A House for the Struggle
A House for the Struggle

Author: E. James West

Publisher:

Published: 2022

Total Pages: 296

ISBN-13: 9780252044328

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Buildings once symbolized Chicago's place as the business capital of Black America and a thriving hub for Black media. In this groundbreaking work, E. James West examines the city's Black press through its relationship with the built environment. As a house for the struggle, the buildings of publications like Ebony and the Chicago Defender embodied narratives of racial uplift and community resistance. As political hubs, gallery spaces, and public squares, they served as key sites in the ongoing Black quest for self-respect, independence, and civic identity. At the same time, factors ranging from discriminatory business practices to editorial and corporate ideology prescribed their location, use, and appearance, positioning Black press buildings as sites of both Black possibility and racial constraint. Engaging and innovative, A House for the Struggle reconsiders the Black press's place at the crossroads where aspiration collided with life in one of America's most segregated cities.

Making the Archives Talk
Making the Archives Talk

Author: James L. W. West

Publisher: Penn State Press

Published: 2011

Total Pages: 162

ISBN-13: 0271050675

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"A collection of essays by editor, biographer, bibliographer, and book historian James L. W. West III, covering editorial theory, archival use, textual emendation, and scholarly annotation. Discusses the treatment of both public documents (novels, stories, nonfiction) and private texts (letters, diaries, journals, working papers)"--Provided by publisher.

The Betty Ford Center Book of Answers
The Betty Ford Center Book of Answers

Author: James W. West

Publisher: Simon and Schuster

Published: 1997-02

Total Pages: 232

ISBN-13: 0671001825

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Answers questions about alcoholism and heredity, co-dependence, recovery from cocaine addiction, tranquilizer abuse, and factors affecting recovery.

Western Practice
Western Practice

Author: Stephen Motika

Publisher:

Published: 2012

Total Pages: 73

ISBN-13: 9781882295913

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This debut collection radiates post-WWII California art scene cool as Motika obsesses artfully on the likes of Diebenkorn and Partch.

Running West
Running West

Author: James A. Houston

Publisher:

Published: 1996

Total Pages: 342

ISBN-13: 9781575660448

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Unjustly banished from Scotland, William Stewart and Thana, a beautiful Dene Indian girl, journey deep into the heart of the unexplored sub-Arctic wilderness, in a story of love and survival set in eighteenth-century Canada. Reprint.

The God King
The God King

Author: James West

Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform

Published: 2011-11-11

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781484122273

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Heroes are not born, they are forged in the fires of apocalypse... Mercenary Kian Valara wants nothing more than to retire from a life of blood and butchery. But when an arrogant princeling offers him enough gold to buy a throne, Kian straps on his sword for one last mission. And besides, what could be easier than guarding a prince who wants to sow his royal seed in every backwater fortress and village throughout the realm? Turns out, dying would've been easier. Kian discovers too late that the prince's ambition has shattered the foundations of the world, and that he intends to remake all Creation. As the moons collide and the skies burn, Kian and his devastated company of warriors hound the demented prince across a nightmare realm. At every turn, Kian must fight for his life against demons escaped from the underworld, and those who they have transformed into blood-hungry terrors. Along the way, Kian meets a powerful and beautiful woman who prepares him for a battle he has small hope of winning. To triumph, Kian must summon all his skill and courage, he must sacrifice more than he ever imagined he could, and he must embrace the dark secret that binds him to the power-mad prince. Only one thing is certain: if Kian fails, the world of men will burn in the fires of apocalypse, and the God King will rule unchallenged and unpunished. Reading order: The God King (book one) Crown of the Setting Sun (book two) Shadow and Steel (book three) Wrath of the Fallen (book four-final volume) Other series by James A. West: Songs of the Scorpion Reaper of Sorrows (volume one) Lady of Regret (volume two) Dystopian Thriller Beasts of the Field

Chosen Country
Chosen Country

Author: James Pogue

Publisher: Henry Holt

Published: 2018-05-22

Total Pages: 304

ISBN-13: 1250169127

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Given unprecedented access to those participating in the armed occupation of the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge, a journalist reveals how politics and uncompromising religious belief divided communities.

Cree Legends and Narratives from the West Coast of James Bay
Cree Legends and Narratives from the West Coast of James Bay

Author: C. Douglas Ellis

Publisher: Univ. of Manitoba Press

Published: 2014-09-06

Total Pages: 571

ISBN-13: 0887552587

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This is the first major body of annotated texts in James Bay Cree, and a unique documentation of Swampy and Moose Cree (Western James Bay) usage of the 1950s and 1960s. Conversations and interviews with 16 different speakers include: legends, reminiscences, historical narratives, stories and conversations, as well as descriptions of technology. The book includes a detailed pronunciation guide, notes on Cree terms, informants' comments, dialect variations, and descriptions of cultural values and customs. The introduction describes and compares the various genres in traditional and popular culture. Cree and English, with full glosssary.

Great Heart
Great Heart

Author: James West Davidson

Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP

Published: 2006-05-11

Total Pages: 428

ISBN-13: 0773585818

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In July 1903 Leonidas Hubbard set out to explore the uncharted interior of Labrador by canoe, accompanied by Dillon Wallace, his best friend, and George Elson, a Métis guide. Bad luck and bad judgment led the expedition into disaster and the party was forced to turn back. Hubbard died of starvation just thirty miles from camp. Two years later Wallace decided to complete the overland expedition and clear himself of blame for Hubbard's death. He had, however, a rival - Mina Hubbard. She blamed Wallace for her husband's death and, with Elson as her guide, intended to complete the trek first. The result was an epic race between the avenging widow and her husband's best friend. Reconstructing the story from the long-lost journals and diaries of the 1903 and 1905 expeditions, James Davidson and John Rugge trace the explorers' routes and re-create the saga. Great Heart is a gripping drama of individuals pushed to the limits of human endurance.

A Little History of the United States
A Little History of the United States

Author: James West Davidson

Publisher: Yale University Press

Published: 2015-09-15

Total Pages: 340

ISBN-13: 030018252X

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How did a land and people of such immense diversity come together under a banner of freedom and equality to form one of the most remarkable nations in the world? Everyone from young adults to grandparents will be fascinated by the answers uncovered in James West Davidson’s vividly told A Little History of the United States. In 300 fast-moving pages, Davidson guides his readers through 500 years, from the first contact between the two halves of the world to the rise of America as a superpower in an era of atomic perils and diminishing resources. In short, vivid chapters the book brings to life hundreds of individuals whose stories are part of the larger American story. Pilgrim William Bradford stumbles into an Indian deer trap on his first day in America; Harriet Tubman lets loose a pair of chickens to divert attention from escaping slaves; the toddler Andrew Carnegie, later an ambitious industrial magnate, gobbles his oatmeal with a spoon in each hand. Such stories are riveting in themselves, but they also spark larger questions to ponder about freedom, equality, and unity in the context of a nation that is, and always has been, remarkably divided and diverse.