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Survived physical abuse.Witnessed community violence.Conquered the streets.Saved by education.This is Dr. Maysa Akbar’s story. A story of overcoming Urban Trauma.It’s easy to look down at urban communities and wonder why economic and social...

Stella Madison is back, this time with a bevy of friends. But just how far should a person go when it comes to sticking by their friends? There's a thief in the rambling old mansion she moved into. And while it was someone who was quick to lend help...

Essays by Dora Marsden (1882 - 1960) from her journal "The Egoist." Introduction, annotations, glossary and index by Trevor Blake, author of "Dora Marsden Bibliography." Read the Gospel of Power... "What a blight it is on life, to be sure, that honest...

In August 2012, sixteen members of an Amish community in Bergholz, Ohio, stood trial in a federal courtroom for crimes committed against members of other Amish communities. The world watched in stunned silence as witnesses revealed details about what...

Street people and street life in photographs and stories by the author of Stop Requested, Dollar Halloween, and The Last Coloring Book. I Need Real Tuxedo and a Top Hat! is available as a trade softcover and in a deluxe expanded...

Your history teachers lied to you! The American Civil War was not fought over slavery; genuine slavery was never practiced in the American South; Confederate President Jefferson Davis adopted a black child during the War and planned on abolishing slavery...

Eighteen-year-old Carrie Welton is restless, unhappy, and ill-suited to the conventions of nineteenth-century New England. When she is presented with an opportunity to escape is a socially approved manner, she leaps at the chance. Leaving behind personal...

This is an artistic and original book that can be shared with anyone. This book will be read again and again in any setting. “Poems to Ponder” is a collection of poems that is well written with great care and love for the craft...

The Use of Color in History, Politics, and Art, a collection of papers from the 2012 Arts & Letters Conference hosted by the University of North Georgia, explores how color can provide clues to the interpretation of history and politics, works of art,...

This book is a celebration of women. It is an invitation to journey from #MeToo to thriving women via appreciative inquiry, dialogue, and story telling. It addresses topics, through an appreciative lens, that may be difficult to talk about, yet must be...

From the indie press that brings you the Library Journal-honored Assaracus comes Lady Business: A Celebration of Lesbian Poetry. Lady Business features a substantial set of poems from each of twelve lesbian poets: Sally Bellerose, Brit Blalock,...

That's Just the Way Life Is... details the  journey my father and I traveled as he battled prostate cancer while weaving through memories of happier times. The physical, emotional and medical situations we encountered are explored in detail...

America in the 1950s was a place of Eisenhower, the Korean Conflict, McCarthy, and Sputnik. Women were trapped in the mold of Donna Reed and June Cleaver, marginalized by the hyper-masculinity of the age. Mystery fiction had become a male bastion,...

New to America? Want to serve newcomers? Curious about the history of Coptic immigration to the U.S.A.? Trying to adapt yourself to your new environment?Coptic Orthodox Christians have been immigrating to the United States in droves over the last few...

A journalist, either print or broadcast, is trained in the use of observation to help tell a story. It's always the little things that give context to the tale told, and clarity to the certainties contained in journalism 101's five "W's," and the lonely...

60 + Heart moving stories of women from all walks of life who navigated with Grit to transform their lives and those of the people around them. Edie Hand's Women of True Grit tells the stories from her journey in life with all the women she has crossed...

The man who would have been her first client turns around to his clothes on the coat hangers against the wall.'I have to get out of here . . . sir, I am just a child, sir! Please call the police so they will come and fetch me!''I don't believe it,' he...

This book offers a comprehensive look at the experiences of people of color after the recruitment is over, the diversity box is checked, and the statistics are reported. What are the retention, job satisfaction, and tenure experiences of librarians of...

Why is Bali the only Hindu island in Muslim Indonesia? Although Indonesia is overwhelmingly Muslim, 90 percent of the population in Bali is Hindu. In the title of Bali and Hinduism in Indonesia, a comprehensive study of Hindu society and culture in...

This is the story of Ken Thomas, educated with two university degrees but nothing about trucks, who was mislead into buying a truck by a sham relative at the end of the Second World War.After this shaky start came problems with government regulations and...

This is the story of a girl, orphaned at a very early age, who migrated to Pakistan at the time of the partition, and her lifelong yearning to find her father's grave in Aligarh, India so that she can update him on how her life turned out in Pakistan. In...

Part-memoir, part-fiction, James & Elle is a delicate mosaic of vignettes reflecting a deeply personal perspective and the complications of having-and supporting-a loved one with PTSD.Two siblings are unravelling their past and uncovering hidden...

In "Dancing My Journey," Nikki Stein, a 40-plus-year-old mother of four, unravels the poignant tapestry of her life, exposing the traumasthat have tested her mental resilience. This intimate narrative invites readers into Nikki's world as she faces...

Above the Gravel Bar opens up a new way of seeing Maine and the Northeast as a vast network of waterways. With this book you can put your kayak/canoe in a nearby river or pond in Maine and travel prehistoric routes to campgrounds thousands of years old...

The biography of Shree Maa describes the extraordinary experiences of an enlightened being. Knowing her divinity from childhood, Shree Maa left home at an early age to reside in the seclusion of the Himalayas and devote her life to spiritual practices...

This lively book brings the reader close to the people from a remote cattle station in far north Australia, where black and white peoples' lives have been intertwined over the span of 80 years. Tracing the humorous, savage and ordinary ways in which race...

THOMAS HARDY'S JUDE THE OBSCURE A study of Jude the Obscure using contemporary feminist and literary theory. Illustrated, with notes and a bibiography. Jude the Obscure (1895), Thomas Hardy's last novel, is a sister (or brother) book to Tess of the...

WILD ZONES: PORNOGRAPHY, ART AND FEMINISMREVISED AND UPDATED, WITH NEW ILLUSTRATIONS <P> Kelly Ives explores the worlds sexual representation in art and pornography, from a feminist viewpoint. </P>  <P> The book includes...

COSMO WOMAN This is one of the few full-length explorations of the 'women's magazine' market. Focussing on Cosmopolitan magazine, Oliver Whitehorne considers every aspect of the women's magazine, from themes and issues to images and style. The feminism...

Improving wellbeing and sustainability are central goals of government, but are they in conflict? This engaging new book reviews that question and its implications for public policy through a focus on indicators.It highlights tensions on the one hand...

Environmental change presents a new context and new opportunities for transformational change. This timely book will inspire new ways of understanding the relationship between environmental change and human security. A Changing Environment for Human...

Since its publication in the early 90s, Brenda Boardman's Fuel Poverty has been the reference text for those wishing to learn about this complex subject. In this, its successor, she turns a critical eye to the new millennium and finds that the situation,...

Dealing with some of the major themes in film narratives, this book draws on the theories of French psychoanalyst Julia Kristeva. It looks at how narratives have changed over time, and considers the sources of our variable reactions to themes and...

For almost nine decades, since their mass-resettlement to the Levant in the wake of the Genocide and First World War, the Armenian communities of Lebanon and Syria appear to have successfully maintained a distinct identity as an ethno-culturally diverse...

Published in Association with the German Historical Institute, Washington, D.C.At a time when part-time jobs are ubiquitous, it is easy to forget that they are a relatively new phenomenon. This book explores the reasons behind the introduction of this...

Since the extensive floods of 1966, inhabitants of Venice's laguna areas have come to share in, and reflect upon, concerns over pressing environmental problems. Evidence of damage caused by industrial pollution has contributed to the need to recover a...

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PapersTraditional Knowledge for ethical reporting on Indigenous communities: A cultural compass for social justice - by Ann Auman and Alana Pollack KanaheleMoral agency in sports journalism: A phenomenological analysis - by Tom BradshawComforting the...

Although most Freemasons will be familiar with the Tracing Boards – painted or engraved illustrations developed in the early years of Freemasonry which are used in Lodges to illustrate Masonic symbols and allegories during degree ceremonies and...

In both professional and academic fields, there is increasing interest in the way in which white-collar workers engage with institutions and networks which are complex social constructions. Covering a wide variety of countries and types of organization,...

This edited collection brings together established global scholars and new thinkers to outline fresh concepts and theoretical perspectives for criminological research and analysis in the 21st century. Criminologists from the UK, USA, Canada and Australia...

Despite recent signs of change, people living with some form of disability continue to face discrimination, marginalization, and exclusion from full participation in public life, even within the church. In Africa particularly, those living with...

Navigating the online and offline worlds of pairing up, this spiky collection of short stories delves deep, with dark humour, into what it takes to strap on a smile through thirty-something failure and make human connections in the modern age.Gordon...

Have you ever imagine what it would feel like if you no longer have to deal with feelings of unworthiness and rejection? Where your happiness no longer depend on external circumstances that are both within and outside your control? .My name is Aji...