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  • The Art of Caregiving

    How to Lend Support and Encouragement to Those with Cancer

    When catastrophic illness strikes, someone close to the patient—a spouse, child, grandchild, or close friend—inevitably joins that patient on the arduous journey through treatment and recovery. Surprisingly, health-care professionals largely acknowledge that personal caregivers have more influence over the patient’s experience in the short and long term than any medical professional. That means ... Read more

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  • A Reason for Hope

    Gaining Strength for Your Fight against Cancer

    As a pastor and chaplain at a cancer treatment facility, Dr. Michael S. Barry has spent hours with cancer patients listening to their stories, reflecting with them on their disease, and helping them better understand the role their faith can play at this critical time. And frequently, he has sat beside them as they wrestle with tough questions that have no easy answers.Now Dr. Barry shares the ... Read more

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  • Black Witches and Queer Ghosts

    Race, Gender, and Sexual Orientation in Teen Supernatural Serials

    This book is a collection of 13 essays centering on supernatural serials such as television programs, video games, anime, and manga, featuring teen protagonists and marketed to teen audiences. These essays provide discussions of characters in teen supernatural serials who disrupt white, cisgender social narratives, and addresses possible ways that the on-screen depictions of these characters, who ... Read more

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  • Socratic Questions

    New Essays on the Philosophy of Socrates and its Significance

    Series series Routledge Library Editions: Socrates
    This book, first published in 1992, introduces some of Socrates’ problems and some of the problems about him. It seeks at the same time to advance new views, arguments and information on Socrates’ mission, techniques, ethics and later reception. From civil disobedience to ethics, this collection provides stimulating discussions of Socrates’ life, thought and historical significance. ... Read more

    $51.99 USD

  • Embodied Difference

    Divergent Bodies in Public Discourse

    Focusing on the body as a visual and discursive platform across public space, we study marginalization as a sociocultural practice and hegemonic schema. Whereas mass incarceration and law enforcement readily feature in discussions of institutionalized racism, we differently highlight understudied sites of normalization and exclusion. Our combined effort centers upon physical contexts (skeletons, ... Read more

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  • Monsters, Law, Crime

    Explorations in Gothic Criminology

    Series series The Fairleigh Dickinson University Press Series in Law, Culture, and the Humanities
    Monsters, Law, Crime, an edited collection composed of essays written by prominent U.S. and international experts in Law, Criminology, Sociology, Anthropology, Communication and Film, constitutes a rigorous attempt to explore fertile interdisciplinary inquiries into “monsters” and “monster-talk,” and law and crime. This edited collection explores and updates contemporary discussions of the ... Read more

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  • Tales of the Permanent Way

    Stories from the Heart of Ireland’s Railways

    by Michael Barry ...
    From the opening of the first suburban railway in the world, the Dublin and Kingstown in 1834, Ireland was in the vanguard of early railway development. This important and engaging book sets out the history of the railway and includes the stories of the people at its heart, the permanent way. The book is splendidly illustrated with a wealth of photographs and engravings, from the past to the ... Read more

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  • The New Rules of Music Marketing

    by Michael Barry ...
    The average independent musician, that is, a musician without a major label or publishing contract, struggles to earn a living even in the best of times. Those lucky enough to be salaried musicians, such as music directors or staff composers, earn an average salary of about $35,000 a year. Of the roughly 250,000 or so who list themselves as musicians on their tax returns, 40 percent are employed ... Read more

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  • Dublin's Strangest Tales

    Welcome to the weird and wonderful world of Dublin. Though this isn’t the usual side of the city the tourists, travellers and residents see. This is the real Dublin, the strange and twisted nooks and crannies of the city’s bizarre history – past, present and future.Following on from the bestselling Portico Strangest titles now comes a book devoted to one of Ireland’s most beautiful, and popular, ... Read more

    $2.49 USD

  • Agents of CHAOS

    How My Coworkers Stopped Worrying and Learned to Love the Bot

    by Michael Barry ...
    The bot arrived on a Tuesday morning in 3 cardboard boxes, which is how the office learned that its future had been ordered online. So begins this hilarious true story of what happens when a mid-size creative agency gets a workplace AI named CHAOS, an acronym that stands for Corporate Help And Operational Solutions and was absolutely reverse engineered to spell the word chaos. Told by a senior ... Read more

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  • Risk Taker, Spy Maker

    Tales of a CIA Case Officer

    "Broman's true tales of putting his life on the line recruiting and running spies in a dozen countries are the stuff of action movies." —Peter Arnett, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Live from the BattlefieldJoining the CIA after fighting in Vietnam as a Marine, Barry Broman's first posting was war-torn Cambodia. He was present at the fall of Phnom Penh in 1975, escaping just before the Khmer ... Read more

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  • Audiobook

    Indochina Hand

    Tales of a CIA Case Officer

    Narrated by Joe Barrett ...

    Unabridged

    9 hours 35 min

    Barry Broman joined the CIA in 1971 straight out of the Marine Corps, choosing a career in intelligence largely because he wanted to spend his working life in Southeast Asia. Over the next thirty years, he had the privilege of working with brave men and women who were prepared to put their lives on the line in support of the free world during the Cold War, and he enjoyed the life of adventure he ... Read more

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