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Fumbling Towards Ecstasy:
Music and Deviance as Audience Advocacy
DUE OUT IN 2027 FROM CAMBRIDGE SCHOLARS PUBLISHING
Fumbling Towards Ecstasy explores the many ways 20th century musicians and their audiences created necessarily deviant cultural movements. From Raps’ inner-city counter-narratives to socially justice-forward Grunge, musicians have long used their stage power to resist, reward, and bring their activist-audiences along for the ride.
Watercharms:
Ocean-Reiki Meditations
For many people the ocean is a source of relaxation and comfort, and this self-discovery book takes that relaxation to the next level. The healing power of reiki energy combines with the magnificent forces of the ocean to encourage healing, clarity, and clearing available to everyone. Chapters address how to negotiate different aspects of daily life – compassion, fear, forgiveness, grief, faith, hope, and surrender – with deep breathing, journaling, and visualization exercises. This meditation will help you to embrace the ocean’s limitless energies as you unlock the healing power that lies within you and each of us. Staring off into the ocean will take on a whole new meaning.
Academic Apartheid:
Waging the Adjunct War
In response to institutionalized oppression, professional disregard, and overt lack of agency, a silent majority speaks out. Academic Apartheid: Waging the Adjunct War responds to the pervasive “adjunct for hire” trend with a collection of poignant international essays covering a wide depth and breadth of experience (overseas, online, small private colleges, large state institutions) while uncovering the challenges implicit with living and working as an academic on the borders of the ivory tower.
Anthologies & Essays
FEATURED BOOK:
Summer Shorts:
A Short Story Anthology
Featuring Sylvia’s short story, “Thunder Guardian”
A wonderful anthology of stories for middle graders ready to blast into the future, drop back into the past, or take a stroll down the street in Anywhere, USA.
Haunted Encounters:
Departed Family & Friends
Featuring Sylvia’s essay
The power of being contacted by loved ones from beyond the grave is celebrated in these supernatural stories from around the world. Each tale of reconnection is related in the words of the person who experienced it with thoughts about what they gained from the experience. In one story, each time two sisters quarrel over their late mother’s possessions, the sound of phone ringing can be heard even when there is no phone around. In another, a mother returns to her daughter in a dream to provide comfort and relief during trying times. The themes of contacting the living for one last goodbye runs throughout this collection, offering consolation and closure to those who have lost loved onesFeau.
Goddesses of the Sea:
A Mermaid and Sea Maiden Anthology
Featuring Sylvia’s short story, “Salimar”
The sea is a dark and mysterious place. What lurks within the deepest caverns, unseen by those above? A haunting melody drifts across the waves, a beautiful figure floats in the shallows. Do you follow? Do you answer the sea’s hypnotic call? An anthology featuring 18 stories about mermaids, sea goddesses, sirens, and other mysterious creatures of the deep.
Patchwork Path:
Grandma's Choice
Featuring Sylvia’s essay, “Four Hands, Two Hearts”
Short Stories written by and about Grandmothers and how they touch our lives.
Chicken Soup for the Latino Soul
Featuring Sylvia’s essay, “El Niño Bendito de la Grandmom”
Inspiring, heartwarming and humorous, this special story collection celebrates Latino life and community across the country.
A Cup of Comfort for Divorced Women
Featuring Sylvia’s essay, “Roadside Assistance”
Divorce in the twenty-first century should come with an instruction manual, a release valve, and a support system. This book will serve as all three, in the form of comforting, insightful, and inspirational stories about surviving and thriving during and after divorce. In the bestselling tradition of the Cup of Comfort series, this volume will make divorcees laugh and cry as they commiserate about the universal issues of divorce: ex-husbands, ex-houses, alimony, child support, new holiday traditions, and much more. A shoulder to cry on and a friend to laugh with all rolled into one perfect gift book, this collection will be the best friend for every woman who picks it up.
Nursing Infomatics
Featuring contributions by Sylvia
Nursing Informatics and the Foundation of Knowledge, Fourth Edition teaches nursing students the history of healthcare informatics, current issues, basic informatics concepts, and health information management applications. This comprehensive text includes the building blocks of informatics through complicated topics such as data mining, bioinformatics, and system development.
Bullying
(Perception Series vol. Two)
Featuring contributions by Sylvia
In this second volume of the Perceptions Series, you will find short stories and poems from various children’s books authors. Each explores the tough topic of bullying. Either from the victim’s perspective or that of the bully, these selections include thought-provoking discussion questions and extension activities for parents and educators. Geared for children between grades 3 to 6, this anthology series hopes to entertain and enlighten as readers delve into a deeper understanding of the value of all people.Consider purchasing the first volume, Special Needs, as well to begin your collection!
