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What is feminism? In this short, accessible primer, Bell Hooks explores the nature of feminism and its positive promise to eliminate sexism, sexist exploitation, and oppression. With her characteristic clarity and directness, Hooks encourages readers to see how feminism can touch and change their lives - to see that feminism is for everybody.

O feminismo de bell hooks é para todo mundo. O feminismo de bell hooks é sobre você. O feminismo é para todo mundo traz a visão de uma das mais importantes feministas negras da atualidade sobre questões fundamentais ao movimento, com as particularidades das lutas de mulheres não brancas.

“The word ‘love’ is most often defined as a noun, yet we would all love better if we used it as a verb,” writes bell hooks as she comes out fighting and on fire in All About Love. Here, at her most provocative and intensely personal, renowned scholar, cultural critic and feminist bell hooks offers a proactive new ethic for a society bereft with lovelessness--not the lack of romance, but the lack of care, compassion, and unity. People are divided, she declares, by society’s failure to provide a model for learning to love.

Everyone needs to love and be loved—including men. But to know love, men must be able to look at the ways in which patriarchal culture keeps them from understanding themselves. In The Will to Change, bell hooks provides a compassionate guide for men of all ages and identities to understand how to be in touch with their feelings, and how to express versus repress the emotions that are a fundamental part of who we are.

"Todo sobre el amor" ofrece nuevas formas radicales de pensar sobre el amor al mostrar su interconexión en nuestra vida privada y pública. En once capítulos concisos, hooks explica cómo nuestras nociones cotidianas de lo que significa dar y recibir amor a menudo nos fallan, y cómo estos ideales se establecen en la primera infancia. Ofrece un replanteamiento del amor propio (sin narcisismo) que aporta paz y compasión a nuestra vida personal y profesional, y defiende la importancia del amor para poner fin a las luchas entre individuos, comunidades y sociedades.

Being a Highly Sensitive Person (HSP) can feel like a curse. It’s often much more difficult to build social relationships, and your life is filled with anxiety and emotional overload.However, being an HSP is also a gift - if you can learn the right strategies. This book is for HSPs and the people of love an HSP. You will learn how to build strong social relationships and increase your emotional intelligence. You will also learn to stop your anxiety and emotional overload. Most importantly, you will learn how to use your natural gifts as an HSP to live the life of your dreams.

Sojourner Truth, mulher negra que havia sido escravizada e se tornou oradora depois de liberta em 1827, denunciou, em 1851, na Women's Convention - no discurso que ficou conhecido como “Ain't I a Woman” - que o ativismo de sufragistas e abolicionistas brancas e ricas excluía mulheres negras e pobres. A partir do discurso de Truth, que dá título ao audiolivro, hooks discute o racismo e sexismo presentes no movimento pelos direitos civis e no feminista, desde o sufrágio até os anos 1970.

In Teaching to Transgress, Bell Hooks - writer, teacher, and insurgent black intellectual - writes about a new kind of education, education as the practice of freedom. Teaching students to "transgress" against racial, sexual, and class boundaries in order to achieve the gift of freedom is, for Hooks, the teacher's most important goal. Bell Hooks speakes to the heart of education today: how can we rethink teaching practices in the age of multiculturalism? What do we do about teachers who do not want to teach, and students who do not want to learn? How should we deal with racism and sexism in the classroom? Full of passion and politics, Teaching to Transgress combines a practical knowledge of the classroom with a deeply felt connection to the world of emotions and feelings. This is the rare book about teachers and students that dares to raise questions about eros and rage, grief and reconciliation, and the future of teaching itself.

In Teaching Critical Thinking, renowned cultural critic and progressive educator Bell Hooks addresses some of the most compelling issues facing teachers in and out of the classroom today. In a series of short, accessible, and enlightening essays, Hooks explores the confounding and sometimes controversial topics that teachers and students have urged her to address since the publication of the previous best-selling volumes in her Teaching series, Teaching to Transgress and Teaching Community.

Strangers aren't well received in the Mutton Hollow neighborhood of the Ozarks. But there was something different about this old gentleman. The cut of his clothes revealed he was obviously from the world beyond the ridges.

2010. The end of the world has begun, but no one is paying attention. People are unaware of the breaking pandemic, code name, The Epilogue Event. Accidentally finding himself at center stage, an unlikely and unwilling hero Peter Finch, must, if he is to survive, awaken powers he has been trying to forget for over thirty years. And time is not on his side. A mysterious Artificial Intelligence, the cause of the plague, is slowly gaining control over everyone Peter loves and everything he values.

Angel Castillo ist der Teufel. Kaltblütig, bösartig und rücksichtslos. Mit seiner brutalen Welt will ich nichts zu tun haben. Eine Welt, in der er als König regiert und in der Ungehorsam den Tod bedeutet. Aber ich habe keine andere Wahl. Sein Angebot ist so kalt wie sein Herz: Werde seine Frau oder stirb. Ich versuche zu fliehen, aber seine Krallen haben sich bereits tief in mir vergraben. Es gibt keinen Ausweg. Ich hasse ihn dafür, dass er mich in diesem goldenen Gefängnis gefangen hält. Wohin ich auch gehe, er ist da. Beobachtet mich. Wartet. Warum denke ich dann immer nur an ihn?

From the creators of Morvoren and Mordardh comes this new poetry anthology, capturing the enthralling nature of the sea. Some of Cornwall’s children and their equally creative parents joined poets to explore happy memories of days at the beach. Cornwall’s dramatic coastline, thrust headlong into the ocean, means you are never far from the water. What songs does the ocean sing? What secrets are whispered by the waves? What mysterious creatures swim beneath its glittering surface?

Ik werd in een steegje in het nauw gedreven door monsters. Toen ontmoette ik mijn ridder in een aftands harnas. Hij zal mijn eerste liefde zijn. Mijn laatste. Mijn enige ware. Ze was van mij vanaf het moment dat ik haar zag. Ik zou een moord plegen om haar te beschermen en bij me te houden. Als ik haar ooit verlies... zal ik de wereld laten branden.

The Revelations, a secluded cult, sits nestled in Idaho's Sawtooth mountains. Jovie, a young nun with limited access to the outside world, discovers hidden evils beyond the church— the truth about a historic nuclear war. Hybrid species, survivors, and false prophets fight to control the new world. After a handsome stranger seeks sanctuary within the abbey, they struggle to find freedom in the midst of a wasteland morality conflict. There's just one problem— she's a believer and he isn't.

Loving Isaia Del Rossa is like drowning in darkness. And with every possessive touch, every whispered command, I sink deeper under his spell. On this island, there is no outside world. No past. No future. Only him. His hands, his mouth, his obsession. He worships me, breaks me, makes me beg for the kind of pleasure I should fear. And he kills for me like it's nothing. Because to Isaia… I'm everything. But love shouldn't feel like a cage.

Mijn vader heeft me verkocht. Aan een monster. In plaats van een zorgeloze student, ben ik nu iemands eigendom. Ik doe alles om mijn vrijheid terug te winnen. Het begon als een spelletje. Toen zat ik ineens aan haar vast. Voorgoed. Ze heeft me gebruikt. Dat zal ik haar betaald zetten.

There is a killer on the loose. And he is targeting one specific address – 138 Main Street. The problem? There are over 7,000 Main Streets in the USA. And no clue which one will be next. Then a manuscript is sent to the New York Times, purporting to be the manifesto of the Main Street Killer and demanding radical social change.

An expert insight into the transformative power of storytelling, together with practical advice on how to make your writing come alive. The way we use language to tell stories reveals a lot about who we are and what matters to us. In Work in Progress , Julia Bell draws on almost thirty years of teaching to take us inside the writing workshop, where students from all over the world meet to share and discuss their work.

The Founding Day Festival has arrived, and Princess Tabby can't wait! But when King Gorgonzola threatens to ruin it, Tabby must act fast to save the festival. Will the Whiskered Wonders be able to save Mewtopia, or will Tabby's plan be less than purr-fect?