Blogs Posts in Women category; 38 blog posts

Book Review: A woman relies on her dog during a series of pe...

DOGS no doubt evolved to provide an utilitarian role for their human masters, protecting them against lions, tigers, sabre toothed beasties and baddies trying to steal their food, wives and the cave man’s equivalent of electrical go [...]

Posted On : Jan, 19 2012 | Comments : 0

Review: Two Old Women

Enchanting retelling--and a 1993 Western States Book Award winner--of a tribal legend about two old women, left behind to die, who instead went on to survive and thrive. Wallis--one of 13 siblings with their roots in the Athabaskan tribe [...]

Posted On : Jan, 17 2012 | Comments : 0

New Book Helps Women Align with Power of Elements

Helping women connect with their feminine essence and consciously apply the creation energy of Nature is the focus of “Nature's Success System: Secrets to Energize Your Health, Wealth, and Passion with the Feminine Power of Crea [...]

Posted On : Jan, 06 2012 | Comments : 0

Wanted: Women Who Rock Coloring Book

Who could resist the opportunity to color in our favorite rock ’n’ roll gals while supporting a great cause? The non-profit Girls Rock! Rhode Island recently published a killer coloring book loaded with pictures of women music [...]

Posted On : Dec, 23 2011 | Comments : 0

New Business Book, "The SmartGirls Way," Empowers Women Entr...

SmartGirls Way, LLC today announced the release of its first book for women entrepreneurs. "The SmartGirls Way," written by Founder Jean Brittingham and Co-Founder Tracey Ann Collins, is available online and in bookstores as of [...]

Posted On : Dec, 05 2011 | Comments : 0

Great Gifts: Books and DVDs for the Holidays, page 2

Bronstein is associate professor of Media Studies in the College of Communication at DePaul University. When I was in college, from 1980-1984 at Drake University, the nationwide pornography wars were in full swing. As a journalism student [...]

Posted On : Dec, 01 2011 | Comments : 0

Women on top

Nancy Friday's international bestsellers My Secret Garden and Forbidden Flowers revealed that women possess erotic imaginations at least as inventive and powerful as those of men. Women on Top looks at a new generation of women and as [...]

Posted On : Nov, 28 2011 | Comments : 0

Facing Beauty: Painted Women & Cosmetic Art by Aileen Ribeir...

"A beautiful woman is a temptation built over a sewer.” From a 14th-century handbook for Dominican preachers, this is one of many startling quotations in Aileen Ribeiro’s absorbing new book. Worth getting just for the lus [...]

Posted On : Nov, 23 2011 | Comments : 0

The Women's Book of Healing

Women are naturally healers. Throughout time, they have performed curative roles as mothers, midwives, caregivers, and wisewomen, but modern medicine has suppressed this important tradition. Ancient women healers knew that the body is mor [...]

Posted On : Oct, 15 2011 | Comments : 0

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Low-life writer and unrepentant alcoholic Henry Chinaski was born to survive. After decades of slacking off at low-paying dead-end jobs, blowing his cash on booze and women, and scrimping by in flea-bitten apartments, Chinaski sees his po [...]

Posted On : Oct, 14 2011 | Comments : 0

Women and health

Low life writer and alcoholic Henry Chinaski was born to survive. Now, at the age of fifty, he is living the life of a rock star, running three hundred hangovers a year and a sex life that would cripple Casanova. Women is a riotous and un [...]

Posted On : Sep, 13 2011 | Comments : 0

Book Review - Hands Off My Belly!

Expectant mothers are virtual magnets for unsolicited advice. Mothers, grandmothers, aunts, sisters, sisters-in-law, new mothers, friends, and even strangers offer what seems to be an endless supply of supposedly authoritative opinions on e [...]

Posted On : Dec, 09 2009 | Comments : 0

Mini Chic Fashion Book

Every dream of becoming a fashion designer? Master the art and science of fashion design with this wonderful reference and activity book! You will emark on your creative journey with sylish stencils, paper “fabrics,” and [...]

Posted On : Jun, 20 2009 | Comments : 0

Book Review - Jewelry with a Hook

A little thread, a few beads and a crochet hook are all it takes to craft this contemporary collection of earrings, collars, broaches, bangles and more. Unlike most crochet jewelry books, this does not spend a great deal of time on lengthy [...]