Waste

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Publisher : The New Press
ISBN 13 : 1620976099
Total Pages : 226 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (29 download)

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Book Synopsis Waste by : Catherine Coleman Flowers

Download or read book Waste written by Catherine Coleman Flowers and published by The New Press. This book was released on 2020-11-17 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The MacArthur grant–winning environmental justice activist’s riveting memoir of a life fighting for a cleaner future for America’s most vulnerable A Smithsonian Magazine Top Ten Best Science Book of 2020 Catherine Coleman Flowers, a 2020 MacArthur “genius,” grew up in Lowndes County, Alabama, a place that’s been called “Bloody Lowndes” because of its violent, racist history. Once the epicenter of the voting rights struggle, today it’s Ground Zero for a new movement that is also Flowers’s life’s work—a fight to ensure human dignity through a right most Americans take for granted: basic sanitation. Too many people, especially the rural poor, lack an affordable means of disposing cleanly of the waste from their toilets and, as a consequence, live amid filth. Flowers calls this America’s dirty secret. In this “powerful and moving book” (Booklist), she tells the story of systemic class, racial, and geographic prejudice that foster Third World conditions not just in Alabama, but across America, in Appalachia, Central California, coastal Florida, Alaska, the urban Midwest, and on Native American reservations in the West. In this inspiring story of the evolution of an activist, from country girl to student civil rights organizer to environmental justice champion at Bryan Stevenson’s Equal Justice Initiative, Flowers shows how sanitation is becoming too big a problem to ignore as climate change brings sewage to more backyards—not only those of poor minorities.

Beautiful Flowers of the Maquiladora

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Publisher : University of Texas Press
ISBN 13 : 0292788681
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (927 download)

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Book Synopsis Beautiful Flowers of the Maquiladora by : Norma Iglesias Prieto

Download or read book Beautiful Flowers of the Maquiladora written by Norma Iglesias Prieto and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2010-07-05 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Published originally as La flor mas bella de la maquiladora, this beautifully written book is based on interviews the author conducted with more than fifty Mexican women who work in the assembly plants along the U.S.-Mexico border. A descriptive analytic study conducted in the late 1970s, the book uses compelling testimonials to detail the struggles these women face. The experiences of women in maquiladoras are attracting increasing attention from scholars, especially in the context of ongoing Mexican migration to the country's northern frontier and in light of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA). This book is among the earliest accounts of the physical and psychological toll exacted from the women who labor in these plants. Iglesias Prieto captures the idioms of these working women so that they emerge as dynamic individuals, young and articulate personalities, inexorably engaged in the daily struggle to change the fundamental conditions of their exploitation.

Into the Pulpit

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Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
ISBN 13 : 0807869988
Total Pages : 278 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (78 download)

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Book Synopsis Into the Pulpit by : Elizabeth H. Flowers

Download or read book Into the Pulpit written by Elizabeth H. Flowers and published by Univ of North Carolina Press. This book was released on 2012-04-09 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The debate over women's roles in the Southern Baptist Convention's conservative ascendance is often seen as secondary to theological and biblical concerns. Elizabeth Flowers argues, however, that for both moderate and conservative Baptist women--all of whom had much at stake--disagreements that touched on their familial roles and ecclesial authority have always been primary. And, in the turbulent postwar era, debate over their roles caused fierce internal controversy. While the legacy of race and civil rights lingered well into the 1990s, views on women's submission to male authority provided the most salient test by which moderates were identified and expelled in a process that led to significant splits in the Church. In Flowers's expansive history of Southern Baptist women, the "woman question" is integral to almost every area of Southern Baptist concern: hermeneutics, ecclesial polity, missionary work, church-state relations, and denominational history. Flowers's analysis, part of the expanding survey of America's religious and cultural landscape after World War II, points to the South's changing identity and connects religious and regional issues to the complicated relationship between race and gender during and after the civil rights movement. She also shows how feminism and shifting women's roles, behaviors, and practices played a significant part in debates that simmer among Baptists and evangelicals throughout the nation today.

Women of Flowers

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Publisher : National Library Australia
ISBN 13 : 0642276838
Total Pages : 136 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (422 download)

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Book Synopsis Women of Flowers by : Leonie Norton

Download or read book Women of Flowers written by Leonie Norton and published by National Library Australia. This book was released on 2009 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Women of Flowers pays tribute to the female colonial artists who drew and painted the indigenous wildflowers and plants of Australia. The publication focuses on the rich holdings of albums, sketchbooks and paintings in the Pictures Collection of the National Library of Australia, as well as works from other major collecting institutions. Each chapter presents a short biography of an artist, followed by a 'portfolio' section of images, in a similar layout to the previous successful title Brush with Birds. Artists include: Marianne Collinson Campbell; Ellis Rowan; Dorothy English Paty; Ida McComish; Louisa Ann Meredith.

Woman of Flowers

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Publisher : Aurora Metro Publications Ltd.
ISBN 13 : 1906582696
Total Pages : 71 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (65 download)

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Book Synopsis Woman of Flowers by : Kaite O'Reilly

Download or read book Woman of Flowers written by Kaite O'Reilly and published by Aurora Metro Publications Ltd.. This book was released on 2017-07-05 with total page 71 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rose cannot remember what came before the house at the edge of the forest. Gwynne says he magicked her out of the flowers, but she’s not so sure. She has played the part of the perfect farmer’s wife for Lewis, who is kept firmly in place by his uncle Gwynne, and accepted her lonely existence. Then a stranger is seen in the forest. What lengths will she go to, to escape the life chosen for her? A contemporary tale of desire, beauty, betrayal and revenge. Award-winning Kaite O’Reilly has written for National Theatre Wales and the London 2012 Cultural Olympiad. Her work has been produced across the UK and internationally. Her awards include the Peggy Ramsay Award, and the Ted Hughes prize for New Works in Poetry.

Brazen Careerist

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Publisher : Hachette UK
ISBN 13 : 0446561657
Total Pages : 117 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (465 download)

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Book Synopsis Brazen Careerist by : Penelope Trunk

Download or read book Brazen Careerist written by Penelope Trunk and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2009-05-30 with total page 117 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Are you taking long lunches? Ignoring sexual harassment? Do you keep your desk neat to the point of looking like you don't have enough to do? The answer to all three should be yes, if you want to succeed in your career on your own terms. Penelope Trunk, expert business advice columnist for the Boston Globe, gives anything but standard advice to help members of the X and Y generations succeed on their own terms in any industry. Trunk asserts that a take-charge attitude and thinking outside the box are the only ways to make it in today's job market. With 45 tips that will get you thinking bigger, acting bolder, and blazing trails you never thought possible, Brazen Careerist will forever change your career outlook. Guy Kawasaki, author of The Art of the Start "Take everything you think you 'know' about career strategies, throw them away, and read this book because the rules have changed. 'Brazen,' 'counter-intuitive,' and 'radical' are the best three descriptions of Trunk's work. Life is too short to be stuck in a rat hole..." Robert I. Sutton, Ph.D, author of the New York Times Bestseller The No Asshole Rule "A delightful book, with some edgy advice that made me squirm a bit at times. I agreed with 90% of it, found myself arguing with the other 10%, and was completely engaged from start to finish." Paul D. Tieger, author of Do What You Are and CEO of SpeedReading People, LLC "Penelope Trunk brings considerable savvy and a fresh new perspective to the business of career success. Bold and sometimes unconventional, Brazen Careerist gives readers much to think about as well as concrete, practical suggestions that will help them know what they want, and know how to get it." Keith Ferrazzi, bestselling author of Never Eat Alone: And Other Secrets to Success, One Relationship at a Time "Brazen Careerist has the street-smarts you need to make your career and life work for you from the start. Read it now, or you'll wish you had when you're 40!"

Flowers and Towers

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Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1443886238
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (438 download)

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Book Synopsis Flowers and Towers by : Nira Tessler

Download or read book Flowers and Towers written by Nira Tessler and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2015-11-25 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the meaning and symbolism of the flower motif in the art of women artists, from the nineteenth century to the present day. It begins with a discussion of the symbolic significance of the flower in canonical texts such as the Song of Songs, in which the female lover is likened to a “lily among the thorns,” and to an “enclosed garden.” These allegorical images permeated into Christian iconography, attaining various expressions in the plastic arts from the twelfth through nineteenth centuries. The heart of the book is a discussion of the meaning of the change in representations of the flower, and at the same time the appearance of amazing images of “masculine” skyscrapers, in the works of avant-garde American women artists during the 1920s and 30s, in three hubs of Modernist art: New York, California, and Mexico. Tessler explains how modernist artists of various fields of art – such as Glaspell, Stettheimer, O’Keeffe, Pelton, Cunningham, Mather, Modotti and Kahlo – were aware of the religious symbolism of the flower in Judaism and Christianity, and turned it into an emblem of the new modern woman with her own views of the world. Flowers and Towers concludes by presenting the works of contemporary feminist American artists such as Chicago and Schapiro, who pay tribute to those same Modernist artists by creating a new and daring image of the flower and using “feminine” materials and techniques that link them, as it were, to their spiritual mothers.

Lightning Flowers

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Publisher : Little, Brown Spark
ISBN 13 : 0316450359
Total Pages : 281 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (164 download)

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Book Synopsis Lightning Flowers by : Katherine E. Standefer

Download or read book Lightning Flowers written by Katherine E. Standefer and published by Little, Brown Spark. This book was released on 2020-11-10 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This "utterly spectacular" book weighs the impact modern medical technology has had on the author's life against the social and environmental costs inevitably incurred by the mining that makes such innovation possible (Rachel Louise Snyder, author of No Visible Bruises). What if a lifesaving medical device causes loss of life along its supply chain? That's the question Katherine E. Standefer finds herself asking one night after being suddenly shocked by her implanted cardiac defibrillator. In this gripping, intimate memoir about health, illness, and the invisible reverberating effects of our medical system, Standefer recounts the astonishing true story of the rare diagnosis that upended her rugged life in the mountains of Wyoming and sent her tumbling into a fraught maze of cardiology units, dramatic surgeries, and slow, painful recoveries. As her life increasingly comes to revolve around the internal defibrillator freshly wired into her heart, she becomes consumed with questions about the supply chain that allows such an ostensibly miraculous device to exist. So she sets out to trace its materials back to their roots. From the sterile labs of a medical device manufacturer in southern California to the tantalum and tin mines seized by armed groups in the Democratic Republic of the Congo to a nickel and cobalt mine carved out of endemic Madagascar jungle, Lightning Flowers takes us on a global reckoning with the social and environmental costs of a technology that promises to be lifesaving but is, in fact, much more complicated. Deeply personal and sharply reported, Lightning Flowers takes a hard look at technological mythos, healthcare, and our cultural relationship to medical technology, raising important questions about our obligations to one another, and the cost of saving one life.

The Language of Flowers

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Publisher : University of Virginia Press
ISBN 13 : 9780813934532
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (345 download)

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Book Synopsis The Language of Flowers by : Beverly Seaton

Download or read book The Language of Flowers written by Beverly Seaton and published by University of Virginia Press. This book was released on 2012-10-10 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author traces the phenomenon of ascribing sentimental meaning to floral imagery from its beginnings in Napoleonic France through its later transformations in England and America. At the heart of the book is a depiction of what the three most important flower books from each of the countries divulge about the period and the respective cultures. Seaton shows that the language of flowers was not a single and universally understood correlation of flowers to meanings that men and women used to communicate in matters of love and romance. The language differs from book to book, country to country. To place the language of flowers in social and literary perspective, the author examines the nineteenth-century uses of flowers in everyday life and in ceremonies and rituals and provides a brief history of floral symbolism. She also discusses the sentimental flower book, a genre especially intended for female readers. Two especially valuable features of the book are its table of correlations of flowers and their meanings from different sourcebooks and its complete bibliography of language of flower titles. This book will appeal not only to scholars in Victorian studies and women's studies but also to art historians, book collectors, museum curators, historians of horticulture, and anyone interested in nineteenth-century popular culture.

Watering Wilted Flowers

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Publisher : Running Press Book Publishers
ISBN 13 : 9780762402342
Total Pages : 132 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (23 download)

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Book Synopsis Watering Wilted Flowers by : Ginny Goff Green

Download or read book Watering Wilted Flowers written by Ginny Goff Green and published by Running Press Book Publishers. This book was released on 1998 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thousands of women each year face serious life-threatening illnesses. In this book, two survivors offer uplifting and inspirational advice for coping. Vibrant watercolors complement each page, each floral subject selected for its symbolic meaning and its potential to inspire. 50+ illustrations. Ribbon marker.

Carpoolers

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ISBN 13 : 9780996669726
Total Pages : 112 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (697 download)

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Book Synopsis Carpoolers by : alejandro cartagena

Download or read book Carpoolers written by alejandro cartagena and published by . This book was released on 2016-04-10 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A photobook about traveling. Includes images and textsUn fotolibro de imágenes y textos sobre viajar en México

The Female Brain

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Publisher : Harmony
ISBN 13 : 0767928415
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (679 download)

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Book Synopsis The Female Brain by : Louann Brizendine, MD

Download or read book The Female Brain written by Louann Brizendine, MD and published by Harmony. This book was released on 2007-08-07 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since Dr. Brizendine wrote The Female Brain ten years ago, the response has been overwhelming. This New York Times bestseller has been translated into more than thirty languages, has sold nearly a million copies between editions, and has most recently inspired a romantic comedy starring Whitney Cummings and Sofia Vergara. And its profound scientific understanding of the nature and experience of the female brain continues to guide women as they pass through life stages, to help men better understand the girls and women in their lives, and to illuminate the delicate emotional machinery of a love relationship. Why are women more verbal than men? Why do women remember details of fights that men can’t remember at all? Why do women tend to form deeper bonds with their female friends than men do with their male counterparts? These and other questions have stumped both sexes throughout the ages. Now, pioneering neuropsychiatrist Louann Brizendine, M.D., brings together the latest findings to show how the unique structure of the female brain determines how women think, what they value, how they communicate, and who they love. While doing research as a medical student at Yale and then as a resident and faculty member at Harvard, Louann Brizendine discovered that almost all of the clinical data in existence on neurology, psychology, and neurobiology focused exclusively on males. In response to the overwhelming need for information on the female mind, Brizendine established the first clinic in the country to study and treat women’s brain function. In The Female Brain, Dr. Brizendine distills all her findings and the latest information from the scientific community in a highly accessible book that educates women about their unique brain/body/behavior. The result: women will come away from this book knowing that they have a lean, mean, communicating machine. Men will develop a serious case of brain envy.

Refugees, Women, and Weapons

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Publisher : Stanford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0804772363
Total Pages : 209 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (47 download)

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Book Synopsis Refugees, Women, and Weapons by : Petrice R. Flowers

Download or read book Refugees, Women, and Weapons written by Petrice R. Flowers and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 2009-07-24 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a world dominated by considerations of material and security threats, Japan provides a fascinating case for why, and under what conditions, a state would choose to adopt international norms and laws that are seemingly in direct conflict with its domestic norms. Approaching compliance from within a constructivist framework, author Petrice R. Flowers analyzes three treaties—addressing refugee policy, women's employment, and the use of land mines—that Japan has adopted. Refugees, Women, and Weapons probes how international relations and domestic politics both play a role in constructing state identity, and how state identity in turn influences compliance. Flowers argues that, although state desire for legitimacy is a key factor in norm adoption, to achieve anything other than a low level of compliance requires strong domestic advocacy. She offers a comprehensive theoretical model that tests the explanatory power of two understudied factors: the strength of nonstate actors and the degree to which international and domestic norms conflict. Flowers evaluates how these factors, typically studied and analyzed individually, interact and affect one another.

The Rational Male

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Publisher : Rollo Tomassi
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 191 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Rational Male written by Rollo Tomassi and published by Rollo Tomassi. This book was released on 2013-10-01 with total page 191 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Bible of the Red Pill", The Rational Male® is a rational and pragmatic approach to intersexual dynamics, and the social and psychological underpinnings of intergender relations. The book is the compiled, ten-year core writing of author/blogger Rollo Tomassi from therationalmale.com. Rollo Tomassi is one of the leading voices in the globally growing, male-focused online consortium known as the "Manosphere". Outlined are the concepts of positive masculinity, the feminine imperative, plate theory, operative social conventions and the core psychological theory behind Game awareness and "red pill" ideology. Tomassi explains and outlines the principles of intergender social dynamics and foundational reasoning behind them.

Forbidden Flowers

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Publisher : Rosetta Books
ISBN 13 : 0795335350
Total Pages : 408 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (953 download)

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Book Synopsis Forbidden Flowers by : Nancy Friday

Download or read book Forbidden Flowers written by Nancy Friday and published by Rosetta Books. This book was released on 2014-02-06 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of women’s intimate erotic thoughts by the #1 New York Times–bestselling author of The Secret Garden and “liberator of the female libido” (Newsday). The publication of the groundbreaking expose on women's sexual fantasies, My Secret Garden, ushered in a revolution in women's sexual freedom of expression. In Forbidden Flowers, Nancy Friday reveals even more erotic, wild, and explicit fantasies expressed by women all over the world, from all ethnic and socioeconomic backgrounds. Like My Secret Garden before it, Forbidden Flowers is a celebration of the depth, potency, and imaginative breadth of women’s inner erotic lives. By giving female readers a glimpse into the ordinary and often extraordinary fantasies of other women, it offers to some an exhilarating freedom from the guilt and shame so often associated with sexual fantasy—and to others, provides fascinating insight into the psychology of female sexual response. “The author whose books about gender politics helped redefine American women’s sexuality.” —The New York Times

Flowers as Mind Control

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ISBN 13 : 9781943491308
Total Pages : 74 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (913 download)

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Book Synopsis Flowers as Mind Control by : Laura Minor

Download or read book Flowers as Mind Control written by Laura Minor and published by . This book was released on 2021 with total page 74 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "These poems, which range across rural Florida and Georgia as well as Los Angeles and New York City, include considerations of homesickness, memory, music, alcohol, love, and loss. Winner of the John Ciardi Prize for Poetry, selected by John Hodgen"--

Women Are Roses

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Publisher : Independently Published
ISBN 13 : 9781092256889
Total Pages : 174 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (568 download)

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Book Synopsis Women Are Roses by : Lanette L Kincaide

Download or read book Women Are Roses written by Lanette L Kincaide and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2019-05-19 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many intelligent and talented women suffer in silence, they shut themselves in and close the door to never reopen them and sadly they do not allow any good or bad in their lives. This is what most women have done with their sufferings. One of the vital reasons that women suffer is because women find it difficult to cope up with the societal norms as no one believes in their story. In Women Are Roses Series One, this book shares ten unique stories of real women who have broken all the barriers and took command of their lives, came out of their miseries and tuned their downfalls into glories. Some of the women are survivors of domestic violence, sexual abuse, breast cancer, mental illness, caregivers and authors. The different views and perspective coming from different women with strong stories and background make the book an engaging and intriguing read. The flawless narration and the personal experience in each story enhance the value of this book. This book was shaped by women all over the world. About the authors: The best part of the book is how it unites different authors irrespective of their country, religion, and culture. This book signifies the essence of true womanhood. A masterpiece by ten authors combining like rose petals and forming a complete flower. A complete rose that is already to bloom and spread its fragrance to inspire everyone who reads this book. The core message of the book lies in the vision of the founder of Women With Gifts International, Mrs. Lanette Kincaide, who has a mission to change the world one woman at a time. This book, Women Are Roses is a book that created a platform for women to collaborate from form different corners of the world, telling their stories, inspiring each other and making their own space in this world. In a world where women are sometimes are seen as dirt. The authors of this book have taken the dirt that the world has given them and planted seeds, and the seeds have then turned into flowers beautiful flowers. Beautiful roses. Regardless of everything we endure in our lives, we bloom, we flourish and we inspire others around us to do the same. -Priyanka Nair from India