alfabet / alphabet is the record of Sadiqa de Meijer’s transition from speaking Dutch to English. Exploring questions of identity, landscape, family, and translation, the essays navigate the shifting cultural currents of language by using an eclectic approach to storytelling. As such, fellow linguistic migrants to anglophone Canada will recognize elements of their experience in alfabet / alphabet, while lifelong English speakers will perceive their mother tongue in a new light.

Without a clear focus, its too easy to buckle under to distractions. Set targets for every day beforehand. Decide what youll do; then do it. Without a clear focus, its too easy to buckle under to distractions. Set targets for every day beforehand. Decide what youll do; then do it.

In The Field, Sadiqa de Meijer’s follow up to the Governor General’s Award winning alfabet/alphabet, brings us essays that move searchingly through their central questions. What meaning does a birthplace hold? What drives us to make contact with a work of art? How do we honour the remains of the dead? This writing constitutes a form of fieldwork grounded in intimate observation. In The Field is an extraordinary book, one that invites readers to bring renewed attention to their own lives an...

Surviving the U.S. Health System is a comprehensive, relevant, accessible guidebook to staying healthy and effectively using our nation’s health system during this time of dynamic change. The book, divided into four sections--Insurance, Providers, Well Care and Sick Care--is an invaluable reference for consumers as well as healthcare professionals and professionals-in-training. Surviving the U.S. Health System is packed with information, resources and practical tips unavailable elsewhere i...

The Outer Wards, Sadiqa de Meijer’s new collection, explores questions of maternal love and duty—and the powerlessness that comes with the disruption of that role through illness. “I was awake. / The hour was wrong,” de Meijer writes, and her poems track, in visceral and tender detail, the distraction, exhaustion, exhilaration, and fear of child-rearing through crisis. For de Meijer, the experience was also a crisis of language, and the struggle to find new terms for her state. Ad...

Roo is a dog like no other. He doesn’t conform to conventional expectations; instead, he listens to his heart and celebrates his individuality. Through his kindness and authenticity, he not only enriches his own life but also uplifts those around him. Isn’t that the essence of what we all aim for in our journeys and for future generations? Embracing differences and change can be challenging, yet the author illustrates that Roo’s artistic talent, kindness, and ability to inspire others reve...

The State of Black Louisville report is a collection of essays from engaged community members around Louisville, Kentucky. The report depicts how African Americans in Louisville are doing. The report is packed with data, reflective commentary, and insightful analysis from leading figures and field experts. The State of Black Louisville is a road-map to address longstanding inequities and, more importantly, to pave the way for greater progress.

This book is to help prospective college students on how to prepare for a successful college year. Having been a college teacher for such a long time, it is apparent that students need to prepare in order to have a successful college year. this is my take on it.

The New York Times bestselling author of Fat Chance explains the eight pathologies that underlie all chronic disease, documents how processed food has impacted them to ruin our metabolic health, economy, and environment over the past 50 years, and proposes an urgent manifesto based on nutrition science to cure both us and the planet.Dr. Robert Lustig, a pediatric neuroendocrinologist who has long been on the cutting edge of medicine and science, challenges our cur...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • LONGLISTED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD • One of today’s most insightful and influential thinkers offers a powerful exploration of inequality and the lesson that generations of Americans have failed to learn: Racism has a cost for everyone—not just for people of color.**WINNER OF THE PORCHLIGHT BUSINESS BOOK AWARD • ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: Time, The Washington Post, St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Ms. magazine, B...

Doctor-approved tips to stay strong and feel good into your golden years from Mayo Clinic, #1 on US News & World Report's 2020-2021 Best Hospitals Honor Roll .This book from the world-renowned Mayo Clinic explains the ways your body changes as you age—and what you can do to slow those processes and reduce your risk of serious health problems. Discover:• 7 habits that make the difference in how you look, how you fe...

"Tim Wise is one of the great public moralists in America today. In his bracing new book, Under the Affluence, he brilliantly engages the roots and ramifications of radical inequality in our nation, carefully detailing the heartless war against the poor and the swooning addiction to the rich that exposes the moral sickness at the heart of our culture. Wise's stirring analysis of our predicament is more than a disinterested social scientific treatise; this book is a valiant call to...