Authors:Roy Jacobstein, Lucia Perillo,
Publisher: Northeastern
Keywords: poetry, prize, morse, french, optimism, samuel, form
Number of Pages: 80
Published: 2006-10-31
List price: $15.95
ISBN-10: 1555536654
ISBN-13: 9781555536657

Filtered through the twin lenses of human history and personal memory, and suffused with ironic appreciation, A Form of Optimism engages in a prismatic meditation on beauty and evil, cornucopia and loss. The book becomes a lyrical mosaic, its compelling poems the broken pieces: sharp-edged and colorful, translucent, evocative. Drawing on the author’s cross-cultural work in international health, the poems range widely and naturally across setting, personage, and tongue--from Istanbul to Detroit, Mother Teresa to Gorm the Old, Swahili to Sanskrit. Variously anxious, rueful, witty, tender,

Authors:Birgit Nilsson, Georg Solti, Peggy Tuller,
Publisher: Northeastern
Keywords: opera, life, nilsson
Number of Pages: 356
Published: 2007-05-31
List price: $35.00
ISBN-10: 1555536700
ISBN-13: 9781555536701

First published to wide acclaim in Sweden (1995) and in Germany (1997), the autobiography of opera legend Birgit Nilsson (1918-2005) is finally available in an English translation. From her humble roots in rural Sweden to her artistic triumphs in Stockholm, Bayreuth, Milan, and the Metropolitan Opera House, this candid and utterly charming memoir reveals the personality behind one of the great voices of the past century.Gracefully weaving together the private and professional, Nilsson chronicles her idyllic childhood in Vastra Karup, the early recognition of her unique natural abilities, and h

Authors:Lucy Larcom, Nancy F. Cott,
Publisher: Northeastern
Keywords: memory, outlined, girlhood, england, new
Number of Pages: 300
Published: 1985-12-31
List price: $27.95
ISBN-10: 0930350820
ISBN-13: 9780930350826

Arriving in Lowell, Massachusetts, in the 1830s after the death of her shipmaster father, the eleven-year-old Lucy Larcom went to work in a textile mill to help her family make ends meet. Originally published in 1889, her engaging autobiography offers glimpses of the early years of the American factory system as well as of the social influences on her development. It remains an important and illuminating document of the Industrial Revolution and nineteenth-century cultural history.

Author: Bruce A. Jacobs
Publisher: Northeastern
Keywords: northeastern, series, criminal, behavior, selling, streetcorner, crack, social, world, dealing
Number of Pages: 172
Published: 1999-04-29
List price: $20.00
ISBN-10: 1555533876
ISBN-13: 9781555533878

During the 1980s, addiction to crack cocaine escalated at an alarming rate. As the demand for crack grew, so did the economic opportunities for entrepreneurial street dealers, who developed criminal underground networks for the supply and retail sale of the high-profit substance. While crack cocaine use has since plateaued and is on the decline, hard-core dealers persist in selling the increasingly unprofitable drug in a high-risk, competitive street market.Bruce A. Jacobs bases his study on dangerous field research conducted in one of the most socially distressed and impoverished neighborhood

Authors:Susan L. Miller, Claire M. Renzetti,
Publisher: Northeastern
Keywords: series, northeastern, gender, crime, law, field, voices, justice, research, practice, diverse, criminal
Number of Pages: 248
Published: 2007-10-31
List price: $26.00
ISBN-10: 1555536859
ISBN-13: 9781555536855

Each semester, thousands of students choose introductory courses in criminology, criminal justice, and sociology. Many are motivated to do so by a strong desire to help others and to make a positive contribution to society. But turning these feelings into postgraduate careers remains a challenge. Some students choose law school, while others become police officers, but there are many other options.This book offers guidance to students interested in working in the broad field of criminal justice, but who are unclear as to what direction to take. Further, it posits that understanding differences

Authors:James O. Finckenauer, Elin J. Waring,
Publisher: Northeastern
Keywords: culture, crime, immigration, america, mafia, russian
Number of Pages: 288
Published: 1998-12-10
List price: $40.00
ISBN-10: 1555533744
ISBN-13: 9781555533748

Does a "Russian Mafia" really exist? This book seeks to answer that question by examining the intricate history of Russian organized crime in both its homeland and the United States. It investigates in detail such topics as the characteristics of the Russal criminal tradition of Vory v Zakone ("thieves professing the code"), contemporary Russian mobs, criminal activity among Russian immigrants, claims of KGB involvement in American crime, and connections between crime bosses and gangsters in both countries.

Authors:Patrick Du Phuoc Long, Laura Ricard,
Publisher: Northeastern
Keywords: america, gangs, vietnamese, shattered, dream
Number of Pages: 256
Published: 1997-02-27
List price: $24.95
ISBN-10: 1555533140
ISBN-13: 9781555533144

In this eloquent account, Patrick Du Phuoc Long discusses why so many children of Indochinese refugees who fled to the U.S. after the Vietnam War are turning to gang life. Du Phuoc Long interweaves the true stories of Indochinese youths with his personal experiences as a trusted counselor to Vietnamese children.