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"Tremblez, les sorcières reviennent !" disait un slogan féministe des années 1970. Image repoussoir, représentation misogyne héritée des procès et des bûchers des grandes chasses de la Renaissance, la sorcière peut pourtant, affirme Mona Chollet, servir pour les femmes d'aujourd'hui de figure d'une puissance positive, affranchie de toutes les dominations. Qu'elles vendent des grimoires sur Etsy, postent des photos de leur autel orné de cristaux sur Instagram ou se rassemblent pour jeter des sorts à Donald Trump, les sorcières sont partout.

When the Egyptian journalist Mona Eltahawy published an article in Foreign Policy in 2012 titled "Why Do They Hate Us?," it provoked a firestorm of controversy. The response it generated, with more than 4000 posts on the website, broke all records for the magazine, prompted dozens of follow-up interviews on radio and television, and made it clear that misogyny in the Arab world is an explosive issue, one that engages and often enrages the public.

Samantha Heather Mackey couldn't be more of an outsider in her small, highly selective MFA program at New England's Warren University. A scholarship student who prefers the company of her dark imagination to that of most people, she is utterly repelled by the rest of her fiction writing cohort - a clique of unbearably twee rich girls who call each other 'Bunny' and are often found entangled in a group hug so tight they become one.

"Stop Overthinking: A Beginner’s Guide” spills the beans on why we feel the way we do and how to achieve freedom of mind for the life you've dreamed of and thought you’d never have. This book gives you a fresh take on where our feelings come from, so you can stop the struggle and choose how you want to feel anytime. Remember, pain happens, but suffering is your call.

What if I told you that you don't need immense effort or nights on the computer to get the results you've always wanted? The Kaizen method is a revolutionary approach introduced in Japan in the last century, but only recently landed in all the world. It is a real mindest that will help you improve yourself and your activities day by day, step by step.

Human brains and behavior are shaped by genetic predispositions and early experience. But we are not doomed by our genes or our past. Neuroscientific discoveries of the last decade have provided an optimistic and revolutionary view of adult brain function: People can change. This revelation offers hope to therapists and to couples seeking to improve their relationship. Loving With the Brain in Mind explores ways to help couples become proactive in revitalizing their relationship.

What makes a good forager? It is his ability to identify and locate the edible wild plants in his vicinity. However, with over 80,000 edible species, this feat can be daunting at times. Yet, it is essential that any forager, whether a beginner or not, know his plants and mushrooms. The solution to this problem is simple, though.

Miranda Fitch’s life is a waking nightmare. The accident that ended her burgeoning acting career left her with excruciating, chronic pain, a failed marriage, and a deepening dependence on painkillers. And now she’s on the verge of losing her job as a college theatre director. Determined to put on Shakespeare’s All’s Well That Ends Well, the play that promised—and cost—her everything, she faces a mutinous cast hell-bent on staging Macbeth instead. Miranda sees her chance at redemption slip through her fingers.

Researcher Poorvi Gupta is desperate to reach her medical conference in Dublin on time to secure grant funding with her presentation. But when her flight is diverted due to bad weather, Poorvi agrees to share a rental car with a fellow passenger—a man as hot as Madras curry…and just as vexing. Ophthalmologist Kavan Shashane is traveling to Dublin to head off a researcher whose study puts his family's practice at risk. Until then, he's content to ride with the enigmatic woman he met on the plane. Soon, sparks are flying like Holi colors!

Welcome to Waterfell Tweed, where things aren't as cozy as they seem.... Sandy Shaw was happy with her life running the village cafe and bookstore, until a series of murders in the sleepy village cause everyone to second-guess just how peaceful things are. Join Sandy as she sets out to solve the killers, and get peace restored, in this box set collection of the fourth, fifth, and sixth books in the Waterfell Tweed Cozy Mystery Series. This box set includes Murder Most Remote, Bang! You're Dead, and The Black Rock Murder.

Typical financial wisdom and advice is sometimes lacking, and at other times, altogether wrong. This book fills in important gaps about essential but little-understood financial topics you won't hear about from most financial advisors. Whether you are just learning to manage your money or whether you are an experienced investor, Busting the Interest Rate Lies offers information to help you avoid common financial mistakes and put thousands of dollars into your pocket!

Tom Owens is a brilliant barefoot entrepreneur who has become rich and famous by inventing a new kind of business - a man who is fond of showering his largesse on friends and perfect strangers even as he resists any deeper claims on his affection. Into Owens's charmed life comes a 10-year-old girl whose claims he cannot ignore: Jane is his daughter, born out of wedlock, raised in communes, and now dispatched into his care by a mother who is no longer capable of providing it.

Une nouvelle saga épique de Rick Riordan qui nous entraîne de nouveau dans le fabuleux univers de Percy Jackson, aux côtés de nouveaux personnages hauts en couleur !

Ils viennent de mondes différents. Et pourtant, ils sont faits l'un pour l'autre. Argent, fêtes, pouvoir : Ruby Bell se fiche de tout cela. Depuis qu'elle a reçu une bourse pour étudier dans le prestigieux lycée de Maxton Hall, son seul objectif est de travailler dur à la réalisation de son rêve de toujours : intégrer l'université d'Oxford. Surtout, Ruby tient à garder ses distances avec James Beaufort, le garçon le plus influent de l'école. Pour elle, il est trop arrogant, trop riche.

Nombre de femmes et d'hommes qui cherchent l'épanouissement amoureux ensemble se retrouvent très démunis face au troisième protagoniste qui s'invite dans leur salon ou dans leur lit : le patriarcat. Sur une question qui hante les féministes depuis des décennies et qui revient aujourd'hui au premier plan de leurs préoccupations, celle de l'amour hétérosexuel, ce livre propose une série d'éclairages.

Die Again-Reihe geht weiter! Everly Penn hatte nie vor, sich zu verlieben - schon gar nicht in ihren Dozenten. Doch Nolan Gates ist charmant, intelligent und sexy, und er ist der Einzige, bei dem Everly die dunklen Gedanken vergessen kann, die sie seit ihrer Kindheit Nacht für Nacht wachhalten. Je näher sie ihn kennenlernt, desto intensiver wird die Verbindung zwischen ihnen - und desto mehr wünscht Everly sich, die unsichtbare Grenze, die sie von Nolan trennt, zu überschreiten.

Percy et Annabeth prisonniers d'Hadès. Sept demi-dieux dans la bataille. Annabeth et Percy sont prisonniers dans les Enfers côté Tartare, affrontant mille monstres. Les cinq autres demi-dieux - Jason, Piper, Hazel, Frank, Léo - enterrent leurs désaccords et s'unissent pour trouver l'entrée des Portes, côté mortels. Leur mission : sceller les Enfers et défaire les armées de Gaïa. Mais la victoire aura un prix... Percy et Annabeth resteraient enfermés dans la peu accueillante Maison d'Hadès.

Nature provides us with a lot of natural food sources that can be found in different places growing throughout the different seasons. You will be surprised by the number of edible plants that grow around you, many of which you probably didn't know were edible. This book is a guide to help you learn about foraging edible wild plants and preparing delicious meals with them.

If it seems as though your health is a puzzle and you’ve never had the pieces to figure it out, you’re not alone. Well, Mona Warner is here to help. Her new book Ayurveda’s Three Pillars of Health: A Map to Health, Resilience, and Well-Being offers tried and true techniques dating back over 5,000 years. With chapter after chapter of compassionate advice and accessible techniques, she provides listeners with a simplified, immediately actionable approach to greater health and more joy.

A short feminist polemic that argues that the afterlife of the witch hunts continues today: the same reasons for which women were demonized in the past—being single, ageing, deciding to not have children—lead to them be persecuted now.