"Michael Abramson took these photographs with the full knowledge and consent of patrons in and outside five nightclubs on Chicago's South Side during the mid-1970s. Patricia Smith used these photographs four decades later as an inspiration for her poetry"--T.p. verso.

There are things we encounter so often that we dont really give them much thought. But then someoneor somethingcomes along, and we are made to look at these things with a new appreciation and understanding. Poet Nannie Bell Wright will make you take a new look at the ordinary. Her book, Flow: A Medley of Poems (the something), is an interesting collection of poems that reflect things most of us feel and do every day. Many women (and men) lament over not having a relationship. Weve all had to say goodbye to someone we love. And there is the frustration of trying to find a tomato that actually tastes like a tomato. These are some of the diverse topics she covers in her poetry. The poems in Flow: A Medley of Poems contain words that speak, teach, preach, and heal. Wrights use of contrasts, such as hot and cold, encourages readers to think deeper about relationships of all kinds.

High school students embark on a crash course of friendship, female empowerment, and women's health issues in Lily Williams and Karen Schneemann's graphic novel Go With the Flow. Good friends help you go with the flow. Best friends help you start a revolution. Sophomores Abby, Brit, Christine, and Sasha are fed up. Hazelton High never has enough tampons. Or pads. Or adults who will listen. Sick of an administration that puts football before female health, the girls confront a world that shrugs—or worse, squirms—at the thought of a menstruation revolution. They band together to make a change. It’s no easy task, especially while grappling with everything from crushes to trig to JV track but they have each other’s backs. That is, until one of the girls goes rogue, testing the limits of their friendship and pushing the friends to question the power of their own voices. Now they must learn to work together to raise each other up. But how to you stand your ground while raising bloody hell?

Shares uplifting advice about the virtues of forgiveness, offering strategic and biblically based advice on how to achieve peace and personal fulfillment by letting go of past wrongs.

There is a man football fans across the land wake up for on a Saturday morning. A man whose renegade rhyming skills never fails to leave the nation dazzled - and maybe a bit baffled.He's Soccer AM's most infamous interviewer and Surrey's sickest rapper...it's the one, the only, Tubes. And he's ready to reveal the funniest, the best and the downright oddest stories from the Premiership and beyond.Soccer AM's very own lyrical miracle began life on the show as a humble work experience named Peter Dale. But a few world-class cuppas earned him a cameo as the nappy-wearing, beer-swilling Peter the Test Tube Baby. And the rest, as they, is history.Since then our floppy-haired hero has laid the rap down on every serious A-lister from Hulk Hogan to Steve Coogan in his trademark 'One Question and One Question Only' feature. Whether he's trapped in a headlock by Denzel Washington or going head-to-head in a rap battle with Professor Green, there's never a dull moment in the life of Tubes.Ever hear about the time Roy Hodgson bopped through a Premier League dressing room with a ghetto blaster? How about Gareth Bale, Theo Walcott and the Underwear Bandits? This treasure trove of priceless anecdote has got it all.Stuffed with stellar banter, Tubesology is guaranteed to dish out the insider knowledge that every self-respecting football fan needs to hear. So all that remains is One Question and One Question Only...are you ready to hear all about the world according to Tubes?

Detailing the role of senior management in achieving a successful transformation to organizational excellence, Simple Excellence: Organizing and Aligning the Management Team in a Lean Transformation charts a course of simplification through the complexity often associated with managing performance improvement initiatives. It spells out the roles of key individuals on the management team—including those from sales and marketing, human resources, purchasing/supply chain, information technology, finance, and engineering. Maintaining a focus on the big picture, this book explains what value streams are and how to use them to structure your business so that all stakeholders are aligned with what matters most. It reduces constraint management to its most practical terms and lays out a sound approach to accounting that enables everyone to spend money where it adds value and stop spending where it doesn’t. Drive your management team with dedicated allegience to the concept of value enhancement Propel your organization to higher performance through the employment of Lean culture and decision-making principles Enact management structures needed to put new ways of thinking into play Focus on the bottom line with the right performance metrics Written by respected authorities with extensive experience helping leading organizations achieve Lean transformation, the text includes case studies from high-profile organizations recognized for operational excellence. Addressing human resources management practices, it explains how to manage the day-to-day operations and pricing factory capabilities for the greatest possible profits. It also discusses the ongoing process of strategic planning to help you move away from annual goal setting, toward a dynamic process of engaging the entire company in the effort to provide your customers with an improved sense of value.

Merle Haggard is known as "the poet of the common man." His songs are some of the most important and influential in the history of country music, on par with the likes of those by Jimmie Rodgers and Hank Williams. Through a life as tumultuous as his music, scarred by struggles with inner demons, incarceration and addiction - all of which he has brutally and directly confronted through his lyrics - Haggard has emerged with an American songbook that captures the rough side of life with an unblinking eye gazing on the workings of the human heart. This collection comes on the heels of his acclaimed album If I Could Only Fly, his first new studio album in four years, which finds the former wildman coping with aging, taking on familial responsibilities, and learning to appreciate the wonders of home life versus the pitfalls of the highway. Haggard's lyrics demonstrate why this acclaimed member of the Country Music Hall of Fame is a legend who will live forever.