Informative inside look at a subculture of men striving to perfect the art of picking up women. They meet in underground "lairs" to discuss tactics and strategies then venture into the "field" to practice. Journalist Neil Strauss travelled around the world meeting these men.
This portrait, which grew from a profile published in GQ, studies the life of mountain-man Eustace Conway, who upon running away from his family, pursued a survivalist lifestyle in the North Carolina woods--and flourished. A New York Times Notable Book for 2002.
Terrence Real, a psychotherapist with 20 years of experience treating men and their families, exposes an epidemic of "covert," or hidden, depression among men. Covert depression develops when a man attempts to soothe pain and suffering through abusive behavior, alcoholism, and workaholism. Real explains how men can heal themselves, restore ...
This timely book uncovers startling new scientific reasons for the troubling decline of boys and young men, and offers provocative - and hopeful - solutions to help them succeed in school and in life.Something scary is happening to boys today. From kindergarten to college, they are less resilient and less ambitious than they were a mere twenty ...
This seminal doctrine on male masculinity is co-authored by Robert Moore and Douglas Gillette, who, along with Robert Bly, are considered founders of the men's movement. They put forth here a ground breaking theory: the future of society and even mankind may be in jeopardy, in large part because of the male tendency towards aggression and ...
Western culture, with its absent fathers, radical feminists, lack of tradition, and other factors, has produced men in crisis, says Robert Bly, founder of the Men's Movement. Men who have been raised in this culture often resort to being either antagonistic and domineering, or passive and detached, none of which makes them, or anyone else, happy. ...
An eloquent memoir, by a "Washington Post" reporter, that tells of his passage from the prison yards and streets to one of the most prestigious newspapers in the country.
What is the measure of a man? This profound question remains current and timely as expectations of men's roles in the world continue to evolve through time. Now, Sam Keen speculates on this subject in FIRE IN THE BELLY. He argues that men can not find themselves without first separating from the "world of woman." According to Keen, "the world of ...
This is a groundbreaking book about men's health and secrets of longevity. Legato shows how men are the weaker gender. She shows why boys have a hard time adjusting in school, why men are more prone to acts of aggression, and the clinical reasons they are three times as likely to die from cancer. The author is founder of international institute: ...
Gail Sheehy asks the question "What do men want?" and answers it provocatively and perceptively. She examines how traditional male roles have changed, how men go through something that might be called male menopause and what it means, what sex and power have to do with men's sense of themselves, what is happening with the corporate refugees, and ...
This best-selling reader on men and masculinity, edited by two of the most prominent researchers on men, contains the most current articles on masculinity available. Organized around themes that define masculinity, this reader takes the position that men (as well as women) are "gendered" and that this gendering process is a central experience for ...
This book demands a response from its readers. It is impossible not to be drawn in to the provocative (often contentious) discussion that Harvey Mansfield sets before us. This is the first comprehensive study of manliness, a quality both bad and good, mostly male, often intolerant, irrational, and ambitious. Our 'gender-neutral society' does not ...
The authors offer the real truth from behind the locker-room door: the sometimes unwelcome facts about communication (or lack thereof), sex, etiquette, dating, working, marriage (and divorce); and all those other things that men never get around to talking about with the women in their lives.
This cultural history explores the penis as alternately an icon, an evil, and a medically-controllable organ. Ranging from Ancient Greece to 1980s Las Vegas and beyond, Friedman writes accessibly about this emblem of manhood.
The first full report from the team that discovered the patterns of adult development, this breakthrough study ranks in significance with the original works of Kinsey and Erikson, exploring and explaining the specific periods of personal development through which all human begins must pass--and which together form a common pattern underlying all ...
Julian Nance Carsey left his job, his family, and his community. At 47 years old, Jay Carsey was an influential Washington D.C.-area attorney. "Exit the Rainmaker" is the account of why Jay Carsey disappeared, and what happened to him afterwards.
When former heavyweight champion Jim Jeffries came out of retirement on the fourth of July, 1910 to fight current black heavywight champion Jack Johnson in Reno, Nevada, he boasted that he was doing it "for the sole purpose of proving that a white man is better than a negro". Jeffries, though, was trounced and Whites everywhere rioted. The furor, ...
Based on the outpouring of responses to his bestselling "Raising Cain", Thompson now answers the 100 most-asked questions about raising sons. Topics include friendship, sports, money, grades, peer pressure, electronics and video games, cruelty, body image, death and illness, divorce, ADD and ADHD, dating, and drugs. (Parenting)
At the Valois "See Your Food" cafeteria on Chicago's South Side, black and white men gather over cups of coffee and steam-table food. Mitchell Duneier, a sociologist, spent four years at the Valois writing this moving profile of the black men who congregate at "Slim's Table." Praised as "a marvelous study of those who should not be forgotten" by ...
Double standards are nothing new. Women deal with them every day. Take the common truism that women who sleep around are sluts while men are studs. Why is it that men grow distinguished and sexily gray as they age while women just get saggy and haggard? Have you ever wondered how a young woman is supposed to both virginal and provocatively ...
They have been called "the strong, silent type". Now, drawing on hundreds of interviews, an authority in the Recovery field, reveals how men raised in dysfunctional families can learn to cope with their pain, express their feelings, and achieve their full potential in their relationships at work and at home.
Test In this controversial and provocative new guidebook for women, Sterling reveals his remarkable secrets for attracting men and sustaining successful relationships. He believes that women are the more socially advanced gender, re responsible for the success or failure of relationships.
"Men and Marriage" examines the loss of the family and the well-defined sex roles it used to offer, and how this loss has changed the focus of our society. Poverty, for instance, comes from the destruction of the family, when single parents are abandoned by their lovers, or older women are suddenly divorced because society approves of the husband ...
From "the role model . . . the brother who never left the 'hood because he keeps looking into the faces of the children and seeing himself there" (Patricia Smith, "The Boston Globe") comes a new book that provides powerful new insights into the lives of boys in America today.
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