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Brumberg, Joan Jacobs. Hartnell, Jack Kennen, Sophie Laing, Olivia Roberts, Simon Woolf, JohnKennen, Sophie
Summary: "Through playful rhymes and colorful artwork, all the things that make our bodies special-from the texture of our hair to the color of our eyes-are celebrated. This sweet and inclusive book encourages young readers to acknowledge and accept differences, and offers the perfect opportunity to open up conversations about body acceptance. Back matter includes tips and conversation starters for...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sleeping Bear Press 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE KENRoberts, Simon
Summary: "Drawing upon an incredible range of cutting-edge science, real-life examples, and personal experience, Simon Roberts explores the complexity of even the simplest of tasks that humans perform every day and explains how, with a greater awareness of the processes at work, we can tap into our full potential and excel in any area of our lives"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 306.4 ROBCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Self-help RobertsSummary: "Thirty-seven contributors-including model Tyra Banks, gymnast Aly Raisman, and bestselling YA authors-explore the world in their unique bodies through essays, lists, comics, and art, from the award-winning editor of (Don't) Call Me Crazy"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Algonquin Young Readers, an imprint of Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill 2020
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1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 306.4 BODWoolf, John
Summary: A radical new history that rediscovers the remarkable freak performers whose talents and charisma helped define an era.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pegasus Books 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 791.3 WOOBrumberg, Joan Jacobs.
Summary: "Girls today are in crisis - and this book shows why. Drawing on a vast array of lively historical sources, unpublished diaries by adolescent girls, and photographs that conjure up memories of the past, The Body Project chronicles how growing up in a female body has changed over the past century and why that experience is more difficult today than ever before." "Girls' bodies have certainly...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 1997
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 305.235 BRUSummary: In this collection, writers of various ages and across racial, cultural, and gender identities share stories about the period. Each of our twelve authors brings an individual perspective and sensibility. They write about homeless periods, nonexistent periods, male periods, political periods, and more. Told with warmth and humor, these essays celebrate all kinds of period experiences. --...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Feiwel and Friends, an imprint of Macmillan Publishing Group, LLC 2018
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1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 305.4 PERSummary: Every year Americans spend an average of $12.4 billion (yes, billion!) on cosmetic surgery procedures. Why are we being conditioned not to like the way we look? Award-winning filmmaker Darryl Roberts goes on a five-year journey to unearth the origins and deadly risks of our nation's quest for physical perfection.
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Publisher / Publication Date: distributed by Xenon Pictures 2010
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC AMELaing, Olivia
Summary: Olivia Laing examines the long struggle for bodily freedom, using the life of the renegade psychoanalyst Wilhelm Reich to explore gay rights and sexual liberation, feminism, and the civil rights movement.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 323 LAILaing, Olivia
Summary: ""Astute and consistently surprising critic" (NPR) Olivia Laing investigates the body and its discontents through the great freedom movements of the twentieth century. The body is a source of pleasure and of pain, at once hopelessly vulnerable and radiant with power. In her ambitious, brilliant sixth book, Olivia Laing charts an electrifying course through the long struggle for bodily freedom,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton & Company 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 323 LAIHartnell, Jack
Summary: "With wit, wisdom, and a sharp scalpel, Jack Hartnell dissects the medieval body and offers a remedy to our preconceptions. Medieval beliefs about the body were drastically different from ours today: Hair was thought to be a condensation of fumes emittedfrom the pores, ideas were supposedly committed to memory by being directly imprinted on the brain, and the womb of a goat was believed to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton & Company 2019