Parents: Parents Booknook
Here are some samples of what is in our book store. Click on a title to order, or click on the “all from this category” link to browse through more of our offerings.
Sex Education for Educators
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Teaching About Sexuality and HIV: Principles and Methods for Effective Education
by Evonne Hedgepeth and Joan Helmich "At Last! A comprehensive resource book that successfully integrates the theory and practice of sexuality education. "Teaching About Sexuality" provides a much-needed text for the field and will become a daily companion for all of us who are committed to providing education that enables people to understand, make wise decisions about, and celebrate their sexuality." -Peggy Brick |
Sex Education for Youth
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Too Far Away to Touch
by Leslea Newman This is a beautifully done, quiet tale that will be meaningful to all children who have lost a beloved relative to any illness, but especially to AIDS. |
Parenting Sexually Healthy Kids
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Sex and Sensibility: The Thinking Parent's Guide to Talking Sense About Sex
by Deborah Roffman With a rare directness and clarity about sex and reproduction, sexual values, and cultural influences on sexuality, Deborah Roffman challenges and teaches readers how to develop a blueprint for opening the lines of communication with children of all ages. |
Sex
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The Good Vibrations Guide to Sex: The Most Complete Sex Manual Ever Written
by Cathy Winks and Anne Semans Over 100,000 women and men women around the world keep this classic sex manual on their bedside tables. Recommended by medical professionals, sex therapists, and sexual enthusiasts who know that when it comes to sex, there is power in information. |
GLBT Issues
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Mom, Dad, I'm Gay.: How Families Negotiate Coming Out
by Ritch C. Savin-Williams Drawing from over 150 original interviews with teens, psychologist Ritch Savin-Williams separates fact from fiction in this survey of coming out experiences. |
Body Image
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A Hunger So Wide and So Deep: American Women Speak Out on Eating Problems
by Becky W. Thompson This book describes how the theory that eating disorders affect only white, middle-class femals is incorrect, and examines the different ways eating disorders affect women from different backgrounds. |
Women's Sexual Health
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Could it Be Perimenopause?
by Steven R. Goldstein This compassionate and comprehensive book covers everything you need to know about perimenopause - the changes that occur in the decade before menopause. |
Men's Sexual Health
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Wrestling with Love
by Samuel Osherson, Ph.D. In Wrestling with Love, psychologist Sam Osherson, author of the highly acclaimed Finding Our Fathers, reveals how men in our culture struggle to achieve intimacy in their relationships, even as strong messages about masculinity demand that they hide their desire for attachments. |
Miscellaneous
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Killing the Black Body : Race, Reproduction, and the Meaning of Liberty
by Dorothy Roberts Dorothy Roberts' passionate and well-documented book looks at a less-talked about side of the battle for reproductive rights: the history of the social and governmental control of African American women's bodies. |