Erin Williams

An intimate, clever, and ultimately gut-wrenching graphic memoir about the daily decision women must make between being sexualized or being invisible In Commute, we follow author and illustrator Erin Williams on her daily commute to and from work, punctuated by recollections of sexual encounters as well as memories of her battle with alcoholism, addiction, and recovery. As she moves through the world navigating banal, familiar, and sometimes uncomfortable interactions with the familiar-faced strangers she sees daily, Williams weaves together a riveting collection of flashbacks. Her recollections highlight the indefinable moments when lines are crossed and a woman must ask herself if the only way to avoid being objectified is to simply cease to draw any attention to her physical being. She delves into the gray space that lives between consent and assault and tenderly explores the complexity of the shame, guilt, vulnerability, and responsibility attached to both.

An Illustrated Memoir of Female Shame

Commute

A gorgeously illustrated critique of how the American healthcare system fails women, people of color, and nonbinary individuals--perfect for fans of Invisible Women What's Wrong? is author, illustrator, and scientific researcher Erin Williams's graphic exploration of how the American healthcare system has failed both her and the rest of us. Focusing on poignant, raw, and complex firsthand accounts from four patients, plus Williams' own personal story, this book addresses identifiable illnesses such as bladder cancer, alcoholism, postpartum depression, abuse, and endometriosis. More broadly, it peels back the layers on the invisible illnesses that come from trauma, often perpetuated by the broken healthcare system. Western medicine, which is intended to cure illness and pain, often causes more loss, abuse, and suffering, especially for those Americans who do not fit within the narrow definition of "normal," meaning white, male, and heterosexual. The book explores the many ways in which those receiving medical treatments are often overlooked, unseen, and doubted by their doctors due to their race, gender, and unconventional social circumstances. Despite this, What's Wrong? remains a beautiful celebration of and declaration by those who were able to find various ways of healing and receiving care, ways where they were not just viewed as collections of parts to be taken apart and reassembled but as people.

Personal Histories of Chronic Pain and Bad Medicine

What's Wrong?

The Bullfrog Bar in the sleepy town of Willow seemed like the ideal place for 21 year old Kit to start a life free from the abuse she'd known until now. After befriending the locals and catching the attention of the handsome twin men who own the bar, she dares to hope that a new beginning is really possible. But when past bad decisions continue to haunt her, and her violent ex-boyfriend returns, the thin strands of happiness in her new life threaten to unravel. Physical trauma, murder, and a sordid past seem to keep drawing Kit back to her old life. While her new friends insist she can move beyond her painful experiences, she fears the obstacles are too difficult to overcome. Kit must decide between succumbing to a life she despises but feels she deserves, or one of newfound love and hope. Gemini Rising is the story of love, in all its forms, and of those who embrace it and share it.

Gemini Rising

Jordan Reid

"Reid & Williams are "funny as hell."--Amy Morrison, founder of Pregnant Chicken Feeling anxious? Who isn't! Your most irrational (and sometimes rational) fears are hilarious fodder for this sharp and relatable activity book. These days, anxiety is simply part of the human experience. Part journal, part coloring book, part weird coping mechanisms, and part compendium of soothing facts, The Big Activity Book for Anxious People will be an outlet for anyone who wants to take a break from reality, laugh through her fears, and realize with every page that she is not alone--and to help her figure out what to do when it's 3AM and she's wide awake worrying about whether she cc'ed the right "Bob" on that email. (Probably.) Activities include: * Fun Facts about Aging! * Public Speaking: A Diagram * Your Hotel Room Carpet: A Petri Dish of Horrors * Obscure Diseases You Probably Don't Have * Zen Mantras For The Anxiously Inclined * Soothing Facts about Hand Sanitizer On a bad day, try coloring in the soothing grandma. On a really bad day, find step-by-step instructions on how to build an underground bunker. Reid and Williams want everyone to remember that they're in good company: anxious people are some of the funniest and most interesting and creative humans on the planet. (They know, because they are two of them.)"--

The Big Activity Book for Anxious People

A sharp and hilarious collection covering everything from alimony to the division of property--because laughter is cheaper than therapy Divorce is the worst. It's also really, really common. When marriage was invented, people did not typically live past age thirty, which made "till death do us part" more doable. Part journal, part coloring book, part hilarious and on-point advice on how to move on, The Big Activity Book for Divorced People is an outlet for anyone who wants to laugh through the pain. After all, change can be pretty great (see: evolution). Activities include: the all-time greatest celebrity divorce disasters match the song you can never, ever listen to again to its singer see how many words you can make out of the phrase "Irreconcilable Differences"? statistics to make you feel better when you're lying awake at night word search: things that are best enjoyed alone maze: Get through the dating apps without crying! Whether your divorce was mutual and amicable (in which case, congratulations: You are a unicorn) or full-on Henry VIII (in which case: Oh, dear), Jordan Reid and Erin Williams are here to tell you that you are not alone--and to remind you that you're still you, and you still have your sense of humor--right? Right!

The Big Activity Book for Divorced People

Happiness is Experimenting in the Kitchen!✩ Read this book for FREE on the Kindle Unlimited NOW! ✩With life being fast-paced nowadays, it's difficult to make time to cook meals from scratch. But it's essential enough for me to make it my priority. Cooking at home is good not only for my family but also for me. So why don't we creating our own tasty dishes with the recipes in the book "150 Special Mayonnaise Recipes"! 150 Awesome Mayonnaise Recipes Consider "150 Special Mayonnaise Recipes" as a celebration of bringing people together through good food like. Sharing here most of my personal favorites, as well as some recipes I got from my family and friends. In most of recipes, preparation, cooking, and cooling times are included. They're estimates only, so no need to follow them to a T. Those time estimates just work for me when I cook for my family. A dish that takes me half an hour to make may take you just 15 minutes or an hour. Just as some ovens heat faster and some people slice ingredients more quickly than others. Don't be disheartened if it takes you longer to prepare a dish or the outcome doesn't look like the one in the photo. What matters more is owning and enjoying the cooking experience.More than the recipes and food photos in this book, I hope to inspire you to unlock ways to cook meals that are truly yours, whether you just want to experiment in the kitchen as a beginner or you're looking to learn new recipes to add to the selection of meals you've been serving for years. Regardless, just enjoy cooking. In case you mess up, you can always order pizza.You also see more different types of recipes such as: Pesto Recipe Egg Salad Recipes Artichoke Dip Recipe Crab Cake Recipe Grilled Fish Recipes Baked Potato Cookbook Fish Cake Recipes ✩ DOWNLOAD FREE eBook (PDF) included FULL of ILLUSTRATIONS for EVERY RECIPES right after conclusion ✩I really hope that each book in the series will be always your best friend in your little kitchen.Let's live happily and experiment in your little kitchen every day!Enjoy the book,

A Mayonnaise Cookbook for Effortless Meals

150 Special Mayonnaise Recipes

Journal your way to inner peace—or at least to feeling a little less alone in your stress, anxiety, and 3:00 a.m. doomscrolling—with this hilarious, relatable, interactive journal. The human body is 80 percent water, so we are basically cucumbers with anxiety (#themoreyouknow). Next time you feel a freak-out emerging, set your phone to the side—or, even better, turn it off—and reach for this journal instead. Jordan Reid and Erin Williams want you to remember that you’re in good company: Anxious people are some of the funniest and most interesting and creative humans on the planet. (They know, because they are two of them.) So if you’ve got 99 problems and 86 of them are completely made-up scenarios in your head, write them down and let them go. With hilarious prompts, brilliant quotes, mental health facts, straight-talking advice, and plenty of space to draw, The Big Journal for Anxious People is a must-have for anyone who needs a little less overthinking and a little more chill.

The Big Journal for Anxious People

Kate Novotny

A simple but radical guidebook for anyone learning to care for themselves and others, with vibrant color illustrations. Healing is not just for people who have their s&*t together. Healing is, most important, for people who are falling apart. How to Take Care will help you learn to trust your instincts, listen to your body, and practice small, easy steps to soothe anxiety, burnout, and symptoms of PTSD. From A (adaptogenic herbs, ancestral healing) to Z (zoetic), How to Take Care is for anyone striving to live slowly, with self-compassion, one moment at a time. Learn tangible steps to dispel shame, tell the truth, and loosen the grip on whatever is holding you back. Sample guided meditations, cook nurturing recipes, and follow handy how-tos. Practice the grounding of a clean sink when you’d rather burn the house down, or connect with nature by growing flowers from seed. Keep this guide on your nightstand or in your backpack for easy-reference tools, techniques, and strategies to calm your nervous system and come back to your body. It is a gift for yourself or anyone else who is going through a big, messy, or trying season of life.

An A-Z Guide of Radical Remedies

How to Take Care

Two stars of the lifestyle and parenting blogosphere invoke the mindless fun and nostalgic appeal of an old-school activity book in this irreverent, laugh-out-loud twist on the traditional baby journal, with illustrated activities, lists, essays, and musings on what pregnancy is really like. - Word finds: Nope, Sorry (All the Stuff You're Not Allowed to Have Anymore); Bad Baby Names- Mazes: Make it from Your Desk to the Bathroom Without Throwing Up- Lists: How to Register Without Crying- Journaling: Yoga Teachers (Also Your Mum Friends, Your Parents, People on Facebook, All Articles, and Everyone You Meet) Want to Tell You How to Give Birth, But You Don t Have to Listen- Quizzes: Stop: Labour Time!Part diary, part colouring book, and part brutally honest (and hysterically funny) collection of essays, this is for the new mother who wants to chill out, laugh her face off, and realise with every page that she is not alone.

The Big Fat Activity Book for Pregnant People

"Funny as hell.”—Amy Morrison, founder of Pregnant Chicken The ultimate must-have for any mom-to-be with a sense of humor: an irreverent, laugh-out-loud activity book filled with quizzes, mazes, fill-in-the-blanks, journaling pages, and hysterical musings on what pregnancy is really like. Baby shower gifts don't get more perfect than this. · Word finds: Sorry, Nope (all the stuff you’re not allowed to have anymore); Bad Baby Names (Murl, anyone?) · Mazes: Make it from Your Desk to the Bathroom Without Throwing Up · Lists: How to Register Without Crying; Things Every OB on the Planet Has Been Asked by Newly Pregnant Women · Journaling: Yoga Teachers (Also Your Mom Friends, Your Parents, People on Facebook, All Articles, and Everyone You Meet) Want to Tell You How to Give Birth, But You Don’t Have to Listen · Quizzes: Which $1500 Stroller is Different? "Comfort, solidarity, entertainment, and maybe even total life enlightenment.”—Lauren Smith Brody, founder of The Fifth Trimester

Momoko Kitada

Lisa Loloma Froholdt

This exciting new WMU book series' volume features the first attempt to include detailed experiences of women in the maritime sector at a global level. It highlights the achievement of women in the maritime sector, in particular, women’s leadership and service to the sustainable development of the maritime industry. The volume contains contemporary studies on maritime women and follows an inter-disciplinary approach. It offers an overview of women's integration into the maritime sector since the late 1980s as well as benchmarking its impact on various levels, such as policy, employment, education, leadership and sustainability. Even 20 years after the Beijing Declaration, gender-related challenges at work still remain in the maritime sector, for example, lack of gender policy, difficulty in work-life balance, access to education, and leadership opportunities. The book addresses a series of recommendations that may further help the integration of women into the maritime sector.

Maritime Women: Global Leadership

This thoughtful and fun activity book for children is inspired by the hysterical and hugely popular Big Activity Book for Anxious People. Written for kids or basically anyone who sometimes feels overwhelmed, angry, scared, nervous, or just plain icky--which is everyone. Really! In this awesome, non-anxiety-inducing book, you'll learn about where anxious feelings come from (evolution) and strategies, activities, and suggestions for how to handle them. For example, go on a scavenger hunt for comforting things around your house, or color in the rainbow of emotions! These activities are designed to help children explore their feelings in a way that helps them to understand anxiety is workable and can be transformed into something positive. Activities include: * How to Calm Down When You're Freaking Out! (It's easier than it sounds.) * Word Search: Stuff Literally Everybody Does (Even if you think you're the only one.) * Unscramble the Easy Fixes for Everyday Problems! (Sometimes the answer is right in front of you!) * Design Your Own Emoji That Perfectly Expresses How You're Feeling Right Now * Draw Faces On Underwater Creatures, Who Are Feeling Lots of Things (They're in their deep-sea feels.) Humorous, helpful, and--most of all--FUN, The Everybody Gets Anxious Activity Book is a must-have addition to your bookshelf...but don't be surprised if your parents end up enjoying it just as much as you do.

The Everybody Gets Anxious Activity Book

Gran libro de actividades para gente ansiosa

Panik? Attacke! Volle Aufzüge, verkeimte Hotelbetten, fiese Zahnarztbohrer, drohende Altersarmut, Smalltalk mit Fremden, tödliche Krankheiten - dieses Mal- und Rätselbuch widmet sich genüsslich unseren verschiedensten Alpträumen und Horrorszenarien. Gnadenlos respektlos werden hier ganz alltägliche, ziemlich reale und komplett irrationale Ängste aufs Korn genommen. Skurrile und schwarzhumorige Suchbilder, Worträtsel, Punkt-zu-Punkt-Bilder und Irrgärten – für alle, die sich die Wartezeit auf den Therapieplatz verkürzen wollen.

Das große Activity-Buch für Neurotiker, Paniker und Deprimierte

Keine Angst ist auch keine Lösung

Deep down, you know it's true: you could benefit from disconnecting from the internet and reconnecting with the world around you. Part journal, part coloring book, part advice on how to take a break, Get Off Your Phone will be an outlet for anyone who wants to laugh through the ridiculousness of the digital age and remember how to be a human - because it's definitely not going to happen when you're awake at 1:00 a.m. reading yet another listicle. Activities include: - Craft with your obsolete iPhone cords - 10 things to do outside right now - Color in the influencer who is so grateful for you guys - Lies the internet tells you - Why gardening is a thing you should try When you're longing for freedom from your devices, dig out a pen and turn to the pages of this timely, entertaining book-and don't post a picture anywhere #retro.

The Big Activity Book for Digital Detox

THE PERFECT GIFT FOR MUMS-TO-BE WITH A SENSE OF HUMOUR. Part diary, part colouring book, and part brutally honest (and hysterically funny) collection of advice, this is for the new mother who wants to chill out, laugh her face off, and realise with every page that she is not alone. Two stars of the lifestyle and parenting blogosphere invoke the mindless fun and nostalgic appeal of an old-school activity book in this irreverent, laugh-out-loud twist on the traditional baby journal, with illustrated activities, lists, essays, and musings on what pregnancy is really like. - Wordsearches: Nope, Sorry (All the Stuff You're Not Allowed to Have Anymore); Bad Baby Names - Mazes: Make it from Your Desk to the Bathroom Without Throwing Up - Lists: How to Baby Shop Without Crying - Advice: Yoga Teachers (Also Your Mum Friends, Your Parents, People on Facebook, All Articles, and Everyone You Meet) Want to Tell You How to Give Birth, But You Don t Have to Listen - Quizzes: Stop: Labour Time!

'WHO KNEW MY ANXIETY COULD BE SO FUNNY?' Amy Morrison, founder of Pregnant Chicken Feeling anxious? Who isn't! Your most irrational (and sometimes rational) fears are hilarious fodder for this sharp and relatable activity book. These days, anxiety is simply part of the human experience. Part journal, part coloring book, part weird coping mechanisms, and part compendium of soothing facts, The Big Activity Book for Anxious Peoplewill be an outlet for anyone who wants to take a break from reality, laugh through her fears, and realize with every page that she is not alone--and to help her figure out what to do when it's 3AM and she's wide awake worrying about whether she cc'ed the right "Bob" on that email. (Probably.) Activities include: * Fun Facts about Aging! * Public Speaking: A Diagram * Your Hotel Room Carpet: A Petri Dish of Horrors * Obscure Diseases You Probably Don't Have * Zen Mantras For The Anxiously Inclined * Soothing Facts about Hand Sanitizer On a bad day, try coloring in the soothing grandma. On a really bad day, find step-by-step instructions on how to build an underground bunker. Reid and Williams want everyone to remember that they're in good company: anxious people are some of the funniest and most interesting and creative humans on the planet. (They know, because they are two of them.)

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