Back from Africa, Paperback

From Africa to Australia to Asia and back again, Sunny the meerkat is on the hunt for the perfect Christmas in this flap-filled festive picture book.

Contributor(s): Author: Mostafa MinawiThe Ottoman Scramble for Africa is the first book to tell the story of the Ottoman Empire's expansionist effo...

Description*Includes pictures *Includes accounts of the fighting *Includes online resources and a bibliography for further reading "The passive res...

Reducere. During the final fifteen years of the Cold War, southern Africa underwent a period of upheaval, with dramatic twists and turns in relations between...

Reducere. Now in paperback, this second remarkable travel book from famed actor Ewan McGregor and his good friend Charley Boorman chronicles their epic adven...

Reducere. Ancient Africa holds a rich legacy of oral cultures, philosophies, and standards that reflect today's deep moral standards. For centuries, African ...

This Very Short Introduction looks at Africa's past and reflects on the changing ways it has been imagined and represented, both in Africa and beyo...

Reducere. Tied to the Wind is an auto-fictional prose poetry collection. The book portrays a young girl's attempts to tether herself to a life that keeps bec...

Reducere. Born in the former British colony of Rhodesia, Alice Chidzero has served as an educator, Bible teacher, inspirational speaker and missionary in sev...

Reducere. McKay's account of his long odyssey from Jamaica to Harlem and then on to France, Britain, North Africa, Russia, and finally back to America. As we...

From the Australian Outback, where she meets a young Aboriginal man, to racist, rigidly segregated South Africa during World War II, to the midst o...

Reducere. In Black Athena Writes Back Martin Bernal responds to the passionate debates set off by the 1987 publication of his book Black Athena. Producing a ...

In this undergraduate textbook Lewis R. Gordon offers the first comprehensive treatment of Africana philosophy, beginning with the emergence of an ...

Reducere. *Includes pictures *Includes accounts *Includes online resources and a bibliography for further reading "The desert was quivering with heat. The gu...

Reducere. A glimpse into the lives of LGBTQ migrants in Johannesburg, in their own words Seeking Sanctuary brings together poignant life stories from fourtee...

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...

Abie follows the arc of a letter from London back to Africa to a coffee plantation that now could be hers if she wants it. Standing among the ruine...

Reducere. It is now forty years since the discovery of AIDS, but its origins continue to puzzle doctors, scientists and patients. Inspired by his own experie...

Reducere. AD 439: The Roman Empire is on the brink of collapse. With terrifying speed a Vandal army has swept through the Roman provinces of Spain and North ...

Reducere. Anunnaki: False Gods extends Zecharia Sitchin's translations from clay tablets that underlie the Bible. Ten thousand years ago, scribes in ancient ...

Reducere. The bestselling classic set in South Africa during the apartheid era, in which two siblings must face the dangers of their divided country. Mma liv...

Reducere. Witha fresh approach to a common problem, this self-help guide to overcoming back pain advocates adopting the natural, healthy posture of athletes,...

Reducere. This is an Award Winning book that won the Children's Africana Book Award as Best Children's Book for 2014. It isabout a little girl, Savita, who t...

Emmy Award-winning producer and New York Times bestselling author Lionel Friedberg has spent 50 years making films as diverse as full-length theatr...

Reducere. Kidnapped from Africa as a child, Aminata Diallo is enslaved in South Carolina but escapes during the chaos of the Revolutionary War. In Manhattan ...

Reducere. Having already pedalled 18, 000 miles from Britain to Beijing, Charlie Walker's homeward leg carried him a further 26, 000 miles through Central As...

When Nelson Mandela emerged from decades in jail to preach reconciliation, South Africans truly appeared a people reborn as the Rainbow Nation. Yet...

Reducere. "I, Hasan the son of Muhammad the weigh-master, I, Jean-Leon de Medici, circumcised at the hand of a barber and baptized at the hand of a pope, I a...

Reducere. DescriptionSarah Bonetta Forbes, 'Queen Victoria's African Princess', was rescued from Africa as a girl of seven after the slaughter of her family....

It's 1972. When hot-headed, impetuous Jack Muir gets off the ship in Durban, he fails to get back on. Instead, he sails into misadventure, fleeing ...

Reducere. THE LEGENDARY JEWELS OF NABOOTI ARE MISSINGWILL FINDING THEM HELP WORLD PEACE? OR COULD IT KILL YOU? Two huge diamonds and two priceless rubies hav...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Michael C. GrumleyIt began in Ethiopia, hundreds of thousands of years ago. When a handful of genetic mutations caused evol...

DescriptionA trip to Africa turns into an unusual kind of safari for our reporter friends. Spirou and Fantasio, during a daring night investigation...

Reducere. Discover the life of Nelson Mandela-a story about uniting a country for kids ages 6 to 9 Nelson Mandela was the first Black president of South Afri...

Reducere. Jake felt as though he had just been punched in the gut. He had hoped never to find himself in this position again, but here he was. It had been fi...

Reducere. In the tradition of his best-selling alphabet book, Animalia, author and illustrator Graeme Base takes young readers on an exhilarating journey of ...

Reducere. This memoir by Maryknoll Sister Janice McLaughlin tells the extraordinary story of a life spent in service and solidarity with the people of Africa...

Safari 101 is written for the hunter that has always considered Africa out of reach, someone who has a spark of desire just waiting to be fanned in...

Contributor(s): Author: Charles River Editors*Includes pictures *Includes accounts of Jumbo's life written by his trainer, P.T. Barnum, and contemp...

Reducere. The winter solstice, the day the "sun stands still, " marks the longest night and the shortest day of the year, and it comes either on December 20t...

Reducere. In Foreign Native, RW Johnson looks back with affection and humour on his life in Africa. From schooldays in Durban - fresh off the plane from Mers...

Reducere. Journalist-turned-amateur-sleuth Mimi Rosen is back with her fatherMax for another action-packed tale of murder and intrigue in NewYork City's Diam...

Reducere. If the idea of keeping bees and collecting their honey and other products for your personal or commercial use appeals to you, then this guide is ju...

DescriptionThere is a good reason why Uganda is called "the Pearl of Africa." Beyond the ideal climate, abundant wildlife, and spectacular natural ...

"You know, you should edit an anthology about COVID-19. Capture the raw emotions and coping mechanisms of people from all over the world-while the ...

Reducere. DescriptionThe conflict between the United States and the Soviet Union during the Cold War has long been understood in a global context, but Jeremy...

In this second edition of the remarkable, and now classic, cultural history of black women's beauty, Venus in the Dark, Janell Hobson explores the ...

Reducere. DescriptionIt's August 1944. Allied forces are finally making headway in Europe. But rocket attacks on London are a chilling reminder that the war ...

Reducere. February 1, 2002 marks the 100th birthday of Langston Hughes. To commemorate the centennial of his birth, Arnold Rampersad has contributed new Afte...

Reducere. DescriptionFollowing The Rise of Germany, the acclaimed first volume in his War in the West trilogy, James Holland has crafted a masterful and grip...

Reducere. Madagascar is the fourth largest island in the world. It is a unique blend of Asian and African culture and is well known as the home of some of th...

Reducere. From Michele Wood and Toyomi Ingus, the award-winning artist and author of Going Back Home, comes their second book, i see the rhythm, a uniquely v...

Reducere. This remarkable book is the most ambitious work on mythology since that of the renowned Mircea Eliade, who all but single-handedly invented the mod...

Reducere. From the time he wakes up until the time he goes to sleep, Yaya is constantly on the move. Everyone knows Yaya, and everyone calls out to him as he...

Reducere. DescriptionExperience the phenomenon that has taken the world by storm: the adult coloring book craze.Now delve into that world with myths and lege...

DescriptionThe plucky, troublemaking Akissi is back with her mischief on The Ivory Coast This time, she has to keep herself from drowning, stand up...

Reducere. In the decades since it was identified in 1981, HIV/AIDS has devastated African American communities. Members of those communities mobilized to fig...

Reducere. From WATER STREET PRESS In 1972, professional dancer Joan Wulfsohn underwent a double mastectomy. And her soon-to-be-ex-husband abducted their thre...

Reducere. Longlisted for the 2019 Women's Prize for FictionA Black Caucus of the American Library Association 2019 Honor title, Fiction"McFadden, writer of g...

DescriptionIstanbul, 1591: the mighty Sultan Murad III has been robbed The Staff of Moses, used at the parting of the Red Sea, has been stolen from...

Reducere. A mysterious woven metal artifact is found at a paleontological dig in Africa. Mystified experts, confounded by the impossible timeline they receiv...

Reducere. A personal history of the civil rights movement from activist and acclaimed journalist Charlayne Hunter-Gault.On January 20, 2009, 1.8 million peop...

Only decades ago, the population of Guangzhou was almost wholly Chinese. Today, it is a truly global city, a place where people from around the wor...

Reducere. Weaving dialogue, emotions, and introspection, Love Without Martinis shares the fears, joys, setbacks, and triumphs of couples as they find their w...

Reducere. 'Surely you can sit on a seat for a few minutes without getting into conversation with a perfectly strange young man!'Julia smiled. 'It isn't as ea...

Reducere. David R. Slavitt, award-winning author of more than 100 books of poetry and prose, translates the work of Charles Marie RenE Leconte de Lisle, a Fr...

Reducere. Have you ever been in a place in your life where darkness was all around you and the heavens felt like brass over you? Your prayers seemed to hit t...

Free-spirited black sheep, Taz Boran, has worked tirelessly as a nurse bringing efficient medical care to Africa for the past eight years. But when...

"A vital voice in the short story, telling us new truths with deep humanity." -George Saunders Celebrated Nigerian-born writer E.C. Osondu delivers...

Reducere. Running for My Life is not a story about Africa or track and field athletics. It is about outrunning the devil and achieving the impossible faith, ...