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Constitutional Rights of Prisoners

By: John W. Palmer

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Constitutional Rights of Prisoners

By: John W. Palmer

This text details critical information on all aspects of prison litigation, including information on trial and appeal, conditions of isolated confinement, access to the courts, parole, right to medical aid and liabilities of prison officials. Highlighted topics include application of the Americans with Disabilities Act to prisons, protection given to HIV-positive inmates, and actions of the Supreme Court and Congress to stem the flow of prison litigation. Part II contains Judicial Decisions Relating to Part I.

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1317523873

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The Smiths FAQ

All That's Left to Know About the Most Important British Band of the 1980s

By: John D. Luerssen

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The Smiths FAQ

All That's Left to Know About the Most Important British Band of the 1980s

By: John D. Luerssen

(FAQ). Revered and massively influential, the Smiths have been called the most important band of the fertile U.K. 1980s music scene. While the group was only active for five years (1982 to 1987), the cult of the Manchester-reared foursome has ballooned in the three decades since its dissolution. Despite a $75 million offer to reunite for a two month tour in 2007, Morrissey and Johnny Marr, the group's principals, refused, opting to leave their legend untainted. The Smiths have since influenced a who's who of alternative music, including Death Cab for Cutie, Radiohead, the Killers, Jeff Buckley, Pete Yorn, the Decemberists, and Oasis. Featuring a foreword by guitarist and "Fifth Smith" who played with the band in 1986, The Smiths FAQ traces the band's history with clarity and detail, illuminating such questions as Who were the Nosebleeds? Why did Morrissey shun the Ramones? Who were the Paris Valentinos? What was Cult guitarist Billy Duffy's connection to the band? How was Morrissey injured during the group's U.S. debut performance? What Smiths single paid homage to T. Rex?. John D. Luerssen (author of FAQ series titles about U2, Bruce Springsteen, and Nirvana) gathers the indispensable early facts, the legendary stories, and inimitable anecdotes that make this a must-own tome for all fans.

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Hal Leonard Corporation

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149504596X

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9781495045967

Do You Believe in the Power of Rock & Roll?

Forty Years of Music Writing from the Frontline

By: John Robb

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Do You Believe in the Power of Rock & Roll?

Forty Years of Music Writing from the Frontline

By: John Robb

Do You Believe in the Power of Rock & Roll? is a history of alternative rock from John Robb, with the music still ringing in his ears. This collection follows John’s journey from the late 1970s, when he was first caught up in punk’s high-octane thrill, to the present day, via the early days of the rave scene, the birth of electronic and techno, and myriad bands that spun off on their own idiosyncratic paths. John was the first person to write about Nirvana, he coined the term Britpop, and he documented the Stone Roses’ rise out of Manchester before anyone else was interested. He was at every pivotal gig, and has interviewed every key player in the business, including Jordan, the queen of punk, founding father of new American rock Steve Albini, goth-rock guitarist Daniel Ash, infamous Oasis co-founder Noel Gallagher, and music greats like Lemmy and Poly Styrene. Few others have witnessed first-hand so many important moments of the last forty years of rock history. Here, they come together to form the essential history of a personal quest to document the ever-changing soundtrack of the modern world.

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Unbound Publishing

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1800182198

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A6M2/3 Zero-sen

New Guinea and the Solomons 1942

By: Michael John Claringbould

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A6M2/3 Zero-sen

New Guinea and the Solomons 1942

By: Michael John Claringbould

This book details the exploits of the highly skilled Naval Aviators charged with achieving air supremacy over New Guinea in their A6M2/3 Zero-sens. The combat record of the Zero-sen in New Guinea has mostly been overstated, with little due being given to the constraining conditions under which the fighter operated. The air combats fought over New Guinea in 1942 between Imperial Japanese Naval Air Force (IJNAF) pilots and their Allied counterparts in P-39 Airacobras and P-40 Warhawks were often 'trial and error' affairs, with both belligerents being caught out by weather. This study covers the key role played by governing factors including geography and climatic conditions, and examines the modified tactics employed by IJNAF Zero-sen pilots to help them cope in-theatre through the comprehensive analysis of RAAF, USAAF and Japanese operational after action reports. Using first-hand accounts from both famous aviators and previously unknown RAAF and Japanese pilots, and specially commissioned artwork, leading South Pacific historian and author Michael John Claringbould sheds new light on the air war fought over the wilds of New Guinea during the course of 1942.

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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1472857518

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A Blighted Awakening

By: John Sealey

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A Blighted Awakening

By: John Sealey

A sexually charged, deeply moving tale revealing the shaded tastes in sexual practices that will absorb you, entertain you and stay in your thoughts for a very long time. An epic lustful and sensual story set amidst the turmoil and lawlessness of the mid-nineteenth century beginning at the outbreak of the devastating Irish potato famine, A Blighted Awakening is the story of Michael Flanagan, an innocent, naive Irish lad who manages to escape the perils of the potato famine after losing his mother and father to starvation and typhoid, along with millions of others, travels on a unloaded coal barge returning to Liverpool where the awakening to a new world starts. After having been beaten and robbed of the little he possesses, Michael is rescued by Leon, a black slave who bought his freedom and made his way to England. Leon is also a bare-knuckle fighter, having been forced to fight by his owner. He is now working as a bouncer at a high-class brothel. Leon persuades the owner of the brothel to take Michael on. At the brothel Michael is awakened into a world of brothels, BDSM and eroticism, the likes of which his strict naive religious upbringing could ever possibly have led him to imagine existed.

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Archway Publishing

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1480889946

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9781480889941

Music and Identity in Ireland and Beyond

By: Mark Fitzgerald,John O'Flynn

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Music and Identity in Ireland and Beyond

By: Mark Fitzgerald,John O'Flynn

Music and Identity in Ireland and Beyond represents the first interdisciplinary volume of chapters on an intricate cultural field that can be experienced and interpreted in manifold ways, whether in Ireland (The Republic of Ireland and/or Northern Ireland), among its diaspora(s), or further afield. While each contributor addresses particular themes viewed from discrete perspectives, collectively the book contemplates whether ’music in Ireland’ can be regarded as one interrelated plane of cultural and/or national identity, given the various conceptions and contexts of both Ireland (geographical, political, diasporic, mythical) and Music (including a proliferation of practices and genres) that give rise to multiple sites of identification. Arranged in the relatively distinct yet interweaving parts of ’Historical Perspectives’, ’Recent and Contemporary Production’ and ’Cultural Explorations’, its various chapters act to juxtapose the socio-historical distinctions between the major style categories most typically associated with music in Ireland - traditional, classical and popular - and to explore a range of dialectical relationships between these musical styles in matters pertaining to national and cultural identity. The book includes a number of chapters that examine various movements (and ’moments’) of traditional music revival from the late eighteenth century to the present day, as well as chapters that tease out various issues of national identity pertaining to individual composers/performers (art music, popular music) and their audiences. Many chapters in the volume consider mediating influences (infrastructural, technological, political) and/or social categories (class, gender, religion, ethnicity, race, age) in the interpretation of music production and consumption. Performers and composers discussed include U2, Raymond Deane, Afro-Celt Sound System, E.J. Moeran, Séamus Ennis, Kevin O’Connell, Stiff Little Fingers, Frederick May, Arnold

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131709249X

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9781317092490

Jungle Ace

The Story of One of the USAAF's Great Fighter Leaders, Col. Gerald R. Johnson

By: John R. Bruning

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Jungle Ace

The Story of One of the USAAF's Great Fighter Leaders, Col. Gerald R. Johnson

By: John R. Bruning

The life of a unique warrior: a daredevil ace and a top air commander

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Potomac Books, Inc.

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1574884700

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9781574884708

Perfect from Now On

How Indie Rock Saved My Life

By: John Sellers

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How Indie Rock Saved My Life

By: John Sellers

Sellers, a pop culture journalist with articles published in "GQ" and "The New York Times," has written a rock-music fan's memoir overflowing with humor, self-deprecation, encyclopedic knowledge, and Rwish you were thereS personal anecdotes.

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Simon and Schuster

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0743277090

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9780743277099

Ted Kennedy

A Life

By: John A. Farrell

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Ted Kennedy

A Life

By: John A. Farrell

LONGLISTED FOR THE 2022 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FOR NONFICTION An enthralling and ground-breaking new biography of one of modern America’s most fascinating and consequential political figures, drawing on important new sources, by an award-winning biographer who covered Kennedy closely for many years John A. Farrell’s magnificent biography of Edward M. Kennedy is the first single-volume life of the great figure since his death. Farrell’s long acquaintance with the Kennedy universe and the acclaim accorded his previous books—including his New York Times bestselling biography of Richard Nixon, a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize—helped garner him access to a remarkable range of new sources, including segments of Kennedy’s personal diary and his private confessions to members of his family in the days that followed the accident on Chappaquiddick. Farrell is, without question, one of America’s greatest political biographers and a storyteller of deep wisdom and empathy. His book does full justice to this famously epic and turbulent life of almost unimaginable tragedy and triumph. As the fourth son of the close-knit but fiercely competitive Kennedy clan, Ted was the runt of the litter. Expelled from Harvard University for cheating, he was a fun-loving playboy who nevertheless served his brothers loyally and effectively. It was easy to take Ted lightly, and many did. But when he was elected to the United States Senate at the age of thirty to fill his brother Jack’s seat, something unexpected happened: he found his home and his calling there. Over time, Ted Kennedy would build arguably the most significant senatorial career in American history. His life was buffeted by heartbreak: the violent deaths of his three older brothers, his own terrible plane crash, his children’s bouts with cancer, and the hideous self-inflicted wounds of Chappaquiddick and stretches of drinking and womanizing that caused irreparable damage to an already fragile first marriage. Those wounds scarred Ted deeply but also tempered his character, and, eventually, he embarked on a run as legislator, party elder, and paterfamilias of the Kennedy family that would change America for the better. John A. Farrell brings us the man as he was, in strength and weakness, his profound but complicated inheritance and his vital legacy, as only a great biographer can do. Without the story this book tells, no understanding of modern America can be complete.

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Penguin

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0525558071

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My Life in Progressive Politics

Against the Grain

By: Joseph D. Tydings,John W. Frece

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My Life in Progressive Politics

Against the Grain

By: Joseph D. Tydings,John W. Frece

Gun control, voting rights, family planning, and environmental protection—these are all hot-button issues today, but they were also the same difficult and intractable issues that Senator Joseph D. Tydings of Maryland faced during his tenure in the Senate in the 1960s. In this timely memoir, Tydings looks back on a life of public service, from the Maryland General Assembly to chief federal prosecutor in Maryland and ultimately to the United States Senate. As an early “Kennedy Man,” Tydings’s political stock soared, but it just as quickly crashed because of his willingness to go “against the grain” on perhaps one progressive issue too many. As the adopted son of a US senator, grandson of an adviser to three US presidents, and step-grandson of perhaps the wealthiest woman of her age, Tydings nevertheless made his own way, rising from horse platoon corporal in war-ravaged Germany to legislative reformer. He prosecuted fellow Democrats for fraud, stood up to presidents over Supreme Court nominees and the war in Vietnam, and faced down segregationists over voting rights. His family planning initiatives are still in effect. He battled the National Rifle Association over gun control—and suffered the consequences. After a decade of political assassinations, from the Kennedy brothers to Martin Luther King Jr., and a turn to the right with the election of Richard Nixon, America’s political climate soured for progressive politics, and Tydings narrowly lost reelection. My Life in Progressive Politics provides an important, insider account of a landmark era in American politics.

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Texas A&M University Press

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1623496284

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9781623496289

Doomed by Cartoon

How Cartoonist Thomas Nast and the New York Times Brought Down Boss Tweed and His Ring of Thieves

By: John Adler,Draper Hill

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Doomed by Cartoon

How Cartoonist Thomas Nast and the New York Times Brought Down Boss Tweed and His Ring of Thieves

By: John Adler,Draper Hill

This volume is a collection of political cartoons by Thomas Nast that brought Boss Tweed to justice. The legendary Boss Tweed effectively controlled New York City from after the Civil War until his downfall in November 1871. A huge man, he and his Ring of Thieves appeared to be invincible as they stole an estimated $2 billion in today's dollars. In addition to the New York City and state governments, the Tweed Ring controlled the press except for Harper's Weekly. Short and slight Thomas Nast was the most dominant American political cartoonist of all time; using his pen as his sling in Harper's Weekly, he attacked Tweed almost single-handily, before The New-York Times joined the battle in 1870. The author focuses on the circumstances and events as Thomas Nast visualized them in his 160-plus cartoons, almost like a serialized but intermittent comic book covering 1866 through 1878.

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Morgan James Publishing

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1600374433

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9781600374432

The Revolution of Robert Kennedy

From Power to Protest After JFK

By: John R. Bohrer

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The Revolution of Robert Kennedy

From Power to Protest After JFK

By: John R. Bohrer

A groundbreaking account of how Robert F. Kennedy transformed horror into hope between 1963 and 1966, with style and substance that has shaped American politics ever since. On November 22nd, 1963, Bobby Kennedy received a phone call that altered his life forever. The president, his brother, had been shot. JFK would not survive. In The Revolution of Robert Kennedy, journalist John R. Bohrer focuses in intimate and revealing detail on Bobby Kennedy's life during the three years following JFK's assassination. Torn between mourning the past and plotting his future, Bobby was placed in a sudden competition with his political enemy, Lyndon Johnson, for control of the Democratic Party. No longer the president's closest advisor, Bobby struggled to find his place within the Johnson administration, eventually deciding to leave his Cabinet post to run for the U.S. Senate, and establish an independent identity. Those overlooked years of change, from hardline Attorney General to champion of the common man, helped him develop the themes of his eventual presidential campaign. The Revolution of Robert Kennedy follows him on the journey from memorializing his brother's legacy to defining his own. John R. Bohrer's rich, insightful portrait of Robert Kennedy is biography at its best--inviting readers into the mind and heart of one of America's great leaders.

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1608199827

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Constitutional Rights of Prisoners

Constitutional Rights of Prisoners

The Smiths FAQ

The Smiths FAQ

Do You Believe in the Power of Rock & Roll?

Do You Believe in the Power of Rock & Roll?

A6M2/3 Zero-sen

A6M2/3 Zero-sen

A Blighted Awakening

A Blighted Awakening

Music and Identity in Ireland and Beyond

Music and Identity in Ireland and Beyond

Jungle Ace

Jungle Ace

Perfect from Now On

Perfect from Now On

Ted Kennedy

Ted Kennedy

My Life in Progressive Politics

My Life in Progressive Politics

Doomed by Cartoon

Doomed by Cartoon

The Revolution of Robert Kennedy

The Revolution of Robert Kennedy

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