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Ten Recommandments for Personal Empowerment is a loose autobiography based on Dana's dysfunctional up-bringing and how she empowered herself and came out the other side. Showcasing this how-to meets autobiographical approach to her writing style, Dana uses anecdotes from her personal experiences, shares what she's gleaned from these experiences, and offers insights on how to work through personal trauma in a step-by-step manner.

This is Nadina LaSpina's story - from her early years in her native Sicily, where she contracts polio as a baby, a fact that makes her the object of well-meaning pity and the target of messages of hopelessness, to her adolescence and youth in America, spent almost entirely in hospitals where she is tortured in the quest for a cure and made to feel that her body no longer belongs to her, and to her rebellion and her activism in the disability-rights movement.

Renowned and loved for her refreshing candour on everyday issues, social, domestic and intimate, Stacey Solomon reminds us how important it is to embrace ourselves; the good, bad and the ugly. Stacey’s authenticity and her courage to say what others daren’t opens discussions on sensitive but...

A REBELLIOUS APPROACH TO ACHIEVING PROFESSIONAL SUCCESS. In Unbeatable Latinas, Valeria Aloe takes us on a transformative journey. She begins by examining how ancestral cultural messages —such as "be humble," "just work hard," "be grateful for what you already have," and "don't create conflict"— have historically hindered our professional advancement, leaving many of us feeling undervalued, underpaid, or unsupported in our growth.

The first definitive exploration of the changing role of the twenty-first-century First Lady, painting a comprehensive portrait of Jill Biden—from a White House correspondent for The New York Times “A fascinating and deeply researched exploration into the most public facing and least...

Was für eine Entdeckung – es braucht ein ganzes Leben, um einen solchen Text zu schreiben. "Die Geschichte erschien mir viele Jahre lang gänzlich unerheblich." Von diesem Satz aus erzählt die heute siebzigjährige Helene Bracht von einer über Jahrzehnte verschütteten Erfahrung, die sie mit sehr vielen Frauen und vielen Männern teilt: der, dass es auf dem Lebensweg mit der Liebe und der Sexualität nicht nur gut und einvernehmlich zuging. Wie liebt und begehrt man, wenn Verletzendes verborgen hinter einem liegt? Wie lebt und liebt man immer weiter?