From Prison to Power
Title | From Prison to Power PDF eBook |
Author | Kent Osbourne |
Publisher | Createspace Independent Publishing Platform |
Pages | 156 |
Release | 2018-07-05 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9781722661922 |
#1 International bestselling author Kent Osbourne helps readers transform their lives by inspiring them to live their best life. Do you have the power to change your life? Yes, you can! In his brand new book, Kent Osbourne shares his insider secret principles that will empower you to overcome all obstacles, trials, tribulations and road blocks in your life. His breakthrough insights, wisdom and encouragement are carefully illustrated within the pages of from prison to power.
Prison Power
Title | Prison Power PDF eBook |
Author | Lisa M. Corrigan |
Publisher | Univ. Press of Mississippi |
Pages | 211 |
Release | 2016-11-04 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 1496809106 |
Winner of the 2017 Diamond Anniversary Book Award and the African American Communication and Culture Division's 2017 Outstanding Book Award, both from the National Communication Association In the Black liberation movement, imprisonment emerged as a key rhetorical, theoretical, and media resource. Imprisoned activists developed tactics and ideology to counter white supremacy. Lisa M. Corrigan underscores how imprisonment—a site for both political and personal transformation—shaped movement leaders by influencing their political analysis and organizational strategies. Prison became the critical space for the transformation from civil rights to Black Power, especially as southern civil rights activists faced setbacks. Black Power activists produced autobiographical writings, essays, and letters about and from prison beginning with the early sit-in movement. Examining the iconic prison autobiographies of H. Rap Brown, Mumia Abu-Jamal, and Assata Shakur, Corrigan conducts rhetorical analyses of these extremely popular though understudied accounts of the Black Power movement. She introduces the notion of the “Black Power vernacular” as a term for the prison memoirists' rhetorical innovations, to explain how the movement adapted to an increasingly hostile environment in both the Johnson and Nixon administrations. Through prison writings, these activists deployed narrative features supporting certain tenets of Black Power, pride in Blackness, disavowal of nonviolence, identification with the Third World, and identity strategies focused on Black masculinity. Corrigan fills gaps between Black Power historiography and prison studies by scrutinizing the rhetorical forms and strategies of the Black Power ideology that arose from prison politics. These discourses demonstrate how Black Power activism shifted its tactics to regenerate, even after the FBI sought to disrupt, discredit, and destroy the movement.
The 48 Laws of Power
Title | The 48 Laws of Power PDF eBook |
Author | Robert Greene |
Publisher | Penguin |
Pages | 481 |
Release | 2023-10-31 |
Genre | Self-Help |
ISBN | 0670881465 |
Amoral, cunning, ruthless, and instructive, this multi-million-copy New York Times bestseller is the definitive manual for anyone interested in gaining, observing, or defending against ultimate control – from the author of The Laws of Human Nature. In the book that People magazine proclaimed “beguiling” and “fascinating,” Robert Greene and Joost Elffers have distilled three thousand years of the history of power into 48 essential laws by drawing from the philosophies of Machiavelli, Sun Tzu, and Carl Von Clausewitz and also from the lives of figures ranging from Henry Kissinger to P.T. Barnum. Some laws teach the need for prudence (“Law 1: Never Outshine the Master”), others teach the value of confidence (“Law 28: Enter Action with Boldness”), and many recommend absolute self-preservation (“Law 15: Crush Your Enemy Totally”). Every law, though, has one thing in common: an interest in total domination. In a bold and arresting two-color package, The 48 Laws of Power is ideal whether your aim is conquest, self-defense, or simply to understand the rules of the game.
The Powers that Punish
Title | The Powers that Punish PDF eBook |
Author | Charles Bright |
Publisher | University of Michigan Press |
Pages | 262 |
Release | 2010-05-18 |
Genre | Law |
ISBN | 047202311X |
In a pathbreaking study of a major state prison, Michigan's Jackson State Penitentiary during the middle years of this century, Charles Bright addresses several aspects of the history and theory of punishment. The study is an institutional history of an American penitentiary, concerned with how a carceral regime was organized and maintained, how prisoners were treated and involved in the creation of a regime of order and how penal practices were explained and defended in public. In addition, it is a meditation upon punishment in modern society and a critical engagement with prevailing theories of punishment coming out of liberal, Marxist and post structuralist traditions. Deploying theory critically in a historic narrative, it applies new, relational theories of power to political institutions and practices. Finally, in studying the history of the Jackson prison, Bright provides a rich account, full of villains and a few heroes, of state politics in Michigan during a period of rapid transition between the 1920s to the 1950s. The book will be of direct relevance to criminologists and scholars of punishment, and to historians concerned with the history of punishment and prisons in the United States. It will also be useful to political scientists and historians concerned with exploring new approaches to the study of power and with the transformation of state politics in the 1930s and 1940s. Finally Bright tells a story which will fascinate students of modern Michigan history. Charles Bright is a historian and Lecturer at the Residential College of the University of Michigan.
From Prison to Power
Title | From Prison to Power PDF eBook |
Author | Emil Lengyel |
Publisher | Chicago : Follett Publishing Company |
Pages | 386 |
Release | 1964 |
Genre | Statesmen |
ISBN |
Studies of eight statesmen who each served one or more prison sentences for his beliefs but later rose to power in his own country.
Power and Resistance in Prison
Title | Power and Resistance in Prison PDF eBook |
Author | T. Ugelvik |
Publisher | Palgrave Macmillan |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2014-10-24 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 9781137307859 |
This book explores how prisoners turn themselves into active opponents of the prison regime, and thus reclaim their freedom and manhood. Using extensive ethnographic fieldwork from Norway's largest prison, Ugelvik provides a compelling analysis of the relationship between power, practices of resistance and prisoner subjectivity.
Prison Land
Title | Prison Land PDF eBook |
Author | Brett Story |
Publisher | |
Pages | 232 |
Release | 2019 |
Genre | SOCIAL SCIENCE |
ISBN | 9781517906887 |
"Prison Land: Mapping Carceral Power across Neoliberal America offers a geographic excavation of the prison as a set of social relations-including property, work, gender and race-enacted across various spatial forms and landscapes within American life"--