Broken Patterns, by award-winning journalist Anita M. Harris, places modern American professional women --and their mothers and grandmothers--in remarkable historical context. Based on interviews with women who entered male-dominated careers in the 1970s and 1980s, the book outlines a "push-pull" pattern of generational and historical development going back to the Colonial period in America. Broken Patterns will be of special interest to women at all career stages because it shows how the experiences of mothers and grandmothers influence career decisions and lives. And it traces the impact of...

How does an impressionable 17-year-old girl deal with Fat Phil the Wet Kisser and a revolution at the same time? Ithaca Diaries is a coming of age memoir set at Cornell University in the tumultuous 1960s. The story is told in first person from the point of view of a smart, sassy, funny, scared, sophisticated yet naive college student who can laugh at herself while she and the world around her are having a nervous breakdown. Based on the author's diaries and letters, interviews and other primary and secondary accounts of the time, Ithaca Diaries describes collegiate life as protests, politics,...