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In the Kingdom of Men
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group 2012; US$ 15.00Here is the first thing you need to know about me: I?m a barefoot girl from red-dirt Oklahoma, and all the marble floors in the world will never change that. Here is the second thing: that young woman they pulled from the Arabian shore, her hair tangled with mangrove?my husband didn?t kill her, not the way they say he did. 1967. Gin Mitchell... more...
A Country Called Home
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group 2008; US$ 16.00A powerful novel of young love and rural isolation from the acclaimed author of In the Wilderness . Thomas Deracotte is just out of medical school, and his pregnant wife, Helen, have their whole future mapped out for them in upper-crust Connecticut. But they are dreamers, and they set out to create their own farm in rural Idaho instead. The fields... more...
In the Wilderness
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group 2010; US$ 15.00Poet Kim Barnes grew up in northern Idaho, in the isolated camps where her father worked as a logger and her mother made a modest but comfortable home for her husband and two children. Their lives were short on material wealth, but long on the riches of family and friendship, and the great sheltering power of the wilderness. But in the mid-1960's,... more...
Hungry for the World
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group 2011; US$ 13.00From the author of the critically acclaimed In the Wilderness , comes a riveting new narrative of self-discovery and personal triumph. Hungry for the World is the story of how an intelligent and passionate young woman, yearning for an understanding of the world beyond her insular family life, found her way. On the day of her 1976 high school graduation... more...
In the Kingdom of Men
Random House 2012; US$ 10.67Imagine the period glamour, sexual inequality and daytime drinking of Mad Men set in a country where women aren't allowed to look at men and alcohol is illegal. Raised by her grandfather, a strict Methodist minister, in a two-room shack, Gin McPhee never imagined she'd have a husband she loved and a houseboy making her breakfast. When... more...
Exercising Influence
Wiley 2006; US$ 28.00Influence is a skill-set that everyone needs; yet the necessary techniques and fundamentals of exercising influence are rarely taught. In this revised edition of Exercising Influence , Kim Barnes draws on her thirty years of consulting, teaching and observation to demystify the process of influencing others. This vital resource teaches how to accomplish... more...
Kiss Tomorrow Hello
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group 2006; US$ 24.95?How could ?old age? be a medical diagnosis when I wasn?t even forty?? ?Lolly Winston ?? if aging is difficult for those of us who were only sometimes cute,? she says, ?just imagine how hard it must be for the aging knockouts, the living dolls.? ?Rebecca McClanahan ?I love sex. I love middle-age sex. I love married sex. I'm almost fifty and I've... more...
Archaeologists as Activists
University of Alabama Press 2011; US$ 29.95Could archaeologists benefit contemporary cultures and be a factor in solving world problems? Can archaeologists help individuals? Can archaeologists change the world? These questions form the root of “archaeology activism” or “activist archaeology”: using archaeology to advocate for and affect change in contemporary communities.... more...
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