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Book The Sex Factor

    Book Details:
  • Author : Victoria Bateman
  • Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
  • Release : 2019-07-01
  • ISBN : 1509526803
  • Pages : 253 pages

Download or read book The Sex Factor written by Victoria Bateman and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2019-07-01 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why did the West become so rich? Why is inequality rising? How ‘free’ should markets be? And what does sex have to do with it? In this passionate and skilfully argued book, leading feminist Victoria Bateman shows how we can only understand the burning economic issues of our time if we put sex and gender – ‘the sex factor’ – at the heart of the picture. Spanning the globe and drawing on thousands of years of history, Bateman tells a bold story about how the status and freedom of women are central to our prosperity. Genuine female empowerment requires us not only to recognize the liberating potential of markets and smart government policies but also to challenge the double-standard of many modern feminists when they celebrate the brain while denigrating the body. This iconoclastic book is a devastating exposé of what we have lost from ignoring ‘the sex factor’ and of how reversing this neglect can drive the smart economic policies we need today.

Book Relationship Sabotage

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  • Author : William J. Matta
  • Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
  • Release : 2006-07-30
  • ISBN : 0313064075
  • Pages : 177 pages

Download or read book Relationship Sabotage written by William J. Matta and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2006-07-30 with total page 177 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hidden forces—memories of past poor or hurtful relationships—drive repressed feelings and emotions that are often outside our awareness. Though we want to love and be loved, to nurture and be nurtured, those forces can wreak havoc and cause relationship sabotage, destroying couples and even whole families. The scenario is so common, explains therapist Matta, that often people get divorced without even fully understanding why, or what is was that came between them. In many cases, what it was were the lingering but unconscious memories of lessons learned as far back as childhood. These lessons may have no true bearing or justification in the current relationship, yet they can strongly affect it, fueling marital games, extra-marital affairs, addictions, poor parenting practices and a host of other harmful actions. Matta argues that we can learn to recognize these imprints and move past them to build or keep rewarding relationships. His book makes us aware, and gives us the tools to break the cycle.

Book The Sex Factor

    Book Details:
  • Author : Kate Johnson
  • Publisher : Piccadilly Books
  • Release : 2012
  • ISBN : 9781848122000
  • Pages : 0 pages

Download or read book The Sex Factor written by Kate Johnson and published by Piccadilly Books. This book was released on 2012 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Everyone's talking about sex, but are you really hearing the whole story? This down -to-earth book helps you bust the myths, face facts, and get the low-down on everything you really want - and need - to know. Firm kissing secrets to bedroom realities, find out here what sex is all about. AUTHOR: Kate Johnson has many years of experience in dealing with young people and the problems they face. SELLING POINTS: *A subject of universal interest to teenagers *Sex education is a topic always in the news *Written in an accessible style, but with useful, reassuring guidance

Book The XX Factor

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  • Author : Alison Wolf
  • Publisher : Crown
  • Release : 2013-10-01
  • ISBN : 0307590429
  • Pages : 374 pages

Download or read book The XX Factor written by Alison Wolf and published by Crown. This book was released on 2013-10-01 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Noted British academic and journalist Alison Wolf offers a surprising and thoughtful study of the professional elite, and examines the causes—and limits—of women’s rise and the consequences of their difficult choices. The gender gap is closing. Today, for the first time in history, tens of millions of women are spending more time at the boardroom table than the kitchen table. These professional women are highly ambitious and highly educated, enjoying the same lifestyle prerogatives as their male counterparts. They are working longer and marrying later—if they marry at all. They are heading Fortune 500 companies and appearing on the covers of Forbes and Businessweek. They represent a special type of working woman—the kind who doesn’t just punch a clock for a paycheck, but derives self-worth and pleasure from wielding professional power. At the same time that the gender gap is narrowing, the gulf is widening among women themselves. While blockbuster books such as Lean In focus only on women in high pressure jobs, in reality there are four women in traditionally female roles for every Sheryl Sandberg. In this revealing and deeply intelligent book, Alison Wolf examines why more educated women work longer hours, why having children early is a good idea, and how feminism created a less equal world. Her ideas are sure to provoke and surprise, as she challenges much of what the liberal and conservative media consider to be women’s best interests.

Book Exploring the Biological Contributions to Human Health

Download or read book Exploring the Biological Contributions to Human Health written by Institute of Medicine and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2001-07-02 with total page 287 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It's obvious why only men develop prostate cancer and why only women get ovarian cancer. But it is not obvious why women are more likely to recover language ability after a stroke than men or why women are more apt to develop autoimmune diseases such as lupus. Sex differences in health throughout the lifespan have been documented. Exploring the Biological Contributions to Human Health begins to snap the pieces of the puzzle into place so that this knowledge can be used to improve health for both sexes. From behavior and cognition to metabolism and response to chemicals and infectious organisms, this book explores the health impact of sex (being male or female, according to reproductive organs and chromosomes) and gender (one's sense of self as male or female in society). Exploring the Biological Contributions to Human Health discusses basic biochemical differences in the cells of males and females and health variability between the sexes from conception throughout life. The book identifies key research needs and opportunities and addresses barriers to research. Exploring the Biological Contributions to Human Health will be important to health policy makers, basic, applied, and clinical researchers, educators, providers, and journalists-while being very accessible to interested lay readers.

Book Sex Linkage of Intelligence

Download or read book Sex Linkage of Intelligence written by Robert Lehrke and published by Praeger. This book was released on 1997-11-30 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author presents a theory that major genes controlling the growth of human intelligence, both left- and right-brain attributes, are on the X-chromosome. The more significant of the implications of such X-linkage include:^L^L ^DBL Males tend to be more variable in intelligence. It is well known that males are far more likely to have intellectual deficits, including mental subnormality, learning disorders, and behavior problems. This book also presents evidence that males are more likely to be exceptionally high in cognitive abilities (other than memory), and in such areas as advanced mathematics, spatial perception, and creative music.^L ^L ^DBL Partial or total reversions to the aboriginal level of intelligence can account for virtually all cases of non-specific mental subnormality. These conditions are now identified by such terms as Renpenning syndrome, Martin-Bell syndrome, Fragile-X syndrome, and cultural-familial mental retardation. Because of the probability of offsetting genes, females are less likely to be severely affected by these conditions. ^DBL Since the X-linked genes control a pattern of growth, boys are more variable in the age of readiness for the skills required for progress in school. Some are precocious, but many are delayed, and not ready for the three R's at the traditional age of 6. This is the basis for almost all cases of learning disability.^L^L ^DBL Being on the X-chromosome, these genes, favorable or unfavorable, are not passed on from father to son, although they are passed on from father to daughter. This invalidates earlier studies of parent-child transmission of IQ, which have included father-son correlations. In effect, earlier studies have come up with estimates of the heritability of intelligence that are too low.

Book Sex Differences in Physiology

Download or read book Sex Differences in Physiology written by Gretchen Neigh and published by Academic Press. This book was released on 2016-05-10 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sex Differences in Physiology is an all-encompassing reference that details basic science research into sex differences in all physiological fields. It includes scientific discoveries concerning sex differences in cardiovascular, respiratory, renal, gastrointestinal, and musculoskeletal physiology. In addition, coverage of the development, endocrinology, neurophysiology, immunity, and metabolism is included, making this important reference a resource that will meet the needs of investigators interested in incorporating sex differences into their research programs, while also providing clinicians with the basis for providing the best sex-based medical treatment options available. Provides a sweeping, organ-by-organ review of currently observed sex differences in animal models and human disease Explains how sex differences influence physiology and disease Provides the critical knowledge on sex differences for better understanding of prevention and treatment of diseases

Book The Sex Factor in Human Life

Download or read book The Sex Factor in Human Life written by Thomas Walton Galloway and published by . This book was released on 1921 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Sex Before Sexuality

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  • Author : Kim M. Phillips
  • Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
  • Release : 2013-04-24
  • ISBN : 0745637264
  • Pages : 236 pages

Download or read book Sex Before Sexuality written by Kim M. Phillips and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2013-04-24 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sexuality in modern western culture is central to identity but the tendency to define by sexuality does not apply to the premodern past. Before the 'invention' of sexuality, erotic acts and desires were comprehended as species of sin, expressions of idealised love, courtship, and marriage, or components of intimacies between men or women, not as outworkings of an innermost self. With a focus on c. 1100–c. 1800, this book explores the shifting meanings, languages, and practices of western sex. It is the first study to combine the medieval and early modern to rethink this time of sex before sexuality, where same-sex and opposite-sex desire and eroticism bore but faint traces of what moderns came to call heterosexuality, homosexuality, lesbianism, and pornography. This volume aims to contribute to contemporary historical theory through paying attention to the particularity of premodern sexual cultures. Phillips and Reay argue that students of premodern sex will be blocked in their understanding if they use terms and concepts applicable to sexuality since the late nineteenth century, and modern commentators will never know their subject without a deeper comprehension of sex's history.

Book Black and White  The S E X  Factor 4

Download or read book Black and White The S E X Factor 4 written by Scarlet Hyacinth and published by Siren-BookStrand. This book was released on with total page 133 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: [Siren Classic ManLove: Erotic Alternative Interracial Paranormal Romance, M/M, shape-shifters, HEA] Black panther–shifter Onyx Grosvenor is a man without a past. When he meets Ivory Starr, he hopes he can have a future, perhaps build one at the fox’s side. But such a thing is easier said than done. Without a sense of his true identity, Onyx doesn’t feel he can be the man Ivory deserves. Arctic fox Ivory has been attracted to Onyx ever since the fateful night he met the panther. It is an ongoing struggle not to pursue their chemistry and, instead, be the friend Onyx needs. But both Ivory and Onyx have demons just waiting to attack. When those dark secrets make a comeback, the sexual tension between the two explodes into a bond that surprises them, and everyone else. Will that connection be enough to keep two people as different as night and day together, or will Ivory and Onyx be parted by circumstances beyond their control? ** A Siren Erotic Romance

Book Strange Beauty

Download or read book Strange Beauty written by Eliza Factor and published by Parallax Press. This book was released on 2017-08-22 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A unique and hopeful story of how one woman and her family were transformed by her child's multiple disabilities and inability to talk and how she, in turn, transformed a community. This intimate, no-holds barred memoir shares one family's experiences with a child who is both autistic and physically disabled. It is a story of infectious laughter, blood on the floor, intense physical conflict, and of two little girls growing up in the shadow of their charming and fitful brother. And it is the story of a mother and writer and the illuminating effect of imagining the world through the eyes of her beautiful, charismatic, and nonverbal son, Felix. Felix and his sisters inspire Eliza to start Extreme Kids, a community center that connects families with children with disabilities through the arts and play, and transform how she saw herself and the world. She writes of the joy this project brings her, as well as the disconnect of being lauded for helping others at the same time that she cannot help her own son. As Felix grows bigger and stronger, his assaults against himself grow more destructive. When his bruised limbs and face prompt Child Services to investigate the Factors for abuse, Eliza realizes how dangerous her home has become. Strange Beauty is a personal story, but it shines a light on the combustible conditions many families are living in at this moment. The United States offers parents whose children are prone to violence very little help. That Eliza's story ends happily, with Felix thriving at Crotched Mountain School, is due more to luck than policy. There are few such schools and many such children. When children are violent, we fail to account for the internal and external pressures that lead to violence. This is both cruel and counterproductive, for people with disabilities have much to teach us, if we will only listen.

Book The SeXY Factor

Download or read book The SeXY Factor written by Frances Kendall and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book One Dimensional Queer

Download or read book One Dimensional Queer written by Roderick A. Ferguson and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2018-12-06 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of gay rights has long been told as one of single-minded focus on the fight for sexual freedom. Yet its origins are much more complicated than this single-issue interpretation would have us believe, and to ignore gay liberation's multidimensional beginnings is to drastically underestimate its radical potential for social change. Ferguson shows how queer liberation emerged out of various insurgent struggles crossing the politics of race, gender, class, and sexuality, and deeply connected to issues of colonization, incarceration, and capitalism. Tracing the rise and fall of this intersectional politics, he argues that the one-dimensional mainstreaming of queerness falsely placed critiques of racism, capitalism, and the state outside the remit of gay liberation. As recent activism is increasingly making clear, this one-dimensional legacy has promoted forms of exclusion that marginalize queers of color, the poor, and transgender individuals. This forceful book joins the call to reimagine and reconnect the fight for social justice in all its varied forms.

Book The X Factor Code

    Book Details:
  • Author : Jack N. Raven
  • Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
  • Release : 2015-05-05
  • ISBN : 9781512046601
  • Pages : 316 pages

Download or read book The X Factor Code written by Jack N. Raven and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2015-05-05 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "How a New Discovery Makes PLAIN Looking Guys & Girls More Attractive, Sexy and Confident!" The only book of its kind, offering the average and not so average looking men and women powerful techniques how to improve looks and intensify Sex Appeals! Yes all that without actually altering your physical body. Employing Modeling techniques and cheats (including tactics from seduction and related disciplines), you can expect DRAMATIC improvements in your sex appeal levels,including how to be more attractive physically and non-verbally. Trust me, I don't care what you look like! You still have soo many more untapped reservoirs of external & internal beauty + sex-appeal sources, you don't even realize exists. We are going to find and exploit each one of those, in this course. Yes, you can be more beautiful/handsome and definitely sexier even if you're short and overweight! You probably won't be landing a modelling campaign for Calvin Klein anytime soon? But atleast you'll feel good, look better and sexier and more confident all in one swoop! For the aspiring and professional models reading this? If you need help in reaching the next levels by increasing your sex appeals and maximize your attractiveness? This book is it! Im sure you've realized by now -- NO ONE actually teaches X-Factors. Well today is your lucky day. The same applies to active practioners in the seduction world (Pickup Artists). You want to master nonverbal seduction or seduction without active talking? Go ahead, click "Look Inside" for the preview. Some concepts may already be familiar to you, but i've added the missing ingredients from the modelling fields as well. You can spend 100k dollars on cosmetic surgeries, clothing, even thousands of hours in the gym -- but it won't give you the ability to methodically improve your X-factors or sex appeals. Would you like to "cheat" and look a couple of inches taller? How about a few inches added to your breasts or butt? How about sharpening or strengthening your facial features? Learn the ability to stir lust, attraction with that person beside you --all without words! Smoke and mirrors... This book will atleast help you appear that way without actually changing your physical body. It will also teach you about uncolored strong, raw sexual presence! That special something that makes you standout and appear more REAL in the present, than anyone else. You'll still be 5'7, but somehow you'll look 5'10. You might be a little chubby, but somehow you'll appear slimmer. You could be thin and frail, yet be fuller and sexier. This book will make you understand -- in a PRACTICAL way, what Inner Beauty truly means --and how to harness that power to use in direct competition against the much, much better looking opponents -- especially in seduction! If you're already aesthetically attractive? Well, the more baseline attributes you possess, the more stuff we can magnify and work with. I don't teach magic. The techniques here are being used day in and day out by top models, award winning actors and the top seduction artists. DOWNLOAD IT NOW!

Book Resonance

    Book Details:
  • Author : Hartmut Rosa
  • Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
  • Release : 2019-07-26
  • ISBN : 1509519920
  • Pages : 589 pages

Download or read book Resonance written by Hartmut Rosa and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2019-07-26 with total page 589 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The pace of modern life is undoubtedly speeding up, yet this acceleration does not seem to have made us any happier or more content. If acceleration is the problem, then the solution, argues Hartmut Rosa in this major new work, lies in “resonance.” The quality of a human life cannot be measured simply in terms of resources, options, and moments of happiness; instead, we must consider our relationship to, or resonance with, the world. Applying his theory of resonance to many domains of human activity, Rosa describes the full spectrum of ways in which we establish our relationship to the world, from the act of breathing to the adoption of culturally distinct worldviews. He then turns to the realms of concrete experience and action – family and politics, work and sports, religion and art – in which we as late modern subjects seek out resonance. This task is proving ever more difficult as modernity’s logic of escalation is both cause and consequence of a distorted relationship to the world, at individual and collective levels. As Rosa shows, all the great crises of modern society – the environmental crisis, the crisis of democracy, the psychological crisis – can also be understood and analyzed in terms of resonance and our broken relationship to the world around us. Building on his now classic work on acceleration, Rosa’s new book is a major new contribution to the theory of modernity, showing how our problematic relation to the world is at the crux of some of the most pressing issues we face today. This bold renewal of critical theory for our times will be of great interest to students and scholars across the social sciences and humanities.

Book Unraveling at the Name

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  • Author : Jenny Factor
  • Publisher : Copper Canyon Press
  • Release : 2002
  • ISBN : 1556591764
  • Pages : 98 pages

Download or read book Unraveling at the Name written by Jenny Factor and published by Copper Canyon Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 98 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Selected by Marilyn Hacker as winner of the Hayden Carruth Award.

Book Breaking the Hush Factor

Download or read book Breaking the Hush Factor written by Karen Rayne and published by . This book was released on 2015-06-23 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Breaking the Hush Factor is a new kind of parenting book. It isn't only for parents, it doesn't make assumptions about gender or sexual orientation, and it won't scare you. Instead, you'll find ten concrete rules to strengthen your relationship with your teenager so that you can start to talk about sex. Because most people have sex and everyone needs to talk about sex. Teenagers have adults in their lives who can help them. Breaking the Hush Factor will teach those adults how.