Middle Passage, Paperback

A lost modern classic, this wildly genre-bending naval adventure is a towering work of American literature and perfect for fans of Colson Whitehead...

Most times left solely within the confine of plantation narratives, slavery was far from a land-based phenomenon. This book reveals for the first t...

Reducere. KEYSTONE PASSAGE: TO AFRICA AND BACK is a 14 chapter light fantasy middle grade book that combines time travel, science, African American and Afric...

Alaska Native Elder and author Robert Rude reviews the history of Alaska Natives from the time they encountered Russian traders in 1792 to the pres...

Reducere. Description A counselor and popular Washington Post contributor offers a new take on grades 6-8 as a distinct developmental phase--and the perfect ...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Afaa Michael WeaverA HARD SUMMATION is a suite of 13 new poems by Afaa Michael Weaver, covering the history of African Amer...

DescriptionThe most iconic X-Men of all in more animated-style adventures Jubilee faces a rite of passage courtesy of the savage Sabretooth Then, G...

Reducere. DescriptionFrom the National Book Award-winning author of Middle Passage, a fearless fictional portrait of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and his pivot...

Reducere. "In calling me to live my special qualities and characteristics, God planted deep in myself an original purpose-what my concrete self adds up to---...

Reducere. DescriptionEighteen-year-old Dontrell Jones the Third decides that it is his duty and destiny to venture into the Atlantic Ocean in search of an an...

Reducere. When a journey to New York is interrupted by missing diamonds and a body in the lifeboat, there is only one woman who can help: Fen Churche!1945. F...

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, ...

Rod Brown and Julius Lester bring history to life in this profoundly moving exploration of the slave experience. From the Middle Passage to the auc...

Reducere. Touch the Water: 30 Children's Sermons on Baptism contains 30 sermons on Holy Baptism for use by clergy and lay leaders in preaching to children fr...

Reducere. A Map to the Door of No Return is a timely book that explores the relevance and nature of identity and belonging in a culturally diverse and rapidl...

Reducere. This groundbreaking book examines the full range of African-European encounters from an African perspective rather than from the customary European...

Reducere. Midlife = crisis, anger, & change...So pervasive has the general awareness of this phenomenon of midlife crisis and transformation become that as w...

Reducere. In Hamlet in Purgatory, renowned literary scholar Stephen Greenblatt delves into his longtime fascination with the ghost of Hamlet's father, and hi...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Henry Louis Gates JrSelected as a 2012 Outstanding Title by AAUP University Press Books for Public and Secondary School Lib...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Erica L. MeltzerThe third edition of The Ultimate Guide to SAT Grammar provides comprehensive coverage of all the grammar a...

Reducere. An experience of the fragility of conventional images of masculinity is something many modern men share. Psychoanalyst Guy Corneau traces this expe...

Reducere. Discover the untamed paganism of the Vikings and the Germanic tribes prior to the complete Christianization of Europe - Explores the different form...

DescriptionRealizing the century-old dream of a passage to India, the building of the Panama Canal was an engineering feat of colossal dimensions, ...

Reducere. Addressing the many unique academic challenges that face black males--from low self-esteem, absenteeism, fatherlessness, and gangs to not accepting...

A fragmentary catalogue of poetic derangements that reveals the ways in which mania communicates with an extreme will to annihilationWhat kind of c...

From 1501, when the first slaves arrived in Hispaniola, until the nineteenth century, some twelve million people were abducted from west Africa and...

Reducere. John Riddle uncovers the obscure history of contraception and abortifacients from ancient Egypt to the seventeenth century with forays into Victori...

This innovative anthology focuses on the enslavement, middle passage, American experience, and return to Africa of a single cultural group, the Yor...

Reducere. What happens when the person you find most impossible becomes impossible to resist? Opposites distract in this hilarious romantic comedy about Amer...

Reducere. Groundbreaking Book Explores the Black Impact on Classical Music Earl Ofari Hutchinson meticulously details in his It's Our Music Too The Black Exp...

Reducere. Robert W. Snyder's Crossing Broadway tells how disparate groups overcame their mutual suspicions to rehabilitate housing, build new schools, restor...

A classic history of the role of Black working-class struggles throughout the twentieth centuryIn this pioneering history, Ron Ramdin traces the ro...

Reducere. In this fascinating collection of essays, an international group of scholars explores the sonic consequences of transcultural contact in the early ...

There's just too much black history to think you could ever know enough. Did you ever think that African-American history began in America? Ever wo...

Reducere. After the passage of the Dawes Severalty Act in 1887, the Southern Ute Agency was the scene of an intense federal effort to assimilate the Ute Indi...

Reducere. A celebration and practical guide to the renowned and beloved goddess and orisha. Yemaya, queen of the sea, first emerged in Yorubaland (now in mod...

From its inception in Greek antiquity, the science of optics was aimed primarily at explaining sight and accounting for why things look as they do....

Reducere. While there is truth in the idea that our past shapes our future, the gospel is all about the counter-intuitive promise that God is shaping us righ...

Reducere. A snakeful of critical venom aimed at the composers and the classics of nineteenth- and twentieth-century music. Who wrote advanced cat music? What...

Reducere. DescriptionWhen a government became a mighty nation in ancient times (i.e. Babylon, Greece or Rome); they are literally or symbolically mentioned i...

Reducere. DescriptionAlmost 160 years ago, a group of kidnapped Africans aboard the Spanish slave ship La Amistad revolted and attempted to set sail for home...

Reducere. A personal invitation to walk with God through one of the great classics of Christian spirituality. This book of daily devotions is based upon The ...

Reducere. Sailing well into his eighties, Captain Eric Forsyth shows in his book, An Inexplicable Attraction: My Fifty Years of Ocean Sailing, that age need ...

Reducere. For every gallon of ink that has been spilt on the trans-Atlantic slave trade and its consequences, only one very small drop has been spent on the ...

Reducere. DescriptionLisette, a Saint-Domingue-born Creole slave and daughter of an African-born bossale, has inherited not only the condition of slavery but...

Reducere. From Africa to Brazil traces the flows of enslaved Africans from identifiable points in the broad region of Africa called Upper Guinea to Amazonia,...

On 2 April 1792, John Kimber, captain of the Bristol slave ship Recovery, was denounced in the House of Commons by William Wilberforce for flogging...

Reducere. All she wants to do is leave Neverland. All Pan wants to do is keep her there forever.When Rommy arrived on the magical island, she was looking for...

Reducere. Their friends warned them. Colleagues offered alternatives. Her mother tried to talk her out of it. For twenty years, the couple had thrived floati...

Reducere. DescriptionA quest for vengeance leads a man into the deadly underworld of the Cold War in this thriller from the New York Times-bestselling author...