New Releases by Robin James

Find harmony in all aspects of your life with this beautiful guide to simple, balanced living. With practical tips on everything from managing day-to-day stress to finding a work-life balance, How to Balance Your Life is your go-to guide to discovering lasting peace. So, take your first step towards a happier, healthier and more relaxed future.

Defense attorney Cass Leary has every reason to steer clear of this case. Her client, Reed Karl might just be the most hated man in town. But one look at the police report and Cass knows something doesn''t add up. And when Reed’s wife and young daughter beg her to help him, she can’t find the heart to say no. With the odds stacked against her, Cass is all in on a murder trial that threatens to ruin her career and cost her the one person she can''t live without. But only Cass knows there''s another, more vulnerable victim''s life at stake. If she walks away now, she''ll have blood on her hands she can never wash clean. Sometimes, small-town justice comes with a price too high for even Cass Leary to pay.

"When small-town defense attorney Cass Leary inherits the practice of an old legal mentor, his client list is more than she bargained for. It contains a single name and evidence of a crime that has thrown the legal community into chaos. Cass finds herself at the center of a shocking murder trial that no one believes she can win."--

In 1983, an Ohio radio station called WOXY launched a sonic disruption to both corporate rock and to its conservative home region, programming an omnivorous range of genres and artists while being staunchly committed to local independent art and media. In the 1990s, as alternative rock went mainstream and radio grew increasingly homogeneous, WOXY gained international renown as one of Rolling Stone’s “Last Great Independent Radio” stations. The station projected a philosophy that prioritized such independence—the idea that truly progressive, transgressive, futuristic disruptions of the status quo were possible only when practiced with and for other people. In The Future of Rock and Roll, philosopher Robin James uses WOXY’s story to argue against a corporate vision of independence—in which everyone fends for themselves—and in favor of an alternative way of thinking and relating to one another that disrupts norms but is nevertheless supported by communities. Against the standard retelling of the history of “modern rock,” James looks to the local scenes that made true independence possible by freeing individual artists from the whims of the boardroom. This philosophy of community-rooted independence offers both a counternarrative to the orthodox history of indie rock and an alternative worldview to that of the current corporate mainstream.

For over eighty years the SBS have sailed into the face of danger. Responsible for quick strikes, reconnaissance, and counter-terrorism, they are the world''s foremost marine special forces unit. The SBS risk their lives at sea and on land, undertaking the most dangerous missions. 1995, Spain. The Princess of Wales is enjoying a holiday in Catalonia when she becomes the target of an international terrorist''s vengeance. With the Princess kidnapped, can the SBS rescue her in time – or will their tried and tested methods fail against the wily and battle-hardened terrorist leader?

Discover the art of finding more through having less. Filled with practical tips, this book will guide you toward a simpler way of life. Learn how to reduce your clutter and your stress levels, to make time for what matters, and how to enrich the everyday by putting quality before quantity. All you need is the simple power of"less".

Her reputation is on the line. A woman''s life is in danger. Can she stop them both from flatlining? Lawyer Cass Leary is desperate for a break from her family drama. And when a local judge asks for help protecting his sister from domestic abuse, she sees an opportunity to resurrect her career. But the case quickly turns ugly when her client vanishes without a trace. Convinced the volatile husband is behind the disappearance, Cass doubles down on her frantic search. But she''s unprepared for the tragic twist that could upend the entire Delphi court system... With powerful figures circling, can Cass expose the shocking truth before her voice is silenced? Imminent Harm is the sixth book in the high-octane Cass Leary Legal Thriller Series. If you like strong female leads, gripping courtroom conflict, and page-turning suspense, then you''ll love Robin James''s riveting novel. Buy Imminent Harm to join a pulse-pounding race for justice today!

In The Sonic Episteme Robin James examines how twenty-first-century conceptions of sound as acoustic resonance shape notions of the social world, personhood, and materiality in ways that support white supremacist capitalist patriarchy. Drawing on fields ranging from philosophy and sound studies to black feminist studies and musicology, James shows how what she calls the sonic episteme—a set of sound-based rules that qualitatively structure social practices in much the same way that neoliberalism uses statistics—employs a politics of exception to maintain hegemonic neoliberal and biopolitical projects. Where James sees the normcore averageness of Taylor Swift and Spandau Ballet as contributing to the sonic episteme''s marginalization of nonnormative conceptions of gender, race, and personhood, the black feminist political ontologies she identifies in Beyoncé''s and Rihanna''s music challenge such marginalization. In using sound to theorize political ontology, subjectivity, and power, James argues for the further articulation of sonic practices that avoid contributing to the systemic relations of domination that biopolitical neoliberalism creates and polices.

Will she take on an entire town to clear the name of a convicted killer? Defense lawyer Cass Leary never backs down from a case. Though after her latest high-profile courtroom win, the ex-mafia attorney thinks she''s finally earned a little rest and relaxation. But when her paralegal begs her to defend a potentially innocent man who was convicted of homicide, she puts vacation on hold to fight for justice. With the convicted killer now terminally ill and behind bars, Cass digs deeper despite the whole town resisting her at every turn. Discovering shocking evidence along the way, she fears the true killer may still be at large. But the closer she gets to the hornet''s nest, the more she enrages those who want her permanently silenced... Can Cass set the record straight before trying to reveal dark town secrets gets her killed? Stolen Justice is the fourth book in the fast-paced Cass Leary Legal Thriller series. If you like bold heroines, dark secrets, and twists you won''t see coming, then you''ll love Robin James''s pulse-pounding novel. Buy Stolen Justice to take a suspenseful courtroom thrill-ride today!

This dissertation examines the pedagogical beliefs and instructional practices of community college faculty members. The dissertation uses a qualitative interpretive inquiry approach to explore the contextual understanding of pedagogy and teaching of community college. Drawing from the theoretical framework of pedagogy, teaching and beliefs, this study examines the interrelation of each construct in relation to prior experiences and classroom instructional behaviors. Utilizing Stark, Lowther, Sossen and Shaw''s (1991) Contextual Filters Model (CFM) this study explores the cognitive and contextual factors that are intertwined with planning and instructional delivery. Further, this research study is founded on the premise that community college faculty espouse individual teacher''s (faculty) beliefs are strong indicators of his/her classroom practices. The findings of the study illuminate the divergent understanding of pedagogy among community college faculty, affirming pedagogy, as an operational term of education theory, is plagued with ambiguity and misconceptions. Despite the uncertainties of pedagogy, it is essential that all educators have a holistic understanding of pedagogy which embraces and informs educational theory, individual instructional practices, assessment, and student relationship inside and outside the classroom (Waring & Evans, 2015). Additional findings of the study provide evidentiary support that faculty beliefs and prior experiences have a direct influence on instructional practices and behaviors. This body of research further advocates for a need for additional research on the impact of faculty beliefs, ideologies, and lived experiences as significant factors that influence the daily interactions of teaching and learning, specifically in the context of community colleges.

While the earliest character representations in video games were rudimentary in terms of their presentation and performance, the virtual characters that appear in games today can be extremely complex and lifelike. These are characters that have the potential to make a powerful and emotional connection with gamers. As virtual characters become more

When most people think that “little girls should be seen and not heard,” a noisy, riotous scream can be revolutionary. But that’s not the case anymore. (Cis/Het/White) Girls aren’t supposed to be virginal, passive objects, but Poly-Styrene-like sirens who scream back in spectacularly noisy and transgressive ways as they “Lean In.” Resilience is the new, neoliberal feminine ideal: real women overcome all the objectification and silencing that impeded their foremothers. Resilience discourse incites noisy damage, like screams, so that it can be recycled for a profit. It turns the crises posed by avant-garde noise, feminist critique, and black aesthetics into opportunities for strengthening the vitality of multi-racial white supremacist patriarchy (MRWaSP). Reading contemporary pop music – Lady Gaga, Beyonce, Calvin Harris – with and against political philosophers like Michel Foucault, feminists like Patricia Hill Collins, and media theorists like Steven Shaviro, /Resilience & Melancholy/ shows how resilience discourse manifests in both pop music and in feminist politics. In particular, it argues that resilient femininity is a post-feminist strategy for producing post-race white supremacy. Resilience discourse allows women to “Lean In” to MRWaSP privilege because their overcoming and leaning-in actively produce blackness as exception, as pathology, as death. The book also considers alternatives to resilience found in the work of Beyonce, Rihanna, and Atari Teenage Riot. Updating Freud, James calls these pathological, diseased iterations of resilience “melancholy.” Melancholy makes resilience unprofitable, that is, incapable of generating enough surplus value to keep MRWaSP capitalism healthy. Investing in the things that resilience discourse renders exceptional, melancholic siren songs like Rihanna’s “Diamonds” steer us off course, away from resilient “life” and into the death.

White Self-Criticality beyond Anti-racism powerfully emphasizes the significance of humility, vulnerability, anxiety, questions of complicity, and how being a “good white” is implicated in racial injustice. This collection sets a new precedent for critical race scholarship and critical whiteness studies to take into consideration what it means specifically to be a white problem rather than simply restrict scholarship to the problem of white privilege and white normative invisibility. Ultimately, the text challenges the contemporary rhetoric of a color-blind or color-evasive world in a discourse that is critically engaging and sophisticated, accessible, and persuasive.

The Warren Commission insisted that JFK''s assassination was the work of a lone gunman. But what if there had been another shooter involved? And what if that shooter had kept a journal that told the whole story from his own point of view? That''s the premise of this novel--the story of how and why one of the gunmen came to be involved and what it took to have him there in Dallas in November of 1963. How he was initially recruited and trained to be part of the team conceived to assassinate Fidel Castro, only to have that project aborted at the last minute by the man who was to be his target in Dallas: President John F. Kennedy. This story is fiction. Many of the details reported herein never actually happened (though many did, of course--but then, that''s one of the charms of historical novels: the blending of totally fabricated illusion with well-established fact).

This handbook describes the traditional uses by aboriginal people of more than 200 different plants from Canada''s boreal forest. It is the result of original ethnobotanical fieldwork in 29 communities across the boreal forest region of Manitoba, Saskatchewan, and Alberta. Natural resources of the boreal forest have always been essential to the dietary, medical, economic, and spiritual well-being of First Nations people, but until now much of their traditional environmental knowledge has remained unrecorded and at risk of being lost.