Dr. Alfred Kinsey—often referred to positively as the "father of the sexual revolution"—whose work became the bedrock on which current social policy on sexual matters rests. In KINSEY'S ATTIC Judith Reisman counters the massive public affinity for Kinsey and his colleagues and sheds light on the lurid truth regarding his research and the negative effects it has had on American society. Indeed, this darker legacy of Kinsey's work has resulted in the return of Western culture practices to the practices of ancient sexual religious cults: the sexual abuse of women, pedophilia, ritual child sacrifice, sadism, bestiality, and numerous other perversions. Brought into public view are the Kinsey team's abuse of its research subjects, including infants, and the general climate of perversion that masked itself as scientific research. The sources of the ideology that guided his studies into sexuality are explored, leading to the conclusion that the research was DESIGNED to achieve predetermined ends: ending Western laws that favor women and children, in particular those pertaining to fornication, breach of promise, adultery, statutory rape, rape, obscenity, abortion, sex education, homicide, and sodomy. KINSEY'S ATTIC also investigates the effects of his research on our culture, exposing the societal, governmental, and religious organizations that seek to propagate Kinsey's ideology and identifying the individuals who champion it as enlightenment. Reisman also explains the effects of the various channels of mass media on the spread of the sexual revolution and the government's intentional manipulation of the research data that proves the devastating effects of Kinsean ideology on the culture at large. Readers will be astonished at the extent to which Kinsey's perversions have been able to subtly work their way into the accepted beliefs and practices of our culture. And they will be inspired to affirm and promote the core values of society that will ultimately restore respect for women, children, and the gift of human sexuality. About the Author JUDITH REISMAN, Ph.D., is the president of the Institute for Media Education. A renowned researcher, she is the author of KINSEY, SEX, AND FRAUD, SOFT PORN PLAYS HARDBALL, and the U.S. Department of Justice study, IMAGES OF CHILDREN, CRIME, AND VIOLENCE IN PLAYBOY, PENTHOUSE, AND HUSTLER. She has been a consultant to three U.S. Department of Justice administrations as well as the U.S. Department of Education and Health and Human Services, and her scholarly discoveries have had international legislative and scientific import. She lives in Arizona.

And so you've reached that time in life when you're starting to pick investments over adventure, clean over scenic, comfortable over intense; when, even though in your heart of hearts you're only seventeen, the rest of you is (how did it happen?) forty. The wise and witty lady of It's Hard to Be Hip Over Thirty is here to get you through those forty-ish years with poems that reflect our common shared experience. So let her help you take a look at that decade of sagging kneecaps and college reunions and fantasies of love in the afternoon; at Maoist kids, cholesterol counts, adult-education courses and other atrocities - which somehow just don't hurt so much when you laugh. A marvelous book filled with insight and warmth, How Did I Get to Be 40 ... & Other Atrocities is Judith Viorst at her best.

This classic work reveals how childbirth has changed from colonial times to the present, including a new preface that discusses writings on the subject over the past three decades.

Product Description In this thoroughly updated second edition, Judith Walzer Leavitt, a leading authority on the history of women's health issues, has collected thirty-five articles representing important scholarship in this once-neglected field. Timely and fascinating, this volume is organized chronologically and then by topic, covering studies of women and health in the colonial and revolutionary periods and the nineteenth century through the Civil War. The remainder of the book concentrates on the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries and addresses such controversial issues as body image and physical fitness, sexuality, fertility, abortion and birth control, childbirth and motherhood, mental illness, women's health care providers (midwives, nurses, physicians), and health reform and public health. Review "Superb."— Isis "Highly recommended for everyone interested in women's health."— Journal of the American Medical Women's Association "Should be on everyone's reference shelf."— Women's Studies in Indiana "Leavitt is to be commended for selecting pieces which highlight the major debates."— Women's Review of Books "It's a pleasure, as well as useful, to have such a range of excellent work in one book."— Journal of the History of Medicine "[Leavitt's] approach ensures that women's history will meet high standards and, in fact, raises the standards of historical scholarship."— Bulletin of the History of Dentistry "This anthology may be just the prescription to cure a current deficiency disease, to supply in one place the information that has been sadly lacking in historical treatments of women as patients and practitioners."— Mobius About the Author Judith Walzer Leavitt is Ruth Bleier Professor of History of Medicine, History of Science, and Women’s Studies and the associate dean of faculty at the medical school, University of Wisconsin–Madison. Her many books include The Healthiest City and Sickness and Health in America, both also available from the University of Wisconsin Press, as well as Typhoid Mary and Brought to Bed: Childbearing in America 1750–1950.