For anyone who feels less-than about your work, worth, body, or the life you're building, find here an incredible hope: you don't have to have it all together to "qualify" for your life's calling. Just ask Caitlin Crosby - the former Hollywood talent who didn't finish college, never got an MBA, and wasn't supposed to become a CEO, yet that's exactly what she did (even if being a toddler mom means she forgets to brush her teeth sometimes before heading...

In a culture obsessed with fat, there are groups of "fat activists" who attempt to change what they see as a fat-phobic world into a size-accepting world. These fat activists span the political and religious spectrum, yet come together around their commitment to ending "size discrimination."

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and Coretta Scott were two ordinary young blacks in their mid-twenties. They were a part of the younger generation, and they were tired of the status quo. Receiving an assignment from God, they were obedient and helped changed the course of American civil rights. Our story spans across time, from the historic Rosa Parks arrest on December 1, 1955, to the prolific "I've Been to the Mountaintop" speech on April 1968. In...

Ladislaw, the famous gypsy mayor of his village, and one of the most famous Romani activists in Wonderland died under tragic circumstances on 14. July 2020. He was able to change and turn around his whole village in fourteen years with his benevolent and unorthodox style. He was a man who always lived up to his promises and had a fight against unfavorable odds in his entire life. Even his enemies admitted his positive results, and originality during...

The primary purpose of this book is to make a passionate, but practical appeal to the reasonable, to the rational, to the righteous, and even to the radical and the racist, to reconsider the error of their ways regarding a host of pertinent issues facing 21st century United States of America. If you are a person that is fake, phony, or a fool, you might not want to read this book. If you can't handle the unfiltered, politically incorrect, unadulterated...

Dalit Women's Autobiographies: A Critical Appraisal is a collection of twenty-one eruditely written articles that articulate the plight of Dalit women buffeted by tripartite marginalization of class, caste and gender. Lack of education and dearth of agencies to register as well as retrieve their complaints compel the Dalit women to lead a subjugated and claustrophobic existence. Unlike Dalit men, Dalit women have, to undergo multiple bouts of humiliation...

Kate Herring Highsmith (1880-1966), journalist and club woman, was an indefatigable Raleigh activist on behalf of the health and welfare of all North Carolinians. Writing principally for the state Health Bulletin and Sunday newspapers, she covered subjects from tuberculosis to marijuana, incarceration to maternity and infant care, libraries to art museums. This collection of some 250 of her essays and press releases is presented by her grandson, D....

Si vous êtes afro-américain ou si vous avez connu l'époque du Mouvement pour les Droits Civiques, ou si vous avez tout simplement envie de mieux connaître le personnage aussi énigmatique que charismatique que l'était Malcolm X, embarquez dans un voyage nostalgique. Et voici pourquoi. Ce livre est une biographie puissante et pédagogique complète sur l'un des leaders provocateurs, courageux et antiségrégationniste du mouvement de défense...

Cuando un niño de cinco años debió trasladarse de Quito, capital ecuatoriana, a la hacienda Caldera en el Valle del Chota, sin querer ingresaba a la Universidad de la Vida; comprendió a su tierna edad que a partir de aquí su vida se vio envuelta en una apasionante e insólita historia. El tímido campesino se volverá un luchador incansable, un potencial líder en su accionar diario, inolvidable y solidario y sobre todo radical en la lucha por...

Published to commemorate Albert Schweitzer's only visit to the United States 60 years ago, this anniversary edition of his autobiography gives 21st-century readers a unique and authoritative account of the man John F. Kennedy called "one of the transcendent moral influences of our century." Schweitzer is celebrated around the world as a European pioneer of medical service in Africa, a groundbreaking philosopher and musical scholar, and a catalyst...