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A way to deepen our understanding of the relationship between social justice and the work of healing-healing as individuals, communities, and societies.
The newest title in the Emergent Strategy Series, Liberated to the Bone, addresses the intersections between healing our physical bodies and healing our social relations which are shaped by violence. Bodyworker and cultural worker Susan Raffo addresses intergenerational trauma, social justice, organizing,...
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In QAnon and On, Guardian columnist Van Badham delves headfirst into the QAnon conspiracy theory, unpicking the why, how and who behind this century's most dangerous and far-fetched internet cult.
From Gamergate to Pizzagate and beyond to QAnon, internet manipulation and disinformation campaigns have grown to a geopolitical scale and spilled into real life with devastating consequences, entangling everyone from politicians to Hollywood celebrities.
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En 2005, Nicolas Wild, dessinateur de bande dessinée sans domicile fixe, trouve à la fois un plan squat et un boulot. C'est un peu loin : à Kaboul, dans un Afghanistan encore instable après la guerre.
Voilà donc ce jeune insouciant transporté dans une capitale en crise, chargé de dessiner une adaptation de la constitution afghane, puis de travailler sur la campagne de recrutement de l'armée. Il devient dès lors un observateur privilégié...
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Coup de coeur du club de la presse auvergne - Rendez-vous du Carnet de voyage
En 2005, Nicolas Wild, dessinateur de bande dessinée sans domicile fixe, trouve à la fois un plan squat et un boulot. C'est un peu loin : à Kaboul, dans un Afghanistan encore instable après la guerre.
Voilà donc ce jeune insouciant transporté dans une capitale en crise, chargé de dessiner une adaptation de la constitution afghane, puis de travailler sur la campagne...
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Sélection pour le prix Artémisia 2019
Lucha est l'histoire du mouvement du même nom, créé par de jeunes Congolais de tous milieux, origines et religions qui ont choisi de mener un combat pacifique dans un pays o les choses se règlent souvent par les armes, le clientélisme ou la corruption.
C'est en Janvier 2012 que ce mouvement citoyen voit le jour à Goma, dans l'Est de la République démocratique du Congo (Kivu), une région soumise aux...
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Moby, the biggest selling electronica artist in history, ponders the question: why did so many people hate my guts? His surreal new documentary Moby Doc documents his brutal childhood, his rise and fall from pop stardom, and the drugs and booze that nearly did him in.
Andrew Goldman interviews "Master of Chaos" music manager Allen Kovac, who shares all the grisly details of managing Mötley Crüe, Meatloaf, Duran Duran... and Richard Marx.
Andrew...
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Sleep is Kerry Bajaj's superpower. Her daughters Leela, 5, and Rumi, 3, have slept at 7 pm since they were 7 months old. After moving to India with her husband Karan, Kerry's been bombarded with questions about their perfect sleep regimen.
Find all her answers in Sleep, Baby, Sleep: A Bedtime Routine from 8 to 8. Kerry, who has studied infant and child sleep in the US, shows you how a little discipline and a lot of patience can help inculcate good...
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A collection of essays, oral histories, and artworks about periods across all stages of life, compiled by the editor of the New York Times best-selling anthology My Little Red Book.
Rachel Kauder Nalebuff was a shy teenager, who was embarrassed to talk about anything relating to the body, when she first heard her great aunt's harrowing story of getting her first period while on a train fleeing Nazi-occupied Poland. Rachel started wondering about...
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Le Service Pénitentiaire d'Insertion et de Probation de Gironde a confié à Bast la responsabilité d'animer un atelier de bande dessinée à la Maison d'Arrêt de Gradignan.
L'objectif était de faire découvrir aux détenus une nouvelle forme d'expression à travers le dessin et l'écriture de scénarios. De trouver un moyen de se raconter, de se dévoiler à travers des fictions, de proposer un lieu de communication et d'échange entre détenus...
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'Every day, millions of people -- the rich, the poor and the many foreign visitors -- are hunting for ways to get their business done in modern India. If they search in the right places and offer the appropriate price, there is always a facilitator who can get the job done. This book is a sneak preview of those searches, the middlemen who do those jobs, and the many opportunities that the fast-growing economy offers.'
Josy Joseph draws upon two decades...
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A brilliant examination of literary inventions through the ages, from ancient Mesopotamia to Elena Ferrante, that shows how writers have created technical breakthroughs-rivaling any scientific inventions-and engineering enchantments to the human heart and mind.
Literature is a technology like any other. And the writers we revere-from Homer, Shakespeare, Austen, and others-each made a unique technical breakthrough that can be viewed as both a narrative...
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The book explores 5 steps to Finding Your Thing which is a model that is proven through Lucys work. Im on a mission I want everyone in the world doing what they’re brilliant at and not what they’re just good at. I call this doing your Thing (with a capital T!) This book is about finding your Thing. Finding it, refining it, loving it, and actually getting out there and doing it. For me the greatest waste is you not doing your Thing. Not doing what...
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A step-by-step guide to Spanish pronunciation that will help you build your confidence and communicate better in Spanish. Aimed at beginners and intermediate students this short course focuses on spoken Spanish, and will help you improve your pronunciation, confidence and fluency. The free booklet will show you how to pronounce each sound and give real-life examples of where these sounds are used. You will recognize why you mispronounce certain words...
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“Policing the Womb” brings to life the chilling ways in which women have become the targets of secretive state surveillance of their pregnancies.
Michele Goodwin expands the reproductive health and rights debate beyond abortion to include how legislators increasingly turn to criminalizing women for miscarriages, stillbirths, and threatening the health of their pregnancies. The horrific results include women giving birth while shackled in leg irons,...
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From beloved and bestselling author Roxane Gay, comes an exhilarating collection of her essays on culture, politics, and everything in between.
Since the publication of the groundbreaking Bad Feminist and Hunger, Roxane Gay has continued to tackle big issues embroiling society-state-sponsored violence and mass shootings, women's rights post-Dobbs, online disinformation, and the limits of empathy-alongside more individually personalized matters: can...
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Prix du Jury Œcuménique de la BD au Festival d'Angoulême 2011.
Prix Mélouah-Moliterni au Festival d'Aubenas 2011.
Au travers de Quitter Saigon, Clément Baloup donne cette fois la parole à ses proches (dont son propre père et son oncle), vietnamiens condamnés à l'exil par les mouvements de l'Histoire, les occupations tour à tour japonaise, française et américaine et la victoire des troupes communistes du Nord.
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Le parcours d'Antoine Deltour, un des deux lanceurs d'alerte qui ont révélé le scandale des Luxleaks, ces accords fiscaux secrets établis par le Luxembourg.
Antoine Deltour était auditeur pour PwC, l'un des principaux groupes d'audit comptable au monde, quand, en 2010, il découvre des milliers de rescrits fiscaux négligemment entreposés sur un serveur informatique interne. Ces documents confidentiels sont la preuve que de nombreuses multinationales...
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For fans of Helen MacDonald's H is for Hawk and Mary Roach, Erica Berry's WOLFISH blends science, history, and cultural criticism in a years-long journey to understand our myths about wolves, and track one legendary wolf, OR-7, from the Wallowa Mountains of Oregon
So begins Erica Berry's kaleidoscopic exploration of wolves, both real and symbolic. At the center of this lyrical inquiry is the legendary OR-7, who roams away from his familial pack in...
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This is an essential companion for adventurers everywhere. From making camp and finding food in the wild to security and self-defense in the streets, be prepared on land or sea. This unrivalled guide from SAS legend John 'Lofty' Wiseman's will cover and – the characteristics and climates of different regions and zones (including polar, arid, and tropical), how to plan a route, and where to travel.
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In the spirit of Conscious Uncoupling comes a guide for a child-centered approach to parenting after divorce, known as nesting, that will change what it looks like to move forward as a family after a marriage ends.
Research suggests when a couple separates, children suffer the most, as they're typically shuttled back and forth between two different homes. When Beth Behrendt and her husband divorced, she found a better way: She gave her children custody...