Prisons of the World, Paperback - ***

This book discusses the failings of the prison system in many countries and offers positive pointers for the future. It shows the way forward will ...

The Directory of Federal Prisons is the most comprehensive guidebook to Federal Bureau of Prisons facilities on the market. Not simply a directory ...

Opens a window on the closed world of Holloway, other women's prisons and the lives of those held there in the 1970s, including Myra Hindley.

Reducere. Overcrowded and understaffed, Texas prisons are nearing the meltdown stage. It wasn't always that way. A few California lawyers and an activist fed...

Prepare yourself for a journey into the indonesian penal system, a world where murder, torture and fights to the death are the norm. Hell's Prisone...

Reducere. Today the United States leads the world in incarceration rates. The country increasingly relies on the prison system as a "fix" for the regulation ...

Law and order has become a key issue throughout the world. Crime stories saturate the mass media and politicians shrilly compete with each other in...

Contributor(s): Author: Christopher ZoukisThe definitive guide to surviving incarceration in a federal prison. Federal Prison Handbook teaches indi...

Reducere. In this perceptive collection of essays, Doris Lessing addresses directly the prime questions before us all: how to think for ourselves, how to und...

Reducere. Millions of people struggle with dissatisfaction in life, striving for approval and validation from others. We look to the world to provide purpose...

Reducere. This book is about a man who transformed his time incarcerated in the terrible Communist prisons into an opportunity to win his freedom in Christ. ...

David Icke's most powerful and explosive book so far. Every man, woman and child on the planet is affected by the stunning information that Icke ex...

A nail-biting, taut new YA thriller from Simon Mayo, author of the }Itch{ series. It is set in a society where children are locked in family prison...

Look outside the box and go on the ultimate adventure Enter the exciting world of myth and monsters, the paranormal, UFOs and extraterrestrials, lo...

Reducere. Palestinian political cartoonist Mohammad Sabaaneh has gained renown worldwide for his stark black-and-white drawings that express the numerous abu...

Reducere. For ten years Kevin Toolis investigated the lives of the IRA soldiers who wage a secret battle against the British State. His journeys took him fro...

Reducere. "Blanchot describes a world where the Absolute has finally overcome all other rivals to its authority. The State is unified, universal, and homogen...

Reducere. In George Appo's world, child pickpockets swarmed the crowded streets, addicts drifted in furtive opium dens, and expert swindlers worked the lucra...

Reducere. Alcatraz is one of the most infamous prisons in the world. Evil spirits, unknown beasts, vicious murderers and an untold number of ghosts all are s...

Reducere. A Story of Love, Hope and Survival during Soviet Imprisonment Maria and Jozef were two ordinary Polish-Catholic farmers who were thrown into a nigh...

Reducere. DescriptionIn a creative writing style, Dr. Hovind fascinates his readers with the journey of a man named Elijah Green who discovers a world he nev...

"Emerson makes her come alive without contriving events or dialogue." The Book ReportAimed at young readers, Nellie Bly is the story of the groundb...

Reducere. The dragons that have been kept in sanctuaries want their freedom--and their revenge--and the world's only hope is the reformation of the ancient o...

Reducere. DescriptionSergey Pavlovich was a poor, talented boy from Belarus who made it big in the Russian-speaking hacking world of the early 2000s and earn...

Reducere. 'Fake news' has become an obsessional catchphrase and a worldwide fear. Yet few of us realize that shades of falsehood have always run through the ...

DescriptionA New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice. One of Vol. 1 Brooklyn and Tor.com's Books to Read in February. "Sharp, haunting . . . Mei...

Reducere. DescriptionThis story takes place at one of the oldest and toughest prisons in the country; Clinton Prison, in Upstate New York.How far would man g...

Reducere. DescriptionThe concepts of human psychology have deep roots in today's culture. From lecture halls to prisons, counseling clinics to church pulpits...

Reducere. Clare Anderson provides a radical new reading of histories of empire and nation, showing that the history of punishment is not solely connected to ...

16th Annual Outreach Magazine Resource of the Year - Social Issues/JusticeThe United States has more people locked up in jails, prisons, and detent...

Originally released in 1980, Lucia Capacchione s "The Creative Journal" has become a classic in the fields of art therapy, memoir and creative writ...

Reducere. In a Playback Theatre performance, audience members tell true stories about their lives and a team of actors improvises theatre pieces on the spot....

Reducere. First published in Germany in 1894, after being banned in Russia, The Kingdom of God Is within You reveals Tolstoy's world outlook after his conver...

America is the most punitive nation in the world, incarcerating more than 2.3 million people--or one in 136 of its residents. Against the backdrop ...

WITH A NEW FOREWORD BY JORDAN B. PETERSON'Solzhenitsyn's masterpiece...The Gulag Archipelago helped create the world we live in today' Anne Appleba...

Reducere. The editors and contributors to Color of Violence ask: What would it take to end violence against women of color? Presenting the fierce and vital w...

Reducere. DescriptionCopper Yearning invests itself in a compassionate dual vision--bearing witness to the lush beauty of our intricately woven environments ...

Reducere. Follow the haunting tales of Connecticut's role in America's Civil War through the eyes of those who fought in it. From Generals Mansfield and Lyon...

Reducere. The five sections in Kim Stafford's Singer Come from Afar hold poems that summon war and peace, pandemic struggles, Earth imperatives, a seeker's s...

A fascinating account of nineteenth-century America sketched with Charles Dickens's characteristic wit and charm When Charles Dickens set out for A...

Today there are approximately fifty thousand prisoners in American prisons serving life without parole, having been found guilty of crimes ranging ...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Richard M. Hannula"RADIANT: Fifty Remarkable Women in Church History" RADIANT records the triumph of the gospel as Christia...

Reducere. DescriptionThere's one thing more dangerous than testifying to a crime--staying silent. Locked in the ruins of a California Mission, Abby Travers w...

Reducere. A major work of history that for the first time reveals the violence and terror at the heart of Britain's civilizing mission in KenyaAs part of the...

An Indian master spontaneously empties a bag of gold dust into the air. A young woman lays down the burden of her dead child and asks the Buddha to...

Reducere. The decades of the 1960's and 1970's were turbulent years in the history of the California Department of Corrections. During these years prisons al...

Reducere. An inside look at the struggles former prisoners face in reentering society Every year, roughly 650, 000 people prepare to reenter society after be...

Reducere. In the summer of 1998, Walter Kirn--then an aspiring novelist struggling with impending fatherhood and a dissolving marriage--set out on a peculiar...

Written by an aunt to her potential niece, the letters in Dear Z: The Zygote Epistles introduce the "Z" to the wildly vexed work of taking on--and ...

Reducere. We all know that orange is the new black and mass incarceration is the new Jim Crow, but how much do we actually know about the structure, goals, a...

What would a school look like if it was designed with mental health in mind? Too many public schools look and feel like prisons, designed out of fe...

Reducere. Description"We had much rather be all alone in the right than with the whole world in the wrong." So wrote Jeremiah Hacker in 1862. He was the main...

Reducere. Book Two of The Sufi Mysteries QuartetIt's easier to solve a crime than solve yourselfBaghdad 295 hijri/907 CEWhen a distinguished scholar dies in ...

*L.A. Times Book Prize Finalist* *New York Times Books to Watch for in July**Time Best New Books July 2020* Galvanized by her work in our nation's ...

Reducere. At seventeen, Bobby Sands was interested in girls, soccer, and music. Ten years later he led his fellow prisoners on a protest against repressive c...

You may think of martyrs as those who gave their lives for the faith in the early church. But today, Christians around the world continue to stand ...

Reducere. The blue-skinned old woman who made the mountains. Finfolk, selkies and the Makers of Dreams. Within these pages are the little-known stories of Sc...

Reducere. In his motivational sequel to Be Dynamic (Acts 1-12), best-selling author Warren Wiersbe skillfully explains the book of Acts to the layperson and ...