Ain't But a Place

Ain't But a Place

Author: Gerald Lyn Early

Publisher: Missouri History Museum

Published: 1998

Total Pages: 558

ISBN-13: 9781883982287

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This collection of fiction and poetry, memoirs and autobiography, history and journalism illuminates the African American experience in St. Louis in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.


Ain't Nothing But a Man

Ain't Nothing But a Man

Author: Scott Reynolds Nelson

Publisher: National Geographic Books

Published: 2008

Total Pages: 72

ISBN-13: 9781426300004

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Historian Scott Reynolds Nelson recounts how he came to discover the real John Henry, an African-American railroad worker who became a legend in the famous song.


Ain't I A Woman?

Ain't I A Woman?

Author: Sojourner Truth

Publisher: Penguin UK

Published: 2020-09-24

Total Pages: 80

ISBN-13: 0241472377

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'I am a woman's rights. I have plowed and reaped and husked and chopped and mowed, and can any man do more than that? I am as strong as any man that is now' A former slave and one of the most powerful orators of her time, Sojourner Truth fought for the equal rights of Black women throughout her life. This selection of her impassioned speeches is accompanied by the words of other inspiring African-American female campaigners from the nineteenth century. One of twenty new books in the bestselling Penguin Great Ideas series. This new selection showcases a diverse list of thinkers who have helped shape our world today, from anarchists to stoics, feminists to prophets, satirists to Zen Buddhists.


Ain't Misbehavin'

Ain't Misbehavin'

Author: John C. Wright

Publisher: Rodale

Published: 2001-01-01

Total Pages: 458

ISBN-13: 9781579541958

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One of America's foremost applied animal behaviorists offers a humane, effective approach to pet behavior modification. Includes Dr. Wright's 11 steps to a well-behaved pet, how to read a pet's body language, sections devoted to dogs' and cats' life cycles; the latest breakthroughs in animal behavior studies, and more. Illustrations.


This Ain't Chicago

This Ain't Chicago

Author: Zandria F. Robinson

Publisher: UNC Press Books

Published: 2014

Total Pages: 239

ISBN-13: 1469614227

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This Ain't Chicago: Race, Class, and Regional Identity in the Post-Soul South


Mr. Mojo Risin' (Ain't Dead)

Mr. Mojo Risin' (Ain't Dead)

Author: Ron Clooney

Publisher: Troubador Publishing Ltd

Published: 2011

Total Pages: 281

ISBN-13: 1848767579

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What happened to Jim Morrison in Paris and who is really buried in Pere Lachaise cemetery?In the early hours of 3rd July 1971, Jim Morrison, the lead singer of The Doors, supposedly died of heart failure in a bath tub at 17 Rue Beautreillis, in the 4th Arrondissement, Paris. He was 27 years old. The novel examines the questions surrounding his supposed death. It examines what happened on that fateful night and in the weeks leading up to it. And more importantly, what happened afterwards.Crime novelist Ron Clooney, a Doors fan since his teenage years, does what others have not dared to do. Ron has opened the past as if it were a criminal investigation, only this time he attempts to explain how it was done. Suicide? Accident at the hands of his girlfriend’s heroin? Murder? Simple heart attack? Or a complete and utter hoax? Ron looks into the complex mind of Jim Morrison and explores the nature of his relationship with his partner, Pamela Courson, so he can answer one of pop’s greatest mysteries: What really happened to Mr Mojo Risin’?A novel mixed with fact, this will appeal to all Doors fans and lovers of conspiracy theories. Ron Clooney gives a credible explanation of what really happened to Mr Mojo Risin’....


Fear Ain't All That

Fear Ain't All That

Author: Clint Adams

Publisher: Credo Italia

Published: 2005

Total Pages: 216

ISBN-13: 9780976837503

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How in the world did fear ever become so popular, especially when it never should have existed in the first place? Why were we put here to do what we want, if we end up being too afraid to do it? For some who read FEAR AIN'T ALL THAT, learning to exist without fear is an option. For twelve-year old Miguel Estes, it's a necessity. Miguel happens to live with a fatal form of the skin-blistering disease E.B., yet believing he'll have a future is what sustains him. "The longer you keep your To Do list, the longer you'll have to hang around to get everything done," says Miguel's Aunt Shirley. Through his insightful aunt, through his dreams about his brother Jorge in heaven, and through the challenging lessons he's chosen to learn, Miguel is able to eliminate nearly every fear within him-all that's left is his mighty power of belief. In the end, Miguel is the ultimate victor; he realizes he's living life the way it was meant to be lived.without fear.


Pragmatic Perspectives on Postcolonial Discourse

Pragmatic Perspectives on Postcolonial Discourse

Author: Christoph Schubert

Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing

Published: 2016-06-22

Total Pages: 280

ISBN-13: 1443896853

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In sociolinguistic research on Englishes world-wide, little has been published on the pragmatics of postcolonial varieties. This interdisciplinary volume closes this research gap by providing integrative investigations of postcolonial discourses, probing the interstices between linguistic methodologies and literary text analysis. The literary texts under discussion are conceptualized as media both reflecting and creating reality, so that they provide valuable insights into postcolonial discourse phenomena. The contributions deal with the issue of how postcolonial Englishes, such as those spoken in India, Nigeria, South Africa and the Caribbean, have produced different pragmatic conventions in a complex interplay of culture-specific and global linguistic practices. They show the ways in which hybrid communicative situations based on ethnic, cultural, and linguistic diversity result in similarly hybrid social and communicative routines. The central pragmatic paradigms discussed here include im/politeness, speech act conventions, conversational maxims, deixis, humour, code-switching and -mixing, Othering, and linguistic exclusion.


'There Ain't No Black in the Union Jack'

'There Ain't No Black in the Union Jack'

Author: Paul Gilroy

Publisher: University of Chicago Press

Published: 1991-12

Total Pages: 284

ISBN-13: 9780226294278

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Gilroy demonstrates the enormous complexity of racial politics in England today. Exploring the relationships among race, class, and nation as they have evolved over the past twenty years, he highlights racist attitudes that transcend the left-right political divide. He challenges current sociological approaches to racism as well as the ethnocentric bias of British cultural studies. "Gilroy demonstrates effectively that cultural traditions are not static, but develop, grow and indeed mutate, as they influence and are influenced by the other changing traditions around them."—David Edgar, Listener Review of Books. "A fascinating analysis of the discourses that have accompanied black settlement in Britain. . . . An important addition to the stock of critical works on race and culture."—David Okuefuna, Chicago Tribune


It Ain't Sauce, It's Gravy

It Ain't Sauce, It's Gravy

Author: Steve Martorano

Publisher: Knopf

Published: 2014-10-28

Total Pages: 194

ISBN-13: 0385349890

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Has cooking ever saved a life? It definitely rescued Steve Martorano from the streets of South Philadelphia, and an almost certain end in jail … or worse. Raised on Gram’s meatballs and Mom’s macaroni, Martorano learned at an early age that full-flavored food made with loving hands was the only food worth eating. And, by the way, that’s macaroni and gravy, not pasta and sauce, cuz. That’s just the way it is in Martorano’s world. When it seemed like the only future for a kid from the neighborhood was to drive a truck or join the mob, it was this passion for food that inspired Martorano to reach for more and start his first “restaurant”—selling homemade sandwiches he prepared in his mother’s basement. These sandwiches, served up with a side of Steve’s personality, turned out to be the recipe for success and started Martorano in the restaurant business. Eighteen years after opening the incredibly popular Cafe Martorano in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, Martorano now runs a total of four successful restaurants in Florida and Las Vegas, and has built a devoted and ever-growing clientele—including a bevy of celebrities—who are more than willing to wait hours for a table. In this personal, funny, delectable cookbook, the self-proclaimed “heavyweight champ of Italian-American cooking” offers us a wide range of the dishes that have made his restaurants so popular. Among the book’s seventy-eight recipes, you’ll find tried-and-true favorites like Martorano Meatballs, Fresh Mozzarella, Stuffed Hot Peppers, and Fried Galamad Red (known as calamari outside Philly), as well as newer fare like Grilled Octopus, Rice Balls, and Sunday Pork Gravy with Rigatoni (featuring braised pigs’ feet). And don’t worry—Martorano doesn't skip the cocktails or dessert! Expect to indulge in Peanut Butter Cake with Peanut Butter Zabaglione, Cannoli Cream, Tuscan Lemonade, and Sicilian Mules. Steve Martorano’s It Ain’t Sauce, It’s Gravy delivers all the staples of delicious neighborhood-style comfort food, served up in the author’s one-of-a-kind, deliciously fun-loving style.