“American Han shook me to my core. Gutting in its quietest moments and heartbreakingly familiar in its loudest conflicts, this book is a gripping portrait of the cost of assimilation into American life."—Muriel Leung, Lambda award-winning author of How to Fall in Love in a Time of Unnameable DisasterGrowing up in the San Francisco Bay Area in the 1980s, Jane Kim and her brother, Kevin, dutifully embodied the model minority myth as their par...

True story of a Domestic Violence relationship. I once believed the only way I'd get out of my relationship was in a body bag. I wrote this book to assist my healing and to answer the question I was asked most often "Why did you stay for so long?" I hope to create awareness of abusive relationships by telling my story of how it began, why I stayed for as long as I did and what I had to do to start the healing process. It is my vision to educate some and give hope to others. This is proof t...

You may know who this actor is, and yes, you may really love this musician. Or, hey, you may actually despise them.But do you know about her contributions to civil rights causes?Or to science?Or what they've overcome just to survive in a world that saw them as lesser because of the body they were born with?Did you know that the "Me too" movement was started by a Black woman years before we finally started seeing the social media hashtag #metoo when we loudly...

In the words of series editor Steven L. Davis, We Are Nature Defending Itself: An Anthology of Women on Bodies, Borders, and Place is “a revelation, a multicultural blend of well-known and emerging writers who come together to give nature a voice in our literature and our lives.” Not least of the many benefits to readers are its contributions from prominent Latina writers, presented here as advocates for the environment. Though this theme has long existed in Chicana literature, it...

The human microbiome and its resident micro-organisms have in recent years come to represent a new frontier in health research and science. Yet this body of knowledge has hitherto been little addressed within Oriental Medicine theory and has consequently been underutilised in practice.The book proposes a novel and ground-breaking approach to understanding and influencing gut health and the microbiome by integrating the latest evidence from Western medical research and the long-estab...

The work of German sculptor Isa Genzken is brilliantly receptive to the ever-shifting conditions of modern life. In this first book devoted to the artist, Lisa Lee reflects on Genzken’s tendency to think across media, attending to sculptures, photographs, drawings, and films from the entire span of her four-decade career, from student projects in the mid-1970s to recent works seen in Genzken’s studio.Through penetrating analyses of individual works as well as archival and interview...

Every young girl, lady, and woman in the world, regardless of her race, creed, religion, birth place, home upbringing, and socio-economic status, is absolutely priceless, and deserves to be treated with the utmost respect. If you have previously been in an abusive, unhealthy relationship that left you feeling drained, and you would love to attract a relationship with that special someone who will cherish you as the rare jewel that you are, this book is for you. In this ladys devotional, Yo...

Prince Princeton Miles III of Princeton, New Jersey, is an heir to his fathers and mothers throne, and he does not have time to be sick! Upon learning that he has three life-threatening illnesses, Princeton needs a miraclefast! Who better to read the beloved prince back to perfect health than his best reader at his reading agencyMiracle Faith Love? In the short novel, The Reading Specialist, come journey with Princeton and unsuspecting Miracle to Hawaii for one year, as they engage in the ...

Mary and Jason have always been surrounded by astronomical wealth which never rubbed off on them. None of their loved ones can understand Mary and Jasons never-ending economic plight. Mary collapses in the employment office due to the emotional strain of being out of work for an indefinite period of time. At the emergency room, Mary learns that she is expecting their first child. Subsequently, the attending physician schedules an appointment for Mary to see an OB-GYN on January 19th. Mary ...

In this book, What You Say To Your Child Really Does Matter: From The Moment Of Conception To Death, you will come to understand the upmost and uttermost importance of how critical it is to begin speaking words of blessing, happiness, love, prosperity, wealth, riches, abundance, perfect health, success, and favor over your child and to your child daily, as soon as you learn that your child is on the way!

Twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week, 365 days of the year366 in leap yearyou are either attracting astronomical money to you like an infinite money magnet or repelling big money away from you like a gigantic money repellant. In the energetic, thought-provoking book, The Infinite Rules to Money, discover why anyone of any age, race, gender, socioeconomic status, educational background, and religious belief can attract infinite money anytime, anyplace, and anywhere, regardless of what...

The Bijlmer Spinoza-Festival is an artwork, a sculpture, created by Swiss artist Thomas Hirschhorn in a peripheral borough of Amsterdam's south-east known as the Bijlmer in 2009. This book recounts the event through the eyes of its "Ambassador", art historian Vittoria Martini, who was invited by the artist to be an eyewitness to the existence of this "precarious" work. A term Hirschhorn sees as positive and creative: a means of asserting the importance of the moment and of the pla...