![]() Criticisms about the “tone” of their voice are used to trash their entire message. It was also Navaratri, and the image of Maa Kali –raging, bent upon destroying injustice, loomed large in my imagination.Īs Soraya Chemaly points out, women who speak up against their harassers are constantly gaslighted. It was coincidental that the #MeToo movement in India picked up steam just around the time that I was reading Soraya Chemaly’s book, Rage Becomes Her: The Power of Women’s Anger. ![]() Women’s anger spilling out in #MeToo stories ![]()
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Award-winning author Stephen Graham Jones returns with Night of the Mannequins, a contemporary horror story where a teen prank goes very wrong and all hell breaks loose: is there a supernatural cause, a psychopath on the loose, or both? ![]() Think and grow rich amazon6/25/2023 ![]() ![]() The Think and Grow Rich Workbook is the best guide for anyone who wants to turn their dreams into reality. * A practical spiral-bound binding, designed to make using the workbook easy and helpful * Biographical sketches of some of history's wealthiest people ![]() * Journal sections to record answers, thoughts, next-steps, and "wins" * Short and powerful quotes aimed to boost the Think and Grow Rich experience * Dozens of inspirational nuggets from the book, each highlighted for further study * More than fifty transformational exercises, for every one of the thirteen steps The Think and Grow Rich Workbook includes: Now, for the first time, readers and students of this powerful program will have this beautifully designed and user-friendly volume for use alongside the classic. 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Randy Woodleyrecognized Cherokee descendant, writer, professor and co-sustainer of Eloheh Farm and Indigenous Center for Earth Justice in Yamhill, ORwill lead us on this journey with his forthcoming book, Becoming Rooted: One Hundred Days of Reconnecting with Sacred Earth. Woodley invites us to come away from the American dream-otherwise known as an Indigenous nightmare-and get in touch with the water, land, plants, and creatures around us, with the people who lived on that land for thousands of years prior to Europeans' arrival, and with ourselves. Woodley invites us to come away from the American dream-otherwise known as an Indigenous nightmare-and get in touch with the water, land, plants, and creatures around us, with the people who lived on that land for thousands of years prior to Europeans' arrival, and with ourselves. 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