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  • A Different Drummer

    by William Melvin Kelley ...
    The stunning, thought-provoking first novel by a "lost giant of American literature" (The New Yorker)June, 1957. One hot afternoon in the backwaters of the Deep South, a young black farmer named Tucker Caliban salts his fields, shoots his horse, burns his house, and heads north with his wife and child. His departure sets off an exodus of the state’s entire black population, throwing the ... Read more

    $13.99 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • The American Cultural Dialogue And Its Transmission

    by George Spindler, Louise Spindler, Henry Trueba, Melvin D. Williams ...
    Combines data obtained by a values projective technique over a period of more than 30 years. The purpose of the book is to deal with a process in which all Americans, old and new, and of all ethnic groups and minorities, are caught up - the American cultural dialogue. ... Read more

    $152.99 CAD

  • Quantitative Drug Safety and Benefit Risk Evaluation

    Practical and Cross-Disciplinary Approaches

    Edited by William Wang, Melvin Munsaka, James Buchanan, Judy Li ...
    Series series Chapman & Hall/CRC Biostatistics Series
    Quantitative Methodologies and Process for Safety Monitoring and Ongoing Benefit Risk Evaluation provides a comprehensive coverage on safety monitoring methodologies, covering both global trends and regional initiatives. Pharmacovigilance has traditionally focused on the handling of individual adverse event reports however recently there had been a shift towards aggregate analysis to better ... Read more

    $108.99 CAD

  • Miles Apart

    by Tamika Melvin-Williams ...
    Tamia Mia Miles is a Southern girl from North Carolina who always dreamt of doing two things; having a career in fashion and getting married. Mia thought once she did these things she would be living the life she always dreamed about. That was until the love of her life, Saquan Say Miles decided to get into the fast life and put her last. Mia loves her husband so much she stays with him despite ... Read more

    $4.22 CAD

  • African American Architects

    Embracing Culture and Building Urban Communities

    by Melvin Mitchell, Katherine Williams ...
    Melvin Mitchell believes that the 2016 opening of the NMAAHC signals either a black architect renaissance or the demise of the black architect-practitioner corps in the U.S. by 2040 if not earlier...along with the demise of Black America's cultural, political, and spatial beachheads in America's big cities.He argues in this book that America's perennial housing crisis - most acutely manifested in ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD

  • How Celebrity Lives Affect Our Own

    Understanding the Impact on Americans’ Public and Private Lives

    by Kevin Calcamp, Michelle Colpean, Matthew Corr, Meghann Droeger, Joy Jenkins, Kristina Kraus, Timothy Michaels, Joseph Mirando, Dylan Rollo, Dominique Schuster, Meg Tully0, Tia Tyree1, Bradley Wolfe2, Joshua N. Azriel3, Riva Tukachinsky Forster4, Deborah S. Bowen5, Holeka G. Inaba6, Carol M. Madere8, Melvin L. Williams9, J. David Wolfgang0, Janelle Applequist1, Michelle Williams2 ...
    Famous: How Celebrity Lives Affect Our Own explores the effects celebrities have on their impressionable audience's lives, from copycat suicides, to postfeminist hypersexuality, to taking questionable celebrity health advice, and more. Celebrity advocacy and philanthropy are analyzed as contributors discuss Brad Pitt's rebuilding effort after Hurricane Katrina, Angelina Jolie's recent casting ... Read more

    $126.99 CAD

  • Locating Queerness in the Media

    A New Look

    by Jane Campbell, Theresa Carilli, Simone Cavalcante Da Silva, Ali E. Erol, Judy L. Isaksen, Jamie A. Lee, Colette Morrow, Erika M. Thomas, Melvin L. Williams0, Verdell A. Wright1, Stephanie L. Young2, Bruce E. Drushel3, Lori L. Montalbano4 ...
    Series series Media, Culture, and the Arts
    Locating Queerness in the Media: A New Look examines how media images of the LGBTQ community create a universal consciousness about the existence of queer people, ranging from tragic and villainous to upbeat and courageous. In this book, contributors explore how our media world invites a tension that marginalizes the LGBTQ community. It examines what a queer sensibility means and how the queer ... Read more

    $54.99 CAD

  • Recovering the Personal

    The Philosophical Anthropology of William H. Poteat

    by Ronald L. Hall, Dale W. Cannon, Bruce Haddox, Edward St. Clair, James W. Stines, Elizabeth Newman, R. Melvin Keiser, Kieran Cashell, William H. Poteat0 ...
    Modernity has radically challenged the assumptions that guide our ordinary lives as persons, in ways we are not normally aware. We live our concrete lives taking for granted that personal decisions, desires, relationships, actions, aspirations, values, and knowledge are central to our existence. But in modernity, we think of these matters as private, idiosyncratic, and subjective, even irrational. ... Read more

    $115.99 CAD

  • Social Media

    Culture and Identity

    by Tia C. M. Tyree, Julius Che Tita, Michelle Dovil, Nickesia S. Gordon, Morgan D. Kirby, Maria N. D. Maer, Melanie Tchewo Meulikwo, Brandale Mills, Agbome Salome Nangah, Kingsley L. Ngange0, Jean-Louis Ntang-Beb1, Melvin L. Williams2, Leticia D. Williams3, Kehbuma Langmia5, Angela D. Minor6 ...
    Series series Studies in New Media
    Social Media: Culture and Identity examines the global impact of social media in the formation of various identities and cultures. New media scholars— both national and international— have posited thought-provoking analyses of sociocultural issues about human communication that are impacted by the omnipresence of social media. This collection examines issues of gender, class, and race inequities ... Read more

    $61.99 CAD

  • Reform as Reorganization

    by Royce Hanson, Julius Margolis, Melvin R. Levin, William Letwin ...
    Series series Routledge Revivals
    As the fourth report in a series on the Governance of Metropolitan Areas, Reform as Reorganization explores the welfare and development of metropolitan America in terms of political reorganization. Originally published in 1974, this study reflects on metropolitan problems and governmental structure to provide some new options for policy makers and an overview of what political action can be taken. ... Read more

    $36.99 CAD

  • dem

    by William Melvin Kelley ...
    A searing, provocative satire by one of the most important African-American novelists of the twentieth century that lays bare the abiding racism and the legacy of slavery on the psyche of white America.Mitchell Pierce is a well-off New York ad executive whose marriage is falling apart. He no longer feels any passion for his pregnant wife, Tam, and his toddler son, Jake, has become a disappointment ... Read more

    $14.99 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Dis//Integration

    2 Novelas & 3 Stories & a Little Play

    by William Melvin Kelley ...
    **An odyssey through time in which past and future combine and re-combine to give the arc of a full life, by the "brilliant" (The New Yorker) author of A Different Drummer."[A] lost giant of American literature." —The New Yorker**The linked "2 novelas, 3 stories, and a little play" that make up DIS//INTEGRATION follow the life journeys of Charles "Chig" Dunford from his Nanny Eva sermonizing from ... Read more

    $13.99 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook