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Unlivable Lives

Violence and Identity in Transgender Activism

By: Laurel Westbrook

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Unlivable Lives

Violence and Identity in Transgender Activism

By: Laurel Westbrook

Anti-violence movements rooted in identity politics are commonplace, including those to stop violence against people of color, women, and LGBT people. Unlivable Lives reveals the unintended consequences of this approach within the transgender rights movement in the United States. It illustrates how this form of activism obscures the causes of and lasting solutions to violence and exacerbates fear among members of the identity group, running counter to the goal of making lives more livable. Analyzing over a thousand documents produced by thirteen national organizations, Westbrook charts both a history of the movement and a path forward that relies less on identity-based tactics and more on intersectionality and coalition building. Provocative and galvanizing, this book envisions new strategies for anti-violence and social justice movements and will revolutionize the way we think about this form of activism.

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288

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University of California Press

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ISBN 10

0520316592

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9780520316591

Harlequin Special Edition September 2024 - Box Set 1 of 1

By: Brenda Novak,Mona Shroff,Catherine Mann,Laurel Greer

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Harlequin Special Edition September 2024 - Box Set 1 of 1

By: Brenda Novak,Mona Shroff,Catherine Mann,Laurel Greer

Coming soon! Harlequin Special Edition September 2024 - Box Set 1 of 1 by Brenda Novak\Mona Shroff\Catherine Mann\Laurel Greer will be available Aug 20, 2024.

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1063

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Harlequin

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0369756924

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9780369756923

The Side Project

By: Laurel Osterkamp

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The Side Project

By: Laurel Osterkamp

Rylee dreams of moving to California, writing literary fiction, and pursuing her late father’s dreams. But she’s still in Bemidji, MN, caring for her younger brother and running into her high school crush, Carson. Ten years ago, Carson rejected Rylee and she never quite recovered. Carson had his sights set on the Ivy League, until his girlfriend’s unexpected pregnancy. Being a single father is the most important job he’ll ever have, even if it means postponing his dreams. Rylee is shocked to discover she and Carson enrolled in the same fiction writing graduate course. They become writing partners, but also take on a secret “side project”--a no-strings-fling that will end once the class is over. Because they can’t fall in love. Hearts would be broken and secrets would get revealed. Should Rylee and Carson risk everything to find their happily-ever-after?

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267

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The Wild Rose Press Inc

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1509257764

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9781509257768

After a Fall

A Sociomedical Sojourn

By: Laurel Richardson

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After a Fall

A Sociomedical Sojourn

By: Laurel Richardson

A compelling description of lived experience in an extended health care facility and the social, policy, and interpersonal issues raised there, authored by one of the leading literary writers in sociology.

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270

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Routledge

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1315435322

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9781315435329

The Unofficial Guide to Disney Cruise Line 2017

By: Len Testa,Erin Foster,Laurel Stewart,Ritchey Halphen

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The Unofficial Guide to Disney Cruise Line 2017

By: Len Testa,Erin Foster,Laurel Stewart,Ritchey Halphen

Your no-nonsense, consumer-oriented guide to Disney's Cruise Line The Unofficial Guide to the Disney Cruise Line by Len Testa with Erin Foster, Laurel Stewart, and Ritchey Halphen describes the best of Disney's ships and itineraries, including a couple of stellar restaurants, top-notch children's activities, and Castaway Cay, one of the best vacation islands in the Caribbean. The book also lists which on-board entertainment and restaurants should be skipped, including recommendations on what to do instead. Along the way, this indispensable travel companion shows how to save money, choose the right stateroom, ship, and itinerary, and how to get to and from the cruise with ease. The guide also provides full coverage of the Disney-run European river cruises and includes itinerary and port guides.

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643

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Unofficial Guides

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1628090650

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9781628090659

The Unofficial Guide to the Disney Cruise Line 2016

By: Len Testa,Erin Foster,Laurel Stewart,Ritchey Halphen

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The Unofficial Guide to the Disney Cruise Line 2016

By: Len Testa,Erin Foster,Laurel Stewart,Ritchey Halphen

Describes the amenities and destinations of a Disney Cruise Line vacation.

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394

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Unofficial Guides

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1628090502

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9781628090505

Relational Reset

Unlearning the Habits that Hold You Back

By: Dr. Laurel Shaler

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Relational Reset

Unlearning the Habits that Hold You Back

By: Dr. Laurel Shaler

Are your relationships all that you want them to be? Do rough patches ever catch you by surprise, causing you to think Why is it so hard right now? Why is there tension? Was it something I did? Despite our best intentions, we all have blind spots—bad relational habits that are keeping us from enjoying our relationships fully. And since relationships stand at the center of all we do, if we can learn to do relationships even fractionally better, every aspect of our lives improves. Whether you struggle to overcome past wounds, insecurity, blame, or envy, it’s time to reflect on your relational habits and reset. An experienced counselor, Dr. Laurel Shaler is passionate about helping women thrive in all of their relationships. Relational Reset will reveal unhealthy patterns that may be holding you back, give you practical steps for improving your relationships, and help you find your ultimate security and identity in Jesus Christ. When you reset your relationships, you honor God, yourself, and the ones you love. What are you waiting for? Get started today.

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Moody Publishers

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0802497470

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9780802497475

The Unofficial Guide to the Disney Cruise Line

By: Len Testa,Erin Foster,Laurel Stewart

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The Unofficial Guide to the Disney Cruise Line

By: Len Testa,Erin Foster,Laurel Stewart

The Unofficial Guide to the Disney Cruise Line is your no-nonsense, consumer-oriented guide to Disney's cruise vacations. We'll point out the best of Disney's ships and itineraries, including a couple of stellar restaurants, top-notch children's activities, and Castaway Cay, one of the best vacation islands in the Caribbean. We'll also tell you which on-board entertainment and restaurants should be skipped, including what to do instead. Along the way we'll show you how to save money, choose the right stateroom, ship, and itinerary, and how to get to and from your cruise with ease.

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The Unofficial Guides

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1628090197

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9781628090192

The Unofficial Guide to the Disney Cruise Line 2015

By: Len Testa,Erin Foster,Laurel Stewart,Ritchey Halphen

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The Unofficial Guide to the Disney Cruise Line 2015

By: Len Testa,Erin Foster,Laurel Stewart,Ritchey Halphen

The Unofficial Guide to the Disney Cruise Line 2015 is your no-nonsense, consumer-oriented guide to Disney's cruise vacations. We'll point out the best of Disney's ships and itineraries, including a couple of stellar restaurants, top-notch children's activities, and Castaway Cay, one of the best vacation islands in the Caribbean. We'll also tell you which on-board entertainment and restaurants should be skipped, including what to do instead. Along the way we'll show you how to save money, choose the right stateroom, ship, and itinerary, and how to get to and from your cruise with ease. New for the 2015 edition, we'll give you the run-down on the most popular shore excursion, including comments from travelers about their experiences. If you want to save money and take excursions of your own, we'll provide detailed itineraries including new maps to help you explore the best that each port has to offer.

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322

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The Unofficial Guides

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1628090332

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9781628090338

Set Them Free

The Other Side of Exodus

By: Laurel Dykstra

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Set Them Free

The Other Side of Exodus

By: Laurel Dykstra

A fresh look at the Exodus story that opens our eyes to injustice in today's world.

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270

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Wipf and Stock Publishers

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1725235021

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9781725235021

A Story of a Marriage Through Dementia and Beyond

Love in a Whirlwind

By: Laurel Richardson

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A Story of a Marriage Through Dementia and Beyond

Love in a Whirlwind

By: Laurel Richardson

A Story of a Marriage Through Dementia and Beyond is the extraordinary, unflinching account from sociologist Laurel Richardson of her love and caregiving through the last period of her husband Ernest Lockridge's life - from his transient amnesia to his death from Lewy Body Dementia. Focusing on the lived experience of the caregiver through the loved one’s journey from mild cognitive impairment to death, the book gives the reader the experience of what the medical diagnoses mean and what has led up to the loss. It shows the complex, nuanced lives of a couple both living with the worst effects of a disease like Lewy Body Dementia, while maintaining, sometimes with hope and laughter, their loving connection nourished through a 40-year marriage. Dementia is a ‘silver tsunami’ - the third leading cause of death amongst senior populations. Richardson’s beautifully written book gives on-the-ground emotional support to those already in service as caregivers and helps prepare others for such service. Hospices, book clubs, and medical and allied professionals will find this book extraordinarily valuable. Weaving in autoethnographic and sociological methods and scholarship, as well as a list of reading and further resources for caregivers and scholars, this book will also appeal to courses in a wide range of disciplines and fields, including health communication, nursing and allied health, courses covering death and dying, end-of-life, and illness care, and, of course, scholars pursuing autoethnography, creative non-fiction, and qualitative methods.

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146

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Routledge

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1000523462

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9781000523461

Unlocking the Emotional Brain

Memory Reconsolidation and the Psychotherapy of Transformational Change

By: Bruce Ecker,Robin Ticic,Laurel Hulley

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Unlocking the Emotional Brain

Memory Reconsolidation and the Psychotherapy of Transformational Change

By: Bruce Ecker,Robin Ticic,Laurel Hulley

This highly influential volume, now in a much-expanded second edition, delivers major advances for psychotherapy, all empirically grounded in memory reconsolidation neuroscience. A great increase of therapeutic effectiveness can be gained, thanks to a clear map of the brain's innate core process of transformational change—a process that does not require use of any particular system or techniques and is therefore remarkably versatile. Twenty-six case examples show the decisive ending of a vast range of major symptoms, including depression, anxiety, panic, shame, self-devaluing, anger, perfectionism, alcohol abuse, sexual aversion, compulsive eating and obesity, paralyzed self-expression, and teen ADHD—all transformed through deeply resolving underlying disturbances such as complex trauma, lifelong oppression by systemic racism and homophobia, childhood sexual molestation, parental narcissistic domination, violent assault trauma, natural disaster trauma, and childhood traumatic aloneness and neglect. This is a transdiagnostic, transtheoretical, lucid understanding of therapeutic action, based, for the first time in the history of the psychotherapy field, on rigorous empirical knowledge of an internal mechanism of change, and it achieves a fundamental unification of the confusingly fragmented psychotherapy field: diverse systems no longer seem to belong to different worlds, because they now form a wonderful repertoire of options for facilitating the same core process of transformational change, as shown in case examples from AEDP, Coherence Therapy, EFT, EMDR, IFS, IPNB, ISTDP, psychedelic-assisted therapy, and SE. It's now clear why therapy systems that differ strikingly in technique and theory can produce the same quality of liberating change. Practitioners who value deep connection with their clients are richly rewarded by the experiential depth that this core process accesses, where no awareness had previously reached, whether sessions are done in person or via online video. It is an embarrassment of riches, because in addition we gain the decisive resolution of several longstanding, polarizing debates regarding the nature of symptom production, the prevalence of attachment issues, the operation of traumatic memory, the functions of the client-therapist relationship, the role of emotional arousal in the process of change, and the relative importance of specific versus non-specific factors.

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357

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Taylor & Francis

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1003859550

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9781003859550

Impasse

By: Laurel Oke Logan

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Impasse

By: Laurel Oke Logan

Impasse" is the story of aspiring newscast anchor Esther Branson, whose rise to the top takes on a grave pallor when she is suddenly confronted with the compromises she has made in her drive for success. Is Esther's Christian upbringing something of childhood dreams, or should she, like the Esther of the Bible, take a stand for the truth?

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1556619766

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9781556619762

Book's by Laurel Brandon

Unlivable Lives

Unlivable Lives

Harlequin Special Edition September 2024 - Box Set 1 of 1

Harlequin Special Edition September 2024 - Box Set 1 of 1

The Side Project

The Side Project

After a Fall

After a Fall

The Unofficial Guide to Disney Cruise Line 2017

The Unofficial Guide to Disney Cruise Line 2017

The Unofficial Guide to the Disney Cruise Line 2016

The Unofficial Guide to the Disney Cruise Line 2016

Relational Reset

Relational Reset

The Unofficial Guide to the Disney Cruise Line

The Unofficial Guide to the Disney Cruise Line

The Unofficial Guide to the Disney Cruise Line 2015

The Unofficial Guide to the Disney Cruise Line 2015

Set Them Free

Set Them Free

A Story of a Marriage Through Dementia and Beyond

A Story of a Marriage Through Dementia and Beyond

Unlocking the Emotional Brain

Unlocking the Emotional Brain

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