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Continuants

Their Activity, Their Being, and Their Identity

by David Wiggins ...

This volume gathers twelve essays by David Wiggins in an area where his work has been particularly influential. Among the subjects treated are: persistence of a substance through change, the notion of a continuant, the logic of identity, the co-occupation of space by a continuant and its matter, the relation of person to human organism, the metaphysical idea of a person, the status of artefacts, ... Read more

$67.49 USD

This volume gathers twelve essays by David Wiggins in an area where his work has been particularly influential. Among the subjects treated are: persistence of a substance through change, the notion of a continuant, the logic of identity, the co-occupation of space by a continuant and its matter, the relation of person to human organism, the metaphysical idea of a person, the status of artefacts,
... Read more
Ball in My Hands

Essays on Black Athletes, Race, and American Culture

by David K. Wiggins ...

Series series Sport & Popular Culture
When David K. Wiggins released his first anthology of previously published essays on race and sport in 1997, African American athletes were receiving more popular interest and scholarly attention. The growth of sport history as an academic discipline, combined with an increased interest in Black life and history, had led to the publication of numerous biographies of African American athletes, ... Read more

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When David K. Wiggins released his first anthology of previously published essays on race and sport in 1997, African American athletes were receiving more popular interest and scholarly attention. The growth of sport history as an academic discipline, combined with an increased interest in Black life and history, had led to the publication of numerous biographies of African American athletes,
... Read more
Meaning, Truth, and the Limits of Analysis

Ten Studies

by David Wiggins ...

This volume draws together work by David Wiggins on topics to do with language, meaning, truth, and the limit of semantic analysis, from 1980 to 2020. Each chapter draws upon previously published material, but that material has been revised, sometimes significantly, for republication here. Opening with a selective account of a century's work in the philosophy of meaning, from Frege and ... Read more

$75.99 USD

This volume draws together work by David Wiggins on topics to do with language, meaning, truth, and the limit of semantic analysis, from 1980 to 2020. Each chapter draws upon previously published material, but that material has been revised, sometimes significantly, for republication here. Opening with a selective account of a century's work in the philosophy of meaning, from Frege and
... Read more
Black Mercuries

African American Athletes, Race, and the Modern Olympic Games

by David K. Wiggins, Kevin B. Witherspoon, Mark Dyreson ...

“An essential source on African American athletes and Olympic history.”-Booklist, Starred Review, and a Booklist Top 10 Sports Book of 2023The first book to fully chronicle the struggles and triumphs of African American athletes in the Modern Olympic summer games.In the modern Olympic Games, from 1896 through the present, African American athletes have sought to honor themselves, their race, and ... Read more

$32.39 USD

“An essential source on African American athletes and Olympic history.”-Booklist, Starred Review, and a Booklist Top 10 Sports Book of 2023The first book to fully chronicle the struggles and triumphs of African American athletes in the Modern Olympic summer games.In the modern Olympic Games, from 1896 through the present, African American athletes have sought to honor themselves, their race, and
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The World In Our Words

by Stephanie Rowe, Terrica Strudwick, FIANNA MELODY MCDONALD, DAVID OLIVER, SHERR MARIE ALTAMIRANO DIAZ, KYLA JAY, JANE RICHARDS, JONA ESELAYE DAVID, G. WIGGINS, LUCY ALEXANDRA HOWSON, LUCY NOVARO, NATHANIEL NEW-CASTLE, NIAMH FRIEL, RANDY LACEY, A.J. HAIGH, AZARIA CAMARGO, JACQUELINE LEWIS, MARION S. LOVELAND, RHETORICAL ARTZ, RONI ADAM, SKYE PRICE, TK CASSIDY, YANE KRITSKI DE OLIVEIRA ...

A unique collaboration project bringing together poets from across the globe. The project, driven by newly published Author Stephanie Rowe, began with a desire to share more of her own work. Fusing her love of community and poetry the idea quickly grew and a call for poetry submissions on social media yielded an overwhelming response.Twenty-two poet's were chosen from around the world, including ... Read more

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A unique collaboration project bringing together poets from across the globe. The project, driven by newly published Author Stephanie Rowe, began with a desire to share more of her own work. Fusing her love of community and poetry the idea quickly grew and a call for poetry submissions on social media yielded an overwhelming response.Twenty-two poet's were chosen from around the world, including
... Read more
Sport in America, Volume II

From Colonial Leisure to Celebrity Figures and Globalization

by David K. Wiggins ...

Sport in America: From Colonial Leisure to Celebrity Figures and Globalization, Volume II, presents 18 thought-provoking essays focusing on the changes and patterns in American sport during six distinct eras over the past 400 years. The selections are entirely different from those in the first volume, discussing diverse topics such as views of sport in the Puritan society of colonial New England, ... Read more

$47.99 USD

Sport in America: From Colonial Leisure to Celebrity Figures and Globalization, Volume II, presents 18 thought-provoking essays focusing on the changes and patterns in American sport during six distinct eras over the past 400 years. The selections are entirely different from those in the first volume, discussing diverse topics such as views of sport in the Puritan society of colonial New England,
... Read more
More Than a Game

A History of the African American Experience in Sport

by David K. Wiggins ...

Series series The African American Experience Series
More than a Game discusses how African American men and women sought to participate in sport and what that participation meant to them, the African American community, and the United States more generally. Recognizing the complicated history of race in America and how sport can both divide and bring people together, the book chronicles the ways in which African Americans overcame racial ... Read more

$37.99 USD

More than a Game discusses how African American men and women sought to participate in sport and what that participation meant to them, the African American community, and the United States more generally. Recognizing the complicated history of race in America and how sport can both divide and bring people together, the book chronicles the ways in which African Americans overcame racial
... Read more
African Americans in Sports

by David K. Wiggins ...

This two-volume set features 400 articles on African-Americans in sports, including biographical entries as well as entries on events, tournaments, leagues, clubs, films, and associations. The entries cover all professional, amateur, and college sports such as baseball, tennis, and golf. ... Read more

$239.99 USD

This two-volume set features 400 articles on African-Americans in sports, including biographical entries as well as entries on events, tournaments, leagues, clubs, films, and associations. The entries cover all professional, amateur, and college sports such as baseball, tennis, and golf.
... Read more
The Civil War in Georgia

A New Georgia Encyclopedia Companion

by Albert Churella, Angela Esco Elder, Anne J. Bailey, Anthony Gene Carey, Barton A. Myers, Brad Wood, Brian Brown, Bruce E. Stewart, Bruce Smith, Caroline Dillman, Chris Wilkinson, Clarence L. Mohr, Dan Childs, Dan Du, David McGee, David Wiggins, David S. Williams, David Williams, Debra van Tuyll, Denise Wright, Diane Trap, Edwin Jackson, Franklin Sammons Jr., Garrett W. Silliman, George Justice, Glenna Schroeder-Lein, Gordon L. Jones, Heather Whittaker, Hubert H. McAlexander, Hugh Ruppersburg, Jacqueline Miller Carmichael, James Turner, James Welborn III, Jarrod Atchison, Jason Manthorne, Jeffrey Young, John D. Fowler, Jun Hyun, Katherine Brackett, Katherine Rohrer, Keith S. Bohannon, Kevin Young, Kyle Osborn, Laura McCarty, Laverne Hill, Leah Richier, Levi Collins, Lisa Tendrich Frank, Melvin Hill Jr., Robert Wilson III, Robert Scott Davis Jr., Stephen Davis, Stephen Huggins, Steve Longcrier, Susan Eva O'Donovan, William Harris Bragg, Richard Houston, Cindy Schmid, Samuel B. McGuire, Sean H. Vanatta, Vanessa P. Tome ...

Georgians, like all Americans, experienced the Civil War in a variety of ways. Through selected articles drawn from the New Georgia Encyclopedia (www.georgiaencyclopedia.org), this collection chronicles the diversity of Georgia’s Civil War experience and reflects the most current scholarship in terms of how the Civil War has come to be studied, documented, and analyzed.The Atlanta campaign and ... Read more

$28.99 USD

Georgians, like all Americans, experienced the Civil War in a variety of ways. Through selected articles drawn from the New Georgia Encyclopedia (www.georgiaencyclopedia.org), this collection chronicles the diversity of Georgia’s Civil War experience and reflects the most current scholarship in terms of how the Civil War has come to be studied, documented, and analyzed.The Atlanta campaign and
... Read more
Georgia Gothic

by Alex Hofelich, Can Wiggins, Persephone Justice, David Powell, Vicki Greer, Jeff Strand, Benji Carr, Dawn Major, Darrell Z. Grizzle, Marlena Frank, Vanessa Reid, Jessica Nettles, Nathan McCullough, Jamie Grimes, Tony Sarrecchia, Derek Phillips, Gini Koch, Crystal O'Leary-Davidson, Kelley M. Frank, TS Dann, Kitty Sarkozy, Jessica Ann York, Lynne Hansen ...

Gothic Horror brings specific images to mind—crumbling castles, dark Parisian alleyways, mad wives in attics, dark and lonely moors, cathedrals where more evil than good exists. Georgia Gothic replaces those locations with antebellum plantations, creatures hidden in backyard sheds, rural folks who might or might not be making pacts with a variety of terrors because that's how it's always been done ... Read more

$4.99 USD

Gothic Horror brings specific images to mind—crumbling castles, dark Parisian alleyways, mad wives in attics, dark and lonely moors, cathedrals where more evil than good exists. Georgia Gothic replaces those locations with antebellum plantations, creatures hidden in backyard sheds, rural folks who might or might not be making pacts with a variety of terrors because that's how it's always been done
... Read more
Sport and the Color Line

Black Athletes and Race Relations in Twentieth Century America

Edited by Patrick B. Miller, David K. Wiggins ...

The year 2003 marks the one-hundredth anniversary of W.E.B. Du Bois' "Souls of Black Folk," in which he declared that "the color line" would be the problem of the twentieth century. Half a century later, Jackie Robinson would display his remarkable athletic skills in "baseball's great experiment." Now, "Sport and the Color Line" takes a look at the last century through the lens of sports and race, ... Read more

$77.99 USD

The year 2003 marks the one-hundredth anniversary of W.E.B. Du Bois' "Souls of Black Folk," in which he declared that "the color line" would be the problem of the twentieth century. Half a century later, Jackie Robinson would display his remarkable athletic skills in "baseball's great experiment." Now, "Sport and the Color Line" takes a look at the last century through the lens of sports and race,
... Read more
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Pawn of Prophecy

by David Eddings ...

Narrated by Brian Wiggins ...

Series series Belgariad
Unabridged

10 hours 14 min

A magnificent epic set against a history of seven thousand years of the struggles of Gods and Kings and men—of strange lands and events—of fate and a prophecy that must be fulfilled!THE BELGARIADLong ago, so the Storyteller claimed, the evil God Torak sought dominion and drove men and Gods to war. But Belgarath the Sorcerer led men to reclaim the Orb that protected men of the West. So long as it ... Read more

$25.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

A magnificent epic set against a history of seven thousand years of the struggles of Gods and Kings and men—of strange lands and events—of fate and a prophecy that must be fulfilled!THE BELGARIADLong ago, so the Storyteller claimed, the evil God Torak sought dominion and drove men and Gods to war. But Belgarath the Sorcerer led men to reclaim the Orb that protected men of the West. So long as it
... Read more

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