Thomas, R. Eric
Summary: "R. Eric Thomas didn't know he was different until the world told him so. Everywhere he went--whether it was his rich, mostly white, suburban high school, his conservative black church, or his Ivy League college in a big city--he found himself on the outside looking in. In essays by turns hysterical and heartfelt, Eric redefines what it means to be an "other" through the lens of his own life...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine Books 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 THOMAS, R. ERIC THOSummary: By working through challenges stemming from his past, Tom Warshaw, an American artist living in Paris, begins to discover who he really is and returns to his home to reconcile with his family and friends.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Artisan Home Entertainment 2005
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA HOUBlack, Michael Ian
Summary: Michael Ian Black takes a poignant look at manhood, written in the form of a heartfelt letter to his teenage son before he leaves for college. Black offers a radical plea for rethinking masculinity and teaching young men to give and receive love.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2020
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 305.31 BLAShapiro, Jordan
Summary: Presents an exploration of the psychology of fatherhood from an archetypal perspective as well as a cultural history that challenges familiar assumptions about the origins of so-called traditional parenting roles.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown Spark 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 306.874 SHAManley, Alex
Summary: "From AskMen senior editor and non-binary writer Alex Manley comes The New Masculinity: A Roadmap for a 21st-Century Definition of Manhood, a guide for escaping the shackles of toxic masculinity, unlearning what it means to be a man, and pushing back against the various ways masculinity teaches people to hurt rather than help, and to harm rather than heal. Manley charts a course for a wholly...
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Publisher / Publication Date: ECW Press 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 305.31 MANHowes, Lewis
Summary: "At 30 years old, outwardly thriving but unfulfilled inside, Howes began a personal journey to find inner peace and to uncover the many masks that men, both young and old, wear. He started by asking for advice from some of the world's best psychologists, doctors, and household names like Tony Robbins and Ray Lewis. ... He teaches men how to break through the walls that hold them back and shows...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Rodale 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 158 HOWMoran, Caitlin
Summary: "Like anyone who discusses the problems of girls and women in public, Caitlin Moran has often been confronted with the question: "But what about men?" And at first, TBH, she dgaf. Boys, and men, are fine, right? Feminism doesn't need to worry about them. However, around the time she heard an angry young man saying he was "boycotting" International Women' Day because "It's easier to be a woman...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 305.31 MORKipnis, Laura.
Summary: "It's no secret that men often behave in mystifying ways, but in recent years we've witnessed so many spectacular public displays of male excess--indecent politicians, sleazy academics, philandering sports stars--that we're left to wonder whether something has come unwired in the collective male psyche. In the essays collected here, Kipnis revisits the archetypes of wayward masculinity that...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Metropolitan Books 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 155 KIPMcBee, Thomas Page
Summary: "From an award-winning writer whose work bristles with "hard-won strength, insight, agility, and love" (Maggie Nelson), an exquisite and troubling narrative of masculinity, violence, and society. In this groundbreaking new book, the author, a trans man,trains to fight in a charity match at Madison Square Garden while struggling to untangle the vexed relationship between masculinity and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 155 MCBMcKay, Brett
Summary: An indispensable, hands-on guide dedicated to the lost art of being a man, The Illustrated Art of Manliness distills more than 100 practical skills every modern man needs to know into an entertaining, easy-to-follow visual format. Founder of The Art of Manliness Brett McKay and bestselling illustrator Ted Slampyak write brilliantly illustrated articles to help men be the best fathers,...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 155 MCKBlack, Michael Ian
Summary: "Michael Ian Black takes a poignant look at manhood, written in the form of a heartfelt letter to his teenage son before he leaves for college. Black offers a radical plea for rethinking masculinity and teaching young men to give and receive love"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill 2020
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 305.31 BLACopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 305.31 BLAMcKay, Brett.
Summary: More and more males today seem to be putting off adult responsibilities in order to play video games and do keg stands. "The Art of Manliness" is dedicated to providing the skills and knowledge every man needs to know for the 21st century.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: HOW Books 2009