Some debts are impossible to pay.Son of the Father is a creative storytelling of Barabbas, the man released in the hours leading up to Jesus' crucifixion.Long before his life is traded for Jesus', Barabbas' family is ruined, a consequence of his own rage. Consumed with guilt he resolves to put things right, but this seems an impossible task. Huge debts, a man bent on revenge, theft, and murder hang above his head.As Barabbas strugg...

From the Free Speech Movement to the Factory Floor documents the overlooked history and lasting influence of the International Socialists through the words of its members.The Independent Socialist Club, founded at UC Berkeley in 1964 as a radical civil rights group, lit the spark of the Free Speech Movement that same year, and its members and successor organizations would go on to play an outsized role in shaping the course of both the Black freedom strugg...

The 1960 California Master Plan for Higher Education remains to this day the largest and most ambitious attempt to provide free, universal college education in the United States. Yet the Master Plan, the product of committed Cold War liberals, unfortunately served to reinforce the very class-based exclusions and de facto racism that plagued K–12 education in the nation’s largest and most diverse state. In doing so, it inspired a wave of student and faculty organizing that not only forced a...

A Language of Freedom and Teacher’s Authority: Case Comparisons from Turkey and the United States explores dimensions of authority that are deeply embedded in the profession of teaching. It examines critical dimensions of the foundations of Turkish and U.S. public education, both of which are under new pressures due to changes in the relationship between public schooling and current reforms in education. The contributors reflect on varied dimensions of authority, of which ideals are shifti...

In cities all across the United States, the courthouse represents justice, safety, and the rule of law. However, in some cities it becomes much more, becoming the home of tragic occasions of mob violence and becoming nationally known through famous or infamous trials.Courthouse Chaos: Famous and Infamous Trials and Mob Justice covers the most notable of these cases in detail, offering true crime lovers their money’s worth in local stories, well-researched facts, cutting in...

Do you believe there was a way to raise well-behaved children without punishment?Are you afraid the only alternative is being overly indulgent?Do you want to learn how to help your child pursue their dreams?Would you like to be a good and positive parent for your child?In this "Positive Parenting Guide", you'll find several pointers to improve parenting.What every pa...

In our journey of parenting teens, we have all hit bumps in the road. Some of us might have had a hard time finding the balance between having an authoritative voice while not being too strict that they turn their nose up at us or always feel they are in the wrong. We may also be struggling with how to give them room to be autonomous and still provide supervision since it is often difficult for adolescents to figure life out on their own. As a parent, you want them to succeed and learn goo...

Parenting is the most heroic and rewarding activity you will ever undertake, and now you have an "One-Stop Parenting Guide". When your child's future is at stake, no stone should be left unturned in your quest for tools and tips you can use to make them better. In this concise guide, every aspect of parenting is covered. This book comprises two books; namely Positive Parenting Guide and Parenting Teens.

Most of us think of the 1970s as an "in-between" decade, the uninspiring years that happened to fall between the excitement of the 1960s and the Reagan Revolution. A kitschy period summed up as the "Me Decade," it was the time of Watergate and the end of Vietnam, of malaise and gas lines, but of nothing revolutionary, nothing with long-lasting significance.In the first full history of the period, Bruce Schulman, a rising young cultural and political historian, sweeps away misconcept...

A history about those who advise, mentor, and operate behind the throne of the 44th President of the United States, Barack Obama. From early childhood to the present day the President chose to keep his personal life a secret. Those who surround him fall into a wide category of radicals, marxists, communists, and Americans who have joined together in a coordinated effort to overthrow capitalism and the Republic of the United States of America.ExcerptsTen short years ago, US S...

THE STORY OF SOME OF THE MOST IMPORTANT AND LITTLE-KNOWN ACTIVISTS OF THE 1960s, IN A DEEPLY SOURCED NARRATIVE HISTORYThe historians of the late 1960s have emphasized the work of a group of white college activists who courageously took to the streets to protest the war in Vietnam and continuing racial inequality. Poor and working-class whites have tended to be painted as spectators, reactionaries, and, even, racists. Most Americans, the story goes, just watched the...

In this nuanced and groundbreaking history, Donna Murch argues that the Black Panther Party (BPP) started with a study group. Drawing on oral history and untapped archival sources, she explains how a relatively small city with a recent history of African American settlement produced such compelling and influential forms of Black Power politics.During an era of expansion and political struggle in California’s system of public higher education, black southern migrants formed the BPP....