Rocco Di Pietro’s The Normal Exception: Life Stories, Reflections, and Dreams from Prison is an outcome of the author’s ten years of teaching college courses to prison inmates in New York, Ohio, and California.A thoughtful observer, Di Pietro offers illuminating commentary on people's roles and the…

It has been called the worst cultural disaster to happen since the Second World War, and one archaeologist has likened it to a "lobotomy of an entire culture."  To the dismay of archaeologists throughout the world, the toppling of the Iraqi government by U.S. troops unleashed a wave of…