Sallie Tisdale, Author . Harper San Francisco $24.95 (299p) ISBN 978-0-06-059816-7
Known for her books and essays but less well-known as a lay Buddhist teacher and consulting editor to the magazine Tricycle
, Tisdale unites her spiritual and feminist concerns by breathing life into historical women of Buddhism. The book constructs
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Sallie Tisdale, Author Anchor Books $14.95 (352p) ISBN 978-0-385-46855-8
Tisdale's provocative look at sexuality relates personal experiences alongside meditations on subjects such as pornography and prostitution. (Nov.)
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Sallie Tisdale, Author McGraw-Hill Companies $15.95 (262p) ISBN 978-0-07-064784-8
Medicine, the modern sorcerer's apprentice, has unleashed a flood of technological advances without regard for the patient, in Tisdale's view; she charges that ""the sick and suffering are forgotten so that their illnesses can be healed.'' A nurse...
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Sallie Tisdale, Author Henry Holt & Company $21.95 (284p) ISBN 978-0-8050-1353-5
Tisdale ( Sorcerer's Appentice ) here conducts a familiar survey of human interference in paradise. The object of her critique is her beloved Pacific Northwest, a region encompassing Oregon, Washington, Idaho and part of Northern California. Tisdale
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Sallie Tisdale, Author Doubleday Books $22.95 (338p) ISBN 978-0-385-46854-1
Tisdale, who stirred controversy with her 1992 essay on pornography in Harper's, combines simplistic thinking and provocative insight in this freewheeling but tiresome meditation on female desire, sexual jealousy, orgasm, horniness, adult sex shows...
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Sallie Tisdale, Author Riverhead Books $25.95 (320p) ISBN 978-1-57322-130-6
In this informal book-length essay, Tisdale (Talk Dirty to Me) examines food and our relationships with it. Tisdale's style is casual, yet never aimless; each chapter is a well-crafted part of the intensely thoughtful whole. Tisdale is specifically...
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Sallie Tisdale. Touchstone, $25.99 (256p) ISBN 978-1-5011-8217-4
Tisdale (Violation: Collected Essays), a former nurse, offers an intimate insider’s look at dying, aimed at both caregivers and mortally ill people. By turns philosophical and pragmatic, Tisdale gently prods readers to make plans while they can. She
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Sallie Tisdale. Gallery, $27 (272p) ISBN 978-1-982175-89-4
Essayist Tisdale (Violation) takes readers down an entertaining rabbit hole in this fascinating exploration of the enduring attraction and success of “the greatest social experiment on television.” How has the award-winning reality TV show Survivor...
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