“‘You’ve never been black, have you? No, if you’d been black, you wouldn’t ask no silly-ass question like that.’”This article appears in the Winter 2012 issue of Southern Cultures. The full issue is also available as an ebook.Southern Cultures is published quarterly (spring, summer, fall, winter) by the University of North Carolina Press. The journal is sponsored by the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill’s Center for the Study of the American Sout...

You are not imagining it. Your A1C crept from 5.4% to 5.9% while your weight stayed flat, the flash hit at 2 am for the 4th night this week, and the plan that worked at 35 no longer works at 52. You were told to wait it out or to eat less. Both miss the link that changes everything. The same estrogen decline that narrows your thermostat also lowers your insulin sensitivity, so a hot flash and a glucose spike are 2 dials on 1 dashboard.This book replaces the split conversation, horm...

In a long-anticipated new vampire series by Morgan Rice, #1 bestselling author of The Vampire Journals (1,500 five star reviews), 17 year old Taylor Night, exiled from her trailer park in Texas to a juvenile detention camp in the rainy Northwest, tries to understand her mysterious power while surviving on an island of misfits. But when she finds herself having a crush on a mysterious boy, Taylor realizes he is not what he seems—and that her own destiny may be far greater than she imagined....

In a long-anticipated new vampire series by Morgan Rice, #1 bestselling author of The Vampire Journals (1,500 five star reviews), 17 year old Taylor Night, exiled from her trailer park in Texas to a juvenile detention camp in the rainy Northwest, tries to understand her mysterious power while surviving on an island of misfits. Taylor’s power is deepening—as is her crush on a mysterious boy—but when as assassin is dispatched, Taylor will have to quickly decide if she is ready to sacrifice i...

Fromage dreams of following in her family's pawsteps as a shipboard rat-catcher, but her Mama Cat insists that such work is hardly suitable for a proper young lady. Undeterred, Fromage sets off on her own adventure-only to befriend an orphaned Scottish rat named Aloysius, much to her mother's dismay.Fortunately, Papa Cat is more understanding. He enlists a spirited young lad named D'Artagnan to train the unlikely pair in the art of sword fighting. Their skills are soon put to the t...

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. A small-town romance with a devastating secret, and a grumpy country boy meets a sassy city girl.When Ashley Thompson, a street-smart manicurist from Queens, inherits her estranged father’s auto garage, her plan is simple: sell fast and run back to the city. But Millbrook, with its quirky charm, found family, and one gruff mechanic who looks at her like she’s trouble in heels, has other ideas.Blake McGregor, the lead mechanic at Th...

This book introduces contemporary Buddhists from across Asia and from various walks of life. Eschewing traditional hagiographies, the editors have collected sixty-six profiles of individuals who would be excluded from most Buddhist histories and ethnographies. In addition to monks and nuns, readers will encounter artists, psychologists, social workers, part-time priests, healers, and librarians as well as charlatans, hucksters, profiteers, and rabble-rousers—all whose lives reflect changes...

AfroSF is the first Pan-African anthology of Science Fiction. It is comprised of original works only, from stellar established and upcoming African writers: Nnedi Okorafor, Sarah Lotz, Tendai Huchu, Cristy Zinn, Ashley Jacobs, Nick Wood, Tade Thompson, S.A. Partridge, Chinelo Onwualu, Uko Bendi Udo, Dave de Burgh, Biram Mboob, Sally-Ann Murray, Mandisi Nkomo, Liam Kruger, Chiagozie Fred Nwonwu, Joan De La Haye, Mia Arderne, Rafeeat Aliyu, Martin Stokes, Clifton Gachagua, and Efe Okogu....

In a long-anticipated new vampire series by Morgan Rice, #1 bestselling author of The Vampire Journals (1,500 five star reviews), 17 year old Taylor Night, exiled from her trailer park in Texas to a juvenile detention camp in the rainy Northwest, tries to understand her mysterious power while surviving on an island of misfits. Taylor’s crush on a mysterious boy rises to new levels as their relationship deepens—but in a shocking twist, when Taylor discovers who she really is, everything she...

This is a practical book exploring how to conduct animal assisted intervention (AAI) in ways that protect and prioritize animal and human welfare. This resource is for social scientists (e.g., psychology, social work, human development and family studies, etc.), as well as ethologists and animal behaviour and welfare students and practitioners. The book is a series of short chapters that depict a wide array of AAIs and their potential welfare concerns. The chapters include descriptions of ...

In an expanding and socially fractious early twentieth-century Winnipeg, Lewis Benjamin Foote (1873-1957) rose to become the city’s pre-eminent commercial photographer. Documenting everything from royal visits to deep poverty, from the building of the landmark Fort Garry Hotel to the riots of the 1919 General Strike, Foote’s photographs have come to be iconic representations of early Winnipeg life. They have been used to illustrate everything from academic histories to posters for rock con...

Winner of the John Hope Franklin PrizeA Moyers & Company Best Book of the Year“A brilliant work that tells us how directly the past has formed us.”—Darryl Pinckney, New York Review of BooksHow did we come to think of race as synonymous with crime? A brilliant and deeply disturbing biography of the idea of black criminality in the making of modern urban America, The Condemnation of Blackness reveals the influence this...