Blackmon: 24 books
Slavery by Another Name
The Re-Enslavement of Black Americans from the Civil War to World War II
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2009
A Pulitzer Prize-winning account of the “Age of Neoslavery,” the American period following the Emancipation Proclamation in which convicts, mostly black men, were “leased” through forced labor camps operated by state and federal governments.
In this groundbreaking historical expose,...
Turning 15 on the Road to Freedom
My Story of the 1965 Selma Voting Rights March
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2015
A memoir of the Civil Rights Movement from one of its youngest heroes
**A Sibert Informational Book Medal Honor Book
Kirkus Best Books of 2015
**Booklist Editors' Choice 2015
BCCB Blue Ribbon 2015
As the youngest marcher in the 1965 voting rights march from Selma to Montgomery, Albama,...
Pale Horse
Hunting Terrorists and Commanding Heroes with the 101st Airborne Division
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2016
Pale Horse is the remarkable never-before-told true story of an army aviation task force during combat in the Afghan War, told by the commanding officer who was there. Set in the very valleys where the attacks of 9/11 were conceived, and where ten Medals of Honor have been earned since that fateful...
by Rick Blackmon
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2013
Captain Greg Michaels has always dreamed of going to the US Military Academy at West Point. He receives an appointment to West Point and graduates fifth in his class. He selects Air Cavalry as his branch and is assigned to the US Army Aviation School and becomes a qualified chopper pilot.On...
Plan B
Men in Relational Crises
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2016
Plan B: A Guide for Men Facing Relational Crises gathers the experiencessometimes challengingof men who have confronted, endured, and emerged from times of great relational crisis in their lives. In particular, author Dellen Blackmon focuses on the upheaval that divorce causes in the lives of men,...
by Elaine Blackmon Henson
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2007
Carolina Beach, North Carolina, has been a destination for beachgoers, boaters, and fishermen since the 1880s. Visitors came first by the combination of river steamers and a train and later by automobiles to seek respite from the summer�s heat and the daily grind. This book shares the history of this...
by Eric Holder, Douglas A. Blackmon
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2021
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2021
In this provocative memoir, Barack Obama’s history-making attorney general reveals the story of his life.
by Mary Blackmon
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2018
Being Chased is a young girls thoughts of psychological events of ghosts. Shadows have driven her into a dark placea paralyzed nightmare in her dreams. Its a journey that keeps repeating itself. Once the chase starts, it wont stop. The scare awakens her to make different choices in her lifestyle,...
by William S. Cohen, Janet Langhart Cohen, Enola Gay Aird
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2009
Race and racism have played a divisive and defining role throughout much of America's history. Slavery, Jim Crow laws, segregation, and Ku Klux Klan terrorism have inflicted deep psychic wounds, social disparities, and economic disadvantages that have diminished the promise of equal rights and opportunities...
by Steve Brown, Kate Blackmon, Paul Cousins
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2013
'Operations Management: policy, practices, performance improvement' is the latest state-of-the-art approach to operations management. It provides new cutting edge input into operations management theory and practice that cannot be found in any other text.
Discussing both strategic and tactical...
The Political Economy of Trade Finance
Export Credit Agencies, the Paris Club and the IMF
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2017
Export Credit Agencies provide insurance and guarantees to domestic firms in the event that payment is not received from an importer. Thus, ECAs reduce uncertainties domestic firms face in exporting their goods. Most countries have ECAs that operate as official or quasi-official branches of their...
How to Become a Type-rolling-machine Operator
How to Become a Type-rolling-machine Operator
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2015
This publication will teach you the basics of how to become a Type-rolling-machine Operator. With step by step guides and instructions, you will not only have a better understanding, but gain valuable knowledge of how to become a Type-rolling-machine Oper
Friendship is Golden (The Silent Ninja #2)
Friendship is Golden
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2017
Padge is excited to start karate lessons and dedicates herself to practicing everyday. Unexpectedly, she encounters a painful obstacle. Her friend Julie offers to help but is sharply dismissed. Will Padge's troubles mean the end of their friendship?
by Shanda H. Blackmon, M.D., M.P.H
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2015
Management of Intra-operative Crises is reviewed extensively in this important Thoracic Surgery Clinics of North America issue. Articles include: Massive Airway Hemorrhage; Great Vessel Injury; Endotracheal Tube Management and Obstructed Airway; Perioperative or Operative Pulmonary Embolus; Acute...
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