Matter breaks apart and grows new ideas setting forth a new island at dawn. When Matt R. a rock who wants to swim, embarks on an adventure with Captain Higgs and his crew of other rocks, they learn to build themselves up to form a vast island of resources. Cracking themselves up, the rocks become alive with curiosity and joy after hurling themselves on shore. They walk, talk, and swim their way into your heart.The US Review of BooksFrom the days when the an...

Beginning is the hardest ITPment, not because openers are all that scarce but because you're blowing into, cracking a universe. l Maurice Natanson q;>enings are already directed toward closings. The first question in presenting a body of work is where to cut in. This is an especially difficult question since the cut-in provides a perspecti ve on what follows. A cut is an angle of entry. Wherever I enter, from there, a realm unfolds itself. In that sense, my angle of entry is my point of vi...

Crossing Boundaries in the Americas, Vietnam, and the Middle East is the personal, yet profoundly political first-person account of one man's unique interracial and interfaith leadership roles over five decades in movements for civil rights, against the Vietnam War, and for Arab-Israeli-Palestinian peace. Ron Young's story, told with honesty, humility, and humor, gives an insider view of key events in these movements and personalizes a significant strain of modern American history not ofte...

Prince Shubishup is a vampire who was put in a coffin to be shipped to Transylvania along with his family for a ritual, but was accidentally sent to Pennsylvania – West Philadelphia. He quickly becomes addicted to crack cocaine prior to meeting two local drug dealers, Stizz and Keem. After a little disagreement, they promise to aid Prince Shubishup in returning home, but they see an opportunity to make some money, and use Prince Shubishup.Terka, Prince Shubishup's older sister, is ...

Every human is composed of an amazing assortment of cells and tissues that carry out myriad functions necessary for sus- taining life. In clear, concise language, Professor John K. Young of the Howard University College of Medicine takes audiences through the microscope on a fascinating journey of discovery into the world of cells and tissues, where a complex scheme of activity is taking place all the time, literally just beneath the surface.

Our bodies perform an amazing number and wide variety of tasks that we literally could not live without. Renowned scholar John K. Young provides a fascinating look at how the human body is constructed, how it employs its different parts to our advantage, and how it can malfunction if not properly maintained. Professor Young describes not only the basic anatomical bones and organs that constitute our physical form, but also the role each plays in the synchronized effort to keep us alive.

Forty minutes on February 21, 2019, changed Anjanette Young’s life forever. Her story made national news for months after it broke: A forty-eight-year-old social worker was winding down at home after a long day of work when police broke into her apartment with a faulty warrant and incorrect information. With guns drawn and flashlights shining, twelve cops converged in her home, demanding that Anjanette put her hands up, despite the fact that she was in the middle of changi...

'Marriage License' (1933) is a provocative short story published in the risqué pulp magazine Spicy Stories. I love narrating these types of stories because they emphasize the interaction between men and women without salacious details about sex.Set during the early 20th century, 'Marriage License' follows a young couple navigating the tension between societal expectations and personal desires. They go about pursuing a marriage license under questionable circumstances.With i...

Sensations of hunger, thirst, sexual attraction, and love can dominate our thoughts to the exclusion of almost everything else, but until the last 10 years or so, the precise reasons why these passions arise have not been understood very well. We now know that these, and other drives like the urge to sleep, are controlled by a small portion of the brain called the hypothalamus. This book presents the latest information about how the brain controls our most basic drives.In a series ...

Forty minutes on February 21, 2019, changed Anjanette Young's life forever. Her story made national news for months after it broke: A forty-eight-year-old social worker was winding down at home after a long day of work when police broke into her apartment with a faulty warrant and incorrect information. With guns drawn and flashlights shining, twelve cops converged in her home, demanding that Anjanette put her hands up, despite the fact that she was in the middle of changi...

Reviewed by Jack Magnus for Readers' FavoriteNo Brag--Just Fact: The Subtle Art of Self-Marketing is a self-help non-fiction business book written by Peter K. Young. The author has experience in a number of different fields, and he builds the story of his life and Work (capitalization is deliberate here) for the reader to see and learn from in this book. It's all part of his method for self-marketing. He knows many wince and cringe at the thought of marketing themselves, often a cl...

The Roots of Cane proposes a new way to read one of the most significant works of the New Negro Renaissance, Jean Toomer’s Cane. Rather than focusing on the form of the book published by Boni and Liveright, what Toomer would later call a single textual “organism,” John Young traces the many pieces of Cane that were dispersed across multiple modernist magazines from 1922 through 1923. These periodicals ranged from primarily political monthlies to avant-garde arts ...