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  • Southern Slavery and the Law, 1619-1860

    by Thomas D. Morris ...
    Series series Studies in Legal History
    This volume is the first comprehensive history of the evolving relationship between American slavery and the law from colonial times to the Civil War. As Thomas Morris clearly shows, racial slavery came to the English colonies as an institution without strict legal definitions or guidelines. Specifically, he demonstrates that there was no coherent body of law that dealt solely with slaves. Instead ... Read more

    $28.49 USD

  • Slavery & the Law

    by Derrick Bell, Jonathan A. Bush, Jacob I. Corré, Michael Kent Curtis, William W. Fisher III, James Oliver Horton, Lois Horton, Thomas D. Morris, Thomas D. Russell, Judith Kelleher Schafer, Alan Watson, Ariela Gross, Sanford Levinson ...
    Central to the development of the American legal system, writes Professor Finkelman in Slavery & the Law, is the institution of slavery. It informs us not only about early concepts of race and property, but about the nature of American democracy itself.Prominent historians of slavery and legal scholars analyze the intricate relationship between slavery, race, and the law from the earliest Black ... Read more

    $129.59 USD

  • Reflections of a Nonpolitical Man

    by Thomas Mann ...
    Translated by Walter D. Morris ...
    A classic, controversial book exploring German culture and identity by the author of Death in Venice and The Magic Mountain, now back in print.When the Great War broke out in August 1914, Thomas Mann, like so many people on both sides of the conflict, was exhilarated. Finally, the era of decadence that he had anatomized in Death in Venice had come to an end; finally, there was a cause worth ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • On the Laws and Customs of England

    Essays in Honor of Samuel E. Thorne

    Edited by Sally A. Scully, Thomas A. Green, Stephen D. White, Morris Arnold ...
    Series series Studies in Legal History
    Investigating a wide range of problems in the development of English law, this collection of original essays honors the contributions of Samuel D. Thorne to the study of English legal history from the eleventh to the seventeenth century. The essays combine close study of legal texts and doctrines in their own setting with broader analysis of the interaction of legal and social change. Although ... Read more

    $28.49 USD

  • Knowing Him by Heart

    African Americans on Abraham Lincoln

    by Rodney O. Davis, Douglas L. Wilson, Michael Burlingame, Richard Carwardine, Edna Greene Medford, James Oakes, Matthew Pinsker0, Gerald J Prokopowicz1, John R Sellers2, Jennifer L Weber3, Frederick Douglass4, H. Ford Douglas5, Thomas Hamilton6, Robert Hamilton7, Jabez P Campbell8, Henry McNeal Turner9, Daniel Alexander Payne0, Henry Highland Garnet1, Philip A Bell2, Edward M Thomas3, Alfred P Smith4, Frances Ellen Watkins Harper5, George B Vashon6, Thomas Strother7, Ezra R Johnson8, Alexander T CPS9, James Smith0, Alexander T Augusta1, Jeremiah B Sanderson2, Osborne P Anderson3, Thomas Morris Chester4, James H Hudson5, John Proctor6, Robert Purvis7, Hannah Johnson8, Leonard A Grimes9, Jeremiah Asher0, John Willis Menard1, Henry African Civilization Society2, William Florville3, Henry Johnson4, Thomas R Street5, John H Morgan6, Mattild Burr7, Amos G Beman8, Richard H Cain9, Jean Baptiste Roudanez0, Arnold Bertonneau1, George E North Carolina Freedmen2, Don Carlos Rutter3, George E Stephens4, James W.C Pennington5, S.W. "Africano"6, Annie Davis7, S.W. Chase8, Sojourner Truth9, Martin Delany0, George Washington1, Isaac J Hill2, Alexander H Newton3, Jacob Thomas4, Angeline R Demby5, Henry O Wagoner6, George W Le Vere7, Elizabeth Keckley8, Paul Trevigne9, Thomas N.C Liverpool0, H Cordelia1, George Washington Williams2, Emmanuel K Love3, William S Scarborough4, John Mercer Langston5, Peter H Clark6, EWS Hammond7, Charles W Anderson8, Booker T Washington9, Harriet Tubman0, Julius F Taylor1, Ida B Wells-Barnett2, Paul Laurence Dunbar3, Elizabeth Thomas4, Archibald H Grimke5, Elizabeth Keckly6, William A Sinclair7, Jesse Max Barber8, Mary Church Terrell9, T. Thomas Fortune0, Reverdy C Ransom1, W. E. B Du Bois2, William Monroe Trotter3, Maude K Griffin4, Hightower T Kealing5, Silas X Floyd6, George L Knox7, Thomas S Inborden8, George W Henderson9, William Pickens00, Kelly Miller01, Etta M. T. Cottin02, John M Gandy03, Fred R Moore04, Sylvanie F Williams05, Harry C Smith06, James H Magee07, James L Curtis08, John W. E. Bowen Sr09, Cora J Ball10, Thomas Nelson Baker11, Josephine Silone Yates12, James Weldon Johnson13, William H Lewis14, John H Murphy Sr15, Robert R Wright Sr16, Theophile T Allain17, Oliva Ward Bush-Banks18, Richard W Gadsden19, Edward A Johnson20, Alice Dunbar-Nelson21, Hubert H Harrison22, Carter G Woodson23, Robert R Moton24, Georgia Douglas Johnson25, LANGSTON HUGHES26, Charles Chesnutt27, Walter White28, Lamar Perkins29, Samuel A Haynes30, William E Lilly31, Robert L Vann32, William Lloyd Imes33, Eugene Gordon34, Arthur W Mitchell35, Grace Evans36, Aaron H Payne37, Claude McKay38, Roscoe Conkling Simmons39, Joel A Rogers40, Mary McLeod Bethune41, John Hope Franklin42, Ella Baker43, Luther Porter Jackson44, Willard Townsend45, Ralph J Bunche46, Roy Wilkins47, Mordecai W Johnson48, Carl J Murphy49, Jackie Robinson50, Martin Luther King Jr51, Thurgood Marshall52, Edith Sampson53, Benjamin Quarles54, St. Clair Drake55, Charles H Wesley56, Daisy Bates57, Julius Malcolm X58, Gwendolyn Brooks59, Julius Lester60, Lerone Bennett Jr61, Henry Lee Moon62, John H Sengstacke63, Norman E. W. Hodges64, Arvarh E. Strickland65, Mary Frances Berry66, Vincent Harding67, Clarence Thomas68, Barbara Jeanne Fields69, Henry Louis Gates Jr70, Barack Obama71 ...
    Winner of an Abraham Lincoln Institute Book AwardThough not blind to Abraham Lincoln's imperfections, Black Americans long ago laid a heartfelt claim to his legacy. At the same time, they have consciously reshaped the sixteenth president's image for their own social and political ends. Frederick Hord and Matthew D. Norman's anthology explores the complex nature of views on Lincoln through the ... Read more

    $14.39 USD

  • World-Systems Theory in Practice

    Leadership, Production, and Exchange

    by Rani T. Alexander, Gary M. Feinman, Andre Gunder Frank, Robert J. Jeske, P Nick Kardulias, Darrell LaLone, George Modelski, Peter Peregrine, Mark T. Shutes, Gil Stein, Patricia A. Urban, Peter Wells, Lawrence A. Kuznar, Edward M. Schortman, Thomas D. Hall, Ian Morris, William R. Thompson ...
    In the quarter century since Wallerstein first developed world systems theory (WST), scholars in a variety of disciplines have adopted the approach to explain intersocietal interaction on a grand scale. These essays bring to light archaeological data and analysis to show that many historic and prehistoric states lacked the mechanisms to dominate the distant (and in some cases, nearby) societies ... Read more

    $72.89 USD

  • Wolves and Their Wilderness: A Comprehensive Collection of 10 Books

    Ten Classic Accounts of North American Wolves, Wilderness, Ecology, and Conservation

    by Patrick Casey, Terence Casey, Frank Mayer, Jackson Gregory, Robert R. Ream, P. D. Karns, John W. Winship, L. David Mech, Louis Daniel Frenzel, A. R. Harding, Richard A. Hook, William Laughlin Robinson, Thomas F. Weise, Olaf Baker, Robert Morris Peck, Stanley Paul Young ...
    Wolves and Their Wilderness gathers ten book-length perspectives on the wolf as animal, adversary, emblem, and inhabitant of contested landscapes. Ranging from natural history and field observation to hunting lore, trapping manuals, frontier narrative, and wilderness writing, the collection preserves a strikingly varied record of human engagement with Canis lupus. Its most compelling passages ... Read more

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

  • The Mystery of the Exploding Teeth

    And Other Curiosities from the History of Medicine

    by Thomas Morris ...
    "Delightfully horrifying."--Popular ScienceOne of Mental Floss's Best Books of 2018One of Science Friday's Best Science Books of 2018This wryly humorous collection of stories about bizarre medical treatments and cases offers a unique portrait of a bygone era in all its jaw-dropping weirdness.A puzzling series of dental explosions beginning in the nineteenth century is just one of many... ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Audiobook

    The Dublin Railway Murder

    The sensational true story of a Victorian murder mystery

    by Thomas Morris ...
    Narrated by Brendan Dempsey ...

    Unabridged

    11 hours 50 min

    Brought to you by Penguin.A thrilling and perplexing investigation of a true Victorian crime at Dublin railway station.Dublin, November 1856: George Little, the chief cashier of the Broadstone railway terminus, is found dead, lying in a pool of blood beneath his desk.He has been savagely beaten, his head almost severed; there is no sign of a murder weapon, and the office door is locked, apparently ... Read more

    $17.45 USD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

  • The Dublin Railway Murder

    The sensational true story of a Victorian murder mystery

    by Thomas Morris ...
    A thrilling and perplexing investigation of a true Victorian crime at Dublin railway station.Dublin, November 1856: George Little, the chief cashier of the Broadstone railway terminus, is found dead, lying in a pool of blood beneath his desk.He has been savagely beaten, his head almost severed; there is no sign of a murder weapon, and the office door is locked, apparently from the inside. ... Read more

    $14.29 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • The Matter of the Heart

    A History of the Heart in Eleven Operations

    by Thomas Morris ...
    "More than a litany of medical advances—it's the story of the gritty, bloody and deadly experiences that underlie scientific progress." — Washington PostAn eye-opening and heroic story of pioneering heart surgeons, structured around eleven operations.For thousands of years the human heart remained the deepest of mysteries; both home to the soul and an organ too complex to touch, let alone operate ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • A Short Story About the British Education System And The Seven Kids Who Tried To Change It

    by Thomas Morris ...
    Series Book 16 - Rough Trade Edition
    A: Oh, They were sick to bloody death. They were ten years old, and already half of their lives had been spent sitting in that bottom group— Q: How else—A: —dealing with teachers who asked the class to do one thing, and the bottom group another; teachers who couldn't subtly differentiate their lesson plans; teachers who asked the class to turn to page fifteen in the workbook, while handing the ... Read more

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