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Foundational Arts

Mural Painting and Missionary Theater in New Spain

By: Michael Karl Schuessler

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Foundational Arts

Mural Painting and Missionary Theater in New Spain

By: Michael Karl Schuessler

Foundational Arts examines how the relationships between mural painting and missionary theater became a transcultural process for mass conversion of Native populations to Christianity. Michael K. Schuessler studies the New World expressions of dramatic and plastic arts and how they became the tools of European friars to Christianize Native peoples and ultimately create a new and unique literary and artistic tradition.

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University of Arizona Press

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0816529884

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9780816529889

Elena Poniatowska

An Intimate Biography

By: Michael Karl Schuessler

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Elena Poniatowska

An Intimate Biography

By: Michael Karl Schuessler

Descended from the last king of Poland, born in France, educated at a British grade school in Mexico and a Catholic high school in the United States, HŽl?ne Elizabeth Louise Amelie Paula Dolores Poniatowska AmorÑotherwise known as ElenaÑis a passionate, socially conscious writer who is widely known in Mexico and who deserves to be better known everywhere else. With his subjectÕs complete cooperation (she granted him access to fifty years of personal files), Michael Schuessler provides the first critical biography of PoniatowskaÕs life and work. She is perhaps best known outside of Mexico as the author of Massacre in Mexico (La noche de Tlatelolco) and HereÕs to You, Jesusa! (Hasta no verte, Jesœs m’o). But her body of published books is vast, beginning with the 1954 publication of Lilus Kikus, a collection of short stories. And she is still writing today. Schuessler, who befriended Poniatowska more than fifteen years ago, is a knowledgeable guide to her engrossing life and equally engaging work. As befits her, his portrait is itself a literary collage, a Òliving kaleidoscopeÓ that is constantly shifting to include a multiplicity of voicesÑthose of fellow writers, literary critics, her nanny, her mother, and the writer herselfÑeasily accessible to general readers and essential to scholars. Available in English for the first time, this insightful book includes 40 photographs and drawings and an annotated bibliography of PoniatowskaÕs worksÑthose that have already been translated into English and those awaiting translation.

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University of Arizona Press

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0816525013

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9780816525010

Corporate Crime Under Attack

The Fight to Criminalize Business Violence

By: Francis T. Cullen,Gray Cavender,William J. Maakestad,Michael L. Benson

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Corporate Crime Under Attack

The Fight to Criminalize Business Violence

By: Francis T. Cullen,Gray Cavender,William J. Maakestad,Michael L. Benson

In exploring the criminalization of corporations, this book uses the landmark "Ford Pinto case" as a centerpiece for exploring corporate violence and the long effort to bring such harm within the reach of the criminal law. Corporations that illegally endanger human life now must negotiate the surveillance of government regulators and risk civil suits from injured parties seeking financial compensation. They also may be charged with criminal offenses and their officials sent to prison.

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411

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Routledge

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1317523660

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9781317523666

The Criminal Brain, Second Edition

Understanding Biological Theories of Crime

By: Nicole Rafter,Chad Posick,Michael Rocque

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The Criminal Brain, Second Edition

Understanding Biological Theories of Crime

By: Nicole Rafter,Chad Posick,Michael Rocque

A lively, up-to-date overview of the newest research in biosocial criminology What is the relationship between criminality and biology? Nineteenth-century phrenologists insisted that criminality was innate, inherent in the offender’s brain matter. While they were eventually repudiated as pseudo-scientists, today the pendulum has swung back. Both criminologists and biologists have begun to speak of a tantalizing but disturbing possibility: that criminality may be inherited as a set of genetic deficits that place one at risk to commit theft, violence, or acts of sexual deviance. But what do these new theories really assert? Are they as dangerous as their forerunners, which the Nazis and other eugenicists used to sterilize, incarcerate, and even execute thousands of supposed “born” criminals? How can we prepare for a future in which leaders may propose crime-control programs based on biology? In this second edition of The Criminal Brain, Nicole Rafter, Chad Posick, and Michael Rocque describe early biological theories of crime and provide a lively, up-to-date overview of the newest research in biosocial criminology. New chapters introduce the theories of the latter part of the 20th century; apply and critically assess current biosocial and evolutionary theories, the developments in neuro-imaging, and recent progressions in fields such as epigenetics; and finally, provide a vision for the future of criminology and crime policy from a biosocial perspective. The book is a careful, critical examination of each research approach and conclusion. Both compiling and analyzing the body of scholarship devoted to understanding the criminal brain, this volume serves as a condensed, accessible, and contemporary exploration of biological theories of crime and their everyday relevance.

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395

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NYU Press

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1479894699

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9781479894697

Following in Father's Footsteps

Social Mobility in Ireland

By: Michael Hout

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Following in Father's Footsteps

Social Mobility in Ireland

By: Michael Hout

This is the first systematic study of patterns of social mobility in Ireland. It covers a recent period--the 1960s--when Ireland was undergoing rapid economic growth and modernization. The author thus was able to test the widely accepted hypothesis that growth weakens class barriers. To his surprise he found that it did not. Social mobility increased somewhat, but among mobile men the better jobs still went to those from advantaged social class origins. Despite economic development and demographic change, the underlying link between social origins and career destinations remained unchanged. In chapters on education, life cycle, religion, and farming, Michael Hout shows how inequality persists in contemporary Ireland. In the last chapter he reviews evidence from other countries and concludes that governments must take action against class barriers in education and employment practices if inequality is to be reduced. Economic growth creates jobs, he argues, but economic growth alone cannot allocate those jobs fairly.

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420

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Harvard University Press

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0674307283

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9780674307285

Behind Ghetto Walls

Black Families in a Federal Slum

By: Michael Novak

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Behind Ghetto Walls

Black Families in a Federal Slum

By: Michael Novak

This book is about the family lives of some 10,000 children and adults who live in an all-Negro public housing project in St Louis. The Pruitt-Igoe project is only one of the many environments in which urban Negro Americans lived in the 1960s, but the character of the family life there shares much with the family life of lower-class Negroes as it has been described by other investigators in other cities and at other times, in Harlem, Chicago, New Orleans, or Washington D.C. This book is primarily concerned with private life as it is lived from day to day in a federally built and supported slum. The questions, which are treated here, have to do with the kinds of interpersonal relationships that develop in nuclear families, the socialization processes that operate in families as children grow up in a slum environment, the informal relationships of children and adolescents and adults with each other, and, finally, the world views (the existential framework) arising from the life experiences of the Pruitt-Igoeans and the ways they make use of this framework to order their experiences and make sense out of them. The lives of these persons are examined in terms of life cycles. Each child there is born into a constricted world, the world of lower class, Negro existence, and as he grows he is shaped and directed by that existence through the day-to-day experiences and relationships available to him. The crucial transition from child of a family; to progenitor of a new family begins in adolescence, and for this reason the book pays particular attention to how each new generation of parents expresses the cultural and social structural forces that formed it and continue to constrain its behavior. This book, in short, is about intimate personal life in a particular ghetto setting. It does not analyze the larger institutional, social structural, and ideological forces that provide the social, economic, and political context in which lower-class Negro life is lived. These larger macro sociological forces are treated in another volume based on research in the Pruitt-Igoe community. However, this book does draw on the large body of literature on the structural position of Negroes in American society as background for its analysis of Pruitt-Igoe private life.

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430

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Routledge

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1351314262

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9781351314268

Bottles

Identification and Price Guide

By: Michael Polak

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Bottles

Identification and Price Guide

By: Michael Polak

Do you need help in finding that elusive and rare antique bottle? How about some clues on where to locate the best digging spots? Do you wonder how old your bottle really is? The "Bottle Bible", a comprehensive reference for all collectors from bottle-collecting enthusiast Michael Polak, is now newly revised for the third edition. Bottle collecting continues to grow as an incredibly popular hobby, with more and more people digging through old dumps, foraging through old ghost towns, digging out old outhouses, exploring mine shafts, and searching at swap meets, flea markets, and garage sales for the treasured bottle.

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0380772183

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Elena Poniatowska

An Intimate Biography

By: Michael Karl Schuessler

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An Intimate Biography

By: Michael Karl Schuessler

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University of Arizona Press

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0816525013

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9780816525010

Elena Poniatowska

An Intimate Biography

By: Michael K. Schuessler

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Elena Poniatowska

An Intimate Biography

By: Michael K. Schuessler

Descended from the last king of Poland, born in France, educated at a British grade school in Mexico and a Catholic high school in the United States, Hélène Elizabeth Louise Amelie Paula Dolores Poniatowska Amor—otherwise known as Elena—is a passionate, socially conscious writer who is widely known in Mexico and who deserves to be better known everywhere else. With his subject’s complete cooperation (she granted him access to fifty years of personal files), Michael Schuessler provides the first critical biography of Poniatowska’s life and work. She is perhaps best known outside of Mexico as the author of Massacre in Mexico (La noche de Tlatelolco) and Here’s to You, Jesusa! (Hasta no verte, Jesús mío). But her body of published books is vast, beginning with the 1954 publication of Lilus Kikus, a collection of short stories. And she is still writing today. Schuessler, who befriended Poniatowska more than fifteen years ago, is a knowledgeable guide to her engrossing life and equally engaging work. As befits her, his portrait is itself a literary collage, a “living kaleidoscope” that is constantly shifting to include a multiplicity of voices—those of fellow writers, literary critics, her nanny, her mother, and the writer herself—easily accessible to general readers and essential to scholars. Available in English for the first time, this insightful book includes 40 photographs and drawings and an annotated bibliography of Poniatowska’s works—those that have already been translated into English and those awaiting translation.

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Foundational Arts

Foundational Arts

Elena Poniatowska

Elena Poniatowska

Corporate Crime Under Attack

Corporate Crime Under Attack

The Criminal Brain, Second Edition

The Criminal Brain, Second Edition

Following in Father's Footsteps

Following in Father's Footsteps

Behind Ghetto Walls

Behind Ghetto Walls

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Elena Poniatowska

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