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Freedom's Currency

Slavery, Capitalism, and Self-Purchase in the United States

by Julia Wallace Bernier ...

The first comprehensive study of self-purchase in the United States from the American Revolution to the Civil WarEnslaved people lived in a world in which everything had a price. Even freedom. Freedom’s Currency follows enslaved people’s efforts to buy themselves out of slavery across the United States from the American Revolution to the Civil War. In the first comprehensive study of self-purchase ... Read more

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The first comprehensive study of self-purchase in the United States from the American Revolution to the Civil WarEnslaved people lived in a world in which everything had a price. Even freedom. Freedom’s Currency follows enslaved people’s efforts to buy themselves out of slavery across the United States from the American Revolution to the Civil War. In the first comprehensive study of self-purchase
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There's No Crying in Newsrooms

What Women Have Learned about What It Takes to Lead

by Julia Wallace, Kristin Grady Gilger ...

There’s No Crying in Newsrooms tells the stories of remarkable women who broke through barrier after barrier at media organizations around the country over the past four decades. They started out as editorial assistants, fact checkers and news secretaries and ended up running multi-million-dollar news operations that determine a large part of what Americans read, view and think about the world. ... Read more

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There’s No Crying in Newsrooms tells the stories of remarkable women who broke through barrier after barrier at media organizations around the country over the past four decades. They started out as editorial assistants, fact checkers and news secretaries and ended up running multi-million-dollar news operations that determine a large part of what Americans read, view and think about the world.
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Freedom's Currency

Slavery, Capitalism, and Self-Purchase in the United States

by Julia Wallace Bernier ...

The first comprehensive study of self-purchase in the United States from the American Revolution to the Civil WarEnslaved people lived in a world in which everything had a price. Even freedom. Freedom’s Currency follows enslaved people’s efforts to buy themselves out of slavery across the United States from the American Revolution to the Civil War. In the first comprehensive study of self-purchase ... Read more

$51.99 CAD

The first comprehensive study of self-purchase in the United States from the American Revolution to the Civil WarEnslaved people lived in a world in which everything had a price. Even freedom. Freedom’s Currency follows enslaved people’s efforts to buy themselves out of slavery across the United States from the American Revolution to the Civil War. In the first comprehensive study of self-purchase
... Read more
Indigenous Peoples Rise Up

The Global Ascendency of Social Media Activism

by Bronwyn Carlson, Jeff Berglund, Miranda Belarde-Lewis, Sheila Cote-Meek, Nicholet A. Deschine Parkhurst, Marisa Duarte, Mohan Dutta, Phoebe Elers, Steve Elers0, Andrew Farrell1, Ryan Frazer2, Tristan Kennedy3, Mounia Mnouer4, Taima Moeke-Pickering5, Ann Pegoraro6, Debbie Reese7, Cutcha Risling Baldy8, Julia Rowat9, Carly Wallace0, Alex Wilson1 ...

Series series Global Media and Race
Indigenous Peoples Rise Up: The Global Ascendency of Social Media Activism illustrates the impact of social media in expanding the nature of Indigenous communities and social movements. Social media has bridged distance, time, and nation states to mobilize Indigenous peoples to build coalitions across the globe and to stand in solidarity with one another. These movements have succeeded and gained ... Read more

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Indigenous Peoples Rise Up: The Global Ascendency of Social Media Activism illustrates the impact of social media in expanding the nature of Indigenous communities and social movements. Social media has bridged distance, time, and nation states to mobilize Indigenous peoples to build coalitions across the globe and to stand in solidarity with one another. These movements have succeeded and gained
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The Edge of Change

Women in the Twenty-First-Century Press

by June O. Nicholson, Pamela J. Creedon, Wanda S. Lloyd, Pamela J. Johnson, Ellen Goodman, Catalina Camia0, Kathleen Carroll1, Paula Lynn Ellis2, Helen E Fisher3, Dorothy Butler Gilliam4, Sharon Grigsby5, Carol Guzy6, Kirsten Hampton7, Cathy Henkel8, Jane Kirtley9, Jan Leach0, Caroline Little1, Arlene Notoro Morgan2, Geneva Overholser3, Marty Petty4, Deb Price5, Donna M Reed6, Sandra Mims Rowe7, Peggy Simpson8, Margaret Sullivan9, Julia Wallace0, Keven Ann Willey1 ...

Containing nearly three dozen original essays penned by the nation's leading newspaper journalists, editors, and executives, this book advances current discussions regarding women in journalism. Surveying the past quarter century, the book's contributors highlight the unprecedented influence American women have had on the news industry, especially newspapers, and look ahead to the future for women ... Read more

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Containing nearly three dozen original essays penned by the nation's leading newspaper journalists, editors, and executives, this book advances current discussions regarding women in journalism. Surveying the past quarter century, the book's contributors highlight the unprecedented influence American women have had on the news industry, especially newspapers, and look ahead to the future for women
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The Church Guide for Making Decisions Together

by Terence Corkin, Julia Kuhn Wallace ...

Recent political events in the USA indicate that ordinary people areweary of traditional politics and ways of doing business in the halls ofpower. A similar mood is present in churches around the world. Ordinarychurch members are tired of the fighting and politicking that seem toprivilege the same people all the time. They want a new way of makingdecisions in their churches and in their ... Read more

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Recent political events in the USA indicate that ordinary people areweary of traditional politics and ways of doing business in the halls ofpower. A similar mood is present in churches around the world. Ordinarychurch members are tired of the fighting and politicking that seem toprivilege the same people all the time. They want a new way of makingdecisions in their churches and in their
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There's No Crying in Newsrooms

What Women Have Learned about What It Takes to Lead

by Kristin Grady Gilger, Julia Wallace ...

Narrated by Teri Barrington ...

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6 hours 47 min

There's No Crying in Newsrooms tells the stories of remarkable women who broke through barrier after barrier at media organizations around the country over the past four decades. They started out as editorial assistants, fact checkers, and news secretaries and ended up running multi-million-dollar news operations that determine a large part of what Americans read, view, and think about the world. ... Read more

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There's No Crying in Newsrooms tells the stories of remarkable women who broke through barrier after barrier at media organizations around the country over the past four decades. They started out as editorial assistants, fact checkers, and news secretaries and ended up running multi-million-dollar news operations that determine a large part of what Americans read, view, and think about the world.
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There's No Crying in Newsrooms

What Women Have Learned about What It Takes to Lead

by Kristin Grady Gilger, Julia Wallace ...

Narrated by Teri Schnaubelt ...

Unabridged

6 hours 47 min

There's No Crying in Newsrooms tells the stories of remarkable women who broke through barrier after barrier at media organizations around the country over the past four decades. They started out as editorial assistants, fact checkers, and news secretaries and ended up running multi-million-dollar news operations that determine a large part of what Americans read, view, and think about the world. ... Read more

$27.99 CAD

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There's No Crying in Newsrooms tells the stories of remarkable women who broke through barrier after barrier at media organizations around the country over the past four decades. They started out as editorial assistants, fact checkers, and news secretaries and ended up running multi-million-dollar news operations that determine a large part of what Americans read, view, and think about the world.
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The Slave's Cause

A History of Abolition

by Manisha Sinha ...

"Traces the history of abolition from the 1600s to the 1860s . . . a valuable addition to our understanding of the role of race and racism in America."— Florida CourierReceived historical wisdom casts abolitionists as bourgeois, mostly white reformers burdened by racial paternalism and economic conservatism. Manisha Sinha overturns this image, broadening her scope beyond the antebellum period ... Read more

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"Traces the history of abolition from the 1600s to the 1860s . . . a valuable addition to our understanding of the role of race and racism in America."— Florida CourierReceived historical wisdom casts abolitionists as bourgeois, mostly white reformers burdened by racial paternalism and economic conservatism. Manisha Sinha overturns this image, broadening her scope beyond the antebellum period
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A Curious Mind

The Secret to a Bigger Life

by Brian Grazer, Charles Fishman ...

#1 New York Times bestselling author and Oscar–winning producer Brian Grazer has written a brilliantly entertaining and eye-opening exploration of curiosity and the life-changing effects it can have on every person’s life.From Academy Award–winning producer Brian Grazer, New York Times bestseller A Curious Mind offers a brilliant peek into the “curiosity conversations” that inspired him to create ... Read more

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#1 New York Times bestselling author and Oscar–winning producer Brian Grazer has written a brilliantly entertaining and eye-opening exploration of curiosity and the life-changing effects it can have on every person’s life.From Academy Award–winning producer Brian Grazer, New York Times bestseller A Curious Mind offers a brilliant peek into the “curiosity conversations” that inspired him to create
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Participatory Culture in a Networked Era

A Conversation on Youth, Learning, Commerce, and Politics

by Henry Jenkins, Mizuko Ito, danah boyd ...

In the last two decades, both the conception and the practice of participatory culture have been transformed by the new affordances enabled by digital, networked, and mobile technologies. This exciting new book explores that transformation by bringing together three leading figures in conversation. Jenkins, Ito and boyd examine the ways in which our personal and professional lives are shaped by ... Read more

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In the last two decades, both the conception and the practice of participatory culture have been transformed by the new affordances enabled by digital, networked, and mobile technologies. This exciting new book explores that transformation by bringing together three leading figures in conversation. Jenkins, Ito and boyd examine the ways in which our personal and professional lives are shaped by
... Read more
The Half Has Never Been Told

Slavery and the Making of American Capitalism

by Edward E Baptist ...

The classic history demonstrating that America's economic supremacy was built on the backs of enslaved people.**"Gripping." —**New York Times**“A stinging indictment of slavery.” —**NPR Books?Americans tend to cast slavery as a pre-modern institution—the nation's original sin, perhaps, but isolated in time and divorced from America's later success. But to do so robs the millions who suffered in ... Read more

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The classic history demonstrating that America's economic supremacy was built on the backs of enslaved people.**"Gripping." —**New York Times**“A stinging indictment of slavery.” —**NPR Books?Americans tend to cast slavery as a pre-modern institution—the nation's original sin, perhaps, but isolated in time and divorced from America's later success. But to do so robs the millions who suffered in
... Read more

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