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Filled with empowering, easy-to-follow tips for crafting stories that forge lasting bonds with friends, family, and colleagues alike, this book will help you connect authentically with the world around you and unleash the power of story in your life.

In The Future Is Disabled, Leah Laksmi Piepzna-Samarasinha asks some provocative questions: What if, in the near future, the majority of people will be disabled—and what if that's not a bad thing? And what if disability justice and disabled wisdom are crucial to creating a future in which it's possible to survive fascism, climate change, and pandemics and to bring about liberation?

Transformative justice seeks to solve the problem of violence at the grassroots level, without relying on punishment, incarceration, or policing. Community-based approaches to preventing crime and repairing its damage have existed for centuries. However, in the putative atmosphere of contemporary criminal justice systems, they are often marginalized and operate under the radar. Beyond Survival puts these strategies front and center as real alternatives to today's failed models of confinement and "correction."

A vivid memoir of food and family, survival and triumph, Love, Loss, and What We Ate traces the arc of Padma Lakshmi's unlikely path from an immigrant childhood to a complicated life in front of the camera - a tantalizing blend of Ruth Reichl's Tender at the Bone and Nora Ephron's Heartburn.

In this collection of essays, Lambda Literary Award-winning writer and longtime activist and performance artist Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha explores the politics and realities of disability justice, a movement that centers the lives and leadership of sick and disabled queer, trans, Black, and brown people, with knowledge and gifts for all. Care Work is a mapping of access as radical love, a celebration of the work that sick and disabled queer/people of color are doing to find each other and to build power and community.

“Food and travel are natural companions,” writes guest editor Padma Lakshmi. From this pairing comes “the possibility of seeing anew, of examining how we make and assign meaning.” The essays in this year’s Best American Food and Travel Writing circle the world—from Dakar in Senegal, to Michoacán in south-central Mexico, to the Camino de Santiago in Spain—and deepen our understanding of our place in it.

This book gives hope to everyone connected to endometriosis. That includes every woman and young girl who has it, and the women and men in their lives who know something is wrong, but do not know what it is or what to do about it. This book is written at a level that everyone with ties to this disease can relate to and understand, but it is also for doctors with good intentions who lack the knowledge of how to diagnose or treat it.

Join this spiritual podcast to listen to Smt. Malladi Lakshmi Prasanna, as she reads త్రిపురా రహస్యము (Tripura Rahasyam) and discusses the inner meanings of these sacred texts with perspectives for practical living. Language: TeluguImage Credit: Original Tanjore Art by Mrs. Madhavi Vemuri

Inspirées des guerres les plus sanglantes de toute l'Histoire, découvrez les 33 stratégies les plus efficaces pour vaincre le jeu social et subtil de notre quotidien.

Through nine emotionally vivid stories, all narrated from animal perspectives portraying the complexity of their lives and relationships, WHAT WE FED TO THE MANTICORE explores themes of environmentalism, conservation, identity, belonging, loss, and family with resounding heart and deep tenderness, and ultimately places the listener under the rich canopy of the tree of life.

L’édition condensée de 365 lois ! Le monde est une immense cour où se trament toutes sortes d'intrigues : nous sommes piégés dedans, donc rien ne sert de vouloir rester en marge. Tout le monde doit jouer, alors autant savoir comment être le meilleur à ce jeu de l’existence. L’auteur, expert mondial en matière de pouvoir et de stratégie, nous révèle au fil de leçons hebdomadaires comment décrypter ce qui se cache derrière le masque social de nos interlocuteurs, comment motiver les foules, comment maîtriser l’art de l’insinuation.

Dans cet ouvrage incontournable, Robert Greene nous propose d’apprendre à reprendre le pouvoir sur notre vie, à travers 365 lois tirées de ses réflexions sur la nature humaine.

Neela loves cooking with her amma and writing down the recipes in her notebook. It makes her feel closer to her paati who lives far away in India. On Saturdays, Neela and Amma go to the green market, and today they are buying tomatoes to make Paati's famous sauce. But first, Neela needs to learn about all the different kinds of tomatoes they can pick from. And as Neela and Amma cook together, they find a way for Paati to share in both the love and the flavors of the day.

The legend of the exquisitely beautiful Shakuntala and the mighty king Dushyanta is a thrilling love story from the epic Mahabharata, which the great ancient poet Kalidasa retold in his immortal play Abhijnanashakuntalam (The Recognition of Shakuntala). English and Sanskrit verses intermingle to recreate Kalidasa’s greatest play.

Experience total health, wellness, and healing with the time-honored and ancient concept of Ayurveda You are what you eat, right? We've all heard this saying. But what does Ayurveda have to do with eating? Everything! Ayurveda is a complete holistic healing system that mainly focuses on offering a healthy lifestyle. Ayurveda believes in the infamous saying, 'Prevention is better than cure.' However, one can also use this system to heal or cure their existing ailments. Experts say that Ayurveda was found 5,000 years ago in Ancient India and then spread across different parts of the world, ...

Ayurveda is a natural, holistic approach to combating diseases, ailments, and health conditions like anxiety and depression. Now that I’m all grown up and out on my own, I have adapted the practice of Ayurveda to my everyday life. I feel amazing and rarely, if ever, get sick. In my book all about using Ayurveda to heal anxiety and depression, I want to teach you everything I have learned and put into daily practice. We will discuss eating, sleeping, seasonal changes, yoga, exercise, and body disposition to adjust your daily habits accordingly.

தேவகி என்னும் இளம்பெண்ணின் வாழ்வில் ஏற்படும் இன்ப துன்பங்களை அழகாய் எடுத்துரைக்கும் கதை.

Vegan Indian Recipes for Health, Wellness, Weight Loss, Happiness & Longevity Have you considered eating a vegan diet and living the vegan lifestyle but aren’t sure where to start? In India, for many, veganism is not just a fad but a way of life. There are many dishes you can create that have no ingredients from animals or any animal products. Eating vegan is easy; I will show you how! I had been a chubby girl all my childhood. Chubby, but not overweight. However, I had been diagnosed with PCOS in my teens. Then, I had put on quite some weight. My life has been such a struggle since that ...

This is a podcast for anyone who wants to know why we should listen to music, but particularly for all the future scientists out there who wish to explore potential uses of medicine in healthcare. I'm researching this topic for my EPQ, as it combines both of my greatest interests: music and science. Speaking to our fantastic doctors has made me realise the intricacy of our brain anatomy and how much there is to discover. I hope you enjoy this short series. Thank you! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

எதையும் எதிர்த்து வாழும் தைரியமும், திறமையும் பெண்ணிடம் இருக்க வேண்டும். கோழையாக இருந்தால் மேன்மேலும் துன்பத்தை அனுபவிக்க வேண்டும். கோழையாக இருக்கும் அகிலா அனுபவிக்கும் துன்பமென்ன?அதிலிருந்து மீண்டு வந்தாளா? நல்லதோர் வீணையை புழுதியில் எறிந்த கதையை வாசிப்போம்...