New Jack

New Jack

Author: New Jack,

Publisher: McFarland

Published: 2020-02-24

Total Pages: 211

ISBN-13: 1476638306

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You may have cheered him. You may have booed him out of the building. But until now, you've never really known "The Most Dangerous Man in Wrestling." For the first time, Jerome "New Jack" Young opens up about his rise to stardom in Extreme Championship Wrestling. From his crazed dives off balconies and scaffolds to his bloody weapons matches that trampled the line between reality and entertainment, this candid memoir reveals the man behind the infamy, with new disclosures about the Mass Transit incident, the brutal beat-down of Gypsy Joe, and the stabbing of a fellow wrestler in Florida. Beyond the gimmicks that united white supremacists and the NAACP against him, New Jack discusses his violent youth that nearly led him to a life of crime, his career as a bounty hunter, a near-fatal drug addiction, the last months of ECW, and his place in wrestling history.


The Privileged Poor

The Privileged Poor

Author: Anthony Abraham Jack

Publisher: Harvard University Press

Published: 2019-03-01

Total Pages: 289

ISBN-13: 0674239660

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An NPR Favorite Book of the Year “Breaks new ground on social and educational questions of great import.” —Washington Post “An essential work, humane and candid, that challenges and expands our understanding of the lives of contemporary college students.” —Paul Tough, author of Helping Children Succeed “Eye-opening...Brings home the pain and reality of on-campus poverty and puts the blame squarely on elite institutions.” —Washington Post “Jack’s investigation redirects attention from the matter of access to the matter of inclusion...His book challenges universities to support the diversity they indulge in advertising.” —New Yorker The Ivy League looks different than it used to. College presidents and deans of admission have opened their doors—and their coffers—to support a more diverse student body. But is it enough just to admit these students? In this bracing exposé, Anthony Jack shows that many students’ struggles continue long after they’ve settled in their dorms. Admission, they quickly learn, is not the same as acceptance. This powerfully argued book documents how university policies and campus culture can exacerbate preexisting inequalities and reveals why some students are harder hit than others.


New Jack City Sport Climbing Guide

New Jack City Sport Climbing Guide

Author: Jordan Robbins

Publisher:

Published: 2016-02-23

Total Pages: 318

ISBN-13: 9780692589182

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Detailed rock climbing guidebook with route beta, pictures, and topo of the over 200 sport routes found at New Jack City in Southern California.


The Outside Man

The Outside Man

Author: Don Bentley

Publisher: Penguin

Published: 2021-03-02

Total Pages: 402

ISBN-13: 1984805169

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The fight for freedom has sent Matt Drake to some of the world's most dangerous spots. This time the war is coming to his front door in an electrifying thriller from the New York Times bestselling author of Tom Clancy Target Acquired and Hostile Intent. Broad daylight on an Austin, Texas, street and DIA operative Matt Drake is fighting for his life against a highly trained team of assassins. Who are they? Why do they want him dead? How will he protect those closest to him? The answers will take him into some of the most dangerous spots in the Middle East and will put him in the clutches of an old foe known simply as the Devil. It's a world of double crosses, with no boundaries between the guilty and the innocent. It will take all of Drake's wiles to get out alive.


Newjack

Newjack

Author: Ted Conover

Publisher: Vintage

Published: 2010-01-20

Total Pages: 354

ISBN-13: 1400033098

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WINNER OF THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD FOR NONFICTION • An acclaimed journalist sets a new standard for bold, in-depth reporting in this first-hand account of life inside the penal system at Sing Sing. “Newjack is about as good as it gets—by turns gripping, funny, frightening, and sad.” —The Washington Post Book World When Ted Conover’s request to shadow a recruit at the New York State Corrections Officer Academy was denied, he decided to apply for a job as a prison officer himself. The result is an unprecedented work of eyewitness journalism: the account of Conover's year-long passage into storied Sing Sing prison as a rookie guard, or "newjack." As he struggles to become a good officer, Conover angers inmates, dodges blows, and attempts, in the face of overwhelming odds, to balance decency with toughness. Through his insights into the harsh culture of prison, the grueling and demeaning working conditions of the officers, and the unexpected ways the job encroaches on his own family life, we begin to see how our burgeoning prison system brutalizes everyone connected with it. An intimate portrait of a world few readers have ever experienced, Newjack is a haunting journey into a dark undercurrent of American life.


Drummer's Guide to Hip Hop, House, New Jack Swing, Hip House and Soca House

Drummer's Guide to Hip Hop, House, New Jack Swing, Hip House and Soca House

Author: Bill Elder

Publisher: Warner Bros. Publications

Published: 1996-07

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780769221281

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This fantastic book covers all the newest styles and beats and links them to the roots of swing, bop, and the many regional blues and shuffles born in America. There are over 150 patterns and 99 tracks on the accompanying CD that clearly demonstrate every style, and each example gradually expands into more involved and useful beats.


Jack Kennedy

Jack Kennedy

Author: Chris Matthews

Publisher: Simon and Schuster

Published: 2011

Total Pages: 496

ISBN-13: 1451635095

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Based on interviews with some of his closest associates, a portrait of the thirty-fifth president discusses his privileged childhood, military service, struggles with a life-threatening disease, and career in politics.


Cooking with Jack

Cooking with Jack

Author: Lynne Tolley

Publisher: Gibbs Smith

Published: 2006

Total Pages: 196

ISBN-13: 9781588181190

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Recipes from the Jack Daniel's Distillery


New World Symphonies

New World Symphonies

Author: Jack Sullivan

Publisher: Yale University Press

Published: 1999-01-01

Total Pages: 304

ISBN-13: 9780300072310

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This groundbreaking book shows for the first time the profound and transformative influence of American literature, music, and mythology on European music. Although the impact of the European tradition on American composers is widely acknowledged, Jack Sullivan demonstrates that an even more powerful musical current has flowed from the New World to the Old. The spread of rock and roll around the world, the author contends, is only the latest chapter in a cross-cultural story that began in the nineteenth century with Gottschalk in Paris and Dvorák in New York. Sullivan brings popular and canonical culture into his wide-ranging discussion. He explores the effects on European music of American authors as diverse as Twain, DuBois, Melville, and Langston Hughes, examining in particular Dvorák's fascination with Longfellow, the obsession of Debussy and Ravel with Poe, and the inspiration Whitman provided for Holst, Vaughan Williams, and dozens more. Sullivan uncovers the African American musical influence on Europe, beginning with spirituals and culminating in the impact of jazz on Stravinsky, Bartók, Walton, and others. He analyzes the lure of Hollywood and Broadway for such composers as Weill, Korngold, and Britten and considers the power of the American landscape--from the remoteness of the prairie to the brutal energy of the American city. In European music, Sullivan finds, American culture and mythology continue to resonate.