This book is about Self-Help and should be read now at a crucial time in your life; but probably won’t be because of the deterrents and distractions that cause most people to lose focus on who and what matter most. So, if you don’t read it now, that’s okay too; but place it on your bookshelf because you will read it later... during your inquiring years of desperation! Around the age of 35, suddenly we feel like “oldies” and some of us become adults; but some of us don’t and we need to ask ourselves why that is. This question can only be answered honestly by both those who have become adults and those who haven’t reached that level of maturity yet. The Seven Year Cycles of Self-Evaluation and its process provide a knowledge that you can only find within yourselves. My words are written for the intelligent, ageless reader who wants to Know and Live and Believe that “There is More.” And certainly there is “Much More.”

A plague is devasting mankind. Deep within the Amazon jungle, scientists have altered the genetic makeup of macaque monkeys, making them self-aware and giving them the power of speech. Only by working together can the two races--man and monkey--find some common road to a future earth.

Wesley Wark and John Naylor analyse the proliferation of intelligence memoirs and government efforts to protect official secrets from the revelations of the candid memoirist. The principal findings reached by the contributors in their study of this problematic but influential genre are set out by the editor in the concluding chapter.

Alice Munro’s Miraculous Art is a collection of sixteen original essays on Nobel laureate Alice Munro’s writings. The volume covers the entirety of Munro’s career, from the first stories she published in the early 1950s as an undergraduate at the University of Western Ontario to her final books. It offers an enlightening range of approaches and interpretive strategies, and provides many new perspectives, reconsidered positions and analyses that will enhance the reading, teaching, and appreciation of Munro’s remarkable—indeed miraculous—work. Following the editors’ introduction—which surveys Munro’s recurrent themes, explains the design of the book, and summarizes each contribution—Munro biographer Robert Thacker contributes a substantial bio-critical introduction to her career. The book is then divided into three sections, focusing on Munro’s characteristic forms, themes, and most notable literary effects.