Childcare has always been a concern for parents. There are more than 20 million U.S. households with young children, more than half of whom receive care from someone other than the parents. So how exactly is a mother and/or a father to wade through the options to determine what's right for their family? The Unofficial Guide to Childcare can help set minds at ease with its unbiased, street-smart style and practical tools to help parents interview caregivers and evaluate childcare facilities. From assessing a particular child's needs to finding a caregiver, assessing health and safety practices to noticing warning signs in daycare facilities, to transitioning a child into daycare, this guide will aid parents as they make one of the biggest decisions of their lives.

The Unofficial Guide to Childcare

Douglas, Ann

Health, Fitness & Dieting

wiley

Sanity Savers: The Canadian Working Woman's Guide to "Almost" Having it All

McGraw-Hill Ryerson/Trade

The Incredible Shrinking Woman

Prentice-Hall of Canada, Ltd.

Complete Idiots Guide To Curling

Bolton, Rod

Prentice-Hall Canada Inc.

Terrible Honesty: Mongrel Manhatten in the 1920s

History

Americas

Picador

A portrait of a generation describes New York's role in the defining of Western economic and political leadership in the years after the first World War and noting its pivotal part in the shaping of American culture.

Terrible Honesty: Mongrel Manhattan in the 1920s

Farrar. Straus & Giroux

Terrible Honesty is the biography of a decade, a portrait of the soul of a generation - based on the lives and work of more than a hundred men and women. In a strikingly original interpretation that brings the Jazz Age to life in a wholly new way, Ann Douglas arugues that when, after World War I, the United States began to assume the economic and political leadership of the West, New York became the heart of a daring and accomplished historical transformation.

Farrar. Straus and Giroux

This modern classic by one of our leading scholars seeks to explain the values prevalent in today's mass culture by tracing them back to their roots in the Victorian era. As religion lost its hold on the public mind, clergymen and educated women, powerless and insignificant in the society of the time, together exerted a profound effect on the only areas open to their influence: the arts and literature. Women wrote books that idealized the very qualities that kept them powerless: timidity, piety, and a disdain for competition. Sentimental values that permeated popular literature continue to influence modern culture, preoccupied as it is with glamour, banal melodrama, and mindless consumption.
This new paperback edition, with a new Preface, will reach yet more readers with its persuasive and provocative theory. Richard Bernstein of The New York Times said: "Her remarkable scholarship is going to set the standard for a long time to come."

The Feminization of American Culture

Literature & Fiction

History & Criticism

Avon/Books

The Feminization of American Culture seeks to explain the values prevalent in today's popular culture by tracing them back to their roots in Victorian times. Feminist scholar Ann Douglas examines the best-selling novels and magazines of the day to show how women exploited their feminine image and idealized the very qualities that kept them powerless: timidity, piety, narcissism, and a disdain for competition. Here is a major rethinking of the American past with shocks of recognition for evervone today.

Feminization of American Culture

Anchor

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