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At 32, Russell Green has it all: a stunning wife, a lovable six year-old daughter, a successful career as an advertising executive and an expansive home. He is living the dream, and his marriage to the bewitching Vivian is the center of that. But underneath the shiny surface of this perfect existence, fault lines are beginning to appear, and no one is more surprised than Russ when he finds every aspect of the life he took for granted turned upside...

"A leading expert on twins delves into the stories behind her research to reveal the joys and real-life traumas of twelve sets of twins, triplets, and quadruplets." "Indivisible by Two introduces us to an assortment of characters, from the "Fireman Twins"--Brothers who, though reared separately, are similar in personality and behavioral traits - to the twin sisters who overcame one twin's infertility by having the other serve as her surrogate mother....

These 13 short stories by well-known contemporary writers evoke a wide range of women's experiences and feelings. Writers such as Alice Munro, Ann Beattie, Elizabeth Tallent, and Mavis Gallant survey the rich complexity and frequent contradictions of contemporary life. They focus on weddings, funerals, childbearing, visits by relatives, friendships, and memories. In Susan Minot's story "The Navigator," a young girl tells of her family's struggle against...

Presents a collection of more than 190 prayers, spanning 235 years, by African Americans.

In this video lesson, you will learn how to recognize a line of symmetry by folding the two-dimensional figure into matching parts.--Publisher.

Spiritual experience has always been, and is especially today, a liberating source of women's identity and their resistance to oppression. These selections feature centuries of this tradition's most intuitive writing: women ancient, medieval, and modern articulate the spiritual dimension of life. From Ishtar of Babylonia and Isis of Egypt to the medieval mystic Hildegard of Bingen, the contemporary African American poet Lucille Clifton, and the Buddhist...