Back from Africa, Paperback

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...

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. In Obeah, Race and Racism, Eugenia O'Neal vividly discusses the tradition of African magic and witchcraft, traces its voyage across the Atlantic an...

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. There's a timeless legacy about Man's Divinity echoing from the ruins of Ancient temples and monuments around the globe. The Great Pyramids of Afri...

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

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

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. `` Sure to become] a classic in the field. Highly recommended.`` Library Journal..``. full of surprises and intrigues and written in a beautiful st...

In 1943 Felice Benuzzi broke out of a POW camp to scale the second highest mountain in Africa, with no maps and only hand-made gear, passing throug...

Reducere. The New York Times bestseller and definitive history of Christianity for our time--from the award-winning author of The Reformation and Silence A p...

DescriptionIf we were all brave enough to resurrect the voices lost from our humanity, what would they say? Award-winning poet Quincy Troupe, spoke...

Reducere. BEAST-GOD VERSUS APE-MAN The year was 1933. Filmmaker Carl Denham had captured the stupendous monster he had dubbed "King" Kong. But that was only ...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Firpo CarrIn the 1890s Blacks were tortured in German concentration camps in Southwest Africa (now called Namibia) when Ado...

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...

"Globalization" has become a popular buzzword for explaining today's world. The expression achieved terminological stardom in the 1990s and was soo...

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. 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. DescriptionA little over a century ago, at the height of European colonial expansion in Africa, the British undertook a trans-Kenya railroad from M...

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

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. One July week in 1900 an obscure black laborer named Robert Charles drew national headlines when he shot twenty-seven whites -- including seven pol...

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 ...

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

Reducere. An epic wartime adventure in the heart of Africa.Rhodesia, 1943: Paul Bryant hasn't been able to get back in an aircraft since a fatal bombing miss...

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...

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. With a reputation as the hot-air balloon capital of the world and the home of the Albuquerque International Balloon Fiesta(R), the skies of the sou...

Reducere. In 48 B.C., having survived a disastrous campaign in Pythia as part of the Forgotten Legion and spent years fighting their way back to Rome, Romulu...

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. 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. The book that inspired the major new motion picture Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom.Nelson Mandela is one of the great moral and political leaders of...

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. In the 1780s, around 40, 000 slaves a year were taken from Africa in British ships, on the notorious "Middle Passage, " to the Caribbean. In 1787, ...

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...

"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. DescriptionWhen a teenage youth barely alive gets washed up on a British beach, it triggers British Intelligence to investigate. They discover he's...

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

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

Reducere. The true story of how an ERISA attorney transcended the confines of his corner office via a trip to the unknown. Travelling via a container ship, f...

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

Reducere. WHAT EVERY AMERICAN NEEDS TO KNOW ABOUT THE QUR'AN - A HISTORY OF ISLAM & THE UNITED STATES You will be fascinated by this fast-paced, objective hi...

Reducere. Full of humor and insight about sport and culture.... The pomp, glory, and great entertainment all get their due in Eight World Cups.--The Boston G...

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...

DescriptionHow rebellious colonies changed British attitudes to empireInsurgent Empire shows how Britain's enslaved and colonial subjects were acti...

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...

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

Reducere. In this thrilling narrative, the reader is introduced to Arnold Josiah Ford - giant of black music; legendary black Jewish Rabbi; stalwart of the M...

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...

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

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...

Robert Maoz Krzisnik knew from an early age that if his life was to be worth living, it was to be an adventure. Traumatized by childhood experience...

Reducere. Revolutionary retail guru Paco Underhill is back with a completely revised edition of his classic, witty bestselling book on our ever-evolving cons...

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...

Description"Masterly" -- The New Yorker A Smithsonian Magazine Best History Book of the YearA groundbreaking, haunting, and profoundly moving histo...

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...

Reducere. In the wise and beautiful second collection from the acclaimed, Pulitzer Prize-winning #1 New York Times bestselling author of All the Light We Can...

Reducere. Harry McCallion was a trained killer, fighting in the world's trouble spots with ruthless professionalism.Born 'a ragged-arsed kid from the backstr...

Reducere. NATIONAL BESTSELLERWINNER OF THE BOOKER PRIZE "A must-read about modern Britain and womanhood . . . An impressive, fierce novel about the lives of ...

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