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  • The Life of John Thompson, a Fugitive Slave

    A Fugitive Slave Narrative of Twenty-Five Years in Bondage, Escape, and the Struggle for Freedom

    by John Thompson ...
    The Life of John Thompson, a Fugitive Slave is an important example of the antebellum slave narrative, presenting enslavement not as an abstraction but as a system experienced through coercion, surveillance, family disruption, and the persistent denial of personhood. In a direct, testimonial style, Thompson recounts the conditions that shaped his bondage and the struggle through which he sought ... Read more

    Was $1.99 USD Now $0.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Stilt Jack

    by John Thompson ...
    Series series A List
    The much-loved, yet undervalued, final book of poems by British-Canadian poet John Thompson, is reissued in a handsome edition, featuring a new introduction by Rob Winger.Originally published in 1978, Stilt Jack is a series of powerful soliloquies on the complexity of love and the process of living. These are made immediate through Thompson’s command of metaphor, his eye for the New Brunswick ... Read more

    $11.59 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Reservoir

    A Novel

    by John Milliken Thompson ...
    On an early spring morning in Richmond, Virginia, in the year 1885, a young pregnant woman is found floating in the city reservoir. It appears that she has committed suicide, but there are curious clues at the scene that suggest foul play. The case attracts local attention, and an eccentric group of men collaborate to solve the crime. Detective Jack Wren lurks in the shadows, weaseling his way ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • John Thompson's Modern Course for the Piano - First Grade

    First Grade

    by John Thompson ...
    (Willis). The Modern Course series provides a clear and complete foundation in the study of the piano that enables the student to think and feel musically. It may be preceded by the Teaching Little Fingers to Play series. ... Read more

    $13.09 USD

  • Merchants of Culture

    The Publishing Business in the Twenty-First Century

    by John B. Thompson ...
    "All you need to know about the industry at a time of momentous change."-Drake McFeely, chairman and president, W.W. Norton & CompanyFor nearly five centuries, the world of book publishing remained largely static. But at the dawn of the twenty-first century, the industry faces a combination of economic pressures and technological change that is forcing publishers to alter their practices and think ... Read more

    $6.99 USD

  • The Life of John Thompson, a Fugitive Slave

    Containing His History of 25 Years in Bondage, and His Providential Escape

    by John Thompson ...
    The unique narrative of a slave who fled to freedom and sailed aboard a whaling vesselJohn Thompson was born into slavery on a Maryland plantation in 1812. Originally published in 1856, The Life of John Thompson, a Fugitive Slave chronicles his enslavement, his escape, and his life in the North, where he lived as a free man until fear of recapture drove him to flee once again-this time to sea ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • I Came As a Shadow

    An Autobiography

    by John Thompson ...
    A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOKThe long-awaited autobiography from Georgetown University’s legendary coach, whose life on and off the basketball court throws America’s unresolved struggle with racial justice into sharp reliefJohn Thompson was never just a basketball coach and I Came As a Shadow is categorically not just a basketball autobiography.After three decades at the center of race and sports ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • John Thompson's Modern Course for the Piano - Second Grade (Book Only)

    Second Grade

    by John Thompson ...
    (Willis). The Modern Course series provides a clear and complete foundation in the study of the piano that enables the student to think and feel musically. It may be preceded by the Teaching Little Fingers to Play series. Follows uninterruptedly and in progressive sequence the musical foundation developed in Book 1. ... Read more

    $9.59 USD

  • Book Wars

    The Digital Revolution in Publishing

    by John B. Thompson ...
    This book tells the story of the turbulent decades when the book publishing industry collided with the great technological revolution of our time. From the surge of ebooks to the self-publishing explosion and the growing popularity of audiobooks, Book Wars provides a comprehensive and fine-grained account of technological disruption in one of our most important and successful creative industries ... Read more

    $22.00 USD

  • Casanova and Enlightenment

    His Study of Life and Other Writers

    by David John Thompson ...
    Giacomo Casanova (1725-1798) was born the son of a moderately poor acting family at a time when the stage carried enormous social stigma. Yet in his own lifetime he achieved celebrity across Europe, rubbing shoulders with numerous of the eighteenth century's greatest men and women, from Frederick the Great to Catherine the Great, from Voltaire to Albrecht von Haller, from Pope Benedict XIV to Pope ... Read more

    $12.39 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Seven Years From Tomorrow

    by John L. Thompson ...
    A speculative mystery of second chances, fate, and everything left to lose.When fifty-three-year-old Jack Soladay learns he has eighteen months to live, he must confront a lifetime of regrets filled with poor choices, failed relationships, lost opportunities, and the family he abandoned.After one last night of drinking, Jack gives his remaining cash to a homeless man, believing it a trivial act of ... Read more

    $2.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Ideology and Modern Culture

    Critical Social Theory in the Era of Mass Communication

    by John B. Thompson ...
    In this major new work, Thompson develops an original account of ideology and relates it to the analysis of culture and mass communication in modern Societies.Thompson offers a concise and critical appraisal of major contributions to the theory of ideology, from Marx and Mannheim, to Horkheimer, Adorno and Habermas. He argues that these thinkers - and social and political theorists more generally ... Read more

    $28.00 USD