Part memoir, part philosophical notebook, part literary conversation, Erotica & Other Collections gathers together reflections on psychology, philosophy, literature, memory, culture, and the human search for meaning.Drawing on thinkers as varied as Jung, Freud, Baudrillard, Wittgenstein, Nāgārjuna, Shankara, and Erik Erikson, Lawrence Michael explores how ideas emerge from lived experience and how language both reveals and conceals the worlds we inhabit.Rather than...

Get Ready Yeti takes Yeti through the process of dressing for outside on a cold day. What should Yeti put on first? And after that? But what if a Yeti doesn't NEED to get ready....Then what happens?Get Ready, Yeti! Takes children through the process of dressing for the cold as they follow along with Yeti getting reday. But Yeti's aren't children, and their needs for outdoor play may be quite unexpected, setting up and ending that will elicite giggles from children of all ages.

Yeti is getting sleepy. It's almost time for bed...but oh-oh...where's Yeti's Ted? Yeti looks everyhwere, but it's just not good. He can't find his Teddy bear no matter how hard he looks. Where could Teddy be? Children will relate as Yeti tries to find his favorite sleep toy before bed. But what if Yeti vcan't find Teddy...? Told in verse with simple vibrant illustrtaions, "Where's Yeti's Teddy?" is the perfect bedtime story, complete with a satisfying happy ending that will warm the heart...

A tiny collection of private writings for private musings. Spontaneous and brings forth a natural flavour. The small collection of poems will entice and enamor.

A short collection of poetry for the busy traveler or a busy you. Made akin to the style of instant coffee, it is a short collection containing a single comma in the entire collection! For a busy you, catching a bite or a cuppa! For that perfect complement. Instant Poetry.

Harperland: The Politics of Control examines Stephen Harper’s first four years in power. Soarking to the top of the best-seller lists in its first week, Peter C. Newman called it “A book of revelations...This is Stephen Harper unplugged.” Don Martin of The National Post declared it an excellent book providing insights the Prime Minister could well learn from. In Harperland, prominent Globe and Mail columnist Lawrence Martin assesses Harper’s governance, focusing on the growth of executive ...

Evy Miller thinks a summer with her grandparents in sleepy Dorset will be painfully dull. Her suspicions are confirmed when Juby, a wild-haired, lanky old man, strolls through her grandparents' doorway. At first, she thinks he's nothing more than an odd duck who charms her grandmother and annoys her grandfather. The last thing she expects is to become his companion on visits to the small village of Rouklye, whose entire population was evicted during WWII.She has no idea that the rea...

A New History of Modern Latin America provides an engaging and readable narrative history of the nations of Latin America from the Wars of Independence in the nineteenth century to the democratic turn in the twenty-first. This new edition of a well-known text has been revised and updated to include the most recent interpretations of major themes in the economic, social, and cultural history of the region to show the unity of the Latin America experience while exploring the diversi...

DISCO! Music, Image, Dance takes an interdisciplinary approach to exploring disco's untold stories--sonic, visual, and kinetic--from its popular heyday to its many afterlives. The book attests to disco's irrepressibility in cultural practices from the 1970s to the 2020s, tracing its histories and instantiations as these traverse geographies, affects, and memories, and exploring the reaches of disco as an expansive field of music, image, and dance. Illustrating how disco shows up i...

A definitive account of one of the most dominant trends in recent historical writing, The Cultural Turn in U.S. History takes stock of the field at the same time as it showcases exemplars of its practice.The first of this volume’s three distinct sections offers a comprehensive genealogy of American cultural history, tracing its multifaceted origins, defining debates, and intersections with adjacent fields. The second section comprises previously unpublished essays by a dis...

Capitol Hill Baptist Church associate pastor Michael Lawrence contributes to the IXMarks series as he centers on the practical importance of biblical theology to ministry. He begins with an examination of a pastor's tools of the trade: exegesis and biblical and systematic theology. The book distinguishes between the power of narrative in biblical theology and the power of application in systematic theology, but also emphasizes the importance of their collaboration in ministry.Havin...

Barack Obama: Uncommon Grace is the first look at the Obama presidency through the eyes of all seven White House photographers who documented his years in office. The book tells the story of this essential time—from Obama’s joyous inauguration to his final bittersweet days in office—through nearly 300 photographs, many never published before. It focuses on Obama the man: his humility and his humanity. It looks at his love of family, his belief in America and his role as a world le...