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An Intimate
Understanding of America's Teenagers:
Shaking Hands With
Aliens
by Bruce J.
Gevirtzman
Alicia is so obsessed with being
popular, she does things that would shock
her parents, if they knew. Hector is aware
the gang that wants him to join may be the
death of him, but he will not decline. Sam
was a baseball star, but can't play the
sport he loves anymore because he is
wracked from football injuries, a sport
his father will not let him quit. These
are just a few of the teenagers readers
will "meet," in this candid book authored
by a 34-year veteran high school
teacher.
Voted Teacher of the Year and Coach of
the Year, Bruce Gevirtzman shares with us
the results of his years spent talking
with teenagers about topics from life and
lust to depression and death. Revealing
honest, poignant words shared in
conversations, classroom talk, interviews,
surveys, and journals, Gevirtzman takes us
inside the minds of today's youths, and
also contrasts them with teenagers of
decades past.
Topics include teen thinking and
secrets on issues from sex, drinking, and
drugs to peer pressure, self-imposed
standards, and beliefs about what is
important, and painful, in life. Including
interviews with fellow teachers,
Gevirtzman's book is threaded with one
recurring truth: "Sadly, instead of
parents and teachers and lawmakers and the
public looking out for our kids, today's
kids are largely left to fend for
themselves," he concludes. Not only will
general readers and educators find great
insight in this work, it will be of
interest to students and scholars of
adolescent psychology, clinical
psychology, and social work.
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The No-Spin
Zone: Confrontations with the Powerful
and Famous in America
The audience of Fox's top-rated cable
news talk show The O'Reilly Factor and of
the bestselling book by the same name know
that this explosive anchor can be
articulate, bombastic, scornful, witty,
iconoclastic, passionate, persuasive and
sarcastic ("Can you feel Gary Condit's
pain?"). When conducting interviews,
O'Reilly, a two-time Emmy winner with 25
years reporting experience, delivers tough
questions and corrosive counterpoints.
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The Price of
Motherhood: Why the Most Important Job
in the World Is Still the Least
Valued
Mothers have long suspected that
they're getting the short end of the deal
-- finally, a highly respected economics
journalist proves they're not just
griping. Despite all the lip service given
to the importance of motherhood, American
mothers are not only not paid for all the
work they do, they are actually penalized
for it. This is an admirable -- and
charged -- defense of mothers, reminding
us that unpaid female labor is "the
priceless, invisible heart of the
economy," and those who do it deserve the
same rights, and the same respect, as
other workers.
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