This study examines the fiction of contemporary American author George Saunders in terms of how it presents situations applicable to the chief notions of posthumanist ethics and how these conceptions concern nonhuman animals, which are prevalent in his writing. Posthumanist ethics can help us understand what is at play in Saunders's fiction. Meanwhile, his texts can help us understand what is at stake in posthumanist ethics. This interdisciplinary project may be beneficial both to conceivi...

**100% of the profits from this book are donated to support the future of NaNoWriMo and other writing programs.**Every November, hundreds of thousands take up the challenge of National Novel Writing Month and attempt to write a book in just thirty days. Most will give up along the way, but many will grind it out to the finish line and actually do it.If you're a writer, @WriMo is designed to be a book that tips the odds of finishing in your favor.Organized into thirt...

As teaching is socially, culturally, and politically constructed, it is important that teacher educators committed to social justice attempt to create secure environment where all voices are heard and teacher candidates can inquire into personally and socially challenging topics within a safe and caring classroom culture. Relationships of trust are fundamental to teaching about social justice and to being receptive as learners in such classes. Mindfulness on the part of teacher educators a...

If you are tired of being shy, don't be! Life coach Marie Dubuque teaches you in this short book how to embrace what she calls an asset, not a character flaw! This book addresses how to keep a conversation flowing, how to give a speech, and that nerve-racking first date! You can survive and thrive in a world full of extroverts!

Writing prompts are a great way to jumpstart your muse and get the creative juices flowing. Sometimes you want to write and don't really know what to write about, and prompts can help guide you into a new story.This collection of 366 writing prompts can be used daily throughout the year (leap years, too!) as a starting point to get you writing ... and keep you writing. Each day of the year has its own, unique prompt. Set a timer for fifteen or twenty minutes, and write whe...

Are you chasing an ever elusive concept of happiness? Stuck in a rut and have no idea how to handle it? Facing recent loss or negative life experiences?If you're waiting for your life to truly begin, this is the book for you! Remember that sometimes, the latest blooming flowers can last the longest and be the most beautiful. Let me help you to open up and bloom! It takes a bit of effort, but it can also be fun and exciting if you keep an open mind.You never know what might ...

Online dating is not all fun and games and there are a lot of things that a person has to know about online dating before one gets into the intricacies of it. Online dating may seem to be the simplest thing in the world but it is not. It should be viewed in all earnestness or things could go haywire. Every game has its rules and unless you know all the rules, you just can't become a good player and eventually a winner. There are so many kinds of people around. Just look around you - how ma...

Words for Cards is a collection of 500 engaging quotables for those countless occasions of when you've got the right card, but can't find the right words. This book will help you in finding the right words to personalize your greeting card by giving short quotes, notes, phrases, sentences and paragraphs for every situation.We often struggle in writing just the right words on a card that say exactly what we feel. Coming up with the appropriate phrase for a sympathy or a get-well car...

Virgin of Love is an insightful on the pain that love causes. A young girl who lives by her own strict rules emotionally falls for the wrong man. Trapped by his lies this book shows a story followed by a clean analysis of each situation in hopes others will learn from. It is a book for the world to see how love is abused for personal gain of others. It is a book of pain, hope, intuition and bravery to a new world unexplored by many. This book shows how crucial patience is when it comes to ...

Whether you realize it or not, your life – like millions of others – began with you listening. Though none of your other senses had yet developed, your life began by you listening to the reassuring sound of our mother's heart beating. Later, during your nine month of confinement, you began to hear a variety of other sounds, sounds from the world outside of Mom's tummy. Voices, music, all kinds of new and exciting sounds. Later yet, though you didn't always appreciate some of the things the...

When you need a nudge to get your creative juices flowing, writing prompts are the solution. Whether you are tired of staring at a blank page or are looking for something different to write about, the following 300 prompts will get you going.

The world is plagued with unanticipated disasters, like earthquakes, and tsunamis, which cause misery, and are beyond humans’ control.  But God has blessed humans with the awareness and ability to influence their own moods, regardless of any environment. It is impossible to have a perfectly happy life.  But this book provides simple advice on how to recapture the little items and actions, which can brighten moments throughout your day.  Ten Happy Habits will encourage you to...