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... a much-needed volume on a neglected topic that is of great interest to scholars of women, slavery, and African American history." --Drew FaustG...

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In Istanbul, in the late 1590s, the Sultan secretly commissions a great book: a celebration of his life and his empire, to be illuminated by the be...

A thrilling murder mystery, My Name is Red is also a stunning meditation on love, artistic devotion and the tensions between East and West.‘Fabulou...

Mastering Emotions examines the interactions between slaveholders and enslaved people, and between White people and free Black people, to expose ho...

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Reducere. From before the days of Moses up through the 1960s, slavery was a fact of life in the Middle East. Pagans, Jews, Christians, and Muslims bought and...

George Bourne was one of the early American republic's first immediate abolitionists, an influential figure who paved the way for the campaign agai...

My Name is Ça Depend

Jurists of the nascent Maliki, Hanafi, and Shafi'i legal schools frequently compared marriage to purchase and divorce to manumission. This title pr...

Reducere. Slavery in ancient Greece was commonplace. In this book Sara Forsdyke uncovers the wide range of experiences of slaves and focuses on their own per...

"My name is Book and I'll tell you the story of my life." Non-fiction like you've never read it before!

The daughter at the center of the international bestseller and film Not Without My Daughter finishes the story that captivated the world: held host...

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Reducere. Dupa o viața intreaga in care a fost mereu neglijata sau ignorata, Doris (Sally Fields), se trezește ca mica sa lume e zguduita de venirea unui nou...

John Brennan is a successful hotelier and entrepreneur. Yet, as a child, he wasn't an obvious candidate for success. School was difficult. His batt...

This semi-autobiographical memoir by Dale A recounts his forty-one year flying career, his descent into alcohol addiction and most importantly, his...

Reducere. Guilty. One word on a beggar's cardboard sign. And now he is dead, stabbed in a wintry Copenhagen street, the second homeless victim in as many wee...

Reducere. Yoon's name means "shining wisdom, " and when she writes it in Korean, it looks happy. But her father says she must learn to write it in English. I...

Reducere. This book considers commercial agriculture in Africa in relation to the trans-Atlantic slave trade and the institution of slavery within Africa its...

Reducere. By documenting the entanglement of the ecological crisis with modern addictions, My Name is Chellis and I'm in Recovery from Western Civilization g...

Reducere. Cyrus was the founder of the Persian Empire, the largest kingdom of the ancient world nearly 2, 500 years ago. In a voice from the past, Cyrus expl...

Reducere. When provided with an opportunity to learn their body parts, children become acutely aware of how their choices influence their well-being. Within ...

Reducere. My Name is Charlie tells the story of a dog named Charlie and the trauma a dog faces when it is abandoned. Through Charlie's eyes, we can see how s...

My Name is Brick shows us a simple way to start teaching children about emotions, and just how emotions can affect not only ourselves, but the worl...

Fate and a fierce appetite for success gave Geraldine a leg up in a world where men approached women as sex objects and where this woman, with exqu...