How-to Write Your Own Check is required reading for anyone who wants to secure their financial future by writing in their spare time. This book is based on the experiences of an author who is published several times over. This is no scheme, you will not be asked to send anyone any money. You will only be asked to apply yourself and change your life forever.This book focuses on reaching those who want a better life- the single parents, the stay at home moms and dads, the over-worked spouses, and anyone who is imprisoned by financial worries.This book is about transforming basic writing skills into a lucrative pastime. Writers all over the world make a living by sharing their thoughts. If you can read and write English well enough to send a text message, you can earn a living by applying the principles in this book to your own life. I know because I did it and you can too. So don't let anyone talk you out of your future.This book will teach you step-by-step how I transformed from an average federal prisoner (who failed high school English, twice) into the published author of many books. Yes, with nothing more than a hand full of ink pens and a few writing tablets I have published eleven books from inside a prison cell.This is not a pull-yourself-up-by-the-boot-straps book. This is a nurturing guide- written as simply as a long letter from me to you. Inside I share with you how I made my life different. I share my experiences, what I learned along the way, and the publishing contacts that I use for every book.Above all, I share my fears, my joys, and my passion for writing. I share with you my confidence that you can succeed. I also give you a reference to my very own publisher along with her personal email address. It's all inside, waiting for you to use.Good writing, no luck required.

Original, amusing, and brilliantly documented, Shake is a heartwarming collection of sixty-one beguiling dogs caught in the most candid of moments: mid-shake. This glorious, graphic volume will stop you dead in your tracks as you are presented with images of man's best friend caught in contortion: hair wild, eyes darting, ears and jowls flopping every which way. With Shake, photographer Carli Davidson proves how eager and elated we are to see our pets in new ways. The result is a one-of-a-kind book: a colorful assemblage of photographs that are simultaneously startling and endearing, consistently hard to look away from, and revealing.

Our Own Agendas is the second collection of essays by McGill women. The first, A Fair Shake, was published a decade ago. The second volume both reflects the current climate of openness and shows that many barriers remain to be challenged. Our Own Agendas makes a lively and enlightening contribution to our understanding of women's experiences and to Canadian social history.

40-page children's picture book about what happens when you feed a bunch of hungry robots.

Derek Parfit, who died in 2017, is widely believed to have been the most significant moral philosopher in well over a century. The twenty-one new essays in this book have all been inspired by his work. They address issues with which he was concerned in his writing, particularly in his seminal contribution to moral philosophy, Reasons and Persons (OUP, 1984). Rather than simply commenting on his work, these essays attempt to make further progress with issues, both moral and prudential, that Parfit believed matter to our lives: issues concerned with how we ought to live, and what we have most reason to do. Topics covered in the book include the nature of personal identity, the basis of self-interested concern about the future, the rationality of our attitudes toward time, what it is for a life to go well or badly, how to evaluate moral theories, the nature of reasons for action, the aggregation of value, how benefits and harms should be distributed among people, and what degree of sacrifice morality requires us to make for the sake of others. These include some of the most important questions of normative ethical theory, as well as fundamental questions about the metaphysics of personhood and personal identity, and the ways in which the answers to these questions bear on what it is rational and moral for us to do.

“Beautiful and heartrending” fiction set in Vietnam and America from the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Sympathizer (Joyce Carol Oates, The New Yorker) In these powerful stories, written over a period of twenty years and set in both Vietnam and America, Viet Thanh Nguyen paints a vivid portrait of the experiences of people leading lives between two worlds, the adopted homeland and the country of birth. This incisive collection by the National Book Award finalist and celebrated author of The Committed gives voice to the hopes and expectations of people making life-changing decisions to leave one country for another, and the rifts in identity, loyalties, romantic relationships, and family that accompany relocation. From a young Vietnamese refugee who suffers profound culture shock when he comes to live with two gay men in San Francisco, to a woman whose husband is suffering from dementia and starts to confuse her with a former lover, to a girl living in Ho Chi Minh City whose older half-sister comes back from America having seemingly accomplished everything she never will, the stories are a captivating testament to the dreams and hardships of migration. “Terrific.” —Chicago Tribune “An important and incisive book.” —The Washington Post “An urgent, wonderful collection.” —NPR