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Readers in Wonderland ranges from William Steig's small picture books to J. R. R. Tolkien's epic series; from utopias like L. Frank Baum's Oz to dystopias like Virginia Hamilton's Dustland; from less known works like Patricia Wrightson's to the phenomenon that is J. K. Rowling's Harry Potter.

For much of the 20th century, books for children encouraged girls to be weak, submissive, and fearful. This book discusses such traits, both blatantly and subtly reinforced, in many of the most popular works of the period. Quoting a wide variety of passages, O'Keefe illustrates the typical behaviour of fictional girls - many of whom were passive and immobile while others were actually invalids. They all engaged in approved girlish activities: deferred to elders, observed the priorities, and, in the end, accepted conventional suitors. Even feisty tomboys, like Jo in Little Women,...

Only about 10% of breast cancer is linked to heredity and genes; the majority is associated with lifestyle and environmental factors. This means that you can take control of your breast health-and work to prevent cancer and many other common breast problems.

Written by two authorities in complementary medicine and women's health issues, Breast Health the Natural Way is a compassionate guide that combines mainstream and alternative medical advice, nutrition, exercise, and mind-body medicine into a simple, five-step program you...

My Body, The Buddhist becomes a way into Hay's choreographic techniques, a gloss on her...

Deborah Ann Huber is a mother, a daughter, and a sister. She is also a therapist and a student.

All of these things combine to make her much more than a rape survivor-although that's part of her story too. Though it continues to shape who she is, she will not be defined by her past.

Huber shares these thoughts in Rape's Aftermath: Survivor's Story. She details her experience from crime through recovery, touching on its effects on her parenting and career. Growing up she had internalized the idea that rape happened to people who deserved it, leading her to be needy and...

In the mid 1990 s Deborah Hay s work took a new turn. From her early experiments with untrained dancers, and after a decade of focusing on solo work, the choreographer began to explore new grounds of choreographic notation and transmission by working with experienced performers and choreographers.

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Using the Sky: a dance" follows a similar path as Hay s previous books "Lamb at the Altar "and "My Body the Buddhist" by exploring her unrelenting quest for ways to both define and rethink her choreographic imagery through a broad range of alternately intimate, descriptive, poetic,...