Shawn Taylor

On a field trip to Palo Duro Canyon State Park, Colter Voss and his friends cross paths with wild creatures and interesting characters. Strap on your trail-running shoes and join the kids as the try their best to be the first to reach the famous Lighthouse.

One of the finest hip-hop albums ever made, A Tribe Called Quest's debut record (featuring stone-cold classics like "Can I Kick It?" and "Bonita Applebum") took the idea of the boasting hip-hop male and turned it on its head. For many listeners, when this non-traditional, surprisingly feminine album was released, it was like hearing an entirely new form of music. In this book, Shawn Taylor explores the creation of the album as well as the impact it had on him at the time - a 17-year-old high-school geek who was equally into hip-hop, punk, new wave, skateboarding, and Dungeons & Dragons: all of a sudden, with this one album, the world made more sense. He has spent many years investigating this album, from the packaging to the song placement to each and every sample. Shawn Taylor knows this record like he knows his tattoos, and he's finally been able to write a fascinating and highly entertaining book about it.

In a society that bombards us with messages of perfection and fulfillment, it's even harder to feel good about oneself. If you are suffering from a lack of self-esteem and you are losing control of your own existence, letting other people dictate to you how to live and how to judge your actions, you need to abandon self-defeating thoughts and start accepting your mistakes. If you are looking for the answer to these questions Do you want to build an engaging, authentic self? Are you tired of having no motivation and feeling like a looser? Do you know how to respond to life's complexities? Build Your Self-Esteem is what you're looking for Build Your Self-Esteem is not only a self-help book, but also a personalized guide illustrated by real life examples for the renovation of mindfulness: a practical method that increases well-being, booms personal fulfillment, and powers up performances. Build Your Self-Esteem provides action-based practices for daily living to develop get-up-and-go, encourage confidence, inspire human motivation and relationships. All crucial elements to reach psychological health and to learn how to be flexible to face adversities. Self-esteem is basic to achievement, to constructive social interactions, and to professional weight. Getting your self-esteem back is the first positive step forward for a new life. Then you will be able to strengthen your innate resilience and to bounce back from stress and difficulties. The only way to live life to the fullest

How does it feel to be a black man in America? It hurts, but in a beautiful way. So Shawn Taylor says—and a lot more—in this unapologetic and sharply critical exploration of the hatred and anxiety that American society harbors toward black men, and the fear and confusion that black men harbor toward themselves. Mixing humor, rage, and startling vulnerability, Taylor leads us on a no-holds-barred tour of his own masculine development: negotiating his young life without a father, getting shot, forming all manner of relationships with women. Big Black Penis, winner of the DIY Book Festival, brings the conversation on black masculinity into the 21st century.

One of the finest hip-hop albums ever made, A Tribe Called Quest's debut record (featuring stone-cold classics like "Can I Kick It?" and "Bonita Applebum") took the idea of the boasting hip-hop male and turned it on its head. For many listeners, when this non-traditional, surprisingly feminine album was released, it was like hearing an entirely new form of music. In this book, Shawn Taylor explores the creation of the album as well as the impact it had on him at the time - a 17-year-old high-school geek who was equally into hip-hop, punk, new wave, skateboarding, and Dungeons & Dragons. All of a sudden, with this one album, the world made more sense. He has spent many years investigating this album, from the packaging to the song placement to each and every sample - Shawn Taylor knows this record like he knows his tattoos, and he's finally been able to write a fascinating and highly entertaining book about it.