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2) We accept no
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"When asking for consent, the answer will sometimes be no. This story validates the feelings of sadness, anger, and disappointment that accompany rejection and provides a model for young children about how to take responsibility for the actions after"--
"A story about accepting no for an answer and how to handle the feeling of rejection.Accepting no for an answer is a key foundation of consent. We Accept No builds children's social and emotional...
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"When Adélaïde's parents find her crying, almost mute and incapable of fully explaining what happened, they bring her to the police station and file a complaint against an unknown assailant for sexual assault. Years pass, years in which she says nothing and wears a smile stamped on her face. The innumerable days of suffering and solitude pass by as she fights against the jellyfish. Twenty-three years after the day of her assault, she receives a...
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A new edition of the 1988 classic text that exposed the extreme prevalence of rape in America, coining the term acquaintance rape and establishing the disturbing statistics on sexual assault that still hold just as true today-now featuring an original preface from Gloria Steinem, a new introduction by Salamishah Tillet, an updated afterword by Mary P. Koss, PH.D., as well as an updated resources section.
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Get the Summary of Kara Goucher's The Longest Race in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. "The Longest Race" is the memoir of Kara Goucher, chronicling her life from her family's history to her own experiences as a professional runner. The book details her mother Patty's marriage to Croatian soccer player Mirko Grgas, their life in New York, and Mirko's untimely death. Patty's activism with MADD and remarriage to Tom...
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Join Norah and Joni as they educate children on body safety by demonstrating what it means to Use Your W.I.T.S!
Norah learns how to take ownership of her body, identifying moments where she feels safe. Using an easy-to-learn strategy, she shows how she can set boundaries and respond to instances where she feels unsafe and in instances where she simply does not want to be touched.
Use Your W.I.T.S! also includes additional resources and discussion...
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A Quaker astronomer reflects asks the questions: Can a scientist also be religious? How, and with what limitations?
World renowned astronomer and Quaker Jocelyn Bell Burnell reflects on the big issues confronting scientists who also have a strong spiritual belief system. How can the principles of science be reconciled with the faith required by religion? Does scientific investigation call into question the givens of religion? While specific to...
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How does the media shape the way we think about child sexual abuse? Combining in-depth analysis of media representations of the crimes, with focus group discussions and interviews with around 500 journalists, campaigners and a cross-section of 'the public', Jenny Kitzinger reveals the media's role in contemporary society.
Which stories attract attention and why? Answering this and other questions, Kitzinger demonstrates how media reporting can...
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I want to shake Rita. She thinks all the screwed-up things in the world are happening somewhere else. But bad things are happening right here.
It's a routine Libby's used to by now: pack up, move, start over, repeat. This time it's to Rubberville-population: faces, names, a few factories, and Angie, a girl who nearly-but-not-quite gets Libby killed the first day they meet. Angie is everything Libby wishes she were: outspoken, fearless, and happy...
10) Codependency Workbook: 7 Steps to Break Free From People Pleasing, Fear of Abandonment, Jealousy, An
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7 Steps to Break Free from the Chains of Codependency Once and for All Do you feel like you could never be independent?Are you tired of feeling like you can't say no in your relationships?Do you want to stop putting others before yourself? You're not alone. You want to be in a healthy, fulfilling relationship, but you don't know how to stop sabotaging yourself. It's not your fault that you don't know how to have better relationships. After all, no...
11) Le secret (7)
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Aube aime son père. De tout son cœur. Il est le soleil de sa vie, son prince charmant, le gardien de ses rêves et de ses cauchemars.
Son père aime sa petite princesse. De tout son corps. Elle est l'inspiration de ses jeux interdits, son unique obsession, son pantin.
Ensemble, ils filent le parfait bonheur. Jusqu'au jour o il lui prend ce qui lui restait d'enfance et d'innocence. Aube commence alors à s'éteindre pour ne reprendre vie que bien...
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Originally Published in 1992. A second edition was published in 1993 entitled, Paperdolls: A True Story of Childhood Sexual Abuse in Mormon Neighborhoods.
As Carol Scott writes in the epilogue for Paperdolls & Cowboy Boots:, "THE SUCCESS OF PAPERDOLLS over the years is an indication to April and me of how hungry many people are for true accounts of child abuse. We expected to receive declamations that our story was too bizarre to be true, but...
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He takes off my clothes and leads me to the only bedroom in our small trailer. He makes me lay on the bed while he undresses, all the while staring at my young nude body. I begin my mental escape. I'm in a vast field of tall grass where the air is fresh and clean and doesn't smell like beer and cigarettes. The sky is a deep blue. I breathe deeply and begin to run. So free! But I can never make it last. Due to the nature of the forms of abuse discussed...
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Regain control of your work environment with this comprehensive manual on combating bullying and harassment - "Don't Look Away: Strategies Against Bullying and Harassment". Through this insightful literature, you will gain clarity on the depth and implications of workplace bullying and harassment, learn ways to identify bullying behaviors, and comprehend bullies' psychology.The book acts a powerful tool in understanding the staggering impact of bullying...
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Sexual shame causes women to feel far from God, live a secret life of sexual sin, doubt that God loves them, and even question their salvation. Sexual Shame in Women and How to Experience Freedom will help readers understand sexual shame as one of the root issues among women's sexual struggles, while focusing specifically on the issues of pornography and sexual abuse. Ministry leaders must help women find freedom from sexual shame to help them walk...
16) The Claimant
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When Rachel Weinhaus was five years old, a sixteen-year-old boy sexually assaulted her in the woods near her home. She never spoke of her violation, not to her parents, not to her siblings, not even, decades later, to her spouse-she wouldn't speak a word of it for thirty-eight years until an envelope arrived from her graduate school alma mater, informing her she was a part of a two-hundred-fifteen-million-dollar settlement claim against the University...
17) Unclutter
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"Now, I declare war on my abusers-their time is up." Eighteen-year-old Tina Lauren is an outcast with wounds that run deep-she's always needed to make the outside hurt more than the inside does. She hates being touched, her clothes don't fit, and neither does she. But when Strollfield's teen heartthrob, Nicholas Parker, crosses a line and Tina retaliates in public, she is thrust into a harsh spotlight that reveals her long-buried scars. Branded a...
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One thing we know for certain is that sex is personal: perhaps the most intimate thing of all. But sex is also shaped by a complicated web of cultural, social and political forces outside of ourselves.
Fear-mongering, moral panic and outdated attitudes prevail, but if #MeToo has taught us anything, it's how dangerous it is to keep conversations about sex hidden from view. Behind Closed Doors invests in a radical, inclusive and honest sex education,...
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An epic, riveting history of New York City on the edge of disaster-and an anatomy of the austerity politics that continue to shape the world today
When the news broke in 1975 that New York City was on the brink of fiscal collapse, few believed it was possible. How could the country's largest metropolis fail? How could the capital of the financial world go bankrupt? Yet the city was indeed billions of dollars in the red, with...
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