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In Making the Miscellany Megan Heffernan charts the development of printed poetry in early modern England, showing how material practices of organization were dynamic responses to poetic form and content. Her book argues for a literary history that is sensitive to the conditions of making and using early printed books.

This book seeks to explain why the concept of justice is critical to the study of criminal justice. Heffernan makes such a case by treating state-sponsored punishment as the defining feature of criminal justice. In particular, this work accounts for the state's role as a surrogate for victims of wrongdoing, and so makes it possible to integrate victimology scholarship into its justice-based framework. In arguing that punishment may be imposed ...

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Anna's perfect life has become a category 5 disaster. A hurricane destroying her home is only the beginning of Anna's troubles. Her ex, Eric, plasters private photos of her on billboards all over the city and across the internet. The backlash against her makes the storm look tame: She's instantly suspended from her job. Her current boyfriend dumps her. The cops blame her for the pictures. Her friends vanish.Trapped in despair, Anna enters a do...

When politics meets pole fitness, Mel's life flips upside-down.After Mel's disastrous promotional video goes viral, a "family values" group launches a protest against her dance studio. Their leader isn't just trying to stop her from teaching-he's using Mel as a moral scapegoat for his own senate campaign. If he wins, he threatens to change the laws to keep all pole dancing out of their community. Mel's no politician, but she's not not going do...

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An impulsive decision. A twist of fate. A new life. On September 11, 2001, Brett Cooper checks into a flight to go on an interview for a job he doesn't want in a city where he doesn't want to live. All to make his wife happy. He loves her, but he's not happy in his marriage. Or in his body. As boarding begins, Brett panics and gives his ticket away. When the plane strikes the World Trade Center, Brett gets a second chance. Finally, he can live...

The fourth poetry journal in our Backlash collection. It's arranged as a single narrative and to be read as a book. Backlash Press is dedicated to publishing books that inform, provoke, and inspire. We publish poetry, surrealism, literary fiction, and lyric essay.

A no bullshit approach to making plant-based eating delicious and enjoyable whether you're all out vegan or a meat lover just looking to incorporate more plants into your diet.Plant-Based Cooking...Well Kind Of takes you through the individual health scares that motivated Calie & Nic to give the plant-based lifestyles a try. While it took Calie 3 tries and many years to evolve to eating completely plant-based, Nic made the decision overnight a...

Poems written in isolation during the Covid-19 pandemic 2020This collection is wholly unique to any that I've curated. The incomparable nature of the of the submissions I received certainly reflected the exceptional times we are living through. Some were handwritten. Many were from teenagers, children, elders, and mental health patients. All were raw, perfectly threadbare in their humanness, and pining for connectedness.Although I couldn't pos...

As English departments look to an uncertain future, they also look to their past. But until now, histories of literary studies have focused on scholarship at the expense of teaching. Rachel Buurma and Laura Heffernan's book is a different kind of history of literary study, one that examines the confluence of teaching and research in the careers of some of the discipline's most intriguing figures. The result is a revelation, showing us a series...

WHAT IF ... poverty were a capital offence?WHAT IF ... prisons were abolished and replaced with counselling?WHAT IF ... you could watch someone else's memories of times you spent together, through their eyes?This innovative collection of stories from Susannah Heffernan offers a micro-taste of the near future, and it asks the reader to speculate and analyse: how do we live and what do we most value?

The woman he loves has been murdered. What happens when he resurrects her? Jacques Beaumont is a French Haitian artist of Voodoo ancestry with the ability to resurrect the dead through his sculptures. The death of his parents takes him to Callisto, a rural town in Illinois. Jacques falls in love with Elora Winter, a singer and abused wife of Arlo Donnelley, the town's sheriff and ring leader of the area's white supremacy group. Elora becomes p...

The woman he loves has been murdered. What happens when he resurrects her? Jacques Beaumont is a French Haitian artist of Voodoo ancestry with the ability to resurrect the dead through his sculptures. The death of his parents takes him to Callisto, a rural town in Illinois. Jacques falls in love with Elora Winter, a singer and abused wife of Arlo Donnelley, the town's sheriff and ring leader of the area's white supremacy group. Elora becomes p...

Historical sketch of the Church - Of St. Antony of Padua, Brooklyn, N.Y.: with an account of the rectorship of Rev. P.F. O'Hare is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1897.Hansebooks is editor of the literature on different topic areas such as research and science, travel and expeditions, cooking and nutrition, medicine, and other genres. As a publisher we focus on the preservation of historical literature. Many works...

* A Financial Times Best Book of the Year * From former CEO and popular TED speaker Margaret Heffernan comes a timely and enlightening book that equips you with the tools you need to face the future with confidence and courage.How can we think about the future? What do we need to do—and who do we need to be? In her bold and invigorating new book, distinguished businesswoman and author Margaret Heffernan explores the people and organizations wh...

It was supposed to have been just another routine night for Mike Lowe, a newly-promoted sergeant working Homicide in the police department. But then the call came, the call that would forever change his life, and the lives of so many people surrounding him. An anonymous call reports that body parts are scattered all about a vacant house. When the police enter the house, incendiary devices go off, killing more police on the scene. Suddenly, Low...

This is a collection of 75 progressive sonnet vignettes, American monologues, voices of people about their work. In a prefatory comment Heffernan borrows Anthony Trollope's description-"real portraits, not of individuals known to the world or to the author, but of created personages impregnated with traits of character which are known"-as also a description of manner and method here, in Working Voices.

PARENTING NEVER ENDS. From the founders of the #1 site for parents of teens and young adults comes an essential guide for building strong relationships with your teens and preparing them to successfully launch into adulthood The high school and college years: an extended roller coaster of academics, friends, first loves, first break-ups, driver's ed, jobs, and everything in between. Kids are constantly changing and how we parent them must chan...