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The Most Absolute Abolition

Runaways, Vigilance Committees, and the Rise of Revolutionary Abolitionism, 1835–1861

By: Jesse Olsavsky

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The Most Absolute Abolition

Runaways, Vigilance Committees, and the Rise of Revolutionary Abolitionism, 1835–1861

By: Jesse Olsavsky

Jesse Olsavsky’s The Most Absolute Abolition tells the dramatic story of how vigilance committees organized the Underground Railroad and revolutionized the abolitionist movement. These groups, based primarily in northeastern cities, defended Black neighborhoods from police and slave catchers. As the urban wing of the Underground Railroad, they helped as many as ten thousand refugees, building an elaborate network of like-minded sympathizers across boundaries of nation, gender, race, and class. Olsavsky reveals how the committees cultivated a movement of ideas animated by a motley assortment of agitators and intellectuals, including famous figures such as Frederick Douglass, Harriet Tubman, and Henry David Thoreau, who shared critical information with one another. Formerly enslaved runaways—who grasped the economy of slavery, developed their own political imaginations, and communicated strategies of resistance to abolitionists—serve as the book’s central focus. The dialogues between fugitives and abolitionists further radicalized the latter’s tactics and inspired novel forms of feminism, prison reform, and utopian constructs. These notions transformed abolitionism into a revolutionary movement, one at the heart of the crises that culminated in the Civil War.

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LSU Press

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0807178365

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9780807178362

Chapters: Stories With Chapters

By: Jesse Coté

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Chapters: Stories With Chapters

By: Jesse Coté

A collection of short stories with chapters in each one. These works vary from 2003 to 2006.

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Lulu.com

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1312962534

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9781312962538

The Enterprise of Death

By: Jesse Bullington

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The Enterprise of Death

By: Jesse Bullington

As the witch-pyres of the Spanish Inquisition blanket Renaissance Europe in a moral haze, a young African slave finds herself the unwilling apprentice of an ancient necromancer. Unfortunately, quitting his company proves even more hazardous than remaining his pupil when she is afflicted with a terrible curse. Yet salvation may lie in a mysterious tome her tutor has hidden somewhere on the war-torn continent. She sets out on a seemingly impossible journey to find the book, never suspecting her fate is tied to three strangers: the artist Niklaus Manuel Deutsch, the alchemist Dr. Paracelsus, and a gun-slinging Dutch mercenary. As Manuel paints her macabre story on canvas, plank, and church wall, the young apprentice becomes increasingly aware that death might be the least of her concerns.

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Hachette+ORM

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0316123307

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9780316123303

The Myth of Colorblind Christians

Evangelicals and White Supremacy in the Civil Rights Era

By: Jesse Curtis

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The Myth of Colorblind Christians

Evangelicals and White Supremacy in the Civil Rights Era

By: Jesse Curtis

Reveals how Christian colorblindness expanded white evangelicalism and excluded Black evangelicals In the decades after the civil rights movement, white Americans turned to an ideology of colorblindness. Personal kindness, not systemic reform, seemed to be the way to solve racial problems. In those same decades, a religious movement known as evangelicalism captured the nation’s attention and became a powerful political force. In The Myth of Colorblind Christians, Jesse Curtis shows how white evangelicals’ efforts to grow their own institutions created an evangelical form of whiteness, infusing the politics of colorblindness with sacred fervor. Curtis argues that white evangelicals deployed a Christian brand of colorblindness to protect new investments in whiteness. While black evangelicals used the rhetoric of Christian unity to challenge racism, white evangelicals repurposed this language to silence their black counterparts and retain power, arguing that all were equal in Christ and that Christians should not talk about race. As white evangelicals portrayed movements for racial justice as threats to Christian unity and presented their own racial commitments as fidelity to the gospel, they made Christian colorblindness into a key pillar of America’s religio-racial hierarchy. In the process, they anchored their own identities and shaped the very meaning of whiteness in American society. At once compelling and timely, The Myth of Colorblind Christians exposes how white evangelical communities avoided antiracist action and continue to thrive today.

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NYU Press

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1479809373

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9781479809370

Collections Of My Best And Most-Hated, ''A Cup O' Kapeng Barako'' Writings

By: Jesse Jose

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Collections Of My Best And Most-Hated, ''A Cup O' Kapeng Barako'' Writings

By: Jesse Jose

The time frame of these stories collected in this book, written in my column, A Cup O’ Kapeng Barako, has a span of four years. The beginning chapters began in the year of 2012 when President Barack Obama was campaigning for his re-election, ending in the final chapters when Obama in year 2008 ran for the presidency of the United States. But this book is not solely or merely about my opinions on politics. It’s also about my take on current events, and my Barako thoughts on people and things that affected me personally. This book also contained conversations with people through emails, who came into my life during those four years. Some of those conversations were heated and hated, but some were also tender and kind. But beneath them all, laughter abounds. For I write my column primarily for fun . . . meant only to be read by friends and comrades, and fellow Barakos. If at times I get corny, or my Pilipino English gets atrocious, they are puns intended, untended, and unintended, as in “batu-batu sa langit, tamaan ’wag magagalit.” For my mainstream readers and friends, that means, “stones-stones thrown up in the air, don’t get mad if they fall on your hair.” As y’all can see, I am a wanna-be humorist, dyoking a lot. Some stories in this book also contained glimpses of my personal life, portions of which, are also hilariously funny, but tender and expressing love in places. Okey ngarud, happy reading, Dear Readers. JJ

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Xlibris Corporation

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147974400X

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9781479744008

The Way Through Doors

By: Jesse Ball

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The Way Through Doors

By: Jesse Ball

With his debut novel, Samedi the Deafness, Jesse Ball emerged as one of our most extraordinary new writers. Now, Ball returns with this haunting tale of love and storytelling, hope and identity. When Selah Morse sees a young woman get hit by a speeding taxicab, he rushes her to the hospital. The girl has lost her memory; she is delirious and has no identification, so Selah poses as her boyfriend. She is released into his care, but the doctor charges him to keep her awake, and to help her remember her past. Through the long night, he tells her stories, inventing and inventing, trying to get closer to what might be true, and hoping she will recognize herself in one of his tales. Offering up moments of pure insight and unexpected, exuberant humor, The Way Through Doors demonstrates Jesse Ball's great artistry and gift for and narrative.

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242

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Vintage

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0307472647

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9780307472649

Rebels on the Air

An Alternative History of Radio in America

By: Jesse Walker

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Rebels on the Air

An Alternative History of Radio in America

By: Jesse Walker

For decades, government and big business have colluded to monopolise the airwaves, stamping out competition. This text explores American radio, revealing the legal barriers established broadcasters have erected to ensure their dominance.

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NYU Press

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0814793827

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9780814793824

Self, Senility, and Alzheimer's Disease in Modern America

A History

By: Jesse F. Ballenger

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Self, Senility, and Alzheimer's Disease in Modern America

A History

By: Jesse F. Ballenger

Historian Jesse F. Ballenger traces the emergence of senility as a cultural category from the late nineteenth century to the 1980s, a period in which Alzheimer's disease became increasingly associated with the terrifying prospect of losing one's self. Changes in American society and culture have complicated the notion of selfhood, Ballenger finds. No longer an ascribed status, selfhood must be carefully and willfully constructed. Thus, losing one's ability to sustain a coherent self-narrative is considered one of life's most dreadful losses. As Ballenger writes "senility haunts the landscape of the self-made man." Stereotypes of senility and Alzheimer's disease are related to anxiety about the coherence, stability, and agency of the self—stereotypes that are transforming perceptions of old age in modern America. Drawing on scientific, clinical, policy, and popular discourses on aging and dementia, Ballenger explores early twentieth-century concepts of aging and the emergence of gerontology to understand and distinguish normal aging from disease. In addition, he examines American psychiatry's approaches to the treatment of senility and scientific attempts to understand the brain pathology of dementia. Ballenger's work contributes to our understanding of the emergence and significance of dementia as a major health issue.

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JHU Press

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0801888883

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9780801888885

Diamonds Sparkling Across America

A Common Fan's Love Affair with America's Ballparks

By: Jesse Ellis

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Diamonds Sparkling Across America

A Common Fan's Love Affair with America's Ballparks

By: Jesse Ellis

Professional baseball in America is a source of pride and enjoyment for millions of Americans. As of 2013, 48 of our 50 states had some level of professional baseball. Author Jesse Ellis has visited at least one professional ballpark in each of those states. Travel with Jesse across this great land to over 230 ballparks from Maine to Arizona, Washington, DC, to Seattle, Washington, and beyond the U.S. borders. Visit parks at every level from independent leagues to the major leagues. Check out which parks are classic and which parks are state of the art. Find out which parks have the best accessibility and which are the most fan friendly. Learn a little professional baseball history along the way. Most of all, learn how much fun it can be for you to discover the many great parks that make up the Diamonds Sparkling Across America.

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PublishAmerica

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1630842869

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9781630842864

The Art of Game Design

A Book of Lenses, Second Edition

By: Jesse Schell

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The Art of Game Design

A Book of Lenses, Second Edition

By: Jesse Schell

Good game design happens when you view your game from as many perspectives as possible. Written by one of the world's top game designers, The Art of Game Design presents 100+ sets of questions, or different lenses, for viewing a game’s design, encompassing diverse fields such as psychology, architecture, music, visual design, film, software engineering, theme park design, mathematics, puzzle design, and anthropology. This Second Edition of a Game Developer Front Line Award winner: Describes the deepest and most fundamental principles of game design Demonstrates how tactics used in board, card, and athletic games also work in top-quality video games Contains valuable insight from Jesse Schell, the former chair of the International Game Developers Association and award-winning designer of Disney online games The Art of Game Design, Second Edition gives readers useful perspectives on how to make better game designs faster. It provides practical instruction on creating world-class games that will be played again and again.

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CRC Press

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1466598646

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9781466598645

The God Eaters

By: Jesse Hajicek

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The God Eaters

By: Jesse Hajicek

Imprisioned for 'inflammatory writings' by the totalitarian Theocracy, shy intellectual Ashleigh Trine figures his story's over. But when he meets Kieran Trevarde, a hard-hearted gunslinger with a dark magic lurking in his blood, Ash finds that necessity makes strange heroes... and love can change the world.

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Lulu.com

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1847288650

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9781847288653

The Sad Tale of the Brothers Grossbart

By: Jesse Bullington

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The Sad Tale of the Brothers Grossbart

By: Jesse Bullington

Hegel and Manfried Grossbart may not consider themselves bad men -- but death still stalks them through the dark woods of medieval Europe. The year is 1364, and the brothers Grossbart have embarked on a naïve quest for fortune. Descended from a long line of graverobbers, they are determined to follow their family's footsteps to the fabled crypts of Gyptland. To get there, they will have to brave dangerous and unknown lands and keep company with all manner of desperate travelers-merchants, priests, and scoundrels alike. For theirs is a world both familiar and distant; a world of living saints and livelier demons, of monsters and madmen. The Brothers Grossbart are about to discover that all legends have their truths, and worse fates than death await those who would take the red road of villainy.

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Hachette+ORM

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0316071927

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9780316071925

The Repeat Room

A Novel

By: Jesse Ball

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The Repeat Room

A Novel

By: Jesse Ball

Franz Kafka meets Yorgos Lanthimos in this provocative new novel from one of America’s most brilliant and distinctive writers In a speculative future, Abel, a menial worker, is called to serve in a secretive and fabled jury system. At the heart of this system is the repeat room, where a single juror, selected from hundreds of candidates, is able to inhabit the defendant’s lived experience, to see as if through their eyes. The case to which Abel is assigned is revealed in the novel’s shocking second act. We receive a record of a boy's broken and constrained life, a tale that reveals an illicit and passionate psycho-sexual relationship, its end as tragic as the circumstances of its conception. Artful in its suspense, and sharp in its evocation of a byzantine and cruel bureaucracy, The Repeat Room is an exciting and pointed critique of the nature of knowledge and judgment, and a vivid framing of Ball's absurd and nihilistic philosophy of love.

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Catapult

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1646221400

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9781646221400

A Tale of Two Cities

Santo Domingo and New York After 1950

By: Jesse Hoffnung-Garskof

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A Tale of Two Cities

Santo Domingo and New York After 1950

By: Jesse Hoffnung-Garskof

In the second half of the 20th century Dominicans became New York City's largest and poorest, new immigrant group. By 1990, one of every ten Dominicans lived in New York. This text tells the fascinating story of this emblematic migration from Latin America to the United States.

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Princeton University Press

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0691149364

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9780691149363

The Blue Period

Black Writing in the Early Cold War

By: Jesse McCarthy

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The Blue Period

Black Writing in the Early Cold War

By: Jesse McCarthy

To be a Black writer in the early years of the Cold War was to face a stark predicament. On the one hand, revolutionary Communism promised egalitarianism and lit the sparks of anticolonial struggle, but was hostile to conceptions of personal freedom. On the other hand, the great force opposing the Soviets at midcentury was itself the very fountainhead of racial prejudice, represented in the United States by Jim Crow. Jesse McCarthy argues that Black writers of this time were equally alienated from the left and the right and channeled that alienation into remarkable experiments in literary form. Embracing racial affect and interiority, they forged an aesthetic resistance premised on fierce dissent from both US racial liberalism and Soviet Communism. Ranging from the end of World War II to the rise of Black Power in the 1960s, from Richard Wright and James Baldwin to Gwendolyn Brooks and Paule Marshall and others, Jesse McCarthy shows how Black writers defined a distinctive moment in American literary culture that McCarthy calls "the Blue Period.""--

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University of Chicago Press

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0226832171

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9780226832173

This is Not the End

By: Jesse Jordan

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This is Not the End

By: Jesse Jordan

James Salley is turning sixteen, and it’s not going well. His family’s too busy to care, the local bully creates new tortures daily, someone appears to be following him, and he’s just learned that he’s the Antichrist. All James ever wanted out of life was for Dorian Delaney — the operatically trained and suicidal girl of his dreams — to fall as in love with him as he is with her. But once he’s told of his bloody destiny, he finds himself fighting between who he thought he was and who he’s supposed to be. With the school librarian pushing him to begin the Apocalypse, an irritable homunculus watching his back, and a murderous cabal of Catholics following him everywhere, James must discover how to navigate a world in which everything he’s ever believed is wrong — and if it’s possible to be the hero of a story when you’ve already been cast as the villain.

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Medallion Media Group

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1942546335

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Book's by Jesse Drew

The Most Absolute Abolition

The Most Absolute Abolition

Chapters: Stories With Chapters

Chapters: Stories With Chapters

The Enterprise of Death

The Enterprise of Death

The Myth of Colorblind Christians

The Myth of Colorblind Christians

Collections Of My Best And Most-Hated, ''A Cup O' Kapeng Barako'' Writings

Collections Of My Best And Most-Hated, ''A Cup O' Kapeng Barako'' Writings

The Way Through Doors

The Way Through Doors

Rebels on the Air

Rebels on the Air

Self, Senility, and Alzheimer's Disease in Modern America

Self, Senility, and Alzheimer's Disease in Modern America

Diamonds Sparkling Across America

Diamonds Sparkling Across America

The Art of Game Design

The Art of Game Design

The God Eaters

The God Eaters

The Sad Tale of the Brothers Grossbart

The Sad Tale of the Brothers Grossbart

The Repeat Room

The Repeat Room

A Tale of Two Cities

A Tale of Two Cities

The Blue Period

The Blue Period

This is Not the End

This is Not the End

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