For over 150 years the Lakota have tenaciously defended their culture and land against white miners, settlers, missionaries, and the U.S. Army, and paid the price. Their economy is in shambles and they face serious social issues, but their culture and outlook remain vibrant. Basketball has a role to play in the way that people on Pine Ridge Indian Reservation configure their hopes for a better future, and for pride in their community.In Lakota Hoops, anthropologist Alan Kl...

A sociologist and anthropologist scientifically examines the worldwide growth of MLB and America's favorite pastime.Baseball fans understand the game has become increasingly international. Major league rosters include players from no fewer than fourteen countries, and more than one-fourth of all players are foreign born. Here, Alan Klein offers the first full-length study of a sport in the process of globalizing. Looking at the international activities of big-marke...

Go Where the Questions AreCuriosity, Courage, and the Daily Practice of Living on PurposeBy Alan L KleinWhat if the path to a more meaningful life isn’t about finding answers… but learning to ask better questions?You don’t need to overhaul your life to move forward. You don’t need a five-year plan, a bold reinvention, or complete clarity about what’s next. You just need to follow what makes you feel alive—and be wil...

Enjoyable sex: it’s not about technique or a perfect body or being hopelessly, passionately in love. It’s about Sexual Intelligence.In his three decades of working with couples and individuals as a sex therapist and marriage counselor, Dr. Marty Klein has continually seen that although most people say what they want from sex is pleasure and closeness, that’s not what they focus on during sex. Instead, we’re preoccupied with how we look, what our partner is thinking, how we’re perfo...

New Vision, New Reality presents a promising new approach to realizing our human potential by reclaiming our birthright to energy, joy, and creativity. Demonstrating how we all configure our world through personal perceptions, author Donald Klein shows that by removing self-imposed protective filters, we can see and experience more fully the good things in life. Guided exercises illustrate how to stop projecting our fears and shortcomings and instead view the world through a lens ...

In March 1987 a radical coalition of queer activists converged on Wall Street ... their target, 'Business, Big Business, Business as Usual!!!' It was ACT UP's first demonstration. In November 1999 a radical coalition of environmental, labor, anarchist, queer, and human rights activists converged in Seattle-their target was similar, a system of global capitalism. Between 1987 and 1999 a new project in activism had emerged unshackled from past ghosts. Through innovative use of civil rights' ...

In this absorbing new collection, Short and Hughes and their distinguished coauthors investigate why and how we study youth gangs. Over the last half-century of research by criminologists, sociologists, and gang experts, investigations of gang behavior have become increasingly specialized and isolated from studies of delinquency and deviance. The authors challenge popular and inaccurate definitions of gangs vs. non-gang youth groups, and show how the amazing diversity of gangs_both domesti...

Alan Comeaux is no stranger to hardship. His childhood was impacted by his father’s alcoholism. At almost 18 years of age, he moves from his parents’ home to pursue his life on his own. He lost his first real job in the oil field due to layoffs. He set sails for California. He ran out of money quickly and found himself homeless and living in his truck. He was robbed, stabbed, beaten and left to die on the streets. Through God, he found shelter and life again. Alan married his beautiful wif...

Swimming With The Alligators: Adventures In The EvergladesThis is a spirited book of stories for all ages, narrated by the lead character and storyteller, Alligator Alley, and featuring lots of alligators and crocodiles. The tales include "swimming with the alligators," kids in the eye of a hurricane, a rumble in the sugarcane with smugglers, a battle in the Everglades with an invading species, and discovery of a secret island and its ancient civilization.H...

While the COVID-19 pandemic overshadowed all else and would quickly have a lasting impact on our daily lives, other events related to the radical right in 2020 soon surfaced. From terrorist attacks in Germany and India to anti-mask protests across the U.S. and Europe, radical right violence escalated in the midst of circulating conspiracy theories and disinformation. The yearbook draws upon insightful analyses from an international network of scholars, policymakers, and practitioners who e...

Now available in paperback for classroom use!"This comprehensive text provides a rich source of perspectives on theorising about the family for scholars, researchers, and students. Another of the book′s strengths is the emphasis on multimethod approaches in family research. The book covers an impressive range of topics and issues - marital happiness, adjustment of children in divorce marriages, gay marriage, sibling ties, ethnic families of colour, stepfamilies, aggression cult...