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  • Grand Central Winter

    Stories from the Street

    by Lee Stringer ...
    Whether Lee Stringer is describing "God's corner" as he calls 42nd Street, or his friend Suzy, a hooker and "past due tourist" whose infant child he sometimes babysits, whether he is recounting his experiences at Street News, where he began hawking the newspaper for a living wage, then wrote articles, and served for a time as muckraking senior editor, whether it is his adventures in New York's ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Sleepaway School

    Stories from a Boy's Life; A Memoir

    by Lee Stringer ...
    Like his brother before him, Stringer was surrendered to foster care, shortly after birth, by his unwed and underemployed mother—a common practice for unmarried women in mid-century America. Less common was that she returned six years later to reclaim her children. Rather than leading to a happy ending, though, this is where Stringer's story begins. The clash of being poor and black in an affluent ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Provider's Son

    by Lee Stringer ...
    Levi Conley has spent his life making a hard living off the water. Fishing defines who he is. But after being betrayed by his business partners, who are also his brothers, he flees out west for the “big bucks” promised by work as an apprentice welder. The work is well-paid, as promised, but it is also hazardous. And there is the unexpected collaboration with Jon Smith, a young native and ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Like Shaking Hands with God

    A Conversation about Writing

    by Kurt Vonnegut, Lee Stringer ...
    Like Shaking Hands with God details a collaborative journey on the art of writing undertaken by two distinguished writers separated by age, race, upbringing, and education, but sharing common goals and aspirations. Rarely have two writers spoken so candidly about the intersection where the lives they live meet the art they practice. That these two writers happen to be Kurt Vonnegut and Lee ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • Audiobook

    Grand Central Winter, Expanded Second Edition

    Stories from the Street

    by Lee Stringer ...
    Narrated by Kevin Kenerly ...

    Unabridged

    7 hours

    In the underground tunnels below Grand Central Terminal, Lee Stringer—homeless and drug-addicted for eleven years—found a pencil to run through his crack pipe. One day he used it to write. Soon writing became a habit that won out over drugs, and before long Stringer had created one of the most powerful urban memoirs of our time.With humane wisdom and a biting wit, Stringer chronicles the ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

  • Tibes

    People, Power, and Ritual at the Center of the Cosmos

    by Andrew Castor, Jeffrey B. Walker, Susan D. deFrance, Pedro Alvarado Zayas, Michelle J. LeFebvre, William J. Pestle, Carla S. Hadden, Jeffry D. Grigsby, Daniel Welch, Scott Rice-Snow, Melissa J. Castor0, Richard H. Fluegeman1, Geoffrey R. DuChemin3, Dr. L. Antonio Curet5, Dr. Edwin Crespo-Torres, Ph.D.6, Dr. Lee A. Newsom7, Dr. Lisa M. Stringer, Ph.D.8, Dr. Joshua M. Torres9 ...
    Series series Caribbean Archaeology and Ethnohistory
    The first comprehensive analysis of a strategically located ceremonial center on the island of Puerto RicoThe prehistoric civic-ceremonial center of Tibes is located on the southern coast of Puerto Rico, just north of the modern coastal city of Ponce. Protected on two sides by a river, and on the other two sides by hills, this approximately 10.5-acre site remains as fertile and productive today as ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • Transforming Indigenous Higher Education

    Privileging Culture, Identity and Self-Determination

    by Marion Kickett, Pat Dudgeon, Trevor Satour, Darryl Kickett, Anita Lee Hong, Glenis Grogan, Dennis Eggington, Jill Abdullah, Melony Darroch, Rae-Lee Griffin, Roz Walker, Ernie Stringer ...
    An engaging guide for future best-practice, this book provides an illuminating account of how the innovative programs of education and research at one Centre for Aboriginal Studies made a demonstrably positive difference in the lives of Indigenous students.Written by the experts involved, the book provides detailed descriptions of these ground-breaking education and research programs that saw an ... Read more

    $54.99 USD

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    Vision, Analysis and Practice

    by Jim Ife ...
    In Community Development in an Uncertain World, Jim Ife draws on the principles of social justice, ecological responsibility and post-Enlightenment and Indigenous perspectives to advance new holistic approaches to community development. The book explores the concept of community development on a local and international scale in the context of globalisation and postcolonial theory. Students will ... Read more

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  • Mia Mia Aboriginal Community Development

    Fostering Cultural Security

    by Dawn Bessarab, Juli Coffin, Michael Wright ...
    Until recently, Aboriginal people have been subjected to mainly top-down development, which has proven damaging to communities. Mia Mia Aboriginal Community Development offers an alternative to such approaches, promoting cultural security in order to empower Aboriginal people to strengthen their own communities. The authors take a multidisciplinary approach to the topics of Aboriginal community ... Read more

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  • Ethics

    Edited by Sarah Banks ...
    Series series Critical and Radical Debates in Social Work
    The past few years have seen a renewed interest in the subject of social work ethics. In this short form book, part of the Critical and Radical Debates in Social Work series, Sarah Banks argues that this can be seen as reflecting two very different agendas. On the one hand, it is part of a progressive movement which offers a critique of New Public Management (NPM), or managerialist, approaches ... Read more

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  • Ethics and Management in the Public Sector

    by Alan Lawton, Julie Rayner, Karin Lasthuizen ...
    Series series Routledge Masters in Public Management
    Grappling with ethical issues is a daily challenge for those working in organizations that deliver public services. Such services are delivered through an often bewildering range of agencies and amidst this constant change, there are fears that a public service ethos, a tradition of working in the public interest, becomes blurred.Using extensive vignettes and case studies, Ethics and Management in ... Read more

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  • My Revision Notes: OCR A Level Sociology

    by Steve Chapman ...
    Manage your own revision with step-by-step support from experienced teacher and examiner Steve Chapman. Use a selection of examples activities to improve your understanding of sociological concepts. Apply sociological terms accurately with the help of definitions and key words.- Plan and pace your revision with the revision planner- Use the expert tips to clarify key points- Avoid making typical ... Read more

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