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This book promotes the notion of second chances and the importance
of human services within the communities most affected by crime and
the criminal justice system. Recognition of the fallibility of
humans and the necessity of redemption is the first step to change
our attitude toward guilt and punishment. Barring citizens with
criminal records from obtaining housing, employment, education, and
public benefits like Medicaid and food stamps is not only unjust
but unproductive for a human society. The contributors to this
volume argue that second chances are a foundational principle of
the human services field.
Charting the intersection of aesthetic representation and the
material conditions of urban space, The City Since 9/11 posits that
the contemporary metropolis provides a significant context for
reassessing theoretical concerns related to narrative, identity,
home, and personal precarity. In the years since the September 11
attacks, writers and filmmakers have explored urban spaces as
contested sites-shaped by the prevailing discourses of
neoliberalism, homeland security, and the war on terror, but also
haunted by an absence in the landscape that registers loss and
prefigures future menace. In works of literature, film, and
television, the city emerges as a paradoxical space of permanence
and vulnerability and a convergence point for anxieties about
globalization, structural inequality, and apocalyptic violence.
Building on previous scholarship addressing trauma and the
spectacle of terror, the contributors also draw upon works of
philosophy, urban studies, and postmodern geography to theorize how
literary and visual representations expose the persistent conflicts
that arise as cities rebuild in the shadow of past ruins. Their
essays advance new lines of argument that clarify art's role in
contemporary debates about spatial practices, gentrification,
cosmopolitanism, memory and history, nostalgia, the uncanny and the
abject, postmodern virtuality, the politics of realism, and the
economic and social life of cities. The book offers fresh readings
of familiar post-9/11 novels, such as Jonathan Safran Foer's
Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close, but it also considers works
by Teju Cole, Joseph O'Neill, Silver Krieger, Colum McCann, Ronald
Sukenick, Jonathan Lethem, Thomas Pynchon, Colson Whitehead, Paul
Auster, William Gibson, Amitav Ghosh, and Katherine Boo. In
addition, The City Since 9/11 includes essays on the films Children
of Men, Hugo, and the adaptation of Extremely Loud & Incredibly
Close, chapters on the television series The Bridge, The Killing,
and The Wire, and an analysis of Michael Arad's Reflecting Absence
and the 9/11 Memorial.
Failure to Launch is a book geared towards helping clinicians work
with dependent adult children. The book first attempts to define
the problem of failure to launch as well as identify the underlying
causes such as entitlement, narcissism, enabling family systems,
and undiagnosed mental health problems. Failure to Launch also lays
out a step-by-step treatment plan to help guide clinicians with
these clients to help facilitate change. The book includes case
studies, sample chapters, and the latest research to help
illustrate the theoretical basis for the treatments in this book.
Failure to Launch is a book geared towards helping clinicians work
with dependent adult children. The book first attempts to define
the problem of failure to launch as well as identify the underlying
causes such as entitlement, narcissism, enabling family systems,
and undiagnosed mental health problems. Failure to Launch also lays
out a step-by-step treatment plan to help guide clinicians with
these clients to help facilitate change. The book includes case
studies, sample chapters, and the latest research to help
illustrate the theoretical basis for the treatments in this book.
This book promotes the notion of second chances and the importance
of human services within the communities most affected by crime and
the criminal justice system. Recognition of the fallibility of
humans and the necessity of redemption is the first step to change
our attitude toward guilt and punishment. Barring citizens with
criminal records from obtaining housing, employment, education, and
public benefits like Medicaid and food stamps is not only unjust
but unproductive for a human society. The contributors to this
volume argue that second chances are a foundational principle of
the human services field.
Popular American fiction has now secured a routine position in the
higher education classroom despite its historic status as
culturally suspect. This newfound respect and inclusion have almost
certainly changed the pedagogical landscape, and Teaching Tainted
Lit explores that altered terrain. If the academy has historically
ignored, or even sneered at, the popular, then its new
accommodation within the framework of college English is
noteworthy: surely the popular introduces both pleasures and
problems that did not exist when faculty exclusively taught
literature from anestablished "high" canon. How, then, does the
assumption that the popular matters affect teaching strategies,
classroom climates, and both personal and institutional notions
about what it means to study literature? The essays in this
collection presume that the popular is here to stay and that its
instructive implications are not merely noteworthy,but richly
nuanced and deeply compelling. They address a broad variety of
issues concerning canonicity, literature, genre, and theclassroom,
as its contributors teach everything from Stephen King and Lady
Gaga to nineteenthcentury dime novels and the 1852bestseller Uncle
Tom's Cabin. It is no secret that teaching popular texts fuels
controversies about the value of cultural studies, the alleged
relaxation of aestheticstandards, and the possible "dumbing down"
of Americans. By implicitly and explicitly addressing such
contentious issues, these essays invite a broader conversation
about the place of thepopular not only in higher education but in
the reading lives of all Americans.
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