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The Future of Crime and Punishment: Smart Policies for Reducing Crime and Saving Money
William R. Kelly · Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Pages: 266
Format: Hardcover
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Today, we know that crime is often not just a matter of making bad decisions. Rather, there are a variety of factors that are implicated in much criminal offending, some fairly obvious like poverty, mental illness, and drug abuse and others less so, such as neurocognitive problems. Today,... |
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Career Transitions for Librarians: Proven Strategies for Moving to Another Type of Library
Davis Erin Anderson · Rowman & Littlefield
Pages: 253
Format: Print book
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What if you were a public librarian and then you wanted to become an academic librarian? How different are those worlds and how would you know what kind of skills or experiences you need to get your foot into the academic door? Career Transitions for Librarians: Proven Strategies for Moving... |
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Help! They Want Me to Fundraise!: A Nonprofit Fundraising Manual for Beginners
Susan Black · CharityChannel Press; 1 edition
Format: Paperback
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If you find yourself in the role of fundraiser for your organization, you could use a little good news: You have found the book you need to get started. That’s the first bit of encouragement. The second bit is this: You can do this! Help! They Want Me to Fundraise! is for anyone... |
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One Long Night: A Global History of Concentration Camps
ANDREA PITZER · Little, Brown and Company
Pages: 480
Format: Hardcover
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A groundbreaking, haunting, and profoundly moving history of modernity's greatest tragedy: concentration campsFor over 100 years, at least one concentration camp has existed somewhere on Earth. First used as battlefield strategy, camps have evolved with each passing decade, in the scope... |
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The Optimistic Leftist: Why the 21st Century Will Be Better Than You Think
Ruy Teixeira · St Martin'S Press
Pages: 272
Format: Print book
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The words "optimism" and "the left" do not seem to go together very well these days. The dominant view on the left--reinforced by the election of Donald Trump--is as follows: (1) progress in today's world has largely stopped and in many ways reversed; (2) the left... |
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Richard Potter: America's First Black Celebrity
John A Hodgson · University of Virginia Press
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover
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Apart from a handful of exotic--and almost completely unreliable--tales surrounding his life, Richard Potter is almost unknown today. Two hundred years ago, however, he was the most popular entertainer in America--the first showman, in fact, to win truly nationwide fame. Working as a magician... |
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Stolen Life
Fred Moten · Duke University Press Books
Pages: 321
Format: Paperback
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"Taken as a trilogy, consent not to be a single being is a monumental accomplishment: a brilliant theoretical intervention that might be best described as a powerful case for blackness as a category of analysis." - Brent Hayes Edwards, author of Epistrophies: Jazz and the Literary... |
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Black and Blue: Inside the Divide between the Police and Black America
Jeff Pegues · Prometheus Books
Pages: 280
Format: Hardcover
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The recent killings in Dallas, Baton Rouge, Ferguson, and elsewhere are just the latest examples of the longstanding rift between law enforcement and people of color. In this revealing journey to the heart of a growing crisis, CBS News Justice and Homeland Security Correspondent Jeff Pegues... |
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Searching for Boko Haram: A History of Violence in Central Africa
Scott MacEachern · Oxford University Press
Pages: 248
Format: Hardcover
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For the past decade, Boko Haram has relentlessly terrorized northeastern Nigeria. Few if any explanations for the rise of this violent insurgent group look beyond its roots in worldwide jihadism and recent political conflicts in central Africa. Searching for Boko Haram is the first book... |
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Understanding 19th-Century Slave Narratives
Sterling Lecater Bland, Jr.) · Greenwood
Pages: 311
Format: Hardcover
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African American slave narratives of the 19th century recorded the grim realities of the antebellum South; they also provide the foundation for this compelling and revealing work on African American history and experiences.* Presents information and primary source documents that support... |
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Captives: How Stolen People Changed the World
Catherine M Cameron · University of Nebraska Press
Pages: 234
Format: Print book
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In Captives: How Stolen People Changed the World archaeologist Catherine M. Cameron provides an eye-opening comparative study of the profound impact that captives of warfare and raiding have had on small- scale societies through time. Cameron provides a new point of orientation for archaeologists,... |
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Pro-Voice: How to Keep Listening When the World Wants a Fight
Aspen Baker · Berrett-Koehler Publishers; 1 edition
Format: eBook
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Dialogue, Not DogmaWhen Aspen Baker had an abortion at the age of twenty-four, she felt caught between the warring pro-life and pro-choice factions, with no safe space to share her feelings. In this hopeful and moving book, Baker describes how she and Exhale, the organization she cofounded,... |
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