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In the Language of My Captor

By: Shane McCrae

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Winner of the Lannan Literary Award for Poetry (2017) Acclaimed poet Shane McCrae's latest collection is a book about freedom told through stories of captivity. Historical persona poems and a prose memoir at the center of the book address the illusory freedom of both black and white Americans. In the book's three sequences, McCrae explores the role mass entertainment plays in oppression, he confronts the myth that freedom can be based upon the power to dominate others, and, in poems about the mixed-race child adopted by Jefferson Davis in the last year of the Civil War, he interrogates the infrequently examined connections between racism and love. A reader's companion is available at wesleyan.edu/wespress/readerscompanions.

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0819577138

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The Gilded Auction Block

Poems

By: Shane McCrae

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The Gilded Auction Block

Poems

By: Shane McCrae

An incisive new collection of poetry on political and contemporary themes I’m made of murderers I’m made Of nobodies and immigrants and the poor and a whole / Family the mother’s liver and her lungs In The Gilded Auction Block, the acclaimed poet Shane McCrae considers the present moment in America on its own terms as well as for what it says about the American project and Americans themselves. In the book’s four sections, McCrae alternately responds directly to Donald Trump and contextualizes him historically and personally, exploding the illusions of freedom of both black and white Americans. A moving, incisive, and frightening exploration of both the legacy and the current state of white supremacy in this country, The Gilded Auction Block is a book about the present that reaches into the past and stretches toward the future.

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Farrar, Straus and Giroux

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0374162255

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9780374162252

Pulling the Chariot of the Sun

A Memoir of a Kidnapping

By: Shane McCrae

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Pulling the Chariot of the Sun

A Memoir of a Kidnapping

By: Shane McCrae

An unforgettable memoir by an award-winning poet about being kidnapped from his Black father and raised by his white supremacist grandparents. When Shane McCrae was three years old, his grandparents kidnapped him and took him to suburban Texas. His mom was white and his dad was Black, and to hide his Blackness from him, his maternal grandparents stole him from his father. In the years that followed, they manipulated and controlled him, refusing to acknowledge his heritage—all the while believing they were doing what was best for him. For their own safety and to ensure the kidnapping remained a success, Shane’s grandparents had to make sure that he never knew the full story, so he was raised to participate in his own disappearance. But despite elaborate fabrications and unreliable memories, Shane begins to reconstruct his own story and to forge his own identity. Gradually, the truth unveils itself, and with the truth, comes a path to reuniting with his father and finding his own place in the world. A revelatory account of a singularly American childhood that hauntingly echoes the larger story of race in our country, Pulling the Chariot of the Sun is written with the virtuosity and heart of one of the finest poets writing today. And it is also a powerful reflection on what is broken in America—but also what might heal and make it whole again.

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Simon and Schuster

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1668021765

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Sometimes I Never Suffered

Poems

By: Shane McCrae

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Sometimes I Never Suffered

Poems

By: Shane McCrae

Spanning religious, historical, and political themes, a new collection from the award-winning poet I think now more than half Of life is death but I can’t die Enough for all the life I see In Sometimes I Never Suffered, his seventh collection of poems, Shane McCrae remains “a shrewd composer of American stories” (Dan Chiasson, The New Yorker). Here, an angel, hastily thrown together by his fellow residents of Heaven, plummets to Earth in his first moments of consciousness. Jim Limber, the adopted mixed-race son of Jefferson Davis, wanders through the afterlife, reckoning with the nuances of America’s racial history, as well as his own. Sometimes I Never Suffered is a search for purpose and atonement, freedom and forgiveness, imagining eternity not as an escape from the past or present, but as a reverberating record and as the culmination of time’s manifold potential to mend.

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0374721807

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The Many Hundreds of the Scent

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By: Shane McCrae

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The Many Hundreds of the Scent

Poems

By: Shane McCrae

A stunning new collection of poetry from Shane McCrae, winner of the Whiting Writers' Award. Shane McCrae, one of the most powerful voices in contemporary poetry, returns with The Many Hundreds of the Scent, an urgent new collection that brims with lyric force. He expands both the poetic and the personal mythologies that he has been constructing over the course of his career. In addition to introducing his readers to “the thin king / who eats the world,” McCrae invites them to bear witness to his tangle of childhood memories. In brutal, sorrowful lines, he recounts being kidnapped by his white supremacist maternal grandparents from his Black father as a boy. “O reader, listener, stay,” McCrae writes. “You are now evidence.” In The Many Hundreds of the Scent, Homeric figures mingle with those who populate the poet’s world. Helen weighs Paris’s spear in her hand and bloodies a raging Achilles; Penelope burns her loom each night; Dido watches Aeneas’s ship burn on the horizon. A strikingly original and engaging poet, McCrae continually surprises—the collection includes a series of poems about the advent of post-rock and Hex, the debut album of the English band Bark Psychosis. With this collection, he has once more crafted an extraordinarily affecting book of poetry. As Kate Kellaway writes in The Guardian, “In McCrae’s hands, poetry is reclamation. It is also transport: writing a way out and through.”

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Pulling the Chariot of the Sun

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By: Shane McCrae

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Sometimes I Never Suffered

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Born Entrepreneurs, Born Leaders

How Your Genes Affect Your Work Life

By: Scott Shane

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Born Entrepreneurs, Born Leaders

How Your Genes Affect Your Work Life

By: Scott Shane

It's no secret that your genes have a subtle, but powerful impact on your job and career. But did you know that your DNA accounts for one third of the difference between you and your co-workers in many aspects of work life, from job satisfaction to income level? That's the revelation of this fascinating book--one that will change the way you think It's no secret that your genes have a subtle, but powerful impact on your job and career. But did you know that your DNA accounts for one third of the difference between you and your co-workers in many aspects of work life, from job satisfaction to income level? That's the revelation of this fascinating book-one that will change the way you think about the role of genetics in the workplace. Despite extensive evidence highlighting the influence of genetics in the business world, this critical connection has been glossed over by corporate leaders and management gurus. Now, for the first time, author Scott Shane explains why genes matter, and how an understanding of their relationship to behavior is of vital importance to employers, employees, and policy makers. This eye-opening resource begins with an incisive look at the basic function of genes and their effects on organizational behavior, providing a real-world analysis of how genes influence numerous aspects of our professional lives, from the jobs we choose, to how effectively we make decisions and manage people. Born Entrepreneurs, Born Leaders also delves into role that genetics plays in creativity and innovation, and focuses on how genes affect our tendency to start companies. Armed with these insights, you'll not only learn how to leverage your innate skills and personality, but you'll discover how to succeed by acting in ways contrary to your "nature." Packed with scientifically grounded insights, this phenomenal book also examines the potential use of genetic information in creating job assignments and designing incentive and training plans. Ultimately, Born Entrepreneurs, Born Leaders shows how a heightened awareness of your own-and your colleagues'-genetic predispositions can make you a better employee or employer.

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Oxford University Press

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0199758638

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9780199758630

Positive Psychology

The Scientific and Practical Explorations of Human Strengths

By: Shane J. Lopez,Jennifer Teramoto Pedrotti,C. R. Snyder

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Positive Psychology

The Scientific and Practical Explorations of Human Strengths

By: Shane J. Lopez,Jennifer Teramoto Pedrotti,C. R. Snyder

The fully updated Third Edition of Positive Psychology: The Scientific and Practical Explorations of Human Strengths covers the science and application of positive psychology and presents new frameworks for understanding positive emotions and strengths through a culturally competent lens. Authors Shane J. Lopez, Jennifer Teramoto Pedrotti, and C.R. Snyder bring positive psychology to life by addressing important issues such as how positive psychology can improve schooling and the workplace, as well as how it can promote flourishing in day-to-day life. Throughout the book, well-crafted exercises allow readers to apply major principles to their own lives. The book also explores various positive conditions within multiple cultural contexts, such as happiness and well-being, and processes related to mindfulness, wisdom, courage, and spirituality. “The emphasis is not exclusively clinical; it includes applications and implications across a number of environments and draws from a number of perspectives, including neurobiology. This range makes it an excellent choice for anchoring major concepts so students can explore the application of positive psychology to their specific areas of interest.” —Dr. Pamela Rutledge, Massachusetts School of Professional Psychology

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SAGE Publications

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1483322505

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9781483322506

The Entrepreneurial Personality

A Social Construction

By: Elizabeth Chell,David E. Wicklander,Shane G. Sturman,L. Wayne Hoover

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The Entrepreneurial Personality

A Social Construction

By: Elizabeth Chell,David E. Wicklander,Shane G. Sturman,L. Wayne Hoover

This book presents a timely set of views on the entrepreneurial personality in a systematic and scholarly manner. It will be of great interest to academics in the fields of entrepreneurship, applied psychology and sociology.

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Routledge

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1134335628

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Positive Psychology

The Scientific and Practical Explorations of Human Strengths

By: Jennifer Teramoto Pedrotti,Shane J. Lopez,Ryon C. McDermott,C. R. Snyder

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The Scientific and Practical Explorations of Human Strengths

By: Jennifer Teramoto Pedrotti,Shane J. Lopez,Ryon C. McDermott,C. R. Snyder

Positive Psychology offers comprehensive coverage of the science and application of positive emotions and human strengths. The Fifth Edition explores fresh examples and reflections on current events, recent and emerging scholarship, and a new focus on the diverse aspects of our society and the many strengths rooted in our multi-faceted cultures.

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1071819232

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Validity Assessment in Rehabilitation Psychology and Settings

By: Dominic A. Carone,Shane S. Bush

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Validity Assessment in Rehabilitation Psychology and Settings

By: Dominic A. Carone,Shane S. Bush

This is the first book devoted to the topic of validity assessment in rehabilitation contexts and is written by two board certified psychologists with extensive experience in clinical neuropsychology and rehabilitation psychology. This book describes (a) why validity assessment is important, (b) validity assessment methods, and (c) special topics related to validity assessment in rehabilitation psychology (e.g., managing invalid presentations, mild traumatic brain injury, forensic and disability applications, ethical considerations). Although primarily intended for the rehabilitation psychologist who is new to the topic of validity assessment, this book is also designed to be helpful to other rehabilitation specialists, students and trainees, and psychologists experienced in validity assessment, including neuropsychologists.

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0190674237

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Positive Psychology

The Scientific and Practical Explorations of Human Strengths

By: C. R. Snyder,Shane J. Lopez,Jennifer Teramoto Pedrotti

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Positive Psychology

The Scientific and Practical Explorations of Human Strengths

By: C. R. Snyder,Shane J. Lopez,Jennifer Teramoto Pedrotti

Bringing both the science, and the real-life applications, of positive psychology to life for students This revision of the cutting edge, most comprehensive text for this exciting field presents new frameworks for understanding positive emotions and human strengths. The authors—all leading figures in the field—show how to apply the science to improve schooling, the workplace, and cooperative lifestyles among people. Well-crafted exercises engage students in applying major principles in their own lives, and more than 50 case histories and comments from leaders in the field vividly illustrate key concepts as they apply to real life.

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1412981956

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9781412981958

Expect the Unexpected

One Person’s Story in an Ever Closer World

By: Shane O'Connell

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Expect the Unexpected

One Person’s Story in an Ever Closer World

By: Shane O'Connell

Shane O’Connell was born on 22 February 1959 in Melbourne, Australia, and was educated at St Patricks College in Sale, Eastern Victoria, 200 km east of Melbourne and later at Monash University in Melbourne. After a stint in the Australian Public Service for five uneventful years,he was able to pursue his passion of working full-time for the Australian workers’ movement, which he did for twenty years. He is the proud father of Kristen, Jarrod, Lauren, and Lachlan, who all have a twin sibling. His novel tells us of his personal journey, contemporary issues, and of many of the thirty-five countries he was lucky enough to visit and a brief interlinked history of these places. He lives in Melbourne by Port Phillip Bay at Mordialloc, where he wrote this book, which still has a seaside village feel about it even though it is in a large multicultural city. He hopes you can relate to many aspects of his life and journey in that we can all live as better global citizens on our fragile planet and hopefully get some fresh perspectives on contemporary and cultural issues. As a proud Australian, he is committed to a peaceful move to an Australian Republic. Enjoy the read. Shane O’Connell Melbourne February 2013

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Xlibris Corporation

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1493122878

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9781493122875

Mild Traumatic Brain Injury

Symptom Validity Assessment and Malingering

By: Shane S. Bush

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Mild Traumatic Brain Injury

Symptom Validity Assessment and Malingering

By: Shane S. Bush

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Springer Publishing Company

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0826109152

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9780826109156

The Many Hundreds of the Scent

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By: Shane McCrae

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The Gilded Auction Block

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By: Shane McCrae

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0374720320

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Cain Named the Animal

Poems

By: Shane McCrae

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Cain Named the Animal

Poems

By: Shane McCrae

A prophetic new collection of poems from Shane McCrae, “a shrewd composer of American stories" (Dan Chiasson, The New Yorker) Writing you I give the death I take I know I should feel wounded by your death I write to you to make a wound write back Shane McCrae fashions a world of endings and infinites in Cain Named the Animal. With cyclical, rhythmic lines that create and re-create images of our shared and specific pasts, McCrae's work moves into and through the wounds that we remember and “strains toward a vision of joy” (Will Brewbaker, Los Angeles Review of Books). Cain Named the Animal expands upon the biblical, heavenly world that McCrae has been building throughout his previous collections; he writes of Eden, of the lost tribe that watched time enter the garden and God rehearse the world, and of the cartoon torments of hell. Yet for McCrae, these outer bounds of our universe are inseparable from the lives and deaths on Earth, from the mundanities and miracles of time passing and people growing up, growing old, and growing apart. As he writes, “God first thought time itself / Was flawed but time was God’s first mirror.”

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In the Language of My Captor

By: Shane McCrae

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Wesleyan University Press

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0819577138

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Mule: 10th Anniversary Edition

By: Shane McCrae

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Mule: 10th Anniversary Edition

By: Shane McCrae

Finalist for 2012 PEN Center USA Literary Award. Finalist for 2012 PEN Center USA Literary Award. 10th anniversary edition of Shane McCrae's groundbreaking first collection of poetry, MULE, first published in 2011. With new Poems by the author and an introduction by Victoria Chang. 'Imagine // welcoming the wound, ' McCrae writes in his frontispiece poem, 'The Cardinal Is The Marriage Bird.' McCrae not only acquiesces to the wound in Mule, but he revises the wound through language, and in the process, we are in the midst of beauty. I hope that a new generation of readers, through this tenth anniversary edition, will be able to experience the skillful contradictions within McCrae's language, and be opened up and broken in the same way that I was when I first read this stunning and singular book.--Victoria Chang MULE is a book both haunted and haunting--possessed by sound and its tremendous momentum, that somehow-suspended momentum, hypnotic in its rhythms and compelling in its headlong fall into the truth of the heart.--Cole Swensen Shane McCrae admits us to the marriage of impediments... in a country that too often insists on fracture over union.--Rachel Loden What a joy now to discover a voice such as Shane McCrae's, who... finds his new music, and compels us with its outbursts and heartbreak and yells and stuttering of joy and its sudden clarity of perception that is like no other. Shane McCrae is a master.--Ilya Kaminsky Some books come down like gods dying to transform us out of our empty, shattered lives. MULE is such a book... McCrae's is a living, breathing poetry made of wisdom and wrenching song.--Katie Ford Poetry.

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Cleveland State University Poetry Center

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1734816740

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9781734816747

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