In this first play from the award-winning memoirist and poet Nick Flynn, four strangers meet during a blackout on a New York City sidewalk. Gideon finds himself locked out of his apartment, stranded on the street with nothing but a television and the company of three individuals, each mysterious in their own way: the specter-like Alice, ringleader of the neighborhood; Esra, a fifteen-year-old girl whose mother is MIA--again; and Ivan, a stranded businessman trying to make his way home. As Gideon makes futile attempts to break into an apartment that may or may not be his, an unsettling...
In this first play from the award-winning memoirist and poet Nick Flynn, four strangers meet during a blackout on a New York City sidewalk. Gideon ...
Already one of the most talked-about and eagerly anticipated literary debuts in the USA this year, this is a novel comparable to recent American memoir successes like 'A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius', 'A Million Little Pieces' and 'The Liar's Club'.
Already one of the most talked-about and eagerly anticipated literary debuts in the USA this year, this is a novel comparable to recent American memoi...
This title examines the extent to which criminal desistance - the change process involved in the ending of criminal behaviour - is affected by personal and social circumstances which are place specific.
This title examines the extent to which criminal desistance - the change process involved in the ending of criminal behaviour - is affected by persona...
This striking, oversized book, designed to evoke encyclopedias, is a highly creative amalgam of collage with a political bent and poetry. From 2011 to 2012, American artist Mel Chin (b. 1951) extracted all of the images from a twenty-five-volume set of Funk & Wagnall's Universal Standard Encyclopedia (ca. 1953-56) and began visually re-editing. Thousands of images rendered by photomechanical reproduction that served a populist, mid-century encyclopedia are reconfigured with 21st-century hindsight and idiosyncratic connections that convey social and artistic commentaries. Surrealism,...
This striking, oversized book, designed to evoke encyclopedias, is a highly creative amalgam of collage with a political bent and poetry. From 2011 to...
Covering all the key topics across the subject of Penology, this book gives you the tools you need to delve deeper and critically examine issues relating to prisons and punishment.
The second edition:
explores prisons and punishment within national, international and comparative contexts, and draws upon contemporary case studies throughout to illustrate key themes and issues
includes new sections on actuarial justice, proportionality, sentencing principles, persistent offending, rehabilitation, and abolitionist approaches to punishment
features a...
Covering all the key topics across the subject of Penology, this book gives you the tools you need to delve deeper and critically examine issues re...
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"Guernica Annual #2 "is an anthology of the best features, interviews, fiction, poetry, and daily"...
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