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  • The 1968 Florida Teachers' Strike

    Public Sector Unionism and the Fight against Sunshine State Conservatism

    Series series Making the Modern South
    In early 1968, more than 27,000 teachers across Florida mailed their resignation letters, initiating the country’s first statewide teachers’ strike. The striking teachers fought for and won a monumental victory, improving education in the state and gaining collective bargaining rights for all public sector employees. Even as the influence of industrial labor unions decreased across the country, ... Read more

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  • Catastrophic Care

    How American Health Care Killed My Father--and How We Can Fix It

    A visionary investigation that will change the way we think about health care: how and why it is failing, why expanding coverage will actually make things worse, and how our health care can be transformed into a transparent, affordable, successful system.In 2007, David Goldhill’s father died from infections acquired in a hospital, one of more than two hundred thousand avoidable deaths per year ... Read more

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  • I Will Be Complete

    A Memoir

    **From the bestselling author of Carter Beats the Devil and Sunnyside, a big-hearted memoir told in three parts: about growing up in the wake of the destructive choices of an extremely unconventional mother.“Extraordinary ... An audacious, boundary-shattering work.” —Los Angeles Times**Glen David Gold’s earliest memories are of a childhood in which he had everything he could possibly want. But ... Read more

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  • Confederate Cities

    The Urban South During the Civil War Era

    Edited by Andrew L. Slap, Frank Towers ...
    Series series Historical Studies of Urban America
    When we talk about the Civil War, we often describe it in terms of battles that took place in small towns or in the countryside: Antietam, Gettysburg, Bull Run, and, most tellingly, the Battle of the Wilderness. One reason this picture has persisted is that few urban historians have studied the war, even though cities hosted, enabled, and shaped Southern society as much as they did in the North ... Read more

    $23.09 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Audiobook

    Catastrophic Care

    How American Health Care Killed My Father--and How We Can Fix It

    Narrated by Dean Sluyter ...

    Unabridged

    13 hours 1 min

    A visionary investigation that will change the way we think about health care: how and why it is failing, why expanding coverage will actually make things worse, and how our health care can be transformed into a transparent, affordable, successful system.In 2007, David Goldhill’s father died from infections acquired in a hospital, one of more than two hundred thousand avoidable deaths per year ... Read more

    $22.50 USD

  • Democracy and the Courts

    The Rise of Judicial Elections in the Antebellum South

    by David M. Gold ...
    The first comprehensive examination of the development of judicial elections in the American SouthThe practice of choosing state judges by popular election is a unique aspect of American democracy. First appearing in Mississippi in 1832 and then sweeping across the United States, judicial elections had a distinctly Southern origin. Prior scholarship seeking to explain the broad acceptance of the ... Read more

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  • The Oxford Handbook of Skills and Training

    Series series Oxford Handbooks
    Skills and workforce development are at the heart of much research on work, employment, and management. But are they so important? To what extent can they make a difference for individuals, organizations, and nations? How are the supply and, more importantly, the utilization of skill, currently evolving? What are the key factors shaping skills trajectories of the future? This Handbook provides an ... Read more

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  • City of Nets

    A Portrait of Hollywood in the 1940's

    "With its tough humor, profound cynicism, and unerring nose for corruption and hypocrisy, City of Nets offers a distinctly Brechtian vision of Hollywood." — The Village VoiceIn 1939, fifty million Americans went to the movies every week, Louis B. Mayer was the highest-paid man in the country, and Hollywood produced 530 feature films a year. One decade and five thousand movies later, the studios ... Read more

    $17.29 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Still Fighting the Civil War

    The American South and Southern History

    Series series
    In the updated edition of his sweeping narrative on southern history, David Goldfield brings this extensive study into the present with a timely assessment of the unresolved issues surrounding the Civil War's sesquicentennial commemoration. Traversing a hundred and fifty years of memory, Goldfield confronts the remnants of the American Civil War that survive in the hearts of many of the South's ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • The Ambassador's Word

    Hostage Crisis in Peru, 1996-1997

    The story of the hostage taking at the Japanese Embassy in Lima, Peru, with a focus on the role played by Canadian Ambassador Anthony Vincent, who acted as mediator between the Peruvian government and the Tupac Amaru rebels. ... Read more

    $8.69 USD

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    Chalice War, The: Stone

    by David B. Coe ...
    Narrated by Jessica Goldapple ...
    Series Audiobook 1 - The Chalice War

    Unabridged

    10 hours 9 min

    A lonely woman stalked by dark forces for what she is.A Sidhe sorcerer hunted for what she possesses.Kelsey Strand's encounters with a hunting panther and a mysterious stranger force a dangerous magical talent to the surface and change everything she thought she knew about herself and the world around her.Only the sudden arrival of Marti Rider, a Sidhe sorcerer allows Kel to escape with her life ... Read more

    $28.00 USD

  • The Seventh Voice

    The Ark Carriers, #1

    Series Book 1 - The Ark Carriers
    David Ashworth builds systems for a living. He does not hear voices.A data scientist and quiet Christian living in rural Sussex, David has spent seven years building a life that makes sense — a wife who grounds him, two children who need him, a mind that finds patterns in everything. The blackouts are nothing. The handwriting on Post-it notes he doesn't remember writing is nothing. The moments ... Read more

    $4.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus