Murda', Misogyny, and Mayhem: Hip-Hop and the Culture of Abnormality in the Urban Community is a sociological work that utilizes a historical materialist perspective to expose the harmful effects of hip hop as a regulated industry, music, and culture. Spencer skillfully uses works by Antonio Gramsci and Paolo Freire as a backdrop to analyze how "hip hop" media reflects the stereotypical images that were used to justify enslavement, influences the culture of abnormality in the African American (urban) community, and promotes the prison industrial complex. This work is exceptionally innovative because it places the destruction of urban life and the urban experience in a theoretical and qualitative methodological frame. In so doing, Spencer thoroughly dissects the nature and purpose of the media as an industry designed to manipulate public perception of African Americans in the urban community. This careful analysis allows the reader to examine the relationship between the presentation of hip hop and the prevalence of murder, misogyny, and mayhem in the urban community.

This fun and humorous manual was written from the experience and perspective of a well loved University Professor who didn't forget what being a freshman was like. It provides a tool box of concise and "real life" survival skills that will help freshmen navigate the waters of their first year experience, at any University, successfully. Within the tool box, students will find advice on negotiating schedules,classes,coursework and professors, balancing the social and academic aspects of college life, developing effective study and test taking skills, and intimate guidance on growth, transition, and self actualization. In addition, the manual also provides a section to help "Freshman parents" negotiate the parental transition and provide and balance their support for their college students. This book is definitely a "survival guide" that all new freshmen should have!

Women Talk Too Damn Much! is the innovative blueprint of self and relationship actualization. It doesn't encourage women to think like men, but rather encourages women to understand themselves, while giving men a blueprint to understanding women in all of their complexities. Through uncovering the gender differences and disconnects between women and men that lead to disappointments, heartbreaks, break-ups, and even divorce, not through blame, but through the art of awareness, this work forces each to take a hard look at how we can subconsciously become counterproductive to reaching our own relationship goals. Women Talk Too Damn Much paves the way toward awareness, healing, actualization, and the ultimate connection and has proven to be equally relevant and exciting for women and men. It is a must read for anyone who is seeking true understanding and growth, and isn't afraid to get "gut punched" on the way. But most importantly it is a must read for anyone who is seeking LOVE!