Back from Africa, Paperback

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

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. 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. 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. 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...

A moving family biography in which the poet traces her family history back through Jim Crow, the slave trade, and all the way to the women of the D...

Reducere. Adversity. It touches every life and always leaves a mark. Whether through sickness, a broken marriage, a lost livelihood, a worldwide pandemic, or...

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...

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...

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...

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. 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. 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. 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...

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...

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

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...

"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 ...

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 picture-book biography about science superstar Neil deGrasse Tyson, the groundbreaking American astrophysicist whose work has inspired a generati...

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

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

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...

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

Reducere. Just in time for the major motion picture Dolittle starring Robert Downey Jr.--soaring into theaters on January 17, 2020 Journey into the world of ...

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. 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...

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

Reducere. The Akan are an African indigenous group found primarily in the southern parts of Ghana, as well as in Cote d'Ivoire and in Togo. This book explore...

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 ...

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

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

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

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. 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 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...

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

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

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...

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.

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

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

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

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...

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

Reducere. DescriptionSometimes a terrorist threat comes from the least expected place. Beyond the plains of the Serengeti, in the distant shadows of Kilimanj...

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. 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. 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...

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...

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

Reducere. Description"An important contribution to an issue with enormous potential for benefiting humanity." Stephen PinkerThe inside story of the fight for...

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

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...

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

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...

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 ...

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

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