From tabloid headlines and obscene art to top-secret leaks and our very right to dissent, the First Amendment remains at the very heart of how America defines itself. In this book, one of the First Amendment's most ferocious partisans chronicles his four decades of defending it. NPR sponsorship.
Even the most enlightened seekers can experience the Dark Night of the Soul: feelings of spiritual desolation, loneliness, and hopelessness. Dolores Ashcroft-Nowicki shares a magical healing process she discovered during her own "dark night," a system based on the mystical energies of twenty-two Hebrew letters. Through prayer, meditation, and ...
Folk Devils and Moral Panics is a classic study of 'deviant' subcultures and the 'moral panic' they generate in the media and in public debate. Stanley Cohen's study of Mods and Rockers in the 1960s was a foundational text both in terms of investigating the workings of subcultural groups and identifying the concept of a 'moral panic' generated ...
A Magic Summer tells of that remarkable season by chronicling the major events as viewed twenty years later. Interviews conducted twenty years after with members of the team-Seaver, Ryan, McGraw, and others-provide immediacy and, with that, fascinating updates and insights. This is a unique record and celebration of a season that Mets fans-and all ...
Visions of Social Control is a wide ranging analysis of recent shifts in ideas and practices for dealing with crime and delinquency.In Great Britain, North America and Western Europe, the 1960's saw new theories and styles of social control which seemed to undermine the whole basis of the established system. Such slogans as 'decarceration' and ...
A small-time gambler shot dead in the heart of Times Square. Gangland gunmen and conspirators running for cover. A cop on the take charged with murder and facing execution. New York in 1912, a city in transformation. Award-winning journalist and author Stanley Cohen has re-created the infamous Becker-Rosenthal affair in a book that reads like ...
Blocking out, turning a blind eye, shutting off, not wanting to know, wearing blinkers, seeing what we want to see ...these are all expressions of 'denial'. Alcoholics who refuse to recognize their condition, people who brush aside suspicions of their partner's infidelity, the wife who doesn't notice that her husband is abusing their daughter - ...
In this thought-provoking work, Cohen gathers the chilling tales of 102 men wrongfully convicted and sentenced to death, including the true stories featured in the acclaimed stage play "The Exonerated."
It happened in the 194950 college basketball season. The unranked City College team ("five street kids from the City of New Yorkthree Jews and two blacks") outstripped the competition from the Midwest to take the titles in both the NCAA championship and National Invitation Tournament. The feat was unprecedented, and never again duplicated. ...
First in Brooklyn, then in Los Angeles, the Dodgers have been one of baseball's more colorful teams for 100 years. From Ebbets Field to Chavez Ravine, f rom Leo Durocher to Tommy Lasorda, from Jackie Robinson to Sandy Koufax to O rel Hershiser, here are all the memorable moments from the team's first century. (Carol Publishing)
The editors of this volume hold that the already pliable boundaries between ordinary and political crime will become more unstable in the future: national and global considerations will come closer together; domestic crime control policies will be more influenced by interests of national security; measures to prevent and control international ...
..."a kidnapping story that is appealing instead of vicious...relief in the steady stream of violent crime stories." Publishers' Weekly "You'll like Gary; he's puny but spunky." Kirkus Reviews .."marvelously developed, (Taking Gary Feldman) makes for a suspense novel as fresh and innovative as the reader could wish." Suspense Magazine Nominated ...
This comprehensive text provides practical management guidelines for those managing the patient with stroke. The first part of the book reviews emergency management of the stroke patient, subacute management in the ICU, stroke rehabilitation, management in the first two months post-stroke including discussion of risk management, and chronic stroke ...
"The Risk Taker" is a rollercoaster ride through third world countries, with curves of violence and intrigue. It's the story of a man who experiences exhilaration, despair, danger, and who lives on the edge.
I would like to introduce you to a novel about the World Series of Poker main event in the year 2013 and beyond. The reader will play in this coveted tournament through the eyes of an aging professional poker player, who learns to never give up, when it no longer seems possible to continue, as he comes full circle with his past. It soon becomes ...
The first edition of Escape Attempts provided a dramatic account of the way in which modern culture was appropriating human identity and endeavour. This new addition brings the story up to date, and includes a new introduction, Life after Postmodernism , which will be required reading for anyone interested in making sense of everyday life. It ...
Part of the INSPIRATIONS series, a collection of cushion designs which cover a wide range of needlecraft techniques, from quilting and applique to fabric painting, including how to create a batik dyed cushion in folk art design, a cathedral patchwork cushion and an embroidered cushion in velvet.
From the time he was seven playing against then-World Champion Ralph Greenleaf through years of pool competitions and pool halls to consulting on the top pool movies--The Hustler and The Color of Money--Willie Mosconi has spent the better part of a century with a cue in his hands. He recounts his great career in competitive pool, including ...
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Initiate's Book of Pathworking: A Bridge of Dreams
by
Dolores Ashcroft-Nowicki, Tamara Ashcroft-Nowicki
