John Jackson: 133 books
by Professor Emily Jackson, Professor John Keown
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2011
In this new addition to the 'Debating Law' series, Emily Jackson and John Keown re-examine the legal and ethical aspects of the euthanasia debate.
Emily Jackson argues that we owe it to everyone in society to do all that we can to ensure that they experience a 'good death'. For a small minority...
The American Political Party System
Continuity and Change Over Ten Presidential Elections
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2014
From party polarization, elections, and internal party politics, to the evolution of the U.S. presidency, John S. Jackson's new book has something for everyone interested in American politics. Beginning with a discussion of the creation of the U.S. government to the formation of today's political...
Science for Segregation
Race, Law, and the Case against Brown v. Board of Education
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2005
In this fascinating examination of the intriguing but understudied period following the landmark Brown v. Board of Education decision, John Jackson examines the scientific case aimed at dismantling the legislation.
Offering a trenchant assessment of the so-called scientific evidence, Jackson focuses...
by John Andrew Jackson
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2011
In The Experience of a Slave in South Carolina, escaped slave John Andrew Jackson seeks to educate his readers on the horrors of slavery. He spares no details in relating the murder of his sister, the separation of his family, and his own frequent whippings at the hands of a "Christian"...
by John L. Jackson Jr.
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2013
The African Hebrew Israelites of Jerusalem are often dismissed as a fringe cult for their beliefs that African Americans are descendants of the ancient Israelites and that veganism leads to immortality. But John L. Jackson questions what "fringe" means in a world where cultural practices...
by John H. Jackson
Language: English
Release Date: July 2, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: July 2, 2008
Things and acts seem to come and go in color in Henrys life, as though he were looking through a tube-like kaleidoscope. If we turned the dial of the scope we will perhaps see The Tin Roof. It resembles a Japanese-styled roof, with its crimps and its rich red color, it was quaint but not universally...
A House on Fire
The Rise and Fall of Philadelphia Soul
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2004
"If You Don't Know Me By Now," "The Love I Lost," "The Soul Train Theme," "Then Came You," "Ain't No Stoppin' Us Now"--the distinctive music that became known as Philly Soul dominated the pop music charts in the 1970s. In A House on Fire, John A. Jackson...
Racial Paranoia
The Unintended Consequences of Political Correctness The New Reality of Race in America
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2009
The Civil War put an end to slavery, and the civil rights movement put an end to legalized segregation. Crimes motivated by racism are punished with particular severity, and Americans are more sensitive than ever about the words they choose when talking about race. And yet America remains divided...
Social Scientists for Social Justice
Making the Case against Segregation
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2001
In one of the twentieth century's landmark Supreme Court cases, Brown v. Board of Education, social scientists such as Kenneth Clark helped to convince the Supreme Court Justices of the debilitating psychological effects of racism and segregation. John P. Jackson, Jr., examines the well-known studies...
by Lee Child, Sandra Brown, C. J. Box
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2017
This “highly recommended” (Publishers Weekly, starred review) collection edited by New York Times bestselling author Lee Child pairs the beloved characters of twenty-two internationally bestselling writers in “a must-read for fans of the thriller genre. Very rarely does this kind of star power...
Christmas After Dark - 36 Holiday Ghost Stories & Supernatural Thrillers
Between the Lights, Told After Supper, The Box with the Iron Clamps , Wolverden Tower The Ghost's Touch, The Christmas Banquet, The Dead Sexton and much more
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2017
Who would ever say no to the master story tellers when they have to offer their darkest tingling Christmas mysteries and horror tales as a holiday present: The Silver Hatchet (Arthur Conan Doyle) What the Shepherd Saw: A Tale of Four Moonlight Nights (Thomas Hardy) Markheim (Robert Louis Stevenson)...
by Lisa Jackson, John Sandford
Language: English
Release Date: July 23, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: July 23, 2019
Virgil’s gaze swept up and down the river as he stood over the body and listened…
In this short story from the thrilling anthology MatchUp, bestselling authors Lisa Jackson and John Sandford—along with their popular series characters Regan Pescoli and Virgil Flower—team up for the first time ever.
by John Andrew Jackson
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2018
The Experience of a Slave in South Carolina is the memoirs of John Andrew Jackson, who escaped to freedom in Canada.
Impolite Conversations
On Race, Politics, Sex, Money, and Religion
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2014
When was the last time you said everything on your mind without holding back? In this no-holds-barred discussion of America’s top hot-button issues, a journalist and a cultural anthropologist express opinions that are widely held in private—but rarely heard in public.
Everyone edits what...