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Days of Steel Rain

The Epic Story of a WWII Vengeance Ship in the Year of the Kamikaze

By: Brent E. Jones

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Days of Steel Rain

The Epic Story of a WWII Vengeance Ship in the Year of the Kamikaze

By: Brent E. Jones

This intimate true account of Americans at war follows theepic drama of an unlikely group of men forced to work together in the face of an increasingly desperate enemy during the final year of World War II. Sprawling across the Pacific, this untold story follows the crew of the newly-built "vengeance ship" USS Astoria, named for her sunken predecessor lost earlier in the war. At its center lies U.S. Navy Captain George Dyer, who vowed to return to action after suffering a horrific wound. He accepted the ship's command in 1944, knowing it would be his last chance to avenge his injuries and salvage his career. Yet with the nation's resources and personnel stretched thin by the war, he found that just getting the ship into action would prove to be a battle. Tensions among the crew flared from the start. Astoria's sailors and Marines were a collection of replacements, retreads, and older men. Some were broken by previous traumatic combat, most had no desire to be in the war, yet all found themselves fighting an enemy more afraid of surrender than death. The reluctant ship was called to respond to challenges that its men never could have anticipated. From a typhoon where the ocean was enemy to daring rescue missions, a gallant turn at Iwo Jima, and the ultimate crucible against the Kamikaze at Okinawa, they endured the worst of the final year of the war at sea. Days of Steel Rain brings to life more than a decade of research and firsthand interviews, depicting with unprecedented insight the singular drama of a captain grappling with an untested crew and men who had endured enough amidst some of the most brutal fighting of World War II. Throughout, Brent Jones fills the narrative with secret diaries, memoirs, letters, interpersonal conflicts, and the innermost thoughts of the Astoria men—and more than 80 photographs that have never before been published. Days of Steel Rain weaves an intimate, unforgettable portrait of leadership, heroism, endurance, and redemption.

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Hachette Books

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0316451096

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9780316451093

A Rift in the Clouds

Race and the Southern Federal Judiciary, 1900-1910

By: Brent J. Aucoin

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A Rift in the Clouds

Race and the Southern Federal Judiciary, 1900-1910

By: Brent J. Aucoin

A Rift in the Clouds chronicles the efforts of three white southern federal judges to protect the civil rights of African Americans at the beginning of the twentieth century, when few in the American legal community were willing to do so. Jacob Treiber of Arkansas, Emory Speer of Georgia, and Thomas Goode Jones of Alabama challenged the Supreme Court's reading of the Reconstruction amendments that were passed in an attempt to make disfranchised and exploited African Americans equal citizens of the United States. These unpopular white southerners, two of whom who had served in the Confederate Army and had themselves helped to bring Reconstruction to an end in their states, asserted that the amendments not only established black equality, but authorized the government to protect blacks. Although their rulings won few immediate gains for blacks and were overturned by the Supreme Court, their legal arguments would be resurrected, and meet with greater success, over half a century later during the civil rights movement.

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186

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University of Arkansas Press

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1610753461

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9781610753463

Human Communication Handbook

Simulations and Games

By: Brent D. Ruben,Richard W. Budd

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Human Communication Handbook

Simulations and Games

By: Brent D. Ruben,Richard W. Budd

Contains games and structured exercises designed to develop familiarity with the dynamics of personal, social, and mass communication

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194

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Transaction Publishers

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1412844975

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9781412844970

Justice for Ourselves

Black Virginians Claim Their Freedom after Slavery

By: John G. Deal,Marianne E. Julienne,Brent Tarter

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Justice for Ourselves

Black Virginians Claim Their Freedom after Slavery

By: John G. Deal,Marianne E. Julienne,Brent Tarter

A new look at the Black Virginians who defined and realized their freedom after the collapse of slavery “Verily, the work does not end with the abolition of slavery,” wrote Frederick Douglass in 1862, “but only begins.” The Emancipation Proclamation and the Thirteenth Amendment altered a legal status; to make freedom a reality represented a different challenge altogether. Justice for Ourselves tells the stories of remarkable Black men and women in post–Civil War Virginia who persevered in the face of overwhelming barriers to seek their freedom and create a new world for themselves and future generations. Drawing on the life stories of individuals from all regions of the state—political leaders, teachers, ministers, journalists, and entrepreneurs—Justice for Ourselves recounts their quests to attain full American citizenship and economic independence before the onset of Jim Crow repression. Centering Black voices, this book includes tales of opportunities seized and opportunities lost and will reshape the narrative of Black history and the history of Virginia in the second half of the nineteenth century.

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298

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University of Virginia Press

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0813951380

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9780813951386

Comparative-Integrative Psychoanalysis

A Relational Perspective for the Discipline's Second Century

By: Brent Willock

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Comparative-Integrative Psychoanalysis

A Relational Perspective for the Discipline's Second Century

By: Brent Willock

Explores the field of comparative-integrative psychoanalysis. This book provides an invaluable framework for approaching the fractious state of the psychoanalytic discipline, divided as it is into diverse schools of thought, presenting many conceptual challenges. It draws on insights from neighboring disciplines to shed light on the issue.

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250

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Routledge

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1136871519

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9781136871511

Marriages of Bute and Warren Counties, North Carolina 1764-1868

By: Brent H. Holcomb

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Marriages of Bute and Warren Counties, North Carolina 1764-1868

By: Brent H. Holcomb

Bute County was discontinued in 1779. Franklin and Warren counties were formed from the area of Bute County.

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Genealogical Publishing Com

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0806313013

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9780806313016

Islam in the African-American Experience, Second Edition

By: Richard Brent Turner

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Islam in the African-American Experience, Second Edition

By: Richard Brent Turner

Sure to become] a classic in the field. Highly recommended." --Library Journal "... full of surprises and intrigues and written in a beautiful style.... a breath of fresh air on the African-Islamic-American connection." --Journal of the American Academy of Religion The involvement of black Americans with Islam reaches back to the earliest days of the African presence in North America. Part I of the book explores these roots in the Middle East, West Africa, and antebellum America. Part II tells the story of the "Prophets of the City"--the leaders of the new urban-based African American Muslim movements in the 20th century. Turner places the study of Islam in the context of the racial, ethical, and political relations that influenced the reception of successive presentations of Islam, including the West African Islam of slaves, the Ahmadiyya Movement from India, the orthodox Sunni practice of later immigrants, and the Nation of Islam. This second edition features a new introduction, which discusses developments since the earlier edition, including Islam in a post-9/11 America.

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356

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Indiana University Press

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0253216303

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9780253216304

Book's by Brent E. Jones

Days of Steel Rain

Days of Steel Rain

A Rift in the Clouds

A Rift in the Clouds

Human Communication Handbook

Human Communication Handbook

Justice for Ourselves

Justice for Ourselves

Comparative-Integrative Psychoanalysis

Comparative-Integrative Psychoanalysis

Marriages of Bute and Warren Counties, North Carolina 1764-1868

Marriages of Bute and Warren Counties, North Carolina 1764-1868

Islam in the African-American Experience, Second Edition

Islam in the African-American Experience, Second Edition

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