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  • Tinder Box

    The Iroquois Theatre Disaster 1903

    The Iroquois Theater in Chicago, boasting every modern convenience, advertised itself proudly as "absolutely fireproof" when it opened in November, 1903. Mr. Bluebeard, a fairy tale musical imported from the Drury Lane Theatre in London was the opening production. And leading the troupe of nearly 400 was one of the most popular comedians of the time, Eddie Foy. None of the many socialites and ... Read more

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  • Tinder Box

    The Iroquois Theatre Disaster 1903

    This the 100th anniversary of one of worst man-made disasters of the 20th century. When the Iroquois Theatre opened in Chicago on November 23, 1903, it was considered one of the grandest structures of its day, a monument to modern design and technology, as well as "absolutely fireproof." This was a theatre that would rival any in New York or Paris. Instead it became the funeral pyre for hundreds ... Read more

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  • Audiobook

    Tinder Box

    The Iroquois Theatre Disaster 1903

    Narrated by Matthew Josdal ...

    Unabridged

    8 hours 4 min

    When the Iroquois Theater opened in Chicago on November 23, 1903, it was considered one of the grandest structures of its day, a monument to modern design and technology, as well as "absolutely fireproof." This was a theater that would rival any in New York or Paris. Instead it became the funeral pyre for hundreds of victims.In Tinder Box, Tony Hatch, former CBS reporter and Emmy Award winner, ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

  • Well-Being as a Multidimensional Concept

    Understanding Connections among Culture, Community, and Health

    Series series Anthropology of Well-Being: Individual, Community, Society
    Well-Being as a Multidimensional Concept highlights the ways that culture and community influence concepts of wellness, the experience of well-being, and health outcomes. This book includes both theoretical conceptualizations and practice-based explorations from a multidisciplinary group of contributors, including distinguished, widely celebrated senior experts as well as emerging voices in the ... Read more

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  • Blood Sugar

    Racial Pharmacology and Food Justice in Black America

    Why do African Americans have exceptionally high rates of hypertension, diabetes, and obesity? Is it their genes? Their disease-prone culture? Their poor diets? Such racist explanations for racial inequalities in metabolic health have circulated in medical journals for decades. Blood Sugar analyzes and challenges the ways in which “metabolic syndrome” has become a major biomedical category that ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Silent Cells

    The Secret Drugging of Captive America

    A critical investigation into the use of psychotropic drugs to pacify and control inmates and other captives in the vast U.S. prison, military, and welfare systemsFor at least four decades, U.S. prisons and jails have aggressively turned to psychotropic drugs—antidepressants, antipsychotics, sedatives, and tranquilizers—to silence inmates, whether or not they have been diagnosed with mental ... Read more

    $14.39 USD

  • The Racial Cage

    Series series Forerunners: Ideas First
    The potential of biohumanities as a foundation for antiracist critique of the humanThe Racial Cage delivers a spirited and polyvocal analysis of how race is materialized through both metaphorical and literal cages. It theorizes the cage, fence, dragnet, and tube as material–semiotic sites for racialization and for iteratively redefining the human–animal boundary. A collaborative conversation ... Read more

    $4.95 USD