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Insiders' Guide to Charlotte

By: Leigh Pressley,Mary Hooper,Carol Timblin

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Insiders' Guide to Charlotte

By: Leigh Pressley,Mary Hooper,Carol Timblin

Pressley takes readers to Charlotte, North Carolina, and shows them around this city of contrast, where postmodern glass towers and the latest in arts, sports, and cultural centers share space with restored historic hotels and converted 19th-century textile mills. Maps. Photos.

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340

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0762724501

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9780762724505

To Care for the Sick and Bury the Dead

African American Lodges and Cemeteries in Tennessee

By: Leigh Ann Gardner

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To Care for the Sick and Bury the Dead

African American Lodges and Cemeteries in Tennessee

By: Leigh Ann Gardner

Benevolent Orders, the Sons of Ham, Prince Hall Freemasons—these and other African American lodges created a social safety net for members across Tennessee. During their heyday between 1865 and 1930, these groups provided members with numerous resources, such as sick benefits and assurance of a proper burial, opportunities for socialization and leadership, and the chance to work with local churches and schools to create better communities. Many of these groups gradually faded from existence, but their legacy endures in the form of the cemeteries the lodges left behind. These Black cemeteries dot the Tennessee landscape, but few know their history or the societies of care they represent. To Care for the Sick and Bury the Dead is the first book-length look at these cemeteries and the lodges that fostered them. This book is a must-have for genealogists, historians, and family members of the people buried in these cemeteries.

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270

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Vanderbilt University Press

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0826502547

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9780826502544

I Slept with Joey Ramone

A Family Memoir

By: Mickey Leigh

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I Slept with Joey Ramone

A Family Memoir

By: Mickey Leigh

“A powerful story of punk-rock inspiration and a great rock bio” (Rolling Stone), now in paperback. When the Ramones recorded their debut album in 1976, it heralded the true birth of punk rock. Unforgettable front man Joey Ramone gave voice to the disaffected youth of the seventies and eighties, and the band influenced the counterculture for decades to come. With honesty, humor, and grace, Joey’s brother, Mickey Leigh, shares a fascinating, intimate look at the turbulent life of one of America’s greatest—and unlikeliest—music icons. While the music lives on for new generations to discover, I Slept with Joey Ramone is the enduring portrait of a man who struggled to find his voice and of the brother who loved him.

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434

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Simon and Schuster

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1451639864

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9781451639865

Footy Banners

A Complete Run-Through

By: Leigh Meyrick,Matthew Hagias

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Footy Banners

A Complete Run-Through

By: Leigh Meyrick,Matthew Hagias

Celebrating one of AFL's longest-standing and most iconic traditions Have you ever wondered what makes Australian Rules Football so unique? Sure, the rules are unmistakably different to other sports, but it's the bizarre traditions and idiosyncrasies that make the game uniquely ours. One of those quirks is the team banner – an essential element of the pre-match build-up that has connected fans with their heroes for more than 80 years. The humble banner, or run-through as it's known by the purists, has become an iconic symbol of our love for the game. It's why cheer squads around the country dedicate countless hours each and every week to delicately craft their messages on crepe. This painstaking process culminates in a fleeting moment of glory as the teams run onto the ground before the banner is torn (quite literally) to shreds. From the funny to the offensive, the emotional to the political, banners come in all shapes and sizes and have evolved considerably, reflecting not only a changing cultural landscape but a changing game itself. Footy Banners: A Complete Run-Through is a collection of historical images, stories and unforgettable moments that pay homage to one of our game's longest-lasting rituals.

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287

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Simon and Schuster

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1761101056

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9781761101052

Imperfect Victims

Criminalized Survivors and the Promise of Abolition Feminism

By: Leigh Goodmark

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Imperfect Victims

Criminalized Survivors and the Promise of Abolition Feminism

By: Leigh Goodmark

A profound, compelling argument for abolition feminism—to protect criminalized survivors of gender-based violence, we must dismantle the carceral system. Since the 1970s, anti-violence advocates have worked to make the legal system more responsive to gender-based violence. But greater state intervention in cases of intimate partner violence, rape, sexual assault, and trafficking has led to the arrest, prosecution, conviction, and incarceration of victims, particularly women of color and trans and gender-nonconforming people. Imperfect Victims argues that only dismantling the system will bring that punishment to an end. Amplifying the voices of survivors, including her own clients, abolitionist law professor Leigh Goodmark deftly guides readers on a step-by-step journey through the criminalization of survival. Abolition feminism reveals the possibility of a just world beyond the carceral state, which is fundamentally unable to respond to, let alone remedy, harm. As Imperfect Victims shows, abolition feminism is the only politics and practice that can undo the indescribable damage inflicted on survivors by the very system purporting to protect them.

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Univ of California Press

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0520391136

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9780520391130

I Hate the Prom King

By: J. Leigh James

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I Hate the Prom King

By: J. Leigh James

Why is the future prom king suddenly so interested in a nobody? Eli has something to prove. Months ago, a freak injury ended his football career. Now he has the opportunity to prove his busted knee didn't ruin his future. Becoming prom king will show he's still on top, and everything is going as planned until his ex-girlfriend throws him a curveball. His reputation is threatened, his future is at risk, and he needs a date to prom if he's going to win the crown. Megan wants nothing to do with the popular crowd, especially not Eli. He humiliated her years ago, and nothing he's done since tells her he's changed from the arrogant guy she encountered. When he walks into the shop where she works, she never expects he's looking for more than a scoop of vanilla ice cream. Can Megan let go of her grudge to give Eli a chance? And if she does, will he choose to salvage his ego with a fake crown over a chance at real love?

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117

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J. Leigh James

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1735860980

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9781735860985

I Hate Prom-posals

By: J. Leigh James

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I Hate Prom-posals

By: J. Leigh James

He prefers the spotlight. She stays behind the scenes. Danna's mother is pressuring her to attend prom. But that's the last place the shy girl wants to go. She's more comfortable behind the lens of her camera than socializing with anyone outside her close-knit group of friends. She only agrees to go on a group date to prom to help out a friend and make her mother happy. Everyone sees Aaron as the carefree class clown, but he has a very serious decision to make about his future. When a couple of popular girls try to fix him up on a blind date for prom, he agrees to scheme designed to get them off his back. He'll go to prom with a group of friends but tell everyone that Danna is his date. Danna is forced into the spotlight, and now Aaron has more decisions to make. Love is in the air, but can Danna and Aaron look beyond the surface to see the real people beneath and potentially discover a romance they didn't know they needed?

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J. Leigh James

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1961656981

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9781961656987

World Dance Cultures

From Ritual to Spectacle

By: Patricia Leigh Beaman

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World Dance Cultures

From Ritual to Spectacle

By: Patricia Leigh Beaman

From healing, fertility and religious rituals, through theatrical entertainment, to death ceremonies and ancestor worship, World Dance Cultures introduces an extraordinary variety of dance forms practiced around the world. This highly illustrated textbook draws on wide-ranging historical documentation and first-hand accounts, taking in India, Bali, Java, Cambodia, China, Japan, Hawai’i, New Zealand, Papua New Guinea, Africa, Turkey, Spain, Native America, South America, and the Caribbean. Each chapter covers a certain region’s distinctive dances, pinpoints key issues and trends from the form’s development to its modern iteration, and offers a wealth of study features including: Case Studies – zooming in on key details of a dance form’s cultural, historical, and religious contexts ‘Explorations’ – first-hand descriptions of dances, from scholars, anthropologists and practitioners ‘Think About’ – provocations to encourage critical analysis of dance forms and the ways in which they’re understood Discussion Questions – starting points for group work, classroom seminars or individual study Further Study Tips – listing essential books, essays and video material. Offering a comprehensive overview of each dance form covered with over 100 full color photos, World Dance Cultures is an essential introductory resource for students and instructors alike.

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500

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Routledge

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1317441060

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9781317441069

American Apostles

When Evangelicals Entered the World of Islam

By: Christine Leigh Heyrman

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American Apostles

When Evangelicals Entered the World of Islam

By: Christine Leigh Heyrman

The surprising tale of the first American Protestant missionaries to proselytize in the Muslim world In American Apostles, the Bancroft Prize-winning historian Christine Leigh Heyrman brilliantly chronicles the first fateful collision between American missionaries and the diverse religious cultures of the Levant. Pliny Fisk, Levi Parsons, Jonas King: though virtually unknown today, these three young New Englanders commanded attention across the United States two hundred years ago. Poor boys steeped in the biblical prophecies of evangelical Protestantism, they became the founding members of the Palestine mission and ventured to Ottoman Turkey, Egypt, and Syria, where they sought to expose the falsity of Muhammad's creed and to restore these bastions of Islam to true Christianity. Not only among the first Americans to travel throughout the Middle East, the Palestine missionaries also played a crucial role in shaping their compatriots' understanding of the Muslim world. As Heyrman shows, the missionaries thrilled their American readers with tales of crossing the Sinai on camel, sailing a canal boat up the Nile, and exploring the ancient city of Jerusalem. But their private journals and letters often tell a story far removed from the tales they spun for home consumption, revealing that their missions did not go according to plan. Instead of converting the Middle East, the members of the Palestine mission themselves experienced unforeseen spiritual challenges as they debated with Muslims, Jews, and Eastern Christians and pursued an elusive Bostonian convert to Islam. As events confounded their expectations, some of the missionaries developed a cosmopolitan curiosity about-even an appreciation of-Islam. But others devised images of Muslims for their American audiences that would both fuel the first wave of Islamophobia in the United States and forge the future character of evangelical Protestantism itself. American Apostles brings to life evangelicals' first encounters with the Middle East and uncovers their complicated legacy. The Palestine mission held the promise of acquainting Americans with a fuller and more accurate understanding of Islam, but ultimately it bolstered a more militant Christianity, one that became the unofficial creed of the United States over the course of the nineteenth century. The political and religious consequences of that outcome endure to this day.

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Hill and Wang

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0809023997

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9780809023998

Darkening Mirrors

Imperial Representation in Depression-Era African American Performance

By: Stephanie Leigh Batiste

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Darkening Mirrors

Imperial Representation in Depression-Era African American Performance

By: Stephanie Leigh Batiste

In an important contribution to African American film and performance history, Stephanie Batiste looks back at African American stage and screen productions of the 1930s.

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Duke University Press

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082234923X

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9780822349235

Essential Readings in Marketing

By: Leigh McAlister,Ruth Nancy Bolton,Ross Rizley

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Essential Readings in Marketing

By: Leigh McAlister,Ruth Nancy Bolton,Ross Rizley

A guide to important research in marketing, with abstracts of over 200 papers and bibliographical references to more, organized by topic.

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0965711455

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9780965711456

Book's by Leigh Mcalister

Insiders' Guide to Charlotte

Insiders' Guide to Charlotte

To Care for the Sick and Bury the Dead

To Care for the Sick and Bury the Dead

I Slept with Joey Ramone

I Slept with Joey Ramone

Footy Banners

Footy Banners

Imperfect Victims

Imperfect Victims

I Hate the Prom King

I Hate the Prom King

I Hate Prom-posals

I Hate Prom-posals

World Dance Cultures

World Dance Cultures

American Apostles

American Apostles

Darkening Mirrors

Darkening Mirrors

Essential Readings in Marketing

Essential Readings in Marketing

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