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Just around Midnight

Rock and Roll and the Racial Imagination

By: Jack Hamilton

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Just around Midnight

Rock and Roll and the Racial Imagination

By: Jack Hamilton

By the time Jimi Hendrix died in 1970, the idea of a black man playing lead guitar in a rock band seemed exotic. Yet a mere ten years earlier, Chuck Berry and Bo Diddley had stood among the most influential rock and roll performers. Why did rock and roll become “white”? Just around Midnight reveals the interplay of popular music and racial thought that was responsible for this shift within the music industry and in the minds of fans. Rooted in rhythm-and-blues pioneered by black musicians, 1950s rock and roll was racially inclusive and attracted listeners and performers across the color line. In the 1960s, however, rock and roll gave way to rock: a new musical ideal regarded as more serious, more artistic—and the province of white musicians. Decoding the racial discourses that have distorted standard histories of rock music, Jack Hamilton underscores how ideas of “authenticity” have blinded us to rock’s inextricably interracial artistic enterprise. According to the standard storyline, the authentic white musician was guided by an individual creative vision, whereas black musicians were deemed authentic only when they stayed true to black tradition. Serious rock became white because only white musicians could be original without being accused of betraying their race. Juxtaposing Sam Cooke and Bob Dylan, Aretha Franklin and Janis Joplin, Jimi Hendrix and the Rolling Stones, and many others, Hamilton challenges the racial categories that oversimplified the sixties revolution and provides a deeper appreciation of the twists and turns that kept the music alive.

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Harvard University Press

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0674973569

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The Countercultural South

By: Jack Temple Kirby

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The Countercultural South

By: Jack Temple Kirby

At once upholding and refuting the South's conservative image, The Countercultural South explores the politically divergent cultures of resistance created by poor white and working-class black southern men. With humor and insight, Jack Temple Kirby traces these racially and politically opposed cultures back to the antebellum encounter between the anti-capitalistic South and the capitalist individualism identified with the North. In a wide-ranging discussion encompassing the blues, sharecropping, and contemporary black intellectuals, Kirby shows how the needful practice of black labor bargaining in the South resulted in a progressive black tradition of verbal negotiation. The conservative separatism and retro-resistance of rural whites, Kirby argues, is embedded in an inherited and adversarial frontier ethos valuing self-sufficiency and access to wilderness. With the southern landscape imaginatively as well as factually linked to social class, crime--particularly forest arson--becomes the most important form of southern white countercultural expression. Kirby continues his look at white resistance in a review of "redneck" discourse, examining the public reputation of southern whites through a range of cultural phenomena, from literature to country music to the computer network known as BUBBA-L. Original, personal, and artfully written, The Countercultural South offers fresh reflections on southern exceptionalism in American political life and culture.

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University of Georgia Press

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0820317233

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The Zeta Factor

By: Jack Broccoli

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The Zeta Factor

By: Jack Broccoli

Over lunch, Dr Jack Broccoli learns from Dr Larry Faber, a friend from medical school, about an amazing drug he has developed called Ambrotine. It seems that it reverses aging and cures almost any disease. Larry needs experimental subjects, so Jack volunteers some of his own nursing home patients and the results are positive beyond all expectations. There are however, a few unexpected side effects. Jack finds himself in trouble with his licensing authority and on the run from Pharmex, a ruthless drug company interested in the enormous financial promise of the drug. He also has problems caused by his generous desire to be of service to womankind. He falls in love with Karen but has to flee with her to an undisclosed location as a craze for Ambrotine sweeps the world…

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Austin Macauley Publishers

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1647501148

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More of Been There

By: Jack Cook

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More of Been There

By: Jack Cook

More Of Been There is Don Monties Second book about the General Motors assembly plant in Ypsilanti, Michigan. These are stories of autoworkers, their families and the communitys involvement in the closing of Willow Run.

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Xlibris Corporation

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1479725846

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An Introduction to Ned Kelly

A Pictorial History of an Australian Outlaw

By: Jack Peterson

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An Introduction to Ned Kelly

A Pictorial History of an Australian Outlaw

By: Jack Peterson

Many people know the name Ned Kelly but don't know the story that led to his last stand at Glenrowan or his execution at the Old Melbourne Gaol. The author has attempted to retell the story by simply connecting the events of the day with images of places and items that still exist today. The book begins with the marriage of Ned Kellys parents in 1850 and ends with Neds execution in 1880. In between are all the significant events of his life, including the police murders, the audacious robberies, and Neds vision for a republic of North-Eastern Victoria. It is the ideal book for anyone who has an interest in Australian history or who wants to know more about Ned Kellys significance to Australia.

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1524521264

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The Autobiography of Ltc John (Jack) H. Adams from 1931 to 2011

Volume 1

By: Jack Adams

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The Autobiography of Ltc John (Jack) H. Adams from 1931 to 2011

Volume 1

By: Jack Adams

This book is an autobiography of my life with my brother, Don from my early years growing up in Washington, D.C. as my mother Bernice Augusta along with my father for part of the period nurtured, sacrificed and cared for us with meager funds. . After separation from my father, my mother struggled even more and for several years twice sent us to Tulsa, Ok, where we were nurtured and given the utmost love, and learned to honor Jesus Christ by my maternal Grandmother, Minnie Mae Guess, who we affectionately called "Mama Dear". Quintessentially my greatest fortune in my life was meeting and marrying Helen, who I met at Howard University. As I reflect back on our 52 years of marriage, she was the catalyst for any career success I had in the military and later in the U.S Government and for writing this book. She loved & adored her four children and a committed worshiper of Jesus Christ. However after her passing, I was again so fortunate to meet a gracious and lovely lady, named Rolando who has also accepted me with all of my imperfections and have made my life complete. Jack Adams

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1467071986

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Life in a Jar

The Irena Sendler Project

By: H. Jack Mayer

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Life in a Jar

The Irena Sendler Project

By: H. Jack Mayer

Tells story of Irena Sendler who organized the rescue of 2,500 Jewish children during World War II, and the teenagers who started the investigation into Irena's heroism.

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Long Trail Press

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098411131X

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Embedded Balls

By: Peter Jacobsen,Jack Sheehan

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Embedded Balls

By: Peter Jacobsen,Jack Sheehan

From one of golf's funniest, most popular players comes another hilarious look inside the pro sport and the people who play it. For nearly thirty years, Peter Jacobsen—player, entertainer, (off-) color commentator, TV host, golf-course designer, and entrepreneur—has been a favorite of fans and fellow golfers. Since his first book, Buried Lies, was published in 1993, a lot has happened—to him, to his colleagues, and to the game itself—so it’s high time he launched a mulligan. From Jack Nicklaus to Michelle Wie, Tiger Woods to Vijay Singh, Jacobsen takes you behind the scenes of the pro tour like no one else can, as he tells you what it’s like to play the PGA and Champions tours simultaneously; how John Daly nearly decapitated a spectator; what players really say to each other in the locker room; why you should never loan your caddy to Tiger Woods; what made Arnold Palmer change his shorts; and how Jacobsen won the U.S. Open (well…kind of). Throughout, it’s a book filled with wit, warmth, insight, and just plain fun: a pure delight. So grab your sticks and strap on your nails—let’s go another round. “Required reading for all golf fans who long for a glimpse of the humanity behind their heroes’ furrowed brows.”—Booklist “A must read for every golfer or fan of the sport.”—Phil Mickelson, 2004 Masters champion

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Penguin

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110104294X

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9781101042946

Saving Christmas

By: Jack Larrabee-Abel

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Saving Christmas

By: Jack Larrabee-Abel

Jack Larrabee-Abel is 9 years old and is a third grader at the Elizabeth Shelton School in Shelton, CT. He is an avid reader and enjoys writing stories. He is a very active young man. He plays baseball in the Shelton American Little League each spring. Skis in the winter, and does all the fun things that boys do at 9 years old. His love of reading has aided him in becoming a good student and spurs his desire to share this love with beginning readers.

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1477171487

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The Devil’S Revenge

By: Jack Darmend

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The Devil’S Revenge

By: Jack Darmend

As long as mankind has existed he has been plagued by two questions, Where did I come from? and Where am I going? Anthropologists, geologists, astronomers, and archaeologists have been searching for an answer to the first question and have produced a lot of evidence to show where mankind came from and how long mankind has existed on planet Earth. Theology students have applied their own thinking on both these questions and claim to know the answers. This book takes an individual view and reaches a definite and alarming conclusion. The author lived with his family through the Second World War and after the end of the war went to an agricultural college and then spent many years as a farm worker where he came to the conclusion that life was not as we have been led to believe by the establishment. In the agricultural college, he studied the work of Gregor Mendel and the subject of genetics in all living things, animal, and plants of all kinds and reached the conclusion that the creator of all life on earth is the sun, which is responsible through its various light forms, infrared, ultraviolet, and other forms of lights that are not visible to mankind but can be seen by some species of animal that humans look down on and think of as low life.

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1469158019

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9781469158013

Chicken Soup for the Soul: What I Learned from the Dog

101 Stories about Life, Love, and Lessons

By: Jack Canfield,Mark Victor Hansen,Amy Newmark

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Chicken Soup for the Soul: What I Learned from the Dog

101 Stories about Life, Love, and Lessons

By: Jack Canfield,Mark Victor Hansen,Amy Newmark

Chicken Soup for the Soul: What I Learned from the Dog will delight readers with humorous, heartwarming, and inspiring stories about lessons our canine friends and family members have taught us. Lessons come in all shapes and sizes, like our faithful canine friends. Dog lovers share their stories about the valuable, heartwarming, and often funny, lessons they have learned from their loyal pets.

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Simon and Schuster

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1611591473

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9781611591477

Plunkett's Health Care Industry Almanac 2006

The Only Complete Reference to the Health Care Industry

By: Jack W. Plunbett

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Plunkett's Health Care Industry Almanac 2006

The Only Complete Reference to the Health Care Industry

By: Jack W. Plunbett

Plunketts Health Care Industry Almanac is the only complete reference to the American Health Care Industry and its leading corporations. Whatever your purpose for researching the health care field, youll find this massive reference book to be a valuable guide. No other source provides this books easy-to-understand comparisons of national health expenditures, emerging technologies, patient populations, hospitals, clinics, corporations, research, Medicare, Medicaid, managed care, and many other areas of vital importance. Included in the market research sections are dozens of statistical tables covering every aspect of the industry, from Medicare expenditures to hospital utilization, from insured and uninsured populations to revenues to health care expenditures as a percent of GDP. A special area covers vital statistics and health status of the U.S. population. The corporate analysis section features in-depth profiles of the 500 major for-profit firms (which we call The Health Care 500) within the many industry sectors that make up the health care system, from the leading companies in pharmaceuticals to the major managed care companies. Details for each corporation include executives by title, phone, fax, website, address, growth plans, divisions, subsidiaries, brand names, competitive advantage and financial results. Purchasers of either the book or PDF version can receive a free copy of the company profiles database on CD-ROM, enabling key word search and export of key information, addresses, phone numbers and executive names with titles for every company profiled.

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Plunkett Research, Ltd.

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1593920466

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9781593920463

Delphi Complete Works of Jack Kerouac (Illustrated)

By: Jack Kerouac

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Delphi Complete Works of Jack Kerouac (Illustrated)

By: Jack Kerouac

Jack Kerouac was an American novelist, poet and leader of the Beat movement. His iconic masterpiece ‘On the Road’ exacted a broad cultural influence, capturing the spirit of its time as no other work of the 20th century had done since ‘The Great Gatsby’. Kerouac’s insistence upon ‘First thought, best thought’ and his refusal to revise was controversial. He deemed revision as a form of literary lying, imposing a form farther away from the truth of the moment. His novels reveal a quest for pure, unadulterated language—the truth of the heart unobstructed by the lying of revision. His technique demonstrates an unusual writing style, neither haphazard nor sloppy, but systematic in the most-individualised sense. For the first time in publishing history, this eBook presents Kerouac’s complete fictional works, with numerous illustrations, rare texts appearing in digital print for the first time, informative introductions and bonus material. (Version 1)* Beautifully illustrated with images relating to Kerouac’s life and works * Concise introductions to the major texts * All 15 novels and novellas, with individual contents tables * Features rare novels appearing for the first time in digital publishing * Images of how the books were first published, giving your eReader a taste of the original texts * Excellent formatting of the texts * Rare poetry texts * Easily locate the poems you want to read * Includes Kerouac’s seminal non-fiction collection, ‘Lonesome Traveler’ * Ordering of texts into chronological order and genresPlease note: the poetry published after Kerouac’s death cannot appear in this edition, due to copyright restrictions.CONTENTS:The Novels The Town and the City (1950) On the Road (1957) The Dharma Bums (1958) Doctor Sax (1959) Maggie Cassidy (1959) Book of Dreams (1960) Big Sur (1962) Visions of Gerard (1963) Desolation Angels (1965) Vanity of Duluoz (1968) Visions of Cody (1972)The Novellas The Subterraneans (1958) Tristessa (1960) Satori in Paris (1966) Pic (1971)The Poetry Mexico City Blues (1959) The Scripture of the Golden Eternity (1960) Old Angel Midnight (1973)The Non-Fiction Lonesome Traveler (1960)Please visit www.delphiclassics.com to browse through our range of exciting titles or to purchase this eBook as a Parts Edition of individual eBooks

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1801701040

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Jack Jackson's American History

Los Tejanos & Lost Cause

By: Jack Jackson

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Jack Jackson's American History

Los Tejanos & Lost Cause

By: Jack Jackson

Los Tejanos is the story of the Texas-Mexican conflict between 1835 and 1875 as seen through the eyes of tejano (literally Texan of Mexican, as distinct from anglo, heritage) Juan Seguín. It is through Seguín, a pivotal and tragic figure, that Jackson humanizes Texas’ fight for independence and provides a human scale for this vast and complex story. Lost Cause documents the violent reaction to Reconstruction by Texans. As Jackson wrote, “Texas reaped a bitter harvest from the War Between the States. Part of this dark legacy was the great unrest that plagued the beaten but unbowed populace.” The tensions caused by Reconstruction are told through the Taylor-Sutton feud, which raged across South Texas, embracing two generations and causing untold grief, and the gunslinger John Wesley Hardin, who swept across Texas killing Carpetbaggers, Federal soldiers, and Indians.

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Fantagraphics Books

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1606995049

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The Authority and Interpretation of the Bible

An Historical Approach

By: Jack Rogers,Donald K. McKim

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The Authority and Interpretation of the Bible

An Historical Approach

By: Jack Rogers,Donald K. McKim

This book is a detailed and comprehensive study of attitudes toward biblical authority and interpretation held from the beginnings of the Christian era to the present day. In clear and readable fashion, the authors examine the writings of early church fathers, the medieval exegetes, and the leaders of the Protestant Reformation to locate the source of, and refute, the position of inerrancy.

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Wipf and Stock Publishers

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172520651X

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On the Road

(Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)

By: Jack Kerouac

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On the Road

(Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)

By: Jack Kerouac

The legendary novel of freedom and the search for authenticity that defined a generation, now in a striking new Pengiun Classics Deluxe Edition Inspired by Jack Kerouac's adventures with Neal Cassady, On the Road tells the story of two friends whose cross-country road trips are a quest for meaning and true experience. Written with a mixture of sad-eyed naiveté and wild ambition and imbued with Kerouac's love of America, his compassion for humanity, and his sense of language as jazz, On the Road is the quintessential American vision of freedom and hope, a book that changed American literature and changed anyone who has ever picked it up.

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0140283293

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9780140283297

The Hundredth Man

By: Jack Kerley

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The Hundredth Man

By: Jack Kerley

Bizarre messages, found carved into the flesh of two corpses in Mobile, Alabama, have launched a special unit devoted to solving psychotic crimes. They’re also launching Detective Carson Ryder into a nightmare. Ryder’s secret investigative weapon is his own family’s terrifying past—and the shadowy counsel of his own brother, a brutal and taunting killer who knows all too well how madmen think. And as the body count continues, so too does Ryder’s inescapable fear that the killer is as intimate—and as close—as the next victim.

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1101210362

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9781101210369

Peter Between Jerusalem and Antioch

Peter, James, and the Gentiles

By: Jack J. Gibson

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Peter Between Jerusalem and Antioch

Peter, James, and the Gentiles

By: Jack J. Gibson

Why did Peter cease eating with the Gentile Christians at Antioch (Gal 2:11-14) after defending his decision to eat with Cornelius before the entire Jerusalem church (Acts 11:1-18)? Beginning with a character study of Peter throughout the Gospels and Acts, Jack Gibson demonstrates that Peter is consistently portrayed as being a faithful disciple whose pre-Pentecost impetuosity is due to a lack of understanding of the message of Jesus and his post-Pentecost boldness is due to his newly-revealed understanding of this message. The historical background to the Antioch incident is considered, with special consideration given to the Jewish response to Roman rule. Peter's relationship with James and Paul is analyzed, culminating in an evaluation of Peter's motivations for ceasing to eat with the Gentiles.

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Mohr Siebeck

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3161518896

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9783161518898

So Much More Than Art

Indigenous Miniatures of the Pacific Northwest

By: Jack Davy

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So Much More Than Art

Indigenous Miniatures of the Pacific Northwest

By: Jack Davy

Miniatures – canoes, houses and totems, and human figurines – have been produced on the Northwest Coast since at least the sixteenth century. What has motivated Indigenous artists to produce these tiny artworks? Through case studies and conversations with artists themselves, So Much More Than Art convincingly dismisses the persistent understanding that miniatures are simply children’s toys or tourist trinkets. Jack Davy’s highly original exploration of this intricate pursuit demonstrates the importance of miniaturization as a technique for communicating complex cultural ideas between generations and communities, as well as across the divide that separates Indigenous and settler societies.

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UBC Press

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0774866586

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9780774866583

Firebird

By: Jack McDevitt

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Firebird

By: Jack McDevitt

A new Alex Benedict novel from "a master of describing otherworldly grandeur." (Denver Post) Forty-one years ago the renowned physicist Chris Robin vanished. Before his disappearance, his fringe science theories about the existence of endless alternate universes had earned him both admirers and enemies. Alex Benedict and Chase Kolpath discover that Robin had several interstellar yachts flown far outside the planetary system where they too vanished. And following Robin's trail into the unknown puts Benedict and Kolpath in danger...

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1101545410

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Chicken Soup for the Adopted Soul

Stories Celebrating Forever Families

By: Jack Canfield,Mark Victor Hansen

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Stories Celebrating Forever Families

By: Jack Canfield,Mark Victor Hansen

Chicken Soup for the Adopted Soul will touch your heart with stories of finding and creating families. From tales about international orphaned babies and children who spent years in the foster-care system to those who were adopted at birth, this very special compilation conveys the true meaning of unconditional love.

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Simon and Schuster

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1453275290

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Fifty-eight Lonely Men

Southern Federal Judges and School Desegregation

By: Jack Walter Peltason

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Fifty-eight Lonely Men

Southern Federal Judges and School Desegregation

By: Jack Walter Peltason

Originally published in 1961, this still timely book illustrates the role of the judiciary in the solution of a social and political problem. It is unequaled in its description of the plight of federal judges who are charged with carrying out the decisions of the Supreme Court against segregation but who are under constant pressure--social, political, and personal--to speak for the white South. Some have been ostracized by their communities as traitors; others have joined their state legislatures and local school boards in developing elaborate delay strategy to circumvent the Supreme Court's decisions. In his introduction to the first edition former Senator Paul H. Douglas wrote: ". . . a clear and comprehensive account of the legal struggles in the federal courts over segregation and desegregation in the public schools of the nation. It gets behind the newspaper headlines and gives a play-by-play account. . . . This book is indeed full proof of the delays and difficulties of the law and the pressures of local public opinion.

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University of Illinois Press

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0252001753

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9780252001758

Effective Expert Witnessing

Practices for the 21st Century

By: Jack V. Matson,S. Ravi Jagannathan

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Effective Expert Witnessing

Practices for the 21st Century

By: Jack V. Matson,S. Ravi Jagannathan

The testimony of an expert witness can lead to success or failure in cases that hinge on the presentation’s impact on a jury. Effective Expert Witnessing, Fifth Edition: Practices for the 21st Century explores the fundamentals of litigation, trial preparation, courtroom presentation, and the business of expert witnessing. Extensively updated to reflect new developments since the last edition, it provides practical advice enabling expert witnesses and attorneys to maximize the effectiveness of their expert testimony. The Fifth Edition includes three new chapters. The first uses a hypothetical case study to explore expert witness immunity and issues related to professional malpractice and civil liability. In a chapter on psychology and the art of expert persuasion, noted social psychologist and witness preparation specialist Ann T. Greeley reveals the psychology of juries, discusses what makes an expert effective, and provides tips for conveying effective testimony through verbal and nonverbal behavior and graphics and technology. The final chapter surveys nine of the worst mistakes an expert can make and provides tips on how to avoid them. Accompanying the book are downloadable resources in which Dr. Matson introduces video clips demonstrating effective and ineffective expert testimony at deposition and trial. The book and supplemental downloadable resources provide robust strategies ensuring that expert witnesses have the best possible advantage in presenting testimony that is credible, persuasive, and compelling.

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CRC Press

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1466578645

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Spartan Sports Encyclopedia

A History of the Michigan State Men's Athletic Program, 2nd Edition

By: Jack Seibold

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Spartan Sports Encyclopedia

A History of the Michigan State Men's Athletic Program, 2nd Edition

By: Jack Seibold

The all-time roster of Michigan State University athletics reads like a who’s who. Earvin “Magic” Johnson, Steve Garvey, Bubba Smith, Robin Roberts, Mateen Cleaves . . . the list grows with each new season. This book, now in its second edition, covers the complete history of MSU men’s athletics. The Spartan Sports Encyclopedia 2e, organized chronologically, chronicles more than a century of Michigan State athletic history in an easy-to-read format, highlighting over 7,000 athletes and coaches from 15 sports. Included are vignettes about Spartan seasons and celebrities and an ultracomplete review of scores and statistics. This fantastic reference book is a must-have for any Spartan fan. Skyhorse Publishing, as well as our Sports Publishing imprint, are proud to publish a broad range of books for readers interested in sports—books about baseball, pro football, college football, pro and college basketball, hockey, or soccer, we have a book about your sport or your team. Whether you are a New York Yankees fan or hail from Red Sox nation; whether you are a die-hard Green Bay Packers or Dallas Cowboys fan; whether you root for the Kentucky Wildcats, Louisville Cardinals, UCLA Bruins, or Kansas Jayhawks; whether you route for the Boston Bruins, Toronto Maple Leafs, Montreal Canadiens, or Los Angeles Kings; we have a book for you. While not every title we publish becomes a New York Times bestseller or a national bestseller, we are committed to publishing books on subjects that are sometimes overlooked by other publishers and to authors whose work might not otherwise find a home.

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1613216998

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9781613216996

The Cincinnati Reds: 1950-1985

By: Jack Klumpe,Kevin Grace

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The Cincinnati Reds: 1950-1985

By: Jack Klumpe,Kevin Grace

Imagine crouching 15 feet from home plate during a Cincinnati Reds baseball game with a camera at eye level. A major league player like Ted Kluszewski comes barreling towards the plate as you flash the bulb while the catcher makes the tag. That was one of Jack Klumpe's experiences for over a quarter century (1950-1985) covering Reds baseball for the Cincinnati Post. Jack followed the Reds from spring training to the World Series, from Crosley Field to Riverfront Stadium. He witnessed-and captured-some of the greatest players and events in franchise history, and nearly every day of every summer of his career, Jack shared his view with the fans.

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Arcadia Publishing

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1439615071

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Conflict of Laws: Cases and Materials

By: R. Lea Brilmayer,Jack L. Goldsmith,Erin O'Hara O'Connor,Carlos Vázquez

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Conflict of Laws: Cases and Materials

By: R. Lea Brilmayer,Jack L. Goldsmith,Erin O'Hara O'Connor,Carlos Vázquez

The purchase of this ebook edition does not entitle you to receive access to the Connected eBook on CasebookConnect. You will need to purchase a new print book to get access to the full experience including: lifetime access to the online ebook with highlight, annotation, and search capabilities, plus an outline tool and other helpful resources. Written by leading Conflict of Laws scholars, Conflict of Laws: Cases and Materials, Eighth Edition, presents a balanced study of Conflict of Laws, otherwise known as Private International Law. The book begins with a discussion of traditional approaches to choice-of-law problems, both inter-state and international, followed by an examination of how modern courts and commentators have struggled to formulate new and better approaches. The remaining broad topics—constitutional limitations on choice of law, personal jurisdiction, conflicts in the federal system, recognition and enforcement of judgments, extraterritorial application of federal law, choice of legal regimes, and choice of law in complex litigation—are considered in light of the wisdom derived from consideration of the basic choice-of-law problems. New to the Eighth Edition: Addition of new co-author Carlos M. Vázquez, a leading scholar in Conflict of Laws as well as the adjacent fields of International Law and Foreign Relations Law Expanded coverage of Conflict of Laws in the international context, with a focus on the increasingly important topic of extraterritorial application of federal law New Supreme Court decisions on personal jurisdiction and constitutional limits on choice of law Expanded coverage of choice of law in marriage and divorce Discussion of draft Third Restatement of Conflict of Laws Professors and students will benefit from: A balance of historical and recent cases, with problems that test application of case precedents A balance between theoretical and practical aspects of Conflict of Laws, with coverage of state law and comparative perspectives where appropriate Focus on Choice of Law Broader coverage of extraterritorial application of federal law than any leading Conflict of Laws casebook Modern applications to internet disputes, complex litigation, party autonomy, and jurisdictional competition, among other cutting-edge topics

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Media-Made Dixie

The South in the American Imagination

By: Jack Temple Kirby

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Media-Made Dixie

The South in the American Imagination

By: Jack Temple Kirby

In Media-Made Dixie Jack Kirby shows how the American public’s perceptions of the South have been influenced, even controlled, by the mass communications media. In this newly updated edition, Kirby surveys major movies, radio and television shows, plays, popular histories, and music from the turn of the century through the 1980s. He documents a progression in the national image of the South from the cracker wasteland of Erskine Caldwell’s God’s Little Acre to the antebellum wonderland of Hollywood’s Shirley Temple-“Bojangles” Robinson musicals; from William Styron’s searching account of the Old South in Confessions of Nat Turner to the New South ingenuity of Jimmy Carter and Ted Turner; and from the regressive back-roads of television’s The Dukes of Hazzard to the complex reconciliation found in Alice Walker’s and Steven Spielberg’s The Color Purple.

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University of Georgia Press

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0820323888

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The Dryline

By: Jack Grubbs

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The Dryline

By: Jack Grubbs

An engineer gets caught in the gears of a deadly conspiracy in this thriller of new technology and ruthless oilmen set in Luling, Texas. Once known as the “Toughest Town in Texas,” Luling is about to see a whole new kind of trouble when oil money and murder collide. Former NASA engineer Tom Seiler has been helping his brother, Don, with a new oil extraction system potentially worth billions. But when a worker is found dead on the outskirts of Luling, the brothers find themselves up against a group of ruthless oilmen bent on stealing their design. Surrounded by danger, Tom and Don have no option but to ?ght for the system—and their lives. Set among the rolling hills of South Texas, The Dryline explores the vagaries of nature, the one-of-a-kind Luling Watermelon Thump, and the struggle between justice and revenge.

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BrownBooks.ORM

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Taming the Storm

The Life and Times of Judge Frank M. Johnson, Jr., and the South's Fight Over Civil Rights

By: Jack Bass

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Taming the Storm

The Life and Times of Judge Frank M. Johnson, Jr., and the South's Fight Over Civil Rights

By: Jack Bass

Thrust into the center of a raging storm over civil rights, Frank M. Johnson, Jr., was the youngest federal judge in the country at the time of his appointment in 1955. During his twenty-four years on the district court in Montgomery, Alabama, Johnson handed down a string of precedent-setting decisions that were vastly unpopular at the time but that would prove to have profound consequences for America's future. Not only did Johnson's trailblazing opinions greatly expand the access of African Americans to their constitutional rights, but his opinions also helped to dismantle discrimination against women, prison inmates, and the mentally ill. Johnson paid a heavy price for his judicial vision, however, for he had to endure public scorn, death threats, and the outrage of a society that felt itself and its values to be under siege. Eventually Johnson prevailed, winning honor even in his native Alabama and a respected place in the history of the civil rights movement. Taming the Storm is the story of an authentic American hero and the era he did so much to define.

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University of Georgia Press

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0820325317

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Chicken Soup for the Writer's Soul

Stories to Open the Heart and Rekindle the Spirit of Writers

By: Jack Canfield,Mark Victor Hansen

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Chicken Soup for the Writer's Soul

Stories to Open the Heart and Rekindle the Spirit of Writers

By: Jack Canfield,Mark Victor Hansen

Being a writer can be a lonely and frustrating experience. The stories in this book-by a wide range of professional writers, novelists, journalists, freelancers, poets and screenwriters-will give readers insight into the human trials, tribulations and triumphs of writers, and writers a source of inspiration and commiseration.

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Simon and Schuster

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1453280308

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African Americans and American Indians in the Revolutionary War

By: Jack Darrell Crowder

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African Americans and American Indians in the Revolutionary War

By: Jack Darrell Crowder

At the time of the Revolutionary War, a fifth of the Colonial population was African American. By 1779, 15 percent of the Continental Army were former slaves, while the Navy recruited both free men and slaves. More than 5000 black Americans fought for independence in an integrated military--it would be the last until the Korean War. The majority of Indian tribes sided with the British yet some Native Americans rallied to the American cause and suffered heavy losses. Of 26 Wampanoag enlistees from the small town of Mashpee on Cape Cod, only one came home. Half of the Pequots who went to war did not survive. Mohegans John and Samuel Ashbow fought at Bunker Hill. Samuel was killed there--the first Native American to die in the Revolution. This history recounts the sacrifices made by forgotten people of color to gain independence for the people who enslaved and extirpated them.

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McFarland

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1476676720

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The Business of Slavery and the Rise of American Capitalism, 1815–1860

By: Jack Lawrence Schermerhorn

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The Business of Slavery and the Rise of American Capitalism, 1815–1860

By: Jack Lawrence Schermerhorn

Calvin Schermerhorn’s provocative study views the development of modern American capitalism through the window of the nineteenth-century interstate slave trade. This eye-opening history follows money and ships as well as enslaved human beings to demonstrate how slavery was a national business supported by far-flung monetary and credit systems reaching across the Atlantic Ocean. The author details the anatomy of slave supply chains and the chains of credit and commodities that intersected with them in virtually every corner of the pre–Civil War United States, and explores how an institution that destroyed lives and families contributed greatly to the growth of the expanding republic’s capitalist economy.

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Yale University Press

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0300213891

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A Wolf at the Schoolhouse Door

The Dismantling of Public Education and the Future of School

By: Jack Schneider,Jennifer Berkshire

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A Wolf at the Schoolhouse Door

The Dismantling of Public Education and the Future of School

By: Jack Schneider,Jennifer Berkshire

A trenchant analysis of how public education is being destroyed in overt and deceptive ways—and how to fight back “A powerful analysis of the predatory, profit-seeking forces that threaten our nation’s public schools. . . . If you care about the future of our society, read this book.” —Diane Ravitch, author of Slaying Goliath and Reign of Error In the “vigorous, well-informed” (Kirkus Reviews) A Wolf at the Schoolhouse Door, the co-hosts of the popular education podcast Have You Heard expose the potent network of conservative elected officials, advocacy groups, funders, and think tanks that are pushing a radical vision to do away with public education. “Cut[ing] through the rhetorical fog surrounding a host of free-market reforms and innovations” (Mike Rose), Jack Schneider and Jennifer Berkshire lay bare the dogma of privatization and reveal how it fits into the current context of right-wing political movements. A Wolf at the Schoolhouse Door “goes above and beyond the typical explanations” (SchoolPolicy.org), giving readers an up-close look at the policies—school vouchers, the war on teachers’ unions, tax credit scholarships, virtual schools, and more—driving the movement’s agenda. Called “well-researched, carefully argued, and alarming” by Library Journal, this smart, essential book has already incited a public reckoning on behalf of the millions of families served by the American educational system—and many more who stand to suffer from its unmaking. “Just as with good sci-fi,” according to Jacobin, “the authors make a compelling case that, based on our current trajectory, a nightmare future is closer than we think.”

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The New Press

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1620974959

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The Transformation of Southern Politics

Social Change and Political Consequence Since 1945

By: Jack Bass

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The Transformation of Southern Politics

Social Change and Political Consequence Since 1945

By: Jack Bass

Stressing the relevance of The Transformation of Southern Politics as a background for understanding the South into the next century, Jack Bass and Walter De Vries write that the "themes of change in southern politics still involve the rise of the Republican Party, black political development and the Democratic response to it--and the interaction of these forces with social and economic issues." The Transformation of Southern Politics examines the post-World War II political evolution of the eleven southern states and traces the effects of such influences as Brown v. Board of Education, the Civil Rights Act of 1964, the Voting Rights Act of 1965, urban migration, the growth of the Republican Party, and the rise of African Americans in the political landscape. Relying on the methodology that V. O. Key used in his 1949 classic Southern Politics in State and Nation, the work draws on interviews with more than 360 politicians, scholars, journalists, and labor leaders, and includes a wealth of data on voting trends, political perceptions, and population flow to present a comprehensive portrait of the region up to the 1976 presidential election. In the preface to the Brown Thrasher edition, Bass and De Vries offer an overview of the region's current political climate, including an analysis of the 1994 mid-term elections. They also provide excerpts from their interview with Bill Clinton during his first campaign for political office.

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