New Releases by Gail Sheehy

Assesses the leadership qualities in Gary Hart, Jesse Jackson, Bob Dole, George Bush, Al Gore, Mike Dukakis, and Ronald Reagan.

No book in the last decade has changed more lives than Gail Sheehy''s groundbreaking Passages. Now, going beyond Passages in purpose and scope, Gail Sheehy''s landmark best-seller explains why some of us overcome life''s crises while others do not. Through interviews with hundreds of people of all ages and backgrounds, she has found the true pathfinders - men and women who have discovered uncommon solutions to the predictable crises and unexpected accidents of adult life. In vivid, unforgettable portraits, Gail Sheehy tells their life stories and analyzes the process by which they accumulated confidence, control and courage in their lives. Pathfinders is that rare book which sets you on your own unique path to well-being. No matter what age or which sex you are, you are likely to face many of the following crossroads: Leaving home, choosing a mate, starting a career, turning thirty, considering divorce, deciding whether or not to become a parent, mourning the death of a parent, turning fifty, facing financial disasters, learning how to retire without joining the walking dead - Pathfinders will show you how to turn these life obstacles into opportunities.

Guide de psychologie pratique et d''p̌anouissement de la personnalit.̌ Conseils ̉base de nombreux exemples concrets, pour aider ̉trouver le bonheur. [SDM].

The netherworld of prostitution has never before been so deeply explored or vividly portrayed as in this book. Sheehy presents a realistic portrait of a fierce new breed of woman on the American scene. "The subculture of prostitution was the place to pick up early warning signals of how women in ''straight'' society would begin to use their sex--and their specific sexual advantage--to push against our social boundaries. Violent women are part of a much larger cultural shift. In contemporary America as it undergoes a slow earthquake of gender, we can see the awakening assertiveness of women most starkly at the farthest distance from the conventional center--in the netherworld." Hustling follows the class ladder of the vocation, from street hooker to independent call girl to the courtesan who plays not only for wealth but for social position. It also reveals who makes the profits: the pimps and pornographers, the lawyers and politicians, the Mafia--and the landlords, some of the largest taxpaying property owners in the nation.--From publisher description.

Case histories of the new life-styles: drugs, revolution, personal liberation.