"Doing Time" describes life in a maximum security prison, as experienced by first-time prisoners. The study is based on a collaboration between an inmate-sociology graduate student and a sociologist. The analysis presented focuses on the phenomenological experience of the prison world and the consequent adaptations and transformations that it evokes. "Doing Time" is not an expose on prison conditions; it is an intimate view of a maximum security prison and its effects on new inmates.

Doing Time: Prison Experience and Identity Among First-Time Inmates (Contemporary Ethnographic Studies, 9)

Politics & Social Sciences

Jones, Gary

Jones, Richard S.

Piccard, Bertrand

Social Sciences

Emerald Publishing Limited

A human face on the realities of professional football, from the challenges players face after leaving the NFL to the factors that can enable them to continue to find success 2016 Best Book Award, North American Society for the Sociology of Sport Is There Life After Football?draws upon the experiences of hundreds of former players as they describe their lives playing the sport and after their football days are over. The “bubble”-like conditions of privilege that NFL players experience while playing, often leave players unprepared for the real world once they retire and must manage their own lives. The book also reveals the difficulties affecting former NFL players in retirement: social isolation, financial concerns, inadequate career planning, psychological challenges, and physical injuries. From players who make reckless and unsustainable financial investments during their very few high-earning years, to players who struggle to form personal and professional relationships outside of football, the stories in the book put a very human face on the realities of professional football. George Koonce Jr., a former NFL player himself, weaves in his own story throughout, explaining the challenges he encountered and decisions that helped him succeed after leaving the sport. Ultimately, Is There Life After Football? concludes that, despite the challenges players face, it is possible for players to find success after leaving the NFL if they have the right support, education, and awareness of what might await them. 
 Instructor's Guide

Is There Life After Football?: Surviving the NFL

Holstein, James A.

Koonce Jr., George E.

Sociology

NYU Press

Teaching geography is not a "Mission Impossible" when you use this intriguing game format that involves students in learning. Start out building students’ skills with activities from the training manual. Then select from 176 fun, reproducible activities that send students out on "missions" to gain information about other cultures and places in the world. Each activity includes a teacher guidemaking it easy for you to teach geography. Challenge your students to learn about continental and urban topics, historical periods and events, and world explorations.

Tools for the Geographer: 176 Reproducible Explorations

Travel

Chicago Review Press

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