Melissa Littles is the wife a of police officer. Through her writings of the life of a police officer's wife, she hopes to build a bridge across the country to unite all families of officers.

SUM SWERVE (short s.f. stories) Add it up- these short stories, songs, poems, plays, and operas have been assembled with the meaning of life in mind: for fun. Written by a silverback gorilla in Java, translated to C++, encrypted, mailed to the admissions office of a California law school during the Great Depression and then held in probate for forty years before slipping in off the waitlist, SUM SWERVE slices the imagination, massages the prostate, and is yours to keep (for a low-low price!) These short stories love you. You need them. Put under the unbalanced leg of your pool table when facing the devil in a game of 8 ball with nothing less than your soul stake, here are stories to steady your cue when two banks, corner pocket, comes around. Strike it, sink it, and in the end- it was all propped up on SUM SWERVE.

Humans relate to one another in many ways, but no connections are as deep as those built around shared experiences. Empathy invites us to feel others’ feelings, to see the world how they see it. The world seems to need empathy now more than ever. This collection of essays, historical documents, stories, and poetry explores the American tendency to decide who is “us” and who is “them” in terms of race, sexuality, immigration status, ability, and other categories of difference. The collection offers readings of varying levels of difficulty and from a wide range of perspectives. This book features not just examples of empathy in practice—which shows readers what it looks like and invites participation in empathy—but also examples where empathy was needed in history and none was found. Selections include works by Marcus Aurelius, Kate Chopin, Frederick Douglass, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Lawson Fusao Inada, Harriet Ann Jacobs, Emma Lazarus, Barack Obama, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Margaret Sanger, Sonia Sotomayor, Sojourner Truth, and many more.

Supplement to 3d ed. called Selected characteristics of occupations (physical demands, working conditions, training time) issued by Bureau of Employment Security.