In 1995 the Bureau of Prisons opened the ADX, its 'escape-proof' supermax prison in Florence, Colorado. The nation's most secure supermax prison, it was meant to hold the most high-profile prisoners. The 'Alcatraz of the Rockies' has since been home to World Trade Center bombers, Oklahoma City and Boston Marathon bombers, gang leaders, disruptive prisoners, and those deemed 'enemies of the state.' Now, thirty years after the ADX first opened, A Clean Hell offers readers an up close and per...

A Clean Hell: Anarchy and Abolition in America’s Most Notorious Dungeon by Eric King is a searing firsthand account from inside the most repressive prison in the United States, a place built not for rehabilitation but for disappearance.The federal supermax ADX Florence is the most secure facility in the United States, a dungeon of isolation, sensory deprivation, and psychological disintegration. Here, cruelty isn’t accidental; it’s the design. Built in 199...

Normal0falsefalsefalseMicrosoftInternetExplorer4Hearing the Hurt is an examination of how the New Negro movement, also known as the Harlem Renaissance, provoked and sustained public discourse and deliberation about black culture and identity in the early twentieth century.Borrowing its title from a W. E. B. Du Bois essay, Hearing the Hurt explores the nature of rhetorical invention, performance, and mutation by focusing on the multifaceted issues brought f...

This book makes a timely contribution to understanding perceptions on national identity and National Education, with both of them have become controversial topics in Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (SAR) of China. In a so-called globalization era, national identity and National Education, with the latter having an aim of fostering a Chinese national identity in education, have been significantly pushed ahead by the Hong Kong SAR government since the early 2000s as a response to the...

The Second Household Cavalry Regiment's war was a short and exciting one, from Normandy in July 1944 to Germany in May 1945. In the vanguard of the Guards armored Division, 2 HCR, an armored reconnaissance regiment, was continuously on the advance and rarely out of contact with the enemy. Sometimes progress was slow and grinding, while at other times it was with exhilarating speed. Written shortly after the War, this book draws on the recollections of those who were in the thick of the act...

A bold rethinking of public discourse, Public Modalities explores how people shape civic life through protest, media, and identity in an ever-evolving public sphere.This book explores the ways that scholars, journalists, politicians, and citizens conceive of “the public” or “public life,” and how those entities are defined and invented. For decades, scholars have used the metaphors of spheres, systems, webs, or networks to talk about, describe, and map var...

Aaron Harry Gorson painted powerful and dramatic night scenes of Pittsburgh’s steel mills in the early 1900s. A pioneer industrial landscape artist, Gorson was partial to the nighttime beauty of industrial Pittsburgh and the magic of the glowing streams of molten iron and steel flowing from the blast furnaces and open hearths and their effects on river waters and night skies. He painted dozens of powerful nocturnes featuring the vast Jones and Laughlin mills located on both sides of the Mo...

A book to challenge the status quo, spark a debate, and get people talking about the issues and questions we face as a country!

Savva is a filthy bratva beast, as cruel as he is charming and as brutal as he is gorgeous.When I took over my late father's biker bar, I also took over the payments he was making to Savva, the leader of a powerful mafia family operating on the edge of Las Vegas. But Savva couldn't be satisfied with money alone. He wanted more.He spilled into my life like a dark, inescapable shadow, stealing my dignity and drowning me in his sin.But his twisted prom...

"With one look, he steals my innocence and, like a spark in a field of withered grass, he sets my world ablaze."I signed my life away to a filthy bratva boss, a beast I can never hope to tame, a man who wants to control every inch of my body and soul.What choice did I have? I was cast out of my family and traded to a mafia boss I barely even knew. Now, he's my possessive husband.

When I came knocking on death's door,
 the devil answered instead.And he was the most gorgeous man I'd ever met.His name was Viktor, and he promised to be my protector. But his protection came at the most perilous price…
 My body, my heart, and every inch of my freedom.But he couldn't take without leaving something behind, Something that would tie our souls together forever.I'm pregnant.And Viktor is the father.Filthy Tem...

They were once the most powerful mages in the land, but they were betrayed. Their crafted weapons and armor were stolen and they were exiled.Now, with war on the horizon, the king needs them again. But they won't be wielding magic for the king. Not this time.The Lost Mages are coming home, and this time, they're out for vengeance.