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  • How to make chestnuts flour

    Gluten-free flour made from ground chestnuts

    by Glenn.C.Hall ...
    This book is about how to make chestnuts flour and also the importance of it to human health. ... Read more

    $4.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Adventures of LEROY The Racing Mule

    by Glenn C. Hirt ...
    The Adventures of Leroy the Racing Mule is a fictional story based on the actual Great American Horse Race of 1976--a race famously won by a man riding a mule named, Lord Fauntleroy. While the characters and most events are invented, the setting and spirit of this historic bicentennial race have been preserved in this epic story of endurance, determination, and devotion to God, family, and country ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • All Shook Up

    How Rock 'n' Roll Changed America

    Series series Pivotal Moments in American History
    The birth of rock 'n roll ignited a firestorm of controversy--one critic called it "musical riots put to a switchblade beat"--but if it generated much sound and fury, what, if anything, did it signify? As Glenn Altschuler reveals in All Shook Up, the rise of rock 'n roll--and the outraged reception to it--in fact can tell us a lot about the values of the United States in the 1950s, a decade that ... Read more

    $14.29 USD

  • Race, Incarceration, and American Values

    Series series Boston Review Books
    Why stigmatizing and confining a large segment of our population should be unacceptable to all Americans.The United States, home to five percent of the world's population, now houses twenty-five percent of the world's prison inmates. Our incarceration rate—at 714 per 100,000 residents and rising—is almost forty percent greater than our nearest competitors (the Bahamas, Belarus, and Russia). More ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • The Anatomy of Racial Inequality

    With a New Preface

    Series series The W. E. B. Du Bois Lectures
    “Paints in chilling detail the distance between Martin Luther King’s dream and the reality of present-day America.”—Anthony Walton, Harper’s“Intellectually rigorous and deeply thoughtful…Loury’s book deals with racial stigma…in its political and philosophical aspects as a cause of black disadvantage…An incisive, erudite book by a major thinker.”—Gerald Early, New York Times Book Review“Lifts and ... Read more

    $15.19 USD

  • Late Admissions

    Confessions of a Black Conservative

    **“A zestfully written book, packed with humor, pathos and hard-earned wisdom.” —John McMillian, Washington PostA shockingly frank memoir from a prize-winning economist, reflecting on his remarkable personal odyssey and his changing positions on identity, race, and belief.**Economist Glenn C. Loury is one of the most prominent public intellectuals of our time: he’s often radically opposed to the ... Read more

    $13.69 USD

  • All Shook Up

    How Rock 'n' Roll Changed America

    Series series Pivotal Moments in American History
    The birth of rock 'n roll ignited a firestorm of controversy--one critic called it "musical riots put to a switchblade beat"--but if it generated much sound and fury, what, if anything, did it signify? As Glenn Altschuler reveals in All Shook Up, the rise of rock 'n roll--and the outraged reception to it--in fact can tell us a lot about the values of the United States in the 1950s, a decade that ... Read more

    $14.29 USD

  • Conversation Memory

    Comprehension, Representation, and Social Context

    Understanding how conversation is produced, represented in memory, and utilized in daily social interaction is crucial to comprehending how human communication occurs and how it might be modeled. This book seeks to take a step toward this goal by providing a comprehensive, interdisciplinary overview of conversation memory research and related phenomena that transcends the foundations of cognitive ... Read more

    $36.89 USD

  • EMMETT US Marshall

    by Glenn C Ackom ...
    The story takes place five years after the Civil War that took a lot of lies of both sides Emmett he settled down and became US Marshall he got married and had a son. The tragedy And with the help old And go tracks down those who did this to his family. ... Read more

    $5.99 USD

  • Self-Censorship

    There is no such thing as free, unconstrained speech. Laws and constitutions may protect us from the state when we speak our minds. But the state is just one possible constraint. Glenn Loury, one of America's most outspoken and important intellectuals, provides a provocative and dazzling analysis of the powerful social forces that can prevent speakers from voicing unpopular views in public forums ... Read more

    $12.00 USD

  • Renewing America’s Civic Compact

    Series series Political Theory for Today
    Renewing America’s Civic Compact addresses the chief challenges and principal tensions in the operation of our civil society in order to consider possible paths forward. The meritocracy, multiculturalism, issues of race, technology, and populist nationalism in American democracy today are some of the issues that have created more tensions to American public life. Chapters address the condition of ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • Date Palm

    Series series Crop Production Science in Horticulture
    Date palm (Phoenix dactylifera L.) is a tree belonging to the palm family (Arecaceae) and is cultivated for its sweet edible fruits. Over the past century, it has become a major commercial fruit crop and a key component of agricultural production in the world's subtropical arid and semiarid regions. A crop suited both to the low-input small-farmer and the modern high-input commercial plantation, ... Read more

    $75.59 USD