ISBN: 076192731X, Author: , Publisher: Sage Publications, Inc, Pages: 1400
Click 'Additional Materials' for downloadable samplesThe two-volume Encyclopedia of Prisons and Correctional Facilities aims to provide a critical overview of penal institutions within a historical and

contemporary framework. The United States has the highest incarceration rate in the world, a fact that has caused lawmakers, advocates, and legal professionals to rethink punishment policies as well as develop new policies on prisoner education andrehabilitation. Issues of race, gender, and class are fully integrated throughout in order to demonstrate the complexity of the implementation and intended results of incarceration. The Encyclopedia contains biographies,articles describing important legal statutes, and detailed and authoritative descriptions of the major prisons in the United States. Comparative data and examples are employed to analyze the American system within an international context. TheEncyclopedia’s 400 entries are all written by recognized authorities. The appendix contains a comprehensive listing of every federal prison in the U.S., complete with facility details and service information. Key ThemesJuvenile JusticeLaborPrison ArchitecturePrison PopulationsPrison ReformPrivatizationRace, Gender, ClassSecurity and ClassificationSentencing Policy and LawsStaffTheories of PunishmentTreatment ProgramsEditorial Board Stephanie Bush-Baskette, National Council on Crime and Delinquency (NCCD) Jeanne Flavin, Fordham University Esther Heffernan, Edgewood College Jim Thomas, Northern Illinois University

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THE BEATLES - RECORDING SESSIONS
MARK LEWISOHN

Introductory Interview with Paul McCartney



The Beatles: Recording Sessions is EMI Records' official diary-format history of every Beatles recording session, from the first in 1962, when the group was auditioned, to the last recordings in 1970 shortly before the Beatles split up.

The Beatles Complete Chronicle

by Mark Lewisohn

• The single greatest and most authoritative document about The Beatles ever written
• Every working day of the Beatles career covered
• Long awaited successor to the best-selling THE COMPLETE BEATLES RECORDING SESSIONS
• Written by the world's leading authority on the Beatles
• Contains over 500 illustrations (many previously unpublished)
• The one and only indispensable guide to those remarkable Beatles years

The Beatles - The Get Back Book - Photographs of the Let It Be/Get Back sessions

In the UK, the album Let It Be was originally issued by Apple (and distributed by EMI) in a lavish boxed set that also included a book featuring stills from the Let It Be film.
Several months later, the album was reissued in Great Britain in a standard LP jacket, sans book. In the United States, the Let It Be album was issued in a standard jacket, without the book.