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America Is the Prison: Arts and Politics in Prison in the 1970s
In the 1970s, while politicians and activists outside prisons debated the proper response to crime, incarcerated people helped shape those debates though a broad range of remarkable political and literary writings. Lee Bernstein explores the forces that sparked a dramatic "prison art renaissance," ... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2010 -
Isami's House: Three Centuries of a Japanese Family
Gail Lee Bernstein vividly re-creates the past three centuries of Japanese history by following the fortunes of a prominent Japanese family over fourteen generations. This book focuses on Isami, the eleventh generation patriarch and hereditary village head and uses family history to convey social li... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2005 -
New Thoughts On The Black Arts Movement
by Emily Bernard • James Smethurst • Lee Bernstein • Alondra Nelson • Margo Natalie Crawford • Kellie Jones • Erina Duganne • Lisa Gail Collins • Cherise Pollard • Cherise Smith • Wendy Walters • Michelle Joan Wilkinson • Lorrie Smith • Houston Baker • Adam Gussow • Rod Hernandez • Mary Ellen LennonDuring the 1960s and 1970s, a cadre of poets, playwrights, visual artists, musicians, and other visionaries came together to create a renaissance in African American literature and art. This charged chapter in the history of African American culture—which came to be known as the Black Arts Movement—... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2006 -
There When He Needs You: How to Be an Available, Involved, and Emotionally Connected Father to Your Son
Men want to be better fathers, and today they're trying harder than ever. They jog behind strollers, leave work early for parent-teacher conferences, and roughhouse with their kids before they've had a chance to change out of their suits. But many men aren't building the relationships with their s... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2008 -
Beyond the Holacracy Hype
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Language: ENGCopyright: 2016 -
Fiscal Decentralization and Governance: A Cross-Country Analysis
A report from the International Monetary Fund.... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2001 -
Vice: Dick Cheney and the Hijacking of the American Presidency
by Lou Dubose • Jake BernsteinDick Cheney is the most powerful yet most unpopular vice president in American history. He has thrived alongside a president who, from day one, had little interest in policy and limited experience in the ways of Washington. Yet Cheney's relentless rise to prominence over three decades has happened... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2006 -
Compound-Nuclear Reactions: Proceedings of the 6th International Workshop on Compound-Nuclear Reactions and Related Topics CNR*18 (Springer Proceedings in Physics #254)
by David Brown • Walid Younes • Jutta Escher • Yoram Alhassid • Lee A. Bernstein • Carla Fröhlich • Patrick TalouThe Compound-Nuclear Reaction and Related Topics (CNR*) international workshop series was initiated in 2007 with a meeting near Yosemite National Park. It has since been held in Bordeaux (2009), Prague (2011), Sao Paulo (2013), Tokyo (2015), and Berkeley, California (2018). The workshop series bring... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2021 -
Transpoetic Exchange: Haroldo de Campos, Octavio Paz, and Other Multiversal Dialogues (Bucknell Studies in Latin American Literature and Theory)
by Marília Librandi • Jamille Pinheiro Dias • Tom Winterbottom • Enrico Mario Santí • João Adolfo Hansen • Marjorie Perloff • Antonio Cicero • Luiz Costa-Lima • Odile Cisneros • Charles A. Perrone • Kenneth David Jackson • Benedito Nunes • Jerome Rothenberg • Keijiro Suga • André Vallias • Charles BernsteinTranspoetic Exchange illuminates the poetic interactions between Octavio Paz (1914-1998) and Haroldo de Campos (1929-2003) from three perspectives--comparative, theoretical, and performative. The poem Blanco by Octavio Paz, written when he was ambassador to India in 1966, and Haroldo de Campos’ tra... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2020 -
Lifespan Development: Infancy Through Adulthood
The book aims to impart to students what today's scientists are discovering about human development and how this knowledge can be applied in the real world. ... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2011