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Working to Laugh

Assembling Difference in American Stand-Up Comedy Venues

by James M. Thomas ...

For decades, stand-up comedy has been central to the imbrication of popular culture and political discourse, reshaping the margins of political critique, and often within the contexts of urban nightlife entertainment. In Working to Laugh: Assembling Difference in American Stand-Up Comedy Venues, James M. Thomas (JT) provides an ethnographic analysis of urban nightlife sites where this popular form ... Read more

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For decades, stand-up comedy has been central to the imbrication of popular culture and political discourse, reshaping the margins of political critique, and often within the contexts of urban nightlife entertainment. In Working to Laugh: Assembling Difference in American Stand-Up Comedy Venues, James M. Thomas (JT) provides an ethnographic analysis of urban nightlife sites where this popular form
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Affective Labour

(Dis) assembling Distance and Difference

by James M. Thomas, Jennifer G. Correa ...

Affective Labour explores four distinct landscapes in order to demonstrate how collective feelings are organized by social actors in order to both reproduce and contest hegemony. Utilizing a variety of methods, including participant observation, in-depth interviews across field sites, and content analysis of mass media, Correa and Thomas demonstrate the centrality of affective labor in enabling ... Read more

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Affective Labour explores four distinct landscapes in order to demonstrate how collective feelings are organized by social actors in order to both reproduce and contest hegemony. Utilizing a variety of methods, including participant observation, in-depth interviews across field sites, and content analysis of mass media, Correa and Thomas demonstrate the centrality of affective labor in enabling
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Diversity Regimes

Why Talk Is Not Enough to Fix Racial Inequality at Universities

by James M. Thomas ...

Series series The American Campus
2021 Choice Outstanding Academic TitleAs a major, public flagship university in the American South, so-called “Diversity University” has struggled to define its commitments to diversity and inclusion, and to put those commitments into practice. In Diversity Regimes, sociologist James M. Thomas draws on more than two years of ethnographic fieldwork at DU to illustrate the conflicts and ... Read more

$21.99 USD

2021 Choice Outstanding Academic TitleAs a major, public flagship university in the American South, so-called “Diversity University” has struggled to define its commitments to diversity and inclusion, and to put those commitments into practice. In Diversity Regimes, sociologist James M. Thomas draws on more than two years of ethnographic fieldwork at DU to illustrate the conflicts and
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The Souls of Jewish Folk

W. E. B. Du Bois, Anti-Semitism, and the Color Line

by James M. Thomas ...

Series series Sociology of Race and Ethnicity
The Souls of Jewish Folk argues that late nineteenth-century Germany’s struggle with its “Jewish question”—what to do with Germany’s Jews—served as an important and to-date underexamined influence on W.E.B. Du Bois’s considerations of America’s anti-Black racism at the turn of the twentieth century. Du Bois is well known for his characterization of the twentieth century’s greatest challenge, “the ... Read more

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The Souls of Jewish Folk argues that late nineteenth-century Germany’s struggle with its “Jewish question”—what to do with Germany’s Jews—served as an important and to-date underexamined influence on W.E.B. Du Bois’s considerations of America’s anti-Black racism at the turn of the twentieth century. Du Bois is well known for his characterization of the twentieth century’s greatest challenge, “the
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Routledge Handbook of European Borderlands

Edited by James W. Scott, Thomas M. Wilson ...

Series series Routledge International Handbooks
The Routledge Handbook of European Borderlands revisits and reassesses the concept of borderlands in Europe, balancing case-specific perspectives with rich theoretical and conceptual avenues of research.The significance of the transformations after the fall of the Soviet Union made European borders central to the emergence of border studies as an emerging field of study, and since then, the ... Read more

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The Routledge Handbook of European Borderlands revisits and reassesses the concept of borderlands in Europe, balancing case-specific perspectives with rich theoretical and conceptual avenues of research.The significance of the transformations after the fall of the Soviet Union made European borders central to the emergence of border studies as an emerging field of study, and since then, the
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Why Postliberalism Failed

by James M Patterson, Thomas D Howes ...

Why Postliberalism Failed offers an indictment of one of the most consequential ideological movements reshaping American and European conservatism today. With leading politicians among its adherents and major conservative institutions captured by its agenda, postliberalism demands serious scrutiny and this book delivers it.Drawing on deep historical research, the book traces postliberalism's ... Read more

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Why Postliberalism Failed offers an indictment of one of the most consequential ideological movements reshaping American and European conservatism today. With leading politicians among its adherents and major conservative institutions captured by its agenda, postliberalism demands serious scrutiny and this book delivers it.Drawing on deep historical research, the book traces postliberalism's
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My Name Isn't Joe

by James Thomas ...

Modern loneliness and the absence of intimacy amongst London's millions are the ills suffered by the quirky yet deeply melancholic 30-something, Joseph Bogart.Weighed down with emotional baggage and feeling lost amidst a mass of failed relationships, Joseph uses his sharp wit and tragicomedy to fight the hopelessness gnawing at him.Through his trials, we discover if Joseph is able to find a ... Read more

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Modern loneliness and the absence of intimacy amongst London's millions are the ills suffered by the quirky yet deeply melancholic 30-something, Joseph Bogart.Weighed down with emotional baggage and feeling lost amidst a mass of failed relationships, Joseph uses his sharp wit and tragicomedy to fight the hopelessness gnawing at him.Through his trials, we discover if Joseph is able to find a
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How to Use Value-Added Analysis to Improve Student Learning

A Field Guide for School and District Leaders

by Kate Kennedy, Mary Peters, James M. Thomas ...

A step-by-step guide to transforming student learning with value-added analysisValue-added analysis is the most robust, statistically significant method available for helping educators quantify student progress over time. This powerful tool also reveals tangible strategies for improving instruction. Built around the work of Battelle for Kids, this bookprovides a field-tested continuous improvement ... Read more

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A step-by-step guide to transforming student learning with value-added analysisValue-added analysis is the most robust, statistically significant method available for helping educators quantify student progress over time. This powerful tool also reveals tangible strategies for improving instruction. Built around the work of Battelle for Kids, this bookprovides a field-tested continuous improvement
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Addition and Subtraction

A Cognitive Perspective

Edited by Thomas P. Carpenter, James M. Moser, Thomas A. Romberg ...

Series series Psychology Revivals
A hallmark of much of the research on children’s thinking in the 1970s had been the focus on explicit content domains. Much of this research had been represented by an eclectic collection of studies sampled from a variety of disciplines and content areas. However, in the few years before this publication, research in several content domains has begun to coalesce into a coherent body of knowledge. ... Read more

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A hallmark of much of the research on children’s thinking in the 1970s had been the focus on explicit content domains. Much of this research had been represented by an eclectic collection of studies sampled from a variety of disciplines and content areas. However, in the few years before this publication, research in several content domains has begun to coalesce into a coherent body of knowledge.
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Crater Lake [Dramatized Adaptation]

Deathlands 4

by James Axler ...

Narrated by A Full Cast, Richard Rohan, James Konicek, Colleen Delany, David Coyne, Thomas Penny, Eric Messner, Michael Glenn, Andy Clemence, Peter Stray, M.B. Van Dorn, Barbara Pinolini, Bruce Rauscher, Nanette Savard, Terence Aselford, Sunny Lasskey, James Lewis, Dylan Lynch, Karen Carbone, Elliot Dash, Elisabeth Demery, Michael John Casey, Michael Replogle, Cate Torre, Greg Reinfeld, Mort Shelby ...

Series series Deathlands
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5 hours 48 min

Near what was once the Pacific northwest, Ryan Cawdor and his roving band of post-holocaust survivors discover a beautiful valley untouched by the nuclear blast that changed the earth forever.Resisting the temptation to settle in that idyllic land, the group is captured and forced deep beneath an extinct volcano to an isolated community of in-bred scientists.These psychopathic descendants of a ... Read more

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Near what was once the Pacific northwest, Ryan Cawdor and his roving band of post-holocaust survivors discover a beautiful valley untouched by the nuclear blast that changed the earth forever.Resisting the temptation to settle in that idyllic land, the group is captured and forced deep beneath an extinct volcano to an isolated community of in-bred scientists.These psychopathic descendants of a
... Read more
40 Civil War Memoirs of Confederate Soldiers

Firsthand Confederate Accounts of Battle, Campaigns, Captivity, and Southern Memory

by Heros von Borcke, John Esten Cooke, Robert E. Lee, George Cary Eggleston, James Longstreet, John Singleton Mosby, Edward M. Boykin, Arthur Peronneau Ford, Marion Johnstone Ford, Isaac Hermann, Gilbert Moxley Sorrel, William Watson, Daniel P. Smith, James Carson Elliott, Thomas D. Duncan, David E. Johnston, Francis Warrington Dawson, John A. Sloan, La Salle Corbell Pickett, Henry Lane Stone, Basil Wilson Duke, Wayland Fuller Dunaway, Rufus H. Peck, Edward Alexander Moore, Raphael Semmes, Cole Younger, William Meade Dame, Caleb Huse, William G. Stevenson, Carlton McCarthy, Samuel Gibbs French, Richard L. Maury, J. Wilkinson, Alfred J. Vaughan, Luther W. Hopkins, John Porter Fort, John Milton Hubbard, John Call Dalton, James H. Wood, Frank M. Myers ...

40 Civil War Memoirs of Confederate Soldiers assembles a capacious and often contentious archive of memory, combining battlefield narrative, campaign recollection, naval experience, cavalry adventure, command perspective, and postwar reflection. Its varied prose ranges from formal military testimony to vivid anecdote and elegiac reminiscence, revealing how Confederate participants fashioned ... Read more

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40 Civil War Memoirs of Confederate Soldiers assembles a capacious and often contentious archive of memory, combining battlefield narrative, campaign recollection, naval experience, cavalry adventure, command perspective, and postwar reflection. Its varied prose ranges from formal military testimony to vivid anecdote and elegiac reminiscence, revealing how Confederate participants fashioned
... Read more
Philosophy and Poetry

Continental Perspectives

by Ranjan Ghosh, Lutz Koepnick, Cecilia Sjöholm, Jean-Michel Rabaté, François Noudelmann, Daniel O'Hara, Raoul Moati, Claire Colebrook, Bruno Bosteels, Jean-Philippe Deranty, Dean of School of Humanities Georges Van Den Abbeele, Professor of English Roland Vegso, Professor of Philosophy James Risser, Lecturer Thomas H. Ford, Ph.D. Daniel Rosenberg Nutters, Professor of Philosophy Galen Johnson, Professor of French & Gender Studies Anne Emmanuelle Berger, Professor Emeritus of Literature Leslie Hill, Head of French Department Ian James, Senior Lecturer in English Carol M. Bove, Justin Clemens ...

Ever since Plato’s Socrates exiled the poets from the ideal city in The Republic, Western thought has insisted on a strict demarcation between philosophy and poetry. Yet might their long-standing quarrel hide deeper affinities? This book explores the distinctive ways in which twentieth-century and contemporary continental thinkers have engaged with poetry and its contribution to philosophical ... Read more

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Ever since Plato’s Socrates exiled the poets from the ideal city in The Republic, Western thought has insisted on a strict demarcation between philosophy and poetry. Yet might their long-standing quarrel hide deeper affinities? This book explores the distinctive ways in which twentieth-century and contemporary continental thinkers have engaged with poetry and its contribution to philosophical
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