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Black Summers

Growing Up in the Urban Outdoors

by Cassandra Spratling, Tommye Blount, D'Nae Hearn, Pamela Hilliard Owens, various authors, Zig Zag Claybourne, Luther Keith, Renee Simms, Shannon Garth-Rhodes, Keith A. Owens, Esperanza Cintrón0, Mic Jennings1, Satori Shakoor2, Desiree Cooper4, Jean Alicia Elster5, Chace Morris6, Rochelle Wilson-Ellis7, Isaiah Chambers8, Xavier Jackson9, Brittany Rogers0, Stephen Henderson1, Kahn Santori Davison2, MARS. Marshall3, Lillien Waller4, Justin Boggués5, Charisma Holly6, Kamron Reynolds7, Bridgett M. Davis8, Nandi Comer9, Angela Atabex Lugo-Thomas0 ...

Narrated by Janina Edwards1, Patryce Williams2, JD Jackson3, André Santana4, January LaVoy5, Robin Miles6, Dion Graham7, Ron Butler8 ...

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5 hours 45 min

A triumphant, cross-generational exploration of Black joy and resilience.Remember frolicking outside during the long, jubilant days of summer? This vibrant collection invites listeners to breathe deeply and return to that “carefree” season. From riding bikes with friends through the neighborhood, to hopping the ferry to Boblo Island, catching catfish along the river, dancing on warm nights to ... Read more

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A triumphant, cross-generational exploration of Black joy and resilience.Remember frolicking outside during the long, jubilant days of summer? This vibrant collection invites listeners to breathe deeply and return to that “carefree” season. From riding bikes with friends through the neighborhood, to hopping the ferry to Boblo Island, catching catfish along the river, dancing on warm nights to
... Read more

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Queer Weird West Tales

by Roy Gray, Bryn Hammond, Narrelle M. Harris, Catherine Lundoff, Eleanor Musgrove, Lauren Scharhag, Dawn Vogel, Dannye Chase, Justin Warren Jackson, Angus McIntyre ...

Frontiers have always attracted the Other - where they find that the Other is always already there. These 22 stories explore what happens when queer characters encounter weirdness on the edge of the worlds they know.Authors include: Julie Bozza, J.A. Bryson, Dannye Chase, S.E. Denton, Miguel Flores, Adele Gardner, Roy Gray, KC Grifant, Peter Hackney, Bryn Hammond, Narrelle M Harris, Justin Warren ... Read more

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Frontiers have always attracted the Other - where they find that the Other is always already there. These 22 stories explore what happens when queer characters encounter weirdness on the edge of the worlds they know.Authors include: Julie Bozza, J.A. Bryson, Dannye Chase, S.E. Denton, Miguel Flores, Adele Gardner, Roy Gray, KC Grifant, Peter Hackney, Bryn Hammond, Narrelle M Harris, Justin Warren
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Useful Assessment and Evaluation in Language Education

by John McE. Davis, Richard Kiely, Yuko Butler, Viviane Bagio Furtoso, Michael J. Ferreira, Keiko Koda0, Junko Yamashita1, Constant Leung2, Chris Davison3, Martin East4, Michael Evans5, Yongcan Liu6, Liz Hamp-Lyons7, James E. Purpura8, Svetlana V. Cook9, Shauna J. Sweet0, Alia Lancaster1, Nicholas B. Pandža2, Scott R. Jackson3, Eric Pelzl4, Catherine J. Doughty5, Kira Gor6, Larry Davis7, Veronika Timpe-Laughlin8, Lin Gu9, Gary Ockey0, Taina Tammelin-Laine1, Ari Huhta2, Reeta Neittaanmäki3, Tuija Hirvelä4, Sari Ohranen5, Elina Stordell6, Bart Deygers7, Justin Kelly8, Jennifer Renn9, Jennifer Norton0, Chih-Kai Lin1, Michael Kane2, David MacGregor3, Jim Ranalli4, Koen Van Gorp5 ...

Series series Georgetown University Round Table on Languages and Linguistics series
The specific—and varied—ways in which assessment and evaluation can impact learning and teaching have become an important language education research concern, particularly as educators are increasingly called on to implement these processes for improvement, accountability, or curricular development purposes. Useful Assessment and Evaluation in Language Education showcases contemporary research ... Read more

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The specific—and varied—ways in which assessment and evaluation can impact learning and teaching have become an important language education research concern, particularly as educators are increasingly called on to implement these processes for improvement, accountability, or curricular development purposes. Useful Assessment and Evaluation in Language Education showcases contemporary research
... Read more
Noir

by Esther Friesner, Alex Bledsoe, Julie E. Czerneda, D.B. Jackson, Steven Harper, Hal Bodner, John Zakour, Andrija Popovic, Justin Jordan, R.S. Belcher, Jessie Kwak, Travis Wade Beaty, Erik Grove, Aprilynne Pike, Eve Golden-Woods, David B. Coe ...

A missing intergalactic artifact valuable enough to inspire murder. A cartoon gag gone bad that leads to a gruesome death. Greek deities unraveling a divine mystery in New York City. A human detective navigating the temptations of Faerie in pursuit of a magical killer. Call them sleuths, call them gumshoes, call them shamuses or dicks or beagles—these private investigators prowl the back alleys of ... Read more

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A missing intergalactic artifact valuable enough to inspire murder. A cartoon gag gone bad that leads to a gruesome death. Greek deities unraveling a divine mystery in New York City. A human detective navigating the temptations of Faerie in pursuit of a magical killer. Call them sleuths, call them gumshoes, call them shamuses or dicks or beagles—these private investigators prowl the back alleys of
... Read more
The Work of Empire

War, Occupation, and the Making of American Colonialism in Cuba and the Philippines

by Justin F. Jackson ...

In 1898, on the eve of the Spanish-American War, the US Army seemed minuscule and ill-equipped for global conflict. Yet over the next fifteen years, its soldiers defeated Spain and pacified nationalist insurgencies in both Cuba and the Philippines. Despite their lack of experience in colonial administration, American troops also ruled and transformed the daily lives of the 8 million people who ... Read more

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In 1898, on the eve of the Spanish-American War, the US Army seemed minuscule and ill-equipped for global conflict. Yet over the next fifteen years, its soldiers defeated Spain and pacified nationalist insurgencies in both Cuba and the Philippines. Despite their lack of experience in colonial administration, American troops also ruled and transformed the daily lives of the 8 million people who
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Global Labor Migration

New Directions

by Eileen Boris, Heidi Gottfried, Julie Greene, Joo-Cheong Tham, Bridget Anderson, Rutvica Andrijasevic, Katie Bales0, Jenny Chan1, Penelope Ciancanelli2, Felipe Barradas Correia Castro Bastos3, Charlie Fanning4, Judy Fudge5, Jorge L Giovannetti-Torres6, Justin Jackson7, Radhika Natarajan8, Pun Ngai9, Bastiaan Nugteren0, Nicola Piper1, Jessica R Pliley2, Devi Sacchetto3, Helen Sampson4, Yael Schacher5, Matt Withers6 ...

Series series Studies of World Migrations
Around the world, hundreds of millions of labor migrants endure exploitation, lack of basic rights, and institutionalized discrimination and marginalization. What dynamics and drivers have created a world in which such a huge--and rapidly growing--group toils as marginalized men and women, existing as a lower caste institutionally and juridically? In what ways did labor migrants shape their living ... Read more

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Around the world, hundreds of millions of labor migrants endure exploitation, lack of basic rights, and institutionalized discrimination and marginalization. What dynamics and drivers have created a world in which such a huge--and rapidly growing--group toils as marginalized men and women, existing as a lower caste institutionally and juridically? In what ways did labor migrants shape their living
... Read more
Reconstruction and Empire

The Legacies of Abolition and Union Victory for an Imperial Age

by David Prior, Adrian Brettle, Christina C. Davidson, Rebecca Edwards, Mark Elliott, Andre Fleche, Gregg French, Lawrence B. Glickman, Reilly Ben Hatch, David V. Holtby0, Justin F. Jackson1, DJ Polite2, Brian Shott3 ...

Series series Reconstructing America
This volume examines the historical connections between the United States’ Reconstruction and the country’s emergence as a geopolitical power a few decades later. It shows how the processes at work during the postbellum decade variously foreshadowed, inhibited, and conditioned the development of the United States as an overseas empire and regional hegemon. In doing so, it links the diverse topics ... Read more

$35.09 USD

This volume examines the historical connections between the United States’ Reconstruction and the country’s emergence as a geopolitical power a few decades later. It shows how the processes at work during the postbellum decade variously foreshadowed, inhibited, and conditioned the development of the United States as an overseas empire and regional hegemon. In doing so, it links the diverse topics
... Read more
Sick of the System

Why the COVID-19 Recovery Must Be Revolutionary

by James T. Brophy, nicole marie burton, John Clarke, Anita Girvan, Harry Glasbeek, Dallas Hunt, Andrew Jackson, Emma Jackson, El Jones, Margaret M. Keith, Gary Kinsman, Julie S. Lalonde, Wayne Lewchuk, Robyn Maynard, Jane E. McArthur, Alexander McClelland, Karen Messing, Justin Piché, Elaine Power, Gina Starblanket, Jamie Swift, Richard Swift, Kai Cheng Thom, Alberto Toscano, Hugh D.A. Goldring ...

Families left grieving; small businesses shuttered; communities in lockdown; precarious workers set adrift; health care workers stressed beyond endurance. The COVID-19 pandemic has shaken the world to its core. But the cracks already ran deep.Featuring essays on poverty, health care, incarceration, basic income, policing, Indigenous communities, and more, this anthology delivers a stinging rebuke ... Read more

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Families left grieving; small businesses shuttered; communities in lockdown; precarious workers set adrift; health care workers stressed beyond endurance. The COVID-19 pandemic has shaken the world to its core. But the cracks already ran deep.Featuring essays on poverty, health care, incarceration, basic income, policing, Indigenous communities, and more, this anthology delivers a stinging rebuke
... Read more
A Fathers Plight: A Memoir About the Adverisites of Fatherhood

by Justin Jackson ...

The first of a three-book series about the journey of fatherhood and some of the things we face on said journey. While our stories may be different, our struggles and experiences may be the same. Us, as men and fathers, a lot of the time, we try to keep our emotions pinned up inside, not speaking on the things we go through. That needs to change, and so does the narrative when it comes to us as ... Read more

$9.99 USD

The first of a three-book series about the journey of fatherhood and some of the things we face on said journey. While our stories may be different, our struggles and experiences may be the same. Us, as men and fathers, a lot of the time, we try to keep our emotions pinned up inside, not speaking on the things we go through. That needs to change, and so does the narrative when it comes to us as
... Read more
Mainstreaming the Global Radical Right

CARR Yearbook 2019/2020

by Eviane Leidig, Carmen Aguilera-Carnerero, Dominic Alessio, William Allchorn, Sean Arbuthnot, Cristina Ariza, William Baldet, Tamir Bar-On, David Barnes, Hans-Georg Betz0, Nicholas Bichay1, Vinícius Bivar2, Benjamin Bland3, Valerio Alfonso Bruno4, Ka Ming Chan5, Sadie Chana6, Miranda Christou7, Roland Clark8, Michael Colborne9, Andreas Dafnos0, Jacob Davey1, Augusta Dell'Omo2, Callum Downes3, James Downes4, Maureen A. Eger5, Valery Engel6, Ayal Feinberg7, Matthew Feldman8, Maik Fielitz9, Bernhard Forchtner0, Jaclyn Fox1, Bharath Ganesh2, Justin Gilmore3, Terri Givens4, Julian Gopffarth5, Archie Henderson6, Brian Hughes7, Paul Jackson8, Natalie James9, Greta Jasser0, Bethan Johnson1, Daniel Jones2, Aristotle Kallis3 ...

2019 was a defining year for the radical right globally. From national and supranational elections that witnessed a surge in support for radical right parties to transnationally-inspired terrorist attacks in New Zealand, the USA, and Germany, the radical right is not just on the rise, but becoming an international mainstream phenomenon. The yearbook draws upon insightful analyses from an ... Read more

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2019 was a defining year for the radical right globally. From national and supranational elections that witnessed a surge in support for radical right parties to transnationally-inspired terrorist attacks in New Zealand, the USA, and Germany, the radical right is not just on the rise, but becoming an international mainstream phenomenon. The yearbook draws upon insightful analyses from an
... Read more
The Sandbox

by Justin Jackson ...

Noah Parker is a man trying to forget the end of an old relationship so he can begin a new one. He left everything he knew and moved to Chicago in order to start over again. He isnt, however, the same person. He only knows a few people and after one drunken night out, he realizes the ex-boyfriend he left behind also moved to Chicago and is now standing in the same bar!Confused, Noah tries ... Read more

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Noah Parker is a man trying to forget the end of an old relationship so he can begin a new one. He left everything he knew and moved to Chicago in order to start over again. He isnt, however, the same person. He only knows a few people and after one drunken night out, he realizes the ex-boyfriend he left behind also moved to Chicago and is now standing in the same bar!Confused, Noah tries
... Read more
Edgar Allan Poe

Beyond Gothicism

by James M. Hutchisson, Amy C. Branam, Dennis Eddings, Benjamin F. Fisher, Peter Goodwin, Kevin J. Hayes, Leon Jackson, John F. Jebb, Daniel Phillippon, Laura Saltz, C T. Walters, Justin Wert ...

Most frequently regarded as a writer of the supernatural, Poe was actually among the most versatile of American authors, writing social satire, comic hoaxes, mystery stories, science fiction, prose poems, literary criticism and theory, and even a play. As a journalist and editor, Poe was closely in touch with the social, political, and cultural trends of nineteenth-century America. Recent ... Read more

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Most frequently regarded as a writer of the supernatural, Poe was actually among the most versatile of American authors, writing social satire, comic hoaxes, mystery stories, science fiction, prose poems, literary criticism and theory, and even a play. As a journalist and editor, Poe was closely in touch with the social, political, and cultural trends of nineteenth-century America. Recent
... Read more

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