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Acknowledged as one of the most influential women in media, Arianna Huffington is best known as the co-founder and editor-in-chief of the Huffington Post. In addition to writing books and articles, Huffington has developed successful businesses, including a startup that promotes health and wellness. Her involvement in politics prepared her to discuss various political issues on public radio programs. This book explores her influential legacy as a...

Louis J. Aronne, M.D., an internationally recognized weight-management expert and the director of the Comprehensive Weight Control Center at Weil-Cornell Medical College, has created the Change Your Biology Diet, a proven program that helps people break through weight loss "resistance" to drop excess pounds and keep them off. Dr. Aronnes approach, unlike fad diets, focuses on biological factors that cause weight gain. For example, overeating the wrong...

To discover how women constructed their own mythology of the West, Kolodny examines the evidence of three generations of women's writing about the frontier. She finds that, although the American frontiersman imagined the wilderness as virgin land, an unspoiled Eve to be taken, the pioneer woman at his side dreamed more modestly of a garden to be cultivated. Both intellectual and cultural history, this volume continues Kolodny's study of frontier mythology...

A biography focusing on the childhood of the youngest man ever elected President (though not to become President) and the youngest ever to die in office.

Chronicles the history of Guantanamo Bay, from the Founding Fathers' desire to possess it to the controversial base it hosts today and the uber-patriotic American soldiers, civilians and their families that call the piece of land home.

"A true American to the end, there was nothing John Wayne loved more than his country. In John Wayne: Made in America, John Wayne's patriotism is explored through photos, his personal letters and mementos, and more memorabilia from the Wayne family archives. Carefully curated by the editors of the Official John Wayne magazine, this book gives new insight to the man who embodied the American spirit and was a living legend for more than 40 years" --...

"From Betty Friedan to Barry Goldwater, from the formidable presence of the Kennedy brothers to the unimaginable influence of Woodstock, Irwin Unger and journalist Debi Unger present the complexities of a volatile and tumultuous decade, while explaining how and why each significant event took place and how it shifted the country's consciousness." "From the antiwar movement to the moon race, from the burgeoning counterculture to the Warren and Berger...