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Until recently, research on late adulthood has focused on men. This book views the aging process in women age fifty and beyond in their vintage years (so named because people of this age are aging to perfection like vintage wine). Twenty-five women between the ages of 50 and 90 describe their own experiences dealing with the nine developmental tasks typical of late adulthood, revealing the “inner process” of aging not before recognized by researchers in the psychology of late adulthood. The words of these women belie the common belief that aging means catastrophe and endless decline physically and emotionally. The “voices” of these women reveal aging as the full flowering of a process of growth that started at conception.

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Barbara Haber’s fascinating From Hardtack to Home Fries bills itself as “An Uncommon History of American Cooks and Meals.” More exactly, it locates the recurrent intersection of American women’s history and culinary practice and shows how one shaped the other. In lively chapters like “Pretty Much of a Muchness: Civil War Nurses and Diet Kitchens” and “The Harvey Girls: Good Women and Good Food Civilize the American West,” Haber focuses on the untold female contribution to 19th- and 20th-century food culture, an engrossing story. Readers not only encounter great anecdotes–Civil War nurses guarding barrels of whiskey from thieves, for example, or pioneer chain-restaurateur Fred Harvey’s female service corps in action–but discover a hidden American history.

The vividness of the narratives results, largely, from Haber’s excerpts of contemporary diaries and memoirs, like that of World War II POW Sarah Vaughan, who was held by the Japanese in Manila. (”There is a great rush for spinach juice,” Vaughan reported, “on the days this is served.”) In addition, Haber supplies pertinent recipes, like Ella Kellog’s Savory Nut Loaf, a chilling example of 19th-century food-reformist fare, and Baked Fudge, the formula of Cleora Butler, whose unsung cookbooks first explored African American food in the Southwest. These documents tell truths as no others can. Haber’s final and most personal chapter, “Growing Up with Cookbooks,” explores the importance of cookbooks more explicitly, revealing their “intimate power to make connections between people”–to make culture itself. The authors of most of these recipes are women, a fact not lost on Haber, as the delightful Hardtack shows. –Arthur Boehm

From Publishers Weekly

The tasty graham cracker, a beloved bedtime snack of many children, began its life as the linchpin of its originator Sylvester Graham’s fanatical early-19th-century health campaign to curtail sexual excess, especially masturbation and more then once-monthly marital coitus. Facts such as these, interwoven with informed, witty discussions of social, political and economic history, make Haber’s tour through the history of American food so entertaining. Since food has so often been consigned to the domestic realm of woman, Haber’s study is in essence a history of American women: the “Harvey Girls,” who worked in the chain of reasonably priced railroad depot restaurants that revolutionized public eating in the 1880s and ’90s; how Eleanor Roosevelt and her general housekeeper Henrietta Nesbitt had to balance White House menus, which had to seem both fancy and economical during WWII; the role of a small tea shop, started by faculty wives in Cambridge, Mass., as a boon to women refugees in the 1940s. While Haber doesn’t explore issues in depth (her discussion of why Irish immigrants were antagonistic to African-Americans would have been helped with references to Noel Ignatiev’s 1996 study How the Irish Became White), she does cover a wealth of material with a breezy style and a fine eye for historical detail.

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Patrick Lencioni, renowned business consultant and bestselling author of The Five Dysfunctions of a Team, is on a critical mission: create widespread job satisfaction in a world full of workplace misery. His latest book, The Three Signs of a Miserable Job: A Fable for Managers (And Their Employees), tells the inspiring tale a high-flying, but deeply dissatisfied Chief Executive Officer who ditches the power and perks for career bliss as the manager of a pizzeria! In this unusual and inspiring story, Lencioni convincingly demonstrates how career happiness (or misery) is the direct result of the manager–employee relationship. Patrick Lencioni took the time to tell us about his life-long “obsession” with job misery, shatter some myths about workplace satisfaction and offer some real advice on how to turn that daily grind into daily fulfillment. –Lauren Nemroff

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“Child You Ought to Listen” is a collection of quotations, short stories and poetry that will warm the hearts of its readers, but also will remind them of the teachings and guidance instilled i nthem from their mothers. For some of us our mother figure may have been an aunt, grandmother, sister, or friend. But through their instructions and diligence we were taught about the values of love and family, courage, loyalty, and spirituality.

“Child You Ought to Listen” demonstrates that learning never ends (no matter what age you are). It shows that learning can come from many different avenues including: ancestral sayings, hand-me-down quotations and stories told from generation to generation.

Since learning is an adventure you will embark upon throughout your lifetime, this soul inspiring book, filled with love, pain and other tidbits, is a great place to start another exciting, fantastic journey. Recommended to all individuals whether you’re eight to eighty years of age. There is something in this book for everyone.

This book is written in a simple, down-to-earth language and offers wisdom and lessons on how to live your dreams and may inspire you to never give up hope for a better tomorrow. This book can be a gift that you give to someone you care about. It will keep on giving and teaching life’s lessons on a personal level. Remember, “You have to ‘go’ through some things to ‘grow’ through some things!”

Last of all, these stories are meant to uplift, inspire, entertain and motivate any “Child or adult that just might listen.”

About the Author

SaRob was born as Sarah Lee Robinson in a small southern town called Eden, Mississippi, in the early fifties. She is the second child in a family of eleven children. SaRob migrated to the city of Detroit, Michigan, in 1954 with her family.

SaRob graduated Magna Cum Laude, from the University of Detroit Mercy in 1992 with a Bachelors of Social Work Degree. She had returned to school at the tender age of thirty-nine. She overcame her fears regarding returning to school and becoming a student again, at her age.

After receiving a ‘merit scholarship’ from the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, she graduated with honors and received her masters of Social Work Degree, within eleven months. She has been employed as a Therapist, working with the mentally ill population, since graduating from college in 1993.

SaRob is the mother of four adult children and the grandmother of ten. She is currently parenting four of her grandchildren and they help her stay youthful and busy.

SaRob has been writing poetry and short stories since the early age of seven. She is a voracious reader and is currently working on her second book, ‘Reflections From Mama’

Review

“The 30-Day Plan to Whip Your Career Into Submission is an unusual hybrid of laugh-out-loud humor and instructive information to help people master a variety of career problems, no matter what career you’re in, or what level you’re at.  It’s jam-packed full of inspiring, quotable gems–the kind that get you elbowing whomever is within elbowing reach so you can read them out loud.  I thoroughly recommend this book.”
–Geraldine Laybourne, Chairman and CEO of Oxygen Media

“Karen Salmansohn has written a highly thoughtful exploration of what it means to work and be happy in a confusing world where we want it all.  (Oh, and it is entertaining too.)”
–Scott Webb, Executive Creative Director, Nickelodeon

“If you feel as if you’re trapped in career slavery–then chances are you could use a good laugh, along with some good helpful advice on how to master your career problems.  This book will supply both in hefty portions.”
–Mindy Schultheis, Executive VP of Comedy Development, 20th Century Fox TV — Review

Review

“The 30-Day Plan to Whip Your Career Into Submission is an unusual hybrid of laugh-out-loud humor and instructive information to help people master a variety of career problems, no matter what career you’re in, or what level you’re at.  It’s jam-packed full of inspiring, quotable gems–the kind that get you elbowing whomever is within elbowing reach so you can read them out loud.  I thoroughly recommend this book.”
–Geraldine Laybourne, Chairman and CEO of Oxygen Media

“Karen Salmansohn has written a highly thoughtful exploration of what it means to work and be happy in a confusing world where we want it all.  (Oh, and it is entertaining too.)”
–Scott Webb, Executive Creative Director, Nickelodeon

“If you feel as if you’re trapped in career slavery–then chances are you could use a good laugh, along with some good helpful advice on how to master your career problems.  This book will supply both in hefty portions.”
–Mindy Schultheis, Executive VP of Comedy Development, 20th Century Fox TV

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