At Work in the Iron Cage JUVENILE FICTION / Stories in Verse (see also Poetry) Naturalist John Muir Laws has

Naturalist John Muir Laws has adapted his painted-from-life flower illustrations from The Laws Field Guide to the Sierra Nevada into a lightweight yet durable guidebook to the area's florae

The early centuries of the Abbasid era witnessed a substantial network of maritime trade—the real-life background to the Sindbad tales

unsettle categories of race and ethnicity in the U

Ena Jansen shows that domestic worker relations in South Africa were shaped by the institution of slavery

At Work in the Iron Cage JUVENILE FICTION / Stories in Verse (see also Poetry) Naturalist John Muir Laws hasWhen most people think of prisons, they imagine chaos, violence, and fundamentally, an atmosphere of overwhelming brute masculinity. But real prisons rarely fit the Big House stereotype of popular film and literature. One fifth of all correctional officers are women, and the rate at which women are imprisoned is growing faster than that of men. Yet, despite increasing numbers of women prisoners and officers, ideas about prison life and prison work are