Bøger af Lisa Cohen

In her twenties after years of physical therapy and while recovering from brain surgery, a hiker sets out for the Appalachian Trail. Her backpacking journey follows the white blazes, mountains and the people. From the wildlife in Georgia to the one hundred mile wilderness in Maine, a story about viewing the trail twice.

Having lived with Multiple Sclerosis ("MS") herself since 2001, author Lisa Cohen defines the "BS of MS" as an amalgam of the physical changes and losses caused by MS, the life changes and challenges that result, and the psychological and emotional "stuff" that comes along with those changes and challenges. This BS of MS may cause women living with MS to "live small," feel burdened, and feel defeated on a daily basis. An easy-read reference handbook, "Overcome the BS of MS" provides a 3-Step Plan that is a system of preparation, personal empowerment, and conscious forward action that is designed to help women living with MS to consistently overcome the BS of MS. "Overcome the BS of MS" is for any woman who wants to truly feel like she is actively living and enjoying a life that she chooses, even though she also happens to be living with MS. It provides the tools to get a grip on the "BS of MS", manage it like a boss, prevail over it, and start racking up wins.

All We Know is one of Publishers Weekly's Top 10 Best Books of 2012A revelatory biography of three glamorous, complex modern womenEsther Murphy was a brilliant New York intellectual who dazzled friends and strangers with an unstoppable flow of conversation. But she never finished the books she was contracted to write-a painful failure, and yet a kind of achievement.The quintessential fan, Mercedes de Acosta had intimate friendships with the legendary actresses and dancers of the twentieth century. Her ephemeral legacy is the thousands of objects she collected to preserve the memory of those performers and to document her own feelings.An icon of haute couture and an editor of British Vogue, Madge Garland held influential views on fashion that drew on her feminism, her ideas about modernity, and her love of women. Existing both vividly and invisibly at the center of culture, she-like Murphy and de Acosta-is now almost completely forgotten.In All We Know, Lisa Cohen describes these women's glamorous choices, complicated failures, and controversial personal lives with lyricism and empathy. At once a series of intimate portraits and a startling investigation into style, celebrity, sexuality, and the genre of biography itself, All We Know explores a hidden history of modernism and pays tribute to three compelling lives.