Author: Rachel Hamma
Publisher: Capital Books (VA)
Keywords: bye, ideas, business, personal, development, capital, home, boardroom, confessions, new, breed, moms
Number of Pages: 176
Published: 2006-05-01
List price: $16.95
ISBN-10: 1933102179
ISBN-13: 9781933102177

"Bye-Bye Boardroom" looks into the minds and hearts of modern women who have made the decision to become stay-at-home moms. With comic relief Type-A former professional whiz kid Rachel Hamman shares the intimate secrets of her first days as a carpool-driving mom, then opens her book to the real-life adventures of other young mothers who confess their deepest thoughts about the choices they have made to leave their corporate life for a truer mission. As it redefines "Women’s Lib" with a laugh for a new generation, "Bye-"Bye Boardroom" gives stay-at-home moms a true voice, a sense of commu

Author: Rachel Simmo
Publisher: Mariner Book
Keywords: aggression, girls, culture, hidden, girl, odd
Number of Pages: 301
Published: 2003-04-01
List price: $14.95
ISBN-10: 0156027348
ISBN-13: 9780156027342

Outline There is little sugar but lots of spice in journalist Rachel Simmons’s brave and brilliant book that skewers the stereotype of girls as the kinder, gentler gender. Odd Girl Out begins with thThere is little sugar but lots of spice in journalist Rachel Simmons’s brave and brilliant book that skewers the stereotype of girls as the kinder, gentler gender. Odd Girl Out begins with the premise that girls are socialized to be sweet with a double bind: they must value friendships; but they must not express the anger that might destroy them. Lacking cultural permission to acknowled

Author: Rachel Adams
Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
Keywords: imagination, cultural, american, freaks, sideshow
Number of Pages: 296
Published: 2001-12-01
List price: $21.00
ISBN-10: 0226005399
ISBN-13: 9780226005393

A staple of American popular culture during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, the freak show seemed to vanish after the Second World War. But as Rachel Adams reveals in Sideshow U.S.A., images of the freak show, with its combination of the grotesque, the horrific, and the amusing, stubbornly reappeared in literature and the arts. Freak shows, she contends, have survived because of their capacity for reinvention. Empty of any inherent meaning, the freak’s body becomes a stage for playing out some of the twentieth century’s most pressing social and political concerns, fro

Author: Rachel Isadora
Publisher: Puffin
Keywords: princesses, dancing, twelve
Number of Pages: 32
Published: 2009-11-12
List price: $6.99
ISBN-10: 0142414506
ISBN-13: 9780142414507

A Caldecott Honor–winning illustrator gives this classic fairy tale a brand–new setting! Night after night, the twelve princesses mysteriously wear out their shoes. But how? The king promises a great reward to any man who can solve the mystery. Rachel Isadora has revitalized and reimagined this well-loved Brothers Grimm fairytale by bringing the story of the twelve princesses to Africa. The unique presentation of this classic tale is sure to enchant readers with its vibrant imagery.

Author: Rachel Zucker
Publisher: Wesleyan
Keywords: poetry, wesleyan, handbook, wife
Number of Pages: 130
Published: 2007-12-28
List price: $22.95
ISBN-10: 0819568465
ISBN-13: 9780819568465

Rachel Zucker’s third book of poems is a darkly comic collection that looks unsparingly at the difficulties and compromises of married life. Formally innovative and blazingly direct, The Bad Wife Handbook cross-examines marriage, motherhood, monogamy, and writing itself. Rachel Zucker’s upending of grammatical and syntactic expectations lends these poems an urgent richness and aesthetic complexity that mirrors the puzzles of real life. Candid, subversive, and genuinely moving, The Bad Wife Handbook is an important portrait of contemporary marriage and the writing life, of emotional

Author: Dr. Rachel Boba
Publisher: Sage Publications, Inc
Keywords: crime, mapping, analysis
Number of Pages: 320
Published: 2005-07-08
List price: $58.95
ISBN-10: 0761930922
ISBN-13: 9780761930921

Crime Analysis and Crime Mapping, one of the first texts to introduce crime analysis and crime mapping to an undergraduate audience, is enriched by author Rachel Boba’s unique perspective as a current professor and former crime analyst. The book offers a thorough introduction to the field as well as guidelines for its practice, making it a useful asset for current and future crime analysts and police practitioners as well as for students.

Author: Rachel Schaeffer
Publisher: Quest Books
Keywords: yoga, strengthen, spirit, program, complete, spiritual, muscles
Number of Pages: 224
Published: 1998-06-25
List price: $26.95
ISBN-10: 0835607631
ISBN-13: 9780835607636

Beautifully photographed at the famed Pleasantdale Chateau, this illustrated book features touching personal stories, inspiring quotations, and easy-to-follow instructions for traditional yoga postures as well as for creating your own postures for each "muscle."