Popular culture helps construct, define, and impact our everyday realities and must be taken seriously because popular culture is, simply, popular. Communication Perspectives on Popular Culture brings together communication experts with diverse backgrounds, from interpersonal communication, business and organizational communication, mass communication, media studies, narrative, rhetoric, gender studies, autoethnography, popular culture studies, and journalism. The contributors tackle such ...

This book explores Black identity, from a global perspective. The historical and contemporary migrations of African peoples have brought up some interesting questions regarding identity. This text examines some of those questions, and will provide relevant essays on the identities created by those migrations. Following a regional contextualizing of migration trends, the personal essays with allow for understandings of how those migrations impacted personal and community identities. Each of...

"Updates in Colo-Proctology" covers the proceedings of the Anglo-Swiss Colo-Proctology Meeting held in St Moritz in 1990. The book contains the papers which were presented and dis cussed there by physicians of the various specialties concerned with the care of patients with diseases of the colon, rectum and anus. The authors, each distinguished in a particular field, have contributed across a wide range of subjects and different dis ciplines. The topics covered include surgical and investi...

Santa's Library gathers more than four hundred Christmas novels, tales, poems, carols, and legends into an expansive archive of seasonal literature. Its governing concerns—charity, domestic fellowship, childhood wonder, spiritual renewal, winter hardship, and communal festivity—are explored through fairy tale, realist sketch, moral fable, devotional verse, comic anecdote, and Gothic or supernatural narrative. Canonical Christmas visions stand alongside lesser-known popular, juvenile, and t...

The Most Wonderful Christmas Tales Of All Time is an exquisite anthology that captures the heartwarming essence and infinite diversity of storytelling inspired by the yuletide spirit. Encompassing a range of genres from classic drama to fairy tales and transformative narratives, this collection splendidly showcases tales that explore themes of generosity, hope, and the magic of Christmas. The eclectic array of stories speaks to the classical, romantic, and even modernist literary contexts,...

Sparks fly behind closed office doors when a grumpy billionaire seeks revenge on his high school sweetheart by becoming her new boss.If I want something, I go after it, and I want revenge on Dakota Atwell.I hate the way she’s lived rent-free in my head since the day she left me.I hate the way she smells like fresh flowers and citrus.I hate the way my pulse races every time she walks into my office.I hate the way I dream about touchin...

In "How to Raise Confident Kids," renowned parenting expert Patricia E. Manning unveils a groundbreaking approach to nurturing confidence in children. Drawing on the latest findings in neuroscience and her own experience as a parent, Manning guides readers through practical strategies for instilling self-assurance in their children. From fostering a secure attachment to cultivating resilience, this book offers a roadmap for parents seeking to empower their children with the tools they need...

DAWN OF INNOCENCE a novel by Manly E Hogg was written while I was out to sea during the Gulf War. I had written a poem called "The One " while standing a mid watch as Officer of the Deck. This poem led to the novel which is about a Native American college student and an African American student that meet, fall in love and then find themselves in a situation where they have to prove themselves worthy of the other parents love and respect. Dawn, the Indian girl, finds herself alone in "the h...

Thomas Mann's The Magic Mountain is a monumental modernist novel set in a Swiss tuberculosis sanatorium, where the young engineer Hans Castorp arrives for a brief visit and remains for seven years. Through languorous conversations, medical rituals, erotic awakenings, and philosophical debates, Mann transforms the Alpine retreat into a symbolic microcosm of prewar Europe. Its style is ironic, expansive, and intellectually orchestral, blending Bildungsroman, satire, philosophical fiction, an...

A billionaire prince searches for a new wife in this intriguing tale of power and seduction from USA Today bestselling author Jeana E. Mann.When I walk into a room, people look twice. Once because I’m the Crown Prince of Androvia, and twice because I’m that guy—the one who makes your panties wet with just a smile. My life is grand until the unexpected death of my father. To claim the throne, I’ve got to find a wife in twenty-four hours or be forced to marry the wom...

Have you wondered why some people seem to have all the luck and get all the breaks, while the rest of the population seems to be going in circles, like a hamster on its wheel? What do the successful do that the others seem to miss? Rest assured, luck has nothing to do with it. Its time to keep it real and lose the excuses so you can access the greatness thats within you!Encouraging, enlightening, and spiritually uplifting, Keeping It R.E.A.L. will give you the tools you need to liv...

A fairytale marriage enters the battlefield when the exiled prince reveals his secrets and claims his throne as The War King.I married the man of my dreams and landed in a nightmare of secret government agencies, assassins, and military coups. To keep him, I must fight his enemies. To love him, I must tame my fears.He’s not the man I thought he was.He’s more.From award-winning author Jeana E. Mann comes the thrilling final installmen...