Melissa jun rowley (5 Ergebnisse)

PAP. Zustand: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

PAP. Zustand: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

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HRD. Zustand: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - In Beyond the Mic Drop, Melissa Jun Rowley takes readers on a riveting journey to overlooked corners of the world, showing how stories are vital to survival, justice, and hope. From red carpets to refugee camps, she reveals how narratives can be used to control or to liberate-and why protecting the freedom to tell them is essential to democracy.Blending fieldwork, neuroscience, and personal reckoning, Rowley explores the impact stories have on daily life, with each chapter examining a different dimension of storytelling-from the internal narratives that support or sabotage us to the public narratives that become our social archives, along with the role of story in conflict resolution and the ethical questions AI now poses around how narratives are created and weaponized.Through firsthand adventures with peace activists in Israel and Palestine, community builders in South Africa, Indigenous leaders defending the Amazon, and women's rights advocates in Puerto Rico, Rowley shows how personal stories challenge inequity and move us toward more just futures. Each chapter ends with reflective 'mic checks' designed to help readers examine the narratives they've inherited and the ones they're ready to revise.Ultimately, this book is both a love letter to storytellers everywhere and a call to action-centering the creative power and responsibility that emerge when we let truth lead.…