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  • Workers in America

    A Historical Encyclopedia [2 volumes]

    by Robert E. Weir ...
    This encyclopedia traces the evolution of American workers and labor organizations from pre-Revolutionary America through the present day.In 2001, Robert E. Weir's two-volume Historical Encyclopedia of American Labor was chosen as a New York Public Library Best in Reference selection. Weir recently revised this groundbreaking resource, resulting in content that is more accessible, comprehensive, ... Read more

    $151.89 USD

  • The Marx Brothers and America

    Where Film, Comedy and History Collide

    by Robert E. Weir ...
    The ground has shifted from the days in which "serious history" and "boring" went hand in glove. Textbooks and lectures have their place, but less traditional classrooms can be powerfully immersive and insightful. Take the 1929 Marx Brothers film The Cocoanuts and what it teaches about both the Great Depression and early sound films. The Marx Brothers are among the funniest comedy teams of all ... Read more

    $21.39 USD

  • Boston’s Black Athletes

    Identity, Performance, and Activism

    by Steven Apostolov, Lane Demas, Lorenz J. Finison, Donna L. Halper, Leslie Heaphy, Edward H. Jones, Stephanie Liscio, Susan A. Michalczyk, Eileen Narcotta-Welp, Tracey Owens Patton, Andrew Smith, Lynne Tolman, Robert E. Weir ...
    Series series Sport, Identity, and Culture
    Sport has long been a stage where identity is contested, visibility is earned, and social change takes root.In Boston, the Black athletic body has historically challenged the city's self image as a beacon of liberalism. Boston's Black Athletes: Identity, Performance, and Activism interprets this contested history through the lives and experiences of African American athletes who used their talent ... Read more

    $32.39 USD

  • Watch's Wild Cry

    A Voyage Aboard the Whaling Vessel Clara Bell

    by Robert F. Weir ...
    At the age of nineteen, Robert F. Weir of West Point, New York, ran away to sea, where he spent the next ten years of his life. Assuming the pseudonym Robert Wallace, Weir sailed aboard the bark Clara Bell out of New Bedford, Massachusetts, in 1855 for a voyage to the whaling grounds of the Atlantic and Indian Oceans. Upon the death of one of the Clara Bell‘s boatsteerers (harpooners), Weir was ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

  • Audiobook

    Stronghold of Jezebel, The

    by Bill Vincent ...
    Narrated by Robert B. Weir ...

    Unabridged

    42 min

    This is a book that God has laid on my heart for some time now. I believe that both men and women have first hand dealt with a spirit call Jezebel. I'm talking about more than just a distant spirit in the Church but actually married to this fowl spirit. This is a true story of my personal life. I really was married to a woman with a Jezebel spirit. I will tell you the story but will omit the names ... Read more

    $2.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

  • Reclaiming Lives: Rediscovering Myself While Educating Kolkata's Poor

    by Rosalie Giffoniello, Robert M Weir ...
    In Reclaiming Lives, Rosalie Giffoniello, an American teacher, overcomes her personal struggles of insecurity and dependency and finds her identity by providing educational opportunities for destitute children in the slums of Kolkata (Calcutta), India. Each page abounds with hope, inspiration and fulfillment for countless children who reclaim their lives through Rosalie's determination … as she ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • Tory Insurgents

    The Loyalist Perception and Other Essays

    by Timothy M. Barnes, Robert M. Calhoon, Robert S. Davis ...
    A new edition of the germinal study of Loyalism in the American RevolutionBuilding on the work of his 1989 book The Loyalist Perception and Other Essays, accomplished historian Robert M. Calhoon returns to the subject of internal strife in the American Revolution with Tory Insurgents. This volume collects revised, updated versions of eighteen groundbreaking articles, essays, and chapters published ... Read more

    $25.19 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Dark Star

    An Oral Biography of Jerry Garcia

    by Robert Greenfield ...
    For more than thirty years, Jerry Garcia was the musical and spiritual center of the Grateful Dead, one of the most popular rock bands of all time.In Dark Star, the first biography of Garcia published after his death, Garcia is remembered by those who knew him best.Together the voices in this oral biography explore his remarkable life: his childhood in San Francisco; the formation of his musical ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Encounter with God

    April-June 2020

    by Elaine Roberts, Ray Porter, Howard Peskett, Stuart Weir, Caroline Fletcher, Terry Clutterham, Fiona Barnard, Kar Yong Lim ...
    Encounter with God is Scripture Union's daily Bible reading guide designed to lead you to a deeper understanding about what God is saying to you and to his world today. You'll find its thorough and energetic investigation of the whole Bible inspiring and stimulating. And you'll discover that its biblical exposition is complemented by pastoral warmth from a strong field of writers and contributors. ... Read more

    $6.79 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

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  • Myth America

    Historians Take On the Biggest Legends and Lies About Our Past

    by Kevin M. Kruse, Julian E. Zelizer ...
    In this instant New York Times bestseller, America’s top historians set the record straight on the most pernicious myths about our nation’s past.“Outstanding … Wonderfully accessible.” —Washington PostThe United States is in the grip of a crisis of bad history. Distortions of the past promoted in the conservative media have led large numbers of Americans to believe in fictions over facts, making ... Read more

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  • The Big Goodbye

    Chinatown and the Last Years of Hollywood

    by Sam Wasson ...
    From the New York Times bestselling author of Fifth Avenue, Five A.M. and Fosse comes the revelatory account of the making of a modern American masterpieceChinatown is the Holy Grail of 1970s cinema. Its twist ending is the most notorious in American film and its closing line of dialogue the most haunting. Here for the first time is the incredible true story of its making.In Sam Wasson's telling, ... Read more

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  • The Art of Stillness

    Adventures in Going Nowhere

    by Pico Iyer ...
    Series series TED Books
    A follow up to Pico Iyer’s essay “The Joy of Quiet,” The Art of Stillness considers the unexpected adventure of staying put and reveals a counterintuitive truth: The more ways we have to connect, the more we seem desperate to unplug.Why might a lifelong traveler like Pico Iyer, who has journeyed from Easter Island to Ethiopia, Cuba to Kathmandu, think that sitting quietly in a room might be the ... Read more

    $7.99 USD