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In Black Feminism Reimagined, Jennifer C. Nash reframes Black feminism's engagement with intersectionality, often celebrated as its primary intellectual and political contribution to feminist theory. Charting the institutional history and contemporary uses of intersectionality in the academy, Nash outlines how women's studies has both elevated intersectionality to the discipline's primary program-building initiative and cast intersectionality as a threat to feminism's coherence.

Giulia Becker, Autorin beim Neo Magazin Royale, erzählt in ihrem Debütroman eine grandiose Geschichte voller Wärme und Humor, mit wunderbar wundersamen Charakteren. Vier Menschen stehen vor Problemen: Silke vor ihrem Exmann, Willy-Martin vor einem sabbernden Hund, Renate vor einem Berg Teleshopping-Impulskäufen und Frau Goebel vor dem Tod. Alle vier beschließen davonzulaufen; auf einem turbulenten Abenteuertrip vom beschaulichen Borken ins ostdeutsche Paradies Tropical Islands und zurück.

Two Worlds and In Between: The Best of Caitlín R. Kiernan presents a stunning retrospective of the first 10 years of the author’s work. It is a compilation of more than 200,000 words of short fiction, including many of her most acclaimed stories as well as some of the author’s personal favorites; several previously uncollected, hard-to-find pieces; her sci-fi novella, The Dry Salvages; and a rare collaboration with Poppy Z. Brite.

Noted fashion entrepreneur and former McKinsey & Company consultant, Lisa Sun, shares the eight strengths that every woman can call upon to be confident and successful.

Unlock the potential of AI to transform teaching and learning for all. This practical guide examines how the latest AI innovations can enhance accessibility, engagement, and outcomes when blended with Universal Design for Learning (UDL). Packed with real-world strategies, it empowers educators to leverage technology to reach every student.For students, discover how AI can provide personalized support tailored to your needs and strengths.

In Winning Her Business, Bridget Brennan, advisor to some of the world’s biggest brands and businesses, provides a road map for selling in a world dominated by the rise of women’s economic power.

The Loudest Duck is a book for managers and executives faced with the productivity and leadership challenges of a heterogeneous, multicultural workplace. It's a book for anyone working his or her way up the ladder in this new corporate world order. It's a book for anyone who belongs to a non-dominant group, be it women, people of color, short people, or employees who don't play golf but whose bosses do.

After 19 years of being treated like a time bomb by the witches who raised her, Lily Star Morgan decides to try her luck in the human world. She doesn't fit in, but she's determined to stay, until a gorgeous stranger with a tendency to shift into a terrifying, fire-breathing hellhound turns up. Unlike anyone she's ever met, he knows what she is.

She was to be my wife. I was to be her husband. Fate had other plans. She was falling for someone else while I was waiting for her. When you come from one of the most ruthless families in the country, you're used to getting what you want. Part of me wanted her, the other...well, let's just say, sometimes love can be reckless.

Three means war. Three sides vying for forever. Cole. My first love. The bad boy with the dangerous smile and passionate temper draws attention like a lit fuse on dynamite. But his dark molten eyes spark only for me. Trace. My second chance. Over six feet of Norse god in a tailored suit, he calculates every move and seizes my hungry breaths with an iron fist. Me. The free-spirited dancer, torn between two men with no resolution in sight. I tried leaving, staying, refusing, and surrendering. What options do I have left?

This audiobook provides social workers, outreach clinicians, case managers, and concerned community members with a pretreatment guide for assisting homeless couples, youth, and single adults. Chapters explore policy and research accompanied by narratives that trace a person's journey from homelessness to housing and beyond. The interrelationship between Homeless Outreach and Housing First is examined in detail to inform program development and hands-on practice.

On my 21st birthday, I did a dangerous thing. Something so reckless and wild it changed the way I think of myself. The only person who knows the whole story is a man with a gun and a thunderstorm in his eyes. A man I never thought I'd see again outside of my wildest fantasies and dirtiest daydreams. Now, three years later, I see him walking down the street in my hometown like he belongs here. I need to find him. I need to talk to him. I never even found out his name.

R.E.P.A.I.R. is a six-stage program for abuse survivors that will transform your life forever! This audiobook will help you: recognize and accept your adult problems stemming from childhood sexual abuse, enter into a commitment to transform your life, process your issues with tools and techniques that will enable you to become healthy, gain awareness to discover reality as you gather and assemble the pieces of the broken puzzle your life became, and gain insight into the complete picture helps you begin to return to what you were prior to being sexually violated.

Are you ready to create, inspire, and lead your own amazing salon team? Salon owners, this book is for you. It equips you with the business smarts you need to build a team of people you love and trust, so you can reap the rewards you deserve: money, time, freedom, and choice.

Wird Virginia erneut lieben können? Virginia Keiles unglückliche Ehe endet mit dem Tod ihres Mannes. Die junge Witwe kehrt zum erstenmal nach Jahren an ihren Heimatort in Cornwall zurück, um dort den Sommer zu verbringen: In einem abgeschiedenen Haus am Meer will sie mit ihren beiden Kindern endlich Ruhe finden. Doch damit ist es vorbei, als sie ihrer Jugendliebe Eustace Philips wiederbegegnet.

With an in-depth look at the two most empowering years in the life of Marilyn Monroe, The Girl details how The Seven Year Itch created an icon and sent the star on an adventure of self-discovery and transformation from a controlled wife and contract player into a businesswoman and unlikely feminist whose power is still felt today. When Marilyn Monroe stepped over a subway grating as The Girl in The Seven Year Itch and let a gust of wind catch the skirt of her pleated white dress, an icon was born.

Backed by psychological research and brain science, Fast Forward's 5 Power Principles have helped more than 100,000 professionals achieve extraordinary success and happiness. As they have excelled, so have their businesses and teams. For the first time, authors Wendy Leshgold and Lisa McCarthy share their proven system along with compelling stories from the people who have made their boldest ambitions a reality.

A woman who has been missing for three months is found dead with over 200 tally marks carved into her skin. For Detective Amy Sadler, who is still recovering mentally from a past undercover operation gone wrong, the case is as unsettling as it is frustrating. As more bodies appear with the same tally marks, Amy's only solace from the seemingly unsolvable case is the romance blooming between herself and forensic pathologist Dr. Lira Ward, a beautiful soul with a past even she doesn't understand.

When Claire's grandfather and his army buddies converge in the Arizona desert to find new wives, it's her thankless job to keep them out of trouble with the opposite sex. But when she finds a human leg bone and partners with a reluctant geotechnician to dig up secrets from the past, trouble finds her. If she doesn't stop digging, she could wind up dead.

From the president of EMILY's List, a playbook for women changing the world in politics, business, or any arena, with a foreword from Vice Presidential candidate Senator Kamala Harris. Run to Win is for all women who are looking to lead. Organized around the steps that EMILY's List coaches its candidates through (from deciding to run through celebrating victory), this book is full of essential lessons for any woman trying to succeed in a male-dominated field. Their arena is politics but their message is universal.