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  • To Live, To Think, To Hope - Inspirational Quotes of Helen Keller

    by Matthew Gordon ...
    One of the most enigmatic figures in history, Helen went from being locked in a prison of darkness and silence, to one of the most well-respected philosophers and beacons of change in the modern world. Now, with this book, one can experience Helen's most inspirational & life changing thoughts.Covering the entirety of her life, "To Live, To Think, To Hope" compiles over 600 quotes by Helen Keller ... Read more

    $2.49 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Thin Blue Line: An In-depth Look at the Policing Practices of the Los Angeles Police Department

    by Matthew Gordon ...
    For the past thirty years, the Los Angeles Police Department has been accused of endless charges of brutality and corruption. From the highly public and polarizing Rodney King beating, to the shocking Rampart Scandal, many have viewed the department as a brutal, yet effective, crime fight force. To this end, many blame the more controversial acts of the department on a "few bad apples." Covering ... Read more

    $2.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The White Apple

    by Matthew Gordon ...
    The lights were dimmed, but it seemed as though there was no reason for them to be on at all. A cornucopia of candles was all that was required, their flickering beams forming a curious interplay with the little electric lighting that was available. The soft golden orange of the walls blended with the fire that illuminated them, forming a cozy canopy for the solid oak table that resided in the ... Read more

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  • Syllable Weight

    Phonetics, Phonology, Typology

    by Matthew Gordon ...
    The book is the first systematic exploration of a series of phonological phenomena previously thought to be unified under the rubric of syllable weight. Drawing on a typological survey of 400 languages, it is shown that the traditional conception that languages are internally consistent in their weight criteria across weight-based processes is not corroborated by the cross-linguistic survey. ... Read more

    $82.99 USD

  • I Drank the Toxic Cocktail

    by Matthew Gordon ...
    Fairly looked around the room anxiously. The sterile white walls were no comfort; the spotted plaster of the ceiling was not much better. The beaten linoleum floor shone with a dim glow from the overhead fluorescent lighting, showing a reflection of his jeans where the mop had washed most recently. Fairly exhaled deeply, hoping to quell the trembling that overtook his body whenever he had to take ... Read more

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  • Affordable Housing in New York

    The People, Places, and Policies That Transformed a City

    Edited by Nicholas Dagen Bloom, Matthew Gordon Lasner ...
    A richly illustrated history of below-market housing in New York, from the 1920s to todayA colorful portrait of the people, places, and policies that have helped make New York City livable, Affordable Housing in New York is a comprehensive, authoritative, and richly illustrated history of the city's public and middle-income housing from the 1920s to today. Plans, models, archival photos, and newly ... Read more

    $24.49 USD

  • Concubines and Courtesans

    Women and Slavery in Islamic History

    Edited by Matthew S. Gordon, Kathryn A. Hain ...
    Concubines and Courtesans contains sixteen essays that consider, from a variety of viewpoints, enslaved and freed women across medieval and pre-modern Islamic social history. The essays bring together arguments regarding slavery, gender, social networking, cultural production (songs, poetry and instrumental music), sexuality, Islamic family law, and religion in the shaping of Near Eastern and ... Read more

    $136.79 USD

  • The Knight and the Princess

    by Matthew Gordon ...
    What 2012's I Drank the Toxic Cocktail started, The Knight and the Princess continues in spirit, although it is no sequel. The Knight and the Princess uses a series of character descriptions, hypotheticals, cryptic messages and logic puzzles to advance the reader through its fairy tale storyline. Borrowing intellectually from literary criticism, political science and economics, The Knight and the ... Read more

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  • The Cambridge World History of Violence: Volume 2, AD 500–AD 1500

    Edited by Harriet Zurndorfer, Matthew S. Gordon, Richard W. Kaeuper ...
    Series series The Cambridge World History of Violence
    Violence permeated much of social life across the vast geographical space of the European, American, Asian and Islamic lands and through the broad sweep of what is often termed the Middle Millennium (roughly 500 to 1500). Focusing on four contexts in which violence occurred across this huge area, the contributors to this volume explore the formation of centralised polities through war and conquest ... Read more

    $34.99 USD

  • Ahmad ibn Tulun

    Governor of Abbasid Egypt, 868–884

    by Matthew S. Gordon ...
    Series series Makers of the Muslim World
    Ahmad ibn Tulun (835–884) governed Egypt on behalf of the Abbasid dynasty for sixteen years. An aggressive and innovative actor, he pursued an ambitious political agenda, including the introduction of dynastic rule over Egypt, that put him at odds with his imperial masters. Throughout, however, he retained close ties to the Abbasid house and at no point did he assert outright independence. In this ... Read more

    $21.00 USD

  • Is There Not a Cause?

    by Gordon Matthew ...
    Is There Not a Cause?Discover the Real Battle. Embrace Your Assignment. Walk in Victory.Have you been fighting battles that never seem to end—cycles of fear, frustration, confusion, or resistance? What if the issue isn't the intensity of the fight… but the target?You may be fighting the wrong enemy.Is There Not a Cause? is a powerful, Scripture-based guide that equips you to see beyond the n... ... Read more

    $7.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Labov: A Guide for the Perplexed

    by Matthew J. Gordon ...
    Series series Guides for the Perplexed
    William Labov (b. 1927) has been a driving force in linguistics for over four decades. Throughout North America, and in much of the rest of the world, his name is synonymous with sociolinguistics.This new Guide for the Perplexed summarizes Labov's work in a number of subfields, including historical linguistics, discourse analysis and not least sociolinguistics. It also sketches a broader context ... Read more

    $28.99 USD