Author: Darcy Lockman
Publisher: Vintage
Release Date: 2012-07-17
Book Size: 76.77 MB
Book Format: PDF, ePub, Docs
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 320
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Brooklyn Zoo

by Darcy Lockman, Brooklyn Zoo Books available in Docs, PDF, EPUB, Mobi, Textbook, Kindle Format. Download Brooklyn Zoo book, A compelling memoir of a psychotherapist’s clinical and personal education amid chaos and dysfunction that delivers an emotional impact to rival Susan Sheehan’s classic Is There No Place on Earth for Me? Seven years after her college graduation, Darcy Lockman abandoned a career in magazine journalism to become a psychologist. After four years in classrooms, she spent her final training year at the Kings County Hospital, an aging public institution on the outskirts of Brooklyn. When she started, little did she know that the hospital’s behavioral health department—the infamous G Building, where the Son of Sam serial killer David Berkowitz and the rapper Ol’ Dirty Bastard once resided—was on the cusp of its darkest era yet, one that culminated in the death of a patient in a psychiatric emergency room described by the New York Post as a “Dickensian nightmare.” Brooklyn Zoo unfolds amid the constant drama and disorder of the G Building. Lockman rotates through four departments, each of which presents new challenges and haunting cases. She works with forensic psychologists to evaluate offenders for fitness to stand trial—almost all of them with pathos-filled histories and little hope of rehabilitation. The thorny politics of the psych ER compound her anxiety about working with its volatile patients, but under the wing of a charismatic if brusque mentor she gains a deeper insight into her new profession as well as into her own strengths and limitations. As she moves to the inpatient ward and then psychiatric consultation liaison, Lockman’s overstretched supervisors and the institutional preference for pills over therapy are persistent obstacles. But they eventually present a young clinician with the opportunity to reexamine everything she believes and to come out stronger on the other side. Lockman’s frank portrayal of her fledgling role in a warped system is a professional coming-of-age story that will resonate with anyone who has fought to develop career mastery in a demanding environment. A stark portrait of the struggling public mental-health-care system, Brooklyn Zoo is also an homage to the doctors who remain committed to their patients in spite of institutional failures and to the patients who strive to get better with their help. And it is an inspiring first-hand account by a narrator who triumphs over self-doubt to believe in the rightness and efficacy of her chosen profession.

Author: Jesse C. Donahue
Publisher: McFarland
Release Date: 2014-01-10
Book Size: 44.91 MB
Book Format: PDF, Mobi
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 235
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American Zoos During The Depression

by Jesse C. Donahue, American Zoos During The Depression Books available in Docs, PDF, EPUB, Mobi, Textbook, Kindle Format. Download American Zoos During The Depression book, American zoos flourished during the Great Depression, thanks to federal programs that enabled local governments to build new zoological parks, complete finished ones, and remodel outdated facilities. This historical text examines community leaders’ successful advocacy for zoo construction in the context of poverty and widespread suffering, arguing that they provided employment, stimulated tourism, and democratized leisure. Of particular interest is the rise of the zoo professional, which paved the way for science and conservation agendas. The text explores the New Deal’s profound impact on zoos and animal welfare and the legacy of its programs in zoos today.

Author: Alvin Blanco
Publisher: ABC-CLIO
Release Date: 2011
Book Size: 31.49 MB
Book Format: PDF, Mobi
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 254
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The Wu Tang Clan And Rza

by Alvin Blanco, The Wu Tang Clan And Rza Books available in Docs, PDF, EPUB, Mobi, Textbook, Kindle Format. Download The Wu Tang Clan And Rza book, Profiles the influential hip-hop group and their main producer through a detailed account of their lives and a comprehensive analysis of the songs and albums they have released.

Author: Sacha Jenkins
Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin
Release Date: 2014-03-25
Book Size: 14.80 MB
Book Format: PDF, ePub, Docs
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 352
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Ego Trip S Book Of Rap Lists

by Sacha Jenkins, Ego Trip S Book Of Rap Lists Books available in Docs, PDF, EPUB, Mobi, Textbook, Kindle Format. Download Ego Trip S Book Of Rap Lists book, Ego Trip's Book of Rap Lists is more popular than racism! Hip hop is huge, and it's time someone wrote it all down. And got it all right. With over 25 aggregate years of interviews, and virtually every hip hop single, remix and album ever recorded at their disposal, the highly respected Ego Trip staff are the ones to do it. The Book of Rap Lists runs the gamut of hip hop information. This is an exhaustive, indispensable and completely irreverent bible of true hip hip knowledge.

Author: James G. Spady
Publisher:
Release Date: 1995
Book Size: 54.82 MB
Book Format: PDF, ePub, Mobi
Category : Hip-hop
Languages : en
Pages : 310
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Twisted Tales

by James G. Spady, Twisted Tales Books available in Docs, PDF, EPUB, Mobi, Textbook, Kindle Format. Download Twisted Tales book,

Author: Marc Zvi Brettler
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date: 2012-10-01
Book Size: 60.24 MB
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Category : Bibles
Languages : en
Pages : 224
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The Bible And The Believer

by Marc Zvi Brettler, The Bible And The Believer Books available in Docs, PDF, EPUB, Mobi, Textbook, Kindle Format. Download The Bible And The Believer book, Can the Bible be approached both as sacred scripture and as a historical and literary text? For many people, it must be one or the other. How can we read the Bible both ways? The Bible and the Believer brings together three distinguished biblical scholars--one Jewish, one Catholic, and one Protestant--to illustrate how to read the Hebrew Bible/ Old Testament critically and religiously. Marc Zvi Brettler, Peter Enns, and Daniel J. Harrington tackle a dilemma that not only haunts biblical scholarship today, but also disturbs students and others exposed to biblical criticism for the first time, either in university courses or through their own reading. Failure to resolve these conflicting interpretive strategies often results in rejection of either the critical approach or the religious approach--or both. But the authors demonstrate how biblical criticism--the process of establishing the original contextual meaning of biblical texts with the tools of literary and historical analysis--need not undermine religious interpretations of the Bible, but can in fact enhance them. They show how awareness of new archeological evidence, cultural context, literary form, and other tools of historical criticism can provide the necessary preparation for a sound religious reading. And they argue that the challenges such study raises for religious belief should be brought into conversation with religious tradition rather than deemed grounds for dismissing either that tradition or biblical criticism. Guiding readers through the history of biblical exegesis within the Jewish, Catholic, and Protestant faith traditions, The Bible and the Believer bridges an age-old gap between critical and religious approaches to the Old Testament.

Author: Ahmir "Questlove" Thompson
Publisher: Hachette UK
Release Date: 2013-06-18
Book Size: 35.72 MB
Book Format: PDF, Mobi
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 288
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Mo Meta Blues

by Ahmir "Questlove" Thompson, Mo Meta Blues Books available in Docs, PDF, EPUB, Mobi, Textbook, Kindle Format. Download Mo Meta Blues book, "You have to bear in mind that [Questlove] is one of the smartest motherf*****s on the planet. His musical knowledge, for all practical purposes, is limitless." --Robert Christgau A punch-drunk memoir in which Everyone's Favorite Questlove tells his own story while tackling some of the lates, the greats, the fakes, the philosophers, the heavyweights, and the true originals of the music world. He digs deep into the album cuts of his life and unearths some pivotal moments in black art, hip hop, and pop culture. Ahmir "Questlove" Thompson is many things: virtuoso drummer, producer, arranger, Late Night with Jimmy Fallon bandleader, DJ, composer, and tireless Tweeter. He is one of our most ubiquitous cultural tastemakers, and in this, his first book, he reveals his own formative experiences--from growing up in 1970s West Philly as the son of a 1950s doo-wop singer, to finding his own way through the music world and ultimately co-founding and rising up with the Roots, a.k.a., the last hip hop band on Earth. Mo' Meta Blues also has some (many) random (or not) musings about the state of hip hop, the state of music criticism, the state of statements, as well as a plethora of run-ins with celebrities, idols, and fellow artists, from Stevie Wonder to KISS to D'Angelo to Jay-Z to Dave Chappelle to...you ever seen Prince roller-skate?!? But Mo' Meta Blues isn't just a memoir. It's a dialogue about the nature of memory and the idea of a post-modern black man saddled with some post-modern blues. It's a book that questions what a book like Mo' Meta Bluesreally is. It's the side wind of a one-of-a-kind mind. It's a rare gift that gives as well as takes. It's a record that keeps going around and around.

Author: Susan D. Carle
Publisher: NYU Press
Release Date: 2005-08-22
Book Size: 59.55 MB
Book Format: PDF, ePub, Mobi
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 425
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Lawyers Ethics And The Pursuit Of Social Justice

by Susan D. Carle, Lawyers Ethics And The Pursuit Of Social Justice Books available in Docs, PDF, EPUB, Mobi, Textbook, Kindle Format. Download Lawyers Ethics And The Pursuit Of Social Justice book, Susan D. Carle centers this collection of texts on the premise that legal ethics should be far more than a set of rules on professional responsibility.

Author: Joseph G. Schloss
Publisher: Wesleyan University Press
Release Date: 2014-11-20
Book Size: 68.67 MB
Book Format: PDF, ePub, Docs
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 240
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Making Beats

by Joseph G. Schloss, Making Beats Books available in Docs, PDF, EPUB, Mobi, Textbook, Kindle Format. Download Making Beats book, Based on ten years of research among hip-hop producers, Making Beats was the first work of scholarship to explore the goals, methods, and values of a surprisingly insular community. Focusing on a variety of subjects—from hip-hop artists’ pedagogical methods to the Afrodiasporic roots of the sampling process to the social significance of “digging” for rare records—Joseph G. Schloss examines the way hip-hop artists have managed to create a form of expression that reflects their creative aspirations, moral beliefs, political values, and cultural realities. This second edition of the book includes a new foreword by Jeff Chang and a new afterword by the author.

Author: Derrick Jensen
Publisher: No Voice Unheard
Release Date: 2007
Book Size: 12.30 MB
Book Format: PDF, ePub, Mobi
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 143
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Thought To Exist In The Wild

by Derrick Jensen, Thought To Exist In The Wild Books available in Docs, PDF, EPUB, Mobi, Textbook, Kindle Format. Download Thought To Exist In The Wild book, Provides a history of zoos, examines the faults of zoos, and argues for their dissolution.

Author: Terrell Dixon
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
Release Date: 2002
Book Size: 11.75 MB
Book Format: PDF
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 311
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City Wilds

by Terrell Dixon, City Wilds Books available in Docs, PDF, EPUB, Mobi, Textbook, Kindle Format. Download City Wilds book, The assumptions we make about nature writing too often lead us to see it only as a literature about wilderness or rural areas. This anthology broadens our awareness of American nature writing by featuring the flora, fauna, geology, and climate that enrich and shape urban life. Set in neither pristine nor exotic environs, these stories and essays take us to rivers, parks, vacant lots, lakes, gardens, and zoos as they convey nature's rich disregard of city limits signs. With writings by women and men from cities in all regions of the country and from different ethnic traditions, the anthology reflects the geographic differences and multicultural makeup of our cities. Works by well-known and emerging contemporary writers are included as well as pieces from important twentieth-century urban nature writers. Since more than 80 percent of Americans now live in urban areas, we need to enlarge our environmental concerns to encompass urban nature. By focusing on urban nature writing, the selections in City Wilds can help develop a more inclusive environmental consciousness, one that includes both the nature we see on a day-to-day basis and how such nearby nature is viewed by writers from diverse cultural backgrounds.

Author: Elizabeth Hanson
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Release Date: 2002
Book Size: 77.46 MB
Book Format: PDF
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 243
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Animal Attractions

by Elizabeth Hanson, Animal Attractions Books available in Docs, PDF, EPUB, Mobi, Textbook, Kindle Format. Download Animal Attractions book, "Examines the meaning of nature in the city by looking at the ways zoos have assembled and displayed their animal collections."--Cover.