In this book you will discover these, and many other warm, true dog stories:The miniature schnauzer who returned from the dead to protect his family.The Belgian sheepdog who kept his sleepy human companion from crashing his car on a lonely deserted highway.The Labrador mixed-breed who shielded her mistress from the fangs of a venomous copperhead snake by taking the bite herself.The sheepdog who kept a faithful, five-year vigil for his dead master.The...

My spirit guides continually remind all of us this life we've chosen in these particular physical bodies at this particular time on the planet is supposed to be a joyful and joy-filled experience. And yet for many, if not most, it is not. Often, it's anything but joyful.This book will hopefully serve to remind the reader of the goddess or god within. And from there, to inspire him or her to create the joyful, abundant life that is the birthright of us all.Here are the topic...

My spirit guides continually remind all of us this life we’ve chosen in these particular physical bodies at this particular time on the planet is supposed to be a joyful and joy-filled experience. And yet for many, if not most, it is not. Often, it’s anything but joyful.This book will hopefully serve to remind the reader of the goddess or god within. And from there, to inspire him or her to create the joyful, abundant life that is the birthright of us all.Here are the topic...

This book is an expression of the emotions I have experienced during some of my darkest times and an account of how I have used positive thinking and art to climb back into the light. In these chapters, I use poetry as a way to deal with the daily hardships throughout my journey, both mentally and physically. I feel that can be helpful for everyone, and sometimes that can start with writing down your thoughts emotions, even if no Expressing our emotions is healthier than bottling them. I p...

Pauline Elizabeth Hopkins (1859–1930), African American novelist, editor, journalist, playwright, historian, and public intellectual, used fiction to explore and intervene in the social, racial, and political challenges of her era. Her particular form of cultural activism was groundbreaking for its time and continues to influence and inspire authors and scholars today. This collection of essays constitutes a new phase in the full historical and literary recovery of her work.JoAnn P...

The life and times of my dog, Honey. From her perspective. Based on the true story of her adoption.

A compelling intellectual and literary history of midcentury AmericaIn a midcentury American cultural episode forgotten today, intellectuals of all schools shared a belief that human nature was under threat. The immediate result was a glut of dense, abstract books on the "nature of man." But the dawning "age of the crisis of man," as Mark Greif calls it, was far more than a historical curiosity. In this ambitious intellectual and literary history, Greif recovers th...

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Richard Wright’s Native Son (1940) is one of the most violent and revolutionary works in the American canon. Controversial and compelling, its account of crime and racism remain the source of profound disagreement both within African-American culture and throughout the world.This guide to Wright's provocative novel offers:an accessible introduction to the text and contexts of Native Sona critical history, surveying the many interp...

Ram Dass has always been a master of the one-liner. Here is the nitty-gritty by the author of Be Here Now—more than 200 penetrating observations and pithy spiritual instructions on such topics as How It All Is, Love and Devotion, Suffering, Aging, Planes of Consciousness, Death and Dying, Service and Compassion, Psychedelics, Social Awareness, and Liberation.“This book is a kind of spiritual brandy, a distillation of the lectures I’ve given over the course of the p...

America's racial odyssey is the subject of this remarkable work of historical imagination. Matthew Frye Jacobson argues that race resides not in nature but in the contingencies of politics and culture. In ever-changing racial categories we glimpse the competing theories of history and collective destiny by which power has been organized and contested in the United States. Capturing the excitement of the new field of "whiteness studies" and linking it to traditional historical inquiry, Jaco...

"Magisterial . . . make[s] you suddenly see new things in familiar books . . . brilliant analyses of a dozen or so front-runners in the Great American Novel sweepstakes." —Michael Dirda, Virginia Quarterly ReviewThe idea of "the great American novel" continues to thrive almost as vigorously as in its nineteenth-century heyday, defying more than 150 years of attempts to dismiss it as amateurish or obsolete. In this landmark book, the first in many years to t...