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  • Love Is for All of Us

    Poems of Tenderness and Belonging from the LGBTQ+ Community and Friends

    Edited by James Crews, Brad Peacock ...
    This luminous and open-hearted anthology of poems from the LGBTQIA+ community proves that there is nothing more universal than love.Edited by James Crews with his husband, Brad Peacock, and illustrated by Lisa Congdon, these compassionate poems of connection and affirmation are a celebration of all kinds of love—romantic love, family love, friendship, self-love, and love for nature. The poems are ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • South Writ Large

    Stories from the Global South

    by James L. Peacock ...
    South Writ Large: Stories from the Global South is an anthology of personal essays, articles, poetry, and artwork that explores the culture of the U.S. South and its extensive connections to other regions of the world. The collection is composed of articles published over the past ten years in the online magazine South Writ Large, which examines the changing South in its symbolic and psychological ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Grounded Globalism

    How the U.S. South Embraces the World

    by James L. Peacock ...
    The world is flat? Maybe not, says this paradigm-shifting study of globalism's impact on a region legendarily resistant to change. The U.S. South, long defined in terms of its differences with the U.S. North, is moving out of this national and oppositional frame of reference into one that is more international and integrative. Likewise, as the South (home to UPS, CNN, KFC, and other international ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • The Clash Takes on the World

    Transnational Perspectives on The Only Band that Matters

    Edited by Samuel Cohen, Dr James Peacock ...
    On their debut, The Clash famously claimed to be “bored with the USA,” but The Clash wasn't a parochial record. Mick Jones' licks on songs such as “Hate and War” were heavily influenced by classic American rock and roll, and the cover of Junior Murvin's reggae hit “Police and Thieves” showed that the band's musical influences were already wide-ranging. Later albums such as Sandinista! and Combat ... Read more

    $38.99 USD

  • Diseases and Disorders in Contemporary Fiction

    The Syndrome Syndrome

    Edited by James Peacock, Tim Lustig ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Contemporary Literature
    The essays in this collection address the current preoccupation with neurological conditions and disorders in contemporary literature by British and American writers. The book places these fictional treatments within a broader cultural and historical context, exploring such topics as the two cultures debate, the neurological turn, postmodernism and the post-postmodern, and responses to September ... Read more

    $72.99 USD

  • Identity Matters

    Ethnic and Sectarian Conflict

    Edited by James L. Peacock, Patricia M. Thornton, Patrick B. Inman ...
    In response to the attacks of September 11, 2001 and war in Afghanistan, the Fulbright New Century Scholars program brought together social scientists from around the world to study sectarian, ethnic, and cultural conflict within and across national borders. As one result of their year of intense discussion, this book examines the roots of collective violence — and the measures taken to avoid it — ... Read more

    $23.99 USD

  • The American South in a Global World

    Edited by James L. Peacock, Harry L. Watson, Carrie R. Matthews ...
    Looking beyond broad theories of globalization, this volume examines the specific effects of globalizing forces on the southern United States. Eighteen essays approach globalization from a variety of perspectives, addressing such topics as relations between global and local communities; immigration, particularly of Latinos and Asians; local industry in a time of globalization; power and ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • The Intellectual Legacy of Victor and Edith Turner

    by Charlotte Dawson, Stephen Glazier, Dionisios Kavadias, James Peacock, Xinyan Peng, Rory Turner, Roy Wagner ...
    In 2016, Edith Turner passed away. She left behind an intellectual legacy that, together with her husband, Victor Turner, transformed modern anthropology. This edited collection focuses on Victor and Edith Turner’s significant theoretical contributions, including their work on communitas, liminality, pilgrimage, friendship, fieldwork, self-reflection, affective culture, religion, spirits, and ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • Gentrification in Contemporary Fiction

    Domestic Spaces, Neighborhoods, and Global Real Estate

    by Dr James Peacock ...
    Series series New Horizons in Contemporary Writing
    Focusing on literary representations of gentrification, this book analyses twenty-first century anglophone novels by authors from the United States, Canada, India, the United Kingdom and Australia. Literary texts, so adept at revealing the experiences and emotions of individuals within communities, are also important vehicles for exploring the complex relationships between individuals and the ... Read more

    $93.99 USD

  • The Anatomy of Folly – 5 Classic Satirical Novels

    Enriched edition. I and My Chimney, The Village That Voted the Earth Was Flat, Nightmare Abbey, The Monikins, Bouvard and Pécuchet

    by Herman Melville, Rudyard Kipling, Thomas Love Peacock, James Fenimore Cooper, Gustave Flaubert, Chloe Brennan ...
    The Anatomy of Folly – 5 Classic Satirical Novels is a masterful collection that explores the art of satire through its varied expressions across different literary traditions. This anthology delves into the essence of human folly, offering a panoramic view of society's absurdities with a blend of humor, irony, and critical reflection. Each novel featured in this collection serves as a beacon in ... Read more

    $1.99 USD

  • Audiobook

    A Cure for Night

    by Justin Peacock ...
    Narrated by James Colby ...

    Unabridged

    9 hours 5 min

    Yale Law School graduate Justin Peacock's legal experience serves him well for this intense novel in the tradition of such genre luminaries as Scott Turow and Richard Price. A Cure for Night features Joel Deveraux, a former corporate-law hotshot whose downward slide finds him plying his trade at Brooklyn's Public Defender's office. Thrust into a high-profile case involving black-on-white crime, ... Read more

    $20.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Brooklyn Fictions

    The Contemporary Urban Community in a Global Age

    by Dr James Peacock ...
    Vast and diverse, Brooklyn is often portrayed in literature as a place of traditional community values and face-to-face relations, distinct from anonymous, capital-driven Manhattan. Brooklyn Fictions discovers what such representations of the New York borough can teach us about diversity and the individual, the local and the global.Combining analysis of popular texts such as Sister Souljah's The ... Read more

    $42.99 USD