A Place to Stand

  • A Place to Stand: The Making of a Poet
    By Jimmy Santiago Baca

    In an extraordinary memoir, one of America's leading poets describes his youth in New Mexico, his troubled adolescence, his years as a drug dealer in Arizona and San Diego, and the personal redemption that occurred after he was arrested and ...

  • A Place to Stand: Politics and Persuasion in a Working-class Bar
    By Assistant Professor of English Julie Lindquist, Julie Lindquist

    Bowling Green, OH: Bowling Green State University Popular Press. ———. 1994. The poetics of irony and the ethnography ... Allen D. Grimshaw, 85–117. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Grimes, Michael. 1991. Class in twentieth-century ...

  • A Place to Stand
    By Ann Bridge

    “But hold on a moment—Sam Harrison's here in my room and he'd like a word with you.” “Sam? What's he doing in Sofia?—I thought he was in Istanbul,” Bill said, in surprise. The colleague's voice conveyed amusement, even down the rather ...

  • A Place to Stand
    By Samuel Hall

    This poignant memoir continues the story begun in Daughter of the Cimarron, the tale of a widow who struggles to keep up her Dust Bowl farm for the sake of her three sons.

  • A Place to Stand: The Protection of New Zealand's Natural and Cultural Landscapes
    By Raewyn Peart, Environmental Defence Society

    A Place to Stand: The Protection of New Zealand's Natural and Cultural Landscapes

  • A Place to Stand
    By Jimmy Santiago Baca

    This raw, unflinching memoir is the remarkable tale of how he emerged after his years in the penitentiary—much of it spent in isolation—with the ability to read and a passion for writing poetry. “Proof there is always hope in even the ...

  • A Place to Stand: The Making of a Poet
    By Jimmy Santiago Baca

    In an extraordinary memoir, one of America's leading poets describes his youth in New Mexico, his troubled adolescence, his years as a drug dealer in Arizona and San Diego, and the personal redemption that occurred after he was arrested and ...

  • A Place to Stand
    By Jimmy Santiago Baca

    A Place to Stand, the wrenching memoir of Jimmy Santiago Baca, details how the written word helped him overcome a life of violence, bigotry, and crime.

  • A Place to Stand: The Word of God in the Life of Martin Luther
    By David J. Vaughan, Gene Edward Veith

    New entry in the Leaders In Action Series. Offers a spiritual biography of Martin Luther.

  • A Place to Stand: A Practical Guide to Christianity in Changing Times
    By Elton Trueblood

    A Place to Stand is addressed to those who recognize the need for a strong stand from which to operate in the confusion of contemporary thought. Ours has become an age, says Trueblood, in which people simply do not know what to think.