The Vineyard takes you on a journey into a series of mental, physical and spiritual experiences in form of songs of various genres, poems on different issues and inspired quotes on life's situations. Step up to ShyVino's Book of Rhymes and have a sip of the wine made with a blend of love and emotions, fortitude and tenacity, living and surviving with physical, emotional and spiritual aspects of life; which he offers from his vineyard . The book is a compilation of rap, songs and poems in the order they were written. Some of these lyrics, if not all, can pass for articles for reflection or prayers. When you get to the final page, you would have succeeded in completing a journey of several years, on various issues, with Nzefili.

Smart Moves That Successful Youth Workers Make provides core principles and practices for effectively working with today's youth. You'll learn: how to manage the 7 roles of the front-line youth worker, avoid the ten common mistakes most youth workers make, set boundaries without being cold and unapproachable, and help teens build healthy self-esteem and take positive charge of their lives.

"My wife in prison is an auto-biographical account of an inmate Cash Lucas' life and his love affair with a female correctional officer Heather Blake inside of prison. This book is a first hand account from an inmate from 2005 to 2008"--Page 4 of cover.

Hip-hop artist Queen Pen's powerful debut novel is a love story of ultimate passion and desperate measures set on the tough streets of Brooklyn.

What does it mean to be young, American, and white at the dawn of the twenty-first century? By exploring this question and revealing the everyday social processes by which high schoolers define white identities, Pamela Perry offers much-needed insights into the social construction of race and whiteness among youth. Through ethnographic research and in-depth interviews of students in two demographically distinct U.S. high schools—one suburban and predominantly white; the other urban, multiracial, and minority white—Perry shares students’ candor about race and self-identification. By examining the meanings students attached (or didn’t attach) to their social lives and everyday cultural practices, including their taste in music and clothes, she shows that the ways white students defined white identity were not only markedly different between the two schools but were considerably diverse and ambiguous within them as well. Challenging reductionist notions of whiteness and white racism, this study suggests how we might go “beyond whiteness” to new directions in antiracist activism and school reform. Shades of White is emblematic of an emerging second wave of whiteness studies that focuses on the racial identity of whites. It will appeal to scholars and students of anthropology, sociology, and cultural studies, as well as to those involved with high school education and antiracist activities.