This is not your typical self-help book, gents. If you're looking for a no-nonsense, tell-it-like-it-is guide to getting what you want, you've come to the right place.In Fu*k Your Canoes, former Marine Sergeant John Doerr shares his five key principles to radically shift your attitude so you can destroy any obstacles in your way and skyrocket to success. With these simple yet effective guidelines, you'll learn to:?Find your motivation?Create your own opportunities?Rise through the ranks of leadership?Improve your relationships?and moreNo matter who you are or where you started out in life, you have the tools within to crush every challenge and get the success you deserve. It's time to pave your own path to become the best man, husband, father, and protector you can be.

Euphemism and Dysphemism In this fascinating study, Keith Allan and Kate Burrige examine the linguistic, social, and psychological aspects of this intriguing universal practice.

The fifteen Native women writers in Reckonings document transgenerational trauma, yet they also celebrate survival. Their stories are vital testaments of our times. Unlike most anthologies that present a single story from many writers, this volume offers a sampling of two to three stories by a select number of both famous and lesser known Native women writers in what is now the United States. Here you will find much-loved stories, many made easily accessible for the first time, and vibrant new stories by well-known contemporary Native American writers as well as fresh emergent voices. These stories share an understanding of Native women's lives in their various modes of loss and struggle, resistance and acceptance, and rage and compassion, ultimately highlighting the individual and collective will to endure against all odds. Reckonings features short stories by: Paula Gunn Allen, Kimberly M. Blaeser, Beth E. Brant, Anita Endrezze, Louise Erdrich, Diane Glancy, Reid Gómez, Janet Campbell Hale, Joy Harjo, Linda Hogan, Misha Nogha, Beth H. Piatote, Patricia Riley, Leslie Marmon Silko, and Anna Lee Walters.

A historical record of expeditions to Florida by Hernando de Soto and others from the years 1512-1568.

A provocative feminist analysis of the moral panics of sexuality, this interdisciplinary edited collection showcases the range of historical and contemporary crises we too often suppress, including vagina dentata, vampires, cannibalism, age appropriateness, breast cancer, menstrual panics, and sex education.