African Pursuit

The book shows that integration is an intergovernmental process that involves the formation and pursuit of preferences, which are pursued through a...

Publisher: Acme Press LtdAuthor(s): David AlricIllustration(s): 20 fullpage black & white drawings, 15 chapters heading vignettesNumber of pages: 4...

Reducere. In this important study, Dr. Gift Mtukwa investigates the relationship between work and community in Paul's letters to the Thessalonians. Utilizing...

Reducere. DescriptionIn Afrian American Christian Ethics, Samuel K. Roberts builds an ethic upon a Trinitarian foundation and explores scripture, tradition, ...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Mamiwata PriestessMami Wata Priestess, through her conversations in a series of collected essays, describes traditional Afr...

Takes the reader across the Atlantic from Africa to the Americas and then back in pursuit of the music we call jazz. This first volume explores the...

Reducere. A Guidebook for Young People Studying US Slave Songs primarily aims to teach children how the enslaved people of Africa communicated using music st...

Description"Besides being one of our greatest presidents, Roosevelt stands alone as a conservationist, a visionary when it came to the protection a...

Reducere. In Pursuit of Jubilee Field is about a businessman who rose to the challenge and initiated an effort that would result in one of the largest discov...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Alexander KentSummoned to the Admiralty by Sir Edward Pellew, Captain Adam Bolitho is ordered to sail his 46-gun frigate Un...

Brings together research by Africanist anthropologists and architectural historians who share in the pursuit of an archaeology of modernist archite...

Reducere. In The Pursuit of Happiness Bianca C. Williams traces the experiences of African American women as they travel to Jamaica, where they address the p...

Winner of the New Jersey Studies Academic Alliance Authors Award for Nonfiction New Jersey's land records and deeds are unlikely sources for a thri...

In Pursuit of Jubilee is about a businessman who rose to the challenge and initiated an effort that would result in one of the largest discoveries ...

DescriptionThe racial tensions that have long plagued American society exist to a much lesser extent in the military where the bond of common pursu...

Reducere. Your Crib, My Qibla interrogates loss, the death of a child, and a father's pursuit of language able to articulate grief. In these poems, the langu...

Women scientists have made key contributions to the pursuit of science and some of the most important discoveries of all time. In Mae Carol Jemison...

Reducere. DescriptionThe heart of this book is the remarkable Civil War diary of the author's great-grandfather, William Benjamin Gould, an escaped slave who...

The epic history of African American women's pursuit of political power -- and how it transformed AmericaIn the standard story, the suffrage crusad...

Reducere. DescriptionThe adventures of eight inspiring women of the twentieth century.Mary Gibson Henry risked her life following her passion for new botanic...

Reducere. The poems in Chekwube Danladi's debut collection ardently expose unnamed spaces of agency, proclaiming power and beauty through an unaccustomed yea...

Reducere. In the spirit of Night by Elie Wiesel, Die Walking is the memoir of a Rwandan boy escaping genocide.In 1994, Obadiah was the thirteen-year-old son ...

Reducere. Donald Trump's election to the U.S. presidency in 2016, which placed control of the government in the hands of the most racially homogenous, far-ri...

Porgy by DuBose Heyward with an afterword by James M. Hutchisson This is the first major southern novel to portray African Americans outside the st...

Reducere. DescriptionThe era between empire and communism is routinely portrayed as a catastrophic interlude in China's modern history. But in this book, Fra...

Reducere. Lord Copper, newspaper magnate and proprietor of the Daily Beast, has always prided himself on his intuitive flair for spotting ace reporters. That...

THE DISTANCE BETWEEN STARS is the story of two Americans divided by history and skin color. Joe Kellerman, white, is an accomplished diplomat who h...

Cameron Strang takes American scientific thought and discoveries away from the learned societies, museums, and teaching halls of the Northeast and ...

Reducere. In Third Wave Capitalism, John Ehrenreich documents the emergence of a new stage in the history of American capitalism. Just as the industrial capi...

Reducere. Frederick Douglass called the martyred president "emphatically the black man's president" as well as "the first who rose above the prejudice of his...

Reducere. DescriptionSocialism was man's most ambitious attempt to supplant religion with a doctrine claiming to ground itself in "science." Each failure to ...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Ellamae SimmonsAuthor: Rosemarie RobothamTracing the unforgettable tale of a little black girl from a small Ohio town who d...

Reducere. TARZAN: THE GREYSTOKE LEGACY UNDER SIEGE The Greystoke Legacy lifts the TARZAN series to new, ground-breaking heights: A high adventure that immers...

Reducere. W. E. B. Du Bois's seminal work, The Souls of Black Folk, not only captures the experience of African Americans in the years following the Civil Wa...

Indonesian Ferry Sinks. Peruvian Bus Plunges Off Cliff. African Train Attacked by Mobs. Whenever he picked up the newspaper, Carl Hoffman noticed t...

Reducere. Throughout the twentieth century, African Americans challenged segregation at amusement parks, swimming pools, and skating rinks not only in pursui...

Reducere. An action-packed thriller from global bestseller Wilbur Smith The Syrian plane disintegrated, evaporating in a gush of silvery smoke, rent through ...

As a student of life and basketball, as a basketball player and coach, as an African-American, a businessman, a lecturer, and a man, Bill Russell p...

Reducere. Missionary Stew follows political fundraiser Draper Haere on a quest to uncover the secret behind a right-wing coup in an unnamed Central american ...

Reducere. A collection of personal travel essays that takes the reader on a roller-coaster ride across Africa as seen through the eyes of a solo female backp...