Panda the Yak-Dog follows a young yak named Panda on her journey to find acceptance and belonging in her family's yak herd. When Panda was born, she did not look like the other yaks. She had a touch of black on her head, a touch of black on her tail, and a pair of black socks on her feet. Because she had different colors, the other yaks don't want her around, but she finds an unlikely friend in the farm, a Border collie, Sam the Dog. Sam has the same colors as the yaks; he has a touch of w...

At the heart of blazing summertime, some individuals are only able to feel their darkest sorrows that mirror the cold loneliness of the harshest of winters. Sometimes, it takes all the strength a person has just to keep going, one foot in front of another, one painful step at a time.This is a short story about a woman's thoughts as she takes a lonely walk in the countryside during a humid August evening.

The boundaries between friendship and lovers sometimes blur. Sometimes by accident. Sometimes by choice. Josephine and Marcus try to maintain a somewhat normal friendship after succumbing to their passion for one another on a rainy day.This is a short story about the consequences of harboring secrets and being careless with the emotions of others.

A transformative read for the one in four women who’ve been there—and the friends who walked with them. In this honest and heartfelt book, Kelly Baker Proehl opens up about her post-abortion journey, offering a lifeline of grace, healing, and redemption.Imagine the women all around you, those in the grocery line, your Bible study group, and the conference room—now consider that one in four women has walked into one of the coldest, most lifeless four walls that exis...

A transformative read for the one in four women who’ve been there—and the friends who walked with them. In this honest and heartfelt book, Kelly Baker Proehl opens up about her post-abortion journey, offering a lifeline of grace, healing, and redemption.Imagine the women all around you, those in the grocery line, your Bible study group, and the conference room—now consider that one in four women has walked into one of the coldest, most lifeless four walls that exis...

Exploring the prevalence of madness in Caribbean texts written in English in the mid-twentieth century, Kelly Baker Josephs focuses on celebrated writers such as Jean Rhys, V. S. Naipaul, and Derek Walcott as well as on understudied writers such as Sylvia Wynter and Erna Brodber. Because mad figures appear frequently in Caribbean literature from French, Spanish, and English traditions—in roles ranging from bit parts to first-person narrators—the author regards madness as a part of the West...

After braving the ocean, Nyra finds herself incarcerated on the other side of the world. The would-be saviors are in the midst of civil war, and her presence inflames their rivalry. Caught by the Sorja herd, Nyra is held prisoner with Olieve; a Royal as garrulous as she is blind, neither friend nor foe, but essential to the young dragon's escape. Yet even escape has little promise, as the opposing Raklisall herd has a poisonous outlook on Agrings, so potent it reawakens an old scandal of s...

Choice Outstanding Academic TitleTo many Americans, modern marches by the Ku Klux Klan may seem like a throwback to the past or posturing by bigoted hatemongers. To Kelly Baker, they are a reminder of how deeply the Klan is rooted in American mainstream Protestant culture.Most studies of the KKK dismiss it as an organization of racists attempting to intimidate minorities and argue that the Klan used religion only as a rhetorical device. Baker contends inste...

Never an ordinary dragon, Nyra grew up forbidden to breathe fire or fly. Like her mother before her, she has only known a life of enslavement, held in thrall by mountain dragons, which need Nyra's ripening wings to secure hunting for the future.But at the cusp of her first flying lesson, new rumors whisper through the herd. Mother pursues friendships in forbidden places, blurring the succinct enemy line. In a whirlwind of realization, Nyra uncovers a secret in plain sight, one thou...

Fitness for Life Canada: Preparing Teens for Healthy, Active Lifestyles is the only health and fitness education program backed by research and focused on shifting teens from dependence to independence when it comes to lifelong healthy lifestyles. Through Fitness for Life Canada, students are engaged in the process of personal program planning for a variety of health behav...

***Errata: Click here to read the revised copyright page, which includes contributor copyright notices.***Not every PhD becomes a professor. Some never want to, but others discover—too late and ill-prepared to look elsewhere—that there’s precious little room in today’s ivory tower, and what is there might not be a good fit. For those leaving ac...

Analysing the issues of language that faced international forces carrying out peace operations in Bosnia-Herzegovina in the 1990s, this book examines how differences of language were an integral part of the conflicts in the country and in what way the multinational UN and NATO forces faced their own problems of communication and language support.