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Post-Communist Stories

About Cities, Politics, Desires

By: Stan Persky

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Post-Communist Stories

About Cities, Politics, Desires

By: Stan Persky

In the midst of the sweep of history, it’s easy to anticipate that the events of twenty-five years ago might soon be lost to memory. We might forget why any of it mattered. In such conditions, it’s the responsibility of those of us who, among other things, write for the record, to use the occasion of a significant anniversary to ensure there are accounts of what happened, what we saw, and what we think it meant. (from Post-Communist Stories) Twenty-five years after the Berlin Wall was pulled down by Berliners fed up with the division of their city, Stan Persky returns to Eastern Europe. In essays informative and insightful, he illuminates what some consider the final act the Second World War: the end of the occupation by the Soviets of Germany, Poland, Hungary, Czechoslovakia, and the Baltic nations.

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Cormorant Books

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1770864474

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9781770864474

Reading the 21st Century

Books of the Decade, 2000-2009

By: Stan Persky

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Reading the 21st Century

Books of the Decade, 2000-2009

By: Stan Persky

The state of the world, books, and reading.

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McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP

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0773540474

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9780773540477

Robin Blaser

By: Stan Persky,Brian Fawcett

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Robin Blaser

By: Stan Persky,Brian Fawcett

Divided into two parts, Robin Blaser consists of two essays by people who knew Blaser intimately, as a life–long friend, a mentor and intellectual influence. In part one, award–winning author Stan Persky offers a cohesive guide to reading Robin Blaser's poetry and the ways in which Blaser's work was "an attempted rescue or defense of poetry". In part two, Brian Fawcett discusses how Blaser inspired and guided him in his formative years as a writer at the newly–opened Simon Fraser University in Burnaby, BC. From the authors' recollections, we are given a glimpse into the personal and professional relationships that developed between Persky, Fawcett, Robin Blaser, Jack Spicer, and many of the other poets associated with the "San Francisco renaissance" and the New American Poetry. At once a memoir and a reader, Robin Blaser is also an illustrated account of the remarkable life of the poet, with dozens of previously unpublished photographs included. In 2007, Robin Blaser was awarded the Griffin Poetry Prize. Robin Blaser celebrates the poet, the academic, and the person. Blaser died in spring 2009.

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New Star Books

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1554200520

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9781554200528

Buddy's

Meditations on Desire

By: Stan Persky

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Buddy's

Meditations on Desire

By: Stan Persky

Buddy’s is a gay bar in Vancouver’s West End that opened in the spring of 1982 and closed in the summer of 1988. It was the starting point for this unusually frank and engaging portrait of gay life and gay culture in the late eighties. Shifting effortlessly between autobiography, fiction, and criticism, Buddy’s is in turn shocking, erotic, witty, and moving, a study of life in a time of plague.

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148

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CNIB

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0921586191

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9780921586197

Ethical Justice

Applied Issues for Criminal Justice Students and Professionals

By: Brent E. Turvey,Stan Crowder

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Ethical Justice

Applied Issues for Criminal Justice Students and Professionals

By: Brent E. Turvey,Stan Crowder

This textbook was developed from an idiom shared by the authors and contributors alike: ethics and ethical challenges are generally black and white - not gray. They are akin to the pregnant woman or the gunshot victim; one cannot be a little pregnant or a little shot. Consequently, professional conduct is either ethical or it is not. Unafraid to be the harbingers, Turvey and Crowder set forth the parameters of key ethical issues across the five pillars of the criminal justice system: law enforcement, corrections, courts, forensic science, and academia. It demonstrates how each pillar is dependent upon its professional membership, and also upon the supporting efforts of the other pillars - with respect to both character and culture.With contributions from case-working experts across the CJ spectrum, this text reveals hard-earned insights into issues that are often absent from textbooks born out of just theory and research. Part 1 examines ethic issues in academia, with chapters on ethics for CJ students, CJ educators, and ethics in CJ research. Part 2 examines ethical issues in law enforcement, with separate chapters on law enforcement administration and criminal investigations. Part 3 examines ethical issues in the forensic services, considering the separate roles of crime lab administration and evidence examination. Part 4 examines ethical issues in the courts, with chapters discussing the prosecution, the defense, and the judiciary. Part 5 examines ethical issues in corrections, separately considering corrections staff and treatment staff in a forensic setting. The text concludes with Part 6, which examines ethical issues in a broad professional sense with respect to professional organizations and whistleblowers.Ethical Justice: Applied Issues for Criminal Justice Students and Professionals is intended for use as a textbook at the college and university, by undergraduate students enrolled in a program related to any of the CJ professions. It is intended to guide them through the real-world issues that they will encounter in both the classroom and in the professional community. However, it can also serve as an important reference manual for the CJ professional that may work in a community that lacks ethical mentoring or leadership. - First of its kind overview of the five pillars of criminal justice: academia, law enforcement, forensic services, courts and corrections - Written by practicing criminal justice professionals, from across every pillar - Offers a realistic overview of ethical issues confronted by criminals justice students and professionals - Examines sensitive subjects often ignored in other criminal justice ethics texts - Numerous cases examples in each chapter to facilitate instruction and learning

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Academic Press

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0124046460

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9780124046467

Reading the 21st Century

Books of the Decade, 2000-2009

By: Stan Persky

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Reading the 21st Century

Books of the Decade, 2000-2009

By: Stan Persky

In wide-ranging and innovative criticism, Stan Persky examines international non-fiction and fiction to engage with both the triumphs and tensions of reading and writing today. Evaluating works by established authors Philip Roth, Orhan Pamuk, J.M. Coetzee, and José Saramago, as well as emerging writers like Naomi Klein, Javier Cercas, and Chimamanda Adichie, Persky also showcases a remarkable group of reporters - Steve Coll, Dexter Filkins, and Rajiv Chandrasekaran - who have written essential books about global issues. An illuminating and accessible work about the present age, Reading the 21st Century introduces new ways of thinking about the world’s most significant cultural, political, and moral problems.

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McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP

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0773586075

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9780773586079

Robin Blaser

By: Stan Persky,Brian Fawcett

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Robin Blaser

By: Stan Persky,Brian Fawcett

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New Star Books

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1554200520

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Then We Take Berlin

Stories from the Other Side of Europe

By: Stan Persky

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Then We Take Berlin

Stories from the Other Side of Europe

By: Stan Persky

Stan Persky's tale of his adventure through Eastern Europe and into "boyopolis" -- the underbelly of Berlin, a fast-changing world of gay bars, houses of pleasure and cabarets that mirrors the fractured turmoil of Europe today-- was greeted with tremendous critical acclaim. With the wit and sexual candour of Edmund White, and the acute historical sense of Ryszard Kapuscinski, Persky gives us an intensely frank, revelatory and disturbing picture of the new Europe. "From the Trade Paperback edition.

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390

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Knopf Canada

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0394281055

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9780394281056

Tall Tales

By: Stan Davis

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Tall Tales

By: Stan Davis

After publishing fourteen professional books, Stan wrote Tall Tales to leave a legacy for subsequent generations, as a human annuity, as a mark of his post-retirement work, and as a way of taking stock. Its done in four genresmemoir, essay, fi ction and poetry-and grouped by theme, with sections on his personal life, work life, his thoughts on religion, ten fi ctional tales, and two intermezzi with some poems. Thats it. Have fun.

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199

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Xlibris Corporation

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1465375252

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9781465375254

Stan

An American Story

By: Stan Gober

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Stan

An American Story

By: Stan Gober

Stan Gober is an American icon. Each Sunday afternoon over 2,000 high spirited revelers celebrate life at Stan's Seafood Restaurant on Marco Island, Florida. They include Harley riding neurologists, desperate housewives and the ubiquitous good 'ol boys who populate southwest Florida. Book includes a CD of Stan's favorite songs and jokes.

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Keller Publishing LLC

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0967412862

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9780967412863

Excelsior!

The Amazing Life of Stan Lee

By: Stan Lee,George Mair

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Excelsior!

The Amazing Life of Stan Lee

By: Stan Lee,George Mair

The man behind Spider-Man, The X-Men, The Incredible Hulk, and a legion of other superheroes tells his own amazing story in a book packed with punch, humor, anecdotes, and a gallery of never-before-seen photographs. Stan Lee is the most legendary name in the history of comicbooks. The leading creative force behind the rise of Marvel Comics, he brought to life some of the world's best-known heroes and most infamous villains. His stories, featuring super- heroes who struggled against personal hang-ups and bad guys who possessed previously unseen psychological complexity, added wit and subtlety to a field previously locked into flat portrayals of good vs. evil. Lee put the human in the super-human. In the process, he created a new mythology for the twentieth century. In this treasure trove of marvelous memories, Stan tells the story of his life with the same inimitable wit, energy, and offbeat spirit that he brought to the world of comicbooks. He moves from his impoverished childhood in Manhattan to his early days writing comicbooks, followed by military training films during World War II, through the rise of the Marvel empire in the 1960s to his recent adventures in Hollywood. The story of a man who earned respect by blazing new creative trails in a storytelling form once dismissed as just for kids, Excelsior! is an inspirational story about following one's vision, no matter the odds. Yet it's also the story of how some of the most exciting and memorable characters in the pop-culture universe came to thrill a generation.

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Atria Books

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0684873052

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9780684873053

STAN LEES SUPERHERO XMAS 2/E

By: Stan Lee

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STAN LEES SUPERHERO XMAS 2/E

By: Stan Lee

It's the night before Christmas when suddenly Santa's old nemesis, the evil Ice King, and his terrible ice trolls launch a surprise attack on the North Pole and capture Santa. But all is not lost -- the powerful Protector is on his way to save the day! However, when the Protector arrives at the North Pole, he too is captured and it's up to his superhero wife, the Protectress, and their two children, Carolyn and Robert, to find a way to save Christmas.

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Milk & Cookies

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1596875267

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9781596875265

Stan Lynde's Pardners

The Bonding. Book one

By: Stan Lynde

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Stan Lynde's Pardners

The Bonding. Book one

By: Stan Lynde

An all new graphic novel from internationally syndicated cartoonist Stan Lynde, creator of RICK O'SHAY, & LATIGO. It's a heartwarming, humorous & spirited western adventure. A different kind of western. A different kind of love story. Introducing lone wolf Footloose Fairweather & his spunky young partner, Fancy Free. PARDNERS is historically set in the American West of the 1870's & 80's. A story that all of the family (8-80) will want to read...moral, fresh, wholesome & very entertaining!

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Cottonwood Publishing

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0962699918

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Post-Communist Stories

Post-Communist Stories

Reading the 21st Century

Reading the 21st Century

Robin Blaser

Robin Blaser

Buddy's

Buddy's

Ethical Justice

Ethical Justice

Reading the 21st Century

Reading the 21st Century

Robin Blaser

Robin Blaser

Then We Take Berlin

Then We Take Berlin

Tall Tales

Tall Tales

Stan

Stan

Excelsior!

Excelsior!

STAN LEES SUPERHERO XMAS 2/E

STAN LEES SUPERHERO XMAS 2/E

Stan Lynde's Pardners

Stan Lynde's Pardners

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