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Gunplays

Five Plays On Inner City Violence and Guns

By: William Electric Black

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Gunplays

Five Plays On Inner City Violence and Guns

By: William Electric Black

Gunplays is a series of five plays by William Electric Black addressing inner city violence and guns. The idea of these plays is to generate understanding of the social inequities and disparities behind this plague that our society has so far been helpless to resolve. The debut productions of all five plays in the series were presented by Crystal Field, executive director, at Theater for the New City in New York City. Black launched the Gunplays series in 2013 with “Welcome Home Sonny T,” a drama that spotlighted two significant forces driving the 21st century epidemic of American gun violence: the social impact of alienation and unemployment on young black males and the declining influence of black ministers as a force of stability in affected neighborhoods. The second play in the series, “When Black Boys Die” (2015), is a family drama in which a teenage girl tries to understand the madness of gun violence that has killed her brother and consumed her mother. The third, presented by Theater for the New City for 2016 Gun Awareness Month, is “Death of a Black Man (A Walk By),” a play with hip hop verse, chanting, songs, and poetry in which the audience moves through a neighborhood that experienced gun violence. The fourth, “The Faculty Room” (2017), is a drama that swallows its audience into a schoolhouse in a mandatory lock down because of an imminent gunfight between two students. The final play, “Subway Story (A Shooting)” (2018) combines music, poetry, dialogue, movement, and immersive theater in a way that makes it the most unique staging in the series as a teenage girl rides the subway looking to buy a gun as a means to deal with her abusive mother.

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359

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Rowman & Littlefield

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1493074814

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9781493074815

The Picturesque Primer; or, Useful Matter Made Pleasing Pastime for Leisure

By: William Fletcher

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The Picturesque Primer; or, Useful Matter Made Pleasing Pastime for Leisure

By: William Fletcher

Reprint of the original, first published in 1837.

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BoD – Books on Demand

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3385610397

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9783385610392

Frank Forester's Horse and Horsemanship of the United States

Vol. II

By: Henry William Herbert

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Frank Forester's Horse and Horsemanship of the United States

Vol. II

By: Henry William Herbert

Reprint of the original, first published in 1857. The publishing house Anatiposi publishes historical books as reprints. Due to their age, these books may have missing pages or inferior quality. Our aim is to preserve these books and make them available to the public so that they do not get lost.

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586

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3382333104

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Frank Forester's Horse and Horsemanship

Vol. 2

By: Herny William Herbert

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Frank Forester's Horse and Horsemanship

Vol. 2

By: Herny William Herbert

Reprint of the original, first published in 1871. The publishing house Anatiposi publishes historical books as reprints. Due to their age, these books may have missing pages or inferior quality. Our aim is to preserve these books and make them available to the public so that they do not get lost.

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638

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338212680X

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A Biblical History of Israel

By: Iain William Provan,V. Philips Long,Tremper Longman

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A Biblical History of Israel

By: Iain William Provan,V. Philips Long,Tremper Longman

In this much-anticipated textbook, three respected biblical scholars have written a history of ancient Israel that takes the biblical text seriously as an historical document. While also considering nonbiblical sources and being attentive to what disciplines like archaeology, anthropology, and sociology suggest about the past, the authors do so within the context and paradigm of the Old Testament canon, which is held as the primary document for reconstructing Israel's history. In Part One, the authors set the volume in context and review past and current scholarly debate about learning Israel's history, negating arguments against using the Bible as the central source. In Part Two, they seek to retell the history itself with an eye to all the factors explored in Part One.

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Westminster John Knox Press

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0664220908

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Clifford Case and the Challenge of Liberal Republicanism

By: William R. Fernekes

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Clifford Case and the Challenge of Liberal Republicanism

By: William R. Fernekes

This book tells Clifford Case’s life story, his ascendancy in GOP politics, his achievements and disappointments in Congress, and his unexpected loss in the 1978 NJ GOP primary to Reagan protégé Jeffrey Bell. Case’s career demonstrates that electoral and legislative achievements need not rely on appeals to political extremes.

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Rowman & Littlefield

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1666928593

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Risky Business

Rock in Film

By: R. Serge Denisoff,William D. Romanowski

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Risky Business

Rock in Film

By: R. Serge Denisoff,William D. Romanowski

The role of motion pictures in the popularity of rock music became increasingly significant in the latter twentieth century. Rock music and its interaction with film is the subject of this significant book that re-examines and extends Serge Denisoff’s pioneering observations of this relationship. Prior to Saturday Night Fever rock music had a limited role in the motion picture business. That movie’s success, and the success of its soundtrack, began to change the silver screen. In 1983, with Flashdance, the situation drastically evolved and by 1984, ten soundtracks, many in the pop/rock genre, were certified platinum. Choosing which rock scores to discuss in this book was a challenging task. The authors made selections from seminal films such as The Graduate, Easy Rider, American Grafitti, Saturday Night Fever, Help!, and Dirty Dancing. However, many productions of the period are significant not because of their success, but because of their box office and record store failures. Risky Business chronicles the interaction of two major mediums of mass culture in the latter twentieth century. This book is essential for those interested in communications, popular culture, and social change.

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Transaction Publishers

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141283337X

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Gunplays

Gunplays

The Picturesque Primer; or, Useful Matter Made Pleasing Pastime for Leisure

The Picturesque Primer; or, Useful Matter Made Pleasing Pastime for Leisure

Frank Forester's Horse and Horsemanship of the United States

Frank Forester's Horse and Horsemanship of the United States

Frank Forester's Horse and Horsemanship

Frank Forester's Horse and Horsemanship

A Biblical History of Israel

A Biblical History of Israel

Clifford Case and the Challenge of Liberal Republicanism

Clifford Case and the Challenge of Liberal Republicanism

Risky Business

Risky Business

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