What happens when someone who never imagined becoming a writer discovers that poetry has been waiting inside him all along?In Musings from the Sapphire Poet, Larry Turner presents a wide-ranging collection of poetry shaped by emotion, imagination, faith, reflection, and a fascination with the possibilities of human connection.Across the collection, Turner considers romantic love and longing, hope and personal discovery, spirituality and creativity, prejudice and ha...

Fred Dickinson’s diary opens a window on youth and the world of Ontario lakeland cottages at the beginning of the 20th century."The stories we hand down, the diaries we preserve become the fabric of our social history. Young Fred Dickinson’s 1904 account of tenting and cottaging is a spirited first-hand sketch of a long-neglected part of our heritage. Larry Turner places the diary within social, historic and geographic contexts giv...

Step into the vibrant chaos of early 20th century America with Vachel Lindsay's "A Rhyme About an Electrical Advertising Sign." This electrifying poem pulsates with the frenetic energy of city life. Lindsay's words paint a vivid picture of a dazzling electric sign, its harsh brilliance clashing with the starry night sky. But beneath the surface lies a deeper message. Is this dazzling display a beacon of progress, or a symbol of a society consumed by materialism? Listen and ponder as Lindsa...

Way out on the Colorado Plateau, two lines cross at right angles, forming the borders of four states. You can stand on this spot and be in Arizona, Colorado, New Mexico, and Utah all at the same time. This book is about the area roughly 150 miles around that point, a land of fantastic rock formations, ancient dwellings, and diverse cultures. Multiple national parks and monuments have been set aside to preserve the Four Corners wonders. And nature s rainbow of colors paints these vast lands...

Recent advances in behavioral and biological treatments have raised the hopes and expectations of patients and clinicians alike in regard to obsessive-compulsive disorder-one of the most disabling, crippling, and resistant conditions in psy chiatry. In addition to their therapeutic efficacy, these new treatments have also opened new conceptual perspectives, thus complementing the traditional psychological theories of obsessive-compulsive disorder. Therefore, it is timely for these various ...

Step Into a Supernatural Life of Presence, Power, and Unshakable Authority.Have you ever felt like you believe in the power of God, yet rarely see it in your everyday life? Do you sense there’s more to your calling than simply surviving spiritual battles, but you feel stuck, intimidated, or unsure how to move in real authority? Are you tired of watching others walk in miracles, prophecy, and deliverance while you silently wonder, “Could God really use someone like ...

Rock and Popular Music examines the relations between the policies and institutions which regulate contemporary popular music and the political debates, contradictions and struggles in which those musics are involved.International in its scope and conception, this innovative collection explores the reasons for and ways in which governments have sought either to support or prohibit popular music in Canada, Australia and Europe as well as the impact of broadcasting policies i...

This dazzling tale once again demonstrates L. Frank Baum's creative genius and his power to delight audiences young and old.Join Dorothy, the Tin Woodsman, and a host of new characters as they embark on a series of enchanting adventures in the magical land of Oz.After a doll made out of a patchwork quilts and cotton stuffing is brought to life by a magician, she must find a way to break a spell that has turned poor Unc Nunkie into a motionless statue. Unc's friend Ojo the Unlucky, ...

WINNER of the 2015 ICA Outstanding Book AwardThis path-breaking book explores how solidarity towards vulnerable others is performed in our media environment. It argues that stories where famine is described through our own experience of dieting or or where solidarity with Africa translates into wearing a cool armband tell us about much more than the cause that they attempt to communicate. They tell us something about the ways in which we imagine the world outside o...

The story is simple, seen through the eyes of an 11-year-old boy. As an adult he remembers the way things were back home on the farm on the west coast of Cape Breton. The time was the 1940s, but the hens and the cows and the pigs and the sheep and the horse made it seem ancient. The family of six children excitedly waits for Christmas and two-year-old Kenneth, who liked Halloween a lot, asks, “Who are you going to dress up as at Christmas? I think I’ll be a snowman.” They wait especially f...

The most prominent feature of Borderline Personality Disorder is the depth and variability of moods. This emotional instability can also be called emotional lability or reactivity. Individuals with Borderline disorder struggle with despondency, anger, rage, self-hatred, arrogance, anxiety, uncertainty, emptiness, dependency, stubbornness and impulses of self-damage.

Canada is a country rich in stories, and few take as much joy as Douglas Gibson in discovering them. As one of the country’s leading editors and publishers for 40 years, he coaxed modern classics out of some of Canada’s finest minds, and then took to telling his own stories in his first memoir, Stories About Storytellers.Gibson turned his memoir into a one-man stage show that eventually played almost 100 times, in all ten provinces, from coast to coast. As a literary touri...