Harriet Brown

A science journalist's provocative exploration of how biology, psychology, media, and culture come together to shape our ongoing obsession with our bodies, while also tackling the myths and realities of the "obesity epidemic."

How Science, History, and Culture Drive Our Obsession with Weight--and What We Can Do about It

Body of Truth

“One of the most up to date, relevant, and honest accounts of one family’s battle with the life threatening challenges of anorexia. Brown has masterfully woven science, history, and heart throughout this compelling and tender story.” —Lynn S. Grefe, Chief Executive Officer, National Eating Disorders Association “As a woman who once knew the grip of a life-controlling eating disorder, I held my breath reading Harriet Brown’s story. As a mother of daughters, I wept for her. Then cheered.” —Joyce Maynard, author of Labor Day In Brave Girl Eating, the chronicle of a family’s struggle with anorexia nervosa, journalist, professor, and author Harriet Brown recounts in mesmerizing and horrifying detail her daughter Kitty’s journey from near-starvation to renewed health. Brave Girl Eating is an intimate, shocking, compelling, and ultimately uplifting look at the ravages of a mental illness that affects more than 18 million Americans.

A Family's Struggle with Anorexia

Brave Girl Eating

A riveting, provocative, and ultimately hopeful exploration of mother-daughter estrangement, woven with research and anecdotes, from an award-winning journalist. The day of her mother's funeral, Harriet Brown was five thousand miles away. To say that Harriet and her mother had a difficult relationship is a wild understatement; the older Harriet grew, the more estranged they became. By the time Harriet's mom died at age 76, they were out of contact. Yet Harriet felt her death deeply, embarking on an exploration of what family estrangement means--to those who cut off contact, to those who are estranged, to the friends and family members who are on the sidelines. Shadow Daughter tackles a subject we rarely discuss as a culture: family estrangements, especially those between parents and adult children. Estrangements--between parents and children, siblings, multiple generations--are surprisingly common, and even families that aren't officially estranged often have some experience of deep conflicts. Estrangement is an issue that touches most people, one way or another, one that's still shrouded in secrecy, stigma, and shame. In addition to her personal narrative, Harriet employs interviews with others who are estranged, as well as the most recent research on family estrangement, for a brave exploration of this taboo topic. Ultimately, Shadow Daughter is a thoughtful, deeply researched, and provocative exploration of the ties that bind and break, forgiveness, reconciliation, and what family really means.

A Memoir of Estrangement

Shadow Daughter

Some of today's leading women writers speak out on the subject of weight and the obsession with body image in a collection of essays that includes Caroline Leavitt's writings on eating and grief, Whitney Otto on having a mother who was a Weight Watchers lecturer, and works by Joyce Maynard, Laurie Notaro, Ann Hood, Kate Harding, and others. Original. 30,000 first printing.

Writers Dish About Food, Eating, Weight, and Body Image

Feed Me!

Offers practical advice for babysitters, covering such basic topics as feeding, crying, keeping children amused, first aid, bedtime, and more.

The Care and Keeping of Kids

The Babysitter's Handbook

"Millions of families are affected by eating disorders, which usually strike young women between the ages of fourteen and twenty. But current medical practice ties these families' hands when it comes to helping their children recover. Conventional medical wisdom dictates separating the patient from the family and insists that "it's not about the food," even as a family watches a child waste away before their eyes. Harriet Brown shows how counterproductive--and heartbreaking--this approach is by telling her daughter's story of anorexia. She describes how her family, with the support of an open-minded pediatrician and a therapist, helped her daughter recover using family-based treatment, also known as the Maudsley approach"-- Jacket.

a family's struggle with anorexia

Brave girl eating

»Dies ist die Geschichte eines ganz normalen Teenagers, der in die Klauen der Magersucht gerät – zufällig, wie das immer passiert – und ihres langsamen, schmerzhaften, unendlich tapferen Weges zurück ins Licht, zu Gesundheit und Hoffnung: Schritt für Schritt, Gramm für Gramm, ein Löffel nach dem anderen.« Harriet Brown Millionen Familien sind von Magersucht betroffen, doch oft binden Ärzte den Familien die Hände, wenn es um die Heilung der Kinder geht. Die Autorin und ihr Mann wagen es, das Mädchen – entgegen der gängigen Lehrmeinung – mit Hilfe zweier Ärztinnen zu Hause zu behandeln. Durch die Nähe der Familie erhält der Leser ungewöhnliche Einblicke in das Innenleben der Tochter und wohnt dem Kampf um ihr Leben hautnah bei. Ein bewegendes Buch, das tiefe Einblicke in die Krankheit und wichtige Informationen über Therapiemöglichkeiten gibt und das betroffenen Familien Mut macht.

Unsere Tochter besiegt die Magersucht

Gramm für Gramm zurück ins Leben

In a collection of essays, leading writers share personal experiences of the men in their lives, from a Mr. Wrong who receives an unexpected comeuppance to a study of the dark side of loving and longing.

Real-life Stories about the Men We Used to Love

Mr. Wrong

Robert Friedhoffer

Provides tips on how to create a haunted house at home and instructions for performing magic tricks at a Halloween party.

How to Haunt a House for Halloween

Offers practical advice for babysitters, covering such basic topics as feeding, crying, keeping children amused, first aid, and bedtime.

Babysitting

Olga M. Mladenova

Ronelle Alexander

This is the first comprehensive textbook teaching English-speakers to read, write, and speak contemporary Bulgarian. The text is designed to be adaptable for students of varying skill levels and can be taught at a gradual or intensive pace. It is also a much-needed reference grammar of Bulgarian, incorporating the latest research and theories on Bulgarian grammar in accessible layman’s language. Volume 2 contains Lessons 16-30 and introduces more complex points of grammar and syntax than Volume 1. It also includes a cumulative Bulgarian-English glossary covering both volumes. Like many popular language textbooks, the dialogues in Intensive Bulgarian form a continuing dramatic narrative that gradually introduces students to both language and culture. Throughout the text, Bulgarian constructions and phrases are compared with English ones to clarify grammar and idioms. Lessons include: o dialogues and sample sentences o exercises and translation sentences o basic and supplemental grammar sections o reading selections o a glossary for the lesson o cultural notes. Together, Volumes 1 and 2 of Intensive Bulgarian provide all the materials necessary for teachers and students to learn lively, modern colloquial Bulgarian, to become familiar with Bulgarian cultural life, and to thoroughly understand Bulgarian grammar. Slavic scholars will also find in Volume 2 both a thorough presentation of the Bulgarian verb system, as traditionally conceived, and a new analysis of this system.

A Textbook and Reference Grammar

Intensive Bulgarian

Girls can learn to be the best sitter on the block with this kit that includes helpful information on how to care for kids, please parents, and make smart business decisions. It contains business cards, a client address book, a game pad, reward stickers, parent checklists, and a copy of "The Babysitter's Handbook." Consumable.

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