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African Americans in Pittsburgh

By: John M. Brewer Jr.

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African Americans in Pittsburgh

By: John M. Brewer Jr.

African Americans in Pittsburgh chronicles the distinct trends in this African American community. There was never one centralized neighborhood where a majority of the black population lived, and city schools were integrated until after desegregation laws were passed. Photographs captured by famed Pittsburgh photographer Charles "Teenie" Harris show the candid experiences of residents, including the achievements and celebrations of people struggling to put scraps of food on the table.

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Arcadia Publishing

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1439617848

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9781439617847

Good Man's Croft

By: John M. Brewer

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Good Man's Croft

By: John M. Brewer

Born at the end of the nineteenth century, David Mendy comes from the upper Thames valley in England, a place haunted by memories and customs thousands of years old. These include the "good man's croft," an untilled patch reserved for the land's spirit and rumored to have been the site of child sacrifice. David's family legend also includes ties to stone ruins next to the local good man's croft. But as a lad, he is warned to stay away from the area-that it was to be left to the devil. David later goes to medical school, where he meets and marries Maud Millen, a shopkeeper's daughter-and then the world descends into chaos as the Great War begins. While serving in the Royal Army Medical Corps in France, David suspects his wife's affections may be torn between him and Peter Landrum, heir to the land that includes the good man's croft and David's nemesis since their school days. But Landrum has another secret that he will kill to protect, and when David returns home, more than just his marriage is at stake. Evil has once again come to the good man's croft and though David may have survived the war to end all wars, it's uncertain whether he'll survive Landrum.

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215

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iUniverse

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1475999194

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9781475999198

Pittsburgh Jazz

By: John M. Brewer Jr.

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Pittsburgh Jazz

By: John M. Brewer Jr.

Pittsburgh Jazz documents the almost forgotten magic created in the city of Pittsburgh by a host of artists, uptown inner city streets, and jazz joints that served patrons from a menu packed full of delightful music. The magical improvised songs, compositions, and unique styles of hundreds of those who were born, raised, or influenced by what occurred in the smoke filled clubs, bars, restaurants, and theaters is difficult to comprehend. And yet, every jazz artist in the world was attracted here to stand the test waiting in the Steel City. This book is committed to connecting Pittsburghstyle jazz as the synthesis that resulted in the art form called bebop. This photographic presentation was captured by Pittsburgh Courier photographers between the 1930s and 1980s.

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136

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Arcadia Publishing

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1439634645

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9781439634646

Pilgrim's Journey

By: John M. Brewer

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Pilgrim's Journey

By: John M. Brewer

Thomas Wyatt dreams of a future with his first love in Colonial Boston. She suggests he become a doctor. He wants to improve his standing with her wealthy parents, and for her he works his way from berry patch to the halls of Great Britain's finest medical school. Just before he is to make the long voyage, he is shattered by her admission that her parents have arranged a marriage for her with a wealthy Tory merchant's son. He regretfully leaves his family behind to secure some sort of future as a doctor. After graduation, he settles into a joint practice in London and falls in love with an apothecary's daughter. As the Revolutionary War rages on, he is haunted by fear for his family and by a promise he made to his first love. He joins His Majesty's army to return to the Colonies to find them and save them if he can... or learn their fates.

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271

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iUniverse

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1491745185

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9781491745182

The Room

By: John M. Brewer, Jr.

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The Room

By: John M. Brewer, Jr.

The Room is a book about the ultimate control and manipulation of very young bodies and minds by a brutal system developed by men who pursued winning over everything else in life. It is a book which allows one to travel back in time and fast forward inside the mind of a young black boy living in the city of Pittsburgh in the early fifties. We are permitted to see what he views as daily obsitacles . We will be permitted to compare what the embarrassments he had as his bodies matures. His life of running away often places him center stage smack into the face of a series of unbelievable experiences which prepare him to face what lie behind the doors of" The Room." The Room is both a learning tree for the young man and a source of hope for many poor youth seeking recognition and respect in a world that will not . The Book moves toward one football game played in 1962 between two rival teams which changed the high school football history in Pittsburgh.

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206

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AuthorHouse

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1425983979

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9781425983970

The Political Economy of Corporation Tax

Theory, Values and Law Reform

By: John Snape

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The Political Economy of Corporation Tax

Theory, Values and Law Reform

By: John Snape

Excellent technical writing on corporation tax abounds, but it tends to be inaccessible to public lawyers, political theorists and political economists. Although recent years have seen not only an explosion in public law scholarship but also a reawakening of interest in interpretative political theory and political economy, the potential of these perspectives to illuminate the corporation tax debate has remained unexplored. In this important work, John Snape seeks to reconcile these disparate strands of scholarship and to contribute to a new way of understanding and conceptualising the reform of the law relating to corporate taxation. Drawing on important developments in public law scholarship, the study combines elements of political theory and political economy. It advances a new interpretation of corporation tax law as an instrument of rule, through the maximisation of a nation's economic potential. Snape shows how corporate taxation belongs at the centre of any discussion of economic globalisation, not only because of the potential of national tax systems to influence inward investment decisions but also because of the potential of those decisions to shape the public interest that those tax systems might embody. Following public law and politics models, the book looks afresh at the impact of Britain's political institutions, of the processes of its representative government and of the theory that moulds and orders the values that the corporation tax code contains. This is a timely exploration of cutting-edge issues of public policy.

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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1847318711

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9781847318718

Book's by John M. Brewer

African Americans in Pittsburgh

African Americans in Pittsburgh

Good Man's Croft

Good Man's Croft

Pittsburgh Jazz

Pittsburgh Jazz

Pilgrim's Journey

Pilgrim's Journey

The Room

The Room

The Political Economy of Corporation Tax

The Political Economy of Corporation Tax

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