***Prison Recipes and Prison Cookbooks***provides an innovative exploration of U.S.-based prison cookbooks using a narrative criminological approach.The book relies on the voices of prison cookbook authors to argue that cookbook narratives are a form of communication with the free world. Further, the book undertakes thematic analyses of prison cookery and narratives to illuminate the intersections of incarceration with abolition, gender, literacy, and dehumanization. The reader is ...

Two engineers hijack a spaceship to join some space pirates-only to discover the pirates are hiding from a malevolent AI. Now they have to outwit the AI if they want to join the pirate crew-and survive long enough to enjoy it. Adda and Iridian are newly minted engineers, but aren't able to find any work in a solar system ruined by economic collapse after an interplanetary war. Desperate for employment, they hijack a colony ship and plan to join a famed pirate crew living in luxury at Barba...

Church trends fad or fine?Is the Church trending toward or away from authentic Christianity? Three Christian leaders present and discuss issues that every Christian needs to know.Return to Authentic Christianity is a thorough examination of some of the most critical issues affecting the modern Church.Written by respected Church leaders Robert Stearns, Chuck Pierce, and Larry Kreider, Return t...

ECPA 2010 Christian Book of the Year Award Winner! What Does God Expect of Us?Is our faith only about going to church, studying the Bible, and avoiding the most serious sins—or does God expect more? Have we embraced the whole gospel or a gospel with a hole in it?More than twenty years ago Rich Stearns came face-to-face with that question as he sat in a mud hut in Rakai, Uganda, listening to the heartbreaking story of an orphaned child. Stearns’s jo...

Two years ago Mia Willus and her siblings were thrust into the world of the hybrid-humans and the volshkat. With the help of new friends they embraced extrordinary powers, discovered the secrets that had been hiding in their past, and became a part of Domino Squad.When Domino Squad is contacted by a familiar ally a startling discovery is revealed; the volshkat are attempting to clone Mia and Sam. To do so the volshkat need to capture a rogue scientist hiding somewhere on Earth. Kno...

Daydream Nation is the kind of gorgeous monstrosity (born of extremes, rife with difficulties, and mythic in proportion) that can crush the will of the most resilient, well-intentioned listener if the necessary preparations haven't been made. Matthew Stearns explores the album from a range of angles, including a track-by-track analysis and a look at the historical and cultural context within which the album was made. Featuring a foreword by Lee Ranaldo and exclusive interviews wit...

"Dr. Stearns's Tour from London to Paris" is an engaging travel narrative that captures the essence of 19th-century European exploration. The author, Samuel Stearns, provides a vivid account of his journey, detailing the sights, sounds, and experiences encountered along the way. Through his keen observations and reflections, readers are transported to bustling streets, grand architecture, and the cultural vibrancy of both cities. Stearns's writing is infused with a sense of wonder and curi...

In this discerning book, Monteagle Stearns, a former career diplomat and ambassador, argues that U.S. foreign policymakers do not need a new doctrine, as some commentators have suggested, but rather a new attitude toward international affairs and, most especially, new ways of learning from the Foreign Service. True, the word strangers in his title refers to foreigners. However, it also refers to American foreign policymakers and American diplomats, whose failure to "speak each oth...

A prolific critic, author, essayist and journalist, "America and the Young Intellectual" is the book that launched Harold Stearns as a public figure. The message in this book could not have come at a better time, and even now, a century later, it is still timely.Frustrated by the state of the American society and what he saw as America's oppression of its free spirit, Stearns wrote this book as a motivation to young American intellectuals to break away from the status quo.I...

From underdog in life to starring in Discovery Channel’s Undercover Billionaire, Glenn Stearns is a rags-to-riches story that shows what can be accomplished with unbridled grit and fierce determination.Growing up in a low-income suburb of Baltimore, Maryland, Glenn Stearns attributes optimism, hope, hard work, and unforgettable mentors as the indelible influences that helped him break free from hardship, overcome numerous challenges, and dare to live his w...

Social and Emotional Learning (SEL) has been steadily gaining traction in education, but little attention has been paid to its underlying assumptions. In Critiquing Social and Emotional Learning:Psychodynamic and Cultural Perspectives, Clio Stearns draws on qualitative classroom observations, teacher interviews, and analysis of prominent SEL program materials to offer a critique of SEL as a codified phenomenon. Stearns questions undergirding presumptions about children, teachers, and SEL’s...

In "The Way to Abolish Slavery," Charles Stearns presents a compelling examination of the moral, social, and political arguments surrounding the abolition of slavery in 19th-century America. Stearns employs a persuasive and accessible literary style, blending philosophical discourse with passionate rhetoric, which serves to engage both advocates and opponents of the abolitionist movement. Set against the backdrop of an increasingly divided nation, this book weaves historical context with e...