The Not So Subtle Art of Being a Fat Girl
The Not So Subtle Art of Being a Fat Girl

Author: Tess Holliday

Publisher: Weldon Owen International

Published: 2017-09-12

Total Pages: 234

ISBN-13: 1681884038

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A plus-size supermodel tells her powerful personal story and offers inspiration and tips to women everywhere to help them survive and thrive. Mom. Feminist. Plus size. Supermodel. Loud. Proud. Body Activist. Beautiful. Businesswoman. Homemaker. Cat owner. Funny. Outspoken. Wife. Daughters. Lover. Fighter. Survivor… Tess Holliday is many things and perfect is not one of them. But she loves her imperfections—after all, they’ve formed the woman she is today. Tess’s number one rule in life is to love yourself ­no matter who you are, what your faults may be, where you come from, or what dress size you wear! It’s this discovery that has helped her through life—from being abused and bullied about her weight, to raising a kid alone and fending off social media trolls. Now here in this amusingly candid account, the woman at the forefront of the body positive movement—who has been credited with transforming the fashion industry—explains why you should be happy to make mistakes but how to properly learn from them, as well as how to love your imperfections and be comfortable in your own skin, ­no matter how much you have. “[Tess’s] determination and drive to take all the bricks life has thrown her way and build a life full of beautiful experiences…makes this book a page turner. You’ll also be left with so many gems of wise advice, you’ll be ready to not so subtly step into your greatness too.”—Danielle Brooks, star of Orange is the New Black #effyourbeautystandards

Things No One Will Tell Fat Girls
Things No One Will Tell Fat Girls

Author: Jes Baker

Publisher: Seal Press

Published: 2015-10-27

Total Pages: 258

ISBN-13: 1580055826

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Things No One Will Tell Fat Girls is a manifesto and call to arms for women of all sizes and ages. With smart and spirited eloquence, veteran blogger Jes Baker calls on women to be proud of their bodies, fight against fat-shaming, and embrace a body-positive worldview to change public perceptions and help women maintain mental health. With the same straightforward tone that catapulted her to national attention when she wrote a public letter addressing the sexist comments of Abercrombie & Fitch's CEO, Jes shares personal experiences along with in-depth research in a way that is approachable, digestible, and empowering. Featuring notable guest authors, Things No One Will Tell Fat Girls is an invitation for all women to reject fat prejudice, learn to love their bodies, and join the most progressive, and life-changing revolution there is: the movement to change the world by loving their bodies.

Abnormal Psychology
Abnormal Psychology

Author: Ann M. Kring

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons

Published: 2018-01-09

Total Pages: 638

ISBN-13: 1119362288

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Abnormal Psychology: The Science and Treatment of Psychological Disorders consists of a balance and blending of research and clinical application, the use of paradigms as an organizing principle, and involving the learner in the kinds of real-world problem solving engaged in by clinicians and scientists. Students learn that psychopathology is best understood by considering multiple perspectives and that these varying perspectives provide the clearest accounting of the causes of these disorders as well as the best possible treatments.

You Gotta Be You
You Gotta Be You

Author: Brandon Kyle Goodman

Publisher: Legacy Lit

Published: 2022-09-27

Total Pages: 179

ISBN-13: 0306826224

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Audible's Best of the Year in Well-Being YOU ARE ENOUGH EXACTLY AS YOU ARE. ​ From the time we’re born, a litany of do’s and don’ts are placed on us by our families, our communities, and society. We’re required to fit into boxes based on our race, gender, sexuality, and other parts of our identities, being told by others how we should behave, who we should date, or what we should be interested in. For so many of us, those boxes begin to feel like shackles when we realize they don’t fit our unique shape, yet we keep trying because we crave acceptance and validation. But is “fitting in” worth the time, energy, and suffering? Actor, writer, and activist Brandon Kyle Goodman says, Hell no it ain’t! As a Black nonbinary, queer person in a dark-skinned 6’1”, 180-pound male body born into a religious immigrant household, Brandon knows the pain of having to hide one’s true self, the work of learning to love that true self, and the freedom of finally being your true self. In You Gotta Be You, Brandon affectionately challenges you to consider, “Who would I be if society never got its hands on me?” This question set Brandon on a mission to dropkick societal shackles by unlearning all the things he was told he should be in order to step into who he really is. It required him to reexamine messy but ultimately defining moments in his life—his first time being followed in a store, navigating his mother’s born-again Christianity, and regretfully using soap as lube (yes, you read that right!)—to find the lessons that would guide him to his most authentic self. Compassionate and soulful, funny and revealing, You Gotta Be You is an unapologetic call to self-freedom. It’s about turning rejection (from others and yourself) into a roadmap to self-love. It’s a guide to setting boundaries and fostering self-growth. And most importantly, it’s an affirmation that we are enough exactly as we are.

The Power of Plus
The Power of Plus

Author: Gianluca Russo

Publisher: Chicago Review Press

Published: 2022-08-16

Total Pages: 119

ISBN-13: 1641606452

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"The Power of Plus will leave you feeling inspired, motivated, and ready to push for real change, as well as confident and encouraged to embrace yourself, just as you are. This is essential reading for anyone who truly cares about the future of fashion, and for anyone who believes in the power of being yourself." —Versha Sharma, editor in chief, Teen Vogue Plus-size fashion revolutionizes the way women view themselves and their bodies. Exclusivity runs within the foundation of fashion. While calls for diversity have intensified recently, long-held attitudes are only beginning to change. But through social media, plus-size people have been able to create supportive communities that show their confidence, strength, and beauty. Plus-size fashionistas have been writing their own narrative for the past three decades, creating a market all on their own that is now worth more than $21 billion. The Power of Plus features interviews with trailblazers such as Tess Holliday, Emme Aronson, Gabi Gregg, and more as it follows the evolution of plus-size fashion from its start on small blogs to its current boom, examining the way this market has changed women's relationships with their bodies and how plus-size fashion is integral to the future success of the industry. Plus-size fashion is not a PR stunt. It is a culture-changing market created by and for the people who have always deserved to feel stylish but never had the visibility to be . . . until now. By honoring our progress so far, The Power of Plus celebrates the next stage of the plus-size fashion movement.

Power Your Life With the Positive
Power Your Life With the Positive

Author: Cyrus Webb

Publisher: Mango Media Inc.

Published: 2018-04-15

Total Pages: 152

ISBN-13: 1633537498

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Real-life people share their inspiring, true stories of life-altering success that prove the power of positivity, even when things are at their lowest. Drawing on his relationships with industry insiders and those in front of and behind the camera in the entertainment industry, author Cyrus Webb has compiled a compendium of encouragement. Power Your Life with the Positive is filled with stories of amazing life turnarounds from real people proves the importance of optimism in an often-negative world. As one of the world’s most positive people, Cyrus Webb is perfectly suited to remind readers that it is possible to find the silver lining in every cloud through the advice and insights in this book. Power Your Life with the Positive is pure inspiration that will lift hearts, open minds, and create a movement of pass-it-on positivity and happiness. In these times of economic uncertainty, civic strife and political turmoil, it more important than ever to offer people hope and ideas on how to believe that the best is yet to come. The notables featured in Webb’s book faced their own fears, believed enough in their goals and dreams to pursue them and reaped rewards by sticking to their guns and not allowing their own doubts and those of others to stop them, including: supermodel Tess Holliday, Grammy award-winning singer and actress Stephanie Mills, Prison Break creator Paul T. Scheuring, Star Trek: The Next Generation and Reading Rainbow’s LeVar Burton, as well as recording artist Keith Sweat, The Walking Dead’s Jeryl, actress Antonique Smith, The Dukes of Hazzard actor John Schneider, actor Dan Bucatinsky of Scandal and 24, bestselling authors Mary Higgins Clark and Wally Lamb, American Idol’s Ruben Studdard and Taylor Hicks, artist Aubrey O’Day, and many more.

The Not So Subtle Art of Caring
The Not So Subtle Art of Caring

Author: Phillip Kane

Publisher: John Hunt Publishing

Published: 2022-06-24

Total Pages: 307

ISBN-13: 1789049091

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Virgin’s Richard Branson, Zappos’ Tony Hsieh, and Tesla’s Elon Musk, apart from their obvious success, all share another thing in common. Each utilizes storytelling to maximize their effectiveness as leaders. Many of the most influential leaders of our and all time, including arguably the most influential leader in history, used storytelling whenever they had a particularly important point to make. Encouraged by these influences, a father who was a known storyteller and a Nigerian priest who used stories to bridge a language barrier, author, and successful businessperson, Phillip Kane used stories each Friday throughout his career to help business associates relate to key issues facing the organizations he had the privilege to lead. These weekly letters had less to do with what was going on in the business than how people thought about what was going on in the business. By helping shift and align his teams’ point of view, Kane and the teams he led were able to accomplish more and win more often. All because of the stories he told. Many of them are assembled here in one place for the first time. Organized around key themes like encouragement, trust, and gratitude, Kane also provides additional insights for existing or aspiring leaders looking for a different, better way to appeal to those who should be following them. Featured twice in Kouzes’ & Posner’s, The Leadership Challenge (Wiley), first-time author, Phillip Kane’s storytelling technique and the leadership lessons he imparts are key for any leader seeking to create winning teams built on a fundamental foundation of caring and service to others.

The Science and Treatment of Psychological Disorders
The Science and Treatment of Psychological Disorders

Author: Ann M. Kring

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons

Published: 2024-09-18

Total Pages: 647

ISBN-13: 1394221754

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The Science and Treatment of Psychological Disorders blends theory and research with practice and clinical application to provide learners with a solid foundation in psychological disorders and develop their understanding with up-to-date and relevant research, examples, and contexts. From its first edition, the focus of this book has always been on balancing contemporary research and clinical application while involving the learner in the problem-solving engaged in by clinicians and scientists. It continues to emphasize an integrative approach, showing how psychopathology is best understood by considering multiple perspectives—genetic, neuroscientific, cognitive-behavioral, and sociocultural—and how these varying perspectives produce the clearest accounting of the causes of these disorders, as well as provide insights into the best possible treatments. With this new sixteenth edition, “Abnormal Psychology” is dropped from the title. The importance of stigma and mental illness is discussed throughout—never is this more important than now when many social ills such as gun violence are too easily blamed on mental illness while we continue to warehouse people with psychological disorders in jails at an astonishing rate. AN INTERACTIVE, MULTIMEDIA LEARNING EXPERIENCE This textbook includes access to an interactive, multimedia e-text. Icons throughout the print book signal corresponding digital content in the e-text. Case Study Videos and Pause and Ponder Activities: A collection of fourteen 7 to 10 minute Case Study Videos presents an encompassing view of a variety of psychological disorders, featuring people experiencing these disorders and their families describing symptoms from their own perspective. In addition, each video provides concise information about the available treatment options and commentary from a mental health professional. Each video is presented in the context of a Pause and Ponder activity with the following elements: Part I: Pause: Readers are asked to read several short examples of everyday life situations facing a person, or people, with a particular disorder and assess their own ability to empathize. Part II: Learn: Readers are directed to view the Case Study Video and answer a series of questions with interactive self-scoring. Part III: Ponder: Finally, readers are asked to respond to one or more open-ended questions and to reassess their ability to empathize. Interactive Figures, Charts & Tables: Appearing throughout the enhanced e-text, interactive figures, process diagrams, and tables facilitate the study of complex concepts and processes and help students retain important information. Even many of the simplest figures are interactive to encourage online readers to pause and absorb the information they present before scrolling on to additional reading. Interactive Self-Scoring Check Your Knowledge Questions and Practice Quizzes: Students can check their answers to the Check Your Knowledge questions at the end of each major chapter section instantly, and each chapter includes a self-scoring Practice Quiz to help prepare for graded assignments and exams.

The Subtle Art of Being an Asshole
The Subtle Art of Being an Asshole

Author: Dr. Brandon Day

Publisher: Dr. Richard Littlecock

Published: 2023-03-18

Total Pages: 240

ISBN-13:

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"With his signature humor, heartfelt honesty, and inspirational true-life stories, comedian and bestselling author, Dr. Brandon Day, discusses how he learned to accept his lived truth and come to terms with being an asshole. He shares his struggles with being fat phobic, transphobic, a racist, and his attempt at not being a sexist anymore as he attempts to embrace his new role as a male feminist. He tackles LGBQT issues, how he became a doctor, going woke, and he even shares intimate details from his personal life such as his ex-wife being a raging bitch and his lifelong struggles with his addiction to pooping." -New York Times WHAT OTHER FAMOUS PEOPLE ARE SAYING: "Dr. Brandon Day is like a white Maya Angelo. If he had a pussy, I'd definitely grab it." -Donald J. Trump "I am a really mean lesbian so I normally only read books about really mean lesbian stuff, but Dr. Brandon might have turned me straight." -Ellen DeGeneres "Profound and insightful. Dr. Brandon almost made me stop hating white people." -Ibram X. Kendi. "Hot! It totally gave me a boner, and I am not even supposed to have a dick." -Caitlyn Jenner "Read it cover to cover while I was taking a massive shit. Diarrhea has never been so much fun!" -Catherine, Princess of Wales "Truindenashendubbabapresser!" -Joe Biden "What a great read! Dr. Brandon is like Forrest Gump, but slightly more retarded." -Tom Hanks "Hilarious...almost as good as smoking crack and pissing on hookers.... almost." -Hunter Biden "Allah Akbar! Maybe Americans aren't so bad after all" -Al Qaeda "This is a book with lots of words and letters written in a time when we must think of the future in the present tense." -Kamala Harris

Bookshop Girl: Life's a Beach
Bookshop Girl: Life's a Beach

Author: Chloe Coles

Publisher: Bonnier Publishing Fiction Ltd.

Published: 2018-09-20

Total Pages: 137

ISBN-13: 1471407349

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The second in a new laugh-out-loud and sparky teen series, perfect for fans of Holly Bourne and Louise Rennison. Holly and Paige are at a literary festival in Skegton-On-Sea. They've been looking forward to it for ages. It's one of the biggest book festivals around - and there's a pop up bookshop tent and a lot of Big Shot Writers. It's basically like they're being PAID to go on a BFF HOLIDAY and SELL A FEW BOOKS! They had to beg their grumpy boss Tony to put their names forward. He ummed and ahhed and said he wasn't sure it was a good idea. But they're here at last and it's brilliant. Well, kind of. It's true that there's a diva of an author called Minnie, who dresses head to toe in pink, and insists that Paige picks fresh flowers for her signing table every day, even though it's raining. But along the way, Paige begins to find that there's quite a lot to learn from Minnie - not least, how to reach out for the things she wants . . . and the boy she likes. Written by debut author and bookseller Chloe Coles, this is the second in a new teen series that will make you want to rush out and take shelter in your nearest bookshop!