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Torn

Between Good and Evil...

By: Brett Siciliano

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Torn

Between Good and Evil...

By: Brett Siciliano

TORN... is a fifty-year journey of my life's tragedies, miracles, and struggles. I had to learn from the streets and within myself to endure life on life's terms, while always keeping the faith to survive. The world can be a beautiful and dangerous planet, but I had to continue to conquer and overcome what life continued to throw my way. My adventures and afflictions consisted of finding my family dead on Christmas, drug overdoses, sexual immorality, toxic relationships, going to jail, college, law school, making and spending millions of dollars, bankruptcy, surviving the Twin Towers attacks on 9-11-2001, acting in feature movies in Hollywood, undercover with the FBI, losing everything, starting over, sobriety, love, marriage, and God.

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1645847217

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9781645847212

The Tragedy of the Commodity

Oceans, Fisheries, and Aquaculture

By: Stefano B. Longo,Rebecca Clausen,Brett Clark

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The Tragedy of the Commodity

Oceans, Fisheries, and Aquaculture

By: Stefano B. Longo,Rebecca Clausen,Brett Clark

Winner of the 2017 Paul Sweezy Marxist Sociology Book Award from the American Sociological Association Although humans have long depended on oceans and aquatic ecosystems for sustenance and trade, only recently has human influence on these resources dramatically increased, transforming and undermining oceanic environments throughout the world. Marine ecosystems are in a crisis that is global in scope, rapid in pace, and colossal in scale. In The Tragedy of the Commodity, sociologists Stefano B. Longo, Rebecca Clausen, and Brett Clark explore the role human influence plays in this crisis, highlighting the social and economic forces that are at the heart of this looming ecological problem. In a critique of the classic theory “the tragedy of the commons” by ecologist Garrett Hardin, the authors move beyond simplistic explanations—such as unrestrained self-interest or population growth—to argue that it is the commodification of aquatic resources that leads to the depletion of fisheries and the development of environmentally suspect means of aquaculture. To illustrate this argument, the book features two fascinating case studies—the thousand-year history of the bluefin tuna fishery in the Mediterranean and the massive Pacific salmon fishery. Longo, Clausen, and Clark describe how new fishing technologies, transformations in ships and storage capacities, and the expansion of seafood markets combined to alter radically and permanently these crucial ecosystems. In doing so, the authors underscore how the particular organization of social production contributes to ecological degradation and an increase in the pressures placed upon the ocean. The authors highlight the historical, political, economic, and cultural forces that shape how we interact with the larger biophysical world. A path-breaking analysis of overfishing, The Tragedy of the Commodity yields insight into issues such as deforestation, biodiversity loss, pollution, and climate change.

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Rutgers University Press

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0813565790

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9780813565798

Reflection of Evil

By: Brett Bartholomaus

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Reflection of Evil

By: Brett Bartholomaus

Amidst warring mafia mobs and the call of duty, Ron Holland makes a discovery that brings his world crashing down around him. Ron and his best friend Duke Arndt—both police officers in sleepy Smuggler's Cove—respond to a call on a deserted beach that will drastically change both their lives. Is it murder? Or is it suicide? The answers lie in the mind of a psychopathic killer on a journey of terror, where all that is strange become familiar, and all that is familiar is only a Reflection of Evil...

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346

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iUniverse

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0595150802

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9780595150809

Prison Land

Mapping Carceral Power across Neoliberal America

By: Brett Story

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Prison Land

Mapping Carceral Power across Neoliberal America

By: Brett Story

From broken-window policing in Detroit to prison-building in Appalachia, exploring the expansion of the carceral state and its oppressive social relations into everyday life Prison Land offers a geographic excavation of the prison as a set of social relations—including property, work, gender, and race—enacted across various landscapes of American life. Prisons, Brett Story shows, are more than just buildings of incarceration bound to cycles of crime and punishment. Instead, she investigates the production of carceral power at a range of sites, from buses to coalfields and from blighted cities to urban financial hubs, to demonstrate how the organization of carceral space is ideologically and materially grounded in racial capitalism. Story’s critically acclaimed film The Prison in Twelve Landscapes is based on the same research that informs this book. In both, Story takes an expansive view of what constitutes contemporary carceral space, interrogating the ways in which racial capitalism is reproduced and for which police technologies of containment and control are employed. By framing the prison as a set of social relations, Prison Land forces us to confront the production of new carceral forms that go well beyond the prison system. In doing so, it profoundly undermines both conventional ideas of prisons as logical responses to the problem of crime and attachment to punishment as the relevant measure of a transformed criminal justice system.

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U of Minnesota Press

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1452960887

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9781452960883

The End of Politicians

By: Brett Hennig

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The End of Politicians

By: Brett Hennig

Our politics is broken, but it can be fixed. A real democracy is not only possible — it is an urgent necessity. Provocative, succinct and inspiring, The End of Politicians combines insights from the history of democracy with a critical understanding of the information revolution to explain how we can fix democracy by eliminating politicians and replacing them with a representative network of everyday citizens. A wealth of recent evidence has shown that groups of randomly selected, ordinary people can and do make balanced, informed and trusted decisions. These citizens' assemblies are legitimate, accountable, competent and, above all, convincing demonstrations that we can govern ourselves. The future of democracy has arrived. It is time for the end of politicians.

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1911586173

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Torn

Between Good and Evil...

By: Brett Siciliano

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