Body Outlaws: Rewriting the Rules of Beauty and Body Image

10 best books like Body Outlaws: Rewriting the Rules of Beauty and Body Image (Ophira Edut): Lost For Words, The Art of Happiness, Peace Is Every Step: The Path of Mindfulness in Everyday Life, Other Words for Home, Paradise Lost, Half the Sky: Turning Oppression Into Opportunity for Women Worldwide, Great Goddesses: Life Lessons from Myths and Monsters, The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, Justice: What's the Right Thing to Do?, The Joy of Living: Unlocking the Secret and Science of Happiness

Lost For Words
AuthorStephanie Butland
You can trust a book to keep your secret . . .

Loveday Cardew prefers books to people. If you look closely, you might glimpse the first lines of the novels she loves most tattooed on her skin. But there are things she'll never show you.

Fifteen years ago Loveday lost all she knew and loved...
The Art of Happiness
AuthorDalai Lama XIV
ISBN1573221112
Nearly every time you see him, he's laughing, or at least smiling. And he makes everyone else around him feel like smiling. He's the Dalai Lama, the spiritual and temporal leader of Tibet, a Nobel Prize winner, and an increasingly popular speaker and statesman. What's more, he'll tell you that happiness...
Peace Is Every Step: The Path of Mindfulness in Everyday Life
AuthorThich Nhat Hanh
ISBN0553351397
In the rush of modern life, we tend to lose touch with the peace that is available in each moment. World-renowned Zen master, spiritual leader, and author Thich Nhat Hanh shows us how to make positive use of the very situations that usually pressure and antagonize us. For him a ringing telephone can be...
Other Words for Home
AuthorJasmine Warga
I am learning how to be
sad
and happy
at the same time.

Jude never thought she’d be leaving her beloved older brother and father behind, all the way across the ocean in Syria. But when things in her hometown start becoming volatile, Jude and her mother are sent to live in Cincinnati...
Paradise Lost
AuthorJohn Milton
ISBN0140424393
John Milton's Paradise Lost is one of the greatest epic poems in the English language. It tells the story of the Fall of Man, a tale of immense drama and excitement, of rebellion and treachery, of innocence pitted against corruption, in which God and Satan fight a bitter battle for control of mankind's...
Half the Sky: Turning Oppression Into Opportunity for Women Worldwide
AuthorNicholas D. Kristof
ISBN0307267148
From two of our most fiercely moral voices, a passionate call to arms against our era’s most pervasive human rights violation: the oppression of women and girls in the developing world.

With Pulitzer Prize winners Nicholas D. Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn as our guides, we undertake an odyssey...
Great Goddesses: Life Lessons from Myths and Monsters
AuthorNikita Gill
ISBN1529104645
Empowering life lessons from myths and monsters.

Wonder at Medusa's potent venom, Circe's fierce sorcery and Athena rising up over Olympus, as Nikita Gill majestically explores the untold stories of the life bringers, warriors, creators, survivors and destroyers that shook the world...
The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
AuthorSamuel Taylor Coleridge
ISBN0486223051
The Rime of the Ancient Mariner (originally "The Rime of the Ancyent Marinere") is the longest major poem by the English poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge, written in 1797–98 and published in 1798 in the first edition of Lyrical Ballads. Modern editions use a later revised version printed in 1817 and featuring...
Justice: What's the Right Thing to Do?
AuthorMichael J. Sandel
ISBN0374180652
En Justicia, el prestigioso autor y profesor Michael Sandel examina el papel de la justicia en nuestras vidas y en la sociedad, y explica cómo la filosofía puede ayudar a entender la política, la religión o la moral, e incluso nuestras propias convicciones. Deteniéndose en cuestiones tan polémicas...
AuthorYongey Mingyur
ISBN0307346250
For millennia, Buddhists have enjoyed the limitless benefits of meditation. But how does it work? And why? The principles behind this ancient practice have long eluded some of the best minds in modern science. Until now.

In this groundbreaking work, world-renowned Buddhist teacher Yongey...
AuthorMarie Darrieussecq
ISBN1565844424
You have this friend, she’s been out of work for months. Then she gets this gig at a perfume counter, which also involves being a prostitute. She is routinely abused by her “clients” who use her for increasingly perverse sexual practices. She is also, at that time, transforming into a sow. You keep...
La traversée du continent
AuthorMichel Tremblay
En 1913, à Sainte-Maria-de-Saskatchewan, Rhéauna apprend de sa grand-mère que sa mère souhaite l’avoir près d’elle à Montréal. Il lui faudra quitter cette famille d’adoption où, en compagnie de ses sœurs Béa et Alice, elle grandit entourée d’amour, au milieu d’infinis champs...
La traversée de la ville
AuthorMichel Tremblay
ISBN2742781641
Court mais puissant, cette première lecture de Michel Tremblay m'a sidérée et surtout donné envie d'en lire plus. La comparaison avec Zola s'impose avec une telle force que je me demande si elle n'est pas un peu facile (une recherche rapide montre une ambition de mémoire bien plus personnelle...
L'enfant de Noé
AuthorÉric-Emmanuel Schmitt
ISBN2226151087
« Nous allons conclure un marché, veux-tu ? Toi, Joseph, tu feras semblant d'être chrétien, et moi je ferai semblant d'être juif. Ce sera notre secret, le plus grand des secrets. Toi et moi pourrions mourir de trahir ce secret. Juré ? Juré. » 1942. Joseph a sept ans. Séparé de sa famille, il est...
What I Know for Sure
AuthorOprah Winfrey
ISBN1250054052
As a creative force, student of the human heart and soul, and champion of living the life you want, Oprah Winfrey stands alone. Over the years, she has made history with a legendary talk show - the highest-rated program of its kind, launched her own television network, become the nation's only African-American...
The Echo Room
AuthorParker Peevyhouse
ISBN0765399415
Rett wakes on the floor of a cold, dark room. He doesn’t know how he got there, only that he’s locked in. He’s not alone—a girl named Bryn is trapped in the room with him. When she finds a mysterious bloodstain and decides she doesn’t trust Rett, he tries to escape on his own—

Rett wakes...
American Popular Music: From Minstrelsy to MP3
AuthorLarry Starr
In American Popular Music: From Minstrelsy to MP3, Second Edition, Larry Starr and Christopher Waterman examine popular music in the United States from its beginnings into the 21st century, offering a comprehensive look at the music, the cultural history of the times, and the connections between...
The Crêpes of Wrath
AuthorSarah Fox
In the debut of a delightful cozy mystery series, Sarah Fox introduces a charming new heroine who finds herself in a sticky situation: stacking pancakes, pouring coffee, and investigating murder.

When Marley McKinney’s aging cousin, Jimmy, is hospitalized with pneumonia, she agrees...
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