Know Your Place
By: Golriz Ghahraman
4.30
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
The story of a child refugee who faced her fears, found her home and accidentally made history W…
Want to Read $ 10.99"can you think of anyone whose work or life you really covet, who you think is really amazing, dead or alive, who took the straight path they were meant to take?"-Golriz Ghahraman, Know Your Place
"can you think of anyone whose work or life you really covet, who you think is really amazing, dead or alive, who took the straight path they were meant to take?"-Golriz Ghahraman, Know Your Place
"We talked about holding the biggest corporate polluters to account and what that might look like in law. Would personhood of nature be enshrined in the same way that corporate personhood is?"-Golriz Ghahraman, Know Your Place
"We talked about holding the biggest corporate polluters to account and what that might look like in law. Would personhood of nature be enshrined in the same way that corporate personhood is?"-Golriz Ghahraman, Know Your Place
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30. Know Your Place
By: Golriz Ghahraman
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Format: 320 pages, Paperback
The story of a child refugee who faced her fears, found her home and accidentally made history W… read more
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"can you think of anyone whose work or life you really covet, who you think is really amazing, dead or alive, who took the straight path they were meant to take?"-Golriz Ghahraman, Know Your Place
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"I looked one of the legends on the bench in the eye and, with all the appropriate airs and graces, told him, I could answer his question but that its basis was a misrepresentation of my argument."-Golriz Ghahraman, Know Your Place
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