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FUGITIVE JUSTICE

Tells the stories of three of the most dramatic fugitive-slave trials of the 1850s, bringing to life the determination of the fugitives, the radical tactics of their rescuers, the brutality of the slave hunters and the response of the federal courts.

trials of the Oberlin rescuers attracted national attention in the spring and summer
of 1859, but they were soon overshadowed by events. Before the end of the year,
John Brown staged his attack at Harpers Ferry, only to be captured and hanged
for murder and treason. Brown's execution was inevitable from the moment of he
was taken prisoner, but the Virginia au- thorities still proceeded with the formality
of a trial. That trial provided Brown with the opportunity to deliver his defiant final
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Conspiracy and Romance

Studies in Brockden Brown, Cooper, Hawthorne, and Melville

Robert Levine examines the American romance in a new historical context. His book offers a fresh reading of the genre, establishing its importance to American culture between the founding of the Republic and the Civil War. With convincing historical and literary detail, Levine shows that anxieties about foreign elements--French revolutionaries, secret societies, Catholic immigrants, African slaves--are central to the fictional worlds of Brockden Brown, Cooper, Hawthorne and Melville. Ormond, The Bravo, The Blithedale Romance, and Benito Cereno are persuasively explicated by Levine to demonstrate that the romance dramatized the same conflicts and ideals that gave rise to the American Republic. Americans conceived "America" as a historical romance, and their romances dramatize the historical conditions of the culture. The fear that reputed conspiracies would subvert the order and integrity of the new nation were recurrent and widespread; Levine illuminates the influence of such fears on the works of major romance writers during this period.

Villainy and Vulnerability in Charles Brockden Brown's Ormond We are
frequently in most danger when we deem ourselves most safe, and our fortress is
taken sometimes through a point, whose weakness nothing, it should seem, but
the blindest stupidity, could overlook. Brown, Memoirs ofCarwin Charles
Brockden Brown's novels abound with mysterious villains who for a variety of
reasons have fled Europe and emigrated to America. Wanderers in the shifting
terrain of his fiction, they ...

Let's Play Pokémon

The Ultimate Manual for Parents & Kids

Outlines the rules and strategies of the game, offers advice to parents about the opportunities and risks it provides children, collecting and trading cards, league play, and related topics, and gives other details.

Outlines the rules and strategies of the game, offers advice to parents about the opportunities and risks it provides children, collecting and trading cards, league play, and related topics, and gives other details.

Tokyo Cyberpunk

Posthumanism in Japanese Visual Culture

Engaging some of the most canonical and thought-provoking anime, manga, and science fiction films, Tokyo Cyberpunk offers insightful analysis of Japanese visual culture. Steven T. Brown draws new conclusions about the cultural flow of art, as well as important technological issues of the day.

Steven T. Brown draws new conclusions about the cultural flow of art, as well as important technological issues of the day.

The Republic Reborn

War and the Making of Liberal America, 1790-1820

Though evidence is fragmentary and interpretation is somewhat speculative, as
both must be in this type of inquiry, the lives and words of Charles Brockden
Brown, Alfred Brunson, and John Quincy Adams reveal some of the private
traumas of early liberal individualism in America. In the experiences, reflections,
confessions, and actions of these Jeffersonian sympathizers2" can be seen the
psychological dramas involving Fathers and Sons, authority and repression, and
identity and ...

13 Fatal Errors Managers Make and How You Can Avoid Them

With straightforward, insightful advice, renowned business trainer W. Steven Brown provides managers--from new to experienced--with essential leadership tools. This is the book that "ought to be in the top drawer of every manager's desk"*. Are you guilty of... *Being a buddy, not a boss? *Never admitting that you are accountable? *Managing different people in the same way? *Failing to set common business goals? *Trying to control your people instead of influencing their thinking with enthusiasm? These are just a few of the 13 fatal errors managers make. Errors that waste valuable time, money, and talent. This book will show you how to recognize problems--and avoid them--before they happen. Author Steven Brown, a nationally recognized professional trainer and consultant, provides the essential guide for effective managers and shows you how to get the best from your workers, your company--and yourself.

These are just a few of the 13 fatal errors managers make. Errors that waste valuable time, money, and talent. This book will show you how to recognize problems--and avoid them--before they happen.

Movie Stars and Sensuous Scars

Essays on the Journey from Disability Shame to Disability Pride

"Steve Brown takes us on a profound journey of his many steps, the many turnings of the wheels that have borne him through his life to the present moment. His shock, his anger, his bitterness, and, ultimately, his courage in the face of adversity, not only educate but remind us of his fine humanity as well as our own. His advocacy doesn't preach but teaches. With words describing his life and the lives of those close to him, he opens a wide door through which any who can read or care to grow can pass." -Mark Medoff, Author of Children of a Lesser God "Disability culture is at the heart and soul of the disability movement, and in Steve Brown's writings we see that culture shining in all its glory. " -Mary Johnson, Editor, Ragged Edge magazine "Movie Stars and Sensuous Scars is a powerful book. I strongly relate to Steve's writing and ideas. The writing is clear and flows well. The ideas are beautifully radical. He gives true insight into disability and people with disabilities. His is a voice demanding to be heard." -David Pfeiffer, Disability Studies Quarterly editor

Essays on the Journey from Disability Shame to Disability Pride Steven E. Brown.
A. HEALING. JOURNEY. [I conclude this collection, as I began, with an essay
about my own health, my perspectives about Gaucher Disease, and how it is all
intertwined throughout my life. After years of writing and talking about pain, I felt
compelled to describe this journey once more a few years ago. Many changes
had occurred in my life, including interactions with a variety of alternative healers.

St Andrews and Fife Walks

St Andrews & Fife Walks is the essential guide to an area which has witnessed some of the most dramatic incidents in Scottish history. Events took place here that shaped the nation and altered the destinies of Mary, Queen of Scots; John Knox; Cardinal Beaton and many others that history has forgotten. Each walk uses contemporary accounts and anecdotes to bring these events to life - from the murder of an archbishop on Magus Muir, to ghost hunting at St Andrews Cathedral and the arrival of the Spanish Armada at Anstruther. Fully illustrated with photographs and maps, this guide is an invaluable companion for anyone exploring Scotland's oldest university town, the Lomond Hills and the rich seafaring heritage of the East Neuk coast.

Campbell Brown, Steven Wiggins. complete the slow murder of their victim....The
commander then said, almost repeating the words of James Melvin when he slew
Cardinal Beaton: “I take God to witness, whose cause I desire to own in adhering
to this persecuted Gospel, that it is not out of hatred to thy person, nor for any
prejudice thou hast done or could do to me, for which we intend to take thy life,
but it is because thou hast been, and continues to be, an avowed opposer of the
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Trumping Religion

The New Christian Right, the Free Speech Clause, and the Courts

This book is the first scholarly treatment of the strategies employed by the New Christian Right In litigating cases regarding religion using the Free Speech Clause of the United States Constitution. Trumping Religion provides a detailed analysis of the five major public-interest law firms that have litigated religion cases in the federal courts between 1980 and 2000. Steven Brown argues that these organizations have not only stepped up their efforts to participate in religion cases but also fundamentally changed the way religious expression is viewed by the law, appealing not to the free-exercise-of-religion or establishment clauses of the Constitution but to the Free Speech Clause of the First Amendment. Allied with several highly vocal, evangelical ministries, such as those of Jerry Falwell and Pat Robertson, the legal organizations that litigate for the New Christian Right argue that religious expression is a form of protected speech and thereby gain a greater latitude of interpretation in the courts. This strategy has been criticized by both liberals and conservatives as demeaning to the concepts of belief and worship, yet it has been successful. The long-term agenda of the NCR as illuminated by this study is to shape church-state jurispridence in a way that permits free course for the Christian gospel. This result, they believe, would retard further secularization of the American way of life. Brown presents his research and conclusions from a balanced viewpoint, In filling a distinct void in the literature, this book will be of considerable interest to political scientists, legal scholars, law schools and seminaries, and anyone concerned with the intersection of religion and judicial politics. - Publisher.

The New Christian Right, the Free Speech Clause, and the Courts Steven P.
Brown. 4 “Incremental Pragmatism” Legal Strategies of the New Christian Right I
learned a great deal studying the strategies of the legal activists of the last thirty
years, among which was how to begin to undo the damage they've caused and
restore some sanity to our jurisprudence. We needed a form of what I called “
incremental pragmatism” in our legal strategy. I knew we could not change things
quickly; ...