Results for "Martinez, J. Michael"

A suite of poems that channels the legendary singer-songwriter Ritchie Valens to examine and question mid-twentieth-century conceptions of race and art, identity and desireRagged and raging across the spectrums of cognition, race, and gender, Tarta Americana lyrically envisions forms of survival out... Read More about Tarta Americana (Penguin Poets)

In his award-winning first book, J. Michael Martinez reenvisions Latino poetics and its current conceptions of cultural identity. In Heredities, he opens a historically ravaged continental body through a metaphysical dissection into Being and silence. The hand manipulates a surgical etymology throug... Read More about Heredities (Walt Whitman Award of the Academy of American Poets)

This fascinating book recounts the compelling stories behind 14 of the most important criminal procedure cases in American legal history. Many constitutional protections that Americans take for granted today--the right to exclude illegally obtained evidence, the right to government-financed counse... Read More about The Greatest Criminal Cases: Changing the Course of American Law

This volume establishes a foundation for a uniform code of professional ethics for public administrators in the United States. Public Administration Ethics for the 21st Century lays the ethical foundations for a uniform professional code of ethics for public administrators, civil servants, and non... Read More about Public Administration Ethics for the 21st Century