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  • Driving on Empty
    Bruce R. Jackson
    What happens when memory won’t let go, your body betrays you, and your dogs understand you better than most humans? You write. You rage. You laugh. You love. You drive on empty.With raw honesty, dry wit, and an eye for the sacred in the mundane, Bruce Jackson turns everyday living into a lyrical journey through aging, regret, resilience, and unexpected joy. Driving on Empty is ...
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    43,23 €

  • Driving on Empty
    Bruce R. Jackson
    What happens when memory won’t let go, your body betrays you, and your dogs understand you better than most humans? You write. You rage. You laugh. You love. You drive on empty.With raw honesty, dry wit, and an eye for the sacred in the mundane, Bruce Jackson turns everyday living into a lyrical journey through aging, regret, resilience, and unexpected joy. Driving on Empty is ...
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    54,22 €

  • God’s Inspirational Guidance
    Bruce Jackson
    As I went forward with believing for a title for the book, God gave a word to name this book God’s Inspirational Guidance to touch the lives of many people, not only believers but also anyone who wants to know the heart of God. ...
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    10,87 €

  • God’s Inspirational Guidance
    Bruce Jackson
    As I went forward with believing for a title for the book, God gave a word to name this book God’s Inspirational Guidance to touch the lives of many people, not only believers but also anyone who wants to know the heart of God. ...
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    20,33 €

  • Folklore Matters
    Bruce Jackson
    Celebrates over a half-century of the work of one of America’s greatest folklorists.Folklore Matters gathers over a half-century of articles, memoirs, field studies, and more by master folklorist Bruce Jackson. Jackson’s wide-ranging view of what makes up folklore, his affection for his subjects, and his keen-eyed ability to observe and record without prejudice stories, songs, ...
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    32,55 €

  • The Life and Death of Buffalo’s Great Northern Grain Elevator
    Bruce Jackson
    A stunning visual memorial to Buffalo’s architectural and industrial history.Archer Daniels Midland got lucky the night of December 11, 2021: a fierce winter wind took out a third of the brick wall of Buffalo’s Great Northern Grain Elevator. ADM had wanted to demolish the building since 1993, but each of its demolition requests to the city had been blocked. Six days after the s...
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    39,98 €

  • Get Your Ass in the Water and Swim Like Me
    Bruce Jackson
    The classic work on African American toasts, the predecessor of rap.Get Your Ass in the Water and Swim Like Me celebrates the African American oral tradition of toasting, one of the key roots of contemporary rap. Jackson was among the few to appreciate the profane energy and beauty of this rhymed form, collecting such classic toasts as 'Stackolee,' 'The Titanic,' 'Signifying Mo...
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    26,16 €

  • Get Your Ass in the Water and Swim Like Me
    Bruce Jackson
    The classic work on African American toasts, the predecessor of rap.Get Your Ass in the Water and Swim Like Me celebrates the African American oral tradition of toasting, one of the key roots of contemporary rap. Jackson was among the few to appreciate the profane energy and beauty of this rhymed form, collecting such classic toasts as 'Stackolee,' 'The Titanic,' 'Signifying Mo...
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    126,52 €

  • Folklore Matters
    Bruce Jackson
    Celebrates over a half-century of the work of one of America’s greatest folklorists.Folklore Matters gathers over a half-century of articles, memoirs, field studies, and more by master folklorist Bruce Jackson. Jackson’s wide-ranging view of what makes up folklore, his affection for his subjects, and his keen-eyed ability to observe and record without prejudice stories, songs, ...
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    126,46 €

  • The Story Is True, Second Edition
    Bruce Jackson
    Delves into the meaning of stories, their tellers, and those who experience them.In The Story Is True, folklorist, filmmaker, and professor of English Bruce Jackson explores the ways we use the stories that become a central part of our public and private lives. Describing and explaining how stories are made and used, Jackson examines how stories narrate and bring meaning to our...
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    29,14 €

  • Ways of the Hand
    Bruce Jackson
    A visual and narrative memoir of a lifetime’s encounters with 112 trendsetters, musicians, politicians, writers, and ordinary people by a noted folklorist-photographer.Honorable Mention, for the 2022 Foreword INDIES Book of the Year Award in the Photography Category Rocker Rod Stewart, Jackson says, had it wrong when he titled his breakthrough album Every Picture Tells a Story....
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    31,13 €

  • Voices from Death Row
    Bruce Jackson / Diane Christian
    A searing, personal look at conditions on Texas’s Death Row-told in the words of the prisoners themselves.Voices from Death Row is considered a classic work on the strange 'living limbo' inhabited by condemned men in Texas, who await resolution of their sentence in execution, death by other causes, commutation to a term of life sentence, or exoneration. This book offers first-p...
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    121,31 €

  • Voices from Death Row
    Bruce Jackson / Diane Christian
    A searing, personal look at conditions on Texas’s Death Row-told in the words of the prisoners themselves.Voices from Death Row is considered a classic work on the strange 'living limbo' inhabited by condemned men in Texas, who await resolution of their sentence in execution, death by other causes, commutation to a term of life sentence, or exoneration. This book offers first-p...
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    25,24 €

  • The Story Is True, Second Edition
    Bruce Jackson
    Delves into the meaning of stories, their tellers, and those who experience them.In The Story Is True, folklorist, filmmaker, and professor of English Bruce Jackson explores the ways we use the stories that become a central part of our public and private lives. Describing and explaining how stories are made and used, Jackson examines how stories narrate and bring meaning to our...
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    121,51 €

  • Thom Jons
    Bruce Jackson
    A novel of the life, death, and resurrectionOf one who rejected life and demanded death.A rose is just another flower until you smell its fragrance and prick your finger on its thorn.What is life like beyond the veil of death? What might our guardian angels say to us as we live our lives on earth? What would resurrected family and friends tell us about their experience on the...
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    32,27 €

  • Thom Jons
    Bruce Jackson
    A novel of the life, death, and resurrectionOf one who rejected life and demanded death.A rose is just another flower until you smell its fragrance and prick your finger on its thorn.What is life like beyond the veil of death? What might our guardian angels say to us as we live our lives on earth? What would resurrected family and friends tell us about their experience on the...
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    23,29 €

  • Genetics of Wood Production
    Bruce J. Zobel / Jackson B. Jett
    Over the past years, a great deal has been learned about variation in wood prop­ erties. Genetic control is a major source of variation in most wood properties. Wood is controlled genetically both directly in the developmental or internal pro­ cesses of wood formation and indirectly by the control of tree form and growth patterns. Emphasis in this boo...
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    133,61 €

  • Finding Your Flow - How to Identify Your Flow Assets and Liabilities - The Keys to Peak Performance Every Day
    Bruce H. Jackson / Bruce HJackson
    Do you remember your last peak performance? Do you remember asking: how do I do this? How can I do it again? If you have asked this question, and want to know the answer, then this is the book you have been searching for.The Holy Grail of performance has many names: the zone, peaking, even flow. The elements of this experience are many, yet the formula is all too personal. It i...
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    18,78 €

  • Finding Your Flow - How to Identify Your Flow Assets and Liabilities - the Keys to Peak Performance Every Day
    Bruce H. Jackson / Bruce HJackson
    Do you remember your last peak performance? Do you remember asking: how do I do this? How can I do it again? If you have asked this question, and want to know the answer, then this is the book you have been searching for.The Holy Grail of performance has many names: the zone, peaking, even flow. The elements of this experience are many, yet the formula is all too personal. It i...
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    30,49 €

  • Wake Up Dead Man
    Bruce Jackson
    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 ...
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    36,07 €

  • The Negro and His Folklore in Nineteenth-Century Periodicals
    Bruce Jackson
    In the eyes of many white Americans, North and South, the Negro did not have a culture until the Emancipation Proclamation. With few exceptions, serious collecting of Negro folklore by whites did not begin until the Civil War-and it was to be another four decades before black Americans would begin to appreciate their own cultural heritage. Few of the earlier writers realized th...
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    50,91 €