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  • Boardwalk of Dreams:Atlantic City and the Fate of Urban America

    Atlantic City and the Fate of Urban America

    by Bryant Simon ...
    During the first half of the twentieth century, Atlantic City was the nation's most popular middle-class resort--the home of the famed Boardwalk, the Miss America Pageant, and the board game Monopoly. By the late 1960s, it had become a symbol of urban decay and blight, compared by journalists to bombed-out Dresden and war-torn Beirut. Several decades and a dozen casinos later, Atlantic City is ... Read more

    $29.59 CAD

  • The Hamlet Fire

    A Tragic Story of Cheap Food, Cheap Government, and Cheap Lives

    by Bryant Simon ...
    For decades, the small, quiet town of Hamlet, North Carolina, thrived thanks to the railroad. But by the 1970s, it had become a postindustrial backwater, a magnet for businesses in search of cheap labor and almost no oversight. Imperial Food Products was one of those businesses. The company set up shop in Hamlet in the 1980s. Workers who complained about low pay and hazardous working conditions at ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

  • Everything but the Coffee

    Learning about America from Starbucks

    by Bryant Simon ...
    Everything but the Coffee casts a fresh eye on the world's most famous coffee company, looking beyond baristas, movie cameos, and Paul McCartney CDs to understand what Starbucks can tell us about America. Bryant Simon visited hundreds of Starbucks around the world to ask, Why did Starbucks take hold so quickly with consumers? What did it seem to provide over and above a decent cup of coffee? Why ... Read more

    $32.99 CAD

  • A Fabric of Defeat

    The Politics of South Carolina Millhands, 1910-1948

    by Bryant Simon ...
    In this book, Bryant Simon brings to life the politics of white South Carolina millhands during the first half of the twentieth century. His revealing and moving account explores how this group of southern laborers thought about and participated in politics and public power.Taking a broad view of politics, Simon looks at laborers as they engaged in political activity in many venues — at the ... Read more

    $31.99 CAD

  • Harlequin Desire February 2021 - Box Set 1 of 2

    by Naima Simone, Yvonne Lindsay, Niobia Bryant ...
    Do you love stories with sexy, romantic heroes who have it all—wealth, status, and incredibly good looks? Harlequin® Desire brings you all this and more with these three new full-length titles in one collection!This box set includes:Back in the Texan’s BedTexas Cattleman’s Club: Heir ApparentBy USA TODAY bestselling author Naima SimoneWhen Charlotte Jarrett returns to Royal, Texas, with a chil... ... Read more

    $13.99 CAD

  • Jumpin' Jim Crow

    Southern Politics from Civil War to Civil Rights

    Edited by Jane Dailey, Glenda Elizabeth Gilmore, Bryant Simon ...
    White supremacy shaped all aspects of post-Civil War southern life, yet its power was never complete or total. The form of segregation and subjection nicknamed Jim Crow constantly had to remake itself over time even as white southern politicians struggled to extend its grip. Here, some of the most innovative scholars of southern history question Jim Crow's sway, evolution, and methods over the ... Read more

    $60.49 CAD

  • Food, Power, and Agency

    Edited by Bryant Simon, Jürgen Martschukat ...
    Grounded in the work of Roland Barthes, Bruno Latour, Pierre Bourdieu, and Michel Foucault, this exciting book uses food as a lens to examine agency and the political, economic, social, and cultural power which underlies every choice of food and every act of eating.The book is divided into three parts - National Characters; Anthropological Situations; Health – with each of the eight chapters ... Read more

    $51.99 CAD

  • Food and Eating in America

    A Documentary Reader

    Edited by James C. Giesen, Bryant Simon ...
    Series series Uncovering the Past: Documentary Readers in American History
    Guides students through a rich menu of American history through food and eatingThis book features a wide and diverse range of primary sources covering the cultivation, preparation, marketing, and consumption of food from the time before Europeans arrived in North America to the present-day United States. It is organized around what the authors label the “Four P’s”—production, politics, price, and ... Read more

    $51.99 CAD

  • Dictionary of British Cartoonists and Caricaturists

    1730-1980

    by Mark Bryant, Simon Heneage ...
    Series series Routledge Revivals
    Originally published in 1994, this dictionary provides a unique 'who’s who' of the major figures in the world of British cartoons and caricatures. It was the first book to encompass the entire field from c.1730 when Hogarth published the first of his 'modern moral pictures' to 1980. In addition to describing the careers and achievements of the artists and the characteristics of their styles, more ... Read more

    $63.20 CAD

  • The Orvis Guide to Upland Hunting

    by Reid Bryant ...
    An extensively illustrated and definitive resource that explains all there is to know about upland hunting. The Orvis Guide to Upland Hunting provides an in-depth primer for new or aspiring hunters, offering a solid understanding of upland hunting from A to Z. With stunning images by acclaimed outdoor photographer Brian Grossenbacher, this book is far more than an instructional piece: it will give ... Read more

    $49.99 CAD

  • Famous

    by Simone Bryant ...
    Series Book 2 - A Pace Academy Novel
    At prestigious Pace Academy, the Pacesetters make the rules. But in the world outside, being rich and popular doesn't always get you what you want.…Starr has ambition, charisma and-thanks to her father's record company-all the connections to get her group major exposure. Just one problem: Starr can't sing, and now her friends are looking to replace her with her archrival, Natalee.Dionne is excited ... Read more

    $6.99 CAD

  • Fabulous

    by Simone Bryant ...
    Series Book 1 - A Pace Academy Novel
    There's no such thing as being too rich, too popular or too fabulous…Pace Academy is an exclusive private school catering to the rich, pampered and beautiful. And Starr, Dionne and Marisol are its ruling elite, with an endless supply of designer clothes, platinum credit cards—and drama….Starr is planning a spectacular Sweet Fifteen party…but it may be unforgettable for all the wrong reasons.Dionne ... Read more

    $6.99 CAD