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A Shot In The Dark...

The 1967 Murder of Benjamin Brown

By: Willie Mack

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A Shot In The Dark...

The 1967 Murder of Benjamin Brown

By: Willie Mack

When all is said and done, one fact remains. On the night of May 11, 1967, a crowd of protestors marched east on Lynch Street, throwing debris at a line of officers. Shots rang out, several people were wounded, one fatally. Who fired the shot in the dark that killed Benjamin Brown, a supposedly innocent bystander who lost his life on his twenty-second birthday? Who knows what really happened that night? Eyewitnesses gave their accounts, then turned around and recanted those statements. This book recounts the happenings of that momentous night from an objective eye. A true-to-life account that will hopefully remind us of justice, If not, bring closure to wounds left by injustice.

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Xlibris Corporation

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1450018556

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The Parent?s Autism Sourcebook

A Comprehensive Guide to Screenings, Treatments, Services, and Organizations

By: Kim Mack Rosenberg

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The Parent?s Autism Sourcebook

A Comprehensive Guide to Screenings, Treatments, Services, and Organizations

By: Kim Mack Rosenberg

A one-stop compendium for parents of children with autism. The most recent studies estimate that 1 in 68 children in America are on the autism spectrum. For the parents and families of these children, having support is vital. But the search for the right information can be difficult, and it may be even harder to find the time for the research that is needed. The Parent’s Autism Sourcebook brings that information to you, offering families of children with autism a full range of up-to-date resources on diagnoses, doctors, organizations, and much more. Whether you are concerned about finding the right school, possible treatment options, methods for social interaction, or are just looking for the support of other parents of children with autism, this book can help you find what you need. The resources gathered from across the nation in this comprehensive sourcebook include information on: Evaluation and screening methods Specialized doctors and clinics Schools and social groups Potential treatments and interventions Legal services and consultation And more Raising a child on the autism spectrum can present unique challenges for parents. Finding the resources and support they need shouldn’t be one of them. The Parent’s Autism Sourcebook will help families everywhere.

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Simon and Schuster

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1632209381

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9781632209382

The Space Barbarians

By: Mack Reynolds

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The Space Barbarians

By: Mack Reynolds

John of the Hawks was a proud, young man, proud of his people, proud of his heritage, and proud of his ability to count coup on his clann's traditional enemies. He knew what was right and what was wrong - the four great books had laid down the way things had to be. Which is why the uncouth ways of the clannless drifters from space outraged him so. Not only did these peddlers know nothing of the finesse of proper combat, they knew nothing of the respect due to such things as the coup stick, the right way to capture a wife, and the sanctity of the clann's elders. Worse still, they had some idiotic notion that that cheap silvery metal so commonly used for plumbing and horse-bits, known as platinum, was somehow of special merit. Well, one could excuse an outrage or two on the grounds of ignorance, but there came a time when any good clannsman, such as John certainly was, must decide to teach these barbarians from space a lesson!

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Gateway

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0575102896

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9780575102897

Women and Men on the Overland Trail

By: John Mack Faragher

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Women and Men on the Overland Trail

By: John Mack Faragher

This classic book offers a lively and penetrating analysis of what the overland journey was really like for midwestern farm families in the mid-1800s. Through the subtle use of contemporary diaries, memoirs, and even folk songs, John Mack Faragher dispels the common stereotypes of male and female roles and reveals the dynamic of pioneer family relationships. This edition includes a new preface in which Faragher looks back on the social context in which he formulated his original thesis and provides a new supplemental bibliography. Praise for the earlier edition: "Faragher has made excellent use of the Overland Trail materials, using them to illuminate the society the emigrants left as well as the one they constructed en route. His study should be important to a wide range of readers, especially those interested in family history, migration and western history, and women's history."--Kathryn Kish Sklar "An enlightening study."--American West "A helpful study which not only illuminates the daily life of rural Americans but which also begins to compensate for the male orientation of so much of western history."--Journal of Social History

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Yale University Press

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0300153511

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9780300153514

Heart Religion in the British Enlightenment

Gender and Emotion in Early Methodism

By: Phyllis Mack

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Heart Religion in the British Enlightenment

Gender and Emotion in Early Methodism

By: Phyllis Mack

A fascinating account of the daily life and spirituality of early Methodists by a prize-winning gender historian.

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Cambridge University Press

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0521889189

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From Apartheid to Democracy

Deliberating Truth and Reconciliation in South Africa

By: Katherine Elizabeth Mack

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From Apartheid to Democracy

Deliberating Truth and Reconciliation in South Africa

By: Katherine Elizabeth Mack

South Africa’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) hearings can be considered one of the most significant rhetorical events of the late twentieth century. The TRC called language into action, tasking it with promoting understanding among a divided people and facilitating the construction of South Africa’s new democracy. Other books on the TRC and deliberative rhetoric in contemporary South Africa emphasize the achievement of reconciliation during and in the immediate aftermath of the transition from apartheid. From Apartheid to Democracy, in contrast, considers the varied, complex, and enduring effects of the Commission’s rhetorical wager. It is the first book-length study to analyze the TRC through such a lens. Katherine Elizabeth Mack focuses on the dissension and negotiations over difference provoked by the Commission’s process, especially its public airing of victims’ and perpetrators’ truths. She tracks agonistic deliberation (evidenced in the TRC’s public hearings) into works of fiction and photography that extend and challenge the Commission’s assumptions about truth, healing, and reconciliation. Ultimately, Mack demonstrates that while the TRC may not have achieved all of its political goals, its very existence generated valuable deliberation within and beyond its official process.

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Penn State Press

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0271065729

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9780271065724

Elizabethan Rhetoric

Theory and Practice

By: Peter Mack

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Elizabethan Rhetoric

Theory and Practice

By: Peter Mack

Peter Mack examines the impact of humanist training in rhetoric and argument on a range of Elizabethan prose texts, including political orations, histories, romances, conduct manuals, privy council debates and personal letters. Elizabethan Rhetoric reconstructs the knowledge, skills and approaches which an Elizabethan would have acquired in order to participate in the political and religious debates of the time: the approaches to an audience, analysis and replication of textual structures, organisation of arguments and tactics for disputation. Study of the rhetorical codes and conventions in terms of which debates were conducted is currently a major area of historical and literary enquiry, and Mack provides a wealth of new information about what was taught and how these conventions were exploited in personal memoranda, court depositions, sermons and political and religious pamphlets. This important book will be invaluable for all those interested in the culture, literature and political history of the period.

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Cambridge University Press

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113943442X

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9781139434423

Rolltown

Bat Hardin #3

By: Mack Reynolds

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Rolltown

Bat Hardin #3

By: Mack Reynolds

In Rolltown, Mack Reynolds turns his productive imagination towards the growing phenomenon of mobile living in America. Taking us decades into the future, he tells the story of a world where people have taken to the road en masse, in huge mobile "towns" composed of hundreds or even thousands of inhabitants, attempting to deal with a hostile and over-organized world.

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Wildside Press LLC

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1479425907

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9781479425907

South Pacific Diary, 1942-1943

By: Mack Morriss

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South Pacific Diary, 1942-1943

By: Mack Morriss

A unique chronicle of the war from the perspective of a sensitive twenty-four-year-old sergeant who wrote for the Army's in-house paper, Yank, the Army Weekly and a tale of the South Pacific that will not soon be forgotten. Correspondent Mack Morriss reluctantly left his diary in the Honolulu Yank office in July 1943. "Here is contained an account of the past eight and one-half months," he wrote in his last entry, "a period which I shall never forget." The next morning he was on a plane headed back to the South Pacific and the New Georgia battleground. Morriss was working out of the press camp at Spa, Belgium, in January 1945, when he learned that the diary he had kept in the South Pacific had arrived in a plain brown wrapper at the New York office. He was so happy "to know that this impossible thing had happened," he wrote to his wife, that he helped two friends "murder a quart of scotch." What was preserved and appears in print here for the first time is a unique chronicle of the war in the South Pacific from the perspective of a sensitive twenty-four-year-old sergeant. This is an intensely personal account, reporting the war from the ridge known as the Sea Horse on Guadalcanal, from the bars and dance halls of Auckland to a B-17 flying through the moonlit night to bomb Japanese installations on Bougainville. Morriss thought deeply and wrote movingly about everything connected with the war: the sordiness and heroism, the competence and ineptitude of leaders, the strange mixture of constant complaint and steady courage of ordinary GIs, friendships formed under combat stress, and, above all, what he perceived to be his own indecisiveness and weaknesses. Ronnie Day introduces Morriss's diary and illuminates the work with extensive notes based on private papers, government documents, travel in the Solomon Islands, and the recollections of men mentioned in the diary.

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University Press of Kentucky

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0813189543

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9780813189543

The HPV Vaccine On Trial

Seeking Justice For A Generation Betrayed

By: Mary Holland,Kim Mack Rosenberg,Eileen Iorio

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The HPV Vaccine On Trial

Seeking Justice For A Generation Betrayed

By: Mary Holland,Kim Mack Rosenberg,Eileen Iorio

A Groundbreaking Guide to the HPV Vaccine and the Science, Safety, and Business Behind It Cancer strikes fear in people’s hearts around globe. So the appearance of a vaccine to prevent cancer–as we are assured the human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine will–seemed like a game-changer. Since 2006, over eighty countries have approved the vaccine, with glowing endorsements from the world’s foremost medical authorities. Bringing in over $2.5 billion in annual sales, the HPV vaccine is a pharmaceutical juggernaut. Yet scandal now engulfs it worldwide. The HPV Vaccine on Trial is a shocking tale, chronicling the global efforts to sell and compel this alleged miracle. The book opens with the vaccine’s invention, winds through its regulatory labyrinths, details the crushing denial and dismissal of reported harms and deaths, and uncovers the enormous profits pharma and inventors have reaped. Authors Holland, Mack Rosenberg, and Iorio drill down into the clinical trial data, government approvals, advertising, and personal accounts of egregious injuries that have followed in countries as far-flung as Japan, Australia, Colombia, India, Ireland, the U.K. and Denmark. The authors have written an unprecedented exposé about this vaunted vaccine. Written in plain language, the book is for everyone concerned – parents, patients, doctors, nurses, scientists, healthcare organizations, government officials, and schools. Ultimately, this book is not just about the HPV vaccine, but about how industry, government, and medical authorities may be putting the world’s children in harm’s way.

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Simon and Schuster

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1510710817

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9781510710818

Spring Hill: Eight Miles South of Troy

By: Mack Lowery

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Spring Hill: Eight Miles South of Troy

By: Mack Lowery

In 1814 when General Andrew Jackson defeated the Creek Indians at Horse Shoe Bend in Alabama, settlers began making their way to the new area creating “Alabama Fever”. Many of these settlers homesteaded the area in Southeast Alabama that would become known as Spring Hill. These Settlers came from Virginia, North and South Carolina, and Georgia, bringing with them a strong work ethic and the determination that their community would not be isolated, that it would be educated, and that religion would thrive. In this moving account Mr. Lowery shares with the reader the importance of the people and community institutions that so positively influenced him for the first twenty one years of his life. Because of community participation these institutions remained strong and influential through the years. The family, churches, and school would cooperate in bringing to fruition the vision of the early settlers set on making Spring Hill a strong and viable community.

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WestBow Press

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1664259678

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9781664259676

Parlor Ladies and Ebony Drudges

African American Women, Class, and Work in a South Carolina Community

By: Kibibi Voloria C. Mack

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Parlor Ladies and Ebony Drudges

African American Women, Class, and Work in a South Carolina Community

By: Kibibi Voloria C. Mack

Focusing on the community of Orangeburg, South Carolina, from 1880 to 1940, Parlor Ladies and Ebony Drudges explores the often sharp class divisions that developed among African American women in that small, semirural area.

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Univ. of Tennessee Press

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1572330309

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9781572330306

Investigative and Forensic Interviewing

A Personality-focused Approach

By: Craig N. Ackley,Shannon M. Mack,Kristen Beyer,Philip Erdberg

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Investigative and Forensic Interviewing

A Personality-focused Approach

By: Craig N. Ackley,Shannon M. Mack,Kristen Beyer,Philip Erdberg

Investigative and Forensic Interviewing: A Personality-Focused Approach looks at the personality styles most commonly encountered in the criminal justice system and demonstrates how to use this insight to plan and conduct a productive interview. The book includes chapters on narcissistic, antisocial, psychopathic, borderline, inadequate/immature, p

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CRC Press

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1420084275

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9781420084276

A Prince of Our Disorder

The Life of T. E. Lawrence

By: John E. Mack

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A Prince of Our Disorder

The Life of T. E. Lawrence

By: John E. Mack

First published in 1976, John Mack's Pulitzer Prize-winning biography humanely and objectively explores the relationship between T.E. Lawrence's inner life and his historically significant actions. Extensive research provides the basis for Mack's sensitive investigation of the psychological dimensions of Lawrence's personality and with the history, sociology, and politics of his time. 27 photos.

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Harvard University Press

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0674704940

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9780674704947

Bird Hunting in Brooklyn: Ebbets Field, the Dodgers and the 1949 National League Pennant Race

By: Bob Mack

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Bird Hunting in Brooklyn: Ebbets Field, the Dodgers and the 1949 National League Pennant Race

By: Bob Mack

Those were the days, my friends ... so grab a hot dog and an egg cream, and travel back in time to learn how Babe Ruth won a farting contest, how the first chest protector almost killed Wilbert Robinson, how Leo Durocher rescued the Dodgers from a flaming train wreck, how Jackie Robinson's sore arm landed him in Brooklyn, why the spitball was good for baseball, why Burt Shotton would not wear a uniform, who stole the Kaiser's ashtray, and how the Bums from Flatbush snatched the National League pennant from the St. Louis Cardinals on the last day of the 1949 baseball season...

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Lulu.com

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1435711904

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9781435711907

Ira Township

By: Paul Torney, Lynn Lyon, Richard Gonyeau, Bob Mack, & Gail Zabowski

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Ira Township

By: Paul Torney, Lynn Lyon, Richard Gonyeau, Bob Mack, & Gail Zabowski

In 1679, French explorer Fr. Louis Hennepin planted a cross on the shore of Anchor Bay beside Michigan's Lake St. Clair. There, Ira Township was incorporated on March 11, 1837, and the Immaculate Conception Catholic Church was founded. A settlement called Anchorville, for Anchor Bay, formed around the church. Down the road was another community, first called Swan Creek and later known as Fair Haven. Ira Township was once the nexus for the Interurban Railroad, had one of the first oxen-driven railroads in the state, and has one of the oldest Little League baseball organizations in the country. Shipbuilding has long been a major industry of the area, and the winter carnival known as Shantytown attracts hundreds of ice fishermen to Ira each winter.

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Arcadia Publishing

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1467113158

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9781467113151

The Lagrangists

By: Mack Reynolds

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The Lagrangists

By: Mack Reynolds

L-5, a point in the Earth-Moon System where orbits are forever and the new age of Freedom and Plenty can begin. Now, they're trying to kill the man in charge of the first L-5 colony, and Private Eye Rex Bader is the man who will have to find and stop them. But who are the killers? Only time -- and blood -- will tell!

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Wildside Press LLC

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1479403202

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9781479403202

Hush

Media and Sonic Self-Control

By: Mack Hagood

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Hush

Media and Sonic Self-Control

By: Mack Hagood

For almost sixty years, media technologies have promised users the ability to create sonic safe spaces for themselves—from bedside white noise machines to Beats by Dre's “Hear What You Want” ad campaign, in which Colin Kaepernick's headphones protect him from taunting crowds. In Hush, Mack Hagood draws evidence from noise-canceling headphones, tinnitus maskers, LPs that play ocean sounds, nature-sound mobile apps, and in-ear smart technologies to argue the true purpose of media is not information transmission, but rather the control of how we engage our environment. These devices, which Hagood calls orphic media, give users the freedom to remain unaffected in the changeable and distracting spaces of contemporary capitalism and reveal how racial, gendered, ableist, and class ideologies shape our desire to block unwanted sounds. In a noisy world of haters, trolls, and information overload, guarded listening can be a necessity for self-care, but Hagood argues our efforts to shield ourselves can also decrease our tolerance for sonic and social difference. Challenging our self-defeating attempts to be free of one another, he rethinks media theory, sound studies, and the very definition of media.

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Duke University Press

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1478004479

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9781478004479

A Field Guide to Demons, Vampires, Fallen Angels and Other Subversive Spirits

By: Carol K. Mack,Dinah Mack

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A Field Guide to Demons, Vampires, Fallen Angels and Other Subversive Spirits

By: Carol K. Mack,Dinah Mack

Did you know the Mbulu of South Africa has a razor sharp tail with a mind of its own? Or that the Kuru-Pira of Brazil has eyes that glow like embers, and fangs ripping from its mouth? In this updated edition of A Field Guide to Demons, Carol and Dinah Mack bring to life some of the most horrific and fascinating creatures ever described in mythology and legend. With a deft pen and global perspective, the Macks profile over ninety bogies including: mermaids, ghouls, vampires, kelpies, werewolves, and more. Readers will delight in exploring the origin, characteristics, and cultural significance of each creature. Organized by “habitat,” this book will entertain readers of all ages, while shedding light on religious and cultural ideals from around the world. With vivid details and highly researched entries, A Field Guide to Demons is a must have for academics, writers, students, and anyone interested in mythology or the occult.

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Simon and Schuster

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1628721502

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9781628721508

Equal Justice in the Balance

America's Legal Responses to the Emerging Terrorist Threat

By: Raneta Lawson Mack,Michael J. Kelly

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Equal Justice in the Balance

America's Legal Responses to the Emerging Terrorist Threat

By: Raneta Lawson Mack,Michael J. Kelly

We are in difficult times for the protection of our liberties. Nonetheless, citizens are showing an increased willingness to resist the erosion of the U.S. Constitution. . . . Lawson Mack and Kelly stress the importance of not giving up these fundamental rights and conclude with a message of optimism, noting an increased backlash against the administration's more draconian measures. Although the landscape is still quite bleak, change is in the air." -Michael Ratner, President, Center for Constitutional Rights, from the foreword "A compelling and sophisticated critique of the U.S. government's post-9/11 actions. Mack and Kelly set the stage with the historical perspective on America's response to terrorism and the assessment of terrorist threats, before launching into a comprehensive analysis of the USA Patriot Act. Their hard-hitting approach and easy-to-read style makes for a fascinating treatment of the government's legislative and executive response to the attacks." -Michael P. Scharf, Case Western Reserve University School of Law With its sweeping critique of the USA Patriot Act and the Bush administration's maneuvers in pursuit of terrorists, Equal Justice in the Balance is a sobering and exacting look at American legal responses to terrorism, both before and after 9/11. The authors detail wide-ranging and persuasive evidence that American antiterrorism legislation has led to serious infringements of our civil rights. They show us how deviations from our fundamental principles of fairness and justice in times of heightened national anxiety-whether the Red Scare, World War II, or the War on Terrorism-have resulted in overreaction and excess, later requiring apologies and reparations to those victimized by a paranoia-driven justice system. While terrorist attacks-especially on a large scale and on American soil-damage our national pride and sense of security, the authors offer powerful arguments for why we must allow our judicial infrastructure, imperfect as it is, to respond without undue interference from the politics of anger and vengeance.

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University of Michigan Press

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0472023756

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9780472023752

The Duke of Anjou and the Politique Struggle During the Wars of Religion

By: Mack P. Holt

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The Duke of Anjou and the Politique Struggle During the Wars of Religion

By: Mack P. Holt

This book examines the Duke of Anjou's ambivalent relationship with the politique struggle.

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Cambridge University Press

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0521892783

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9780521892780

The Second Mystery Megapack

25 Modern & Classic Mystery Stories

By: Ron Goulart,Mack Reynolds,Arlette Lees,John Gregory Betancourt,Jean Lorrah,Michael Hemmingson,Ray Cummings,John L French

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The Second Mystery Megapack

25 Modern & Classic Mystery Stories

By: Ron Goulart,Mack Reynolds,Arlette Lees,John Gregory Betancourt,Jean Lorrah,Michael Hemmingson,Ray Cummings,John L French

The Second Mystery Megapack selects 25 more tantalizing mystery tales, by modern and classic authors. Included are: FUNNY STUFF, by Ron Goulart PIT ON THE ROAD TO HELL, by John Gregory Betancourt WHAT IS COURAGE? by Mack Reynolds JUST THE FACTS, by Meg Opperman TEN GRAINS OF SAND, by Christopher B. Booth MORE ALLISONS THAN I KNOW WHAT TO DO WITH, by Michael Hemmingson REFLECTION OF A DREAM, by Jean Lorrah GRIM REAPER'S HANDICAP, by Fergus Truslow CASH, by Arlette Lees SEAS OF MISUNDERSTANDING, by Ray Cummings HOCUS POCUS HOMICIDE, by Gene D. Robinson THE RIGHT BETRAYAL, by John L. French JEAN MONETTE, by Eugene Francois Vidocq THE SENDING OF DANA DA, by Rudyard Kipling PHANTOM GETAWAY, by Leon Mearson THE MURDER OF SILAS CORD, by Harold F. Sorensen A BOTTOMLESS GRAVE, by Ambrose Bierce DEAD WOMAN, by Dr. David H. Keller HOOK, LINE, AND SUCKER! by Robert Turner THE JUDGMENT OF THE GODS, by Robert Reginald WILL FOR A KILL, by Emil Petaja DYING FOR A CLUE, by C.A. Freeburn BODYGUARD, by James C. Glass THE MASKED ALIBI, by John Gregory DR. WATSON'S WEDDING PRESENT, by J. Alston Cooper If you enjoy this volume, check out other entries (including literature, mysteries, westerns, science fiction, ghost stories, and much more) in this best-selling series. Search on "Wildside Press Megapack" in your favorite ebook store to see the complete list. (Sort by date to see the most recent additions.)

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Wildside Press LLC

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1479408891

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A Field Guide to Demons, Fairies, Fallen Angels and Other Subversive Spirits

By: Carol K. Mack,Dinah Mack

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A Field Guide to Demons, Fairies, Fallen Angels and Other Subversive Spirits

By: Carol K. Mack,Dinah Mack

Originally published: New York: Arcade Pub.: Distributed by Little, Brown and Company, c1998.

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Macmillan

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080506270X

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9780805062700

Manufacturing Modern Japanese Literature

Publishing, Prizes, and the Ascription of Literary Value

By: Edward Mack

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Manufacturing Modern Japanese Literature

Publishing, Prizes, and the Ascription of Literary Value

By: Edward Mack

Emphasizing how modes of book production, promotion, and consumption shape ideas of literary value, Edward Mack examines the role of Japan’s publishing industry in defining modern Japanese literature. In the late nineteenth century and early twentieth, as cultural and economic power consolidated in Tokyo, the city’s literary and publishing elites came to dominate the dissemination and preservation of Japanese literature. As Mack explains, they conferred cultural value on particular works by creating prizes and multivolume anthologies that signaled literary merit. One such anthology, the Complete Works of Contemporary Japanese Literature (published between 1926 and 1931), provided many readers with their first experience of selected texts designated as modern Japanese literature. The low price of one yen per volume allowed the series to reach hundreds of thousands of readers. An early prize for modern Japanese literature, the annual Akutagawa Prize, first awarded in 1935, became the country’s highest-profile literary award. Mack chronicles the history of book production and consumption in Japan, showing how advances in technology, the expansion of a market for literary commodities, and the development of an extensive reading community enabled phenomena such as the Complete Works of Contemporary Japanese Literature and the Akutagawa Prize to manufacture the very concept of modern Japanese literature.

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Duke University Press

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0822391651

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9780822391654

Literary Historicity

Literature and Historical Experience in Eighteenth-Century Britain

By: Ruth Mack

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Literary Historicity

Literature and Historical Experience in Eighteenth-Century Britain

By: Ruth Mack

Literary Historicity explores how eighteenth-century British writers considered the past as an aspect of experience. Mack moves between close examinations of literature, historiography, and recent philosophical writing on history, offering a new view of eighteenth-century philosophies of history in Britain. Such philosophies, she argues, could be important literarily without being focused, as has been assumed, on questions of fact and fiction. Eighteenth-century writerslike many twentieth-century philosophersoften used literary form not in order to exhibit a work's fictional status but in order to consider what the relation between the past and present might be. Literary Historicity portrays a British Enlightenment that both embraces the possibility of historical experience and interrogates the terms for such experience, one deeply engaged with historical consciousness not as an inevitability of the modern world, but as something to be understood within it.

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Stanford University Press

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0804759111

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9780804759113

A Kiss Before Loving

By: Mack Reynolds

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A Kiss Before Loving

By: Mack Reynolds

Pimping? Why kid himself? From time to time some of the male tourists he ran into would furtively ask his advice about picking up a professional. Invariably, Shell gave good advice, even though the man was most often married. Occasionally, the girls offered him a cut. Wasn’t that pimping? Just because he didn’t stand on a corner whispering to passing men didn’t mean he wasn’t pimping. And what came next, when you’d gone this far? Tout, gigolo, pimp. What was preventing that final step, out-and-out thief? He emerged from the gardens onto the Quai des Tuileries and turned left, passing the endless bookstalls along the quayside with their mélange of second-hand books, old prints, decorative maps—and pornography. Some of the stall owners nodded or called to him. Shell got a fifty per cent kickback from these peddlers of filth in print. It could mount up. A smirking, half-ashamed American tourist would spend fantastic amounts for the privilege of reading four-letter words, or looking at completely nude photographs. The French had some strange ideas pertaining to dirty books. They were strict about such material written in French, but couldn’t care less what you published in English or some other foreign language...

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1479451509

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9781479451500

Sensing Chicago

Noisemakers, Strikebreakers, and Muckrakers

By: Adam Mack

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Sensing Chicago

Noisemakers, Strikebreakers, and Muckrakers

By: Adam Mack

A hundred years ago and more, a walk down a Chicago street invited an assault on the senses. Untiring hawkers shouted from every corner. The manure from thousands of horses lay on streets pooled with molasses and puddled with kitchen grease. Odors from a river gelatinous and lumpy with all manner of foulness mingled with the all-pervading stench of the stockyard slaughterhouses. In Sensing Chicago, Adam Mack lets fresh air into the sensory history of Chicago in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries by examining five case studies: the Chicago River, the Great Fire, the 1894 Pullman Strike, the publication of Upton Sinclair's The Jungle, and the rise and fall of the White City amusement park. His vivid recounting of the smells, sounds, and tactile miseries of city life reveals how input from the five human senses influenced the history of class, race, and ethnicity in the city. At the same time, he transports readers to an era before modern refrigeration and sanitation, when to step outside was to be overwhelmed by the odor and roar of a great city in progress.

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University of Illinois Press

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025209722X

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9780252097225

Collected in Himself

Essays Critical, Biographical, and Bibliographical on Pope and Some of His Contemporaries

By: Maynard Mack

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Collected in Himself

Essays Critical, Biographical, and Bibliographical on Pope and Some of His Contemporaries

By: Maynard Mack

A collection of various essays about Pope and the eighteenth century written by Professor Mack during the past four decades. An appendix includes a finding list of books surviving from Pope's library and a selection of letters by, to, and about Pope, most of them unpublished.

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University of Delaware Press

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0874131820

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9780874131826

Representing the Race

By: Kenneth W. Mack

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Representing the Race

By: Kenneth W. Mack

Profiles African American lawyers during the era of segregation and the civil rights movement, with an emphasis on the conflicts they felt between their identities as African Americans and their professional identities as lawyers.

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Harvard University Press

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0674065301

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9780674065307

Engaging Writers with Multigenre Research Projects

A Teacher's Guide

By: Nancy Mack

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Engaging Writers with Multigenre Research Projects

A Teacher's Guide

By: Nancy Mack

Multigenre research projects affirm students' home cultures while developing important academic skills consistent with the Common Core State Standards in reading and writing. This book will guide teachers in assigning, scaffolding, and assessing multigenre research assignments, including how to choose a topic, pace the work, and keep writers on track to achieve specific goals. Chapters are arranged by topic with each containing a description of the educational rationale for the topic, an introductory activity that serves as an inspiration for students in selecting a topic, and field-tested minilessons with step-by-step instructions. All the traditional elements of a research paper—quotations from experts, works cited, explanation, synthesis, and analysis—are brought to life as students animate information with emotion and imagination. An additional chapter describes how teachers have adapted this project for other subjects, such as social studies, science, and literature. Book Features: Prompts focused on home culture, inclusive model texts, and support for diverse language proficiencies. Correlations between writing skills and the Common Core State Standards, including academic citation and reading historical documents and other nonfiction texts. Practical management strategies for teaching large writing projects, including prewriting, drafting, revising, proofreading, and publishing. Publication options that include everything from paper-crafting to multimodal composition. A companion website with downloadable handouts and additional teaching strategies.

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Teachers College Press

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0807756865

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9780807756867

The Court Circles of the Republic

By: E.F. Mack, R.E. Ellet

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The Court Circles of the Republic

By: E.F. Mack, R.E. Ellet

Reprint of the original, first published in 1869.

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3752503564

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9783752503562

Anglican Chant and Chanting in England, Scotland, and America, 1660 to 1820

By: Ruth Mack Wilson

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Anglican Chant and Chanting in England, Scotland, and America, 1660 to 1820

By: Ruth Mack Wilson

This book presents, for the first time, a history of English liturgical chant as performed in the Church of England and its transmission to churches in Scotland and the United States. In the mid-sixteenth century Reformation, the complex ritual of the Latin rite was replaced by a one-volumeBook of Common Prayer in English. The general nature of the new rubrics, expecially for music, left many of the details of performance to be worked out in traditional ways. Thus the music evolved from its Latin roots in oral, and later written practice. The body of music that makes up the chantingpractice of Anglican and related churches around the world is indeed diversified. Some texts of the liturgy are harmonized in four or more voice parts, often with organ accompaniment, and others are sung in plainsong. The largest group of chants, those for the psalms and canticles, has anidiosyncratic written form and a performance practice that continues to evolve in oral tradition. This music is commonly known as Anglican chant. Its origins in the seventeenth century and its codification in the eighteenth are explored in the choral establishments of the Church of England andparish churches in England, Scotland, and the United States.

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0198164246

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9780198164241

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