In this new and distinctive contribution to the desistance literature, Dr David Honeywell draws on his own lived experience to consider his route through youth delinquency and prison to a life away from crime through education, and ultimately towards academia.
A provocative look at how grassroots GAA interacts with life in Ireland, from the wittiest Gaelic games pundit at work today The GAA is Ireland's largest civil society organisation, woven into the fabric of families and communities - and yet most books about Gaelic games focus on the greatest players and inter-county teams.
Una historia real, el camino de Anna, una mujer que había decidido que la maternidad sería el eje principal de su vida, en torno del cual girarían sus proyectos, sus decisiones, su planificación de familia, su futuro.
An autobiographical journey of a wandering white man, who grew up in a rough environment during the 1950s through the 1970s in the outskirts of Los Angeles in Pacoima, California and other L.
"Schattenhaftes Seelenleben" wirft einen Blick auf die komplexe Natur psychischer Störungen und beleuchtet die vielfältigen Auslöser, die zu ihrer Entstehung beitragen können.
"e;"e;Bill Coleman's story is one that younger generations should mark and inwardly digest, lest they forget the pioneers who helped to make a better America possible.
A lo largo de sesenta años, Boris Cyrulnik ha sido testigo vivo de lo que él denomina «la loca historia de la psiquiatría», que va desde la práctica de la lobotomía, el uso de camisas de fuerza mentales y físicas, las condiciones deplorables que padecían los pacientes en los hospitales psiquiátricos; luego Lacan y el psicoanálisis, hasta llegar a la tranquilidad que le ha aportado la teoría del apego, de la cual la resiliencia es su capítulo preferido, su portavoz.
The mention of an African autobiography often evokes images of a want and penury; a childhood sullied by poverty and hopelessness; and the predictable rags-to-riches narrative.
One would think that being thrown into a North African prison in leg-irons might be an exception to the adage that comedians can find the humor in anything.
One would think that being thrown into a North African prison in leg-irons might be an exception to the adage that comedians can find the humor in anything.
A New York Public Library and Kirkus Reviews Best Book of 2025 Published to coincide with the hundredth anniversary of his birth, the first major study of Malcolm X's influence in the sixty years since his assassination, exploring his enduring impact on culture, politics, and civil rights.
This ground-breaking, mixed genre memoir journeys from the soil of Texas farmland near Floresville to the shrimpers' nets of the Gulf Coast, near Matagorda.
This ground-breaking, mixed genre memoir journeys from the soil of Texas farmland near Floresville to the shrimpers' nets of the Gulf Coast, near Matagorda.
This book was unknowingly written by Bradley Jesse "e;Beej"e; Larson, a twenty-two year old college student who died in a tragic van/truck accident on April 26, 2006, just three weeks shy of his graduation from Taylor University, Upland, Indiana and two months before matriculating to University of Wisconsin Law School.
The extraordinary stories of the fearless women who set their sights on the sea in an all-male world, paving the way for the female sailing superstars of today.
When Don Reid published Eyewitness in 1973, the chronicle of his conversion from a supporter of the death penalty to an ardent opponent, the book was an immediate sensation.
When Don Reid published Eyewitness in 1973, the chronicle of his conversion from a supporter of the death penalty to an ardent opponent, the book was an immediate sensation.
