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The Other Declarations

Thomas Jefferson and the Language of American Democracy

by Jeremy D. Bailey ...

Series series American Political Thought
The Declaration of Independence is Thomas Jefferson’s most enduring contribution, but his many lesser-known declarations offer essential lessons for what it takes to keep American democracy alive.Thomas Jefferson spent his life writing declarations. He believed that the written word could shape democracy, and he worked tirelessly to do so. Ironically, Jefferson’s authorship of the Declaration has ... Read more

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The Declaration of Independence is Thomas Jefferson’s most enduring contribution, but his many lesser-known declarations offer essential lessons for what it takes to keep American democracy alive.Thomas Jefferson spent his life writing declarations. He believed that the written word could shape democracy, and he worked tirelessly to do so. Ironically, Jefferson’s authorship of the Declaration has
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James Madison and Constitutional Imperfection

by Jeremy D. Bailey ...

This book presents a provocative account of James Madison's political thought by focusing on Madison's lifelong encounter with the enduring problem of constitutional imperfection. In particular, it emphasizes Madison's alliance with Thomas Jefferson, liberating it from those long-standing accounts of Madisonian constitutionalism that emphasize deliberation by elites and constitutional veneration. ... Read more

$34.39 CAD

This book presents a provocative account of James Madison's political thought by focusing on Madison's lifelong encounter with the enduring problem of constitutional imperfection. In particular, it emphasizes Madison's alliance with Thomas Jefferson, liberating it from those long-standing accounts of Madisonian constitutionalism that emphasize deliberation by elites and constitutional veneration.
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The Idea of Presidential Representation

An Intellectual and Political History

by Jeremy D. Bailey ...

Series series American Political Thought
Does the president represent the entire nation? Or does he speak for core partisans and narrow constituencies? The Federalist Papers, the electoral college, history and circumstance from the founders’ time to our own: all factor in theories of presidential representation, again and again lending themselves to different interpretations. This back-and-forth, Jeremy D. Bailey contends, is a critical ... Read more

$36.29 CAD

Does the president represent the entire nation? Or does he speak for core partisans and narrow constituencies? The Federalist Papers, the electoral college, history and circumstance from the founders’ time to our own: all factor in theories of presidential representation, again and again lending themselves to different interpretations. This back-and-forth, Jeremy D. Bailey contends, is a critical
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Professional Clojure

by Jeremy Anderson, Michael Gaare, Nick Bailey, Timothy Pratley, Justin Holguín ...

Clear, practical Clojure for the professional programmerProfessional Clojure is the experienced developer's guide to functional programming using the Clojure language. Designed specifically to meet the needs of professional developers, this book briefly introduces functional programming before skipping directly to the heart of using Clojure in a real-world setting. The discussion details the read ... Read more

$53.99 CAD

Clear, practical Clojure for the professional programmerProfessional Clojure is the experienced developer's guide to functional programming using the Clojure language. Designed specifically to meet the needs of professional developers, this book briefly introduces functional programming before skipping directly to the heart of using Clojure in a real-world setting. The discussion details the read
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The Contested Removal Power, 1789-2010

by J. David Alvis, Jeremy D. Bailey, A01 ...

Series series American Political Thought
Choice Outstanding TitleThe U.S. Constitution is clear on the appointment of executive officials: the president nominates, the Senate approves. But on the question of removing those officials, the Constitution is silent—although that silence has not discouraged strenuous efforts to challenge, censure, and even impeach presidents from Andrew Jackson to Bill Clinton. As J. David Alvis, Jeremy D. ... Read more

$37.59 CAD

Choice Outstanding TitleThe U.S. Constitution is clear on the appointment of executive officials: the president nominates, the Senate approves. But on the question of removing those officials, the Constitution is silent—although that silence has not discouraged strenuous efforts to challenge, censure, and even impeach presidents from Andrew Jackson to Bill Clinton. As J. David Alvis, Jeremy D.
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Enlightenment and Secularism

Essays on the Mobilization of Reason

by Fred Baumann, Alice Behnegar, Nasser Behnegar, Mark Blitz, Henry C. Clark, Dean DiSpalatro, Brian J. Glenn, Ryan Hanley, Jeffrey L. High, Christopher Lynch, Svetozar Minkov, Andrea Radasanu, John T. Scott, Susan Meld Shell, Benjamin Storey, Friederike von Schwerin-High, Andre Wakefield, Allan Arkush, Jeremy D. Bailey, David Biale, Robert Faulkner, David Janssens, Ralph Lerner, Rafael Major, Paul A. Rahe, George Thomas ...

Enlightenment and Secularism is a collection of twenty eight essays that seek to understand the connection between the European Enlightenment and the emergence of secular societies, as well as the character or nature of those societies. The contributors are drawn from a variety of disciplines including History, Sociology, Political Science, and Literature. Most of the essays focus on a single text ... Read more

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Enlightenment and Secularism is a collection of twenty eight essays that seek to understand the connection between the European Enlightenment and the emergence of secular societies, as well as the character or nature of those societies. The contributors are drawn from a variety of disciplines including History, Sociology, Political Science, and Literature. Most of the essays focus on a single text
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Doing Recent History

On Privacy, Copyright, Video Games, Institutional Review Boards, Activist Scholarship, and History That Talks Back

by Alan Christy, Alice Yang, David Greenberg, Eileen Boris, Gail Drakes, Jennifer Klein, Jeremy Saucier, Julius Bailey, Laura Brown, Martin Meeker, Nancy Kaiser, Shelley Lee, Willoughby Anderson ...

Series series
Recent history—the very phrase seems like an oxymoron. Yet historians have been writing accounts of the recent past since printed history acquired a modern audience, and in the last several years interest in recent topics has grown exponentially. With subjects as diverse as Walmart and disco, and personalities as disparate as Chavez and Schlafly, books about the history of our own time have become ... Read more

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Recent history—the very phrase seems like an oxymoron. Yet historians have been writing accounts of the recent past since printed history acquired a modern audience, and in the last several years interest in recent topics has grown exponentially. With subjects as diverse as Walmart and disco, and personalities as disparate as Chavez and Schlafly, books about the history of our own time have become
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For Our Next Song

by Jessica James ...

Narrated by Bailey Carr, Jeremy Carlisle Parker, Nicky Endres ...

Series Audiobook 2 - Glitter Bats
Unabridged

10 hours 54 min

The decade-long friendship between two rock goddesses is thrust into the spotlight after their mutual desire strikes a perfect—and very public—chord.For Glitter Bats keys player Jane Mercer, writing music helps tune out her self-doubt from a strict upbringing. Composing also distracts from her longtime feelings for her bandmate and best friend, Keeley, who Jane can’t pursue if she wants to keep ... Read more

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The decade-long friendship between two rock goddesses is thrust into the spotlight after their mutual desire strikes a perfect—and very public—chord.For Glitter Bats keys player Jane Mercer, writing music helps tune out her self-doubt from a strict upbringing. Composing also distracts from her longtime feelings for her bandmate and best friend, Keeley, who Jane can’t pursue if she wants to keep
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Little Golden Book Biography Treasury: Pop Stars

Taylor Swift, The Beatles, Chappell Roan, Beyonce, and more!

by Wendy Loggia, Judy Katschke, Cat Reynolds, Lavaille Lavette, Deborah Hopkinson, Jan Ann ...

Narrated by Lavaille Lavette, Bailey Carr, Vidish Athavale, Jeremy Carlisle Parker, Amythyst Kiah0, Michelle H. Lee1, Rory Barnett2 ...

Series series Little Golden Book Biographies
Unabridged

56 min

Celebrate seven world-famous superstars with this Little Golden Book Biographies collection!Follow Taylor Swift from her childhood living on a Christmas tree farm, where she discovered her passion for songwriting, to her early days on Nashville’s Music Row and her rise as one of the biggest stars in pop music.The Beatles were four friends from Liverpool who became the best-selling music act of all ... Read more

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Celebrate seven world-famous superstars with this Little Golden Book Biographies collection!Follow Taylor Swift from her childhood living on a Christmas tree farm, where she discovered her passion for songwriting, to her early days on Nashville’s Music Row and her rise as one of the biggest stars in pop music.The Beatles were four friends from Liverpool who became the best-selling music act of all
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Look Again

The Autobiography

by David Bailey ...

Narrated by Jeremy Clyde, Joshua Akehurst, Simon Darwen, Willow Nash ...

Unabridged

9 hours 59 min

Eye-opening and candid, David Bailey's Look Again is a fantastically entertaining memoir by a true icon.'Rollicking . . . with roguish tales as vivid as his era-defining photos' – Daily Mail'Brilliant' – TelegraphDavid Bailey burst onto the scene in 1960 with his revolutionary photographs for Vogue. Discarding the rigid rules of a previous generation of portrait and fashion photog... ... Read more

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Eye-opening and candid, David Bailey's Look Again is a fantastically entertaining memoir by a true icon.'Rollicking . . . with roguish tales as vivid as his era-defining photos' – Daily Mail'Brilliant' – TelegraphDavid Bailey burst onto the scene in 1960 with his revolutionary photographs for Vogue. Discarding the rigid rules of a previous generation of portrait and fashion photog...
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25+ The World's Greatest Short Stories. Vol. 1

The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, The Gold Bug, Daisy Miller, The Yellow Wallpaper, The Call of Cthulhu and other

by Washington Irving, Edgar Allan Poe, Herman Melville, Bret Harte, Leo Tolstoy, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Rudyard Kipling, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Anton Chekhov, David Herbert Lawrence, James Joyce, Ivan Turgenev, Nikolai Gogol, Mikhail Bulgakov, Ivan Bunin, Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu, O. Henry, Ambrose Gwinnett Bierce, Robert Louis Stevenson, Herbert George Wells, William Wymark Jacobs, Arthur Conan Doyle, Henry James, Howard Phillips Lovecraft, Alexander Pushkin, Gilbert Keith Chesterton ...

Narrated by Paul Gibson, David Miles, Michael Goodrick, Frank Bailey, Sharon Plummer, Jeremy Albret, John Lingua, Mark Bowen, Richard Williams, Joe Phoenix, Mike Hogan, Peter Coates, Martina Mercer-Hall, Jim Girard, Joanne Thompson, David McCord, Judy Kriz, Jason Dettrey ...

Unabridged

29 hours 8 min

Contents:Washington Irving. The Legend of Sleepy HollowEdgar Allan Poe. The Gold BugHerman Melville. Bartleby, the ScrivenerBret Harte. The Luck of Roaring CampLeo Tolstoy. The Death of Ivan IlyichFyodor Dostoevsky. The Dream of a Ridiculous ManRudyard Kipling. Rikki-Tikki-TaviCharlotte Perkins Gilman. The Yellow WallpaperAnton Chekhov. The Lady with the DogD.H. Lawrence. The Prussian Of... ... Read more

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Contents:Washington Irving. The Legend of Sleepy HollowEdgar Allan Poe. The Gold BugHerman Melville. Bartleby, the ScrivenerBret Harte. The Luck of Roaring CampLeo Tolstoy. The Death of Ivan IlyichFyodor Dostoevsky. The Dream of a Ridiculous ManRudyard Kipling. Rikki-Tikki-TaviCharlotte Perkins Gilman. The Yellow WallpaperAnton Chekhov. The Lady with the DogD.H. Lawrence. The Prussian Of...
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Sophia's War

A Tale of the Revolution

by Avi ...

Narrated by Angela Goethals ...

Unabridged

7 hours 23 min

Lives hang in the balance in this gripping Revolutionary War adventure from a beloved Newbery Medalist.In 1776, young Sophia Calderwood witnesses the execution of Nathan Hale in New York City, which is newly occupied by the British army. Sophia is horrified by the event and resolves to do all she can to help the American cause. Recruited as a spy, she becomes a maid in the home of General Clinton, ... Read more

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Lives hang in the balance in this gripping Revolutionary War adventure from a beloved Newbery Medalist.In 1776, young Sophia Calderwood witnesses the execution of Nathan Hale in New York City, which is newly occupied by the British army. Sophia is horrified by the event and resolves to do all she can to help the American cause. Recruited as a spy, she becomes a maid in the home of General Clinton,
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