Nine essays by a retired freelance journalist, based on her letters to the editor regarding various topics of public interest and concern on Prince Edward Island, ca. 2012-2014.
Kathy has woven stories about her childhood growing up in Covehead Road with stories about her adult life and a section devoted to her two sons, Jeffrey and Tyler Jorgensen and their early childhood innocence and antics. Over the years, Kathy has had some of her shorter stories read on CBC Radio and has also devoted a section in the book to those stories. The book begins with the untimely death of Kathy's father, Russell Birt in 1949, when she was just two years of age. Source: BUZZon.com
Traveller? Lover of fireplaces and comfortable chairs? Amateur sleuth perhaps, or natural philosopher? White Lightening and Other Stories From The Writers in Groupis one book you'll want to keep by your side. This compact, pick-up, put-down-anywhere read packs twenty-eight tales between its pages, one for every mood and season. The authors, many award-winners among them, represent a delightful range of experience, sensibility, and expression.Whether fact or fiction, these stories are bound to prove good company--or may we be struck by lightning
Exploring literary possibilities, Politics and Affect reads black women’s text—in particular Frances Harper’s “The Two Offers” (1859), Julia Collins’s The Curse of Caste (1865), Nella Larsen’s Quicksand (1928), and Danzy Senna’s Caucasia (1998)—as richly creative documents saturated with sociopolitical value. Interested in how African American women writers from the nineteenth century to the present have mined the politics of affect and emotion to document love, shame, and suffering in environments shaped by race, Kathy Glass gives sustained attention to the impact of racist affect on the black body, and examines how black women writers deploy emotional states to engender sociopolitical change.
The unprecedented rate of global, technological, and societal change calls for a radical, new understanding of literacy. This book offers a nuanced framework for making sense of literacy by addressing knowledge as contextualised, embodied, multimodal, and digitally mediated. In today’s world of technological breakthroughs, social shifts, and rapid changes to the educational landscape, literacy can no longer be understood through established curriculum and static text structures. To prepare teachers, scholars, and researchers for the digital future, the book is organised around three themes – Mind and Materiality; Body and Senses; and Texts and Digital Semiotics – to shape readers’ understanding of literacy. Opening up new interdisciplinary themes, Mills, Unsworth, and Scholes confront emerging issues for next-generation digital literacy practices. The volume helps new and established researchers rethink dynamic changes in the materiality of texts and their implications for the mind and body, and features recommendations for educational and professional practice.
Blockbuster bestseller SuperFoodsRx identified a variety of SuperFoods that prevent disease and significantly improve health. In this follow-up diet plan, The Superfoods Rx Diet—fully tested in two intensive 30-day trials involving more than 100 volunteers—authors Wendy Bazilian, DrPH, MA, RD, Steve Pratt, MD, and Kathy Matthews show how a diet rich in these powerhouse nutrients also helps one to lose weight. The Los Angeles Times listed the hardcover edition in its list of notable weight-loss books. And all across the nation the verdict from satisfied, successful dieters is coming in fast—this is a weight-loss program that health-conscious dieters want to make their lifetime eating plan.
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