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  • The Lockdown Collection

    by Barry Jacob ...
    The Lockdown Collection is a compilation of 40 poems written by Barry Jacob, a.k.a. Brian Donohoe, about serious subjects such as Brexit and the Irish lockdown. There are poems dedicated to a hospital cleaner, former U.S. president Donald Trump's mob storming the Capitol, holding the Catholic Church accountable, the North Korean dictator, the Chinese leader, the Arab Spring, social snobbery, and ... Read more

    $3.68 USD

  • Across the Line

    Tales of the First Black Basketball Players in the ACC and SEC

    by Barry Jacobs ...
    In the 1960s, college sports required more than athletic prowess from its African American players. For many pioneering basketball players on 18 teams in the Atlantic and Southeastern conference, playing ball meant braving sometimes menacing crowds during the tumultuous era of civil rights. Perry Wallace feared he would be shot when he first stepped onto a court in his Vanderbilt uniform. During ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

  • Across the Line

    Profiles In Basketball Courage: Tales Of The First Black Players In The ACC and SEC

    by Barry Jacobs ...
    In the 1960s, college sports required more than athletic prowess from its African American players. For many pioneering basketball players on 18 teams in the Atlantic and Southeastern conference, playing ball meant braving sometimes menacing crowds during the tumultuous era of civil rights. Perry Wallace feared he would be shot when he first stepped onto a court in his Vanderbilt uniform. During ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

  • Handbook of the Behavioral Neurobiology of Serotonin

    Edited by Christian P. Muller, Barry Jacobs ...
    Series Book 21 - Handbook of Behavioral Neuroscience
    Serotonin (5-hydroxytryptamine, often cited as 5-HT) is one of the major excitatory neurotransmitter, and the serotonergic system is one of the best studied and understood transmitter systems. It is crucially involved in the organization of virtually all behaviours and in the regulation of emotion and mood. Alterations in the serotonergic system, induced by e.g. learning or pathological processes, ... Read more

    $188.99 USD

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  • Game Over

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  • I Came As a Shadow

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    A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOKThe long-awaited autobiography from Georgetown University’s legendary coach, whose life on and off the basketball court throws America’s unresolved struggle with racial justice into sharp reliefJohn Thompson was never just a basketball coach and I Came As a Shadow is categorically not just a basketball autobiography.After three decades at the center of race and sports ... Read more

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  • Black Ball

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