Lisa Anderson: 57 books

Book cover of So Much Wasted

So Much Wasted

Hunger, Performance, and the Morbidity of Resistance

by Patrick Anderson, Judith Halberstam, Lisa Lowe
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2010

In So Much Wasted, Patrick Anderson analyzes self-starvation as a significant mode of staging political arguments across the institutional domains of the clinic, the gallery, and the prison. Homing in on those who starve themselves for various reasons and the cultural and political contexts in which...
Book cover of Undercurrents

Undercurrents

An Anthology of What Lies Beneath

by Lisa Mangum, Robert J. McCarter, Gregory D. Little
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2018

Fear is primal. Instinctive. Unavoidable. And right now, there is something you fear—and you can feel it. Creeping up behind you. Lurking in the darkness that lives under your bed, or in your closet. A nameless dread. In Undercurrents: An Anthology of What Lies Beneath, twenty-three talented...
Book cover of Fiction River: Pulse Pounders Countdown
by Fiction River, Anthea Sharp, Diana Deverell
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2018

The relentless ticking of a clock as time slips away marks the breathless pace of these remarkable stories. In Fiction River’s third edition of its Pulse Pounders series, these sixteen authors push the envelope of the thriller form. From a man desperately searching for his missing little girl to...
Book cover of Antidemocracy in America

Antidemocracy in America

Truth, Power, and the Republic at Risk

by Michelle Wilde Anderson, Lisa Wade, Thomas J. Sugrue
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2019

On Election Day in 2016, it seemed unthinkable to many Americans that Donald Trump could become president of the United States. But the victories of the Obama administration hid from view fundamental problems deeply rooted in American social institutions and history. The election’s consequences...
Book cover of Transforming Conflict through Communication in Personal, Family, and Working Relationships
by Starla Anderson, Maria Blevins, Teresa Blevins
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2016

A transformational approach to conflict argues that conflicts must be viewed as embedded within broader relational patterns and social and discursive structures. Central to this book is the idea that the origins of transformation can be momentary, situational, and small-scale or large-scale and systemic....
Book cover of Approaches to Teaching Behn's Oroonoko
by Sharon Alker, Emily Hodgson Anderson, Srinivas Aravamudan
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2014

Once merely a footnote in Restoration and eighteenth-century studies and rarely taught, Oroonoko; or, The Royal Slave (1688), by Aphra Behn, is now essential reading for scholars and a classroom favorite. It appears in general surveys and in courses on early modern British writers, postcolonial literature,...
Book cover of Using Art Therapy with Diverse Populations

Using Art Therapy with Diverse Populations

Crossing Cultures and Abilities

by Louis Tinnin, Reshma Malick, Linda Levine Madori
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2013

Whether working in urban areas with high levels of cultural diversity, providing art therapy to 'unique' populations such as prisoners or asylums seekers, or introducing art therapy programs to parts of the world in which it is not yet established, it is essential that therapists understand the importance...
Book cover of Generating Transworld Pedagogy

Generating Transworld Pedagogy

Reimagining La Clase Mágica

by Carmen Martínez-Roldán, Beatriz Macías Gómez-Estern, Zayoni Torres
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2014

Generating Transworld Pedagogy: Reimagining La Clase Mágica lays the foundation for addressing one of the greatest challenges in the 21st century: meeting the educational needs of a diverse society living in a complex, technology-driven world. It extends bilingual and bicultural transformative critical...
Book cover of Llewellyn's 2015 Magical Almanac

Llewellyn's 2015 Magical Almanac

Practical Magic for Everyday Living

by Llewellyn, Ellen Dugan, Eilidh Grove
Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2014

Featuring favorite authors Ellen Dugan, Mickie Mueller, Susan Pesznecker, Emily Carding, and dozens more! Inspiration For Your Magical Journey Filled with practical spells, rituals, and ideas for invoking the power of the elements, Llewellyn's Magical Almanac has been inspiring all levels...
Book cover of Ready, Set, Live!

Ready, Set, Live!

Empowering Strategies for an Enlightened Life

by Janet Bray Attwood, Marci Shimoff, Chris Attwood
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2015

An inspirational guide for overcoming adversity and leading a fulfilled life, with contributions by more than two dozen experts on personal transformation. Trials and difficulties are a part of life. Whether these adversities are related to one’s health, finances, career, or family, we all...
Book cover of Best Practices in Catholic Church Ministry Performance Management
by James H. Alphen, Christopher Anderson, John Rev. Beal
Language: English
Release Date: June 23, 2010

The Church is not a business, but it does have a stewardship responsibility to ensure that all of its resources are used as effectively as possible to carry out God's work on earth. In the case of human resource assets, good stewardship involves assisting those engaged in ministry (whether clerical...
Book cover of The Slow Release

The Slow Release

Stories about Death from the Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction

by Ed Allen, Robert Anderson, Mary Clyde
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2019

Death, that ending of all endings, is the shared concern of these stories, which have been chosen from among the hundreds that have appeared in the prestigious Flannery O’Connor Award for Short Fiction series. More than seventy volumes, which include approximately eight hundred stories, have...
Book cover of Deconstructing the Death Penalty

Deconstructing the Death Penalty

Derrida's Seminars and the New Abolitionism

by Katie Chenoweth, Lisa Guenther, Christina Howells
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2018

The questions at stake run from the politics of death penalty abolition to broader questions of the nature of sovereignty and democracy, the human and the animal, mass incarceration, gender, and religion.
Book cover of Pathways, Potholes, and the Persistence of Women in Science
by Sharla Alegria, Mindy Anderson-Knott, Catherine White Berheide
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2016

Training for and pursuing a career in science can be treacherous for women; many more begin than ultimately complete at every stage. Characterizing this as a pipeline problem, however, leads to a focus on individual women instead of structural conditions. The goal of the book is to offer an alternative...
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