A psychotherapist shows how to identify the fears that are inhibiting one's life, ranging from public speaking and intimacy to aging and rejection, and how to transform frustration and helplessness into power to create success in every aspect of life, in a twentieth anniversary edition of the best-selling guide.
“The Big House" is America’s idea of the prison—a huge, tough, ostentatiously oppressive pile of rock, bristling with rules and punishments, overwhelming in size and the intent to intimidate. Stephen Cox tells the story of the American prison—its politics, its sex, its violence, its inability to control itself—and its idealization in American popular culture. This book investigates both the popular images of prison and the realities behind them: problems of control and discipline, maintenance and reform, power and sexuality. It conveys an awareness of the limits of human and institutional power, and of the symbolic and iconic qualities the “Big House” has attained in America’s understanding of itself.
Marked for greatness after being struck by lightning in infancy, Mary Anning discovers a fossilized skeleton near her 19th century home that triggers attacks on her character and upheavals throughout the religious, scientific, and academic communities.
Documents the historical first fossil find of twelve-year-old Mary Anning in 1811, offering insight into the pivotal significance of the discipline of paleontology and how it impacted the scientific and religious communities as well as ongoing debates about evolution.
Documents the Pulitzer Prize-winning author's efforts to assume responsibility for his young son's failing baseball program in an immigrant suburb of Los Angeles, an effort that was complicated by challenges in his personal life, his mother's cancer diagnosis, and community dynamics.
This book examines the animosity towards the New York Yankees among fans of Major League Baseball and what that revilement says about the game, its fans, and America itself.
An award-winning food writer introduces the concept of an Italian "culinary code" through which various regions develop and distinguish unique food traditions, in a narrative tribute that features lavish menus and a glossary of terms.