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Product Description: On a visit to Buffalo, New York, the French poet Dominique Fourcade was awed by the huge concrete grain elevators that line the city s river and lakefront. Turning to his guide, the poet Susan Howe, he exclaimed, The American Chartres! Taking Fourcade s exclamation as its title, Bruce Jackson s American Chartres documents Buffalo s surviving grain elevators, capturing these monumental buildings in all seasons and in various light; from the Buffalo River, the Ship Canal, and Lake Erie; from inside and from the top floors and roofs; in detail and in toto...read more

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9781438462578 | Excelsior Editions, November 1, 2016, cover price $75.00 | About this edition: On a visit to Buffalo, New York, the French poet Dominique Fourcade was awed by the huge concrete grain elevators that line the city s river and lakefront.

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Product Description: In 1947, 1948 and 1959, renowned folklorist Alan Lomax (1915-2002) went behind the barbed wire into the Mississippi State Penitentiary at Parchman. Armed with a reel-to-reel tape deck--and, in 1959, a camera--Lomax documented as best an outsider could the stark and savage conditions of the prison farm, where the black inmates labored "from can't to can't," chopping timber, clearing ground and picking cotton for the state...read more

Hardcover:

9780981734293 | Slp har/co edition (Distributed Art Pub Inc, September 29, 2015), cover price $40.00 | About this edition: In 1947, 1948 and 1959, renowned folklorist Alan Lomax (1915-2002) went behind the barbed wire into the Mississippi State Penitentiary at Parchman.

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Product Description: Two friends embark on a journey of laughter, literature, and Labradoodles. The Roller-skating Giraffe is a collection of short stories from the colorful mind of Bruce Jackson. His compadre KJ merely typed the words. Give it up for Bruce Jackson, a...read more

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9781496029065 | Createspace Independent Pub, December 28, 2014, cover price $7.11 | About this edition: Two friends embark on a journey of laughter, literature, and Labradoodles.

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Book Description: For more than forty years Bruce Jackson has been documenting—in books, photographs, audio recording, and film—inmates’ lives in American prisons. In November, 1975, he acquired a collection of old ID photos while he was visiting the Cummins Unit, a state prison farm in Arkansas...read more

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9781592139484 | Temple Univ Pr, March 28, 2009, cover price $89.50 | About this edition: For more than forty years Bruce Jackson has been documenting—in books, photographs, audio recording, and film—inmates’ lives in American prisons.

Paperback:

9781592139491 | Temple Univ Pr, March 28, 2009, cover price $38.95 | About this edition: For more than forty years Bruce Jackson has been documenting—in books, photographs, audio recording, and film—inmates’ lives in American prisons.

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Book Description: Making and experiencing stories, remembering and retelling them is something we all do. We tell stories over meals, at the water cooler, and to both friends and strangers. But how do stories work? What is it about telling and listening to stories that unites us? And, more importantly, how do we change them-and how do they change us?In The Story Is True, author, filmmaker, and photographer Bruce Jackson explores the ways we use the stories that become a central part of our public and private lives...read more

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9781592136063 | Temple Univ Pr, May 28, 2007, cover price $69.50 | About this edition: Making and experiencing stories, remembering and retelling them is something we all do.

Paperback:

9781592136070 | Temple Univ Pr, September 28, 2008, cover price $26.95 | About this edition: Making and experiencing stories, remembering and retelling them is something we all do.

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Product Description: Anyone interested in maximizing performance will benefit from this book. Sports for Life is fun and provides a unique approach to cultivating the human spirit. It will entertain, teach, and provide key insights to success in any area of life.

Paperback:

9781589613287 | Pagefree Pub Inc, November 28, 2004, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: Anyone interested in maximizing performance will benefit from this book.

By Bruce Jackson (editor)

Hardcover:

9780415969963 | Routledge, March 1, 2004, cover price $115.00

Paperback:

9780415969970 | Pap/com edition (Routledge, March 1, 2004), cover price $38.95

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Product Description: Making it in Hell, says Bruce Jackson, is the spirit behind the sixty-five work songs gathered in this eloquent dispatch from a brutal era of prison life in the Deep South. Through engagingly documented song arrangements and profiles of their singers, Jackson shows how such pieces as "Hammer Ring," "Ration Blues," "Yellow Gal," and "Jody's Got My Wife and Gone" are like no other folk music forms: they are distinctly African in heritage, diminished in power and meaning outside their prison context, and used exclusively by black convicts...read more
By Bruce Jackson (editor)

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9780820321585 | Univ of Georgia Pr, October 1, 1999, cover price $28.95 | About this edition: Making it in Hell, says Bruce Jackson, is the spirit behind the sixty-five work songs gathered in this eloquent dispatch from a brutal era of prison life in the Deep South.

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Product Description: The phrase ‘practical theory’ may seem to be a contradiction, but it is a term that Practical Beginning Theory has, since it’s first edition in 1963, sought to embody by providing a comprehensive introduction to basic level theory that can be used in any teaching situation, even if other resource materials are limited or unavailable...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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9780697343970 | 8 pap/cdr edition (McGraw-Hill Humanities Social, July 1, 1999), cover price $168.65 | About this edition: The phrase ‘practical theory’ may seem to be a contradiction, but it is a term that Practical Beginning Theory has, since it’s first edition in 1963, sought to embody by providing a comprehensive introduction to basic level theory that can be used in any teaching situation, even if other resource materials are limited or unavailable.
9789990009286 | McGraw-Hill College, July 1, 1999, cover price $0.02

Miscellaneous:

9780822072591 | Dgd/sof edition (Cliff Notes, March 17, 1999), cover price $5.99

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Product Description: Sanitation and proper cleaning are necessary for the health of customers and ultimately the profitability of all food service establishments. The authors present in detail all aspects of cleaning and maintaining food service operations, with chapters on bacteria and infection control, equipment an chemicals, cleaning techniques, kitchen equipment, management procedures, an safety guidelines...read more

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9780960105441 | Lslf edition (Cleaning Consultant Service, June 1, 1998), cover price $78.00 | About this edition: Sanitation and proper cleaning are necessary for the health of customers and ultimately the profitability of all food service establishments.

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Product Description: A superb exploration of inner city America told from the perspective of an African-American young man in short poetic prose pieces. Hypnotic and scary, just as you think you're reaching the end of a piece and that you understood it, Jackson twists the knife 90 degrees and exposes a point of view that catches you unawares, then he's through your defenses and into your heart...read more

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9780916397487 | Manic d Pr, January 1, 1998, cover price $11.95 | About this edition: A superb exploration of inner city America told from the perspective of an African-American young man in short poetic prose pieces.

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This is a book reflecting on the fieldwork process.
By Edward D. Ives (editor) and Bruce Jackson (editor)

Hardcover:

9780252022296 | Univ of Illinois Pr, July 1, 1996, cover price $39.95

Paperback:

9780252065330 | Univ of Illinois Pr, July 1, 1996, cover price $20.00 | About this edition: This is a book reflecting on the fieldwork process.

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Essays discuss government drug policy, crime, jail, the police, violence, the coal industry, and the environment

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9780252019050 | Univ of Illinois Pr, August 1, 1992, cover price $39.00 | About this edition: Essays discuss government drug policy, crime, jail, the police, violence, the coal industry, and the environment

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Paperback:

9780931627033 | Documentary Research, June 1, 1985, cover price $15.00

By American Folklore Society (corporate author), Bruce A. Beatie (editor) and Bruce Jackson (editor)

Paperback:

9780939731022 | Revised edition (New South Moulton Pr, December 1, 1989), cover price $16.00

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Product Description: Book by Jackson, Bruce

Hardcover:

9780252013706 | Univ of Illinois Pr, March 1, 1987, cover price $37.95 | About this edition: Book by Jackson, Bruce

Paperback:

9780252013720 | Univ of Illinois Pr, February 1, 1987, cover price $22.00

Paperback:

9780939731015, titled "A User's Guide: Shareware, Freeware, and Public Domain Software" | New South Moulton Pr, February 1, 1987, cover price $25.00

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Examines crime statistics, trials, plea bargaining, sentencing, parole, recidivism, and the criminal justice bureaucracy

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9780252010125 | Univ of Illinois Pr, January 1, 1985, cover price $32.00 | About this edition: Examines crime statistics, trials, plea bargaining, sentencing, parole, recidivism, and the criminal justice bureaucracy

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Describes the use of illegal drugs by middle-class teenagers, its effects on their lives, and their struggles with drug addiction

Paperback:

9780312216153 | 1 edition (St Martins Pr, March 1, 1983), cover price $7.95 | About this edition: Describes the use of illegal drugs by middle-class teenagers, its effects on their lives, and their struggles with drug addiction

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Bored, dissatisfied, and engagingly imaginative, computer programmer Eddie Argo decides to strike back at the system and--together with a voluptuous counterculture cohort--reprograms into an anti-establishment Robin Hood fantasy

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9780345290793 | Ballantine Books, November 1, 1981, cover price $2.25 | About this edition: Bored, dissatisfied, and engagingly imaginative, computer programmer Eddie Argo decides to strike back at the system and--together with a voluptuous counterculture cohort--reprograms into an anti-establishment Robin Hood fantasy

Product Description: As each state moves to restore the death penalty, the old debate is renewed. Experts pro and con testify, but no one ever asked the convicted what the death penalty means to those on death row. That is, no one until Bruce Jackson and Diane Christian interviewed the inmates on The Row at the Texas State Prison at Huntsville...read more

Hardcover:

9780807032022 | Transaction Pub, June 1, 1980, cover price $45.95 | About this edition: As each state moves to restore the death penalty, the old debate is renewed.

Paperback:

9780807032039 | Beacon Pr, June 1, 1981, cover price $6.95 | About this edition: As each state moves to restore the death penalty, the old debate is renewed.

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