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...

Some call it "seeing," some call it "knowing," and some describe it in religious terms. Whatever the name, it is our reach for a new level of consciousness. Of the many forms this search has taken, perhaps the most intriguing is Zen. Growing out of the wisdom of China, India, and Japan, Zen became a powerful movement to explore the lesser-known reaches of the human mind. Today Zen has come westward, where we are rediscovering modern significance in its ancient insights. This book is an att...

Mating season. The time when a young man’s heart turns to creating a permanent bond with the one he loves. At least, in theory. But Adam seems to have no interest in mating with Cullen, though they’ve been together for years. Cullen can’t even take comfort in sure knowledge of Adam’s feelings for him as Adam has yet to say the words “I love you.”Adam’s parents screwed up when they mated. The bond forged by the mating bite, supposed to be a way for mates to share their love and devo...

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...

Now with new Content by Tom KratmanHE RAISED AN ARMYAGAINST THOSE WHOTOOK EVERYTHING FROM HIMThey should have picked their enemies more carefully.Five centuries from now, on a remarkably Earthlike planet that is mankind's sole colony in space, religious fanatics called the "Salafi Ikhwan" have murdered the uncle of former colonel Patrick Hennessey. That was their first mistake, because...

'Why anyone would pick up a book with that formidable title eludes me,' writes Philip Yancey of G. K. Chesterton's Orthodoxy. 'But one day I did so and my faith has never recovered. I was experiencing a time of spiritual dryness in which everything seemed stale, warmed over, lifeless. Orthodoxy brought freshness and, above all, a new spirit of adventure.''We direly need another Chesterton today, I think. In a time when culture and faith have drifted even further apart, we could use...

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.

Zach Anderson is a desperate man. He needs to find a killer before the man destroys Zach’s entire family. He also must convince one Lily Sutter, the woman he loves, that she loves him and wants to marry him.Neither task is an easy one.Lily Sutter is a sinner. Just ask anyone in Deadwood. She had a baby out of wedlock and she doesn’t deny it. She was seduced and left by one man; she refuses to be taken in by another. The fact that Zach makes her blood boil and her heart race...

The Wonderful World of Trivia books are dedicated to all trivia lovers.They are written with the intentions of being informative,educational,and fun.They are a mixture of easy to hard questions with a purpose of educating those of us who are not experts but at the same time testing those of us who are.Please check out all the books in The Wonderful World of Trivia book series.

A self-made paint millionaire from Vermont builds a house on the water side of Beacon Street and discovers that Boston's old families will accept his money and not his daughters. Howells edited The Atlantic and was the most powerful literary man in America; he made his hero's crisis a matter of business ethics rather than romance, which few novelists had thought to do. Fifty-three plates, from Munch's Despair to Winslow Homer's Village by the Sea, give the novel's Boston its wider weather ...