"Leora Tanenbaum is one of the most astute and thoughtful of the new generation of feminist writers."--Elizabeth Wurtzel

"Tanenbaum's prose is provocative."--San Francisco Bay Guardian

"Tanenbaum is thorough but never patronizing. Warm and informative, her own voice enriches the text."--BUST

"[Tanenbaum's] intimate perspective is personally revealing and enormously informative."--Feminist Review

Bad Shoes and the Women Who Love Them is a lighthearted but highly informed wake-up call to women to make smart decisions when buying and wearing fashionable shoes. Arming the reader with essential facts, citing medical literature as well as leading podiatric surgeons and orthopedists, Leora Tanenbaum covers the history of high heels, Chinese foot binding, the controversy over cosmetic surgery of the foot, and what Sigmund Freud had to say about women's shoes and sex.

Illustrated throughout by artist Vanessa Davis, Bad Shoes also includes hilarious anecdotes from women who love shoes. And in case you're wondering: yes, it is possible to make good footwear decisions without sacrificing style! Tanenbaum shows you how.

Leora Tanenbaum is the author of Slut! Growing Up Female with a Bad Reputation; Catfight: Rivalries Among Women; and Taking Back God: American Women Rising Up for Religious Equality. She lives in New York City.

Vanessa Davis is a freelance illustrator and cartoonist. Her first book, Spaniel Rage, was published by Buenaventura Press in 2005, and her second, Happy Chappie, is due out from Drawn & Quarterly in 2010. She produces a comics column for Tabletmag.com.

Make Me a Woman offers charming vignettes about being young, Jewish, and single It's easy to understand why Vanessa Davis has taken the comics industry by storm and is poised to do the same with the world at large--her comics are pure chutzpah, gorgeously illustrated in watercolors. No story is too painful to tell--like how much she enjoyed fat camp. Nor too off-limits--like her critique of R. Crumb. Nor too personal--like her stories of growing up Jewish in Florida. Using her sweet but biting wit, Davis effortlessly carves out a wholly original and refreshing niche in two well-worn territories: autobio comics and the Jewish identity. Davis draws strips from her daily diary, centering on her youth, mother, relationships with men, and eventually her longtime boyfriend. Her intimacy, self-deprecation, and candor have deservedly earned her many accolades and awards. Her deft comedic touch, lush color, and immediacy will set Davis apart not only as one of the premier cartoonists, but as one of the leading humorists for her generation, too.

The newest member of Followers of Jesus Faith Worship Center stirs up more troubles than blessings when he decides to rededicate his life to God]]

As the son of a well-known minister, Clarence Walker knows his decision to leave his father's flock and join Pastor George Landris's mega-church ministry is a controversial one. But little does he suspect it will ignite a firestorm of revelations that will shake the heart of the congregationand his very own family]]

From a long-buried secret that will bring the paternity of not one, but two women, to light, to a parishioner whose long awaited love match may be thwarted by resistance from an unexpected source, hidden truths are coming to the surface. But most shocking of all is that Clarence's own father, Reverend Marshall Walker, may not be the pious figure he claims to be. And since evidence of his transgressions lies in the hands of his arch nemesis, it's only a matter of time before Reverend Walker's lifeand his churchfalls like a house of cards.

Perceptive, moving, and emotional, Vanessa Davis Griggs once again celebrates church life with its triumphs, tragedies, and all-too-human mistakesproving that without truth, there can be no light]]

Vanessa Davis s autobiographical comics delighted readers ten years ago when she first began telling stories about her life in New York as a young single Jewish woman. More observational than confessional, Spaniel Rage is filled with frank and immediate pencil drawn accounts of dating woes, misunderstandings between her and her mother, and conversations with friends. Her keen observation of careless words spoken casually is refreshingly honest, yet never condemning. Unabashedly, Davis offers up gently self-deprecating anecdotes about her anxieties and wry truths about the contradictions of life in the big city. These comics are sexy, funny, lonely, beautiful, spare, and very smart the finest work from a natural storyteller.

Paris Simmons-Holyfield is facing a dilemma - she's pregnant but is not sure who the father is. After spending a night with Darius Connors, her ex-colleague, the baby could belong to him, but she doesn't want to ruin her marriage. Darius has his own problems; his wife, Tiffany, has kicked him out. But he doesn't want to give up on his marriage just yet - even if Tiffany has found company in the arms of Clarence Walker.

After seven years of marriage, Paris Simmons-Holyfiend and her husband, Andrew, are still childless. Now Paris wants to adopt orphaned nine-year-old Jasmine Noble. Trouble is, Jasmine's in the custody of ex-stripper Gabrielle Mercedes. Andrew is vehemently against the idea - as is Paris' father, a powerful politician. The only man to even dare be on Paris' side is shady Darius Connors, who has his own reasons for helping the beautiful, vulnerable Paris. She wonders why her loved ones are so opposed to the adoption...but the truth is far darker than Paris imagines.

It started innocently: a coincidental meeting between old high school friends. Then came lunch, then came confessions of unhappy marriages and loneliness. That's how Butterfly and Ethan slowly built the soul tie - the bond that, despite their devotion to God, has now led to adultery. And now Butterfly has been found out.

Brianna was 10 years old when she first encountered 25-year-old enigmatic David R. Shepard, an up-and-coming gospel recording artist. He left an impression on her that she would never forget. After graduating high school, Brianna marries Unzell Waters, a football player on the verge of having it all. When Unzell gets injured, he starts working for David, now a gospel megastar, but it soon starts wreaking havoc in his marriage...especially when Brianna realises her childhood infatuation has turned into a dangerous attraction - and it's mutual...

Troublesome teen sisters Sahara and Crystal Nichols are acting up and their risque behaviour is more than their mother Lenora can handle. Enter the girls' 75-year-old grandmother, Ma Ray, who agrees to take charge. She's determined to turn their lives around - and knows more about being a bad girl than either sister bargained for."

The first work in a new Christian-themed series from the author of the Blessed Trinity trilogy follows the courtship between a divorced pastor and a devout churchgoer.

Faith Alexandria Morell, the oldest of a trio of mysterious sisters, lives a troubled life and guards a horrifying secret. Yet few, least of all her new church family, would believe that this women, always impeccable dressed, is so utterly lost. What lies beneath the surface of Faith's carefully constructed veneer could completely destroy her.

The unique relationship between word and image in ancient Egypt is a defining feature of that ancient culture's records. All hieroglyphic texts are composed of images, and large-scale figural imagery in temples and tombs is often accompanied by texts. Epigraphy and palaeography are two distinct, but closely related, ways of recording, analyzing, and interpreting texts and images. This Handbook stresses technical issues about recording text and art and interpretive questions about what we do with those records and why we do it. It offers readers three key things: a diachronic perspective, covering all ancient Egyptian scripts from prehistoric Egypt through the Coptic era (fourth millennium BCE-first half of first millennium CE), a look at recording techniques that considers the past, present, and future, and a focus on the experiences of colleagues. The diachronic perspective illustrates the range of techniques used to record different phases of writing in different media. The consideration of past, present, and future techniques allows readers to understand and assess why epigraphy and palaeography is or was done in a particular manner by linking the aims of a particular effort with the technique chosen to reach those aims. The choice of techniques is a matter of goals and the records' work circumstances, an inevitable consequence of epigraphy being a double projection: geometrical, transcribing in two dimensions an object that exists physically in three; and mental, an interpretation, with an inevitable selection among the object's defining characteristics. The experiences of colleagues provide a range of perspectives and opinions about issues such as techniques of recording, challenges faced in the field, and ways of reading and interpreting text and image. These accounts are interesting and instructive stories of innovation in the face of scientific conundrum.

This book is committed to the issues related to social justice in the Caribbean, and seeks to increase dialogue among practitioners, unions, labor activists, academics, policy-makers and other individuals from across the social sciences and humanities. It is purposely multidisciplinary in orientation, intending to cover issues related to work, workers, labor, and related topics, as well as social, organizational and institutional aspects of work and industrial relations. It aims to set the tone for discourse on a wide range of issues related to the future of work and sustainable Caribbean development, social justice, industrial relations, governance systems, social protection, social dialogue, cooperatives and community empowerment, the future of education, migration and security, among others, nationally, and regionally. This work represents contemporary scholarly contributions from researchers presenting original and innovative research that contribute to the theory, practice and public policy dimensions of work, migration, labor, industrial relations, and related issues.

Award-winning author Griggs--author of "Redeeming Waters" and "Blessed Trinity"--weaves a powerful, church-driven story of a single mother trying to make the wrongs from the past right.