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  • Love and Struggle

    My Life in SDS, the Weather Underground, and Beyond

    by David Gilbert ...
    A nice Jewish boy from suburban Boston—hell, an Eagle Scout!—David Gilbert arrived at Columbia University just in time for the explosive Sixties. From the early anti-Vietnam War protests to the founding of SDS, from the Columbia Strike to the tragedy of the Townhouse, Gilbert was on the scene: as organizer, theoretician, and above all, activist. He was among the first militants who went ... Read more

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  • And Sons

    A Novel

    by David Gilbert ...
    NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BYThe Washington Post • The New Yorker • Esquire • The Austin Chronicle • Kansas City Star • The Guardian (UK) • BookPage • Flavorwire • Bookish“[A] big, brilliant novel.”—The New York Times Book ReviewWho is A. N. Dyer? & Sons is a literary masterwork for readers of The Art of Fielding, The Emperor’s Children, and Wonder Boys—the panoramic,... ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

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  • Heathcourt

    by David Gilbert ...
    HEATHCOURTWho bashed Danny?Danny Morgan is 23, a builder's labourer. He works hard and plays hard, likes a drink or twenty, and enjoys playing in his local lower-grade football team. But he is a little apathetic and directionless in life, joyless.He lives in the granny flat at his boss's house, a short distance outside the suburb of Heathcourt, where he grew up and went to school. Which suits him ... Read more

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  • Overland

    by David Gilbert ...
    The youth from wealthy nations made the trip overland to India in the late sixties with the expectation of having experiences there that they could not have in their home countries -- adventure, wonder and excitement. Domestic unrest, the banality of pursuing a career with the five o’clock cocktail and the war in VietNam helped spawn hippies who were only too happy to leave. The stories in ... Read more

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  • Love And Struggle: My Life In Sds, The Weather Underground, And Beyond

    by David Gilbert ...
    David Gilbert arrived at Columbia University just in time for the explosive Sixties. From the early anti-Vietnam war protests to the founding of SDS, Gilbert was on the scene: as organiser, theoretician and, above all, activist. Writing from a maximum security prison following the disaster of the 1982 Brinks robbery, he recounts the Weather Underground movement in this extraordinary memoir. ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • Central Casting

    by David Gilbert ...
    The Story collection, Central Casting, follows the acclaimed story collections, Overland and A Third Bridge. Central Casting is a wide-ranging collection of short and longer stories that were written before and after the questions of who can write and whose story can be told emerged.These stories addressed and ignored this challenge. For example, a writer's big hair changes in a series of photos ... Read more

    $2.99 USD

  • BF90 33 Days That Saved The World

    by David Gilbert ...
    Join Wally White on his first adventure into the world of Alien intervention and Government deception as he and his old war buddies work to remove the President of the United States for treason while at the same time earn the trust of an Alien race that will change the world for all mankind. ... Read more

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  • Braids

    by Carla Helené Cornick, David Gilbert, Colette Oswald ...
    What if every lesson, every heartbreak, every joy, and every choice you've made-across lifetimes-was part of something bigger than yourself? What if your soul remembered... everything?Braids is a sweeping work of literary and historical fiction that interlaces nine self-contained stories and poems into one powerful, interconnected narrative. Moving across continents and centuries-from ancient ... Read more

    $14.29 USD

  • The End of Catholic Mexico

    Causes and Consequences of the Mexican Reforma (1855–1861)

    by David Gilbert ...
    In The End of Catholic Mexico, historian David Gilbert provides a new interpretation of one of the defining events of Mexican history: the Reforma. During this period, Mexico was transformed from a Catholic confessional state into a modern secular nation, sparking a three-year civil war in the process. While past accounts have portrayed the Reforma as a political contest, ending with a liberal ... Read more

    $14.39 USD

  • Geographies of British Modernity

    Space and Society in the Twentieth Century

    Edited by David Gilbert, David Matless, Brian Short ...
    Series Book 81 - RGS-IBG Book Series
    This volume brings together leading scholars in the geography and history of twentieth-century Britain to illustrate the contribution that geographical thinking can make to understanding modern Britain.The first collection to explore the contribution that geographical thinking can make to our understanding of modern Britain.Contains thirteen essays by leading scholars in the geography and history ... Read more

    $37.00 USD

  • Tourism: Principles & Practice

    by John Fletcher, Alan Fyall, Stephen Wanhill, David Gilbert ...
    John Fletcher is Professor of Tourism and Head of the International Centre for Tourism & Hospitality Research at Bournemouth University, UK.Alan Fyall is visiting Professor at the Rosen College of Hospitality Management, University of Central Florida, USA and Professor of Tourism at Bournemouth University, UK.David Gilbert is Emeritus Professor of Marketing at Surrey University, UK, and visiting ... Read more

    $41.99 USD

  • Computational Intelligence Methods for Bioinformatics and Biostatistics

    13th International Meeting, CIBB 2016, Stirling, UK, September 1-3, 2016, Revised Selected Papers

    Edited by Andrea Bracciali, Giulio Caravagna, Roberto Tagliaferri, David Gilbert ...
    Series series Springer Nature Proceedings Computer Science
    This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-conference proceedings of the 13th International Meeting on Computational Intelligence Methods for Bioinformatics and Biostatistics, CIBB 2016, held in Stirling, UK, in September 2016. The 19 revised full papers and 6 keynotes abstracts presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 61 submissions. The papers deal with the application of ... Read more

    $49.49 USD