A New Deal for Social Welfare: A Powerful Analysis of the Contract Culture, and Practical Proposals for a Way Forward

Holman, Bob

Lion publishing Plc.

Children and Crime

Concerned about the distance of academics from the problems they study, Bob Holtman has been living and working on Europe's largest public housing estate, Easterhouse in Glasgow, for many years. In his powerful new book, Holman asks seven people who experience poverty every day to describe the reality of their lives. These moving and articulate accounts of life at the bottom of the social scale deserve to be heard by the policy-makers, social workers, churches, and voluntary groups who presume to know what is best for the poor.

Faith in the Poor

Politics & Social Sciences

Social Sciences

Lion UK

Keir Hardie was a founder and the first parliamentary leader of the Labour Party. At the turn of the 19th century he was Labour's most famous face. But despite being voted Labour's 'Greatest Hero' at the 2008 Party Conference, in recent years his extraordinary story seems all but forgotten. Born illegitimate just outside Glasgow in 1856, his life didn't start gently. Before the age of 10, he was the sole wage earner in his working class, atheist family. He never went to school but was self-taught, avidly reading books lent him by a kind young clergyman. This led to two major conversions in his life: first to Christianity, and then to socialism. While earlier biographies have neglected the former, pointing out his experience of hardship as the source of his passion for social justice, the role of Christianity in Hardie's life was profound. It shaped his involvement in many of the greatest social changes of the time.

Keir Hardie

Biographies & Memoirs

Historical

Lion Hudson

Woodbine Willie was the affectionate nickname of the Reverend Geoffrey Studdert Kennedy, an Anglican priest who volunteered as a chaplain on the Western Front during the First World War. He won the Military Cross for his reckless courage, running into No Man's Land to help the wounded. This superb biography is based on original interviews with those who knew and loved him. A deep and real concern for his fellow men drove him relentlessly, and this book shows how vital was the role he played, on the battlefields of the trenches and then the slums. Bob Holman, described by the Daily Telegraph as 'the good man of Glasgow', has made a mission of living alongside the disadvantaged of British society. An accomplished writer, who contributes regularly to the Guardian, he is the author of several books.

Woodbine Willie: An Unsung Hero of World War One

Leaders & Notable People

Lion Books

Offers a collection of poems, including "Cupid's Cashbox," "Cowboy Heaven," "I'd Rather Be Crazy than Stupid," and "You Can't Be a Jerk and Write Great Poetry"

Bob Holman's the Collect Call of the Wild

Literature & Fiction

Poetry

Henry Holt Co.

Bob Holman has a mission: To set poetry free, to empower the public with language - to make poetry as natural a use for language as ordering a pizza. As Bob says, "The universal remote control is being passed into your hands. Poetry is the Language of the Future."

A companion volume to the public television series on modern American poetry features some eighty contemporary poems by poets ranging from Nobel laureates to the Beat poets, rock songwriters and rappers to hip-hop, Creole, and American Sign Language poets.

United States of Poetry

Blum, Joshua

Pellington, Mark

History & Criticism

Harry N. Abrams

Panic DJ: Performance text, poems, raps, songs (Contemporary scripts)

VRI Theater Library

Poetry. Bilingual Edition. Translated into Spanish by Sol Gaitan. PICASSO IN BARCELONA is Bob Holman's fifteenth book, if you count CDs, videos, anthologies and translations, which he does. In it, he takes on Pablo Picasso, and it's pretty much a draw. But then, it is Picasso at age 15, so somewhat unfair, and of course Pablo doesn't give us his version of what went on. Still, it smells of poetry, and it rings like truth. The dance mix is guaranteed to get you moving, and the Spanish translation (thanks to Sol Gaitan) will come in handy when you are asking for directions in Barcelona.

Picasso in Barcelona

Paper Kite Press

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