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Paperback. Condition: Good. Writing on the Landscape touches my mind, heart, body, and spirit. The author and I are kindred souls. My own thinking, writing, and nature-fueled philosophy of life resonate with Dr. Wilhoit's entertaining and inspirational guide to writing and nature.Dr. Wilhoit narrates a journey, demonstrating how vital balance is in our pursuit of writing, as well as in our pursuit of life. And she evidences convincingly that we can achieve wholeness through conscious, reflective, and introspective immersion in nature. Dr. Wilhoit observes simply that the principal point of this book is the pairing of nature and writing toward being complete. Writing on the Landscape explores the sense of wholeness we feel when we engage a few simple, easy to exercise practices . deep and guided, step-by-step interactions with nature and its elements: land-, sea-, and sky-scapes. The voices of the earth speak deeply and clearly to a writer.Dr. Wilhoit brings joy to writing through her own revelations: I am in love with writing; writing seduces me. I am in the landscape of my soul. I write from the very core of who I am. That is what the natural world does for me and for my writing no matter where I am. Join Dr. Wilhoit and begin your own journey through the terrain of writing and nature.--Stephen B. Jones, PhD Author of Nature Based Leadership and Nature-Inspired Learning and Leading; Co-Founder of Antioch University New England's Nature Based Leadership Institute; Founder of Great Blue Heron, LCWriting on the Landscape is a practical, lyrical book aimed at helping blocked writers to become unstuck.…

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Paperback. Condition: Good. Shane Dawson, YouTube comedian and bestselling author of I Hate Myselfie, returns with a new uproariously funny essay collection, replete with his signature biting wit and self-deprecating humour. Even more emotionally honest, heartwarming, and hilarious than his last collection, it will inspire and entertain his audience of more than 14 million channel subscribers.…

Paperback. Condition: Good. Students will prepare powerful and successful admission essays with the tools provided in this invaluable, newly-updated resource for the college-bound. Examples of 50 real essays are included, discussing such topics as leadership, personal obstacles, athletics, public service, special talents, and future goals. The strengths and successes of each example are analyzed, as well as the inspirations of each writer. A comprehensive writing workshop provides tips toward selecting topics, developing stories, editing drafts, and applying finishing touches. Further examples of 12 unsuccessful essays, a list of 25 easy mistakes to avoid, and new interviews with admissions officers are presented to help would-be entrants avoid costly blunders.…

Paperback. Condition: Good. A collection about the female experience in and of music by some of the most intelligent and famous writers of the moment.

Paperback. Condition: Good. From the beginning of the 20th century, Hollywood filmmakers have shaped public beliefs about and attitudes toward African Americans, Asian Americans, Native Americans, and Latinos. Challenging and updating the historical record, ethnic minority filmmakers have been re-presenting their histories, cultures, and literature from the perspectives of their own experience. The resulting films offer teachers an effective means for teaching ethnic diversity in today's media-saturated culture. This work details rationales and methods for incorporating readily available films into the high school and college undergraduate curriculum, particularly in history, social studies, literature, and film studies courses. It includes definitions of race and ethnicity and essays on the film history of African American, Asian American, American Indian, and Latino representation. Subsequent chapters, organized by disciplines, describe specific ways to teach visual and multicultural literacy with films, including suggestions for topics, methods, and films, and ending with four discipline-specific curriculum units for high school students. Film terminology and a list of resources to help teachers create their own curriculum units complete the work.…

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Originally published in Australia, The Grass Library is a philosophical and poetic journey by one of Australia's most skilled, unusual and versatile writers (Sydney Morning Herald). Both a memoir and an elegy for animal rights, The Grass Library portrays the author's relationship with his dog, four sheep, and myriad other animals in the home he shares with his partner in the Blue Mountains of New South Wales.This collection of essays--with its lyrical language, its honesty and vulnerability, its charm and wit--will delight and inspire all animal lovers, and especially those who rescue animals.…

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Poet and essayist Peter Stitt describes not a perfect life achieved, but his search for that ideal, writing of books he has loved and of the often difficult lives of writers, including his teachers John Berryman and James Wright. Generous and alert in his fascinations, Stitt explores the quest for freedom in thought and action among the Amish, the French partisans, and the ?heretical? Cathars, and he offers a fresh perspective on parenting, meditating on the life of an adopted stepdaughter.…

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Paperback. Condition: Good. Beyond Denial is an essay collection that sketches a spirituality for our time that is life-affirming and inclusive, intellectually viable and socially responsible. The author, an ordained minister, integrates Judeo-Christian insights with the rich resources of the world's other religions and wisdom-streams. He emphasizes the centrality of consciousness in spiritual practice. Such awareness comes, first, through fostering experiential awareness of our inherent inner Divinity; and then also, through consciously perceiving--and moving beyond denial of--whatever dysfunctional patterns may plague us both individually and collectively. Rev. Acheson invites his readers to look at a wide range of topics with curiosity, questioning and compassion. This book offers many rich insights and practices that can help guide us toward a more hopeful human future, even in a time of great fear and confusion.…

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Paperback. Condition: Good. Politics can impact the marketplace in a big way. In Leaving Liberty?, author Martin Mazorra presents a collection of essays that explores the important relationship between politics and economics. Delivered in a daily devotional format of thirty-one essays, Leaving Liberty? provides insight into the long-term effects of a growing government and answers a host of related questions: - Will extending unemployment benefits inspire longer terms of unemployment? - Is raising the minimum wage ultimately good for young and unskilled workers? - How can governments spend beyond their means and rack up debt, while a company or a household doing the same would have gone bankrupt long ago? - Is bailing out failed institutions truly in our best interest? - Why do seemingly bright people in high positions continue to make egregious mistakes? Clear and concise, this collection touts the benefits of a free-market economy while offering a fundamental understanding of the global economy and the integral economic role that politics plays throughout the world.…

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Paperback. Condition: Good. This collection of fifty-three personal essays by David Bouchier isn't quite a travel book or a memoir. With many of these essays originally broadcast on National Public Radio stations in New York and Connecticut, Not Quite a Stranger provides a lively portrait of France and the French through the unique voice of a beloved commentator. With this book, you'll love reliving Bouchier's romantic attempt to establish himself as a Bohemian intellectual in Paris and look at the City of Lights with a fresh perspective. You'll also enjoy exploring French village life alongside Bouchier and his wife, Diane, examining the countryside, history, art, social habits, and local politics. And then there are the penetrating questions: For instance, why are dangerous bulls encouraged to run through the village once a year? Each chapter features a delightful short essay covering a wide array of topics. Sometimes thoughtful and sometimes humorous, they're always entertaining and enlightening, each capturing life in France from a different angle. Drawing from Bouchier's background in sociology and education and expressed through a wonderfully engaging style, these essays reveal a deep love and affection for all things French and celebrate a lifestyle that's a virtual mirror image of the American way.…

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Paperback. Condition: Good. Presents 50 model essays written by successful Ivy League college applicants. This title includes essays that are followed by critical comments that analyse both the strong and weak points in addition to the writers' style and general approach to the essay's content. It also presents essay-writing instruction and advice.…

Hardback. Condition: Good. Describes journeys, both physical and spiritual, to the interior West. Drawing on a lifetime of hiking, climbing and skiing in the back country of Colorado, Utah, New Mexico and Arizona, Saner explores themes and experiences which are not just regional, but range over space and time.…

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Hardback. Condition: Good. The hilarious and poignant account of how one woman found her comedic voice.Growing up in the Midwest, the youngest child of Catholic parents, Lizz Winstead learned early that the straightforward questions she posed to various authority figures around her--her parents, her parish priest, even an anti-abortion counselor--prompted many startled looks and uncomfortable silences, but few plausible answers. Her questions rattled adults because they exposed the inconsistencies and hypocrisies in the people and institutions she confronted. Yet she didn't let that deter her. In Lizz Free or Die, Winstead vividly recounts how she fought to find her own voice, both as a comedian and as a woman, and how humor became her most powerful weapon in confronting life's challenges. Uproarious and surprising, honest and poignant, this no-holds-barred collection of autobiographical essays gives an in-depth look into the life and creativity of one of today's most influential comic voices. In writing about her naive longing to be a priest, her role in developing The Daily Show, and her often problematic habit of diving into everything headfirst, asking questions later (resulting in multiple rescue-dog adoptions and travel disasters), Lizz Winstead has tapped an outrageous and heartfelt vein of the all-too-human comedy.…

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Paperback. Condition: Good. Night Lights is a collection of 22 shorts stories from some of the most accomplished Northwest Writers. Each year authors such as Tom Robbins, Karen Fisher and August Wilson create an original short story for Humanities Washington's annual fundraiser, Bedtime Stories. This volume represents the first printing of many of these stories for everyone to enjoy. …

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Paperback. Condition: Good. Since I authored Peace Begins With Me in 2005 I have often been asked if I'm planning to write another book. I've had the intention to write again for many years, however I didn't know what the content would be. All I knew was the title - 'How Can I Wake Up When I Don't Know I'm Asleep?' I've known for a long time that humanity needs to wake up. This knowing has sat in my bones and interrupted my sleep for years. Then a number of years ago I was invited to become a regular contributor to a local newspaper - The Tri City News. On a monthly basis I would summon my courage and share my thoughts and reflections with my fellow neighbors and friends. My reflections and writings were not always well received. There was often an edge to many of my writings. In hindsight I recognize this edge was my way of poking and prodding my fellow citizens to wake up. I continued to write regularly, moving platforms from the hard copy of print media to the ether world of electronic blogging. Many articles were most often inspired by the events of the day - personal, local, national and international. What follows are 67 of the best articles and reflections that were penned over a 10 year period. While some of the events are of a particular time and place, most of the themes that I write about are timeless and transcend the actual story. This will not be an easy book to read. You will be tested, poked, prodded and stretched. I intend to push you out of your comfort zone and beyond your current state of consciousness. I'm a proponent of Einstein's message that insanity is doing the same and expecting a different outcome. It is my genuine hope these rambling and reflections are of service to you and bring humanity closer to what we are all capable of becoming.…

Paperback. Condition: Good. As modern media shift from the distribution of information to its creation, a fresh inquiry into the ethics of media is needed. This collection of 19 essays provides useful perspectives for both producers and consumers of entertainment. Topics include the creation of celebrity, the effects of entertainment on children, the hybridization of entertainment and news, author and intellectual property rights, and the role of human dignity in modern media, among many others. Instructors considering this book for use in a course may request an examination copy here.…