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  • Lt. Spalding in Civil War Louisiana

    A Union Officer's Humor, Privilege, and Ambition

    by Michael D. Pierson ...
    In July 1862, Union Lieutenant Stephen Spalding wrote a long letter from his post in Algiers, Louisiana, to his former college roommate. Equally fascinating and unsettling for modern readers, the comic cynicism of the young soldier’s correspondence offers an unusually candid and intimate account of military life and social change on the southern front. A captivating primary source, Spalding’s ... Read more

    $23.19 CAD

  • The Wild Woman of Cincinnati

    Gender and Politics on the Eve of the Civil War

    by Michael D. Pierson ...
    Popular entertainment in antebellum Cincinnati ran the gamut from high culture to shows barely above the level of the tawdry. Among the options for those seeking entertainment in the summer of 1856 was the display of a “Wild Woman,” purportedly a young woman captured while living a feral life beyond the frontier. The popular exhibit, which featured a silent, underdressed woman chained to a bed, ... Read more

    $23.19 CAD

  • Free Hearts and Free Homes

    Gender and American Antislavery Politics

    by Michael D. Pierson ...
    Series series Gender and American Culture
    By exploring the intersection of gender and politics in the antebellum North, Michael Pierson examines how antislavery political parties capitalized on the emerging family practices and ideologies that accompanied the market revolution.From the birth of the Liberty party in 1840 through the election of Republican Abraham Lincoln in 1860, antislavery parties celebrated the social practices of ... Read more

    $34.39 CAD

  • Mutiny at Fort Jackson

    The Untold Story of the Fall of New Orleans

    by Michael D. Pierson ...
    Series series Civil War America
    New Orleans was the largest city — and one of the richest — in the Confederacy, protected in part by Fort Jackson, which was just sixty-five miles down the Mississippi River. On April 27, 1862, Confederate soldiers at Fort Jackson rose up in mutiny against their commanding officers. New Orleans fell to Union forces soon thereafter. Although the Fort Jackson mutiny marked a critical turning point ... Read more

    $23.19 CAD

  • Watching While Black Rebooted!

    The Television and Digitality of Black Audiences

    by Beretta E. Smith-Shomade, Eric Pierson, Christine Acham, Michael Boyce Gillespie, Felicia D Henderson, TreaAndrea M. Russworm, Nghana Lewis, Adrien Sebro, Briana Barner0, Shelleen Greene1, Brandy Monk-Payton2, Jacqueline Johnson3, Alfred L. Martin Jr.4 ...
    Watching While Black Rebooted: The Television and Digitality of Black Audiences examines what watching while Black means in an expanded U.S. televisual landscape. In this updated edition, media scholars return to television and digital spaces to think anew about what engages and captures Black audiences and users and why it matters. Contributors traverse programs and platforms to wrestle with a ... Read more

    $35.69 CAD

  • Creating Community

    The Art of Empowerment in Community Association Living

    by Michael Robert Pierson ...
    The goal of this book is to help those people whose lives are impacted by community association living owners, residents, board members, volunteers, management staff and the business partners that service them have a clearer understanding of the dynamics about how to create a community in the truest sense of the word: A collection of diverse individuals that are engaged with each other, informed ... Read more

    $11.19 CAD

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    The Great Workplace

    How to Build It, How to Keep It, and Why It Matters

    by Michael Burchell, Jennifer Robin ...
    Narrated by Dana Pierson ...

    Unabridged

    6 hours 47 min

    For 20 years, the Great Place to Work Institute has been producing annual ranking of the best companies to work for in the US and in 38 countries around the world. In the US, the Institute produces the FORTUNE 100 Best Companies to Work For Annual List. In 2010, the list included among its finalists: SAS, Google, REI, Scripps Health, Hoar Construction, DreamWorks Animation, Zappos.com, Salesforce ... Read more

    $28.84 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

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    Death and the American Civil War (National Book Award Finalist)

    by Drew Gilpin Faust ...
    Series series Vintage Civil War Library
    NATIONAL BESTSELLER • NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST • An "extraordinary ... profoundly moving" history (The New York Times Book Review) of the American Civil War that reveals the ways that death on such a scale changed not only individual lives but the life of the nation.An estiated 750,000 soldiers lost their lives in the American Civil War. An equivalent proportion of today's population would be ... Read more

    $14.99 CAD

  • Stony the Road

    Reconstruction, White Supremacy, and the Rise of Jim Crow

    by Henry Louis Gates Jr. ...
    **“Stony the Road presents a bracing alternative to Trump-era white nationalism. . . . In our current politics we recognize African-American history—the spot under our country’s rug where the terrorism and injustices of white supremacy are habitually swept. Stony the Road lifts the rug." —Nell Irvin Painter, New York Times Book ReviewA profound new rendering of the struggle by African-Americans ... Read more

    $12.99 CAD

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  • Leading Change, With a New Preface by the Author

    by John P. Kotter ...
    The international bestseller-now with a new preface by author John Kotter.Millions worldwide have read and embraced John Kotter’s ideas on change management and leadership.From the ill-fated dot-com bubble to unprecedented M&A activity to scandal, greed, and ultimately, recession-we’ve learned that widespread and difficult change is no longer the exception. It’s the rule. Now with a new preface, ... Read more

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  • A People's History of the Civil War

    Struggles for the Meaning of Freedom

    by David Williams ...
    "Does for the Civil War period what Howard Zinn's A People's History of the United States did for the study of American history in general." — Library JournalHistorian David Williams has written the first account of the American Civil War as viewed though the eyes of ordinary people—foot soldiers, slaves, women, prisoners of war, draft resisters, Native Americans, and others. Richly illustrated ... Read more

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  • Stolen Childhood

    Slave Youth in Nineteenth-Century America

    by Wilma King ...
    Series series Blacks in the Diaspora
    An updated edition of the classic study that took "an enormous step toward filling some of the voids in the literature of slavery" ( The Washington Post Book World).One of the most important books published on slave society, Stolen Childhood focuses on the millions of children and youth enslaved in 19th-century America. This enlarged and revised edition reflects the abundance of new scholarship ... Read more

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