This issue of Profession contains Sidonie Smith’s introduction to her Presidential Forum (held at the 2011 MLA convention) and the essays of forum participants Hillary Chute, Marianne Hirsch, Leigh Gilmore, Craig Howes, Françoise Lionnet, Nancy K. Miller, David Palumbo-Liu, Brian Rotman, Leo Spitzer, Robert Warrior, and Gillian L. Whitlock. The issue also features a section on evaluating digital scholarship. Introduced by Susan Schreibman, Laura Mandell, and Stephen Olsen, the section i...

The numbers concerning obesity in America are staggering. More than 66 percent of the people in our nation are either overweight or obese. That means that two thirds of our nation has an issue with excess weight. Taking an even deeper look into this enigmatic issue reveals that more than 35 percent of the adults in the U.S. are obese. That equates to more than 72 million people who have a body mass index of 30 or higher.Even when an individual attempts to get their weight under con...

The truth of Zen has always resided in individual experience rather than in theoretical writings. To give the modern reader access to understanding of this truth, THE ZEN EXPERIENCE illumines Zen as it was created and shaped by the personalities, perceptions, and actions of its masters over the centuries.Beginning with the twin roots of Zen in Indian Buddhism and Chinese Taoism, we follow it through its initial flowering in China under the First Patriarch Bodhidharma; its division ...

Christian wants Susie, but Susie wants Dane.While on leave five years ago, Christian Rhodes spent one amazing evening with Susie Langtree. He didn’t even kiss her but a man knows when a woman is special. So he’s thrilled they’ll be thrown together at Seb and Amanda’s destination wedding.Susie has been pining after Dane Braxton for years and this wedding is her chance to make him see all that he’s been missing. She’s packed her high heels and sexy lingerie. He won’t know wha...

In Orthodoxy, Gilbert K. Chesterton explains how and why he came to believe in Christianity. In the book, Chesterton takes the spiritually curious reader on an intellectual quest. While looking for the meaning of life, he finds truth that uniquely fulfills human needs. This is the truth revealed in Christianity. Chesterton likens this discovery to a man setting off from the south coast of England, journeying for many days, only to arrive at Brighton, the point he originally left from. Such...

Ralf Brandenburg, international musician, is found dead on his loved piano. The man who will be in charge for the investigation, Vincent Germano, will have nothing but the words and hearsay evidences from the people who had the luck to know him.

WHEN Bartley Hubbard went to interview Silas Lapham for the "Solid Men of Boston" series, which he undertook to finish up in The Events, after he replaced their original projector on that newspaper, Lapham received him in his private office by previous appointment. "Walk right in!" he called out to the journalist, whom he caught sight of through the door of the counting-room. He did not rise from the desk at which he was writing, but he gave Bartley his left hand for welcome, and he rolled...

As steps through the gate, she has a strong feeling that nothing will ever be the same again.Moving back to after three years away, knows she’s going to have to face people from her past and adjust to a new high school, but she’s completely unprepared for what else waits for her in .Drawn through an old garden gate, discovers a hidden world where she meets Calvin, a boy to whom she is inexplicably attracted. As is pulled deeper into this hidden world, it’s up to her older b...

THE DIAMONDBACK RANCH SERIES #3AUTHOR'S WARNING: This is the hotter and sexier version of A MATCH MADE IN TEXAS. The love scenes are steamier and more graphic. For a sweeter read, check out A MATCH MADE IN TEXAS in The Diamondback Ranch SWEETER SeriesBLURB:When Austin McCade's wife dies, a vital part of him dies, too. The sexy single dad devotes himself to his motherless daughter and his work on the Diamondback Ranch. For twelve years, he ignores life and women . . ...

Huge corporations like Psi-Tech rarely have enemies not easily managed. Emily Winters is the exception. As a highly gifted precognitive and a prisoner of Psi-Tech, Emily is its greatest asset and also its greatest threat. That's why they plan to kill her very soon.Most of the world is blissfully unaware of an impending disaster that looms ever closer. Most of the survivors will emerge from the widespread devastation as psychics. Those who already possess special abilities like Emil...

Finally The New Revised Edition is Available!Twenty Years After is the second book in The D’Artagnan Romances. Two decades have passed since the famous swordsmen triumphed over Cardinal Richelieu and Milady in The Three Musketeers. Time has weakened their resolve, and dispersed their loyalties. But treasons and strategems still cry out for justice: civil war endangers the throne of France, while in England, Cromwell threatens to send Charles I to the scaffold. Duma...