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A lighthearted look at college writing--complete with illustrations by cartoonist John Locke! Seventy-seven short essays about various aspects of the writing process, specifically intended to help college students--with practical advice--do a better job with their writing assignments.

poems written in Portland, Oregon, between February and June, 2013

Khadija Osman, born in Mogadishu, Somalia, to a Somali Muslim family now lives in Toronto, Ontario, with her partner Louisa Jean and their daughter Fatoumatta. Her journey out of the closet as a Muslim woman from the Horn of Africa hasn't been easy. It has strengthened her to empower other black lesbians and bisexual black women in the Muslim faith and beyond.

Customer Service, a monologue by Leslie Nealson: Screw you. I said screw you. You cannot order more than-oh, you want to take to the owner? You'd think he'd tell you anything different? Here, let me go get him. (in a deeper voice) Screw you!

Thor Bloodaxe was once hailed as the honourable champion & legendary hero of the dwarven kingdom of Fanghall. But his brash words & reckless was finally saw him banished from the realm by his own king. Follow the grisly exploits of this fearless drawven warrior as he wanders the wastelands slaying monsters & vanquishing demons in a blood splattering and bone crunching attempt to regain his honour & once again earn his rightful place in the gra...

This book attempts to bridge the gap between scientific and religious beliefs which the author believes are false schisms. The story is told in a fantasy setting inside a cavern where Science minds butt heads with a single stubborn Bible reader who discovered it. The story posits the idea that everything we see can be explained without having to allow Science or Religion to be the sole answer to why things are the way they are. In fact, perhap...

The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists was one of the most influential political works of the 20th Century. Published in 1914, following the author's death in the lead up to the First World War, it was widely circulated amongst British troops during the Second World War and is credited with playing a major role in Labour's landslide victory in 1945. With the forces of neo-liberalism intent on rolling back the Welfare State and reversing all t...

Two men. A corporate lawyer from Los Angeles to whom success has come easy and a former homeless child from the streets of Rio aching for the big money. Both are reaching for something impossible, something that has always eluded them. Success has come easily to a wealthy Los Angeles' lawyer. He is riding high on a free-running global economy that has reordered the world. He cares little for the logic of global capital that has enriched him...

Keine andere Weltreligion hat die Geschichte Europas so geprägt wie das Christentum. In dokumentarischen und nachgestellten Episoden wird hier die wechselvolle Geschichte von seinen Anfängen im Jahr Null nach der Geburt Christi bis zur Jahrtausendwende aufgezeigt.Dieses einzigartige, monumentale Filmwerk führt auf informative und spannende Weise durch Zeiten und Kontinente. Mit Computeranimation, realen Spielszenen, Trickbauten und Originalsch...

Twelve years had passed since I had laid the body of my great-uncle, Captain John Carter, of Virginia, away from the sight of men in that strange mausoleum in the old cemetery at Richmond. Often had I pondered on the odd instructions he had left me governing the construction of his mighty tomb, and especially those parts which directed that he be laid in an open casket and that the ponderous mechanism which controlled the bolts of the vault...

Success Cybernetics: Practical applications of human cybernetics. Here's a wonderful new system of self-development based upon the most recent discoveries of the brain sciences and their close relationship to the computer sciences. In this book, U.S. Andersen shows you how your brain and nervous system are under the automatic control of your "Mental Computer" and gives you scores of "computer instruction" techniques for programming this mental...

Forget everything you think you know about the direction of the American economy, about our growing need for foreign oil, about the rise of the service economy and the decline of American manufacturing. The story of the next thirty years will not be a repeat of the last thirty." One of the most respected voices on Wall Street, Meredith Whitney shot to global prominence in 2007 when her warnings of a looming crisis in the financial sector prove...

Many guides dictate the meanings of Shakespeare's scenes and translate his rich language into more ordinary speech. But A Guide to Reading Shakespeare's The Tempest gives readers the tools to understand the play for themselves. A sequence of carefully designed questions for each scene helps readers grasp the play's individual lines and larger ideas, an introduction to figurative language offers techniques to comprehend Shakespeare's abundant i...

A 10-week summer course for the classroom or at home. Ten projects using Microsoft Office 2010 (Word, Excel, PowerPoint & Publisher) with step-by-step instructions. One day of practice included after each project. Lots of fun! Ages 7-14

The study provides a number of observations regarding effects of methanol extract and its fraction (Fraction-B) of leaf of Aegle marmelos (family Rutaceae) on infertility in male albino rats, in determination of its mean lethal dose and its dosage form as microcapsules. Dose dependent response of methanol extract and Fraction-B of A.marmelos leaf were noted on in vitro motility of human spermatozoa. The in vivo antifertility activity of Fracti...

Die im 2. Band der KRONSBERGER PREDIGTEN gesammelten Ansprachen wurden größtenteils in dem zur EXPO 2000 errichteten Neubaugebiet in Hannover gehalten, einige z. B. in der Marktkirche und der Neustädter Hof- und Stadtkirche. Im Bemühen um ein ebenso zeitgemäßes wie textgerechtes Verstehen biblischer Aussagen beziehen sie Motive und Werke aus Literatur (C. Nooteboom, F. C. Delius, Patrick Roth, H. Heine, J. W. Goethe) und Film (Y. Martel/A. Lee...

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Speaking of Violence takes the notion of "narrative" as foundational to conflict analysis and resolution.