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

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...

Embarking on his eighth adventure, Wyoming Sheriff Walt Longmire doesn't have time for cowboys and criminals. His daughter, Cady, is getting married in two weeks, and the wedding locale arrangements have just gone up in smoke signals. Fearing Cady's wrath, Walt and his old friend Henry Standing Bear set out for the Cheyenne Reservation to find a new site for the nuptials. But their expedition ends in horror as they witness a young Crow woman plummeting from Painted Warrior's majestic cliff...

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...

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 ...

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...

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...