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Race, Education, and Reintegrating Formerly Incarcerated Citizens

Counterstories and Counterspaces

by John R. Chaney, Joni Schwartz, Tiheba Bain, Michael Baston, Michael Carey, Terrance Coffie, Norman Conti, Cory Feldman0, Elaine Frantz1, Tony Gaskew2, Joshua Halberstam3, Davon T. Harris4, Jane MacKillop5, Brian Miller6, Paul J. Schwartz7, Dwayne Simpson8, Timothy Stater9, Carlyle Van Thompson0, Colleen P. Eren1, Joserichsen Mondesir2, Michael Holzman3 ...

Series series Critical Perspectives on Race, Crime, and Justice
This timely, readable text offers an authoritative and balanced analysis of how racially driven policies in America impact post release education as a leading pathway to social reintegration. Compelling research findings from an assemblage of college faculty, seasoned administrators, and criminal justice professionals are interwoven with first-person narratives from formerly incarcerated ... Read more

$42.99 USD

This timely, readable text offers an authoritative and balanced analysis of how racially driven policies in America impact post release education as a leading pathway to social reintegration. Compelling research findings from an assemblage of college faculty, seasoned administrators, and criminal justice professionals are interwoven with first-person narratives from formerly incarcerated
... Read more
New Jersey Fan Club

Artists and Writers Celebrate the Garden State

by Kerri Sullivan, Matthew Taub, Frankie Huang, Erinn Salge, Brandon Harrison, Mike Dawson, Michael C. Gabriele, Wills Kinsley, Pooja Makhijani, Kat Schneider0, Chris Gethard1, Stacey Mei Yan Fong2, Kamelia Ani3, Kate Morgan4, Brittany Coppla5, Scott Neumyer6, Jacquinn Sinclair7, Carlos Dengler8, Miko Beach9, Caren Lissner0, Team 1:1 New Jersey1, Raakhee Mirchandani2, Brandon Stosuy3, Whit Taylor4, Alicia Cook5, Brittany Ingersoll6, Caiti Borruso7, Sarah Prager8, Elise Sacco9, lucy dean stockton0, Alexandra Beguez1, Bob Varettoni2, Jen A. Miller3, Erica Commisso4, Hallel Yadin5, Kae Lani Palmisano6, Lisa Rosalie Eisenberg7, Linda J. Barth8, Donnie Martino9, Hassan Ghanny0, Lorraine Goodman1 ...

Despite the many jokes and stereotypes about New Jersey and its residents, in reality the state is a wildly diverse place, home to a vast variety of landscapes, cultures, and people. There is no singular New Jersey experience, and the stories that its residents have to share about the state will surprise you.New Jersey Fan Club: Artists and Writers Celebrate the Garden State is an eclectic ... Read more

$13.99 USD

Despite the many jokes and stereotypes about New Jersey and its residents, in reality the state is a wildly diverse place, home to a vast variety of landscapes, cultures, and people. There is no singular New Jersey experience, and the stories that its residents have to share about the state will surprise you.New Jersey Fan Club: Artists and Writers Celebrate the Garden State is an eclectic
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New Jersey Fan Club

Artists and Writers Celebrate the Garden State

by Kerri Sullivan, Matthew Taub, Frankie Huang, Erinn Salge, Brandon Harrison, Mike Dawson, Michael C. Gabriele, Wills Kinsley, Pooja Makhijani, Kat Schneider0, Chris Gethard1, Stacey Mei Yan Fong2, Kamelia Ani3, Kate Morgan4, Brittany Coppla5, Scott Neumyer6, Jacquinn Sinclair7, Carlos Dengler8, Miko Beach9, Caren Lissner0, Team 1:1 New Team 1:1 New Jersey1, Raakhee Mirchandani2, Brandon Stosuy3, Whit Taylor4, Alicia Cook5, Brittany Ingersoll6, Caiti Borruso7, Sarah Prager8, Elise Sacco9, lucy dean stockton0, Alexandra Beguez1, Bob Varettoni2, Jen A. Miller3, Erica Commisso4, Hallel Yadin5, Kae Lani Palmisano6, Lisa Rosalie Eisenberg7, Linda J. Barth8, Donnie Martino9, Hassan Ghanny0, Lorraine Goodman1 ...

NJSAA Edited Works Award Winner (2023)Despite the many jokes and stereotypes about New Jersey and its residents, in reality the state is a wildly diverse place, home to a vast variety of landscapes, cultures, and people. There is no singular New Jersey experience, and the stories that its residents have to share about the state will surprise you.New Jersey Fan Club: Artists and Writers Celebrate ... Read more

$15.89 USD

NJSAA Edited Works Award Winner (2023)Despite the many jokes and stereotypes about New Jersey and its residents, in reality the state is a wildly diverse place, home to a vast variety of landscapes, cultures, and people. There is no singular New Jersey experience, and the stories that its residents have to share about the state will surprise you.New Jersey Fan Club: Artists and Writers Celebrate
... Read more
Reading Lessons in Seeing

Mirrors, Masks, and Mazes in the Autobiographical Graphic Novel

by Michael A. Chaney ...

Literary scholar Michael A. Chaney examines graphic novels to illustrate that in form and function they inform readers on how they ought to be read. His arguments result in an innovative analysis of the various knowledges that comics produce and the methods artists and writers employ to convey them. Theoretically eclectic, this study attends to the lessons taught by both the form and content of ... Read more

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Literary scholar Michael A. Chaney examines graphic novels to illustrate that in form and function they inform readers on how they ought to be read. His arguments result in an innovative analysis of the various knowledges that comics produce and the methods artists and writers employ to convey them. Theoretically eclectic, this study attends to the lessons taught by both the form and content of
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Daddy Loves You: Whispers of Wisdom from a Father's Heart

by Michael J. Hervey II M.D., Chaney, Chisley, Evans, Lomax, Porter, Sellers, Frances A. Gómez ...

This book is a book of quotes, maxims, and inspirational statements from new fathers to their children. These statements encompass life, happiness, love, and gender. Well intertwined are illustrations that depict the meaning of the inspirational statements.The idea for this book came upon the birth of yet another child in this circle of these friends. In doing so, the new father found himself ... Read more

$3.99 USD

This book is a book of quotes, maxims, and inspirational statements from new fathers to their children. These statements encompass life, happiness, love, and gender. Well intertwined are illustrations that depict the meaning of the inspirational statements.The idea for this book came upon the birth of yet another child in this circle of these friends. In doing so, the new father found himself
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The Psychic Hold of Slavery

Legacies in American Expressive Culture

by Soyica Diggs Colbert, Robert J. Patterson, Aida Levy-Hussen, Calvin Warren, Margo Natalie Crawford, Régine Michelle Jean-Charles, GerShun Avilez, Brandon J. Manning0, Michael Chaney1, Douglas A. Jones Jr.2 ...

What would it mean to “get over slavery”? Is such a thing possible? Is it even desirable? Should we perceive the psychic hold of slavery as a set of mental manacles that hold us back from imagining a postracist America? Or could the psychic hold of slavery be understood as a tool, helping us get a grip on the systemic racial inequalities and restricted liberties that persist in the present day ... Read more

$23.09 USD

What would it mean to “get over slavery”? Is such a thing possible? Is it even desirable? Should we perceive the psychic hold of slavery as a set of mental manacles that hold us back from imagining a postracist America? Or could the psychic hold of slavery be understood as a tool, helping us get a grip on the systemic racial inequalities and restricted liberties that persist in the present day
... Read more
Where Is All My Relation?

The Poetics of Dave the Potter

Edited by Michael A. Chaney ...

Where Is All My Relation? presents the first sustained academic discussion of the poetry, pottery, and culture of David Drake, an antebellum slave who distinguished himself by composing verse on the ceramics he produced in the years leading up to the Civil War. During the 1830s, 40s, and 50s, he incised couplets and signatures (a singular "Dave") onto the incredibly large storage vessels that he ... Read more

$82.79 USD

Where Is All My Relation? presents the first sustained academic discussion of the poetry, pottery, and culture of David Drake, an antebellum slave who distinguished himself by composing verse on the ceramics he produced in the years leading up to the Civil War. During the 1830s, 40s, and 50s, he incised couplets and signatures (a singular "Dave") onto the incredibly large storage vessels that he
... Read more
Security and Crime Prevention in Libraries

Edited by Michael Chaney, Alan F. MacDougall ...

Series series Routledge Revivals
First published in 1992, the purpose of this book is to identify and describe the most important factors that must be considered in making decisions about the optimal ways to provide access to information – in short the best way to use the humans, the machines, and the intangible resources known as information, particularly at the organizational level.In recent years executives have begun to ... Read more

$48.99 USD

First published in 1992, the purpose of this book is to identify and describe the most important factors that must be considered in making decisions about the optimal ways to provide access to information – in short the best way to use the humans, the machines, and the intangible resources known as information, particularly at the organizational level.In recent years executives have begun to
... Read more

Race Matters, Animal Matters

Fugitive Humanism in African America, 1840-1930

by Lindgren Johnson ...

Series series Perspectives on the Non-Human in Literature and Culture
Race Matters, Animal Matters challenges one of the grand narratives of African American studies: that African Americans rejected racist associations of blackness and animality through a disassociation from animality. Analyzing canonical texts written by Frederick Douglass, Charles Chesnutt, Ida B. Wells, and James Weldon Johnson alongside slaughterhouse lithographs, hunting photography, and sheep ... Read more

$63.99 USD

Race Matters, Animal Matters challenges one of the grand narratives of African American studies: that African Americans rejected racist associations of blackness and animality through a disassociation from animality. Analyzing canonical texts written by Frederick Douglass, Charles Chesnutt, Ida B. Wells, and James Weldon Johnson alongside slaughterhouse lithographs, hunting photography, and sheep
... Read more
In Small Things Forgotten

An Archaeology of Early American Life

by James Deetz ...

A fascinating study of American life and an explanation of how American life is studied through the everyday details of ordinary living, colorfully depicting a world hundreds of years in the past.History is recorded in many ways. According to author James Deetz, the past can be seen most fully by studying the small things so often forgotten. Objects such as doorways, gravestones, musical ... Read more

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A fascinating study of American life and an explanation of how American life is studied through the everyday details of ordinary living, colorfully depicting a world hundreds of years in the past.History is recorded in many ways. According to author James Deetz, the past can be seen most fully by studying the small things so often forgotten. Objects such as doorways, gravestones, musical
... Read more

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The Cambridge Companion to Henry David Thoreau

Edited by Joel Myerson ...

Series series Cambridge Companions to Literature
The Cambridge Companion to Henry David Thoreau is intended as an accessible guide to reading and understanding the works of Thoreau. Presenting essays by a distinguished array of contributors, the Companion is a valuable resource for historical and contextual material, whether on early writings like A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers, on the monumental Walden, or on his assorted journals ... Read more

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The Cambridge Companion to Henry David Thoreau is intended as an accessible guide to reading and understanding the works of Thoreau. Presenting essays by a distinguished array of contributors, the Companion is a valuable resource for historical and contextual material, whether on early writings like A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers, on the monumental Walden, or on his assorted journals
... Read more
Literary Transcendentalism

Style and Vision in the American Renaissance

by Lawrence Buell ...

Broader in scope than any previous literary study of the transcendentalists, this rewarding book analyzes the theories and forms characteristic of a vital group of American writers, as well as the principles and vision underlying transcendentalism. All the movement's major literary figures and forms are considered in detail.Lawrence Buell combines intellectual history and critical explication, ... Read more

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Broader in scope than any previous literary study of the transcendentalists, this rewarding book analyzes the theories and forms characteristic of a vital group of American writers, as well as the principles and vision underlying transcendentalism. All the movement's major literary figures and forms are considered in detail.Lawrence Buell combines intellectual history and critical explication,
... Read more

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