Jackson: 3969 books
Say It Plain
A Century of Great African American Speeches
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2006
A moving portrait of how black Americans have spoken out against injustice—with speeches by Thurgood Marshall, Shirley Chisholm, Jesse Jackson, and more.
In “full-throated public oratory, the kind that can stir the soul”, this unique anthology collects the transcribed speeches of the...
Dirty Old London
The Victorian Fight Against Filth
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2014
In Victorian London, filth was everywhere: horse traffic filled the streets with dung, household rubbish went uncollected, cesspools brimmed with "night soil," graveyards teemed with rotting corpses, the air itself was choked with smoke. In this intimately visceral book, Lee Jackson guides us through...
by Reggie Jackson, Kevin Baker
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2013
A soul-baring, brutally candid, and richly eventful memoir of the two years—1977 and 1978—when Reggie Jackson went from outcast to Yankee legend
In the spring of 1977 Reggie Jackson should have been on top of the world. The best player of the Oakland A’s dynasty, which won three straight...
by Lisa Jackson
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2014
"Jam-packed with scary chills." --Booklist
The most hated woman in Savannah, Georgia, is about to be set free. Twenty years ago, beautiful Blondell O'Henry was convicted of murdering her eldest daughter, Amity, and wounding her two other children. The prosecution argued that Blondell...
Churchill’s Channel War
1939-45
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2013
From the beaches of Dunkirk to the launch of Operation Overlord, the Channel saw continuous action during World War II, and was the world's most fought-over waterway. In this fascinating account, Robert Jackson offers a study of the Channel War from 1939–45, detailing the German threats to British...
by Michael Jackson
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2013
An ice-bound New England pond utterly still, though racked with sub-glacial groans serves as an image of a mind overwhelmed one moment by troubling memories, the next by the peace that passes all understanding. In his new collection, Michael Jackson explores the impact on a poets consciousness of...
Prodigals
Stories
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2016
"People are bullets, fired," the narrator declares in one of the desperate, eerie stories that make up Greg Jackson's Prodigals. He's fleeing New York, with a woman who may be his therapist, as a storm bears down. Self-knowledge here is no safeguard against self-sabotage. A banker sees his...
Machado de Assis
A Literary Life
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2015
Novelist, poet, playwright, and short story writer Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis (1839–1908) is widely regarded as Brazil’s greatest writer, although his work is still too little read outside his native country. In this first comprehensive English-language examination of Machado since Helen Caldwell’s...
Racial Paranoia
The Unintended Consequences of Political Correctness The New Reality of Race in America
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2009
The Civil War put an end to slavery, and the civil rights movement put an end to legalized segregation. Crimes motivated by racism are punished with particular severity, and Americans are more sensitive than ever about the words they choose when talking about race. And yet America remains divided...
Policing Ferguson, Policing America
What Really Happened—and What the Country Can Learn from It
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2017
The shooting of Michael Brown sparked a national debate on race relations and law enforcement. Here is the insider’s account you never saw in the media.
Following the fatal shooting in broad daylight of unarmed African American Michael Brown by a white cop in August 2014, Ferguson, Missouri...
unSpun
Finding Facts in a World of Disinformation
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2007
The founders of FactCheck.org teach you how to identify and debunk spin, hype, and fake news in this essential guide to informed citizenship in an age of misinformation.
Americans are bombarded daily with mixed messages, half-truths, misleading statements, and out-and-out fabrications masquerading...
Straight from the Heart
A Love Story
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2009
Former Mr. Universe Bob Paris and topflight model Rod Jackson tell how their marriage catapulted them from physique icons to international spokesmen for gay rights.
The History of Medicine
A Beginner's Guide
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2014
In a world burdened by chronic conditions and mutating viruses, with a health service strained to its limits, the history of medicine challenges our understanding of what it means to be healthy. By illuminating the ailments and methods of the past, our own dilemmas about medical practice and policy can...
Discipline That Connects With Your Child's Heart
Building Faith, Wisdom, and Character in the Messes of Daily Life
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2016
A Powerful Approach to Bringing God's Grace to Kids
Did you know that the way we deal (or don't deal) with our kids' misbehavior shapes their beliefs about themselves, the world, and God? Therefore it's vital to connect with their hearts--not just their minds--amid the daily behavior battles.
With...