"A comprehensive look at effective low-cost, high-impact solutions that promise to empower women in the Global South, 100 under $100 explores sectors ranging from tech to public health to finance and more, offering globally attuned readers the information--and inspiration--they …
Being kind is something most of us do when it's easy and when it suits us. Being kind when we don't feel like it, or when all of our buttons are being pushed, is hard. But that's also when it's most needed; that's when it can defuse anger and even violence, when it can restore c…
Carly Gelsinger is an awkward and lonely thirteen-year-old when she stumbles into Pine Canyon Assemblies of God, the cracked stucco church on the outskirts of her remote small town. She assimilates, despite her apprehensions, because she is desperate to belong. Soon, she is on f…
"In the summer of 1979, Diane Meyer Lowman, a nineteen-year-old Middlebury College student, embarked on a ten-week working trip aboard a German container ship with a mostly male crew. The journey would take her from New York to Australia and New Zealand and back, through the lus…
Kavita Basi had a seemingly perfect world--a nice job, excellent holidays, strong family bonds--until she was diagnosed with subarachnoid hemorrhage, a serious illness with a 50 percent mortality rate, and everything changed.
"When Deb Brandon discovered that cavernous angiomas--tangles of malformed blood vessels in her brain--were behind the terrifying symptoms she'd been experiencing, she underwent one brain surgery. And then anther. And then another. And that was just the beginning. "But My Br…
After five years' absence from San Diego's art community, Jennifer G. Spencer returned and began to photograph the artists she had become acquainted with during her thirteen year stint as the executive director of a visual arts organization ... a project that became a ten-year j…
"Mary Carlson didn't start out to become a veterinarian, let alone the owner and caretaker of cats (many), dogs (two, both huskies), and horses (some with manners, some without) in Colorado. She was a suburban Chicago girl; all she knew of the American West came from the stories…
Have you ever felt a call from somewhere deep within telling you there must be more to life? For Meredith Rom, this call came at age twenty-two while she was lying in savasana on the floor of a packed New York City yoga studio. It came on the heels of an unpleasant breakup and a…
Her Beautiful Brain is Ann Hedreen's story of what it was like to become a mom just as her beautiful, brainy mother began to lose her mind to an unforgiving disease.
Her Beautiful Brain is Ann Hedreen's story of what it was like to become a mom just as her beautiful, brainy mother began to lose her mind to an unforgiving disease. Arlene was a copper miner's daughter who was divorced twice, widowed once, raised six kids singlehandedly, surviv…
Her Beautiful Brain is Ann Hedreen's story of what it was like to become a mom just as her beautiful, brainy mother began to lose her mind to an unforgiving disease. Arlene was a copper miner's daughter who was divorced twice, widowed once, raised six kids singlehandedly, surviv…
ADVICE ON CAREERS & ACHIEVING SUCCESS. There are times in life that shake us to our very foundations. We wish for things to get better, fast. But the truth is that moments of falling apart are also our most powerful catalysts for growth and change. In "Falling Together," Donna C…
ADVICE ON CAREERS & ACHIEVING SUCCESS. There are times in life that shake us to our very foundations. We wish for things to get better, fast. But the truth is that moments of falling apart are also our most powerful catalysts for growth and change. In "Falling Together," Donna C…
When Renee Hodges invited her nephew, Bobby, to come stay with her for a few weeks so he could visit a doctor about his back pain, she knew he was recovering from an addiction to prescription painkillers. She believed that if he could address his back problems, he would have a b…
