"With just five dollars and a knapsack to her name, fifteen-year-old Harleen Quinzel is sent to live in Gotham City. She's not worried, though--she's battled a lot of hard situations as a kid, and knows her determination and outspokenness will carry her through life in the most dangerous city in the world. And when Gotham's finest drag queen, Mama, takes her in, it seems like Harley has finally found a place to grow into her most "true true" with...

The book "Breaking Glass Ceilings" is intended to be a literary celebration of the life and times and achievements of Black luminaries spanning the globe over many centuries. While there have been other efforts to chronicle superlative Black achievement, this is perhaps the first effort to look across continents. Moreover, the book salutes Black achievement in ten thematic categories: Human and Civil Rights, Governance and Politics, Religion, Sports,...

Today, our nation is like a ship being tossed in tumultuous seas. The winds and waves of change have divided and distanced our society, threatening to wash away the very principles our nation was founded upon. Now more than ever, our nation needs leaders with the moral courage to stand strong and steady-leaders capable of uniting people in support of a shared purpose by building the trust and respect necessary for organizations and their people to...

The team are racing against the clock as they try to establish the identity of the care-home pedophilic murderer. Meanwhile, he is being hunted down by two of his victims: Tanner, the dead boy's twin brother, and another former resident who was abused. The team need to reach the pedophile first, to prevent another death.

Breaking the Glass Ceiling documents the achievements of three leaders in Caribbean nursing at the time of the nascent struggle for indigenous leadership in all areas of West Indian society. It is a narrative of the lives of three extraordinary women who gained both regional and international recognition: Dame Nita Barrow of Barbados, Berenice Dolly of Trinidad and Tobago, and Dr. Mary Sievwright of Jamaica. A feminist and colonialist theoretical...

This book is a true-life story of a person who thought all hope was lost for her, even on the journey, she once lost hope because of her Disability. Throughout her life journey, she often proves herself and reshapes perceptions and expectations, she often proves herself and reshapes the perceptions and expectations through society and systems that aim to define us as young people. This book is filled with a fascinating revelation that you will discover....

Breaking the Glass Box includes spiritual formation process for liberation from gender oppression through multiple awareness practices of conflicts in han-based Korean culture of society and church. The metaphor has multiple liberation process: invisible glass box, visible glass box, breaking the glass box, and sticky rice. This liberation process includes consicentization, consciousness-raising, and a heightened cultural awareness in discerning the...

Field Marshal William J. Slim is considered by many historians to be one of the finest generals of World War II. His accomplishments were truly extraordinary. He commanded a polyglot army, consisting of six different nationalities speaking eight different languages, that fought in some of the most inhospitable, disease-ridden country in the world against the war's toughest opponent, the Japanese.

The Writing on the Wall is both the real-life adventure story of a trailblazing woman and a penetrating exploration of working moms. The author's determination as a child to change the norms of the1950s and forge a new path, led to a roller-coaster ride of adventures at an evolutionary time in the woman's movement. After breaking through a glass ceiling at a New York advertising agency and traveling for a year to find her place in the world, the author...

A lively and approachable meditation on how we can transform our digital lives if we let a little Nietzsche in Who has not found themselves scrolling endlessly on screens and wondered: Am I living or distracting myself from living? In Emergency, Break Glass adapts Friedrich Nietzsche's passionate quest for meaning into a world overwhelmed by "content." Written long before the advent of smartphones, Nietzsche's aphoristic philosophy advocated a fierce...