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Contemporary Translation in Transition

Poems, Theories, Conversations

Edited by Maria Khotimsky, Friederike Reents, Henrieke Stahl-Schwaetzer, William Waters ...

Series series Studies in Comparative Literature and Intellectual History
This book investigates the hybrid, multiform nature of contemporary poetry with particular emphasis on recent Russian lyric and its translations into German and English. Poetry translation, thriving and obstinately open-ended, is not so much a defined process as a practice of ongoing transit across linguistic and national borders. The book’s innovative format invites contemporary poets into ... Read more

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This book investigates the hybrid, multiform nature of contemporary poetry with particular emphasis on recent Russian lyric and its translations into German and English. Poetry translation, thriving and obstinately open-ended, is not so much a defined process as a practice of ongoing transit across linguistic and national borders. The book’s innovative format invites contemporary poets into
... Read more
Black Shadows and Through the White Looking Glass

Remembrance of Things Past and Present

by William E. Waters ...

Black Shadows and Through the White Looking Glass: Remembrance of Things Past and Present is about the captivity, exploitation and suffering of Black people in America, and their triumphs. The author, a history buff, took the challenge to look at the history of Black people in America, who are normally given one month, the shortest month of the year, February, to highlight Black History in America ... Read more

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Black Shadows and Through the White Looking Glass: Remembrance of Things Past and Present is about the captivity, exploitation and suffering of Black people in America, and their triumphs. The author, a history buff, took the challenge to look at the history of Black people in America, who are normally given one month, the shortest month of the year, February, to highlight Black History in America
... Read more
The Authority of the Gospel

Explorations in Moral and Political Theology in Honor of Oliver O'Donovan

Edited by Robert Song, Brent Waters ...

Oliver O'Donovan is widely regarded as one of the preeminent Protestant Christian ethicists of our time. His teaching and scholarship have exerted a profound influence on countless moral theologians.This volume honoring O'Donovan shows how the various contributors -- themselves distinguished scholars -- have developed their own thinking through serious engagement with O'Donovan's work. ... Read more

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Oliver O'Donovan is widely regarded as one of the preeminent Protestant Christian ethicists of our time. His teaching and scholarship have exerted a profound influence on countless moral theologians.This volume honoring O'Donovan shows how the various contributors -- themselves distinguished scholars -- have developed their own thinking through serious engagement with O'Donovan's work.
... Read more
The Black Feminine Mystique

A Naomi Long Madgett Poetry Award Finalist

by William E. Waters ...

The Black Feminine Mystique is a collection of poetry that celebrates women of color. It draws from mythology; from the many Black women heroines from history; from women living and dead; and from writers, artists, athletes, and women from the authors life, including but not limited to his four sisters and his mother. The Black Feminine Mystique paints a broad stroke from Isis to Ida B. Wells, ... Read more

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The Black Feminine Mystique is a collection of poetry that celebrates women of color. It draws from mythology; from the many Black women heroines from history; from women living and dead; and from writers, artists, athletes, and women from the authors life, including but not limited to his four sisters and his mother. The Black Feminine Mystique paints a broad stroke from Isis to Ida B. Wells,
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The Person Beside the Bed

Encouragement for Informal Caregivers

by Jo Angelia Waters-Williams ...

“ No one really thinks about the person beside the bed. The caregiver is like an empty chair – visitors focus on the person in the bed, and the caregiver becomes invisible.In the United States over fifty million family caregivers provide forty billion dollars in unpaid, informal care annually for adult family members and friends with chronic illnesses or conditions.Informal caregiving can be ... Read more

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“ No one really thinks about the person beside the bed. The caregiver is like an empty chair – visitors focus on the person in the bed, and the caregiver becomes invisible.In the United States over fifty million family caregivers provide forty billion dollars in unpaid, informal care annually for adult family members and friends with chronic illnesses or conditions.Informal caregiving can be
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Prison Vocational Education and Policy in the United States

A Critical Perspective on Evidence-Based Reform

by Andrew J Dick, William Rich, Tony Waters ...

Series series Social Sciences (R0)
This book explores California’s prison system in the context of vocational education reform. For prisons in the early twenty-first century, ideologies of evidence-based management meant that reform efforts to change the purpose of prisons from punishment to rehabilitation through vocational education required “evidence” to justify policy prescriptions. Yet who determines what constitutes evidence? ... Read more

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This book explores California’s prison system in the context of vocational education reform. For prisons in the early twenty-first century, ideologies of evidence-based management meant that reform efforts to change the purpose of prisons from punishment to rehabilitation through vocational education required “evidence” to justify policy prescriptions. Yet who determines what constitutes evidence?
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Sometimes Blue Knights Wear Black Hats

by William E. Waters ...

Sometimes Blue Knights Wear Black Hats is a collection of poetry about law enforcement excesses. Most of the poems were inspired by actual cases from around the country. The author did not set out to compile a collection of these poems, but more and more, nearly every day, another case of law enforcements excessive use of force was reported in the Media. The author also did not set out to demonize ... Read more

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Sometimes Blue Knights Wear Black Hats is a collection of poetry about law enforcement excesses. Most of the poems were inspired by actual cases from around the country. The author did not set out to compile a collection of these poems, but more and more, nearly every day, another case of law enforcements excessive use of force was reported in the Media. The author also did not set out to demonize
... Read more
Memoirs

by Tennessee Williams ...

For the "old crocodile," as Williams called himself late in life, the past was always present, and so it is with his continual shifting and intermingling of times, places, and memories as he weaves this story.When Memoirs was first published in 1975, it created quite a bit of turbulence in the mediathough long self-identified as a gay man, Williams' candor about his love life, sexual encounters, ... Read more

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For the "old crocodile," as Williams called himself late in life, the past was always present, and so it is with his continual shifting and intermingling of times, places, and memories as he weaves this story.When Memoirs was first published in 1975, it created quite a bit of turbulence in the mediathough long self-identified as a gay man, Williams' candor about his love life, sexual encounters,
... Read more

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The Authority of the Gospel

Explorations in Moral and Political Theology in Honor of Oliver O'Donovan

Edited by Robert Song, Brent Waters ...

Oliver O’Donovan is widely regarded as one of the preeminent Protestant Christian ethicists of our time. His teaching and scholarship have exerted a profound influence on countless moral theologians.This volume honoring O’Donovan shows how the various contributors -- themselves distinguished scholars -- have developed their own thinking through serious engagement with O’Donovan’s work. ... Read more

$45.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

Oliver O’Donovan is widely regarded as one of the preeminent Protestant Christian ethicists of our time. His teaching and scholarship have exerted a profound influence on countless moral theologians.This volume honoring O’Donovan shows how the various contributors -- themselves distinguished scholars -- have developed their own thinking through serious engagement with O’Donovan’s work.
... Read more
How We Ended Racism

Realizing a New Possibility in One Generation

by Justin Michael Williams, Shelly Tygielski ...

One of Inc.com's 6 New Leadership Books You Need to Read This Fall"Daring . . . This visionary guide calls for a new form of advocacy that is both radically ambitious and practical." ―Inc.A Next Big Idea Club "Must Read""It's the year 2050… and racism has ended."Could this really be our future? If so, what has to happen now to achieve such a radical change? In How We Ended... ... Read more

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One of Inc.com's 6 New Leadership Books You Need to Read This Fall"Daring . . . This visionary guide calls for a new form of advocacy that is both radically ambitious and practical." ―Inc.A Next Big Idea Club "Must Read""It's the year 2050… and racism has ended."Could this really be our future? If so, what has to happen now to achieve such a radical change? In How We Ended...
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Mama Can You Hear Me?

The William Waters Story

by William Waters ...

This book tells the story of a young man who struggles to find his way in a world that doesn’t seem to want him. He isn't smart enough or handsome enough. His skin is the wrong shade and his shaking nervousness is never understood. From his first steps as a child, he is exposed to life's harsh realities: poverty, violence, sexual abuse, neglect ... until finally, seeking to escape the cruelty and ... Read more

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This book tells the story of a young man who struggles to find his way in a world that doesn’t seem to want him. He isn't smart enough or handsome enough. His skin is the wrong shade and his shaking nervousness is never understood. From his first steps as a child, he is exposed to life's harsh realities: poverty, violence, sexual abuse, neglect ... until finally, seeking to escape the cruelty and
... Read more
The Anthropocene as a Geological Time Unit

A Guide to the Scientific Evidence and Current Debate

Edited by Jan Zalasiewicz, Colin N. Waters, Mark Williams, Colin P. Summerhayes ...

The Anthropocene, a term launched into public debate by Nobel Prize winner Paul Crutzen, has been used informally to describe the time period during which human actions have had a drastic effect on the Earth and its ecosystems. This book presents evidence for defining the Anthropocene as a geological epoch, written by the high-profile international team analysing its potential addition to the ... Read more

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The Anthropocene, a term launched into public debate by Nobel Prize winner Paul Crutzen, has been used informally to describe the time period during which human actions have had a drastic effect on the Earth and its ecosystems. This book presents evidence for defining the Anthropocene as a geological epoch, written by the high-profile international team analysing its potential addition to the
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