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Regarding the Pain of Others

The Other Family Doctor: A Veterinarian Explores What Animals Can Teach Us About Love, Life, and Mortality

Understanding Art, 11th Edition

We Are Electric: Inside the 200-Year Hunt for Our Body’s Bioelectric Code, and What the Future Holds

ADD-Friendly Ways to Organize Your Life

The Shift: Change Your Perspective, Not Yourself

The Forgotten Girls: A Memoir of Friendship and Lost Promise in Rural America

Is This OK?: One Woman’s Search for Connection Online

Horse Barbie

Allergic: Our Irritated Bodies in a Changing World

When the World Didn’t End: A Memoir

Superfluous Women: Art, Feminism, and Revolution in Twenty-First-Century Ukraine

Carry Strong: An Empowered Approach to Navigating Pregnancy and Work

Spirals in Time: The Secret Life and Curious Afterlife of Seashells

Tales from the Back Row: An Outsider’s View from Inside the Fashion Industry

How We Love: Notes on a Life

One Person, No Vote: How Voter Suppression Is Destroying Our Democracy

Flawless: Lessons in Looks and Culture from the K-Beauty Capital

Paint Yourself Calm: Colourful, Creative Mindfulness Through Watercolour

Voices in the Shadows: Women and Verbal Art in Serbia and Bosnia

Dangerous Bodies: New Global Perspectives on Fashion and Transgression

Seduced by the Light: The Mina Miller Edison Story

The Wellness Trap: Break Free from Diet Culture, Disinformation, and Dubious Diagnoses and Find Your True Well-Being

Sex Museums: The Politics and Performance of Display

Bold Move: A 3-Step Plan to Transform Anxiety into Power

Vivian Maier Developed: The Untold Story of the Photographer Nanny

The Fly Girls Revolt: The Story of the Women Who Kicked Open the Door to Fly in Combat

Dominican Women and Renaissance Art: The Convent of San Domenico of Pisa

In Search of Mary Seacole: The Making of a Cultural Icon

Women and Ceramics: Gendered Vessels

Slow Living: The Secrets to Slowing Down and Noticing the Simple Joys Anywhere

Made-Up: A True Story of Beauty Culture under Late Capitalism

The Hidden Writer

Planta Sapiens: The New Science of Plant Intelligence

Women, Gender and Art in Asia, c. 1500-1900

Forty Years in the Wilderness

It’s a Stick-Up: 20 Real Wheat Paste-Ups from the World’s Greatest Street Artists

Women Like Us: A Memoir

Thinning Blood: A Memoir of Family, Myth, and Identity

It’s All Love: Reflections for Your Heart & Soul

The Practice of Belonging: Six Lessons from Vibrant Communities to Combat Loneliness, Foster Diversity, and Cultivate Caring Relationships

Live Learn Love Well: Lessons from a Life of Progress Not Perfection

Honey, Baby, Mine: A Mother and Daughter Talk Life, Death, Love (and Banana Pudding)

Searching for Savanna: The Murder of One Native American Woman and the Violence Against the Many

Film Feminisms: A Global Introduction

The Joy of Well-Being: A Practical Guide to a Happy, Healthy, and Long Life

The Art of the Woman: The Life and Work of Elisabet Ney

Invisibility by Design: Women and Labor in Japan’s Digital Economy

What Shall I Wear?: The What, Where, When, and How Much of Fashion

Manga Cultures and the Female Gaze

Unearthing: A Story of Tangled Love and Family Secrets

Reclaim: Understanding Complex Trauma and Those Who Abuse

Chaos Theory: Finding Meaning in the Madness, One Bad Decision at a Time

Women Made Visible: Feminist Art and Media in Post-1968 Mexico City

The Art of Active Listening: How People at Work Feel Heard, Valued, and Understood

An Architecture of Education: African American Women Design the New South

Fashion, Gender and Agency in Latin American and Spanish Literature

Hollywood: Her Story, an Illustrated History of Women and the Movies

Women We Buried, Women We Burned: A Memoir

We Are Too Many: A Memoir [Kind Of]

Mind over Monsters: Supporting Youth Mental Health with Compassionate Challenge

Cleopatra’s Daughter: From Roman Prisoner to African Queen

On Our Best Behavior: The Seven Deadly Sins and the Price Women Pay to Be Good

Rising Together: How We Can Bridge Divides and Create a More Inclusive Workplace

Black Designers in American Fashion

Fit Nation: The Gains and Pains of America’s Exercise Obsession

Picturing the Woman-Child: Fashion, Feminism and the Female Gaze

The West: A New History of an Old Idea

Soil: The Story of a Black Mother’s Garden

The Glucose Goddess Method: The 4-Week Guide to Cutting Cravings, Getting Your Energy Back, and Feeling Amazing

The First Lady of World War II

Work It Out: A Mood-Boosting Exercise Guide for People Who Just Want to Lie Down

The 12 Secrets of Highly Creative Women: A Portable Mentor

The Memory Keeper: A Journey Into the Holocaust to Find My Family

Made Up: How the Beauty Industry Manipulates Consumers, Preys on Women’s Insecurities, and Promotes Unattainable Beauty Standards

Merchants of the Right: Gun Sellers and the Crisis of American Democracy

Women Artists in the Early Modern Courts of Europe: c. 1450-1700

An Atlas of Endangered Species

Mind the Inclusion Gap: How allies can bridge the divide between talking diversity and taking action

Getting Me Cheap: How Low-Wage Work Traps Women and Girls in Poverty

Radically Content: Being Satisfied in an Endlessly Dissatisfied World

Who Cares: The Hidden Crisis of Caregiving, and How We Solve It

The Trauma Beat: A Case for Re-Thinking the Business of Bad News

All Made Up: The Power and Pitfalls of Beauty Culture, from Cleopatra to Kim Kardashian

Winters in the World: A Journey Through the Anglo-Saxon Year

Momfluenced: Inside the Maddening, Picture-Perfect World of Mommy Influencer Culture

Dreamland: America’s Immigration Lottery in an Age of Restriction

Whatever Next?: Lessons from an Unexpected Life

Night Vision: Seeing Ourselves Through Dark Moods

Decolonizing Methodologies: Research and Indigenous Peoples

The Plant-Based Dietitian’s Guide to Fertility: From pre-conception to healthy delivery

Hot and Bothered: What No One Tells You About Menopause and How to Feel Like Yourself Again

Cinematic Style: Fashion, Architecture and Interior Design on Film

Dress Code: Unlocking Fashion from the New Look to Millennial Pink

Berenice Abbott: A Life in Photography

Arrangements in Blue: Notes on Love and Making a Life

Gendered Journeys: Women, Migration and Feminist Psychology

Against Purity: Living Ethically in Compromised Times

Tell Me Everything

The Well-Lived Life: A 102-Year-Old Doctor’s Six Secrets to Health and Happiness at Every Age

Birds Art Life: A Year of Observation

New York in the Thirties

Willful Subjects

Circular Fashion: Making the Fashion Industry Sustainable

A New War on Cancer: The Unlikely Heroes Revolutionizing Prevention

The Power of Hope: How the Science of Well-Being Can Save Us from Despair

Wildflower: A Memoir

As If!: The Oral History of Clueless as told by Amy Heckerling and the Cast and Crew

Unbroken Chains: The Hidden Role of Human Trafficking in the American Economy

I’m Not with the Band: A Writer’s Life Lost in Music

Edison’s Ghosts: The Untold Weirdness of History’s Greatest Geniuses

Troubling Borders: An Anthology of Art and Literature by Southeast Asian Women in the Diaspora

Lies My Mother Told Me: Tall Tales from a Short Woman

Chita: A Memoir

The Cinema of Sofia Coppola: Fashion, Culture, Celebrity

Heal Your Ancestral Roots: Release the Family Patterns That Hold You Back

The Power of Saying No: The New Science of How to Say No that Puts You in Charge of Your Life

The Man Who Hated Women: Sex, Censorship, and Civil Liberties in the Gilded Age

Big Thrift Energy: The Art and Thrill of Finding Vintage Treasures-Plus Tips for Making Old Feel New

50 Women Artists You Should Know

Baseline Shift: Untold Stories of Women in Graphic Design History

Everybody: A Book about Freedom

Navigating Autism: 9 Mindsets For Helping Kids on the Spectrum

Fashioning Politics and Protests: New Visual Cultures of Feminism in the United States

Joy Is My Justice: Reclaim What Is Yours

Tomorrow Perhaps the Future: Following Writers and Rebels in the Spanish Civil War

Roads of Her Own: Gendered Space and Mobility in American Women’s Road Narratives, 1970-2000

Meetings with Moths: Discovering Their Mystery and Extraordinary Lives

Women Artists, Feminism and the Moving Image: Contexts and Practices

The Modern Trauma Toolkit

Beyond the Periphery of the Skin: Rethinking, Remaking, and Reclaiming the Body in Contemporary Capitalism

No More Secrets: My Part in Codebreaking at Bletchley Park and the Pentagon

Truth and Repair: How Trauma Survivors Envision Justice

Skinformation: A Clean Science Guide to Beautiful Skin

I’m So Effing Hungry: Why We Crave What We Crave – and What to Do About It

Undaunted: How Women Changed American Journalism

Great Sex Starts At 50

Sensitive: The Hidden Power of the Highly Sensitive Person in a Loud, Fast, Too-Much World

Gold Digger

Bodies That Matter: On the Discursive Limits of “Sex”

Glucose Revolution: The Life-Changing Power of Balancing Your Blood Sugar

Eighteenth Century Women Artists: Their Trials, Tribulations and Triumphs

Sundressed: Natural Fabrics and the Future of Clothing

It’s OK That You’re Not OK: Meeting Grief and Loss in a Culture That Doesn’t Understand

Oh My Mother!: A Memoir in Nine Adventures

Planet Palm: How Palm Oil Ended Up in Everything — And Endangered the World

You Take Care: Lessons in Looking After Yourself—for Every Body

Man-Made: How the bias of the past is being built into the future

Romaine Wasn’t Built in a Day: The Delightful History of Food Language

Stealing from the Saracens: How Islamic Architecture Shaped Europe

The Ottomans: A Cultural Legacy

Taking Care: The Story of Nursing and Its Power to Change Our World

Real Estate

Life Design for Women: Conscious Living as a Force for Positive Change

Microcrafts: Tiny Treasures to Make and Share

No Longer Radical: Understanding Mastectomies and Choosing the Breast Cancer Care That’s Right For You

Up to Speed: The Groundbreaking Science of Women Athletes

Photography Fifth Edition: A Cultural History

A Hidden Wisdom: Medieval Contemplatives on Self-Knowledge, Reason, Love, Persons, and Immortality

Messalina: A Story of Empire, Slander and Adultery

How to Tidy Your Mind: Tips and Techniques to Help You Reduce Mental Clutter and Find Calm

Historical Perspectives on Sustainable Fashion: Inspiration for Change

Managing Expectations: A Memoir in Essays

The Warhol Economy: How Fashion, Art, and Music Drive New York City

Flight Paths: How a Passionate and Quirky Group of Pioneering Scientists Solved the Mystery of Bird Migration

Diversifying the Courts: Race, Gender, and Judicial Legitimacy

Under the Skin: Tattoos, Scalps, and the Contested Language of Bodies in Early America

Anxiously Attached: Becoming More Secure in Life and Love

Meet Me Tonight in Atlantic City

My Own Magic: A Reappearing Act

Everyday Utopia: What 2,000 Years of Wild Experiments Can Teach Us About the Good Life

A Life of One’s Own: Nine Women Writers Begin Again

Don’t Think, Dear: On Loving and Leaving Ballet

The Power of Wonder: The Extraordinary Emotion That Will Change the Way You Live, Learn, and Lead

A Renaissance of Our Own: A Memoir & Manifesto on Reimagining

Unf*ck Your Grief: Using Science to Heal Yourself and Support Others

Quietly Hostile: Essays

The Mushroom at the End of the World: On the Possibility of Life in Capitalist Ruins

Not Funny: Essays on Life, Comedy, Culture, Et Cetera

Reset!: A Blueprint for a Better Life

Our Brave Foremothers: Celebrating 100 Black, Brown, Asian, and Indigenous Women Who Changed the Course of History

Be the Calm or Be the Storm: Leadership Lessons from a Woman at the Helm

Love and Trouble: Memoirs of a Former Wild Girl

The Origins of You: How Breaking Family Patterns Can Liberate the Way We Live and Love

All Made Up: A Girl’s Guide to Seeing Through Celebrity Hype and Celebrating Real Beauty

Women Artists

Look at the Lights, My Love

The Art of Bouncing Back: Find Your Flow to Thrive at Work and in Life Any Time You’re Off Your Game

Build Your Village: A Guide to Finding Joy and Community in Every Stage of Life

Quant by Quant: The Autobiography of Mary Quant

Tinder Translator: An A-Z of Modern Misogyny

Icons of Art: Women Artists

The Way We Eat Now: How the Food Revolution Has Transformed Our Lives, Our Bodies, and Our World

Master Conflict Without Being a Bitch: Get Results Without Losing Your Cool

Visitors: An American Feminist in East Central Europe

Queens of a Fallen World: The Lost Women of Augustine’s Confessions

Unapologetically Ambitious: Take Risks, Break Barriers, and Create Success on Your Own Terms

Insomnia Doc’s Guide to Restful Sleep: Remedies for Insomnia and Good Sleep Health

A Horse at Night: On Writing

Knowing You: The difference that makes the difference