Harriet Brown

"Millions of families are affected by eating disorders, which usually strike young women between the ages of fourteen and twenty. But current medical practice ties these families' hands when it comes to helping their children recover. Conventional medical wisdom dictates separating the patient from the family and insists that "it's not about the food," even as a family watches a child waste away before their eyes. Harriet Brown shows how counterproductive--and...

"Over the last 25 years, our longing for thinness has morphed into a relentless cultural obsession with weight and body image. You can't be a woman or girl (or, increasingly, a man or boy) in America today and not grapple with the size and shape of your body, your daughter's body, other women's bodies. Even the most confident people have to find a way through a daily gauntlet of voices and images talking, admonishing, warning us about what size we...

Through photographs, illustrations, and both factual and fictionalized anecdotes, shows what life was like in the United States during the Depression.

Teaches babysitters how to calm kids, feed finicky eaters, and please parents, in a book that offers sitter secrets, including the value of client information cards.

"This extraordinary volume brings together the first three novels written by Africa-Americans in the 1850s: The Heroic Slave, Frederick Douglass's powerful fictional account of an actual mutiny aboard the slave ship Creole in 1841...Clotel, a provocative expose of slavery by William Wells Brown, who was himself a fugitive slave...and the penetrating and eloquent Our Nig, which focuses on the struggles of one young woman to achieve economic independence...