Growing up in the 1920s and 1930s, Pete, Howard and Ann Bradbury do what they can to please a father who is unrelenting in seeking to have them submit to his strict demands on them. No matter how harsh their father is, their mother does what she can to provide a good home for them. In spite of their father’s callousness, they often share their individual expectations in life. As they mature, they yearn for independence while maintaining the closeness to friends and family.While Pet...

Is it true that we are food?Who's eating us?Is it us? Is it them?Rumors of Ouroboros is the narratives, stories, and a mix of different poetic forms to express the figurative "eating away" of the Black human experience. It is a treatise of the sad soul, the brave soul, and the creative soul of a people hurting with joy and a lack thereof. Some verses are provocative, while others are whimsical and sexy.Like ouroboros, we are in perpetual, eternal renewal and...

Teach Baby to Talk ... and Make Reading Fun, The Importance of Speech and Language in Learning to Read begins by recounting author Sandra Jean Smiths experience as a teacher of illiterate adults, and also examines the possible causes for the ever growing number of children starting school with speech problems unseen in previous generations. Smiths research on this topic, interspersed with her personal stories make for impressive reading. She uses humour and anecdotes to entertain and infor...

Some thoughts are meant to be spoken. Others are meant to be written so that it may be said. "Sea of Iron Hands" is that book. Poetry that can be as flowery as your grandmother's garden ingrained with thorny truths embedded in verse on every page.

“Writing a ‘nuts and bolts’ guide that is genuinely wise, charmingly conversational, and a pleasure to read requires a particular talent, and Jean Smith has proved once again that she has it.”—Sylvia Boorstein, author of Don’t Just Do Something, Sit ThereThe third of Jean Smith’s Beginner’s Guides focuses on the Buddha’s Eightfold Path—the concepts central to practicing the Buddha’s teachings in daily life. The eight steps on the path are: right understanding, thou...

Feminist Mentoring in Academia offers a varied collection of autoethnographic and research-based accounts of support, struggle, and resilience from the ivory tower. Contributors write about the moments in-between, where feminist mentoring initiates, renews, thrives, and sometimes struggles. The work presented in this book highlights how feminist mentoring happens between professor and student; junior faculty and tenured; and occurs repeatedly. Featuring contributions from scholars...

Latino/a students are in a unique position in today's society; teachers and administrators are in an influential position in educating them. Community, parents, and educators alike are poised to enable these students to gain the education they need for success. Chapters by recognized authors and successful practitioners explain theory with actual applicable examples, demonstrating where and how education is successfully working for Latino students.

IntroductionI've often wondered how many people live surrounded in the obscurity of invisibility. A life where no one cares about his or her comings and goings. People who do everything alone, very little contact with the outside world, adding nothing to the office chatter at work, and unfortunately when death comes no one shed's a tear. Those people who exist in a hermit like state, viewing the world from their computer screen never venturing out to embrace everything life has to ...

Settlers at the end of empire traces the development of racialised migration regimes in South Africa, Rhodesia (present-day Zimbabwe) and the United Kingdom from the Second World War to the end of apartheid in 1994. While South Africa and Rhodesia, like other settler colonies, had a long history of restricting the entry of migrants of colour, in the 1960s under existential threat and after abandoning formal ties with the Commonwealth they began to actively recruit white migrants, ...

After a three-year long engagement, Clarissa Mark's is getting married. She promised her fiancé that she'd sell her company Lariat Games, the 80-hour workweeks would cease, and she would settle down and become a devoted wife and mother.Julian Ross swooped down to add Lariat Games to his vast holdings. Upon meeting Clarissa, he decided that he wants her, as well. With remarkably little effort, he breaks up her engagement by exposing her fiancé's affairs and entices her with an offer...

Here is a comprehensive introduction to Zen Buddhism for those who don't know how or where to begin, nor what to expect once they have started practicing. It includes the fundamentals of meditation practice (posture, technique, clothing), descriptions of the basic teachings and major texts, the teacher-student relationship, and what you will find when you visit a zendo, plus a history of Zen from the founding of Buddhism to its major schools in the West. In addition to answering the most f...

. How can I tell when someone is flirting with me?. How can I be a more confident flirt?. How do I avoid rejection?. Where are all the good men and women hiding?Flirtology is THE dating guide for the 21st century. In an age of swiping left and right, and hiding behind online profiles, this book shows you how to replace connectivity with connection.Flirtology debunks the myths that surround flirting in order to help you find love. It he...