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441) Financial Instruments to Strengthen Women's Economic Resilience to Climate Change and Disaster Risks
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Gender inequalities and limited access to resources constrain women's ability to withstand and recover from financial shocks and economic distress arising from natural hazards. Recognizing the importance of financial inclusion in addressing the issue, this publication explores good practices in the use of financial instruments to enhance women's disaster resilience. This includes the identification of appropriate distribution channels to reach low-income...
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A rebel dreamer of a girl daydreams about her role in making the world a better place-and since dreams bleed into reality, maybe she really does.
A KirkusReviews Best Beginning Reader of 2022!
Shahrzad and the Angry King is a contemporary reimagining of the Scheherazade tale, starring scooter-riding, story-loving Shahrzad. Shahrzad loves stories and looks for them everywhere. When she meets a boy and asks him to tell her his story, he recounts...
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"This powerful and diverse collection is perfect for fans of female-led fantasy stories. No damsels in distress to be found here." -Kirkus Reviews (starred review)
There's nothing more powerful than a witch who believes in herself.
Women accused of witchcraft. Fearsome girls with arcane knowledge. Toil & Trouble features fifteen stories of girls embracing their power, reclaiming their destinies, and using their magic to create, to curse, to...
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Essays exploring Black women's experiences with slavery in the Americas.
Gender was a decisive force in shaping slave society. Slave men's experiences differed from those of slave women, who were exploited both in reproductive as well as productive capacities. The women did not figure prominently in revolts, because they engaged in less confrontational resistance, emphasizing creative struggle to survive dehumanization and abuse.
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445) All the Women in My Family Sing: Women Write the World: Essays on Equality, Justice, and Freedom
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All the Women in My Family Sing is an anthology documenting the experiences of women of color at the dawn of the twenty-first century. It is a vital collection of prose and poetry whose topics range from the pressures of being the vice-president of a Fortune 500 Company, to escaping the killing fields of Cambodia, to the struggles inside immigration, identity, romance, and self-worth. These brief, trenchant essays capture the aspirations and wisdom...
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A full year's worth of the strangest, most outlandish antics of one of the Internet's true titans: Florida Man! Plus, for the first time ever ... the equally bizarre, equally outrageous Florida Woman!
Go to Google and type in your birth date and the words "Florida Man." Weird, right? Well, you haven't seen anything yet! That's just one day in the life of a Florida Man.
Originally a beloved Internet game made possible by Florida's Sunshine Laws,...
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An homage to the classic Our Bodies, Ourselves, this encyclopedic, crowd-sourced compilation of essays, resources, information, and advice about the intersection of gender and bicycling covers a lot of ground-bold meditations on body parts, stories about recovery from illness and injury, biking to the birth center, and loud and proud declarations of physical and emotional freedom.
Includes accounts of bicycling while pregnant, tips about how to ride...
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In the fall of 1991, Anita Hill captured the country's attention when she testified before the US Senate Judiciary Committee describing sexual harassment by Clarence Thomas, who had been her boss and was about to ascend to the Supreme Court. We know what happened: she was challenged, disbelieved, and humiliated; he was given a life-long appointment to decide America's judicial fate. What is lesser known is how many women and men were inspired by Anita...
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A collection of essays that explicate Disney ideology through fifty-five years of feature films, including Bambi, Beauty and the Beast, Pinocchio, and more.
From Mouse to Mermaid, an interdisciplinary collection of original essays, is the first comprehensive, critical treatment of Disney cinema. Addressing children's classics as well as the Disney affiliates' more recent attempts to capture adult audiences, the contributors respond to the Disney...
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The collected memoirs of a 1913 San Francisco sex worker, their effect on society at the time, and where they fit in today's world.
In 1913 the San Francisco Bulletin published a serialized, ghostwritten memoir of a prostitute who went by Alice Smith. "A Voice from the Underworld" detailed Alice's humble Midwestern upbringing and her struggle to find aboveboard work, and candidly related the harrowing events she endured after entering "the life."...
451) OK Boomer
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A hilarious collection of the very best 'OK Boomer' moments of the internet covering all aspects of modern life — the climate crisis to technology, customer service to pop culture, money to working life. Favourites include: Baby Boomers are always like 'Did you put those holes in your jeans yourself?' I DON'T KNOW, SUSAN, DID YOU PUT THE HOLE IN THE OZONE THERE YOURSELF? #OKBoomer I just accidentally said LinkedIn Park while referring to the band...
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Gültan Kışanak, a Kurdish journalist and former MP, was elected co-mayor of Diyarbakır in 2014. Two years later, the Turkish state arrested and imprisoned her. Her story is remarkable, but not unique. While behind bars, she wrote about her own experiences and collected similar accounts from other Kurdish women, all co-chairs, co-mayors and MPs in Turkey; all incarcerated on political grounds.
The Purple Color of Kurdish Politics is a one-of-a-kind...
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The Ultimate Guide to a Fabulous Ring, a Memorable Proposal, and the Perfect Wedding
A fun and informative guide for every guy ready to take the plunge
From figuring out whether she'll say "yes" before you ask, to deciding what cut of diamond she'll love, this guide speaks to every man embarking on one of life's greatest adventures: marriage. Learn the four "Cs" of diamonds, the pros and cons of various settings, how much a ring should cost, essential...
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Much ink has been spilled over the men of the Mexican Revolution, but far less has been written about its women. Kathy Sosa, Ellen Riojas Clark, and Jennifer Speed set out to right this wrong in Revolutionary Women of Texas and Mexico, which celebrates the women of early Texas and Mexico who refused to walk a traditional path.
The anthology embraces an expansive definition of the word revolutionary by looking at female role models from decades ago...
455) Sharice's Big Voice
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This acclaimed picture book autobiography tells the triumphant story of Sharice Davids, one of the first Native American women elected to Congress, and the first LGBTQ congressperson to represent Kansas.
When Sharice Davids was young, she never thought she’d be in Congress. And she never thought she’d be one of the first Native American women in Congress. During her campaign, she heard from a lot of doubters. They said she couldn’t win because...
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Get inside the head of Rihanna: musician, fashion designer, and business mogul.This collection of quotes has been curated from Rihanna's numerous public statements-interviews, books, social media posts, television appearances, and more. It's a comprehensive picture of a beloved icon and her impact on popular culture.Robyn "Rihanna" Fenty burst onto the American music scene in the mid-2000s when she released her single "Pon de Replay," which hit number...
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The fantastic has been particularly prolific in Hispanic countries during the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, largely due to the legacy of short-story writers as well as the Latin-American boom that presented alternatives to the model of literary realism. While these writers' works have done much to establish the Hispanic fantastic in the international literary canon, women authors from Spain and Latin America are not always acknowledged, and...
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The public's appetite for all things Oprah Winfrey has waned little since her Chicago TV debut in 1983. Known as a self-help guru and the "Queen of All Media," Oprah has been shining light on social issues and encouraging fans to "live your best life" for more than 30 years, revolutionizing her corner of the entertainment industry in the process. Winfrey's unprecedented influence and celebrity often overshadow her indisputable entrepreneurial prowess...
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In the face of widespread burnout and a world gone crazy, how to we find things to say "yes" to, rather than a resounding "no"? On North America's West Coast, there's a group of rebel women who ten years ago chose to break free from a rigged economic and social system. They didn't take to the streets to lobby banks and governments to change their ways – they didn't have time for that. They had babies to feed and house. They reckoned that if nobody...
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