Foreword by Neil Schiff In the early 1980s , Cloe Madanes , one of the co - directors of the Family Therapy Institute of Washington , D.C. , observed offhandedly that in many of the couples and families that came to the Institute for ...
Award-winning research psychologist Michael E. Addis identifies and provides answers surrounding the long-unspoken epidemic of silence and vulnerability in men Drawing on scientific research, as well as his own personal and clinical ...
Some effort is made to account for those not otherwise counted, such as unresponsive households, the homeless, and transients (Anderson and Fienberg 1999; Citro, Cork, and Norwood 2004). Prior to the abolishment of slavery in the ...
I searched deeper and found that Dumas was of African descent and that much of the imagery surrounding the story is in tribute to his black father who was a persecuted general in Napoleon's Army. I knew I had found another gem that I ...
First published in 1897, The Invisible Man is one of the first science fiction stories. The disturbing tale centers on Griffin, a scientist who has discovered the means to make himself invisible.
The nameless narrator of the novel describes growing up in a black community in the South, attending a Negro college from which he is expelled, moving to New York and becoming the chief spokesman of the Harlem branch of "the Brotherhood", ...
Invisible Men is the most comprehensive study to date of the lives and work of English police constables on foot patrol in the early part of the twentieth century.
For not only does Ralph Ellison's nightmare journey across the racial divide tell unparalleled truths about the nature of bigotry and its effects on the minds of both victims and perpetrators, it gives us an entirely new model of what a ...
In this remarkable, intimate book, Nandini Krishnan burrows deep into the prejudices encountered by India's transmen, the complexities of hormonal transitions and sex reassignment surgery, issues of social and family estrangement, and ...
This is a dazzling mix of short stories, from an homage to Rick Moody ("The Virgins") to "The Invisible Invisible Man," where magic overalls keeps an overburdened husband out of sight. A delightful fabulist strain runs throughout.
The questions Smith asks in this book are urgent -- for him, for the martyrs and the tokens, and for the Trayvons that could have been and are still waiting.