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  • Translating the Ketubah

    The Jewish Marriage Contract in America and England

    by Benjamin Steiner ...
    Series series Jews and Judaism: History and Culture
    A groundbreaking exploration of the Jewish marriage contract and its evolution in English translationTranslating the Ketubah offers a fresh perspective on the ketubah, the Jewish marriage contract. Traditionally composed in Aramaic, ketubot have been examined in other books within the frameworks of Jewish law and Jewish art. Here, however, Benjamin Steiner shows how translations of the ketubah ... Read more

    $25.99 USD

  • Building the French empire, 1600–1800

    Colonialism and material culture

    by Benjamin Steiner ...
    Series Book 191 - Studies in Imperialism
    This study explores the shared history of the French empire from the perspective of material culture in order to re-evaluate the participation of colonial, Creole, and indigenous agency in the construction of imperial spaces. The decentred approach to a global history of the French colonial realm allows a new understanding of power relations in different locales. Providing case studies from four ... Read more

    $21.99 USD

  • Understanding and Reducing Prison Violence

    An Integrated Social Control-Opportunity Perspective

    by Benjamin Steiner, John Wooldredge ...
    Series series Routledge Frontiers of Criminal Justice
    Understanding and Reducing Prison Violence considers both the individual and prison characteristics associated with violence perpetration and violent victimization among both prison inmates and staff.Prison violence is not a random process; rates of violence vary across prisons and the odds of perpetrating violence or experiencing violent victimization vary across inmates and staff. A ... Read more

    $62.99 USD

  • The Pains of Mass Imprisonment

    by Benjamin Fleury-Steiner, Jamie Longazel ...
    Series series Framing 21st Century Social Issues
    This engaging book presents a critical approach to understanding prison conditions in the United States in the era of mass incarceration. Fleury-Steiner and Longazel do this by weaving together empirical research on prisons with stories that rely on the voices and lived experiences of people who are locked up. This is an ideal book for courses in corrections, social problems, criminology, and ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • Disposable Heroes

    The Betrayal of African American Veterans

    by Benjamin Fleury-Steiner ...
    Series series Perspectives on a Multiracial America
    For many soldiers, the end of military service signals a cruel and new beginning. Disposable Heroes illuminates the challenges facing many veterans, particularly African Americans. Rather than finding military service to be a path to equality and upward mobility, these veterans fight just to survive. The book draws on in-depth interviews and national survey data to show the ways America is failing ... Read more

    $49.99 USD

  • Dying Inside

    The HIV/AIDS Ward at Limestone Prison

    by Benjamin Dov Fleury-Steiner ...
    Series series Law, Meaning, And Violence
    "The HIV+ men incarcerated in Limestone Prison's Dorm 16 were put there to be forgotten. Not only do Benjamin Fleury-Steiner and Carla Crowder bring these men to life, Fleury-Steiner and Crowder also insist on placing these men in the middle of critical conversations about health policy, mass incarceration, and race. Dense with firsthand accounts, Dying Inside is a nimble, far-ranging and ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • The Co-evolution of Commodity Flows, Economic Geography, and Emissions

    by Kieran Donaghy, Arash Beheshtian, Ziye Zhang, Benjamin Brown-Steiner ...
    Series series Economics and Finance (R0)
    This book presents extensions to current commodity-flow models to analyze the economic and environmental impacts of recent structural changes, such as fragmentation of production and lengthening supply chains. The extensions enable augmented commodity-flow models to analyze the vulnerability of supply chains and regions to climate change and extreme weather events. The models allow the explicit ... Read more

    $107.99 USD

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    African American Biblical Interpretation as an Exercise in Hope

    by Esau McCaulley ...
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  • The End of Policing

    by Alex S. Vitale ...
    **The best-selling bible of the movement to defund the police in an updated edition"Urgent, provocative, and timely, The End of Policing will make you question most of what you have been taught to believe about crime and how to solve it."—James Forman Jr., author of Locking Up Our Own**The massive uprising that followed the police killing of George Floyd in the summer of 2020— by some estimates ... Read more

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  • Jesus Changes Everything

    A New World Made Possible

    by Stanley Hauerwas ...
    Series series Plough Spiritual Guides
    How can we make the gospel central to our lives?For decades, Stanley Hauerwas has been provoking Christians with his insistence that if they would only follow their Master, it would impact all areas of life, from the personal to the societal.The lanky Texan whom Time magazine dubbed “America’s theologian” for his zinging insights into today’s ethical questions says Christians should stop bemoaning ... Read more

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  • Childhood Victimization

    Violence, Crime, and Abuse in the Lives of Young People

    by David Finkelhor ...
    Series series Interpersonal Violence
    Children are the most criminally victimized segment of the population, and a substantial number face multiple, serious "poly-victimizations" during a single year. And despite the fact that the priority emphasis in academic research and government policy has traditionally gone to studying juvenile delinquents, children actually appear before authorities more frequently as victims than as offenders. ... Read more

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  • The New Jim Crow

    Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness

    by Michelle Alexander ...
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