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Slave And Freeman

The Autobiography of George L. Knox

By: George Knox

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Slave And Freeman

The Autobiography of George L. Knox

By: George Knox

Born in Tennessee in 1841, George L. Knox survived slavery and service with both Confederate and Union armies during the Civil War and afterward made his way north to find a chilly reception in Indiana. His autobiography covers the first 44 years of his life and tells how he persevered against threats, harassment, and physical intimidation to become a leading citizen of Indianapolis and an important figure of the Republican Party.

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University Press of Kentucky

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0813194164

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9780813194165

Neal Knox - The Gun Rights War

Dispatches from the Front Lines 1966 through 2000

By: Neal Knox

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Neal Knox - The Gun Rights War

Dispatches from the Front Lines 1966 through 2000

By: Neal Knox

This is the E-Book version of the classic compilation of Neal Knox's best writing on guns, the Second Amendment and what YOU need to do in order to keep your rights. Updated and annotated for 2019 by son Chris Knox, this is the most comprehensive collection available of Neal Knox's writing. For almost 40 years, nothing in the gun-rights movement happened outside of the influence of Neal Knox. A prolific writer, stalwart defender of freedom, bare-knuckled inside fighter, and ardent fan of anything that goes "bang!" here at last is the book that brings it together. The core of the writing that built his reputation, and protected the rights you enjoy today. If you've enjoyed decades of classic Neal in Shotgun News you'll savor every page. If you don't know what that means, here's your chance to look at how the gun-rights war has really been fought -- and needs to be fought in the future. • The inside story of the power struggle that gave the NRA presidency to Charlton Heston instead of Neal -- by four votes! • Neal's prediction that suicide terrorists might use jets as weapons a dozen years before the 9-11 attacks; the odd connection between the Bradys and the CIA; how Republicans tried to derail the Gun Owners Protection Act, so much more. • True stories of the Second Amendment battle for freedom to keep and bear arms. Neal Knox was: "A dark force within the NRA" (New York Times) "The evil genius at NRA" (Ted Kennedy); "The conscience of the gun rights movement" (Gun Week). "A hero -- no, the hero -- of the 20th century gun-rights movement." (Tanya Metaksa, former Executive Director, NRA-ILA)

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361

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MacFarlane Press

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0976863316

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9780976863311

Waiting to Be Heard

A Memoir

By: Amanda Knox

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Waiting to Be Heard

A Memoir

By: Amanda Knox

Amanda Knox spent four years in a foreign prison for a crime she did not commit, as seen in the Nexflix documentary Amanda Knox. In the fall of 2007, the 20-year-old college coed left Seattle to study abroad in Italy, but her life was shattered when her roommate was murdered in their apartment. After a controversial trial, Amanda was convicted and imprisoned. But in 2011, an appeals court overturned the decision and vacated the murder charge. Free at last, she returned home to the U.S., where she has remained silent, until now. Filled with details first recorded in the journals Knox kept while in Italy, Waiting to Be Heard is a remarkable story of innocence, resilience, and courage, and of one young woman’s hard-fought battle to overcome injustice and win the freedom she deserved. With intelligence, grace, and candor, Amanda Knox tells the full story of her harrowing ordeal in Italy—a labyrinthine nightmare of crime and punishment, innocence and vindication—and of the unwavering support of family and friends who tirelessly worked to help her win her freedom. Waiting to Be Heard includes 24 pages of color photographs.

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231

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Harper Collins

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0062217224

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9780062217226

Knox: On Rebellion

By: John Knox

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Knox: On Rebellion

By: John Knox

John Knox's First Blast of the Trumpet against the Monstrous Regiment of Women, one of the most notorious political tracts of the sixteenth century, has been more often referred to than read. Its true significance as one of a series of pamphlets which Knox wrote in 1558 on the theme of rebellion is therefore easily overlooked. This new edition of his writings includes not only The First Blast, but the three other tracts of 1558 -The Letter to the Regent of Scotland, The Appellation to the Scottish Nobility, and The Letter to the Commonalty of Scotland - in which Knox confronted the problem of resistance to tyranny. Related material, mostly drawn from Knox's own History of the Reformation in Scotland, illuminates the development of his views before 1558 and illustrates their application in the specific circumstances of the Scottish Reformation and the rule of Mary Queen of Scots. This edition thus brings together for the first time all of Knox's most important writings on rebellion.

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294

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Cambridge University Press

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131658349X

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9781316583494

The Body in the Silo

By: Ronald Knox

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The Body in the Silo

By: Ronald Knox

When private investigator Miles Bredon and his wife, Angela, arrive for a weekend at the Hallifords' country house, they find themselves part of a singularly ill-assorted house party. Waking one morning to the news that one among their number has been found dead by the silo, Miles has no shortage of suspects. The entire party had spent the previous night haring around the country side in an 'eloping' game instigated by their hostess, and no one can fully account for their whereabouts. The arrival of Inspector Leyland from Scotland Yard, investigating a spate of apparent suicides of important people, adds another dimension to the mystery, and Miles finds himself wondering 'whether the improbable ought to be told'.

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Murder Room

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1471900444

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9781471900440

The Forgotten Memoir of John Knox

A Year in the Life of a Supreme Court Clerk in FDR's Washington

By: John Knox

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The Forgotten Memoir of John Knox

A Year in the Life of a Supreme Court Clerk in FDR's Washington

By: John Knox

My name will survive as long as man survives, because I am writing the greatest diary that has ever been written. I intend to surpass Pepys as a diarist." When John Frush Knox (1907-1997) wrote these words, he was in the middle of law school, and his attempt at surpassing Pepys—part scrapbook, part social commentary, and part recollection—had already reached 750 pages. His efforts as a chronicler might have landed in a family attic had he not secured an eminent position after graduation as law clerk to Justice James C. McReynolds—arguably one of the most disagreeable justices to sit on the Supreme Court—during the tumultuous year when President Franklin D. Roosevelt tried to "pack" the Court with justices who would approve his New Deal agenda. Knox's memoir instead emerges as a record of one of the most fascinating periods in American history. The Forgotten Memoir of John Knox—edited by Dennis J. Hutchinson and David J. Garrow—offers a candid, at times naïve, insider's view of the showdown between Roosevelt and the Court that took place in 1937. At the same time, it marvelously portrays a Washington culture now long gone. Although the new Supreme Court building had been open for a year by the time Knox joined McReynolds' staff, most of the justices continued to work from their homes, each supported by a small staff. Knox, the epitome of the overzealous and officious young man, after landing what he believes to be a dream position, continually fears for his job under the notoriously rude (and nakedly racist) justice. But he soon develops close relationships with the justice's two black servants: Harry Parker, the messenger who does "everything but breathe" for the justice, and Mary Diggs, the maid and cook. Together, they plot and sidestep around their employer's idiosyncrasies to keep the household running while history is made in the Court. A substantial foreword by Dennis Hutchinson and David Garrow sets the stage, and a gallery of period photos of Knox, McReynolds, and other figures of the time gives life to this engaging account, which like no other recaptures life in Washington, D.C., when it was still a genteel southern town.

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University of Chicago Press

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0226448630

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9780226448633

Hitler's Italian Allies

Royal Armed Forces, Fascist Regime, and the War of 1940–1943

By: MacGregor Knox

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Hitler's Italian Allies

Royal Armed Forces, Fascist Regime, and the War of 1940–1943

By: MacGregor Knox

Fascist Italy's ultimate defeat was foreordained. It was a pygmy among giants, and Hitler's failure to destroy the Soviet Union in 1941 doomed all three Axis powers. But Italy's defeat was unique; the only asset that it conquered - briefly - with its own unaided forces in the entire Second World War was a dusty and useless corner of Africa, British Somaliland. And Italy's forces dissolved in 1943 almost without resistance, in stark contrast to the grim fight to the last cartridge of Hitler's army or the fanatical faithfulness unto death of the troops of Imperial Japan. This book tries to understand why the Italian armed forces and Fascist regime were so remarkably ineffective at an activity - war - central to their existence. It approaches the issue above all from the perspective of military culture, through analysis of the services' failure to imagine modern warfare and through a topical structure that offers a social-cultural, political, military-economic, strategic, operational, and tactical cross-section of the war effort.

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Cambridge University Press

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1139432036

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9781139432030

Marvel Studios Character Encyclopedia Updated Edition

By: Kelly Knox,Adam Bray

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Marvel Studios Character Encyclopedia Updated Edition

By: Kelly Knox,Adam Bray

Who's your favorite character from the Marvel Cinematic Universe? Whether you like Superheroes or villains, the movies or TV series, learn all about them in this updated edition! Now including more than 200 characters, from Black Panther and Ms. Marvel to Iron Man and Shang-Chi, the Marvel Studios Character Encyclopedia Updated Edition is any young fan's go-to guide to find out all about the heroes, villains, spies, school kids, scientists, aliens, inventors, and others in the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU). Discover their strengths, super-powers, friends, allies, weapons, epic battles, and much more. Dive in to the action with 80 new pages covering characters from recent and upcoming movies and Disney+ series, including Black Panther: Wakanda Forever, Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings, Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness, Black Widow, Thor: Love and Thunder, Ms. Marvel, WandaVision, Loki, The Falcon and The Winter Soldier, Hawkeye, Ironheart, Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania, Guardians of the Galaxy Volume 3, and Secret Invasion.

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242

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Penguin

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0593845285

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9780593845288

The Three Taps

By: Ronald Knox

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The Three Taps

By: Ronald Knox

In a gas-lit inn in the countryside a man lies dead. The police, of course, investigate - and so do Miles Bredon and his wife, in the interests of the Indescribable Insurance Company, with which the deceased man, Mr Mottram, had been heavily insured. The culprit is the three gas taps in Mr Mottram's room, and Miles hopes to prove that his death is suicide. Miles' old wartime colleague, Police Inspector Leyland, is convinced it's murder. And the conclusion is as ingenious as it is surprising.

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211

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Murder Room

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1471900541

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9781471900549

Understanding Social Problems

Media Edition

By: David Knox,Caroline Schacht,Linda A. Mooney

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Understanding Social Problems

Media Edition

By: David Knox,Caroline Schacht,Linda A. Mooney

Every chapter defines the nature of the social problem in a global context as well as U.S. The text explores each of the three major theoretical explanations (in a balanced manner), describes the consequences of the problem, and provides alternatives solutions and policies. In the midst of this macro analysis the authors use pedagogy to bring the micro application alive, e.g. The Human Side and Self and Society so that the students can apply and understand the social problem.

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Brooks/Cole

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0534587607

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9780534587604

Book Banning in 21st-Century America

By: Emily J. M. Knox

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Book Banning in 21st-Century America

By: Emily J. M. Knox

Requests for the removal, relocation, and restriction of books—also known as challenges—occur with some frequency in the United States. Book Banning in 21st-Century American Libraries, based on thirteen contemporary book challenge cases in schools and public libraries across the United States argues that understanding contemporary reading practices, especially interpretive strategies, is vital to understanding why people attempt to censor books in schools and public libraries. Previous research on censorship tends to focus on legal frameworks centered on Supreme Court cases, historical case studies, and bibliographies of texts that are targeted for removal or relocation and is often concerned with how censorship occurs. The current project, on the other hand, is focused on the why of censorship and posits that many censorship behaviors and practices, such as challenging books, are intimately tied to the how one understands the practice of reading and its effects on character development and behavior. It discusses reading as a social practice that has changed over time and encompasses different physical modalities and interpretive strategies. In order to understand why people challenge books, it presents a model of how the practice of reading is understood by challengers including “what it means” to read a text, and especially how one constructs the idea of “appropriate” reading materials. The book is based on three different kinds sources. The first consists of documents including requests for reconsideration and letters, obtained via Freedom of Information Act requests to governing bodies, produced in the course of challenge cases. Recordings of book challenge public hearings constitute the second source of data. Finally, the third source of data is interviews with challengers themselves. The book offers a model of the reading practices of challengers. It demonstrates that challengers are particularly influenced by what might be called a literal “common sense” orientation to text wherein there is little room for polysemic interpretation (multiple meanings for text). That is, the meaning of texts is always clear and there is only one avenue for interpretation. This common sense interpretive strategy is coupled with what Cathy Davidson calls “undisciplined imagination” wherein the reader is unable to maintain distance between the events in a text and his or her own response. These reading practices broaden our understanding of why people attempt to censor books in public institutions.

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Rowman & Littlefield

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1442231688

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9781442231689

George Washington

By: Barbara Knox,Gail Saunders-Smith

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George Washington

By: Barbara Knox,Gail Saunders-Smith

Profiles the life and career of President George Washington.

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Capstone

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0736833838

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9780736833837

Dreamquake

Book Two of the Dreamhunter Duet

By: Elizabeth Knox

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Dreamquake

Book Two of the Dreamhunter Duet

By: Elizabeth Knox

Aided by her family and her creation, Nown, Laura investigates the powerful Regulatory Body's involvement in mysterious disappearances and activities and learns, in the process, the true nature of the Place in which dreams are found. Suggested level: secondary.

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Macmillan

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0374318549

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9780374318543

The Last Patrician

Bobby Kennedy and the End of American Aristocracy

By: Michael Knox Beran

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The Last Patrician

Bobby Kennedy and the End of American Aristocracy

By: Michael Knox Beran

Overview In this provocative reassessment of one of the most controversial figures of twentieth-century American politics, Michael Knox Beran shows how Bobby Kennedy was shaped by values of the aristocratic class to which he had been brought up to belong. He was one of them - until he realized that the welfare state they had helped to create at home and the empire they had helped to found abroad were undermining some of America's most cherished traditions. In denouncing the welfare system as a "second-rate set of social services" and "hand-outs," and in questioning the imperial commitments that the patricians made in places like Vietnam, Bobby Kennedy was a prophet who accurately foresaw the changing direction of American politics. Challenging the work of Arthur Schlesinger Jr., Jack Newfield, and others, Beran demonstrates that Bobby was neither a pious liberal martyr nor a would-be revolutionary. He was a man who drew on the wisdom of Emerson, the ancient Greeks, and his own father's ideas about the transformative power of free markets - and used them to create a compelling vision of a better America.

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St. Martin's Griffin

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1250088011

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9781250088017

The Oldest Dead White European Males and Other Reflections on the Classics

By: Bernard Knox

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The Oldest Dead White European Males and Other Reflections on the Classics

By: Bernard Knox

Should the ancient Greeks - the oldest dead white European males - and their legacy have any relevance to the way we live now? So much of what the ancients were and did may now appear positively racist and sexist in this era of multiculturalism.

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W. W. Norton & Company

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0393034925

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9780393034929

Book's by Knox

Slave And Freeman

Slave And Freeman

Neal Knox - The Gun Rights War

Neal Knox - The Gun Rights War

Waiting to Be Heard

Waiting to Be Heard

Knox: On Rebellion

Knox: On Rebellion

The Body in the Silo

The Body in the Silo

The Forgotten Memoir of John Knox

The Forgotten Memoir of John Knox

Hitler's Italian Allies

Hitler's Italian Allies

Marvel Studios Character Encyclopedia Updated Edition

Marvel Studios Character Encyclopedia Updated Edition

The Three Taps

The Three Taps

Understanding Social Problems

Understanding Social Problems

Book Banning in 21st-Century America

Book Banning in 21st-Century America

George Washington

George Washington

Dreamquake

Dreamquake

The Last Patrician

The Last Patrician

The Oldest Dead White European Males and Other Reflections on the Classics

The Oldest Dead White European Males and Other Reflections on the Classics

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