What Betty Friedan Simone de Beauvoir Susan Faludi & Naomi Wolf did for feminism senior editor of The Atlantic" Hanna Rosin does for a new generation of women: an explosive new argument for why women are winning the battle of the sexes & why men are no longer top dog. Women are no longer catching up with men. By almost every measure they are out performing them. We are at a turning point in history. In 2010 for the first time the balance of the British workforce tipped towards women who now hold around half of the nations jobs. In the US meanwhile for every two men that receive a BA three women will achieve the same. Not only do women dominate colleges & professional schools on every continent except Africa young single women earn more than men in the US & more than a third of mothers in the UK & the US are their familys main breadwinner. The tides have turned. The age of testosterone is decisively over. At almost every level of society women are proving themselves far more adaptable & suited to a job market that rewards people skills & intelligence & a world that has a dramatically diminishing need for traditional male muscle. In this landmark once-in-a-generation book Hanna Rosin reveals how this new world order came to be & its great implications for marriage sex children work families & society. Unhampered by old assumptions & ideologies & drawing on examples from across the globe " The End of Men" helps us see how both men & women can
- & must
- adapt for a radically new era. "[ Its strength] lies in the nuanced portraits Rosin draws of people trying to grapple with new currents of power to assimilate political & economic change in their living rooms & trailers". ("FT Weekend"). " In this bold & inspired dispatch Rosin upends the common platitudes of contemporary sexual politics with a deeply reported meditation from the unexpected frontiers of our rapidly changing culture". (Katie Roiphe author of " The Morning After" & " Uncommon Arrangements"). "" The End of Men" describes a new paradigm that can finally take us beyond winners & losers in an endless gender war. What a relief! Ultimately Rosins vision is both hope-filled & creative allowing both sexes to become far more authentic: as workers partners parents...and people". (Peggy Orenstein author of " Cinderella Ate My Daughter" & " Schoolgirls"). Hanna Rosin is a senior editor at " The Atlantic" magazine & a founder & co-editor of " Double X" " Slates" womens section. She has written for the " New Yorker" " The New York Times" "GQ" & " The New Republic" & for a number of years covered politics & religion for the " Washington Post". In 2009 she was nominated for a National Magazine Award & in 2010 she won one. She is the author of a previous book " Gods Harvard: A Christian College on a Mission to Save America". Rosin lives in Washington DC with her husband " Slate" editor David Plotz & their three children."

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When Ariel Manto uncovers a copy of The End of Mr. Y in a second-hand bookshop she cant believe her eyes. She knows enough about its author the outlandish Victorian scientist Thomas Lumas to know that copies are exceedingly rare. & some say cursed. With Mr. Y under her arm Ariel finds herself thrust into a thrilling adventure of love sex death & time-travel. ...

Dr Olivier Ameisen was a brilliant cardiologist & running his own successful practice when he developed a profound addiction to alcohol. Fearing for his life he immersed himself in AA rehab & therapy. Nothing worked. So he did the only thing he could; he took his treatment into his own hands. Searching for a cure for his deadly disease he happened upon baclofen a muscle relaxant that had been used safely for years as a treatment for various types of muscle spasticity but had more recently shown promising results in studies with laboratory animals addicted to a wide variety of substances. Dr Ameisen prescribed himself the drug & experimented with increasingly higher doses until he finally reached a level high enough to leave him free of any craving for alcohol. That was more than six years ago. Baclofen as prescribed under a doctors care could possibly help many addicts. But as long as the medical & research establishments ignore a cure for one of the most deadly diseases in the world we wont be able to understand baclofens full potential. This book is a plea for research that can rescue millions from the scourge of addiction. ...

Id never have guessed that when your worlds tumbling down you can carry on as usual. But it wasnt like I had a big sign on my back saying Ive been raped." Nobody noticed a thing. Emma was just 13 when her happy childhood came crashing down. She had no idea the young lads she & her friends met every Saturday in the shopping mall werent all they seemed. The boys were part of an organised gang targeting innocent young girls grooming them for prostitution. Captivated by the ring leader Emma didnt see the first brutal rape coming. From then on her life was never her own... This is the harrowing true story of how a nice girl from a good home found herself drawn into a trap of degradation & violence frightened for her life & not knowing where to turn. But it is also the story of finding the courage & inner strength to risk everything & escape." ...

Uncover the truth behind our food addiction
- & learn how to break the cycle. Many of us find ourselves powerless in front of a
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Jeffrey Sachs draws on his remarkable 25 years' experience to offer a thrilling & inspiring vision of the keys to economic success in the world today. Marrying vivid storytelling with acute analysis he sets the stage by drawing a conceptual map of the world economy & explains why over the past 200 years wealth & poverty have diverged & evolved across the planet & why the poorest nations have been so markedly unable to escape the trap of poverty. Sachs tells the remarkable stories of his own work in Bolivia Poland Russia India China & Africa to bring readers with him to an understanding of the different problems countries face. In the end readers will be left not with an understanding of how daunting the world's problems are but how solvable they are & why making the effort is both our moral duty & in our own interests. ...

Sitting on a California beach at summers end Jane Marsh thinks back to her childhood at the estate called Elvie in a remote corner of Scotl&. She remembers not only the heather-covered hills & the lonesome loch but her grandmother.. .and of course Sinclair. She has secretly dreamed of marrying rakishly handsome Sinclair & settling at Elvie forever. Then an urgent visit from her grandmothers lawyer becomes the catalyst for her return to Scotland.. . Where waiting for her is passion not gentle love & the chilling realisation that she may be ready to wed the wrong man. ...

This title is presented with an introduction by Monica Ali. The love affair between Maurice Bendix & Sarah flourishing in the turbulent times of the London Blitz ends when she suddenly & without explanation breaks it off. After a chance meeting rekindles his love & jealousy two years later Bendix hires a private detective to follow Sarah & slowly his love for her turns into an obsession. ...

Glossy television images of happy industrious & increasingly prosperous workers show a bright view of life in twenty-first-century China. But behind the officially approved story is a different reality Gerard Lemos reveals in this extensively researched book. Lemos conducted hundreds of interviews with Chinese men & women in non-westernized areas distant from such cities as Beijing & Shanghai. He reports that the lives his subjects describe belie the myth of a harmonious cohesive Chinese society. Much as the government promotes such a positive image everyday people in China are beleaguered by immense social & community problems as well as personal family & financial anxieties. Lemos investigates a China beyond the tourist trail. He offers a revealing account of the thoughts & feelings of Chinese people regarding all facets of their lives from education to health care unemployment to old age politics to wealth. Taken together the stories of these men & women bring to light a broken society one whose people are frustrated angry sad & often fearful about the circumstances of their lives. The author considers the implications of these findings & analyzes how Chinas community & social problems threaten the ambitious nations hopes for a cohesive future. ...

When wealthy Sarah Erroll dies a violent death at her home in a posh part of Glasgow the local community is stunned by what appears to be a truly gratuitous act. Heavily pregnant with desperately wanted twins DS Alex Morrow is called in to investigate & soon discovers that there is more to Sarahs murder than it first seems. On the other side of town Thomas Anderson is called into the headmasters office at his boarding school to be told that his tyrannical father
- a banker responsible for the loss of many livelihoods in the recession
- has committed suicide by hanging himself from the old oak tree on the lawn of their home. Thomas returns to the family home to find his mother & sister in a state of numb shock. The head of the household is dead yet their initial reaction is not that of grief but relief. As Alex Morrow slowly unravels the connections between the two cases she faces her greatest challenge yet as her work & home lives collide with potentially disastrous consequences.

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