Collection of essays and art by scholars, artists and activists both in and out of prison that reveal the many dimensions of women’s incarcerated experiences.

A young biology teacher, imprisoned for an affair with one of his students, is rehabilitated through his writing and drawings of nature.

Welcome to the story of Stephen Kovacs, recently graduated from University and ready to start his life. Unfortunately, Stephen has some hangover traits from his days as a student, and working in a kindergarten sets conflicts with his partying and desire to sleep in every day. Stephen is assigned an eight year old autistic child and finds he needs to adapt to a new purpose and a curriculum with the needs of a young man afflicted with a serious diagnosis. Stephen needs to learn quickly or the future of the child will be thrown into dire circumstances. However, he is brought into conflict and must weigh the regimented curriculum against the child’s unique needs, and his own abilities. Crayons and Razorwire tackles the serious issue of mental disability while remaining light-hearted with a heavy dose of comedy. Read the story of his unexpected journey. Based heavily on the author’s own experience working alongside children with disabilities to provide a realistic and at times beautiful entry into a new world. Humorous, touching, while at the same time being a fast-paced ride into pop culture, music and even occasional bizarre celebrity cameos. Crayons and Razorwire is a one-of-a-kind book that will stay with you forever.

The history of animals and humans as seen through barbed wire.

Author John Mittendorf has completely rewritten his best-selling book, Truck Company Operations, a must-have for all firefighters who are assigned to the truck and who have responsibilities for the truck on the fireground. The new second edition covers the many aspects, tasks, and functions of a truck company, and contains new and expanded information related to search, reading a building, reading smoke, the Ten Commandments of truck company operations, operating truck apparatus, and more--all from a truck company perspective.

In her first poetry collection since 2001, H. L. Raven delves back into the depths, thrashing through the darkness but surfacing triumphant. Bare, raw, and personal, this is no trip for the faint of heart.

This book investigates the hostile environment and politics of visceral and racial denigration which have characterised responses to refugees and migrants within the UK and Europe in recent years. The European ‘migrant crisis’ from 2015 onwards has been characterised by an extremely intimidating atmosphere which denies the basic humanity of refugees and migrants. Deep rooted in Western Enlightenment trajectory, this racially-driven politics is linked to the Western theories of scientific superiority which went on to become the basis of eugenics and coloniality as part of modernity. Focusing on the ‘migrant crisis’, Brexit, and the impacts of the global pandemic, this book unpicks the waves of crises and neuroses about the ‘Other’ in Europe and the UK. The chapters analyse the rhetoric of camps, refrigerated death lorries, the notion of channel crossings and ‘accidental’ drownings, the formation of relationship with border architecture such as the razor wire, and corporeal resistance in detention centres through hunger strike. In examining such specific sites of rhetorical articulation, policy formation, social imagination, and its incumbent visuality, the chapters deconstruct the intersection of dominant ideologies, power, knowledge paradigms (including the media) as part of the public sphere and their combined re-mediation of the dispossessed humans in the shores and borders of Europe. This important interdisciplinary volume will be of interest to researchers of migration, humanitarianism, geography, global development, sociology and communication studies.

Today, threats to the security of an organization can come from a variety of sources- from outside espionage to disgruntled employees and internet risks to utility failure. Reflecting the diverse and specialized nature of the security industry, Security: An Introduction provides an up-to-date treatment of a topic that has become increasingly comple

I let it go—all of it. Everything I’d been saving up all my life, building and growing inside me, too much to hold in one half-human body. It pushed and fought to be free with a force that turned me into a bomb with a timer vibrating on zero. I was free. But so was everything I’d fought so hard not to be.... Brothers Cal and Niko Leandros know trouble when they see it—and then proceed to wipe the floor with it. But now it seems their whole world is falling to pieces. Cal’s nightmarish monster side is growing ever stronger, changing Cal physically as well as mentally. Which is exactly what Grimm—Cal’s savage doppelgänger—wants. And when a covert supernatural organization decides that it’s time to put Cal down before he threatens pretty much everything else in existence, the brothers find themselves in a fight they actually might lose. But the dark temptations Cal has denied all his life may prove to be exactly what can save them. Even if he must fall forever…

"One of the most complete collections of essays on U.S.-Mexico border studies"--Provided by publisher.