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  • Whiteness of a Different Color

    by Matthew Frye Jacobson ...
    America's racial odyssey is the subject of this remarkable work of historical imagination. Matthew Frye Jacobson argues that race resides not in nature but in the contingencies of politics and culture. In ever-changing racial categories we glimpse the competing theories of history and collective destiny by which power has been organized and contested in the United States. Capturing the excitement ... Read more

    $27.59 USD

  • 100 Ways to Love Your Wife

    A Life-Long Journey of Learning to Love Each Other

    by Matthew L. Jacobson ...
    100 Ways To Love Your Wife is filled with practical ideas for pursuing love, kindness, friendship, and appreciation in the everyday lives of couples committed to enjoying the best a great marriage has to offer (although much of what's here is apropos for those planning to be married, too!). What does it take to have a great marriage? It's not all that complicated - just a whole lot of decisions ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • Pieces of Morrissey

    by Matthew Jacobson ...
    Morrissey is a cult figure. But what drives his fans devotion? What makes them trek halfway round the world to catch his shows in the US or South America when he is playing in their city a few months later? Why do they fight over pieces of his shirt, thrown each night into the crowd? Is this healthy? Should they seek help? Is Moz messainic or does he calculatedly whip the mob into a frenzy to ... Read more

    $4.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Odetta’s One Grain of Sand

    by Dr. Matthew Frye Jacobson ...
    Series series 33 1/3
    When 20-year-old Odetta Holmes-classically trained as a vocalist and poised to become “the next Marian Anderson”-veered away from both opera and musical theater in favor of performing politically charged field hollers, prison songs, work songs, and folk tunes before mixed-race audiences in 1950s coffee houses, she was making one of the most portentous decisions in the history of both American ... Read more

    $12.79 USD

  • Dancing Down the Barricades

    Sammy Davis Jr. and the Long Civil Rights Era

    by Matthew Frye Jacobson ...
    A deep dive into racial politics, Hollywood, and Black cultural struggles for liberation as reflected in the extraordinary life and times of Sammy Davis Jr.Through the lens of Sammy Davis Jr.'s six-decade career in show business—from vaudeville to Vegas to Broadway, Hollywood, and network TV—Dancing Down the Barricades examines the workings of race in American culture. The title phrase holds two ... Read more

    $28.49 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Wired For Genius

    Memoirs of a Social Oddity

    by J Matthew Jacobson ...
    In this book, J. Matthew Jacobson covers his four decade long battle with social awkwardness and abstract thinking. The author recounts his personal life and events that have culminated into his self-realization and exploration of High Functioning Autism (formerly known as Asperger's Syndrome) and the Autism Spectrum Disorder that has lurked in his shadows, terrorizing relationships and maximizing ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • Hell Island

    by Matthew Reilly ...
    Captain Shane Schofield and his elite team of marines is about to discover.******..There is no hell like a man-made one.It is an island that doesn’t appear on any maps. A secret location where the government conducts classified experiments. Experiments that have gone terribly wrong...When all contact with the mysterious island is suddenly and inexplicably lost, Captain Shane Schofield and four ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

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    Dancing Down the Barricades

    Sammy Davis Jr. and the Long Civil Rights Era

    by Matthew Frye Jacobson ...
    Narrated by Jonathan Yen ...

    Unabridged

    13 hours 36 min

    A deep dive into racial politics, Hollywood, and Black cultural struggles for liberation as reflected in the extraordinary life and times of Sammy Davis Jr.Through the lens of Sammy Davis Jr.'s six-decade career in show business—from vaudeville to Vegas to Broadway, Hollywood, and network TV—Dancing Down the Barricades examines the workings of race in American culture. The title phrase holds two ... Read more

    $25.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

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    Reconcilable Differences, Second Edition

    Rebuild Your Relationship by Rediscovering the Partner You Love-without Losing Yourself

    by Andrew Christensen, PhD, Brian D. Doss, PhD, Neil S. Jacobson, PhD ...
    Narrated by Matthew Josdal ...

    Unabridged

    14 hours 58 min

    Every couple has disagreements, but what happens when recurring conflicts start to pull your relationship apart? Do you lie awake hoping that your spouse will eventually see things your way, or rehashing the evidence that you're right? Demand some immediate changes—or else? This popular, science-based guide offers powerful solutions for couples frustrated by continual attempts to make each other ... Read more

    $25.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • A Beautiful Defeat

    Find True Freedom and Purpose in Total Surrender to God

    by Kevin Malarkey ...
    Total surrender to God: the surprising key to experiencing the sense of peace and purpose you crave.There is a gnawing feeling inside all of us that says we could be better. If we would just be more organized or work a little harder, we’d finally have the rich and fulfilling life we want.But the message of the cross is different.The message is not one of God saying, “I died for your sins to work ... Read more

    $6.49 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Roots Too

    White Ethnic Revival in Post–Civil Rights America

    by Matthew Frye Jacobson ...
    In the 1950s, America was seen as a vast melting pot in which white ethnic affiliations were on the wane and a common American identity was the norm. Yet by the 1970s, these white ethnics mobilized around a new version of the epic tale of plucky immigrants making their way in the New World through the sweat of their brow. Although this turn to ethnicity was for many an individual search for ... Read more

    $25.49 USD

  • The Historian's Eye

    Photography, History, and the American Present

    by Matthew Frye Jacobson ...
    Series series Documentary Arts and Culture, Published in association with the Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University
    Between 2009 and 2014, as the nation contemplated the historic election of Barack Obama and endured the effects of the Great Recession, Matthew Frye Jacobson set out with a camera to explore and document what was discernible to the “historian’s eye” during this tumultuous period. Having collected several thousand images, Jacobson began to reflect on their raw, informal immediacy alongside the ... Read more

    $18.99 USD