In Manhood Acts Michael Schwalbe offers a new perspective on the social construction of manhood and its relationship to male domination. Schwalbe argues that study of masculinity has lost touch with its feminist roots and has been seduced by the politically safe notion of 'multiple masculinities'. Manhood Acts delineates the practices males use to construct 'women' and 'men' as unequal categories. Schwalbe reclaims the radical feminist insights that gender is a field of domination, not a f...

This volume provides the first comprehensive overview of social psychological research on inequality for a graduate student and professional audience. Drawing on all of the major theoretical traditions in sociological social psychology, its chapters demonstrate the relevance of social psychological processes to this central sociological concern. Each chapter in the volume has a distinct substantive focus, but the chapters will also share common emphases on: • The unique contributions of so...

Through the years of his education, training, work as a family physician, and life situations, author Dr. Michael Fleming realized every experience had a story. In a Mirror Dimly, he shares a collection of these stories, reflecting his love for them and his talent for telling them.This compilation includes Fleming’s random thoughts and observations as he’s traveled his path: an early life filled with insecurity and shame; a young adult life with too much wasted; an adult life bless...

Anyone who starts reading this book will think it is a biography, but this book is much more than that. It is the conjugation of a life of experiences and anecdotes with the sole objective of helping those who are in a difficult situations, in drugs, crime or jail. It is a compilation of real-life stories that serve as an example and motivation to continue struggling, to convince us that in life, despite difficulties and challenges there is always a positive solution to any situation, no m...

This book is a compilation of personal journals (conversations with God) that have been documented on the computer. The responses from God to the authors are often quite insightful and amazing. The subjects covered are wide-ranging. Also in this book, is the complete outline of the class “How to Hear God’s Voice,” which the authors have taught in the prisons.

Have you ever wanted the power to rule the world? Sounds amazing, right? But maybe not possible. Instead, what if you were given the rules that power your mind? What if you could learn to read minds, starting with your own? What would you do with your new superpower? How would you rule your world? Your mind operates on a set of unspoken, yet extremely persuasive internalized rules. Understanding how these Mind Rules operate provides you a spectacular advantage for upgrading your present st...

This book documents and tells the history of the establishment and growth of the Coastal Surveillance Force, Task Force 71. This grew to Task Forces 115, 116 and 117. My research for this history came from veterans serving in this period and the documentation of the Commander Naval Forces Vietnam Monthly Summaries. These documents did not exist before January 1966, so the early period was dependent on veterans and the author's personal knowledge. This book is dedicated to those pioneers of...

Marine operating engineer, 82nd Airborne paratrooper, Special Ops Army Ranger, an entrepreneur who circumnavigated the globe, are a few of many pursuits that insatiable curiosity led the author to explore. He takes the reader on a ninety-year journey from near death as a child, through an unhappy childhood, leading to dropping out of high school. He found success in the military and after honorable discharge, returned to school become an educator earning BA, MEd, and ATA degrees. With wisp...

Our age of radical uncertainty requires a new way of assessing risk that pays more attention to the extreme outliers that too often become tomorrow’s reality.Today’s models cannot cope with the frightening new unpredictable risks we face every day that frequently seem to come out of left field – the effects of climate change, a killer pandemic, a cascading wildfire, a financial crisis triggered by faceless algorithms, or a devastating cyber-attack that shuts down the electric power...

Rev. Florence Lunde contracted polio as a child and consquently is a wheelchair user, giving her a unique perspective on life. In Digging Deeper: The Devotional, she mixes her personal experiences and observations with scripture to present a noteworthy spiritually rich daily devotional.This thirty-day devotional’s sister book (Digging Deeper:The Bible Study) is a self-reflective, interactive thematic Bible study and meant to be read in conjunction with Digging Deeper: The Devotiona...

Through humorous and relatable stories, Everything You Know about Organizational Behavior You Learned in High School, by author Victor P. Becker, offers a practical, management development tool using real-life experience to draw comparisons between adolescent, high school behavior and behavior prevalent in workplaces today.Becker assists business leaders and human resources professionals in identifying and correcting adolescent organizational behaviors on the job. He examines the o...

Boys’ Secrets and Men’s Loves is the memoir of a law professor who has written over twenty books on the basic rights of American constitutionalism. He has been a prominent advocate of gay rights and feminism, which joins men and women in resistance. A gay man born into an Italian American family in New Jersey, he relates in this book his own experience on how the initiation of boys into patriarchy inflicts trauma, leading them to mindlessly accept patriarchal codes of masculinity, and how ...