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Lonie McMichael

Lonie McMichael

About

Lonie McMichael has wanted to be a writer since age 3.

For many years she practiced her trade as a technical writer in the high tech industry. After going to graduate school, she found her calling in fat studies, exploring the fat individual’s experience. Graduating with a Ph.D. in technical communication and rhetoric, she wrote her dissertation on the medical rhetoric surrounding the “obesity epidemic” and how such rhetoric legitimizes fat prejudice—topics which have become two separate books, Talking Fat and Acceptable Prejudice? (the latter to be published by Pearlsong Press in 2013).

She is currently teaching professional and technical writing at the University of Colorado at Colorado Springs and working on her third book about things fat.

Mice & Spiders & Webs...Oh My!

Mice & Spiders & Webs...Oh My!

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<p>Mice &amp; Spiders &amp; Webs...Oh My! Is your child a good listener? Rosemary is a little girl who is worried about returning to school after her teacher warns the class that they would soon have some mice, spiders, and webs in the classroom. Could Rosemary have misunderstood something? How can mice and spiders and webs belong at school? Full of &quot;Computer Speak,&quot; this story introduces young readers to basic computer terms in a delightful way! See if your child can discover the mystery of the misunderstood words, and learn about the fun of computers with Rosemary. This is the seventh rhyming children's book by this award-winning author, whose other bestselling books include My Fingerpaint Masterpiece, Manner-Man, Gimme-Jimmy, The Magic Word, Peter and the Whimper-Whineys, and Santa's Birthday Gift. Former teacher Sherrill S. Cannon has won twenty-eight awards for her six previous rhyming books, and is also the author of seven published and internationally performed plays for elementary school children. She has been called &quot;a modern day Dr. Seuss&quot; by GTMA Review. &quot;I love to teach, and this book teaches basic computer terms in a fun way. I am retired and spend six months of the year with my husband of 55 years, traveling from coast to coast and sharing books along the way. I grew up in The Willard Hotel in Washington, D.C. , where my father was the manager. I'm the original Eloise!&quot; Publisher's website: http://sbpra.com/SherrillSCannon</p>

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<p> <font face="Verdana" size="2">&quot;McMichael provides a thorough and compelling expose of the <br /> prejudice that underlies obesity rhetoric and a compassionate, tenable solution. This book may make you angry, but it will also give you hope.&quot;</font></p><p> <font face="Verdana" size="2"><strong>Linda Bacon, Ph.D.<br /></strong>author of <em><strong>Health At Every Size: The Surprising Truth About Your Weight</strong></em></font></p><p><font face="Verdana" size="2">&quot;Prejudice based on weight can act like a Gordian knot: loosen one part of the mess and other strands of belief pull tighter. Lonie McMichael's brilliant analysis  cuts through the  conundrum. This book's big-picture view of weight-centrism as both a rhetorical  success and a real-world failure will be endlessly useful to me  as a fat activist and a person who wants to live healthily and happily  in my very own body.&quot;<br /><br /><strong>Marilyn Wann</strong><br /> author of <strong><em>Fat!So?</em></strong></font></p><p>&quot;Words are the building blocks of our lives. The war on fat people that has been waged for the past two decades has been a war of words. Dr. McMichael writes eloquently and critically about those fighting words, helping the reader understand what power structures lie behind our most commonly accepted concepts. If we do not understand the how and the why behind speech, we may never know truth. But when we trace the history of discourses, we open up possibilities of making a better place through better conversations. <em><strong>Talking Fat</strong></em> is just that conversation starter.&quot;</p><p><br /><strong>Pattie Thomas, Ph.D.</strong><br />author of <em><strong>Taking Up Space</strong></em></p><p><font face="Verdana" size="2">&quot;Dr. McMichael does a wonderful job of explaining the difference between  the way fat is talked about and the reality of fat's effect on health. This is a must read for fat folks, health practitioners and anyone concerned with fair and equal treatment for all people.&quot;<br /><br /><strong>Golda Poretsky, HHC</strong><br /> author of <em><strong>Stop Dieting Now:  25 Reasons To Stop, 25 Ways To Heal</strong></em></font></p><p><span style="font-family:Verdana;"><em><strong><br /></strong></em></span></p>