Ann Marie: 188 books
Hard Time
A Fresh Look at Understanding and Reforming the Prison
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2016
Hard Time: A Fresh Look at Understanding and Reforming the Prison, 4th Edition, is a revised and updated version of the highly successful text addressing the origins, evolution, and promise of America’s penal system.
Draws from both ethnographic and professional material, and situates the prison...
Transforming adult social care
Contemporary policy and practice
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2013
Adult social care has emerged as a distinct policy area in the UK and one which has come under increasing scrutiny by government and other bodies. With the expectation that in future many more adults will need care and support, ideas have emerged about a ‘transformation’ of adult social care....
Higher Education, Social Class and Social Mobility
The Degree Generation
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2016
This book explores higher education, social class and social mobility from the point of view of those most intimately involved: the undergraduate students. It is based on a project which followed a cohort of young undergraduate students at Bristol's two universities in the UK through from their first...
Handbook of Child and Adolescent Drug and Substance Abuse
Pharmacological, Developmental, and Clinical Considerations
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2011
Selected by Choice as a 2013 Outstanding Academic Title
Lanza's Mob: The Mafia and San Francisco
The Mafia and San Francisco
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2016
From the 1920s until the early 21st century, one Sicilian mob family defied everyone from the California attorney general to J. Edgar Hoover to chart their own American Dream. Unlike their flashier rivals in New York and Chicago who met their end by the knife, the bullet, or a judge's gavel, this...
by Ann-Marie Fripp
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2015
An ideal book for anyone attending spiritual awareness classes, a spiritual development circle or group. Offering simple and easy to follow spiritual awareness workshops with the use of guided meditations, psychic exercises and symbol guides. Helping you to develop your spirituality, mediumship, psychic...
Bureaucratizing Islam
Morocco and the War on Terror
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2017
How have states in the Middle East and North Africa responded to the War on Terror? While much scholarship has focused on terrorism in the region, there is need for critical studies of Middle Eastern states' counter-terrorism policies. This book addresses that need by investigating Morocco's unique...
Feminists, Feminisms, and Advertising
Some Restrictions Apply
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2017
Feminists, Feminisms, and Advertising provides feminist analyses of the historical relationships between the advertising industry and the women’s movement in the United States. Contributors consider the ways that advertisers encode race, ethnicity, gender, and heteronormativity into advertising...
Trinidad and Tobago and Guyana
Race and Politics in Two Plural Societies
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2013
In this book an attempt is made to probe more carefully the processes by which social and ethnic problems, as these pertain to Caribbean countries, Trinidad and Tobago and Guyana, are conveyed to the political arena and the mechanisms by which they determine critical outcomes. The authors of this...
Re-presenting the Past
Women and History
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2014
Feminist history continues to change the way history is written, and in doing so changes our view of the past. The authors of this collection explore how issues of sexuality, class, nationalism and colonialism informed the ways in which women were represented and continue to be represented in history....
Broken and Unashamed
Pieced Together by the Love of God
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2017
The moment one admits they are broken is the moment they realize how desperate they are in need of a savior. Broken and Unashamed is not just a book but a journey the author challenges readers to embark upon. During this journey, the reader is encouraged to lay all their hurt and pains from past abuse...
by Kelli-Ann Marie Wilson
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2014
This book is meant to appeal to general audiences and can be read by adults and teens of any race and gender that enjoy Jamaican culture and lifestyle. Shelby Adams (the main character) has lived in the ghetto his whole life. He observes the evil side of poverty and has smartly chosen to avoid it. With...
Civic Service: What Difference Does it Make?
What Difference Does it Make?
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2015
The concept and practice of civic service is deeply rooted in America's past, present, and future, and has been a featured component of recent presidential agendas. Yet despite ongoing debates about the methods and values of civic service, no recent book has systematically analyzed the effectiveness...
Risky Trade
Infectious Disease in the Era of Global Trade
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2016
The current value of global trade has reached a staggering annual figure of $6 trillion in merchandise crossing borders. Such prolific global trading has, at the same time, begun to raise fears of pandemics and concerns for global health. Yet, investment in public health infrastructure and disease...