This book provides a comprehensive history of opera production and staging, exploring the evolution of visual style and set design in continental Europe from the seventeenth century to the present, highlighting the importance of scenery, costumes, and stage action.
This book about Rikers Island uses the Art of War as a tool to understand how to overcome being imprisoned in the largest jail in the world. "Rikers Island" allows the reader to understand the individual incarcerated from a more human perspective. The books intent is to create change through awareness of a human crisis that is understood in less than humane terms. The book identifies education as a tool for overcoming a huge prison and jail population that is 98 percent Black and Hispanic. Advocacy for the reinstitution of the college degree program is an underlying theme that develops as a solution to the Black Diaspora.