New York: 105 books

English isn't my thing. It's not that I don't like it, or don't like my teacher, but it's just never been my specialty. So, when I got a letter from my college of choice telling me I had better shape up or kiss my acceptance goodbye, I did what anyone would do: I tried to sleep with my teacher. Mr....

Alice worked for the Richardses for more than two years as their babysitter. She spent her summers in their pool, her winters by their fire, and she longed for the life they lived and the home they shared. The summer before she left for college is when it all happened. Mr. Richards scared...

Pill X: Spring Break is one of the messiest collections of hardcore unprotected sex stories out there. It all started when a big drug company released Pill X, curing the world of every known sexually transmitted disease. But what they didn’t say was it also heightens libidos and lowers inhibitions.  Which...

Judith Lorber and Lisa Jean Moore consider the interface between the social institutions of gender and Western medicine in this brief, lively textbook. They offer a distinct feminist viewpoint to analyze issues of power and politics concerning physical illness. SIGNS labeled the first edition 'a rich...

Both broad and deep in coverage, Rubenstein shows that fluid mechanics principles can be applied not only to blood circulation, but also to air flow through the lungs, joint lubrication, intraocular fluid movement and renal transport. Each section initiates discussion with governing equations, derives...

It is now nearly thirty years since the late Mr. Nesbitt wrote the introduction to the catalogue of the glass at South Kensington. Some years previously the description of the glass in the Slade collection had been intrusted to the same gentleman. Since that time many works treating of special departments...

This study examines academic departments as a context for teaching in the secondary school. lt explores why teachers find departments to be crucial to the high school setting. In all three schools studied and in all four subjects English, Maths, Science and Social Science teachers - even those who...