The summer of 1898 is filled with ups and downs for 11-year-old Moses. He's growing apart from his best friend, his superstitious Boo-Nanny butts heads constantly with his pragmatic, educated father, and his mother is reeling from the discovery of a family secret. Yet there are good times, too. He's teaching his grandmother how to read. For the first time she's sharing stories about her life as a slave. And his father and his friends are finally getting the respect and positions of power t...

The summer of 1898 is filled with ups and downs for 11-year-old Moses. He's growing apart from his best friend, his superstitious Boo-Nanny butts heads constantly with his pragmatic, educated father, and his mother is reeling from the discovery of a family secret. Yet there are good times, too. He's teaching his grandmother how to read. For the first time she's sharing stories about her life as a slave. And his father and his friends are finally getting the respect and positions of power t...

This cutting-edge work critiques today's global mediascape through feminist perspectives, highlighting concerns of policy, power, labor, and technology. Starting with the general state of international communications, the book uses feminist political-economic and policy analyses to explore the globalization of media industries, including questions about women's employment and media content that is globally produced and consumed. A top-notch group of authors covers cases on online news, por...

In these more welcome days of equality between the sexes we usually forget that the often cited ‘Gentler Sex’ can have dark and disturbing trains of thought that are more than the equal of their male brethren. Indeed, they can manipulate words in a matter of lines from comforting and loving to dark, foreboding and utterly terrifying. These femme fatales really do create stories that leech vile characters into dark and disturbing quite horrific narratives.

With an exclusive toolkit of forms and worksheets, this essential guide offers an entire roadmap to the business selling process so you can plan your exit and sell when ready. Learn the entire process, from methods of business valuation and choosing the best exit option, to attracting buyer, protecting confidentiality, and finally negotiating a successful sale."Want great results and peace of mind? Get this easy-to-read book." - Anita Campbell, CEO, Small Business Trends

We have all seen the pictures, heard the stories, and witnessed the crisis at the southern border of the United States. In the face of an influx of immigrants, particularly children and families, Customs and Border Patrol has housed children in wire-enclosures, providing only an aluminum blanket to sleep under and little to no access to other basic necessities. It is difficult to watch, especially when one is not certain about how to assist.As writers, we often wonder what we can d...

Bringing home a new puppy can be very exciting but it is important that you do not let yourself become tied up in the excitement and forget about your responsibilities as a dog owner. When you bring home your puppy you immediately become responsible for meeting his needs and that involves more than just walking your puppy and feeding him a healthy diet – you also have to train him. Training starts the moment you bring your puppy home and while you may not be able to teach him complicated t...

Becoming a dog owner can be excited, but it is also very challenging. If you have never owned a pet before you may not realize just how big a responsibility it really is. When you become a dog owner you commit to caring for your dog for its entire life – that could be as long as 15 years (or more!). As big a responsibility as owning and caring for a dog is, however, it is also a great privilege. Becoming a dog owner means that you will have a friend and companion for life – someone who wil...

A simple retelling of a favourite Aesop fable. Crow has some food, and Fox wants it! Can he think of a clever plan to make Crow drop the food?

The last generation of Americans with a living memory of Jim Crow will soon disappear. They leave behind a collective memory of segregation shaped increasingly by its horrors and heroic defeat but not a nuanced understanding of everyday life in Jim Crow America. In The South, Adolph L. Reed Jr.—New Orleanian, political scientist, and according to Cornel West, "the greatest democratic theorist of his generation"—takes up the urgent task of recounting the granular realities of life ...

The oldest living Crow at the dawn of the twenty-first century, Lillian Bullshows Hogan (1905–2003) grew up on the Crow reservation in rural Montana. In The Woman Who Loved Mankind she enthralls readers with her own long and remarkable life and the stories of her parents, part of the last generation of Crow born to nomadic ways.As a child Hogan had a miniature teepee, a fast horse, and a medicine necklace of green beads; she learned traditional arts and food gathering from...

Becoming a dog owner can be excited, but it is also very challenging. If you have never owned a pet before you may not realize just how big a responsibility it really is. When you become a dog owner you commit to caring for your dog for its entire life – that could be as long as 15 years (or more!). As big a responsibility as owning and caring for a dog is, however, it is also a great privilege. Becoming a dog owner means that you will have a friend and companion for life – someone who wil...