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  • Just around Midnight

    Rock and Roll and the Racial Imagination

    by Jack Hamilton ...
    By the time Jimi Hendrix died in 1970, the idea of a black man playing lead guitar in a rock band seemed exotic. Yet a mere ten years earlier, Chuck Berry and Bo Diddley had stood among the most influential rock and roll performers. Why did rock and roll become “white”? Just around Midnight reveals the interplay of popular music and racial thought that was responsible for this shift within the ... Read more

    $21.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Conflict—The Unexpected Gift

    Making the Most of Disputes in Life and Work

    by Jack Hamilton, Elisabeth Seaman, Sharlene Gee ...
    Conflict—The Unexpected Gift Conflict between people can be defined as a difference that causes disagreements. Authors Jack Hamilton and Elisabeth Seaman go to the root of what causes conflict and how to rebuild relationships. Interpersonal conflicts permeate our lives. Sometimes we believe that another person treated us unfairly, and that assumption causes us to become angry at the person. Such ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

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    Just around Midnight

    Rock and Roll and the Racial Imagination

    by Jack Hamilton ...
    Narrated by Ron Butler ...

    Unabridged

    10 hours 8 min

    Rooted in rhythm-and-blues pioneered by black musicians, 1950s rock and roll was racially inclusive and attracted listeners and performers across the color line. In the 1960s, however, rock and roll gave way to rock: a new musical ideal regarded as more serious, more artistic—and the province of white musicians. Decoding the racial discourses that have distorted standard histories of rock music, ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

  • Fantastic Stories Presents: Science Fiction Super Pack #1

    With linked Table of Contents

    by Philip K. Dick, Isaac Asimov, Harry Harrison, Ray Bradbury, Theodore Sturgeon, R. A. Lafferty, Michael A. Burstein, Philip José Farmer, Carole McDonnell, Stanley G. Weinbaum, Jamie Wild0, John Teehan1, Nelson Bond2, Warren Lapine4, M. Turville Heitz5, Edward J. McFadden III6, Cynthia Ward7, Jay O’Connell8, Jack Williamson9, Gerri Leen0, Edmond Hamilton1, Lou Antonelli2, James Dorr3, Poul Anderson4, Ann Wilkes5, Alfred Bester6, William R. Eakin7, Brenda W. Clough8, C. L. Moore9, Mack Reynolds0, H. Beam Piper1, Frederik Pohl2, Edgar Pangborn3, Emil Petaja4, Alan Edward Nourse5, Walter M. Miller, Jr.6, Leigh Brackett7, Marion Zimmer Bradley8 ...
    Series Book 4 - Positronic Super Pack Series
    The editors at www.fantasticstoriesoftheimagination.com present Fantasy and Science Fiction from the Present, Past, and Future. The Cold Calculations by Michael A. Burstein, They Twinkled like Jewels by Philip José Farmer, Lingua Franca by Carole McDonnell, Dawn of Flame by Stanley G. Weinbaum, Don’t Jump by Jamie Wild, Youth by Isaac Asimov, Digger Don't Take No Requests by John Teehan, Lighter ... Read more

    $1.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

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    NERVE

    Adventures in the Science of Fear

    by Edmond Hamilton, Jack Vance ...
    Narrated by Kirsten Potter ...

    Unabridged

    7 hours 4 min

    Award-winning long-form journalist Eva Holland had always felt that her deepest fear was the death of a loved one. When her mother suddenly passes away, she’s sent spiraling into an odyssey of confronting fear itself. Along with investigating the science of fear, Holland uses herself as a test subject, jumping out of airplanes, rock climbing, and delving into her fears of loss to better understand ... Read more

    $24.99 USD

  • Why I Like This Story

    by Jackson R. Bryer, Diana Wagman, Doris Betts, Doris Grumbach, E. Annie Proulx, Edmund Keeley, Edward Kelsey Moore, Elizabeth Spencer, Ellen Douglas, Elliot Ackerman0, Frederick Busch1, A. R. Gurney2, George Garrett3, Herbert Gold4, Howard Norman5, Jack Greer6, Jane Hamilton7, Jill McCorkle8, Joan Silber9, Joanna Scott0, Joyce Kornblatt1, Alan Cheuse2, Julia Alvarez3, Julia Glass4, Kao Kalia Yang5, Kate Christensen6, Lee K. Abbott7, Leslie Pietrzyk8, Mako Yoshikawa9, Mary Kay Zuravleff0, Mary Lee Settle1, Maud Casey2, Alice McDermott3, Molly Giles4, Nicholas Delbanco5, Olga Grushin6, Pamela Erens7, R. H. W. Dillard8, Richard Bausch9, Rilla Askew0, Rion Amilcar Scott1, Sabina Murray2, Susan Coll3, Andre Dubus4, William H. Gass5, Andrea Barrett6, Ann Beattie7, Beverly Lowry8, Clarence Major9 ...
    On the assumption that John Updike was correct when he asserted, in a 1978 letter to Joyce Carol Oates, that "Nobody can read like a writer," Why I Like This Story presents brief essays by forty-eight leading American writers on their favorite American short stories, explaining why they like them. The essays, which are personal, not scholarly, not only tell us much about the story selected, they ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Innovation and Future Technology

    by Thomas Cooper, Eva Burton, Alfie Wilson, Lisa Jones, Jack Stone, Oliver Bedford, James Hamilton, Grace Black, Emily Taylor, Albert Brown, Gordon Smith, Yilin Chen, Boyuan Xiao ...
    Innovation and Future Technology accepts scientifically rigorous research, regardless of novelty. Innovation and Future Technology’s broad scope provides a platform to publish primary research, including interdisciplinary and replication studies as well as negative results. This publication criteria are based on high ethical standards and the rigor of the methodology and conclusions reported. ... Read more

    $132.89 USD

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    The Second Mack Reynolds MEGAPACK® assembles a stellar collection of rare and classic works by a science fiction master! Here are 21 tales spanning space and time by the author of the Joe Mauser series and the Legrange series. Included are:COME IN, SPACEPORTCOMPOUNDED INTERESTTHE BUSINESS, AS USUALGOOD INDIANNO RETURN FROM ELBAPACIFISTEARTHLINGS GO HOME!ALBATROSSTHE ENEMY WITHINSURVIVORFADSPACEMAN ... Read more

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