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This book will introduce you to real students who use math every day to help understand the world around them. ... More

<P> Feed your boss’s ego. Dress for success. And don’t let your heels trip you up on the corporate ladder. <P> Millions of women have held the position of secretary, alternately lauded as a breakthrough opportunity and excoriated as dead-end busy work. From the female pioneers who infiltrated Capit... More

From board games to beauty pageants, a smart, witty, pop-culture history of the perilous path to achieving the feminine ideal. Deluged by persuasive advertisements and meticulous (though often misguided) advice experts, women from the 1940s to the 1970s were coaxed to "think pink" when they thought... More

<P> The author of Pink Think takes on a twentieth-century icon: the college girl. <P> A geek who wears glasses? Or a sex kitten in a teddy? This is the dual vision of the college girl, the unique American archetype born when the age-old conflict over educating women was finally laid to rest. Colleg... More