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Anyone who doubts the power of the written word to transform a life will know better after reading poet Jimmy Santiago Baca's wrenching memoir of his troubled youth and the five-year jail stint that turned him around.

When he enters New Mexico's Florence State Prison in 1973, convicted on a drug charge, Baca is 21 and has a long history of trouble with the law. There's no reason to think jail will do anything but turn him into a hardened criminal, and standing up for himself with guards and menacing fellow cons quickly gains him a reputation as a troublemaker. But there have already been hints that this turbulent young man is looking for a way out, as he painstakingly spells out a poem from a clerk's college textbook while awaiting trial or unsuccessfully tries to get permission to take classes in prison.

When a volunteer from a religious group sends him a letter, contact with the written word unleashes something in Baca, who starts writing letters and poems with the aid of a dictionary. Reading literature shows him possibilities for understanding his painful family background and expressing his feelings. Poetry literally saves him from being a murderer, as Baca stands over another convict with an illegal weapon, ready to finish him off, and hears "the voices of Neruda and Lorca... praising life as sacred and challenging me: How can you kill and still be a poet?" Baca has a year to go on his sentence, but the reader knows at that point he has made a choice that will alter his destiny.

Without softening the brutality of life in jail, Baca expresses great tenderness for the men there who helped him and affirms his commitment to writing poetry for them, "telling the truth about the life that prisoners have to endure." --Wendy Smith.
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In this rare firsthand account, Lorna Rhodes takes us into a hidden world that lies at the heart of the maximum security prison. Focusing on the "supermaximums"--and the mental health units that complement them--Rhodes conveys the internal contradictions of a system mandated to both punish and treat. Her often harrowing, sometimes poignant, exploration of maximum security confinement includes vivid testimony from prisoners and prison workers, describes routines and practices inside prison walls, and takes a hard look at the prison industry. More than an exposé, Total Confinement is a theoretically sophisticated meditation on what incarceration tells us about who we are as a society.
Rhodes tackles difficult questions about the extreme conditions of confinement, the treatment of the mentally ill in prisons, and an ever-advancing technology of isolation and surveillance. Using her superb interview skills and powers of observation, she documents how prisoners, workers, and administrators all struggle to retain dignity and a sense of self within maximum security institutions. In settings that place in question the very humanity of those who live and work in them, Rhodes discovers complex interactions--from the violent to the tender--among prisoners and staff. Total Confinement offers an indispensable close-up of the implications of our dependence on prisons to solve long-standing problems of crime and injustice in the United States..
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This book describes the history of the research on inertial confinement nuclear fusion over the past 50 years. It is written by the leading scientists in this field and authentic protagonists of this period which started during the Cold War, as classified research in France, former USSR, United Kingdom and USA and as open research in Japan, Germany, Italy, Israel and Spain. The idea of publishing this book emerged years ago when Nobel Laureate Nicloai G. Basov, together with Professor Guillermo Velarde, decided to compile the history of inertial confinement fusion, inviting the participation of its pioneers. Both Basov and Velarde believed that only the pioneers involved in the research itself could relate to this history in a realistic and truthful manner. Inertial Confinement Fusion (ICF) is an interdisciplinary research subject, its main goal is aimed at solving mankind's energy problem for generations to come. This noble idea started almost simultaneously with the development of thermonuclear weapons (known to the public as the hydrogen bomb). This apparently close affiliation hindered the progress in the energy research. The ICF research and technology for solving the problem of energy production turned out to be so difficult and complex that only a worldwide collaboration could advance the research and achieve a successful solution. The book presents the direct testimony and open account of the facts, events, dates and contrasting research which culminated in 1988 with the Madrid Manifesto. This was suggested by Erik Storm and Guillermo Velarde and was signed by more than one hundred scientists around the world. They claimed international and open collaboration and paved the way, in 1990 in the United States, for the declassification of more than 90% of the work related to inertial confinement nuclear fusion research. A total of 23 chapters are presented with the description of the work carried out in the main laboratories around the world - From West to East: In the United States - Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, KMS (Michigan), Sandia National Laboratories, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Laboratory for Laser Energetics at Rochester University and Naval Research Laboratory; in Europe: Institute of Nuclear Fusion (Spain), Rutherford Appleton Laboratory - Central Laser Facility (United Kingdom), Gessellschaft fur Schwerionenforschung, GSI (Germany), Max Planck Institute fur Quantenoptik (Germany) Laboratorio Gas Ionizzati, ENEA, (Italy); in Israel: Soreq Nuclear Research Centre; and in the former Soviet Union: Kurchatov and Troisk Institutes, Prokhorov General Physics Institute, Lebedev Physical Institute, All Russian Scientific Research Institute of Experimental Physics - VNIEF (Arzamas 16), All Russian Scientific Research Institute of Technical Physics - VNITF (Chelyabinsk) It also present the work - from Japan: Insitute of Laser Engineering at Osaka University; and from Australia: University of New South Wales. Unfortunately, the contributions of Commisariat d'Energie Atomique and the Ecole Politechnique from France were not received. The chapters are written with emphasis as to why inertial confinement nuclear fusion was was chosen. They include a detailed overview of its beginnings and the first papers written by authors; their photographs and details of their teams, descriptions of unknown and significant episodes, as well as exciting technical descriptions and results. However the authors have focussed their account on their own personal perspectives. The result is an independent, personal and realistic account of historical data during the past 50 years. Level of readership is scientists, engineers, graduate and undergraduate students of science, history of science, philosophy of science and the intelligent reader..
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A broad, comprehensive introduction that brings together all aspects of magnetic fusion and magnetic fusion technology Each topic is developed from first principles to engineering applications. Special features are the inclusion of physical property data relevant to fusion technology, and a summary of fusion reactor design parameters..
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The United States has the highest incarceration and execution rate in the industrialized world; 70 percent of the nearly two million incarcerated in prisons and immigration detention centers are people of color. States of Confinement uncovers the political, social, and economic biases in policing and punishment. The distinguished contributors- Angela Y. Davis, Manning Marable, Gary Marx, Robert Meeropol, Julie Su, and Judi Bari-discuss abuses of police powers in American society. They expose racial profiling and sentencing disparities that target African Americans and Latinos, the sexual exploitation of women, racist and homophobic violence, the policing of Asian Americans and Arabs, the conditions of HIV-positive prisoners, the use of the Grand Jury and police to undermine political activity, and environmental activism..
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On a snowy night in the winter of 1946, Arthur Henning arrives at a New York banker's country estate. All he has with him are his young son, his sewing machine, and the painful history of the refugee—the home in Vienna he left behind, the wife and infant daughter who perished in Lonon's blitz, and the relatives and friends who disappeared into the abyss of the Holocaust. He has come to begin a new life and to forget.

Once an expert tailor, now he is employed as a chauffeur. He drives Mr. Duvall to work in the city, Mrs. Duvall to her shopping, their daughter, Agatha, to school. The job gives Arthur solace. There's a cottage for him and his son, Toby, to live in, congeniality in the mansion's kitchen with the other servants, pleasure in watching Toby grow up alongside charming little Agatha. And so there he remains for nearly a decade, hidden, unable to confront his shattered faith, his fear, and the measure of everything he has lost.

Hidden, that is, until life steps in to release Arthur from his seclusion. On orders from Mr. Duvall, he must drive Agatha to her own confinement in that peculiarly evil American institution of the 1950s, a home for unwed mothers. The Duvalls' plan to give the baby away shocks Arthur from his emotional slumber. The story of these two people—a man who has lost his past and a girl who is forced to give up her future—winds its way to a conclusion that is both inevitable and wholly unpredictable.

Infused with her trademark haunting sensibility, Carrie Brown's fourth novel is a deeply moving tale of the small miracles and large revelations of love..
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