The First Time.A memoir about job hunting for the first time as an openly disabled person.

The "dailyness" in a Vanessa Smith poem is never dull, and never what's expected. Her west-coast swagger is reminiscent of early Joni Mitchell - "my face, like an interview, / tells the most important / stories first." Her "uploaded anguish," is that of a speaker who "wipes daily dabs of lipstick on the car carpet," saturating the space, making a hole in its place. She sees that a "rolling wave held something back in response to the sand..." and finds a tragedy there. The ...

Nailfold capillaroscopy allows non-invasive assessment of the finger microvasculature. At the nailfold, capillaries run parallel rather than perpendicular to the skin surface, allowing their structure to be visualised under magnification.The main clinical indication for nailfold capillaroscopy is the assessment of the patient with Raynaud’s phenomenon (RP). Normal nailfold capillaries are reassuring, consistent with primary (‘benign’) RP, whereas abnormal capillaries (dilated capil...

The Political Psychology of Social Unrest in Latin America is a unique collection of research and writings by Latin American scholars. It explores the social, psychological, and political factors of the recent turmoil in Latin American countries.From the impeachment demonstrations in Brazil, student movements in Chile, and massive demonstrations in Costa Rica, Peru, Colombia, Ecuador, Bolivia and Mexico, this edited volume analyses the underlying similarities and differenc...

Contentum Creatio is a workshop style book designed to turn you into a wizard at creating content for your blog. The book covers:Content StrategyCreating ContentSharing ContentTaking Content FurtherYou'll only get out of this book what you put in, so be prepared to do activities and learn.

Are you also a person who gets quickly excited? Are you looking for real sex stories? Do you want to discover the secret part that is in each of us?The truth is ... that we all have forbidden thoughts;In this book, you will find the hidden part of our lives in a selection of short sex stories, described in a real way that you can read at home, at work, on the road, or wherever you want to feel excited....and more precisely:Tru...

Toy Stories: Analyzing the Child in Nineteenth-Century Literature explores the stakes of recurrent depictions of children’s violent, damaging, and tenuously restorative play with objects within a long nineteenth century of fictional and educational writing. As Vanessa Smith shows us, these scenes of aggression and anxiety cannot be squared with the standard picture of domestic childhood across that period. Instead, they seem to attest to the kinds of enactments of infant distress ...

It's been precisely one year since the murder of her late adoptive cousin at the hands of the infamous Uzis, and young Emma Vardaman has spent nearly all that time trying to forget. Having just stepped out of her adolescence at the now ripe age of eighteen, and the new wolf next in line to take the rightful place as second alpha in command of the Golden Thunder Pack, she currently does indeed have quite a lot on her plate; not at all just solely speaking for all the many mounds of bacon in...

Winner of the 2007 Outstanding Publication Award given by the American Educational Research Association Division J.Community colleges enroll almost half of all undergraduates in the United States. These two-year colleges manifest the American commitment to accessible and affordable higher education. With about 1,200 institutions nationwide, community colleges have made significant progress over the past decade in opening access and have become the critical entry point to higher edu...

What I Did On My Summer Poorcaytion explores the innane thoughts of a person who has actual time off for the first time in a very long time. Too much time to overthink, and too little money to be some fancy holiday person.

If you take either Instagram or Celebrity Chefs seriously, you'll hate The Secret Ingredient Of. This book is what happens when you a) like to make fun of things, b) like to cook and c) cannot get your head around the concept of a celebrity chef.

Llama Should is part self help, part social commentary, and part opinion.It's about times when you'll find naysayers coming out of the woodwork like a vegemite and butter worm through the cracker holes, all because you chose to ignore a should.Llama Should is an alternative version of my other book, with the word llama replacing a four letter "f word" for those who would prefer it this way.