Michelle Brown: 40 books

Imagine the excitement of hearing a radio spot and recognizing the announcer's voice. It's YOU, having just recorded the ad as a professional voice-over artist. Voice-over veteran and college instructor Michelle Brown has lived that very moment and she wants you to know the feeling!...

From a look at classics like Psycho and Double Indemnity to recent films like Traffic and Thelma & Louise, Nicole Rafter and Michelle Brown show that criminological theory is produced not only in the academy, through scholarly research, but also in popular culture, through film. Criminology Goes to...

From a student's confrontation with a teenage streaker, to a company man's complete undoing at his summer party, Michelle Brown's Safe Words finds rich darkness in happy partnerships. A maiden name is "handed down / like a sweater", a taxi ride "ends... at someone else's life"....

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 of this unprecedented mass imprisonment, punishment permeates everyday life, carrying with it complex cultural meanings. In The Culture of Punishment,...

With supernatural blue eyes and a commanding presence, Betsy, Veronica, and Brittany are spellbound with their mysterious adversary. But when they discover how much he knows about them, and that he intends to kill them for their faith, they realize they won't make it out alive—unless they deny the Messiah.

"To regular passersby, the brick façade on Washington Street between 7th and 8th was nothing more than an abandoned host for disgruntled bursts of graffiti, petrified chewing gum, and the benign city smells of urine and cigarette smoke; but to those with desperation and regret hanging in their chests,...

Meet Felix Winters, an eleven-year-old alien sent on his first scouting mission to Earth. His assignment is simple: blend in, observe his surroundings, and ultimately decide the fate of humanity. But blending in is harder than he imagined, as, upon enrolling in a local middle school, he becomes the target...

Now in its second edition, Managing Employee Performance and Reward continues to offer comprehensive coverage of employee performance and reward, presenting the material in a conceptually integrated way. This new edition has been substantially updated and revised by a team of specialist contributors,...

From the Gospel of Matthew to numerous US Supreme Court justices, many literary and legal sources have observed that how a society metes out punishment reveals core truths about its character. The Punitive Imagination is a collection of essays that engages and contributes to debates about the purposes...

A submissive pain slut receives a tattoo as a reward for years of selfless service. A man's body is used to deliver a unique message to a domineering masochist. An exotic teahouse on an alien planet where one woman explores her submissiveness with a set of shapeshifting twins. These and other...

The works of Poe were dark and often disturbing. From dismembered corpses, rivals bricked behind cellar walls, murders in back alleys, laments for lost loves, obsessions that drive men - and women! - to madness, his stories have had a profound impact on both the horror and mystery genres to this day. In...

There is a price to changing one’s destiny… The Tales of the Wendy series concludes in this stunning sequel to The Wendy and The Navigator. Old friends and new allies join forces for an epic adventure that spans not only oceans, but time itself. Praise for the writing of Erin Michelle...

"Search for them as you would for silver; seek them like hidden treasures. Then you will understand what it means to fear the Lord, and you will gain knowledge of God." Proverbs 2:4-5, New Living Translation Life is not neat and tidy. Sometimes dirty dishes pile up in the sink...