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The International Symposium on Frontiers of Science was held to celebrate the 80th birthday of Chen Ning Yang, one of the great physicists of the 20th century and arguably the most-admired living scientist in China today. Many of the world's great scientists — including sixteen Nobel laureates, Fields medallists and Wolf Prize winners — converged on Beijing from all corners of the globe to pay tribute to Professor Yang.
The Symposium was organized by Tsinghua University, with which Professor Yang has had a lifelong relationship. In 1997, he helped to found the Center for Advanced Study at Tsinghua, was appointed to the university's faculty, and has since devoted his energy to the growth of the Center.
This unique and invaluable birthday volume is a collection of the presentations made at the Symposium, including fifteen plenary talks, seven of which are by Nobel laureates. It covers a wide range of topics and mirrors Professor Yang's research and intellectual interests. The range of fields encompasses high-energy, condensed-matter, mathematical, applied, bio-, astro-, atomic and quantum physics. Also included are talks given at the birthday banquet.
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From the acclaimed bestselling authors of Living Large and A Whole Lotta Love come four romantic and sexy stories celebrating big, bold, and beautiful women.
Customer Reviews:
"Give A Big Girl Some Love".......2007-10-07
The men in this anthology/novella: Michael Evans, Tyler Savoy, Shepard Fraser and Neal Dunbar are men who don't let the certain size of a woman dictate their feelings. Tricia Spencer, Megan James, Cherise Givens,and Cara Scott...Big Girls Rule!!
True Love.......2007-01-12
True love has got to exist after reading 'Big Girls Don't Cry'. It was nice to read that big women are found sexy. And to be honest I like the way one of the stories touched on someone having a eating disorder. It was refreshing to read this over something like Zane or Wahdila Clark.
I Enjoyed This Book.......2006-03-07
I really enjoyed this book.
Although the stories were condensed,
I really loved reading about
accomplished, Plus Size women
of color.
Keep up the good work!
Big Girls Don't Cry.......2006-02-24
Dr. Love by Donna Hill
Tricia Spencer, a self proclaimed "big girl as long as she could remember," is a workaholic. She's busy getting her company ImageNouveau Advertising off the ground. She's so busy in fact, that she hasn't taken time for herself or her health as she soon finds herself flat on her back in the middle of a staff meeting. At the hospital the handsome Dr. Evans is assigned to her case. Will he be able to help Tricia see the importance of taking care of her health and personal life?
The Perfect Seduction by Brenda Jackson
College professor Megan James is back home in Virginia to care for her mother and new stepfather's ranch as they honeymoon for three weeks. She plans to spend her time engaged in some much needed R and R before its back to California and the next semester of school. That is until she finds herself face to face with her first love Tyler Savoy, a man whom she hasn't seen since he broke her heart over a decade ago. Megan feels that Tyler owes her a debt. Older, wiser, and equipped with a "voluptuous figure with an abundance of curves that were in all the right places," Megan intends to collect. But what happens when Tyler turns the tables on her plan? Who will pull off the `perfect seduction?'
Through the Fireby Monica Jackson
Cherise Givens has a "lush body with a wonderland of curves" and she knows it. She's a take-charge woman, and when she sees a man she wants - she gets! After all, "her weight never cost her any man worth having." So she is taken aback when she can't seem to get the reaction she wants from Shepard Fraser, an artist she's hired to provide paintings for her beauty salon. What transpires when the two find themselves in a life or death situation with only each other to depend on?
His Everything Woman by Francis Ray
For the right price, "poised and voluptuous" Carla Scott will be your hired wife. She cooks, cleans, shops, and decorates. No task is too big or too small. The full-figured owner of Cara Innovations is known as the Domestic Diva. As Neal Dunbar, the new owner of a home, looked around at the 50 plus unpacked boxes, he knew immediately that she was the perfect woman to bring order to his home. Will Cara become more than simply his `hired wife?'
Big beautiful bold women are back in this third anthology about living and loving large. Readers that couldn't get enough of A Whole Lotta Love will be happy to see some continuations of related characters. While all four were fun sexy tales, Brenda Jackson and Francis Ray's stories outshined the others. If you enjoyed Living Large and A Whole Lotta Love you will enjoy these. Again, job well done ladies.
Reviewed by Toni Mac
for BBW Reviews
Good Stories, But..........2005-07-15
While I am glad there was a book published honoring plus-sized women looking for romance, I am a little disappointed that only one hundred or so pages were dedicated to each story and that each one was not very well developed. I would have rather seen much more transition and maturation in the characters than what was in each of the stories.
Not to take away from the efforts of the authors, but I really wish they would have written full-length novels for each of the stories, because it seems as though they take their time at the beginning of the stories and rush to an ending, which is characteristic of these types of books, but I believe they chose to put even less effort into the middle and endings because it is just a "book about fat girls."
Overall, I liked the stories. They had interesting plots and were very cute, but they just didn't "play out" well in that I don't think enough space/pages were allotted to allow their full development of the characters and the plots themselves.
Customer Reviews:
Two wives-one husband.......2007-01-11
Reenie and Elizabeth O'Connal think that they have good lives. Reenie lives in Idaho with her three daughters and Elizabeth lives in California with her son and daughter. The only problem is that while they do not know it they are married to the same man-Keith O'Connal.
Then one day Liz's brother Issac sees Keith going onto a flight to Boise when he had told Elizabeth he was in Phoenix. Issac then discovers the double life that Keith had been hiding.
Both Reenie and Elizabeth are devistated. Elizabeth decides to move to Dundee, Idaho with her brother and children in tow looking for some closer. While Reenie does not want to like Issac there is an unmistakeable chemistry that pulls the two of them together.
What happens between Reenie and Issac as well as Reenie and Elizabeth and their kids? Read Big Girls Don't Cry.
Novak can do much better.......2006-04-15
I've now read and enjoyed several books by Brenda Novak. She has terrific potential in both the romance and suspense genres. But in Big Girls Don't Cry, she failed to tap the potential.
Great story idea...unfortunately, the dishonest, bigamist Keith NEVER got his come-uppance...instead, he got a low-stress job, access to all of his children AND still managed to exert control over both of his "wives" (to one extent or another) through most of the story.
I felt pitifully sad for Elizabeth throughout the book. She was portrayed as ALWAYS being second choice-to both her "husband" and her own brother! I didn't realize while reading this that there's another book focusing on Elizabeth. In fact, the ease with which (beautiful sweet perfect wonderful) Reenie found happiness-with no concern for Elizabeth-really annoyed me. I found it difficult to be happy for her. Maybe I'll feel better if I read Elizabeth's story.
A Favorite.......2005-10-14
I have read just about every one of my mom's books and Big Girls Don't Cry is one of my very favorites!
A Pager turner.......2005-10-10
BIG GIRLS DON'T CRY by Brenda Novak
October 9, 2005
Amazon rating 4/5
"This has got to be one of the juiciest Harlequin Superromances I've ever read. BIG GIRLS DON'T CRY is the story of two women who discover they are married to the same man. Reenie and Elizabeth both feel happily married. The one thing that makes them discontented is that their husband, Keith O'Connell, spends two weeks of each month working away from home.
It's Elizabeth's brother, Isaac Russell, who notices that something does not add up. While discussing a major car accident on the freeways of Sacramento, where Keith supposedly worked two weeks out of the month, Isaac notes that Keith says it had no impact on his commute. Isaac can tell that Keith is lying, but why? Isaac would not have thought twice about it, except he accidentally sees Keith at the airport in Los Angeles, when Keith is supposed to be in Arizona. Isaac decides to miss his own flight to follow Keith and find out what's really going on with his brother-in-law. What he discovers is beyond belief. Keith was on his way to see his other wife, Reenie, in Idaho. When Elizabeth learns the truth, and is told that Keith wants to stay with wife number one, she makes an impulse decision. She and her two children move to Idaho to be closer to daddy." Complete review at BookLoons dot com. - M Lofton for BookLoons.
A pager turner! One of my favorite Superromances this year so far.
Not one of Brenda Novak's better books........2005-09-26
Big Girls Don't Cry By: Brenda Novak
Sometimes Mr. Right couldn't be more wrong...
Thanks to a devastating revelation about her husband, Reenie Holbrook's once-perfect marriage is over. For eleven years she had the life she wanted---and now it's gone.
Sometimes Mr. Wrong couldn't be more right...
Reenie decides that the first step in recovering from her ordeal is to find work; after all, she has three young children to support. She's thrilled when she lands a job at Dundee High teaching history---until Isaac Russell, the man who triggered the unraveling of her marriage, accepts a temporary position teaching science. Then she's tempted to quit. Reenie doesn't care if the whole town admires Isaac...and she won't admit that, secretly, she admires him, too. She doesn't want to see him or his sister in "her" town.
But a friendship with the most unlikely woman leads to a relationship with the most unlikely man...
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I liked almost everything about this book, except the way Liz was written. I'm sorry but that woman acted like she was the only victim, and she wasn't. She acted like she had every right to move to where Reenie lived, and she didn't. She didn't once think of how this would effect her kids or Reenie's kids. IMO that was all about getting back at Keith. And she acted like she was the one who had to deal with it the most. Reenie was in the same situation, worse because they were married longer and because she had 3 kids. If I had been Reenie I would have either moved or confronted Liz. Liz almost seemed obsessed at some points. Like she was the only injured party. She had no right to move to Idaho. And she also had no right to make it seem like Reenie wasn't going through the same thing she was. In fact Reenie handled that a hell of a lot better then Liz, and Reenie was married to Keith longer. I was very disgusted with the way Liz was written, and I won't be reading or buying, "The Other Woman," Liz's story. I can only imagine how horrible she'll be in her own book.
The way this was written it almost seemed like the author had some resentment toward the situation, making one wife to be the victim, and the other to blame. I'm disgusted with this book. The only upside was Isaac and Reenie's relationship, which Liz tried to stop as well. I found it funny how Liz was written as the wronged party, yet slept with Keith AFTER finding out about his first wife.
Other things that were annoying if not puzzling, were how quick Keith quit his ever demanding job. Amazing how he could do that when he was caught but not before. Or how Reenie's mother, who should have been supportive, apparently didn't understand the situation enough to be on Reenie's side. How could a mother push her daughter towards a man who cheated, married, and had kids with another woman for 9 years? Some mother. And on top of all that let's not mention that Keith was sleeping with them both, Reenie one half of the month and then Liz the other. That is disgusting beyond words.
Either way, I'm glad I'm done with this book and will not be buying Liz's story. I loved all of Brenda Novak's previous books, but this one is just horribly written.
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- One of my alltime favorites
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- The BEST BOOK EVER!!!!!
- Love and purpose............................................
- Outstanding!!!
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Big Girls Don't Cry (One World Fawcett Gold Medal Bk)
Connie Briscoe
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"[An] empathetic portrait of a modern woman wrestling with issues of love, work, and family obligations." --
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Born into a comfortable Washington, D.C., home, Naomi Jefferson leads a life that is only occasionally marred by racism. As a teenager in the 1960s, her biggest concern centers around virginity. But all that changes when her older brother, Joshua--who seems destined for greatness--is killed in a tragic car accident on his way to a civil rights demonstration. Now the rift between black and white America becomes much too personal, and Naomi embarks on a journey to honor her brother's legacy--and to find herself.
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Customer Reviews:
One of my alltime favorites.......2007-02-02
I love this book from beginning to end. Great Read!!!!!!!!!
REVELATION.......2005-08-04
the title says it all. i found this book at the library on sale for a dollar. i havent been able to put it down! the character naomi reminded me alot about myself and this book really encouraged me to stay focused and never give up..I just finished it today and im going to the book store to catch up on all connie's books.. I must say I'm lucky to have stumbled upon such a good heart-felt and energetic book..
The BEST BOOK EVER!!!!!.......2005-05-16
I read this book when I was a 15 year old high school student I am now a 21 year old college student and I still remeber and love this book.
This was one of the first novel's that I read and I LOVED IT! Being that Im from DC and I now reside in the PG County area I could relate to the main characters struggles during her adolescent and teenage years. This book told a captivating story from start to finish and I loved that because it didnt leave you wanting more or thinking what's next? It basically left you fulfilled and happy with the ending.
I recommend this novel to all readers who love to be entertained and captured by their books. I especially recommend this novel to young African American women because its encouraging and empowering.
A Definite MUST READ!!
I love you Connie B.
Love and purpose...................................................2005-04-17
Even in the 60's the main issue for a teenager appears to be doin' it! In the middle class section of Washington, D.C. Naomi Jefferson lives a normal life that is occasionally spoiled by racism.
"Normality" appears to dip off when Joshua, her older brother dies. Now the differences between race in America becomes a very personal plight as Naomi is set on honoring her brother.
This girl just can't get it together. Leaving too many regrets and bumpy roads back in Atlanta. Naomi returns to her parents' where she finds work in a city councilman's office. With no room for advancement and the weight of an unhappy relationship Naomi finds herself back off to school.
In time Naomi joins a consulting firm, and is engaged. Just as she's passed over for a different position things in her life seem to be oh so hectic. Only to add the sudden knowledge of a teen age boy that is her brother's son. Is this true? Naomi is determined that her nephew will have the opportunities that her brother didn't.
As Naomi battles daily with issues of family obligations is there room for love?
Tee mentioned she was reading "Big girls don't cry" I found out that she was speaking of an anthology that is currently out. Although I read this some years back; I liked Connie Briscoe's read.
Outstanding!!!.......2003-03-18
Ms. Briscoe has done a wonderful job in "Big Girls Don't Cry". This book will capture your attention, heart and soul. Naomi became my sister instantly as I related to her character. I could not put this book down and as a former television addict, that means alot!
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Good Girls Do, Bad Girls Don't. Now meet Big Girls...
After her plus-size modeling career tanks, Leena Riley becomes a receptionist in her hometown veterinarian's office. Too bad the vet is Cole Flannigan, a boy who taunted her all through school. Good thing Leena has grown into her curves, because he's about to grow very fond of her.
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- Big girls can do whatever. . .
- Godawful wretched piece of tripe
- Vintage Weldon: Mother Goose with an acid tongue.
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Fay Weldon
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Now, from the writer who made grisly comic fodder of an ugly woman's revenge in The Life and Loves of a She-Devil comes the first novel to take the long, and caustic, view of the feminist orthodoxies of the last 30 years and the women who embraced, disseminated, and were sometimes disappointed by them. Deftly managing the biggest cast she's yet conjured, Fay Weldon recounts the 1971 founding of distaff Medusa Press by a goofily believable gaggle of British feminists--Stephanie, the beautiful one; Alice, the philosopher; Layla, the ambitious; Nancy the organized, who becomes Medusa's office manager; blonde Daffy, of the breeder urges; Zoe, the wife and mother who writes a feminist classic and commits suicide, the novel's sole victim of patriarchal oppression. Everyone else, male and female alike, is more the casualty of ideas at odds with desires and the inexorable ironies of trickster time. A lot of the comedy is deadpan, funny because it's true--who but Weldon would risk admitting that the venerable feminist saying A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle is a head-scratchingly opaque bit of sloganeering?
One of the great strengths, and charms, of Big Girls Don't Cry is that the heroines of the 1970s become the middle-aged mothers of the late 1990s; in most feminist fiction babies are burdens or betrayals, but not real people: here as in life, they are ascendant, products of their upbringing, characters to be reckoned with. Weldon's twentysomethings are as lovingly and astringently drawn as her fiftysomethings, and have as much to contribute to the clever plot. If you ever want to found a mother-daughter book club, consider making this your first selection. --Joyce Thompson
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This latest offering from critically acclaimed author Fay Weldon is a darkly comic romp through the minefields of friendship and feminism. On a balmy evening in 1971, five women meet in a cramped living room in the suburbs of London. Tired of their husbands and their own unsatisfying lives, they form the aptly named Medusa, a book publishing house founded on the principle of "getting even." With wry and savvy humor, Weldon weaves us through twenty years of these women's lives, as good intentions fall by the wayside and the hazards of their new politics, sex, and infidelity take their toll.
Customer Reviews:
Big girls can do whatever. . ........1999-11-28
She's done it again. In her succinct, dry way, Fay Weldon has succeeded in capturing the hopes, dreams, crushing defeats, and stunning recoveries that mark, bruise, and reshape the women of today. Her "Big Girls" are really a small group, every member flawed of course. She shows them tripping falling, fighting, succeeding. The problem is simple. These women decided it was easier to change the world than to change themselves. Of course, they do change, and the world is all the better for them having done so. Weldon's characters give us all a short, succinct course in feminist history, as they rise from humble beginnings (naked dancing in a living room for all to see) to forces to be reckoned with in publishing circles. They change the world. They change themselves. They change the reader. Weldon's wit is superb. She can say more in a few simple sentences than many writers can in several paragraphs (myself included).
Godawful wretched piece of tripe.......1999-03-14
Fay Weldon's been funny before; let us hope she will again, 'cause she sure struck out this time. This thing is so utterly meanspirited that it had me wanting to kick men and smack women. Had I not been trapped on a cross-country flight with nothing else to read, I wouldn't have endured it. As it was, I wished I was able to open the window; I would have chucked it.
Vintage Weldon: Mother Goose with an acid tongue........1999-01-27
You would think that after having written so many novels, and all about the same subject -- love and it's many complexities -- that Weldon would slip into formula writing. And I am still waiting for this to happen. A Weldon fan for more than 10 years, I have yet to be disappointed. How many times can one person write about lovers who cheat on each other (I haven't read a single Weldon novel that didn't involve multiple shades of adultery) and still keep it fresh? Obviously many. I've always considered Weldon more of a "womanist" than a feminist, and she uses this opportunity to trash the feminist movement of the 70s. Her satire is deliciously biting as she examines everyone's disparate perspectives. You don't know whom to sympathize with on what page because you can be sure that whomever you respected at the opening of the novel you will surely despise somewhere along the way, and vice versa. I eagerly await each new Weldon novel knowing that I am in for a wild ride. I had the opportunity to hear her read many years ago from her (then) new novel Darcy's Utopia and have never read her novels the same way since. She's like a cross between Mother Goose and Lizzie Borden. I would highly recommend this novel (or any other Weldon novel) to anyone who enjoys to laugh out loud, both at the characters and at him/herself. And there is just no way to be offended because she offends everyone at some point. On a down side I will say that her ending was a bit predictable, which is surprising for an author who usually can turn the formulaics of life into something spontaneous and exciting to witness.
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Big Girls Don't Cry
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Amazing Clemetis.......2005-08-24
I will never know why Clemetis is not appreciated in the States. She is amazing, bright and cynical. I appreciate her analytical view very much. Highly recommended for women with weight problems (and to the best of my knowledge that's 100% of the ladies in the world).
I didn't really like it.......2004-09-05
This book wasn't so great for me. It's about this over-weight woman living in great britain. she struggles with her "condition", which always has her going from diet to binge, diet to binge. until one day,this scientist is testing over weight women on diet pills on a one-year trial. she goes for it, un aware that she isn't acutally taking the real pills. you might like it. but i didn't.
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BIG GIRLS DON'T CRY
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- Sad and yet victorious story
- Excellent, Dramatic Story (This is for Oprah)
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A true story about a young girl that was born with a big disadvantage. She grew up in America. Having to find a career, learning from nutty or fruity people can make your mind twirl. Take a look into the life of a young girl finding herself through suicide, depression, abuse. Take a walk through fatal love sick men. Will she grow up sane or insane. She takes a journey from 2 yrs. old to 25 to mark her step in america. Her mother dies. She has 6 people living in one body. Her way is guided by spirits. She creates a path for her siblings. She struggle to survive but the pressure of what she do for money makes her not accepted. She creates a hard shell. She starts to fight. She feels she has to abuse men. (Life or death is the name. Living is the game.)
Customer Reviews:
Sad and yet victorious story.......2005-08-09
Many sad thoughts was entered in by the sad story! I like the book I just hoped the ending would be more happier....
Bless you for the courage to write that book
Excellent, Dramatic Story (This is for Oprah).......2005-04-10
Every one needs to read such a sad but victorious book!!
I cried and laughed.... This is a movie waiting to happen.
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