In this groundbreaking classic essay collection, Alice Walker speaks out as a Black woman, writer, mother, and feminist on topics ranging from the personal to the political.Originally published forty years ago, Alice Walker’s first collection of nonfiction is a dazzling compendium that remains both timely and relevant. In these thirty-six essays, Walker contemplates her own work and that of other writers, considers the civil rights movement of the 1960s and the ant...

Before Jayne Thorne unlocked her magic, her sister sought to destroy it.Haunted by memories of their mother's dangerous exploits, Sofia Thorne is determined to keep magic away from her sister, Jayne, forever.In a desperate attempt to permanently sever magic from their lives, Sofia travels with Jayne to Miami to track down a dangerous witch who might have a solution. But when they find themselves caught in the crossfire between two powerful magicians, Sofia ...

Two years since Atrous disbanded and the spotlights have long faded to black, Blake Acosta has been coasting on the status quo. And after a reluctant week away, he comes home to find his best friend Luke Dougherty having a meltdown.He takes Luke to the cabins, just the two of them, to rest and regroup, and Blake thinks things were going well. Until it isn’t, and Luke ends their friendship.Blake is sent reeling and has no choice but to deal with the aftermath solo. Forced to...

BRIEThings I should never have done:Put my ex-boyfriend’s name on my Christmas wish list.Grin dumbly at him when he shows up at my door.Think it's kismet that he's staying on the other half of my duplex for the holidays and means we’re meant to be together. Because we’re not. He broke my heart in High School and never looked back.ROCKWELLThings I will never do:Move back to Bearwood.Repeat my parents’ m...

Shorty Blue is an ingenious fictitious story that covers the dynamics of human interactions when a loved-one dies. The story explores the rivalry and conflicts that family members face with issues that may go unresolved for years. I challenge you to enjoy this fascinating journey in human emotions. This story may someday be considered an urban classic. – R. Lee Walker

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As part of a 1950s study dealing with various phases of the impact of mass production on human behaviour, this volume, originally published in 1956 and now a classic of its time examines the technological environment and the foreman within management, from the foreman's point of view. The book presents case-history material, but behind this presentation and controlling it are broad concepts, one of the most important of which is that of a technological work environment. The book relates it...

The Daily Grind:How WorkersNavigate the Employment Relationship introduces students to the tensions between labor and management within the U.S. employment relationship and explores how workers, operating in a socially and culturally structured system of capitalism, are influenced and manipulated by economic institutions and polity which exploit, devalue, and dehumanize workers in the name of corporate profit. The text covers how the American work ethic of the early nineteenth century help...

Through the Lens: A Book of Short Stories is about stories that derive from the heart and were inspired by God, life experiences, and learned principles. All the stories are based on a female teenager's perception, but do not exclude the male perspective. The stories will shed light on various issues that young adults may struggle with such as isolation, suicide, peer pressure, drugs, family complications, inadequacy, judgment, and salvation. These stories are read-life examples compacted ...

This book showcases the inequalities experienced between the Global North and the Global South by exploring the production and distribution model of goods and services worldwide through an analysis of why the structure, framework, and interconnectedness of global supply chains increases the persistence of worker rights’ violations. The narrative explains the power relationships between multinational corporations, their subcontractors, governments, non-governmental organizations, labor unio...

Barbara Walker’s world was turned upside down by her son Jim’s birth defect.Left to her own devices in the early years, Barbara struggles with grief from the loss of the expected “normal child” and battles self-defeating thoughts. Demoralizing encounters with medical professionals and insensitive remarks about Jim’s face leave mother and child feeling vulnerable. They struggle with self-blame and fight against dark thoughts.Over time they encounter and endu...

This story will take you primarily with Nicholas Yuin on a journey beginning in the mid-1800s, from England to Cape Town in what is now South Africa. It will return you to Africa at Lake Nyanza (Bhantu), to become lake Victoria in 1852, in Tanganyika.The journey will take you back to London and then by sea to the Murchison River in Western Australia’s Midwest coast and inland, where the beginnings of a great adventure is to occur, as will interaction with ancestors of my own family...