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The Glass Ceiling
Considers women in the workforce throughout history and the development of a glass ceiling that keeps them from rising to high levels in many corporations.
Money Games
Each day's sports pages bring news of big business deals--a record-setting salary for a ball player, multimillion-dollar endorsement contracts. In this lively and provocative book, Ann Weiss considers the ways in which money has shaped and continues to shape the world of sports.
God and Government
An analysis of church-state relations, considering situations in which government and religion support each other as well as those in which the two are in conflict. Weiss has again approached an area of contemporary concern in American society and has explored it in a concise and lucid manner for her chosen audience. -- School Library Journal
Peter Fischli, David Weiss
Paying tribute to an artistic partnership of more than 30 years, this richly illustrated book explores Peter Fischli and David Weiss's acclaimed and influential body of work, known for its sly humor and profound meditations on the everyday. Throughout the course of their collaboration, Peter Fischli and David Weiss celebrated the sheer triviality of everyday existence, observing the world with bemused detachment. As this book shows, their often humorous work offers a sustained reflection on the intertwined strands of leisure, productivity, and playful absurdity that shape our lives. With its deliberately mundane subject matter and quotidian source material, their work explores the poetics of...
The Lioness in Winter
When she started working with the aged more than forty years ago, Ann Burack-Weiss began storing the knowledge and skills she thought would help when she got old herself. It was not until she hit her mid-seventies that she realized she had packed sneakers to climb Mount Everest, not anticipating the crevices and chasms that constitute the rocky terrain of old age. The professional gerontological and social work literature offered little help, so she turned to the late-life works of beloved women authors who had bravely climbed the mountain and sent back news from the summit. Maya Angelou, Colette, Simone de Beauvoir, Joan Didion, Marguerite Duras, M. F. K. Fisher, Doris Lessing, Mary Oliver,...
Lies, Deception and Truth
Weiss explores the reasons why people lie and how they justify doing so, as she investigates the nature of truth, ethics, and deception.
Seers and Scientists
Discusses the phenomenon of predicting the future, its history, philosophy, dangers, and different methods both mystical and scientific, from ancient arts such as astrology to modern weather forecasting and the study of earthquakes.
Virtual Reality
Virtual reality melds the boundless imagination of humans with the speedy functions of computers.
Adoptions Today
Offers young adults an in-depth look at the history of adoption while examining the changing policies that have been implemented over time, complete with a look at international, interracial, and interfaith adoptions.
