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Partisan Nation

The Dangerous New Logic of American Politics in a Nationalized Era

by Paul Pierson, Eric Schickler ...

A provocative exploration of how America's democratic crisis is rooted in a dangerous mismatch between our Constitution and today's nationalized, partisan politics.The ground beneath American political institutions has moved, with national politics subsuming and transforming the local. As a result, American democracy is in trouble.In this paradigm-shifting book, political scientists Paul Pierson ... Read more

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A provocative exploration of how America's democratic crisis is rooted in a dangerous mismatch between our Constitution and today's nationalized, partisan politics.The ground beneath American political institutions has moved, with national politics subsuming and transforming the local. As a result, American democracy is in trouble.In this paradigm-shifting book, political scientists Paul Pierson
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Watching While Black Rebooted!

The Television and Digitality of Black Audiences

by Beretta E. Smith-Shomade, Eric Pierson, Christine Acham, Michael Boyce Gillespie, Felicia D Henderson, TreaAndrea M. Russworm, Nghana Lewis, Adrien Sebro, Briana Barner0, Shelleen Greene1, Brandy Monk-Payton2, Jacqueline Johnson3, Alfred L. Martin Jr.4 ...

Watching While Black Rebooted: The Television and Digitality of Black Audiences examines what watching while Black means in an expanded U.S. televisual landscape. In this updated edition, media scholars return to television and digital spaces to think anew about what engages and captures Black audiences and users and why it matters. Contributors traverse programs and platforms to wrestle with a ... Read more

$23.99 USD

Watching While Black Rebooted: The Television and Digitality of Black Audiences examines what watching while Black means in an expanded U.S. televisual landscape. In this updated edition, media scholars return to television and digital spaces to think anew about what engages and captures Black audiences and users and why it matters. Contributors traverse programs and platforms to wrestle with a
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From Madea to Media Mogul

Theorizing Tyler Perry

Edited by TreaAndrea M. Russworm, Samantha N. Sheppard, Karen M. Bowdre ...

Contributions by Leah Aldridge, Karen M. Bowdre, Aymar Jean Christian, Keith Corson, Rachel Jessica Daniel, Artel Great, Brandeise Monk-Payton, Miriam J. Petty, Eric Pierson, Paul N. Reinsch, TreaAndrea M. Russworm, Rashida Z. Shaw, Samantha N. Sheppard, Ben Raphael Sher, and Khadijah Costley WhiteFor over a decade, Tyler Perry has been a lightning rod for both criticism and praise. To some he is ... Read more

$21.99 USD

Contributions by Leah Aldridge, Karen M. Bowdre, Aymar Jean Christian, Keith Corson, Rachel Jessica Daniel, Artel Great, Brandeise Monk-Payton, Miriam J. Petty, Eric Pierson, Paul N. Reinsch, TreaAndrea M. Russworm, Rashida Z. Shaw, Samantha N. Sheppard, Ben Raphael Sher, and Khadijah Costley WhiteFor over a decade, Tyler Perry has been a lightning rod for both criticism and praise. To some he is
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The Tyrant

by Eric Flint, David Drake ...

Narrated by Franklin Pierson ...

Series series General Raj Whitehall
Unabridged

15 hours 49 min

On the planet Hafardine, civilization must rediscover progress or collapse. Adrian, guided by disembodied electronic mentors from space, has broughtgunpowder and steam power to the Kingdom of the Isles to break the stranglehold of the Empire. But he will have to avoid being killed by the suspiciousking he serves, by the barbarians he must recruit, and even by his insanely vengeful brother. ... Read more

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On the planet Hafardine, civilization must rediscover progress or collapse. Adrian, guided by disembodied electronic mentors from space, has broughtgunpowder and steam power to the Kingdom of the Isles to break the stranglehold of the Empire. But he will have to avoid being killed by the suspiciousking he serves, by the barbarians he must recruit, and even by his insanely vengeful brother.
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1824

The Arkansas War

by Eric Flint ...

Narrated by Franklin Pierson ...

Series series Trail of Glory
Unabridged

20 hours 18 min

ALTERNATE HISTORY FROM A MASTERThe relocation of the southern Indian tribes to Oklahoma engineered by Sam Houston following the War of 1812 also swept up many black inhabitants of North America. Many of the states in the USA—free as well as slaveholding—havepassed laws ordering the expulsion of black freedmen. Having nowhere else to go, they joined the migration of the southern Indian tribes and ... Read more

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ALTERNATE HISTORY FROM A MASTERThe relocation of the southern Indian tribes to Oklahoma engineered by Sam Houston following the War of 1812 also swept up many black inhabitants of North America. Many of the states in the USA—free as well as slaveholding—havepassed laws ordering the expulsion of black freedmen. Having nowhere else to go, they joined the migration of the southern Indian tribes and
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1812

The Rivers of War

by Eric Flint ...

Narrated by Franklin Pierson ...

Series series Trail of Glory
Unabridged

22 hours 29 min

In this alternate history of the American frontier and the Jacksonian era, a small change takes place in the Battle of the Horseshoe Bend during the War of 1812.What results is a cascade of new developments that becomes an avalanche. In our world, Ensign Sam Houston, just turned 21, led the charge on the creek barricade in that battle and almost died from a terrible wound that took him a year ... Read more

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In this alternate history of the American frontier and the Jacksonian era, a small change takes place in the Battle of the Horseshoe Bend during the War of 1812.What results is a cascade of new developments that becomes an avalanche. In our world, Ensign Sam Houston, just turned 21, led the charge on the creek barricade in that battle and almost died from a terrible wound that took him a year
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The Reformer

by S.M. Stirling, David Drake ...

Narrated by Franklin Pierson ...

Series series General Raj Whitehall
Unabridged

9 hours 58 min

On this planet, humans had forgotten their heritage—until it came looking for them!After the collapse of the galactic Web, civilizations crumbled and chaos reigned on thousands of planets. Only on planet Bellevue was there a difference. There, aFleet Battle Computer named Center had survived from the old civilization. When it found Raj Whitehall, the man who could execute its plan for reviving ... Read more

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On this planet, humans had forgotten their heritage—until it came looking for them!After the collapse of the galactic Web, civilizations crumbled and chaos reigned on thousands of planets. Only on planet Bellevue was there a difference. There, aFleet Battle Computer named Center had survived from the old civilization. When it found Raj Whitehall, the man who could execute its plan for reviving
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The Chosen

by S.M. Stirling, David Drake ...

Narrated by Franklin Pierson ...

Series series General Raj Whitehall
Unabridged

17 hours 32 min

The hottest team in military SF is back in action—with Book I of a red-hot sequel to The General series!Planted by interstellar probes on hundreds of human-occupied worlds, the downloaded personalities of Raj Whitehall and the ancient battle computer known as Center work together forplanetary unity. Their goal is to prepare those worlds for membership in the Second Federation of Man. But on one ... Read more

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The hottest team in military SF is back in action—with Book I of a red-hot sequel to The General series!Planted by interstellar probes on hundreds of human-occupied worlds, the downloaded personalities of Raj Whitehall and the ancient battle computer known as Center work together forplanetary unity. Their goal is to prepare those worlds for membership in the Second Federation of Man. But on one
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The Savior

by Tony Daniel, David Drake ...

Narrated by Franklin Pierson ...

Series series General Raj Whitehall
Unabridged

14 hours 43 min

From heretic to saviorDuisberg is one of thousands of planets plunged into darkness and chaos by the collapse of the galactic republic, but where other worlds have begun to rebuild a star-travelling culture, Duisberg remains in an uneasy balance between mud-brick civilization and bloodthirsty barbarism.The people of Duisberg have a god: Zentrum, a supercomputer from the ancient past. Zentrum has ... Read more

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From heretic to saviorDuisberg is one of thousands of planets plunged into darkness and chaos by the collapse of the galactic republic, but where other worlds have begun to rebuild a star-travelling culture, Duisberg remains in an uneasy balance between mud-brick civilization and bloodthirsty barbarism.The people of Duisberg have a god: Zentrum, a supercomputer from the ancient past. Zentrum has
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The Dance of Time

by Eric Flint, David Drake ...

Narrated by Pete Bradbury ...

Series series Belisarius
Unabridged

16 hours 30 min

Battle Across Time! Belasarius Apotheosis!Steamboats that launch Greek fire, telegraph lines connecting the battlefront on the Indus to ancient Constantinople, Byzantine palace plots aided by wireless devices: General Belasarius and his battlehardened troops must advance quickly through the history of technology to stave off a coming age of ultimate darkness. And now—the epic final battle that ... Read more

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Battle Across Time! Belasarius Apotheosis!Steamboats that launch Greek fire, telegraph lines connecting the battlefront on the Indus to ancient Constantinople, Byzantine palace plots aided by wireless devices: General Belasarius and his battlehardened troops must advance quickly through the history of technology to stave off a coming age of ultimate darkness. And now—the epic final battle that
... Read more

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An Oblique Approach

by David Drake, Eric Flint ...

Narrated by Pete Bradbury ...

Series series Belisarius
Unabridged

15 hours 1 min

In northern India the Malwa have created an empire of unexampled evil. Guided or possessed by an intelligence from beyond time, with new weapons, old treachery, and an implacable will to power, the Malwa will sweep over the whole Earth. Only three things stand between the Malwa and their plan of eternal domination: the empire of Rome in the East, Byzantium; a crystal with vision; and a man named ... Read more

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In northern India the Malwa have created an empire of unexampled evil. Guided or possessed by an intelligence from beyond time, with new weapons, old treachery, and an implacable will to power, the Malwa will sweep over the whole Earth. Only three things stand between the Malwa and their plan of eternal domination: the empire of Rome in the East, Byzantium; a crystal with vision; and a man named
... Read more

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The Paladin

by C. J. Cherryh ...

Narrated by Stephen Bowlby ...

Unabridged

12 hours 46 min

Now betrayed by the Emperor he once protected, master swordsman Saukendar leaves the way of the sword behind him forever—so he thinks. When a headstrong peasant girl burning to avenge her murdered family demands that he train her, Saukendar is faced with a momentous choice. Send Taizu away, never see her again—or join her and destroy the tyrant who has nearly destroyed them both. ... Read more

$24.99 USD

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Now betrayed by the Emperor he once protected, master swordsman Saukendar leaves the way of the sword behind him forever—so he thinks. When a headstrong peasant girl burning to avenge her murdered family demands that he train her, Saukendar is faced with a momentous choice. Send Taizu away, never see her again—or join her and destroy the tyrant who has nearly destroyed them both.
... Read more

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