Rachel Epstein

Whether flowers are your fancy, hats your madness, or paper your passion, you can open a store selling the things you love. Victoria introduces a group of women entrepreneurs who, with perseverance and big dreams, created a rewarding niche in the retail market. Their triumphs and failures, practical advice, and insider secrets provide invaluable lessons for fledgling shop owners. Here’s just the right advice to take you from establishing credit to choosing a space to developing a solid partnership with vendors. Find creative and inviting ideas for displaying your wares so customers will linger longer, and smart ways to get the biggest bang out of your advertising dollars. The profiles of shop owners will offer inspiration and provide invaluable role models.

Women Who Turned the Dream Into Reality

A Shop of One's Own

The essays and interviews in Who's Your Daddy? give new meaning to our understanding of queer parenting. Contributors bring into sharp focus the multiple and meaningful ways that LGBTQ people are choosing to become parents and raise children. This is without a doubt a timely and important.

And Other Writings on Queer Parenting

Who's Your Daddy?

Erica Chenoweth

Deborah Avant

Marie Berry

Cullen Hendrix

Oliver Kaplan

Timothy Sisk

Many view civil wars as violent contests between armed combatants. But history shows that community groups, businesses, NGOs, local governments, and even armed groups can respond to war by engaging in civil action. Characterized by a reluctance to resort to violence and a willingness to show enough respect to engage with others, civil action can slow, delay, or prevent violent escalations. This volume explores how people in conflict environments engage in civil action, and the ways such action has affected violence dynamics in Syria, Peru, Kenya, Northern Ireland, Mexico, Bosnia, Afghanistan, Spain, and Colombia. These cases highlight the critical and often neglected role that civil action plays in conflicts around the world.

Civil Action and the Dynamics of Violence

Rachel Epstein

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