Children in Tactical Gear offers a brilliant feed of stark incantations and unsparing satire. Set in distinctly American landscapes, including toy weapon assembly lines and the compounds of the super rich, and voiced by imperiled children, failed adults, and even a smart home speaker, this collection demonstrates the unsettling force of a surreal imagination under duress.

A perfect way to show teachers you care.A dynamic book of positive affirmations, self-care suggestions, and relatable, honest reflections to empower teachers everywhere and enable new commitment to themselves and their profession.With above-and-beyond responsibilities that include advocacy, counseling, and crisis control, teachers are some of the most indispensable workers in our society and often influence their students’ lives long past g...

Selected by Dean Young as winner of the Kathryn A. Morton Prize in Poetry, Fludde draws on Blake’s Songs of Innocence and Experience to critique and dismantle contemporary American values and conditioning: commodification, imperialism, toxic masculinity. Surreal and satirical, Mishler channels the voices of disillusioned middle management alongside the freewheeling imaginative vision of children to disrupt the fixity of our received ideas.

Do you say what you think, express how you feel, and ask for what you want? The way you speak immediately conveys your self-esteem. Nonassertive communication limits your professional success and leads to conflict and problems in relationships. Learning to be assertive actually raises your self-esteem, while benefiting your career, relationships, and sense of well-being."How to Speak Your Mind" explains what it means to be assertive, why it's important, and how to achieve it. It de...

Learn Secrets About Creating A Connection That Sparks A Deep Emotional Bond That Most Women Will Never KnowMost women are very surprised to hear the truth about why men are afraid to commit, why they lose interest slowly and why men secretly pull away.It's time to learn the secrets about attract and why men didn't want you. In Creating Emotional Attraction, that's exactly what you'll get:Do You Want To Discover How Attraction Really Works For A Man?...

A Personal Growth Journal to Build Effective Habits"If you follow this simple process, I promise that you will see positive changes in your relationships and find a higher level of personal satisfaction in your life." ― Sean Covey, author of The 7 Habits of Highly Effective Teens#1 New Release in Strategic Business PlanningHow do you manage your time and stay organized? Whether you're struggling to ...

Auguries of Innocence is the first book of poetry from Patti Smith in more than a decade. It marks a major accomplishment from a poet and performer who has inscribed her vision of our world in powerful anthems, ballads, and lyrics. In this intimate and searing collection of poems, Smith joins in that great tradition of troubadours, journeymen, wordsmiths, and artists who respond to the world around them in fresh and original language. Her influences are eclectic and strik...

In Good Bones, first published in 1992, Margaret Atwood has fashioned an enthralling collection of parable, monologue, mini-romance and mini-biography, speculative fiction, prose lyric, outrageous recipe and reconfigured fairy tale, demonstrating yet again the play of an unerring wit overseen by a panoramic intelligence. Good Bones is a cornucopia of good things—precise, witty, wise, and sometimes offbeat Atwood writing, with the funny and the sidelong view of the world w...

In Reframe Your Brain, Scott Adams, the contrarian genius behind Dilbert and author of the most influential personal success book of all time—How to Fail at Almost Everything and Still Win Big—gives you the complete operating system for lasting happiness.Are you familiar with this old saying?"All publicity is good publicity."That's a classic reframe. The quote shifts your thinking from the shame of whatever you did wrong t...

Changing your attachment style isn't something most people want to think about, and what incentive do they have to do so. They've been doing things a certain way for very long, and it's hard for many people to take an honest look at themselves. It's no wonder your relationships aren't working, or worse, they end before they've even begun. People who are in this position struggle with not knowing what they truly need from their partner, which leads them to feel a whirlwind of emotions that ...

**A Globe and Mail Best BookA debut collection from a startling new voice in Canadian poetry.**The poems in Admission Requirements attempt to discover what is required of us when we cut across our material and psychic geographies. Simultaneously full and empty of its origins, the self is continually taxed of any certainties and ways of being. The speaker in these poems is engaged in a kind of fieldwork, surveying gardens, communities, and the haphazard cit...

Do You Feel Like Success Is Always Just Out of Reach?Learn How to Turn What You Think Into What You'll Become!Success has a different definition depending on who you talk to. A person can find success in many different areas of their lives. Success may also mean different things to you at different points in time. For some a great job and money is having success, while for others it's having a family and loved ones to share their lives with.Whatever you're definitio...