Product Description: Poetry. Bilingual Edition. Translated into Spanish by Sol Gaitan. PICASSO IN BARCELONA is Bob Holman's fifteenth book, if you count CDs, videos, anthologies and translations, which he does. In it, he takes on Pablo Picasso, and it's pretty much a draw...read more

Product Description: Private fostering is essentially about children placed by their parents or guardians to live with non-relatives in the latter's own homes. The estimated 10,000 private foster children in Britain are one of the country's largest groups of vunerable children, yet they receive little consideration from official agencies...read more

Product Description: Numerous books have been written about Victorian child care pioneers, but few biographical studies have been published about more recent child care and welfare giants. In this book, Bob Holman, a champion for children in his own right, looks at the lives of six inspirational individuals who have made significant contributions to the well-being of disadvantaged children over the course of the 20th century...read more

Revisiting his 1981 publication, 'Kids at the Door', Bob Holman recently got back with many of the young people who used to come to his family's home where, in 1976, he initiated a community project on the Southdown council estate, Bath. This text presents his conclusions and results.

Product Description: Concerned about the distance of academics from the problems they study, Bob Holtman has been living and working on Europe's largest public housing estate, Easterhouse in Glasgow, for many years. In his powerful new book, Holman asks seven people who experience poverty every day to describe the reality of their lives...read more

A companion volume to the public television series on modern American poetry features some eighty contemporary poems by poets ranging from Nobel laureates to the Beat poets, rock songwriters and rappers to hip-hop, Creole, and American Sign Language poets.

Offers a collection of poems, including 'Cupid's Cashbox,' 'Cowboy Heaven,' 'I'd Rather Be Crazy than Stupid,' and 'You Can't Be a Jerk and Write Great Poetry'

A multicultural selection of contemporary poems by Puerto Rican and other poets who meet at the Nuyorican Poets Cafe in New York City