Live From The Cell Block

Author : Will Livingston
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780578954592
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.91/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Live from the Cell Block written by Will Livingston and published by . This book was released on 2022-04 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 2010, artist and musician Will Livingston hit and killed a man while driving drunk and was sentenced to forty years in prison. Over many years, Will built a silk screen machine and began making concert posters for his favorite bands. Live from the Cell Block, dedicated to his victim, includes all of Will's concert posters as well as essays from Adrian Brune, a journalist who covered Will's story, and Wendy Jason, executive director of the Justice Arts Coalition, a non-profit organization that advocates on behalf of incarcerated artists. "I had to find some way to redeem my life. Thankfully, I found it," Will said. "Will was sent to prison with little hope and managed to turn his life around. His transformation is nothing short of a miracle," Brune added. Live from the Cell Block, published by Brick of Gold in partnership with Justice Arts Coalition, is the remarkable story of Will Livingston and the equally remarkable body of work he created in the most unlikely circumstances.

Author : Phyllis Kornfeld
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780691029764
Total Pages : 86 pages
Book Rating : 4.68/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Cellblock Visions written by Phyllis Kornfeld and published by . This book was released on 1997-01 with total page 86 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Filled with quotes from men and women prisoners and Kornfeld's own anecdotes, Cellblock Visions shows how these artists, most of them having no previous training, turn to their work for a sense of self-worth, an opportunity to vent rage, or a way to find peace. We see how the artists deal with the cramped space, limited light, and narrow vistas of their prison studios, and how the security bans on many art supplies lead them to ingenious resourcefulness, as in extracting color from shampoo and weaving with cigarette wrappers. Kornfeld covers the traditional prison arts, such as soap carving and tattoo, and devotes a major section to painting, where we see miniatures depicting themes of alienation and escape, idyllic landscapes framed by bars, portraits of women living in a fantasy world, large canvasses filled with erotic and religious symbolism and violent action. The brief, vivid biographies of each artist portray that individual's experience of crime, prison, and art itself.

Author : L. D. Webb
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780983978527
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.22/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Murder on Cell Block 9 written by L. D. Webb and published by . This book was released on 2012-02-01 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the riveting true tale of a small town boy who grew up lusting for power and respect. After Richard Holmes got mixed up in the drug world, everything in his life spun out of control. In September 1987, a drug raid at Richard's home led to the disappearance of a police informant. People throughout Idaho and across the nation were stunned and outraged as the facts in the case began to come out. Conspiracy, kidnapping, and murder were some of the charges Richard Holmes was facing when he was tormented and stabbed to death in an Idaho State Correctional facility. All the while, guards stood outside watching and listening as commanding officials told them to stand down.

Author : Fāḍil ʻAzzāwī
Publisher : American Univ in Cairo Press
ISBN 13 : 9789774161421
Total Pages : 124 pages
Book Rating : 4.24/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Cell Block Five written by Fāḍil ʻAzzāwī and published by American Univ in Cairo Press. This book was released on 2008 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Being plucked from a Baghdad café and deposited in a cell block for political prisoners is a wakeup call for Aziz, the novel's hero and narrator, a young man who has been living on automatic pilot--as if he were a guest visiting his own life--and he is finally forced to come to terms with the flawed world we inhabit and shape. Although never charged with any offense, he must adjust to a lengthy stay in prison, where he is befriended by Salam the yard boss, Mun'im an idealistic university student with a beautiful sister named Salwa, Yusuf an idealist dispatched to the 'Swamp, ' Salman an anarchist schoolteacher, and Mustafa an aged farmer who dreams of an alternative society. While these imprisoned revolutionaries teach Aziz to dream that an ideal city with his name on it may lie just over the horizon, the police supervisor encourages him to think of a simple crime to which he can confess so he can be charged and eventually released. Based on the author's own incarceration in Iraq, Cell Block Five is a clear-headed, good-humored tribute to the prison's men--both the inmates and the guards--and an indictment of man's gratuitous inhumanity to man, pointing out that the transition from abused to abuser, tortured to torturer, can be an easy one. Written in 1971 and published outside Iraq in 1972, Cell Block Five--the first Iraqi prison novel--was later made into a feature film in Syria. Drawing the reader subtly into the political section of an Iraqi prison, this compelling story easily transcends cultural boundaries.

Author : James A. Johnston
Publisher : Read Books Ltd
ISBN 13 : 1473385547
Total Pages : 339 pages
Book Rating : 4.42/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Alcatraz Island Prison and the Men Who Live There written by James A. Johnston and published by Read Books Ltd. This book was released on 2013-05-31 with total page 339 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Alcatraz is possibly the most famous prison that has ever existed, here is a fascinating history of this island in San Francisco bay, with interviews and biographies of some of the notorious people who called it home.

Author : Mark I. Pinsky
Publisher : NewSouth Books
ISBN 13 : 1588384586
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.84/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Drifting Into Darkness written by Mark I. Pinsky and published by NewSouth Books. This book was released on 2022-04-05 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A tangled web of family dysfunction, fatal attraction, and greed wends its way from the elegant Southern mansions of old Montgomery, Alabama, to the New Age salons of Boulder and rural, windswept Wyoming in Drifting Into Darkness, a true saga of bloodshed and betrayal. Two grisly murders—a brutal double parricide—a suicide, and a fourth death under suspicious circumstances. Drifting Into Darkness is a tangled tale of family dysfunction, fatal attraction, and greed, a saga that wends its way from the elegant Southern mansions of Montgomery, Alabama, to the New Age salons of Boulder, Colorado, to rural, windswept Wyoming. On Thanksgiving weekend in 2004, philanthropists Charlotte and Brent Springford Sr.―a wealthy, socially prominent Montgomery couple―were brutally beaten to death with an ax handle, echoing the infamous case of Lizzie Borden. Suspicion quickly fell on the Springfords' gifted but troubled son Brent Jr., who would be tried and sentenced to life without parole. But a mystery remained: Who was the mysterious, elusive woman who claimed to be a Native American shaman that investigators believed manipulated Brent into this murder? Journalists solving murders is a time-tested trope in movies, mysteries, and on television. But cops and cop reporters know that rarely happens in real life. Except when it does. Veteran crime reporter Mark I. Pinsky, who covered the sensational cases of serial killer Ted Bundy and Green Beret Dr. Jeffrey MacDonald, broke the cardinal rule of journalism by involving himself in the story. Pinsky’s extensive research prompted investigators to invite him to join their dogged pursuit of justice. His access to unique and heart-breaking behind-the-scenes material enables him to take readers with him into the troubled, tortured minds of the case's main players.

Author : Skeeter Wesinger
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 1304230376
Total Pages : 299 pages
Book Rating : 4.79/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Live Wire written by Skeeter Wesinger and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2013-07-14 with total page 299 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It's a dangerous world full of dangerous people. Yet Jake Savage and his A-team are there to keep things in check. In Live Wire, the first in the Jake Savage series, Jake and Dakota square off against Colombian carteleros, and Panamanian despots, whipping around the globe in a dazzling array of aircraft, ready to do battle at a moment's notice. Set in a time when the global security situation is undergoing significant and perilous shifts, Wesinger's novel takes the reader from the hallowed halls and top-secret boardrooms of the Pentagon to the rugged beauty of the Zimbabwean bush, narrating this riveting tale with an insider's flair for detail and nuance. Jake's highly specialized elite A-Team takes on missions no one else can. The story opens with a rescue operation from a Panamanian prison, but then the plot expands in deeper, darker territory, when, amidst shifting, shady alliances between the team's rivals, it is discovered that the Ochocha cartel, has marked Jake and his colleagues for death.

Author : David O'Sullivan
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1118527070
Total Pages : 348 pages
Book Rating : 4.78/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Spatial Simulation written by David O'Sullivan and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2013-08-05 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A ground-up approach to explaining dynamic spatial modelling for an interdisciplinary audience. Across broad areas of the environmental and social sciences, simulation models are an important way to study systems inaccessible to scientific experimental and observational methods, and also an essential complement to those more conventional approaches. The contemporary research literature is teeming with abstract simulation models whose presentation is mathematically demanding and requires a high level of knowledge of quantitative and computational methods and approaches. Furthermore, simulation models designed to represent specific systems and phenomena are often complicated, and, as a result, difficult to reconstruct from their descriptions in the literature. This book aims to provide a practical and accessible account of dynamic spatial modelling, while also equipping readers with a sound conceptual foundation in the subject, and a useful introduction to the wide-ranging literature. Spatial Simulation: Exploring Pattern and Process is organised around the idea that a small number of spatial processes underlie the wide variety of dynamic spatial models. Its central focus on three ‘building-blocks’ of dynamic spatial models – forces of attraction and segregation, individual mobile entities, and processes of spread – guides the reader to an understanding of the basis of many of the complicated models found in the research literature. The three building block models are presented in their simplest form and are progressively elaborated and related to real world process that can be represented using them. Introductory chapters cover essential background topics, particularly the relationships between pattern, process and spatiotemporal scale. Additional chapters consider how time and space can be represented in more complicated models, and methods for the analysis and evaluation of models. Finally, the three building block models are woven together in a more elaborate example to show how a complicated model can be assembled from relatively simple components. To aid understanding, more than 50 specific models described in the book are available online at patternandprocess.org for exploration in the freely available Netlogo platform. This book encourages readers to develop intuition for the abstract types of model that are likely to be appropriate for application in any specific context. Spatial Simulation: Exploring Pattern and Process will be of interest to undergraduate and graduate students taking courses in environmental, social, ecological and geographical disciplines. Researchers and professionals who require a non-specialist introduction will also find this book an invaluable guide to dynamic spatial simulation.

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.73/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Alternatives to the Use of Live Vertebrates in Biomedical Research and Testing written by and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Chas Emerick
Publisher : "O'Reilly Media, Inc."
ISBN 13 : 1449394701
Total Pages : 631 pages
Book Rating : 4.07/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Clojure Programming written by Chas Emerick and published by "O'Reilly Media, Inc.". This book was released on 2012-04-12 with total page 631 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Clojure language offers a practical alternative for solving demanding problems, using existing Java libraries, frameworks, and services. Readers get a solid grounding in Clojure fundamentals based on the environments they are already familiar with--whether working with data, concurrency, application interfaces, or other challenges.