Jonathan Alexander
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English
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In the summer of 1928, an eleven-year-old American-born son of Greek immigrants travels with his parents and siblings to Greece to visit their family village. There, he witnesses the brutal murder of his father and grandfather by Albanian bandits who were directed out of revenge by "the man with a hole in his face."
The young boy, his distraught mother, and two of his siblings return to the United States a year later, leaving behind one of his brothers...
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English
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An archive of personal trauma that addresses how a culture still toxic to queer people can reshape a body
In the summer of 2019, Jonathan Alexander had a minor stroke, what his doctors called an "eye stroke." A small bit of cholesterol came loose from a vein in his neck and instead of shooting into his brain and causing damage, it lodged itself in a branch artery of his retina, resulting in a permanent blindspot in his right eye. In Stroke Book,...
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English
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As our field of composition studies invites students to compose with new media and multimedia, we need to ask about other possibilities for communication, representation, and making knowledge-including possibilities that may exceed those of the letter, the text based, the composed.
In this provocative look at how composition incorporates new forms of media into actual classrooms, Jonathan Alexander and Jacqueline Rhodes argue persuasively that composition's...
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English
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An unvarnished accounting of one man's struggle toward sexual and emotional maturity.
In this unconventional memoir, Jonathan Alexander addresses wry and affecting missives to a conflicted younger self. Focusing on three years - 1989, 1993, and 1996 - Dear Queer Self follows the author through the homophobic heights of the AIDS epidemic, the fall of the Berlin Wall, the election of Bill Clinton, and the steady advancements in gay rights that followed....
5) On The Court
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English
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Jordan, a mysterious figure who plays basketball by himself at night, decides to join a men's basketball league thanks to the encouragement of his new friend Kevin. Together with their new team of unskilled misfits, The Oranges, they embark in a city-wide tournament to win the goal. With fierce opponents like King Cain, the Bad Apples, and more, the Oranges will need to overcome obstacles on and off the court to become the best team they can be.
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English
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From 9/11 to COVID-19, the twenty-first century looks increasingly dystopian-and so do its television shows. Long-form science fiction narratives take one step further the fears of today: liberal democracy in crisis, growing economic precarity, the threat of terrorism, and omnipresent corporate control. At the same time, many of these shows attempt to visualize alternatives, using dystopian extrapolations to spotlight the possibility of building a...
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2022.
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English
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With stunning, in-the-room detail, New York Times reporters Jonathan Martin and Alexander Burns show how both our political parties confronted a series of national traumas, including the coronavirus pandemic, the January 6 attack on the Capitol, and the political brinksmanship of President Biden's first year in the White House. From Donald Trump's assault on the 2020 election and his ongoing campaign of vengeance against his fellow Republicans, to...
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Economics working paper volume 97-13
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United States Office of the Comptroller of the Currency
Pub. Date
[1997]
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English
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U.S. Geological Survey open-file report volume 2020-1070
Publisher
U.S. Department of the Interior, U.S. Geological Survey
Pub. Date
2020.
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English