"This book has the potential to be a classic in the fields of race relations and urban sociology." Cleveland State University

This six-month devotional book paints the pictures that bond the "Brotherhood" of huntsmen and believers through hunting and fishing anecdotes, tips and techniques, history, and humor. The anthology's uniqueness lies in the fall format corresponding to upland, waterfowl, and big game seasons. Its effectiveness resonates through the author's 120 daily insights that provoke challenges and inspire readers to reevaluate motives within their pursuits of field and faith. Are you ready for the jo...

How an alliance of the labor and environmental movements used law as a tool to clean up the trucking industry at the nation's largest port.In Blue and Green, Scott Cummings examines a campaign by the labor and environmental movements to transform trucking at America's largest port in Los Angeles. Tracing the history of struggle in an industry at the epicenter of the global supply chain, Cummings shows how an unprecedented “blue-green” alliance mobilized to...

An Equal Place is a monumental study of the role of lawyers in the movement to challenge economic inequality in one of America's most unequal cities: Los Angeles. Breaking with the traditional focus on national civil rights history, the book turns to the stories of contemporary lawyers, on the front lines and behind the scenes, who use law to reshape the meaning of low-wage work in the local economy. Covering a transformative period of L.A. history, from the 1992 riots to the 2008...

Maria Irene Fornes is the most influential female American dramatist of the 20th century. That is the argument of this important new study, the first to assess Fornes's complete body of work.Scott T. Cummings considers comic sketches, opera libretti and unpublished pieces, as well as her best-known plays, in order to trace the evolution of her dramaturgy from the whimsical Off-Off Broadway plays of the 1960s to the sober, meditative work of the 1990s. The book also reflects on her ...

This six-month devotional book paints the pictures that bond the "Brotherhood" of huntsmen and believers through hunting and fishing anecdotes, tips and techniques, history, and humor. The anthology's uniqueness lies in the fall format corresponding to upland, waterfowl, and big game seasons. Its effectiveness resonates through the author's 120 daily insights that provoke challenges and inspire readers to reevaluate motives within their pursuits of field and faith. Are you ready for the jo...

A mysterious creature is stealing all the cookies at the Snookie-Cookie Bakery. Join the Snookie-Cookie Crew as they collect clues and rely on their imaginations and problem solving skills to solve the mystery of the Cranberry Cookie Cruncher!

I don't forgive debts. If you owe me, you pay.It's how I've built my empire.But Ellie doesn't come begging me for her father's life; she comes demanding an exchange. Her life for his.A deal is struck.I'm not a good man. I'm a beast, and my hunger for her will be fed. I will possess her.But there's more at play here than just the possession of a beauty. Secrets don't stay buried.Outside forces want to take what's mine. And whe...

Meet Johnny. Odds are you don't know him. Johnny doesn't much care for people and avoids them when he can. He knows everyone suspects him. Try as hard as they might to hide their glances and whispers, they can't fool him. The voices, the demons tell him so. "Everyone knows, Johnny."A homeless drifter with lethal compulsions, Johnny finds himself looking for some respite from the voices' prodding in a glass of whiskey in an empty Memphis roadhouse. His efforts to curb his urges to m...

If you want to learn tips on how to cope with Type 1 Diabetes, then get "How To Live With Type 1 Diabetes" by someone who has Type 1 Diabetes in real life.Type 1 diabetes is not something to be taken lightly. Spending your entire life studying your illness, instead of actually living, isn't really what most diabetics have in mind either. Knowing the basics and living out the rest is the balance many are looking for, and the “How to Live With Type 1 Diabetes” guide is just the resou...

This book is about the role of lawyers in constructing a just society. Its central objective is to provide a deeper understanding of the relationship between lawyers' commercial aims and public aspirations. Drawing on interdisciplinary and comparative perspectives, it explores whether lawyers can transcend self-interest to meaningfully contribute to systems of political accountability, ethical advocacy and distributional fairness. Its contributors, some of the world's leading scholars of t...

The Theatre of Les Waters: More Like the Weather combines original writings from Les Waters with short essays by a wide range of his collaborators, creating a personal and multi-faceted portrait of an influential director, revered mentor, and inspirational theatre artist.The book begins with a critical introduction of Waters’s work, followed by essays written by a wide range of Waters's collaborators over the past four decades. These essays are framed by shorter pieces of ...