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A personal essay on the father/daughter relationship and how it ought to be understood politically, in relation to the female adult relationships it can shape the dynamic of. Draws on Woolf, Solonas, literature, film and TV.

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Like Harper Lee's TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD, this is a book that goes beneath the surface of life in a small southern town to expose the inherent evil of prejudice and to show how the courage of a few can rally people to take a stand against injustice. In 1963, Aaron Adams and Casey Felton embark on a quest to expose vile, insideous evil that would shock the citizens of Asheboro, North Carolina. In the process, a budding romance develops and these...

Jasmine and Wayne Frye offer more than just a history lesson about the courage of the women who put their lives on the line to aid those who suffered on the fields of horror in war. They pay homage to these extraordinary women who answered the call to arms, not with guns and hatred for the enemy, but with compassion for those poor men who had to bear the physical and psychological scars of war. Foe or friend did not matter to these women, as t...

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Peaceful and pristine Kwak'wala Island in British Columbia seemed to be the perfect place for the Son of Thunder to recuperate from the torturous misery he endured in New Jersey from the U.S. government and religious leaders who saw him as a threat to their authority. Although he spent many years in quiet, contemplative reflection and became an esteemed member of the community, no one knew whom he really was. The island dwellers just assumed t...

Aaron Adams takes on the role of one of the four horsemen of the Apocalypse, as he unleashes death upon those who stand between him and his beloved B.J., who has been kidnapped by sinister elements in pursuit of a mysterious box. Take a roller-coaster ride into the exciting world of 1969. You will turn pages with a fury as Aaron Adams continues his relentless search for a box that rivals the Maltese Falcon as an object of intrigue.

This is a book about what many people consider the greatest of all sports. Yet, it is more than a story about hockey and its power to bring out the very best in people. Like TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD, this is a story of how a few people in a small town stand up to prejudice and racial inequality. Through an incredible hockey team, issues of class, courage, inequality, compassion and gender roles are explored with an undercurrent plea for tolerance...

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An essay about politics, humility, and loss.

Author of debut novel "Sympathy" considers the gendered reception of this novel amongst other factors in this exploration of the limited way the world attends to art by young women. A suitable counterpart to "We Should All Be Feminists".

From the author of Close to the Knives, a series of fictional monologues that create a visceral and carnivalesque mosaic of life at the fringes of late-80s America. The Waterfront Journals is a collection of monologues, each ventriloquising one of the many people whom Wojnarowicz met on his travels throughout America while he was sleeping rough. We meet these down and outs in unassuming locations - in truck stops, bus stations and parks - and ...

A personal essay on Barrack Obama, Keanu Reeves and mixed-race experience in our increasingly divided world.

Acoustic Reflection from Surfaces and Shapes is a magnificent collection of mini-studies of underwater acoustic reflection and scattering, theoretical and experimental, from varied shapes and surfaces. These studies were carried out by the Acoustics Division at the Naval Research Laboratory during the period from 1958 through 1978 under the leadership of Dr. Werner G. Neubauer, with the assistance and guidance of Dr. Louis R Dragonette. The dr...

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