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The Marathon Don't Stop

The Life and Times of Nipsey Hussle

By: Rob Kenner

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The Marathon Don't Stop

The Life and Times of Nipsey Hussle

By: Rob Kenner

The first in-depth biography of Nipsey Hussle, the hip hop mogul, artist, and activist whose transformative legacy inspired a generation with his motivational lyrics and visionary business savvy-before he was tragically shot down in the very neighborhood he was dedicated to building up"--

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Simon and Schuster

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1982140305

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9781982140304

The Marathon Don't Stop

The Life and Times of Nipsey Hussle

By: Rob Kenner

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The Life and Times of Nipsey Hussle

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Radical Play

Revolutionizing Children’s Toys in 1960s and 1970s America

By: Rob Goldberg

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Radical Play

Revolutionizing Children’s Toys in 1960s and 1970s America

By: Rob Goldberg

In Radical Play Rob Goldberg recovers a little-known history of American children’s culture in the 1960s and 1970s by showing how dolls, guns, action figures, and other toys galvanized and symbolized new visions of social, racial, and gender justice. From a nationwide movement to oppose the sale of war toys during the Vietnam War to the founding of the company Shindana Toys by Black Power movement activists and the efforts of feminist groups to promote and produce nonsexist and racially diverse toys, Goldberg returns readers to a defining moment in the history of childhood when politics, parenting, and purchasing converged. Goldberg traces not only how movement activists brought their progressive politics to the playroom by enlisting toys in the era’s culture wars but also how the children’s culture industry navigated the explosive politics and turmoil of the time in creative and socially conscious ways. Outlining how toys shaped and were shaped by radical visions, Goldberg locates the moment Americans first came to understand the world of toys—from Barbie to G.I. Joe—as much more than child’s play.

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210

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Duke University Press

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147802710X

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9781478027102

Concrete Cities

Why We Need to Build Differently

By: Rob Imrie

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Concrete Cities

Why We Need to Build Differently

By: Rob Imrie

Global building and construction cultures are hard-wired to constructing too much, too badly, with major social and ecological consequences. Rob Imrie calls us to build less and to build better as a pre-requisite for enhancing welfare and well-being.

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298

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Policy Press

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1529220521

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9781529220520

Improvisation and the Making of American Literary Modernism

By: Rob Wallace

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Improvisation and the Making of American Literary Modernism

By: Rob Wallace

Improvisation, despite its almost ubiquitous presence in many art forms, is notoriously misunderstood and mysterious. Although earlier strands of American philosophy and art emphasized what might be called improvisational practices, it was during the modernist period that improvisational practice and theory began to make a significant impact on art and culture, specifically via the African American musical forms of jazz and blues. This musical development held important consequences for the larger artistic, cultural, and political life of America as a whole-and, eventually, the world. The historical convergence of jazz and philosophical currents like pragmatism in American culture provides the framework for Wallace's discussion of improvisation in literary modernism. Focusing on poets ranging from Gertrude Stein to Langston Hughes, Wallace's work provides a fresh perspective on the complex circuits of modernist culture. Improvisation and The Making of American Literary Modernism will be of interest to scholars of poetry, music, American and modernist studies, and race and ethnic studies.

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Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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1441122893

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9781441122896

Counterfeit Culture

Truth and Authenticity in the American Prose Epic since 1960

By: Rob Turner

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Counterfeit Culture

Truth and Authenticity in the American Prose Epic since 1960

By: Rob Turner

Explores the possibility of writing epic in an age of alternative facts.

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235

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Cambridge University Press

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1108428487

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9781108428484

It Came from 1957

A Critical Guide to the Year's Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror Films

By: Rob Craig

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It Came from 1957

A Critical Guide to the Year's Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror Films

By: Rob Craig

America in the 1950s was a cauldron of contradictions. Advances in technology chafed against a grimly conservative political landscape; the military-industrial complex ceaselessly promoted the "Communist menace"; young marrieds fled crumbling cities for artificial communities known as suburbs; and the corporate cipher known as "The Organization Man" was created, along with stifling images of women. The decade, huddled under the fear of nuclear holocaust, was also dedicated to all things futuristic. Science fiction was in its salad days, in magazines and novels and in motion pictures, trying every trick in the book to lure customers back from television, including reliance on monster movies. All of these forces collided in 1957, when an astounding 57 movies of the science fiction, horror and fantasy variety were shown in the United States--a record unmatched to this day. Reflecting some of the socio-political topics of the day, several are exceptional examples of their genres. This book critically discusses each of the films.

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256

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McFarland

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1476612439

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9781476612430

An Introduction to Ford Madox Ford

By: Ashley Chantler,Rob Hawkes

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An Introduction to Ford Madox Ford

By: Ashley Chantler,Rob Hawkes

For students and readers new to the work of Ford Madox Ford, this volume provides a comprehensive introduction to one of the most complex, important and fascinating authors. Bringing together leading Ford scholars, the volume places Ford's work in the context of significant literary, artistic and historical events and movements. Individual essays consider Ford's theory of literary Impressionism and the impact of the First World War; illuminate The Good Soldier and Parade's End; engage with topics such as the city, gender, national identity and politics; discuss Ford as an autobiographer, poet, propagandist, sociologist, Edwardian and modernist; and show his importance as founding editor of the groundbreaking English Review and transatlantic review. The volume encourages detailed close reading of Ford's writing and illustrates the importance of engaging with secondary sources.

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263

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Routledge

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1317181778

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9781317181774

The Eye of the Storm

The View from the Centre of a Political Scandal

By: Rob Wilson

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The Eye of the Storm

The View from the Centre of a Political Scandal

By: Rob Wilson

MPs' expenses in 2009. Phone hacking in 2011. 'Plebgate' in 2012. If a good speech or a ground-breaking new policy fails to get people talking, you can be sure a juicy scandal will do the trick. Our instantaneous news culture of social networks, blogs and Twitter feeds means politicians now, more than ever, can find themselves the focus of every journalist in the country in what seems like the blink of an eye. But behind this hostile media landscape, behind the storm of camera flashes and the clamour of opponents on all sides baying for blood, are the politicians themselves. With the benefit of personal interviews and access to senior officials including Vince Cable, Andrew Mitchell and Jeremy Hunt, Rob Wilson MP details what it's really like to be at the heart of a relentless media onslaught. Describing both the emotional upheaval and the strategies employed as politicians try to navigate through careers seemingly hanging by a thread, Wilson reveals the extraordinary political and personal stories behind the public drama; the real impact on those who live in the eye of the storm.

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198

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Biteback Publishing

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1849547769

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9781849547765

Batman Collectables

By: Rob Burman

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Batman Collectables

By: Rob Burman

The first ever book on Batman collectables.

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121

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Amberley Publishing Limited

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1445645882

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9781445645889

Soulsville, U.S.A.: The Story of Stax Records

By: Rob Bowman

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Soulsville, U.S.A.: The Story of Stax Records

By: Rob Bowman

Walk the halls of the famous studio that produced hits for Otis Redding, Isaac Hayes, Sam and Dave, and Booker T. and the MGs. Soulsville, U.S.A. provides the first history of the groundbreaking label along with compelling biographies of the promoters, producers, and performers who made and sold the music. Over 45 photos. Winner of the 1998 ASCAP-Deems Taylor Award Winner of the ARSC Award for Best Research in Record Labels

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740

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Omnibus Press

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0857124994

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9780857124999

Perpetuity

By: Rob Scott

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Perpetuity

By: Rob Scott

Nathan Flannery, is a crusty old man living in Wilson, Kansas on a nine thousand acre lake with a few hundred of his closest friends. He solved the logistics industry's cost problem, a couple trillion dollar solution. This is the story of how he parlayed those gains into the making all the places old people aspire to call home. Hedge Funds are examined, dissected and faulted for not doing much to solve problems necessary to create gains.

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192

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Lulu.com

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1387797808

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9781387797806

The Course of English Surrealist Poetry Since the 1930s

By: Rob Jackaman

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The Course of English Surrealist Poetry Since the 1930s

By: Rob Jackaman

This study proposes that there has been a revival of surrealist poetry, and traces an uninterrupted thread of development in surrealism throughout 20th-century English poetry.

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344

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Edwin Mellen Press

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0889469326

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9780889469327

Deep-rooted Things

Empire and Nation in the Poetry and Drama of William Butler Yeats

By: Rob Doggett

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Deep-rooted Things

Empire and Nation in the Poetry and Drama of William Butler Yeats

By: Rob Doggett

Rob Doggett's Deep-Rooted Things is a wonderfully nuanced, deeply thoughtful study which should have a lasting place in Yeats studies. Richly responsive to the twists and turns of Yeats's thinking, profoundly revealing of the currents and crosscurrents in his magnificent oeuvre, this is a major contribution."--Jahan Ramazani, University of Virginia "Doggett defines Yeats's nationalism in a particularly effective, original, and compelling way. Yeats's nationalism is not a new topic, but many scholars have tended to see it as something that is intellectually simple, divorced from the complexities of Yeats's thought. Of those who acknowledge its complexity, few actually demonstrate this complexity at length, which is what Doggett has done."--Marjorie Howes, Associate Professor of English, Boston College and author of Yeats's Nations: Gender, Class, and Irishness In Deep-Rooted Things, Rob Doggett examines Yeats's shifting relationship with the warring discourses of British cultural imperialism and Irish nationalism during Ireland's transition from colony to partially independent nation. By focusing on key historical events that Yeats witnessed and on the nationalist movements he both embraced and resisted, Doggett identifies the core features of Yeats's aesthetic program through new readings of central poems and plays in the Yeats canon. Deep-Rooted Things is organized around two historical periods--the first decade of the twentieth century, when Yeats was involved in the creation and promotion of the Irish National Theatre Society; and the period from 1919 to 1928, when Yeats the artist and senator struggled to reinvent himself as a cultural nationalist against the backdrop of the Anglo-Irish War, the Irish Civil War, and the consolidation of the Irish Free State. A rich and rewarding reading of Yeats that places the poetry and plays in a new context, Deep-Rooted Things will interest students of literary criticism and Irish studies.

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208

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0268025835

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9780268025830

Back in the Day 3:

The Final Chapter

By: Rob French

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Back in the Day 3:

The Final Chapter

By: Rob French

Back in the Day 3: The Final Chapter starts in more modern day and is designed to take you back almost 3 decades to where Back in the Day 2: The College Years left off. Through the use of reflection you go from more current time back to 1978 where the 2nd book of the Trilogy leaves off and eventually comes to an end. The story tells of good times and sad times and what the characters did to make it through it all.

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Author House

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1481733354

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9781481733359

Book's by Rob Kenner

The Marathon Don't Stop

The Marathon Don't Stop

The Marathon Don't Stop

The Marathon Don't Stop

Radical Play

Radical Play

Concrete Cities

Concrete Cities

Improvisation and the Making of American Literary Modernism

Improvisation and the Making of American Literary Modernism

Counterfeit Culture

Counterfeit Culture

It Came from 1957

It Came from 1957

An Introduction to Ford Madox Ford

An Introduction to Ford Madox Ford

The Eye of the Storm

The Eye of the Storm

Batman Collectables

Batman Collectables

Soulsville, U.S.A.: The Story of Stax Records

Soulsville, U.S.A.: The Story of Stax Records

Perpetuity

Perpetuity

The Course of English Surrealist Poetry Since the 1930s

The Course of English Surrealist Poetry Since the 1930s

Deep-rooted Things

Deep-rooted Things

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