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April Cobos

The Women of Explosive Ordnance Disposal: Cyborg, Techno-Bodies, Situated Knowledge, and Vibrant Materiality in Military Cultures addresses the disparities between policy discourse and the lived experiences of women in the Explosive Ordnance Disposal community who these policies seek to regulate through a rhetorical framework. During the Global War on Terrorism, the changing contexts of war brought the community to the forefront of combat preceding the 2016 policy repeal restricti...

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Carol Walker, Sarah De Los Santos Upton, Meghan Velez, April Cobos, Bree McGregor, Ashley Ludewig, Catherine St. Pierre, Margaret Stewart, Michael Chiara, Zea Moullet, Arthur A. Aguirre, Nancy A. Chiara, Kenneth W. Marlin, Jennifer S. Owlett, Kelly R. Rossetto, Nick J. Sciullo, William T. Howe Jr., Mary Z. Ashlock, Jennifer N. Belding, Frank G. Pérez

Supporting the Military-Affiliated Learner: Communication Approaches to Military Pedagogy and Education challenges the academic community to 1) reevaluate how they support military-affiliated learners (MALs) and address how the military-civilian-academic divide causes disparities and barriers to MAL academic achievement and retention and 2) implement programs and develop strategies to facilitate equitable academic integration from application to graduation. With contributions from veterans...

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Whitney Zahar Rich, Alicia Christine Beretta, Elizabeth M. Williams, Elise Green, Emily Gresbrink, Keith Jackson, Karen Tellez-Trujillo, Dalel Serda, Lisa E. Wright, Rachael Jordan, Laura Fitzwater Gonzales, Natasha Trace Robinson, Tiffani Tijerina, Jennifer Burke Reifman, Kate Lafferty-Danner, James B. Harr III, Calvin Olsen, Daniel Henke, Erin Henke, Brita M. Thielen, Hayley E. Verdi, Aleashia Walton Valentin, Courtney Lund O'Neil, April Cobos, Daniel L. Hocutt, Megan McKittrick, Danielle Marie Koepke, Gitte Frandsen, Celeste Graham, Nabila Hijazi, Amie McLean, Lourdes Fernandez, Jessica McCaughey, Rachael Graham Tin, Beth Buyserie, Kristin Osborne, Siham Lekchiri, Barbara A.W. Eversole, Stephanie L. Graff, Mariya Tseptsura, Morgan Buchs, Rachel Flynn, Laura Leigh Menard, Brandie Bohney, Jennifer Phillips-Denny, Jacqueline Cerda-Smith, Joan Jiyoung Hwang, Sara Bartlett Large, Danielle DeVasto, Camila Ring, Dr. Judith Chriqui Benchimol, Dr. Jennifer C. Judd

Being a PhD student is not easy. Navigating the highly competitive world of academia while working hard for little or no pay would be stressful for anyone—but it’s especially challenging for graduate students who are also parents.Featuring contributions from more than forty current and former graduate students raising children, Parenting While PhDing offers valuable advice for students and administrators. Parents will get practical recommendations on both child care and se...

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Charles Duhigg

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • From the author of The Power of Habit, a fascinating exploration of what makes conversations work—and how we can all learn to be supercommunicators at work and in life“A winning combination of stories, studies, and guidance that might well transform the worst communicators you know into some of the best.”—Adam Grant, author of Think Again and Hidden PotentialONE OF NPR’...

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Soraya Chemaly

***A BEST BOOK OF 2018 SELECTION***NPR * The Washington Post * Book Riot * Autostraddle * Psychology Today***A BEST FEMINIST BOOK SELECTION***Refinery 29, Book Riot, Autostraddle, BITCHRage Becomes Her is an “utterly eye opening” (Bustle) book that gives voice to the causes, expressions, and possibilities o...

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Brigid Schulte

An award-winning journalist and a mother, Brigid Schulte was feeling overwhelmed by the demands of her work and home lives. As journalists do, she decided to find out if she was alone in this feeling and how she could fix it. She was relieved to discover that most working mothers felt as crazed as she did. Few of them were really enjoying “leisure” time. They weren’t complaining; they chose to have children and to work, and they made the best of it. But what about that term women’s magazin...

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Darcy Lockman

Why do men do so little at home? Why do women do so much? Why don't our egalitarian values match our lived experiences?Journalist-turned-psychologist Darcy Lockman offers a clear-eyed look at the most pernicious problem facing modern parents—how progressive relationships become traditional ones when children are introduced into the household.In an era of seemingly unprecedented feminist activism, enlighte...

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Anne-Marie Slaughter

A powerful, persuasive, thought-provoking vision for how to finish the long struggle for equality between men and women, work and familyWhen Anne-Marie Slaughter accepted her dream job as the first female director of policy planning at the U.S. State Department in 2009, she was confident she could juggle the demands of her position in Washington, D.C., with the responsibilities of her family life in suburban New Jersey. Her husband and two young sons encouraged her...

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Ashton Applewhite

Author, activist, and TED speaker Ashton Applewhite has written a rousing manifesto calling for an end to discrimination and prejudice on the basis of age.In our youth obsessed culture, we’re bombarded by media images and messages about the despairs and declines of our later years. Beauty and pharmaceutical companies work overtime to convince people to purchase products that will retain their youthful appearance and vitality. Wrinkles are embarrassing. Gray hair sh...

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Allison Daminger

The mental labor that keeps families afloat—and why women do most of itMothers and fathers use their time differently, with women spending roughly twice as many hours on family labor as men. But what about the gendered differences in the ways women and men think? What’s on Her Mind provides an illuminating look at the cognitive labor that families depend on and reveals why this essential aspect of family life is disproportionately handled by women—even in ...

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Rainesford Stauffer

From journalist and author of An Ordinary Age, an examination, dismantling, and reconstruction of ambition, where burnout is the symptom of our holiest sin: the lonely way we strive.Ambition—the want, the hunger, the need to achieve—is woven into America’s fabric from the first colonization to capitalism. From our first gold star assignment to acceptance at the “right” college to hustle and grinding our lives, we celebrate our drive, even as we gatekeep wh...

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Mikki Morrissette

The comprehensive guide for single women interested in proactively becoming a mother—includes the essential tools needed for parenting on your own, how best to follow through on your decision, and insight about answering the child’s questions and needs over time.Choosing Single Motherhood, written by a longtime journalist and Choice Mother (a woman who chooses to conceive or adopt without a life partner), will become the indispensable tool for any woman co...