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Inside Knowledge

Incarcerated People on the Failures of the American Prison

By: Doran Larson

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Inside Knowledge

Incarcerated People on the Failures of the American Prison

By: Doran Larson

A powerful critique of mass incarceration by the people who have experienced it Inside Knowledge is the first book to examine the American prison system through the eyes of those who are trapped within it. Drawing from the writings collected in the American Prison Writing Archive, Doran Larson deftly illustrates how mass incarceration does less to contain any harm perpetrated by convicted people than to spread and perpetuate harm among their families and communities. Inside Knowledge makes a powerful argument that America’s prisons not only degrade and debilitate their wards but also defeat the prison’s cardinal missions of rehabilitation, containment, deterrence, and even meaningful retribution. If prisons are places where convicted people are sent to learn a lesson, then imprisoned people are the ones who know just what American prisons actually teach. At once profound and devastating, Inside Knowledge is an invaluable resource for those interested in addressing mass incarceration in America.

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NYU Press

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1479818003

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9781479818006

Witness in the Era of Mass Incarceration

Discovering the Ethical Prison

By: Doran Larson

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Witness in the Era of Mass Incarceration

Discovering the Ethical Prison

By: Doran Larson

Witness in the Era of Mass Incarceration works from the premise that if the law establishes and maintains both its practical and symbolic authority on the basis of its monopoly on legally sanctioned violence and the suffering threatened and delivered by such violence, then we cannot know the full human cost or concrete moral status of any legal state without human witness to the depth and manner of suffering meted out by such violence. The prison writer stands in the position to offer such witness. The prison writer knows the law’s violence in the flesh. For every other writer, reflection upon the degree and manner of suffering meted out under legal sanction—that is, reflection upon the full human cost of the contemporary legal order—is necessarily speculative. In close readings of first-person witness from prisons in the U.S., Ireland, and Africa, Witness in the Era of Mass Incarceration discovers literary tropes that chart at once local, national, and transnational conditions of carceral experience—the extant conditions of legalized suffering. In exhibiting the labor required to move from institutionalized abjection to the minimum requirements of rights-bearing personhood, this witness offers the sole credible vision of the possubility of a post carceral understanding of freedom.

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Rowman & Littlefield

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1611479835

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9781611479836

Marginalia

By: Doran Larson

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Marginalia

By: Doran Larson

Joseph Stoyanovich writes children’s books. From the adventures of Baxter Bear and Wally Warthog, he fashions clever morality tales with happy endings that delight his audience, but fill their creator with dismay. For Joseph Stoyanovich is a troubled man whose emptiness is hidden behind a number of elaborate facades. Among his friends, he is the worldly, wise, and weary cynic; yet to the family of his half brother, Will, he is the indulgent, mild-mannered uncle. Burdened with secret guilt over the death, many years earlier, of a younger brother, and over the marital breakup of his political-activist parents, Joseph lives his life most acutely in the margins, specifically those of his own children’s books—into which he scribbles obscenities in a bizarre ritualistic purging. Then he meets Felice Kraipolous, a tough little 13-year-old who carries her own troubled secrets, and whom he longs to help; through her, Joseph sees a chance for his own redemption. And yet, at the same time, Joseph’s ambiguous feelings toward this contemporary Lolita threaten his carefully constructed life and career.

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Open Road Media

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1504023226

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9781504023221

Nursing Outcomes

State of the Science

By: Doran

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Nursing Outcomes

State of the Science

By: Doran

physical edition. Nursing Outcomes: State of the Science is an invaluable resource for nurse researchers, scholars, and health care professionals committed to effective, quality nursing care as evidenced by nursing-sensitive outcomes measurement. This text concentrates on outcome indicators which focus on how patients and their conditions are affected by their interaction with nursing staff. Each chapter includes a concept analysis of the outcome concept; then defining characteristics are identified and a conceptual definition is proposed. Factors that influence the outcome concept are discussed, as well as the consequences for clients' health and well-being. The strength of the evidence is reviewed concerning the sensitivity of the outcome concept to nursing structure variables and nursing/processes interventions. The author offers a comprehensive synthesis of the literature, critically reviews the quality of the evidence, and provides direction for the selection of outcome variables

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Jones & Bartlett Publishers

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144961969X

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9781449619695

Operator Algebras, Quantization, and Noncommutative Geometry

A Centennial Celebration Honoring John Von Neumann and Marshall H. Stone

By: Robert S. Doran,Richard V. Kadison

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Operator Algebras, Quantization, and Noncommutative Geometry

A Centennial Celebration Honoring John Von Neumann and Marshall H. Stone

By: Robert S. Doran,Richard V. Kadison

John von Neumann and Marshall Stone were two giants of Twentieth Century mathematics. In honor of the 100th anniversary of their births, a mathematical celebration was organized featuring developments in fields where both men were major influences. This volume contains articles from the AMS Special Session, Operator Algebras, Quantization and Noncommutative Geometry: A Centennial Celebration in Honor of John von Neumann and Marshall H. Stone. Papers range from expository and refereed and cover a broad range of mathematical topics reflecting the fundamental ideas of von Neumann and Stone. Most contributions are expanded versions of the talks and were written exclusively for this volume. Included, among Also featured is a reprint of P.R. Halmos's The Legend of John von Neumann. The book is suitable for graduate students and researchers interested in operator algebras and applications, including noncommutative geometry.

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American Mathematical Soc.

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0821834029

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9780821834022

The Natural Body in Somatics Dance Training

By: Doran George

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The Natural Body in Somatics Dance Training

By: Doran George

Doran George's The Natural Body in Somatics Dance Training examines the development of Somatics as it has been adopted by successive generations of practitioners since its early beginnings in the 1950s. The study elucidates the ways that Somatics has engaged globally with some of the various locales in which it was developed and practiced, both in terms of its relationships to other dance training programs in that region and to larger aesthetic and political values. The book thereby offers a cogent analysis of how training regimens can inculcate an embodied politics as they guide and shape the experience of bodily sensation, construct forms of reflexive evaluation of bodily action, and summon bodies into relationship with one another. Throughout it focuses on how the notion of a natural body was implemented and developed in Somatics' pedagogy"--

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Oxford University Press, USA

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0197538738

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9780197538739

Bioprocess Engineering Principles

By: Pauline M. Doran

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Bioprocess Engineering Principles

By: Pauline M. Doran

The emergence and refinement of techniques in molecular biology has changed our perceptions of medicine, agriculture, and environmental management. This textbook presents the principles of bioprocess engineering in a way that is accessible to biological scientists.

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Academic Press

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012220851X

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9780122208515

Breaking Rockefeller

The Incredible Story of the Ambitious Rivals Who Toppled an Oil Empire

By: Peter B. Doran

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Breaking Rockefeller

The Incredible Story of the Ambitious Rivals Who Toppled an Oil Empire

By: Peter B. Doran

The incredible tale of how ambitious oil rivals Marcus Samuel, Jr. and Henri Deterding joined forces to topple the Standard Oil empire Marcus Samuel, Jr., is an unorthodox Jewish merchant trader. Henri Deterding is a take-no-prisoners oilman. In 1889, John D. Rockefeller is at the peak of his power. Having annihilated all competition and possessing near-total domination of the market, even the U.S. government is wary of challenging the great “anaconda” of Standard Oil. The Standard never loses—that is until Samuel and Deterding team up to form Royal Dutch Shell. A riveting account of ambition, oil, and greed, Breaking Rockefeller traces Samuel’s rise from outsider to the heights of the British aristocracy, Deterding’s conquest of America, and the collapse of Rockefeller’s monopoly. The beginning of the twentieth century is a time when vast fortunes were made and lost. Taking readers through the rough and tumble of East London’s streets, the twilight turmoil of czarist Russia, to the halls of the British Parliament, and right down Broadway in New York City, Peter Doran offers a richly detailed, fresh perspective on how Samuel and Deterding beat the world’s richest man at his own game. “Gripping . . . timely . . . a vivid reminder of the dangers of monopolies, and of the merits of no-holds barred competition and technological upheaval.” —The Economist

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Penguin

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0143130005

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9780143130000

Witness in the Era of Mass Incarceration

Discovering the Ethical Prison

By: Doran Larson

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Witness in the Era of Mass Incarceration

Discovering the Ethical Prison

By: Doran Larson

This book places prison witness at the center of discussions of the human experience of law and order, and of the nature of the rights-bearing person. Readings of canonical and contemporary writers facing incarceration yield abiding literary tropes that chart the path from institutional abjection toward the minimal threshold of personhood.

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Law, Culture, and the Humaniti

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1611479827

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Marginalia

By: Doran Larson

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Book's by Doran Larson

Inside Knowledge

Inside Knowledge

Witness in the Era of Mass Incarceration

Witness in the Era of Mass Incarceration

Marginalia

Marginalia

Nursing Outcomes

Nursing Outcomes

Operator Algebras, Quantization, and Noncommutative Geometry

Operator Algebras, Quantization, and Noncommutative Geometry

The Natural Body in Somatics Dance Training

The Natural Body in Somatics Dance Training

Bioprocess Engineering Principles

Bioprocess Engineering Principles

Breaking Rockefeller

Breaking Rockefeller

Witness in the Era of Mass Incarceration

Witness in the Era of Mass Incarceration

Marginalia

Marginalia

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