Andrew Powell: 18 books
This Love Is Not for Cowards
Salvation and Soccer in Ciudad Juárez
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2012
More than ten people are murdered every day in Ciudad Juárez, a city about the size of Philadelphia. As Mexico has descended into a feudal narco-state-one where cartels, death squads, the army, and local police all fight over billions of dollars in profits from drug and human trafficking-the border...
We Own This Game
A Season in the Adult World of Youth Football
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2007
A Sports Illustrated Best Book of the Year: “Vivid portraits of the kids, parents and coaches of the Greater Miami Pop Warner league” (Linda Robertson, The Miami Herald).
Although its participants are still in grade school, Pop Warner football is serious business in Miami, where local teams...
Spiritism and Mental Health
Practices from Spiritist Centers and Spiritist Psychiatric Hospitals in Brazil
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2011
Practiced in community centers and psychiatric hospitals throughout Brazil, Spiritist therapies are gaining increasing recognition internationally for their ability to complement conventional medicine. This pioneering text is the first comprehensive account of the philosophy, theory, practical applications...
Queen Mary's Hospital, Charshalton
An Iron Age and Early Romano-British Settlement
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2017
Excavations just outside a large Late Bronze Age ringwork at Queen Mary’s Hospital, Carshalton, in the London Borough of Sutton, revealed a settlement which was occupied possibly continuously from the Early Iron Age into the early Romano-British period. Originally an open settlement, by the Late...
The West Country's Last Line of Defence
Taunton Stop Line
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2017
As Hitler’s Germany spread her wings across Europe in the late 1930s, nations across the continent began preparing their own defences. The threat of invasion on home soil seemed unlikely at first, but as the relentless Nazi war machine steamrollered country after country, by June 1940 a series of...
Along Prehistoric Lines
Neolithic, Iron Age and Romano-British activity at the former MOD Headquarters, Durrington, Wiltshire
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2017
An excavation in 2010–12 on the site of the former Ministry of Defence (MoD) Headquarters in Durrington, Wiltshire, revealed evidence spanning the post-glacial to the post-medieval periods. It lies immediately north-east of the Stonehenge part of the Stonehenge, Avebury and Associated Sites World...
Spirituality, Values and Mental Health
Jewels for the Journey
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2007
Spirituality, religious belief and inclusive faith communities are important for mental well being but mental health practitioners have few guidelines for acknowledging these issues when working with service users.
Spirituality, Values and Mental Health gathers together personal and professional...
Game Plan
A Man's Guide to Achieving Emotional Fitness
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2012
If you're a man, get ready to unleash the hero inside, and if you're a woman, get ready to understand men like never before. This practical and provocative book is packed with the lessons your dad never taught you about living life to the fullest, free from addiction and other self-destructive behaviors....
Understanding Atrocities
Remembering, Representing and Teaching Genocide
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2017
Understanding Atrocities is a wide-ranging collection of essays bridging scholarly and community-based efforts to understand and respond to the global, transhistorical problem of genocide. The essays in this volume investigate how evolving, contemporary views on mass atrocity frame and complicate...
by Andrew Roberts, Andrew D. Powell
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Risk Communications is a skill that can enable you to communicate like a great leader during difficult situations - and to make sure that what you say is remembered. During high-stress, high-concern, controversial or low-trust situations, normal ways of communicating change. Attention spans shrink and...
by Kyle Alkema, Orsolya Karácsony, Nicole R. Pramik
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2017
Unlike anything currently available, A Critical Companion to Tim Burton is a comprehensive, up-to-date analysis of all the works of one of the world's most renowned directors and artists. Written by some of the top scholars working in fields as diverse as philosophy, film and media studies, and literature,...
by Nate Powell, Andrew Aydin, John Lewis
Language: French
Release Date: February 22, 2017
Language: French
Release Date: February 22, 2017
À l’automne 1963, le mouvement des droits civiques s’est imposé aux Etats-Unis. John Lewis, en tant que président du comité étudiant d’action non violente est en première ligne de la révolte. Tandis que Jim Crow élabore des lois toujours plus répressives et discriminantes, le seul espoir...
by John Robert Lewis, Andrew Aydin, Nate Powell
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
After the success of the Nashville sit-in movement, John Lewis’ commitment to change through nonviolence is stronger than ever — but as he and his fellow Freedom Riders board a bus into the vicious heart of the deep south, they will be tested like never before. Faced with beatings, police brutality,...
by Angela Failler, Clint Curle, Christopher Powell
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2015
"The Idea of a Human Rights Museum" is the first book to examine the formation of the Canadian Museum for Human Rights and to situate the museum within the context of the international proliferation of such institutions. Sixteen essays consider the wider political, cultural and architectural...
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