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  • Vision and Communism

    Viktor Koretsky and Dissident Public Visual Culture

    Edited by Robert Bird, Christopher P. Heuer, Tumelo Mosaka, Stephanie Smith, Matthew Jesse Jackson ...
    In the last thirty years of the Soviet Communist project, Viktor Koretsky's art struggled to solve an enduring riddle: how to ensure or restore Communism's moral health through the production of a distinctively Communist vision. In this sense Koretsky's art demonstrates what an “avant-garde late Communist art” would have looked like if we had ever seen it mature. Most striking of all, Koretsky was ... Read more

    $26.39 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Death of Innocence

    The Story of the Hate Crime that Changed America

    by Mamie Till-Mobley, Christopher Benson ...
    The mother of Emmett Till recounts the story of her life, her son’s tragic death, and the dawn of the civil rights movement—with a foreword by the Reverend Jesse L. Jackson, Sr.In August 1955, a fourteen-year-old African American, Emmett Till, was visiting family in Mississippi when he was kidnapped from his bed in the middle of the night by two white men and brutally murdered. His crime: ... Read more

    Was $15.99 CAD Now $12.99 CAD

  • The Finger of God

    by Jesse L. Jackson Jr. ...
    Let me offer an early disclaimer. I know exactly who the Founders were. I know exactly the crimes against humanity that they were responsible for and those they inherited and were not responsible for. I do not spend time extolling the virtues of Mr. Jefferson, Mr. Adams, Mr. Franklin, and Mr. Madison. Nothing in this work or in my experiment (my life’s work) can change the fact or alter the ... Read more

    $8.69 CAD

  • Say It Plain

    A Century of Great African American Speeches

    by Booker T. Washington, Marcus Garvey, Mary McLeod Bethune, Walter White, Charles Hamilton Houston, Thurgood Marshall, Howard Thurman, Dick Gregory, Fannie Lou Hamer, Stokely Carmichael, John Hope Franklin, Shirley Chisholm, Barbara Jordan, Benjamin L. Hooks, Joseph Lowery, Louis Farrakhan, Jesse Jackson, Johnetta B. Cole, Lani Guinier, Clarence Thomas, Randall Robinson, Julian Bond, Martin Luther King ...
    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 twentieth century's leading African American cultural, literary, and political figures, many never before available ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Stitching Stolen Lives

    Amplifying Voices, Empowering Youth & Building Empathy Through Quilts

    by Sara Trail, Teresa Duryea Wong ...
    Remembering those we've lost, and empowering those of the future Stitching Stolen Lives is an in-depth look at the mission and work of the Social Justice Sewing Academy Remembrance Project. Together, we remember the lives lost due to racial injustices, with an in-depth sharing of their story. The SJSA compiled extraordinary portrait art quilts that memorialize the individuals and say their names, ... Read more

    $23.19 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Francis Effect

    by Tania Bruguera, Matthew Jesse Jackson, Saskia Sassen, Nicholas Terpstra ...
    “The Francis Effect was about proposing something completely absurd, as absurd as borders are. If Immigrant Movement was for the thousands of people who went there, The The Francis Effect was just for one person, the pope. But the more people that participated, the more personal it became.” –Tania BrugueraStemming from a performance that originated at the Guggenheim Museum, The Francis Effect ... Read more

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  • The Heirs of Sarah

    Ending to Begin

    by Jess L Jackson ...
    The Heirs of Sarah is a fictional series with historical, sci-fi and fantasy elements. Goddess Queen Hadiat (Sarah Baartman) and god King Jasir Amare incur a prophesied tragedy which causes them to lose their triplet heiresses. The Heiresses are separated amongst various Believing tribes and centuries later their descendants are tasked with realignment to their rightful thrones. The first ... Read more

    $4.99 CAD

  • To Follow Where You Are

    by Jess L Jackson ...
    Jess L. Jackson's third novel is a continuation of her effort to illustrate Black stories that dispel myths and stereotypes surrounding the Black community at large. "To Follow Where You Are", speaks to and empathetically for the soul of Black men who's stories often go untold because being transparent or emotional is a foreign concept for them. The need for their healing is beneficial not only ... Read more

    $6.29 CAD

  • Handbook of Social Economics SET: 1A, 1B

    Edited by Jess Benhabib, Alberto Bisin, Matthew O. Jackson ...
    Series Book 1 - Handbooks in Economics
    How can economists define and measure social preferences and interactions? Through the use of new economic data and tools, our contributors survey an array of social interactions and decisions that typify homo economicus. Identifying economic strains in activities such as learning, group formation, discrimination, and the creation of peer dynamics, they demonstrate how they tease out social ... Read more

    $229.59 CAD

  • Handbook of Social Economics

    Edited by Jess Benhabib, Alberto Bisin, Matthew O. Jackson ...
    Series Book 1 - Handbooks in Economics
    How do economists understand and measure normal social phenomena? Identifying economic strains in activities such as learning, group formation, discrimination, and peer dynamics requires sophisticated data and tools as well as a grasp of prior scholarship. In this volume leading economists provide an authoritative summary of social choice economics, from norms and conventions to the exchange of ... Read more

    $145.59 CAD

  • Amidst Dreams

    by Jess L Jackson ...
    When you meet someone, you're meeting a whole person with an amazing story and entire history that spans beyond what meets the eye. Their humanity, their presence, their purpose is an opportunity that shouldn't be taken for granted.Amidst Dreams centers the story Leilani Alexander, a single mother and professional, who routinely puts the needs of others before herself. She and her culturally ... Read more

    $4.99 CAD

  • Audiobook

    Great and Inspiring Speeches of the 20th Century

    by Charles Lindbergh, Joseph McCarthy, Adlai Stevenson, Alan Freed, Amelia Earhart, Babe Ruth, Barry Goldwater, Calvin Coolidge, Casey Stengel, Douglas MacArthur, Dwight Eisenhower, Edward Kennedy, Frank Borman, Franklin D. Roosevelt, George Bush, Gerard Watson, Gloria Steinem, Hank Aaron, Harry S. Truman, Howard Taft, J.J. "Black Jack" Pershing, Jerry Rubin, Jesse Jackson, Jimmy Carter, John Foster Dulles, John Glenn, John Kennedy, King Edward The VIII, Len Spencer, Lou Gehrig, Lyndon B. Johnson, Malcolm X, Mario Cuomo, Martin Luther King, Neil Armstrong, Neville Chamberlain, Nikita Khrushchev, Oliver North, Princess Elizabeth, Princess Margaret, Richard Daley, Richard Nixon, Ronald Reagan, Spiro Agnew, Theodore Roosevelt, Thomas Dewey, William Jennings Brian, Winston Churchill, Woodrow Wilson ...
    Narrated by The Peter Pan Players ...

    Unabridged

    4 hours 35 min

    A collection of 67 original recordings of speeches significant in United States and world history. Hear presidents, politicians, activists, sports figures and more in their own words as they talk about some of the most important events in the 20th century. ... Read more

    $4.11 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus