"I AM" is an Author-biographical Poetry collection partnered with explicit narratives, demonstrating insurmountable spiritual courage, bearing emotional and sometimes unpalatable but heartfelt experiences of child molestation and sexual abuse. Written to unveil the hidden signs and pain through the eyes of the victim. The Author hopes to encourage and guide parents or caretakers in taking the initiative to build a wall needed to protect against child molestation and sexual abuse. "I AM" al...

In the depths of winter, in the shadows of memory, in the aftermath of transcendence—darkness takes many forms.A father confronts a creature born from buried guilt in the Ontario wilderness. A teenager stands at the water's edge, hearing a boy's voice call from the bridge above. A coastal town unravels after tasting something too beautiful to survive without. An elderly woman sits through a power outage beside the husband she never left, watching their marriage by firelight.

In a penthouse apartment on a blustery winter's night, an ivory-bearded polar Bear anxiously awaits the arrival of his cubbish companion. Though they've known each other for ages, they've just begun to explore an exciting new relationship together. But will their temperaments, some cold comfort, and a game of hide and seek cut their precious time short? After all, they only have until dawn.

While today's presidential tweets may seem a light-year apart from the scratch of quill pens during the era of the American Revolution, the importance of political communication is eternal. This book explores the roles that political narratives, media coverage, and evolving communication technologies have played in precipitating, shaping, and concluding or prolonging wars and revolutions over the course of US history. The case studies begin with the Sons of Liberty in the era of the Americ...

This book examines human rights as political battlefields, spaces that are undergoing constant changes in which political conflicts are expressed by a translation process within networks of interactions. This translation, in turn, contributes to modifying the scope and understanding of human rights. Ultimately, these battlefields express the legitimacy encounter of different versions of human rights in contemporary political practices. The volume thus challenges both the tendency to minimi...

Three strange short stories involving children, death, and absurdity.Begin the eerie journey with a Stone-Pair girl who kills her father and then finds herself on a mysterious island of gruel.Meet a boy who starves to death and then encounters the seven deadly sins in a story of limbo.And lastly follow an overly sympathetic (and magical) girl who after committing suicide is pressed up into a world where she reaps utter havoc out because she cares to...

On the first day of spring, three modern-day Witches cast bottle spells into the sea to bring their hearts' desire. Eileen wants a baby; Sarah, a full-time job; Jim, a Daddybear to call his own. Join Jim as he navigates the kinks and cuddles of an exciting new relationship with someone from his distant past and gathers with his crafty coven for spells, sabbats and the season of the witch.

Three strange short stories involving children, death, and absurdity.Begin the eerie journey with a Stone-Pair girl who kills her father and then finds herself on a mysterious island of gruel.Meet a boy who starves to death and then encounters the seven deadly sins in a story of limbo.And lastly follow an overly sympathetic (and magical) girl who after committing suicide is pressed up into a world where she reaps utter havoc out because she cares to...

Past, Present, and Future of Statistical Science was commissioned in 2013 by the Committee of Presidents of Statistical Societies (COPSS) to celebrate its 50th anniversary and the International Year of Statistics. COPSS consists of five charter member statistical societies in North America and is best known for sponsoring prestigious awards in stat