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  • The Imperial Gridiron

    Manhood, Civilization, and Football at the Carlisle Indian Industrial School

    by Matthew Bentley, John D. Bloom ...
    Finalist for the 2023 NASSH Anthologies Book AwardThe Imperial Gridiron examines the competing versions of manhood at the Carlisle Indian Industrial School between 1879 and 1918. Students often arrived at Carlisle already engrained with Indigenous ideals of masculinity. On many occasions these ideals would come into conflict with the models of manhood created by the school’s original ... Read more

    $46.79 USD

  • Spaceplanes

    From Airport to Spaceport

    by Matthew A. Bentley ...
    Series series Engineering (R0)
    Spaceplanes From Airport to Spaceport presents a coherent, lucid, and optimistic picture of the future of the near future. Space vehicles may soon take off from international airports and refuel in space. New technologies could allow flights to take off regularly between the Earth and the Moon. The technical details presented explain precisely how all this can be accomplished within the next few ... Read more

    $31.49 USD

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    10 Buddhist Meditations for Non-Buddhists

    by Matthew R Bentley ...
    Narrated by Matthew R Bentley ...

    Unabridged

    1 hour 37 min

    A practical guide to meditating in the Buddhist tradition, without the religious component.Matthew Bentley has been a Buddhist practitioner and occasional teacher for the past 24 years, and has studied Theravada, Mahayana and Vajrayana practices.In an effort to spread the scientifically-established benefits of Buddhist meditation to those uncomfortable with religious practice, 10 foundational ... Read more

    $5.39 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Critical Perspectives on Open Development

    Empirical Interrogation of Theory Construction

    Edited by Arul Chib, Matthew L. Smith, Caitlin M. Bentley ...
    Series series International Development Research Centre
    Theoretical and empirical analyses of whether open innovations in international development instrumentally advantages poor and marginalized populations.Over the last ten years, "open" innovations--the sharing of information without access restrictions or cost--have emerged within international development. But do these practices instrumentally advantage poor and marginalized populations? This book ... Read more

    $44.99 USD

  • The Hill We Climbed

    Prairie View A&M University

    by Phyllis Earles, Rebecca Hankins, Oscar H. Criner III, Ronald Lorenzo, Donna Hollie, Tabitha Morton, Whitney Stovall, Peter Rose, Coiette P. Morton, Camille Gibson, Deborah Johnson-Simon, Ikhlas Sabourni, Justin Lamar Bryant, Herman "Skip" Mason Jr., William A. Foster IV, Quinesha Bentley, Matthew G. Washington, Derek Blackwell ...
    Series series Prairie View A&M University Series
    Founded in 1876, Prairie View A&M University is the second-oldest public institution of higher learning in Texas, one of two Texas land-grant universities, and an “institution of the first class” within the Texas A&M University System. It is also the first public historically Black college or university (HBCU) in Texas. Prairie View A&M has played a pivotal role in the educational and economic ... Read more

    $11.59 USD

  • UnSatisfied

    When Less Is More

    by Matthew Q. Lesser ...
    Are you living your best life? Content? Satisfied? Every day, in a hundred different ways, modern society promises us that we can achieve happiness if we do more, get more, and be more. However, too many people accomplish the ambitious goals they set for themselves only to realize that instead of being satisfied they are burned out and miserable.In UnSatisfied, Matt Lesserdares you to question ... Read more

    $6.99 USD

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  • A History of Fort Worth in Black & White

    165 Years of African-American Life

    by Richard F. Selcer ...
    A History of Fort Worth in Black & White fills a long-empty niche on the Fort Worth bookshelf: a scholarly history of the city's black community that starts at the beginning with Ripley Arnold and the early settlers, and comes down to today with our current battles over education, housing, and representation in city affairs. The book's sidebars on some noted and some not-so-noted African Americans ... Read more

    $17.29 USD

  • Freedom's Racial Frontier

    African Americans in the Twentieth-Century West

    Edited by Herbert G. Ruffin II, Dwayne A. Mack ...
    Series series Race and Culture in the American West Series
    Between 1940 and 2010, the black population of the American West grew from 710,400 to 7 million. With that explosive growth has come a burgeoning interest in the history of the African American West—an interest reflected in the remarkable range and depth of the works collected in Freedom’s Racial Frontier. Editors Herbert G. Ruffin II and Dwayne A. Mack have gathered established and emerging ... Read more

    $21.59 USD

  • Colour-Coded

    A Legal History of Racism in Canada, 1900-1950

    by Constance Backhouse ...
    Series series Osgoode Society for Canadian Legal History
    Historically Canadians have considered themselves to be more or less free of racial prejudice. Although this conception has been challenged in recent years, it has not been completely dispelled. In Colour-Coded, Constance Backhouse illustrates the tenacious hold that white supremacy had on our legal system in the first half of this century, and underscores the damaging legacy of inequality that ... Read more

    $51.29 USD

  • Two Weeks Every Summer

    Fresh Air Children and the Problem of Race in America

    by Tobin Miller Shearer ...
    Series series American Institutions and Society
    Two Weeks Every Summer, which is based on extensive oral history interviews with former guests, hosts, and administrators in Fresh Air programs, opens a new chapter in the history of race in the United States by showing how the actions of hundreds of thousands of rural and suburban residents who hosted children from the city perpetuated racial inequity rather than overturned it. Since 1877 and to ... Read more

    $16.19 USD

  • Public Policy in Action

    Perspectives on the Policy Process

    by Victor Bekkers, Menno Fenger, Peter Scholten ...
    This comprehensive textbook explores the policy process from a multitude of perspectives, including rationalism, culturalism, institutionalism and from a political point of view. This allows students to discover key concepts from the policy science literature and gain a deeper understanding of how public policy is discussed academically and shaped empirically.Public Policy in Action gives a ... Read more

    $44.09 USD

  • We the Women

    The Hidden Heroes Who Shaped America

    by Norah O'Donnell, Kate Andersen Brower ...
    NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A vivid portrait of the unsung American women from 1776 to today who changed the course of history in their fight for freedom and helped shape a more perfect union“This terrific book reveals the central, though often hidden role that women have played at every stage of our country’s history.”—Doris Kearns GoodwinOver a decades-long, distinguished career, award-winning ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

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