This book is dedicated to all those people who struggle with childhood abuse and betrayal and who continue to strive for autonomy. The book was written for health professionals, people diagnosed with a borderline personality disorder and for anyone who lives with or cares for someone with borderline personality disorder. It was written to enlighten health professionals and the general public to the lived experience of borderline personality disorder. It is a reminder of the incredible strength and persistence people can muster in their struggle to survive. It was also written to emphasise the need for greater empathy and sensitivity for people who have survived childhood abuse and betrayal.
The papers which comprise this publication, The Caribbean Community: The Struggle for Survival represents the Editor's choice from among thousands of articles, books and other commentaries that have provided clear and reasoned responses and solutions to inform and guide Caribbean leadership and the people of the Region. They also take a comprehensive look at regional intergration and serve as a guide to those with an interest in following the development in the Carribean Community. The book offers prescriptions for our success as a Community which are predicated on advice regarding what our political leaders should do in a normal context of the evolution of the Community. These prescriptions are based on sound scholarship and competent analysis. The book is an invaluable addition to the existing literature on Caribbean integration and should be part of any compendium on the study of the subject.
Labour of LoveOne Womans Struggle for Survival on a Tumultuous Journey is an autobiography about one womans solitary journey through lifea journey that was certainly both tumultuous and a labor of love. It is a must read that will make you laugh and cry at the same time. Labour of Love tells the story of a mothers struggle for survival. It will inspire anyone going through challenges brought on by circumstances beyond their control. It will not only encourage readers but also give them hope for the futurehope that they too can make it through tumultuous times and believe that anything is possible in life if you persist. Based on a true-life story that will send shivers through readers spines, Labour of Love recounts unforeseen struggles and encompasses both joyous laughter and abject sadness. It is a story about a world filled with dreams and hopes. Readers, especially mothers going through difficulties, will find some of the content of this book disturbing. Mothers will, perhaps, relate to some of some of the trials recounted in this autobiography. For all those who need inspiration and encouragement not to be disheartened in a world where struggle for survival continues, seemingly without end, here is Labour of LoveOne Womans Struggle for Survival on a Tumultuous Journey.
Building Bridges is a collection of poetry, personal essays and stories written by students at East River Academy, an alternative school on Rikers Island, that serves incarcerated individuals as they await trail, sentencing or release from jail. Their writing was inspired by the theme of survival--a topic they explored in their English classes and which resonates with each of them personally. These pieces are a testament to the authors' remarkable resilience in the face of struggle and their efforts to survive, succeed and forge new beginnings. We hope this book offers a window into the hearts and minds of young adults incarcerated in our country today. Their voices of regret, hope and desire for a better future need to be heard; their struggles need to be understood and acknowledged. We invite you to read the words of the students at East River Academy.
This book is about how we go through all types of struggles in our lives and the only way we can and have survived them is with God. Life isn't easy but we have to know that we will have struggles in this life some harder than others, but with God on your side you have the victory over Satan's schemes. The devils wants to destroy our lives because he knows what God has planned for us. This book is about my life and what many didn't know about me. It is also about how God set me free and gave me the victory over the enemy even unto death. As you read this book it will help you to understand and the know that you can survive anything with God.
Sure to become a classic on female empowerment, a groundbreaking exploration of the personal, cultural, and global implications of intergenerational trauma created by patriarchy, how it is passed down from mothers to daughters, and how we can break this destructive cycle. Why do women keep themselves small and quiet? Why do they hold back professionally and personally? What fuels the uncertainty and lack of confidence so many women often feel? In this paradigm-shifting book, leading feminist thinker Bethany Webster identifies the source of women’s trauma. She calls it the Mother Wound—the systemic disenfranchisement of women by the patriarchy—and reveals how this cycle is perpetuated by wounded mothers who unconsciously pass on damaging beliefs and behaviors to their daughters. In her workshops, online courses, and talks, Webster has helped countless women re-examine their lives and their relationships with their mothers, giving them the vocabulary to voice their pain, and encouraging them to share their experiences. In this manifesto and self-help guide, she offers practical tools for identifying the manifestations of the Mother Wound in our daily life and strategies we can use to heal ourselves and prevent our daughters from enduring the same pain. In addition, she offers step-by-step advice on how to reconnect with our inner child, grieve the mother we didn’t have, stop people-pleasing, and, ultimately, transform our heartache and anger into healing and self-love. Revealing how women are affected by the Mother Wound, even if they don’t personally identify as survivors, Discovering the Inner Mother revolutionizes how we view mother-daughter relationships and gives us the inspiration and guidance we need to improve our lives and ultimately create a more equitable society for all.
Whatever your opinion of ‘Intelligent Design,’ you’ll find Stove’s criticism of what he calls ‘Darwinism’ difficult to stop reading. Stove’s blistering attack on Richard Dawkins’ ‘selfish genes’ and ‘memes’ is unparalleled and unrelenting. A discussion of spiders who mimic bird droppings is alone worth the price of the book. Darwinian Fairytales should be read and pondered by anyone interested in sociobiology, the origin of altruism, and the awesome process of evolution. --Martin Gardner, author of Did Adam and Eve Have Navels?: Debunking Pseudoscience
Here are the fascinating stories of twenty-three little-known but remarkable inhabitants of the Spanish, English, and Portuguese colonies of the New World between the 16th and the 19th centuries. Women and men of all the races and classes of colonial society may be seen here dealing creatively and pragmatically (if often not successfully) with the challenges of a harsh social environment. Such extraordinary "ordinary" people as the native priest Diego Vasicuio; the millwright Thomas Peters; the rebellious slave Gertrudis de Escobar; Squanto, the last of the Patuxets; and Micaela Angela Carillo, the pulque dealer, are presented in original essays. Works of serious scholarship, they are also written to catch the fancy and stimulate the historical imagination of readers. The stories should be of particular interest to students of the history of women, of Native Americans, and of Black people in the Americas. The Editors' introduction points out the fundamental unities in the histories of colonial societies in the Americas, and the usefulness of examining ordinary individual human experiences as a means both of testing generalizations and of raising new questions for research.
Compellingly argues that good health is as much social as it is biological, and that the racial health gap and the racial wealth gap are mutually constitutive. The Danger Zone Is Everywhere shows that housing insecurity and the poor health associated with it are central components of an unjust, destructive, and deadly racial order. Housing discrimination is a civil and economic injustice, but it is also a menace to public health. With this book, George Lipsitz reveals how the injuries of housing discrimination are augmented by racial bias in home appraisals and tax assessments, by the disparate racialized effects of policing, sentencing, and parole, and by the ways in which algorithms in insurance and other spheres associate race with risk. But The Danger Zone Is Everywhere also highlights new practices emerging in health care and the law, emphasizing how grassroots community mobilizations are creating an active and engaged public sphere constituency promoting new forms of legislation, litigation, and organization for social justice.
