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  • Yuletide in Dixie

    Slavery, Christmas, and Southern Memory

    by Robert E. May ...
    How did enslaved African Americans in the Old South really experience Christmas? Did Christmastime provide slaves with a lengthy and jubilant respite from labor and the whip, as is generally assumed, or is the story far more complex and troubling? In this provocative, revisionist, and sometimes chilling account, Robert E. May chides the conventional wisdom for simplifying black perspectives, ... Read more

    $26.59 USD

  • Manifest Destiny's Underworld

    Filibustering in Antebellum America

    by Robert E. May ...
    This fascinating study sheds new light on antebellum America’s notorious “filibusters” — the freebooters and adventurers who organized or participated in armed invasions of nations with whom the United States was formally at peace. Offering the first full-scale analysis of the filibustering movement, Robert May relates the often-tragic stories of illegal expeditions into Cuba, Mexico, Ecuador, ... Read more

    $28.49 USD

  • Debunking the Yule Log Myth

    The Disturbing History of a Plantation Legend

    by Robert E. May ...
    A powerful new book that corrects a false myth in African American history that Kirkus Reviews calls "a thoughtful antidote to white Southern propaganda.”According to an oft repeated legend, during Christmas before the Civil War, all enslaved people in the American South enjoyed lengthy vacations of a week or more depending on how long an oversized “Yule log” burned in their master's fireplace. As ... Read more

    $23.09 USD

  • Slavery, Race, and Conquest in the Tropics

    Lincoln, Douglas, and the Future of Latin America

    by Robert E. May ...
    Slavery, Race, and Conquest in the Tropics challenges the way historians interpret the causes of the American Civil War. Using Abraham Lincoln and Stephen Douglas's famed rivalry as a prism, Robert E. May shows that when Lincoln and fellow Republicans opposed slavery in the West, they did so partly from evidence that slaveholders, with Douglas's assistance, planned to follow up successes in Kansas ... Read more

    $30.39 USD

  • The Union, the Confederacy, and the Atlantic Rim, Revised Edition

    Edited by Robert E May ...
    From French intervention in Mexico to British interests in the Caribbean, the impact of the Civil War extended far beyond military campaigns in Virginia, diffusing widely into the Atlantic world. Revised to take into account the outpouring of scholarship on Civil War diplomacy that has appeared since the book was first published, The Union, the Confederacy, and the Atlantic Rim features essays by ... Read more

    $12.39 USD

  • The Cowboy Capitalist

    John Hays Hammond, the American West, and the Jameson Raid in South Africa

    by Charles van Onselen ...
    Series series Reconsiderations in Southern African History
    The Jameson Raid was a pivotal moment in the history of South Africa, linking events from the Anglo-Boer War to the declaration of the Union of South Africa in 1910. For more than a century, the failed revolution has been interpreted through the lens of British imperialism, with responsibility laid at the feet of Cecil Rhodes. Yet, the raid was less a serious attempt to overthrow a Boer government ... Read more

    $36.49 USD

  • Spearheading Environmental Change

    The Legacy of Indiana Congressman Floyd J. Fithian

    by Jill P. May, Robert E. May ...
    Spearheading Environmental Change: The Legacy of Indiana Congressman Floyd J. Fithian describes the life of a four-term United States congressman, focusing on his role in the emerging environmental movement in late twentieth-century America. Spearheading Environmental Change highlights Fithian’s legislative efforts regarding three water-related issues that profoundly concerned Hoosier and ... Read more

    $31.49 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Elegant Solution

    Toyota's Formula for Mastering Innovation

    by Matthew E. May ...
    "Toyota is becoming a double threat: the world's finest manufacturer and a truly great innovator . . . that formula, a combination of production prowess and technical innovation, is an unbeatable recipe for success."-- Fortune, February 2006For the first time, an insider reveals the formula behind Toyota's unceasing quest to innovate and do more with less, a philosophy that has made it one of the ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Audiobook

    The Short Reign of Pippin IV

    A Fabrication

    by John Steinbeck ...
    Narrated by Jefferson Mays ...
    Series series Penguin Audio Classics

    Unabridged

    4 hours 39 min

    In his only work of political satire, The Short Reign of Pippin IV, John Steinbeck turns the French Revolution upside down as amateur astronomer Pippin Héristal is drafted to rule the unruly French. Steinbeck creates around the infamous Pippin the most hilarious royal court ever: Pippin’s wife, Queen Marie, who “might have taken her place at the bar of a very good restaurant”; his uncle, a man of ... Read more

    $15.00 USD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

  • Broken Mirrors – 3 Classic Psychological Crime Novels

    Enriched edition. Crime and Punishment, The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, A Modern Mephistopheles, and A Whisper in the Dark

    by Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Robert Louis Stevenson, Louisa May Alcott, Fabian Pierce ...
    Broken Mirrors – 3 Classic Psychological Crime Novels masterfully explores the depths of human psyche and morality through an illuminating collection of seminal works. Spanning the spectrum from Russian realism to British gothic and American morality, this anthology encapsulates the genius of psychological narrative. With each novel casting an introspective gaze into the abyss of crime and ... Read more

    $1.99 USD

  • The Big Book of Christmas Tales (Annotated)

    Enriched Edition. Ultimate Anthology - Over 500 Christmas Tales, Novels, Poems, Carols & Myths

    by Charles Dickens, Emily Dickinson, O. Henry, William Shakespeare, Mark Twain, Beatrix Potter, Louisa May Alcott, Robert Louis Stevenson, Willa Cather, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Washington Irving0, Lucy Maud Montgomery1, Leo Tolstoy2, George Macdonald3, William Wordsworth4, Alfred Lord Tennyson5, William Butler Yeats6, E. T. A. Hoffmann7, Selma Lagerlöf8, Henry van Dyke9, Arthur Conan Doyle0, Frances Hodgson Burnett1, Fyodor Dostoevsky2, Saki3, Bret Harte4, Robert E. Howard5, Guy de Maupassant6, Edgar Wallace7, Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson8, Susan Coolidge9, Benito Pérez Galdós0, Alphonse Daudet1, Anton Chekhov2, Wesley Calderwick5 ...
    The Big Book of Christmas Tales gathers an expansive constellation of seasonal writing, ranging from Victorian moral fable and Gothic-tinged wonder to domestic realism, lyric meditation, children's fantasy, comic anecdote, and psychological tale. Its Christmas is not merely sentimental: it is a literary occasion for charity, memory, estrangement, mystery, social conscience, and renewal. Familiar ... Read more

    Was $1.99 USD Now $0.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Renewed Accountability for Access and Excellence

    Applying a Model for Democratic Professional Practice in Education

    by Marilyn A. Friga, Jean L. Cate, Chetanath Gautam, Mary E. Gardiner, Jane Ziebarth-Bovill, Karen A. Rowe, Diane L. Duffin, Elizabeth A. Urban, Katheryn E. Shannon, Michelle Van Lare, Dennis Potthoff0, Jiyoon Yoon1, Viola E. Florez2, Anthony Walker3, Shirley Mthethwa-Sommers4, Tamara Newport Love5, Cheryl Franklin Torrez6, Penny L. Tenuto7, Susan E. McLaughlin-Jones9, Leisa A. Martin0, Cynthia Paes de Carvalho1, Julie K. Yamamoto2, Catherine A. Bornhorst3, Ana Cristina Prado de Oliveira4, Rochelle Hunt Krueger5, Elizabeth Murakami6, Robert G. Smith7, Chance D. Mays8, Scott C. Bauer9, Nancy P. Gallavan0, Charles L. Lowery1, S. David Brazer2 ...
    Renewed Accountability for Access and Excellence advances discussion of a conceptualized model for cultivating democratic professional practice in education (DPPE) and considers its relationship with contemporary teaching and leading praxes. A diverse and highly qualified group of scholars and practitioners have contributed chapters relating to innovative programs, co-constructed partnerships, ... Read more

    $109.39 USD