Sentences with phrase «books about the female»

I read books about the female brain, met with science and math elementary school teachers and nonprofit educators who were doing programs to get kids interested in STEM.

Alesha Dixon is to write two children's books about a female superhero.The 38 - year - old beauty has signed a deal with Scholastic to write two books...

is a rhyming book about female empowerment.

In celebration of Women's History Month, we're covering nonfiction books about female trailblazers here.

Not exact matches

Lions Gate Entertainment (No. 54) has had box office success with two major franchises: The Twilight series (produced by Summit Entertainment, a Lions Gate subsidiary) and Hunger Games, which have much in common as they are both film adaptations of bestselling young adult book series, are fantastical (one is about vampires and the other about a futuristic dystopia), and are anchored by a dynamic young female character (portrayed by Kristen Stewart in Twilight, Jennifer Lawrence in The Hunger Games).

Then there's about 20 % of the population that are $ e xu al maniacs who think they have to have $ ex with something... and they usually line up for the prison trans gen der that does it for books of stamps (prison currency) as they imagine that they're with a female.

This was just another chapter in the Big Baller Brand book, but what truly demands attention is LaVar's sexist and disrespectful tirade about the female official directly following the game:

So far, I've written about Cake Jars, female hotel general managers, badass compression socks, my favorite elephants, a nomadic family that stopped traveling and Dolly Parton giving away 100 million books!

Readers interested in learning more about origins of female self - disdain may read about this in my book on Interaction and relationships in breastfeeding families, http://www.ibreastfeeding.com/keren-epstein-gilboa-phd-med-bsn-rn-facce-lcce-ibclc-rlc Specific reference to this topic is also available in my chapter entitled «Breastfeeding envy: Unresolved patriarchal envy and the obstruction of physiologically - based nursing patterns.

Pick a book with «Goodnight Stories for Rebel Girls», a book about women in science or just a book with a female protagonist and plant the seed of success early on.

«There's definitely a Mean Girls - style Burn Book in politics — patriarchy isn't gendered — but the way we talk about other women is important,» Creasy tells Vogue for a piece in the February 2018 issue on seven influential females fighting to empower women in the battle for equality.

DINING HABITS In a new book about cannibalism, a zoologist argues that female black widow spiders (Latrodectus mactans shown) don't deserve their bad rap.

It contains conversations with 16 prominent neuroscientists, biologists and psychologists, but only one is female — a clue about one of the book's flaws, namely, that much of its content is obsolete.

Where Neanderthals are concerned, Binford pops up again in his familiar «Rent - a-sceptic» role; but it is regrettable that the book gives further exposure to his bizarre notions, based on the flimsiest of evidence, about males and females living largely separate lives, with no semblance of a close family, as well as his erroneous claim that a lack of fish - bones shows that Neanderthals were inferior to «fully modern man» at exploiting this resource.

In her new book, Pink Brain Blue Brain: How Small Differences Grow Into Troublesome Gaps and What We Can Do About It, Eliot dispels many myths about male and female brain developAbout It, Eliot dispels many myths about male and female brain developabout male and female brain development.

«Sex is one of those subjects that everybody thinks they know about,» says Elisabeth Lloyd, a philosopher at the University of California at Berkeley who's writing a book about bias in evolutionary theories about female sexuality.

Hrdy's first book about infanticide among primates, The Langurs of Abu: Female and Male Strategies of Reproduction, was published in 1977.

Finally, if you want to understand more about how where you are at in your menstrual cycle changes the way that you feel and perform during exercise, I recommend reading book «Running for Women» by author Jason Karp, who is also interviewed in this Endurance Planet episode on female athlete fueling.

Reading... «E-Squared: Nine Do - It - Yourself Energy Experiments That Prove Your Thoughts Create Your Reality» I found out about this book on my friend Melanie's podcast, The Female Experience.

To learn more about forms of fitness that work best for the female body, grab a copy of my new book, The Hormone Reset Diet.

I'll have to let any other females out there who've read the book and know more about this comment on it.

While Jimmy does address female issues in his book... I don't know enough about it or have enough experience with that stuff to comment on whether or not he addresses it satisfactorily.

Not sure if you will address it in your book and I can't seem to find any info online anywhere about my «problem»: I'm 38, female, 5» 6 ″ and have weighed 100 - 105 lbs since I was a teenager.

If you're interested in reading about the collective set of them and learning how to optimize female skin, weight loss, and hormone balance, for a few examples, you could do worse than my best - selling book, Sexy by Nature, here.

Designed for girls, these books feature female leads and are about life, love and fun.

For instance, the book explains that a female with a healthy balance of male energy doesn't worry about doing what's «right.»

I read a lot about mythology, and part of the book I'm reading explains how women and men have both male and female sides / energies inside of them.

Tim's book about male and female archetypes reminded me of my psychology classes in college.

you are a passionate, intelligent female age 30 - 49, someone that reads books and is curious about the world, healthy and disease...

Drawing explicit parallels to «Carmilla,» the 1872 gothic novella about female vampirism published 25 years before Stoker's book, it offers the chance to express the vampire myth in wholly feminine terms and assert a classism absent from the Twilight series.

It also casts characters directly from the Big Book Of Clichés: the sergeant on the verge of retirement (Aaron Eckhart), the guy about to get married (Ne - Yo), the tough - as - any - man female soldier (Michelle Rodriguez), the guy with a pregnant wife, the guy who may go crazy at any moment... and so on.

The Golden Globe nominee was there to promote her book Any Man, «about a female serial rapist who attacks men»

However, fans of the book should know Garland has taken only the most basic building blocks of VanderMeer's story about a team of female scientists who travel into a mysterious land area that has suddenly transformed, and from which no other group has ever returned.

The Golden Globe nominee - turning 35 this Monday - was there to promote her book Any Man, «about a female serial rapist who attacks men, told through the first person narratives of the male victims.»

«Divergent», released exactly a year ago, was based on the first installment of a popular tween / teen book series about a female heroine in a post-apocalyptic world.

We may similarly fall for the big screen adaptation of Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows» book, The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society about a female writer in the aftermath of World War II, starring Lily James and released on April 20.

Last month it was revealed that Thor: Ragnarok star Tessa Thompson has spoken to Marvel Studios chief Kevin Feige about a team - up movie featuring the female heroes of the Marvel Cinematic Universe, and now the Valkyrie actress has elaborated on the pitch during an interview with Comic Book Resources.

Wonder Woman (Patty Jenkins, 2017), because it's the most powerful popular feminist statement in mainstream cinema thus far, inspiring countless young women and girls to dare to succeed; because Patty Jenkins more than deserved it after languishing in the wilderness of episodic television after her masterful film Monster (2003), when any male director would have gone on to direct four of five features on the strength of that one film; because it's about damned time that a female comic book feature got made; because Jenkins still had to fight to get a fair payday to direct WW 2 — enduring months of fight - to - the - death negotiations to get a directorial fee comparable to that of Zack Snyder or J.J. Abrams for the sequel; and finally because she's better than either of those two directors, who are overrated hacks with little or no vision at all.

In this, her ninth book, she redefines how we think about aging, summed up in a poem told to her by a 70 - year - old female poet during one of her interviews:

About 77 percent of the books boys check out have only male central characters, 14 percent have female central characters, and 8 percent have both male and female.

What kind of influence will book discussions about multicultural autobiographies with other teachers have on the teaching of predominantly white, female teachers to an increasingly diverse classroom?

The book, with the decidedly un-PG title «Cum For Bigfoot,» is just the first of 16 fiction ebooks that Wade (a pen name) has written about the legendary beast sometimes known as Sasquatch, each detailing a series of graphic and often violent sexual encounters between the apelike creature and his female human lovers.

«I've created my own genre of female - centric thrillers, which is writing books where you can't say what they're about or you'll give it away,» she says proudly.

In its depiction of the collective experiences of the female characters, what does the book seem to reveal about womanhood?

But Abbot's accessible four-fold biography is an entertaining and immensely informative book about a little - known aspect of the Civil War: female spies.

Historical fiction buffs will also want to look out for Karen Harper's The Queen's Governess, a Tudor drama told from the perspective of Elizabeth I's governess; Ellen Horan's 31 Bond Street, about a 19th - century murder scandal in New York City (the book will be «difficult for any reader to put down,» according to Ron Rash); and Lynn Cullen's The Creation of Eve, about Renaissance female painter Sofonisba Anguissola.

From # 1 NYT Bestselling Author Barbara Freethy comes KISS ME FOREVER, the first book in Bachelors & Bridesmaids, a fun, romantic series about a group of female friends who start out as bridesmaids and end up as brides!

Here's what you can do: if you haven't thought about writing a female focused book, or something with a strong female lead, now is the time!

I've talked about this with some other black female writers — as indie authors especially — with our suspicions that the majority of romance readers (non-black) will not pick up a book with a black woman on the cover, should we do it anyway and take the risk just to see ourselves on the cover?

Malinda Lo's thread goes on to detail her ideas on how publishers, readers and authors can help to make books about queer female teens more visible, but her advice (as she indicates in qualifying tweets) mainly relates to traditionally published books.