In Reclaiming the Game, William Bowen and Sarah Levin disentangle the admissions and academic experiences of recruited athletes, walk-on athletes, and other students. In a field overwhelmed by reliance on anecdotes, the factual findings are striking--and sobering. Anyone seriously concerned about higher education will find it hard to wish away the evidence that athletic recruitment is problematic even at those schools that do not offer athletic scholarships.Thanks to an ex...

A delightful modern-day romance inspired by one of Jane Austen’s most beloved novels.Twenty-five-year-old Emma Wilson, tall, blond, and rich, has an enviable life, but her father’s dementia makes it difficult to leave him and their home on Highbury Lane. With her future on hold, Emma turns to her neighbor and confidante, thirty-eight-year-old Dr. Georgia Kostigiris, for advice and comfort and to keep their little world tightly ordered.All that changes when Georgia'...

Gemma O’Brien doesn’t do surprises.Gemma is barely keeping her head above water. Between running a lobster fishing business, staying sober, and keeping an eye on her reckless younger sister, she doesn’t need her best friend Eric meddling with the business behind her back. Especially when that buyer is Forage and Trawl*,* a fancy new restaurant with an intense and demanding head chef, Kay Grammar.Kay Grammar needs no distractions.Kay...

Annika Silberberg hates weddings, despite being a wedding dress designer with her own bridal salon. She doesn’t believe in lasting romantic love, cutting off dates when any of her girlfriends try to get too close. But when her sister Maia asks her to be co-maid of honor with Maia’s adorable best friend Gabi, Annika can’t refuse.Gabi Mendon doesn’t know how to date. After ending her eight-year relationship with Matt, her no-stress college boyfriend, she is out on her own for the fir...

Sarah Jessica Parker is an “A list” Hollywood star. As an actress, producer and designer, she rose to fame as the star of Sex and the City. She’s a multiple Emmy Award, Golden Globe Award and Screen Actors Guild winner who has conquered Broadway, movies and television. In this interview, she talks about growing up with 7 siblings and moving to New York as a child, importance of the arts on children, and fame on her family with star Matthew Broderick.

Multiple traditions of Jewish origins in Morocco emphasize the distinctiveness of Moroccan Jewry as indigenous to the area, rooted in its earliest settlements and possessing deep connections and associations with the historic peoples of the region. The creative interaction of Moroccan Jewry with the Arab and Berber cultures was noted in the Jews’ use of Morocco’s multiple languages and dialects, characteristic poetry, and musical works as well as their shared magical rites and popular text...

Ancient literature was generally written by and produced for elite men. That fact creates specific challenges to modern interpreters of gender roles in the ancient world, especially once contemporary understandings of gender as construction and performance are embraced. In Gender and Second-Temple Judaism, world-renowned scholars take on these challenges with regard to ancient Judaism (here including early Christianity and early rabbinic Judaism as well), at once examining the ancient evid...

This is the second annual edition of the Long List Anthology. Every year, supporting members of WorldCon nominate their favorite stories first published during the previous year to determine the top five in each category for the final Hugo Award ballot. Between the announcement of the ballot and the Hugo Award ceremony at WorldCon, these works often become the center of much attention (and contention) across fandom. But there are more stories loved by the Hugo voters, stories on the longer...

Women's Quotations for Successful Living is a gift of pure inspiration. Bringing together the wisdom, humor, and love of over six hundred women, this compilation will guide, uplift, and then spur you to your greatest potential. Exalt in the messages of success, answer the call to greatness, the entreaty for passionate lives. The dedication, hard work, and perseverance of these extraordinary women will drive you to accept nothing less than your best possible existence.W...

National service and volunteerism enjoy a rich history in the United States and an emergent future in other parts of the world. However, there remains relatively scant evidence of overall impact of national service programs and volunteer effectiveness. This condition continues to threaten national service and volunteer programs with the risk of defunding and/or the risk of not investing sufficiently from the start. This book brings together a selection of diverse chapters written by a comb...

Voici, pour la première fois, le récit d’une gestation pour autrui (GPA) rédigé à quatre mains par des femmes d’exception : Sarah qui, après plusieurs années de mariage, ne parvient pas à avoir d’enfant, et Aimee, une fascinante Américaine qui acceptera de devenir mère porteuse. En confiant leurs joies, leurs peines et leurs espoirs déçus, Sarah et Aimee livrent au fil des pages un témoignage des plus intimes. Elles répondent en outre aux brûlantes questions que soulève la GPA. Sarah parvi...

In Do Parents Matter? anthropologists (and grandparents) Robert & Sarah LeVine investigate the diversity of parenting practices across the world - from the USA to Africa, Japan to Mexico - and come away with a reassuring conclusion: children tend to turn out to be the same well-adjusted adults all around the world no matter the parenting style.Japanese children sleep with their parents well into primary school, women of the Hausa tribe (largely based in Ni...