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  • The Auroras & Blossoms NaPoWriMo Anthology: 2020 Edition

    Welcome to a collection of stunning and moving inspirational poetry written throughout National Poetry Writing Month in April 2020.Come on a journey with us as we explore the works of many diverse and talented poets who each know how to write uplifting words to stimulate our senses and make us feel better about ourselves.Contributors to The Auroras & Blossoms NaPoWriMo Anthology: 2020 Edition ... Read more

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  • Who Was Responsible for the Troubles?

    The Northern Ireland Conflict

    by Liam Kennedy ...
    The Troubles claimed the lives of almost four thousand people in Northern Ireland, most of them civilians; forty-five thousand were injured in bombings and shootings. Relative to population size this was the most intense conflict experienced in Western Europe since the end of the Second World War.The central question posed in this book is fundamental, yet it is one that has rarely been asked: Who ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

  • Power Played

    A Critical Criminology of Sport

    Edited by Derek Silva, Liam Kennedy ...
    Series series Law and Society
    This innovative collection convincingly argues that modern sport can be characterized by unequal and problematic power relations that are inextricably linked to issues of violence, harm, deviance, and punishment.On the one hand, sport is a mainstay of community building, an expression of solidarity, and a means to mental and social health. On the other, there is the star player who commits sexual ... Read more

    $27.39 USD

  • Routledge International Handbook of Diaspora Diplomacy

    Edited by Liam Kennedy ...
    Series series Routledge International Handbooks
    The Routledge International Handbook of Diaspora Diplomacy is a multidisciplinary collection of writings by leading scholars and practitioners from around the world. It reflects on the geopolitical and technological shifts that have led to the global emergence of this form of diplomacy and provides detailed examples of how governments, intergovernmental organizations (IGOs), non-governmental ... Read more

    $62.99 USD

  • The Violence of the Image

    Photography and International Conflict

    Edited by Liam Kennedy, Caitlin Patrick ...
    Photography has visualized international relations and conflicts from the midnineteenth century onwards and continues to be an important medium in framing the worlds of distant, suffering others. Although photojournalism has been challenged in recent decades, claims that it is dead are premature. The Violence of the Image examines the roles of image producers and the functions of photographic ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • Race and Urban Space in American Culture

    by Liam Kennedy ...
    This innovative study looks at the formation of ethnic and racial identities in relation to the development of urban culture. The concept of urban space provides the means of organization for comprehensive illustrations of a series of themes, including white paranoia and urban decline; imagined urban communities; urban crime and justice; the racialized underclass; globalization; and new ... Read more

    $73.99 USD

  • Afterimages

    Photography and U.S. Foreign Policy

    by Liam Kennedy ...
    In 2005, photographer Chris Hondros captured a striking image of a young Iraqi girl in the aftermath of the killing of her parents by American soldiers. The shot stunned the world and has since become iconic—comparable to the infamous photo by Nick Ut of a Vietnamese girl running from a napalm attack. Both images serve as microcosms for their respective conflicts. Afterimages looks at the work of ... Read more

    $34.59 USD

  • Neoliberalism and Contemporary American Literature

    Edited by Liam Kennedy, Stephen Shapiro ...
    Neoliberalism is the rare buzzword that has fully crossed over from academic theorizing into mainstream discussion. Neoliberalism and Contemporary American Literature is the first book to examine the ways that US literature has responded to the dominance of our neoliberal regime. The essays collected here reveal how contemporary American writers have both propped up and interrogated the ... Read more

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  • Remaking Birmingham

    The Visual Culture of Urban Regeneration

    Edited by Liam Kennedy ...
    The city of Birmingham offers a particularly rich case study on urban regeneration as it strives to build a new city image. Positioned between decline and regeneration, the landscape of the city and its environs collages old and new, producing dramatic contrasts - of industrial and post-industrial urbanisms of crumbling brutalism and spectacular flagship developments, of Victorian housing and ... Read more

    $77.99 USD

  • The Death Census of Black ’47: Eyewitness Accounts of Ireland’s Great Famine

    Series Book 1 - Anthem Irish Studies
    The Great Irish Famine claimed the lives of one million people, mainly from the lower classes. More than a million others fled the stricken land between 1845 and 1851. In recent decades, its history has become the focus of considerable scholarly and popular attention, but much remains to be retrieved and reconstructed, particularly at the level of the rural poor. This book fills that gap. It is ... Read more

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    Hailed as "a dreadlocked dervish of words...the Bob Marley of American poets" (Esquire), Saul Williams is a gifted young poet who is opening up this literary art form to a new generation of readers. Like his writing -- a fearless mix of connecting rhythms and vibrant images -- Saul Williams is unstoppable. He received raves for his performance as an imprisoned street poet in the Trimark Pictures ... Read more

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