Unlearning What Worked is a collection of lived stories about trying to be a successful human in a world that keeps changing the rules.For much of my life, I relied on the tools that once kept me safe: staying invisible, avoiding risk, following the rules, and doing what was expected. On paper, those strategies worked. The career progressed. The responsibilities grew. From the outside, things looked successful.But over time, those same tools stoppe...

A rupture has opened between realities.On one side lies a dying planar universe, fragile, organized, and impossible to understand by ordinary means. On the other lies a source world dense with motion, chemistry, hunger, architecture, and life that refuses to fit inside familiar definitions.The containment teams are not explorers by choice. They are specialists sent where contact itself can become contamination, where a wingbeat can become an extinction event, and where the ...

An intellectual biography of the trailblazing African American historian, activist, and scholar.Journalist, activist, popular historian, and public intellectual, Lerone Bennett Jr. left an indelible mark on twentieth-century American history and culture. Rooted in his role as senior editor of Ebony magazine, but stretching far beyond the boundaries of the Johnson Publishing headquarters in Chicago, Bennett established himself as a prominent advocate for Bla...

This is a collection of personal essays that examine the humor that is available when awkward decisions, missteps, over-confidence, and the logic that only makes sense at the time occur. The personal essays by Matthew West-James offer a self-deprecating look at moments that were embarrassing at the time but insightful in hindsight. From bad ideas and misinterpretations, to tales that will not die quietly into the past, the essays examine the space between the person you think you are and t...

This book brings together leading scholars to interrogate the enduring and evolving relationship between journalism, mass communications, and the built environment. From the emergence of the first newspapers, media buildings have provided their producers and consumers with a “definable shape” and served as key nodes in the urban geography of communications. At the same time, the changing form and function of media buildings has both reflected and reified transformations in modern journalis...

What begins as a World War II training mission becomes a haunting mystery that will stay with readers long after the final page.In A Deadly Storm: A Memoir, James West recounts his firsthand experience as a young B-17 radio operator during World War II. As he and his crew prepare for combat, a routine training flight is suddenly overtaken by a violent storm that leaves multiple aircraft hopelessly lost. Through quick thinking and determination, West finds a way to reestabl...

From its launch in 1945, Ebony magazine was politically and socially influential. However, the magazine also played an important role in educating millions of African Americans about their past. Guided by the pen of Lerone Bennett Jr., the magazine’s senior editor and in-house historian, Ebony became a key voice in the popular black history revival that flourished after World War II. Its content helped push representations of the African American past from the margins to ...

Multiple Award-Winner!Winner of the 2023 Michael Nelson Prize of International Association for Media and History (IAMHIST)Recipient of the 2022 Jane Jacobs Urban Communication Book AwardWinner of the 2023 American Journalism Historians Association Book of the YearWinner of the 2023 ULCC’s (Union League Club of Chicago) Outstanding Book on the His...

As perspectives on private art therapy practice evolve, this book provides an overview of the range of approaches, clinical settings, ethical issues and professional considerations when working outside of the formal structures of publically-funded services.An essential guide for art therapy students and experienced practitioners moving into private practice, it considers the impact of a private context on theory, practice and research. The book features contributions from art thera...

With contributions from well-respected figures in the field, this book explores the use of narrative and image in the therapeutic treatment of trauma and addiction.The book considers topics such as early trauma and its impacts, therapeutic methods based on images and narrative, and recovery and post-traumatic growth through community engagement.Despite a close practical association between the two, trauma and addiction are often addressed or treated separately. By consideri...

When I retired, I wanted to write about my experiences. The problem was that I didnt know the first think about writing. I was capable when writing reports. I could wow you with my PowerPoint presentation, but writing a book was new. So, what could be so hard. I had spent many hours on airplanes reading a variety of books. I launched into my writing career. As this was my first book, I was willing to spend money to have my manuscript professionally edited. The result damaged my ego for som...

The Fluid Boundaries of Suffrage and Jim Crow: Staking Claims in the American Heartland engages in an important conversation about race relations in the twentieth century and significantly extends the historical narrative of the Civil Rights Movement. The essays in this collection examine instances of racial and gender oppression in the American heartland—which is conceived of here as having a specific cultural significance which resists diversity—in the twentieth century, instances which ...