A Graphic Retelling Of The Most Historic Election Of Our Time Beyond the pandering focus groups, the billion-dollar fund-raising machinery, and the relentless myopia of the 24-hour news cycle, it was clear that something deep in the American psyche was stirring as the rumblings of the 2008 election first began. 08’ follows the epic 2008 presidential campaign and its dramatic cast of characters: the inevitable former first lady with a terrible plan to win, the freshman African-American Senator who skyrockets onto the national stage, and a former POW’s hangdog campaign that overcomes both a Mormon Governor and a thrice-married (occasionally cross-dressing) Mayor. Taking its cur from campaign classics like Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail ’72 and The Making of the President Series, 08 brings politico journalism into the graphic novel form. Reflect on all the single-issue candidates, the pundits, the meltdowns, the awkward missteps, and the ruthless maneuvers of the scorched-earth campaign trail as they knit themselves into a political tale of the present-day battle for the future of America.

08: A Graphic Diary of the Campaign Trail

Comics & Graphic Novels

Crowley, Michael

Goldman, Dan

Graphic Novels

Three Rivers Press

Leonard, the new boy on Spurwink Avenue, is the envy of the other kids in the neighborhood because of his talent for turning attic junk into a most amazing contraption.

New Kid on Spurwink Ave.

Little,Brown & Co

When the Broad Cove Bullies challenge the Spurwink Gang to a bike race to the Lobster Shack and back, a battle of the sexes threatens to tear the gang apart. By the author of New Kid on Spurwink Ave.

Shack and Back

Children's Books

Little,Brown & Company

Photographer Nance Trueworthy and commercial-fishing journalist Mike Crowley paint a handsome―and accurate―portrait of the men and women who earn a living in commercial fisheries along the coast of Maine, where inshore fishing is more than just a business. It's a lifestyle, one that defines each day not only for those who fish, but for their families. Thanks to Trueworthy's thoughtful color images and Crowley's easily digested descriptions, this is a magical world of alewives, softshell clams, lobsters, sea urchins, and northern shrimp, to mention just a few.

Down the Shore

Arts & Photography

Trueworthy, Nance

Photography & Video

Down East Books

Secret Drugs of Buddhism is the first book to explore the historical evidence for the use of entheogenic plants within the Buddhist tradition. Drawing on scriptural sources, botany, pharmacology, and religious iconography, this book calls attention to the central role which psychedelics played in Indian religions. It traces their history from the mysterious soma potion, celebrated in the most ancient Hindu scriptures, to amrita, the sacramental drink of Vajrayana Buddhism. Although amrita used in modern Vajrayana ceremonies lacks any psychoactivity, there is copious evidence that the amrita used by the earliest Vajrayana practitioners was a potent entheogen. It is the nature of this psychedelic form of the sacrament which is the central topic of this book. In particular, Secret Drugs of Buddhism attempts to identify the specific ingredients employed in amrita’s earliest formulations. To this end, the book presents evidence from many countries in which the Vajrayana movement flourished. These include Bhutan, Japan, Mongolia, and Tibet but special attention is given to India, the land of its origin.

Secret Drugs of Buddhism: Psychedelic Sacraments and the Origins of the Vajrayana

History

Asia

Synergetic Press

Incorporating a wealth of new information from around the world, this study concerns contemporary research, development, promotion and deployment of weapons employing two distinct types of toxic chemicals: riot control agents and incapacitating chemical agents. Dr Crowley highlights the international community's failure to effectively regulate these weapons, and the consequences for human rights and human security. Employing an innovative 'holistic arms control' methodology, the author analyses regulatory systems and the international law potentially applicable to such weapons in order to develop effective routes to combat their misuse. In addition to State-centric mechanisms, the increasingly important roles of the scientific and medical communities, and informed activist civil society, are explored.

Chemical Control: Regulation of Incapacitating Chemical Agent Weapons, Riot Control Agents and their Means of Delivery (Global Issues)

Americas

PALGRAVE~MACMILLAN

Who Am I?

Biographies & Memoirs

Xlibris

Play set in a down-at-heel northern music hall where the proprietor is bent on reviving the venue's glory days by persuading the now released John 'Babbacombe' Lee - the only person to have been reprieved by a Home Secretary after standing on a gallows trap which failed to open - to team up with his failing executioner James Berry in a double act.

The Man They Couldn't Hang: A Tale of Murder, Mystery and Celebrity

Literature & Fiction

History & Criticism

Waterside Pr

A book for anyone concerned about the level of literacy amongst prisoners. Behind The Lines is the product of some 15 years of working with offenders and people at risk in prison and in the community. It is based on the author's extensive experience of using creative writing to change and improve thinking and behaviour to prevent crime. It includes: Easy to read explanations of the method; Dozens of practical exercises and ideas for discussion; Advice about the different approaches; Samples of writing by offenders, inside and outside of prison; The author's views about what works to engage and encourage (often) wary participants. Behind the Lines represents a major contribution to rehabilitative work (in one sense it is the prison-writing equivalent of the highly successful Waterside Press publication, The Geese Theatre Handbook). A Key Resource For: Writers in residence; Offending behaviour group workers; Youth workers; Youth offending teams; Community workers; Psychotherapists, therapists and counsellors; Special needs workers and teachers; Anyone tackling literacy levels of risk groups... and people training or studying in these and related fields. Reviews 'A very useful resource for those working in difficult environments, with students who generally have low levels of traditional educational attainment, negative learning experiences and who, due to cultural and class barriers, are not accustomed to engaging with the arts, either in institutions or outside': Cormac Behan, Lecturer in Criminology, University of Sheffield. 'Essential reading for anyone interested in the real challenges of rehabilitation': Pat Jones, Director of the Prisoners Education Trust (2008-12). 'Shows how you can turn the lead of anger and despair in prisoners into the gold of insight and creativity': Oliver James, author. 'Shows a sceptical world that [young offenders] are capable of reflection, of understanding what led them into the acts they have committed and the effects on other people and on themselves': Alicia Stubbersfield, Poet and Koestler Award Judge. 'A wake-up call to the educational system, which allows so many young people to leave school in the parlous position that he describes, and which creative writers up and down the country are devoting so much time and effort to mitigate': David Ramsbotham. Author Michael Crowley is a youth justice worker and writer. His works as a playwright include 'Beyond Omarska', 'The Man They Couldn't Hang' (published by Waterside Press 2010), and 'A Warning against Idle Gossip'. He has written for youth theatre and been writer in residence at a young offenders' institution for the last five years. He lives in West Yorkshire.

Behind the Lines: Creative Writing with Offenders and People at Risk

Reference

Words, Language & Grammar

Waterside Press

The Stony Ground is the story of Cornish farmworker James Ruse, reprieved from the hangman's noose and transported to Botany Bay on the First Fleet in 1788. Ruse, commemorated as a pioneer in his adopted country, was reputedly the first prisoner ashore, carrying an officer on his back. Eventually pardoned, at Experiment Farm he became Australia's first settled farmer, the first ex-convict to be granted land and the first settler to become self-sufficient, bringing him into conflict with indigenous people. In this gripping historical novel the life of Australia's most symbolic convict is described in Ruse's own voice.

The Stony Ground: The Remembered Life of Convict James Ruse

British & Irish

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