Black Butterfly. Brazilian Slavery and the Literary Imagination, Hardback - Marcus Wood

Focuses on the slavery writings of three of Brazil's literary giants - Machado de Assis, Castro Alves, and Euclides da Cunha. Wood finds that all t...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Brent Hayes EdwardsIn 1941 Thelonious Monk and Kenny Clarke copyrighted "Epistrophy, " one of the best-known compositions o...

An intimate, definitive celebration of the world's most successful and critically acclaimed musician

DescriptionThis volume provides for the first time a collection of writing that investigates the stories and struggles of survivors in the context ...

Transgender and the Literary Imagination is the first full length study to revisit twentieth century narratives and their afterlives, examining the...

Reducere. DescriptionWhat exactly is goodness? Where is it found in the literary imagination? Toni Morrison, one of American letters' greatest voices, ponder...

Second-Class Daughters examines the lives of 'adoptive daughters' in Brazil: the marginalized informal domestic workers who live in slave-like cond...

Reducere. This first cultural biography of rap superstar and "master of storytelling" (The New Yorker) Kendrick Lamar explores his meteoric rise to fame and ...

Reducere. This "smart, confident, and necessary" (Shea Serrano, New York Times bestselling author) first cultural biography of rap superstar and "master of s...

Literature has always played a central role in creating and disseminating culturally specific notions of citizenship, nationhood, and belonging. In...

Reducere. Christ and Apollo juxtaposes Christian definiteness to romantic mythologizing. A strong warning might be in order: anyone coming to this book expec...

Publisher: Hodder & StoughtonAuthor(s): Marcus J. MoorePublication date: 2020Dimensions: 153 x 233 x 27Cover type: PaperbackRedescopera farmecul le...

Reducere. DescriptionRight now melanin, the aromatic biopolymer and organic semiconductor that makes Black people black is worth over $380 a gram more than g...

Publisher: Polity PressAuthor(s): O PattersonNumber of pages: 320Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 158 x 237 x 33Cover type: HardbackRedescopera fa...

Publisher: Penguin Books LtdAuthor(s): Kris ManjapraIllustration(s): 1x8pp mono insetNumber of pages: 256Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 162 x 24...

Reducere. Famous for iconic images of the rural Midwest such as American Gothic, Politics in Missouri, and Baptism in Kansas Grant Wood, Thomas Hart Benton, ...

This book shows how British Enlightenment writers and thinkers used science as a metaphor to reconfigure evidence and authority, to reimagine the s...

Reducere. More than forty years after the major victories of the civil rights movement, African Americans have a vexed relation to the civic myth of the Unit...

The book illustrates the breadth and diversity of the work of The Chase creative design agency. This lavish hardback with slipcase documents the ag...

The 250th anniversary of the founding of Rutgers University is a perfect moment for the Rutgers community to reconcile its past, and acknowledge it...

Pulitzer PrizeThis is the epic story of how African-Americans, in the six decades following slavery, transformed themselves into a political people...

Reducere. Following the success of four titles in the Nuthin' But Mech series, Lorin Wood pivoted skyward to his passion for space travel. Inviting the work ...

An award-winning author shows that holiness means being radical in our ways of imagining the future, imagining each other, and imagining God, and t...

Reducere. Emancipated from Mental Slavery: Selected Sayings of Marcus Garvey"Emancipate yourself from mental slavery, none but ourselves can free our minds."...

Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

This is more than a book - it's an incitement to change people's perceptions.Publisher: Faber & FaberAuthor(s): Marcus RyderNumber of pages: 336Pub...

Reducere. Most literary works have one primary voice, a discourse that expresses an author's dominant culture and ideology. The whole Bible, however, should ...

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Publisher: TeamLabIllustration(s): Illustrations, unspecifiedNumber of pages: 174Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 244 x 303 x 22Cover type: Hardba...

Tells a story of petit marronage, an informal slave's economy, and the construction of internal improvements in the Great Dismal Swamp of Virginia ...

Reducere. "(D)on't think for one minute that Black Imagination is easy. As you will read here, it is hard-earned and sometimes dangerous, but it's necessary,...

Reducere. During the Cold War, several prominent African American radical activist-intellectuals-including W.E.B. and Shirley Graham Du Bois, journalist Will...

A new global history of slavery from ancient origins through the horrors of the Atlantic trade to the present day.

Reducere. A guide to the history and practice of Kimbanda, the black magic tradition of Brazil - Explains how Kimbanda's presiding deity Eshu embodies both m...

Publisher: Walker Books LtdAuthor(s): Helen CooperNumber of pages: 32Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 258 x 277 x 10Cover type: HardbackIllustrato...

Publisher: BiblioLifeAuthor(s): Marcus Aurelius AntoninusNumber of pages: 220Publication date: 2009Dimensions: 163 x 240 x 23Cover type: HardbackRe...

Publisher: Austin Macauley PublishersAuthor(s): Marcus DonaldsonIllustration(s): 0Number of pages: 78Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 127 x 202 x ...

Reducere. Meditations is a series of personal writings by Marcus Aurelius, Roman Emperor from 161 to 180 AD, recording his private notes to himself and ideas...

A compelling, narrative-driven history of the gradual abolition of slavery in the majority-black Colombian Pacific. Yesenia Barragan rethinks the n...

An Eater Best Cookbook of Fall 2020 - This groundbreaking new cookbook from chef, bestselling author, and TV star Marcus Samuelsson celebrates cont...

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