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Reducere. Raimund E. Goerler, acclaimed archivist and historian, has written the definitive guidebook to the history of The Ohio State University, one of the...

Aimed at writers, students, teachers, and critics interested in the short story as a genre, this rich collection of essays examines theoretical iss...

Reducere. Steve Biko inspired a generation of black South Africans to claim their true identity and refuse to be a part of their own oppression. Through his ...

Reducere. Margaret Garner was the runaway slave who, when confronted with capture just outside of Cincinnati, slit the throat of her toddler daughter rather ...

With vision, hard-nosed judgment, and biting humor, Julius Nyerere confronted the challenges of nation building in modern Africa. Constructing Tanz...

Reducere. The 'Godfather of Silicon Valley' advises on the core elements of leadership as they have served him in his career, emphasising such qualities as h...

Reducere. Hanged by the Nigerian government on November 10, 1995, Ken Saro-Wiwa became a martyr for the Ogoni people and human rights activists, and a symbol...

Patrice Lumumba was a leader of the independence struggle in what is today the Democratic Republic of the Congo, as well as the country's first dem...

This concise biography tells the story of Wangari Maathai, the Kenyan activist and Nobel Peace Prize winner who devoted her life to campaigning for...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Nikos KazantzakisContribution by: Theodora VasilsNikos Kazantzakis is no stranger to the heroes of Greek antiquity. In this...

Reducere. Columbus, Ohio, is a place whose identity centers on its supposed lack of identity-an American "every place" that has launched countless chain dini...

Reducere. Children of the Albatross is divided into two sections: "The Sealed Room" focuses on the dancer Djuna and a set of characters, chiefly male, who su...

Reducere. In Sustainability: A Love Story, Nicole Walker questions what it means to live sustainably while still being able to have Internet and eat bacon. A...

The first African statesman to achieve world recognition was Kwame Nkrumah (1909-1972), who became president of the new Republic of Ghana in 1960. ...

Reducere. A bold synthesis of the events that have dominated modern Africa in this historic era of nation-building and transformation.About the AuthorDavid B...

In Tales of the Metric System, Coovadia explores a turbulent South Africa from 1970 into the present. He takes his home country's transition from i...

Reducere. In The Novel of the Future, Anaïs Nin explores the act of creation-in film, art, and dance as well as literature-to chart a new direction for the y...

Reducere. This historical novel is the third and final book in American poet and fiction writer Janet Lewis's Cases of Circumstantial Evidence series, based ...

Reducere. In Illinois, the one-hundred-foot Cahokia Mound spreads impressively across sixteen acres, and as many as ten thousand more mounds dot the Ohio Riv...

Publisher: Ohio State University PressAuthor(s): Sundeep BislaIllustration(s): 51 IllustrationsNumber of pages: 336Publication date: 2017Dimensions...

Reducere. Studies of adaptation from novels to film are common, but not as widely known are adaptations with the opposite relationship. In Novelization: From...

In this concise biography, Scully shows us how the life of Nobel Peace Prize winner and two-time Liberian president Ellen Johnson Sirleaf speaks to...

Reducere. The Soweto uprising was a true turning point in South Africa's history. Even to contemporaries, it seemed to mark the beginning of the end of apart...

Reducere. In Eating Lightbulbs and Other Essays, Steve Fellner traces the seriocomic absurdities of his own mind and its obsessions with family, mental illne...

Reducere. The Black Hills have been famous ever since the gold rush days of the 1870s when General George A. Custer's expedition in the summer of 1874 found ...

Environmental history in southern Africa has only recently come into its own as a distinct field of historical inquiry. While natural resources lie...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Walter E. Sturgeon From one of the region's foremost mushroom hunters--Walter E. Sturgeon--comes a long-overdue field guide...

In the fictional East African Kwatee Republic of the 1990s, the dictatorship is about to fall, and the nation's exiles are preparing to return. One...

Reducere. DescriptionSan rock paintings, scattered over the range of southern Africa, are considered by many to be the very earliest examples of representati...

Through the prism of sports and from a range of scholarly perspectives, this anthology offers insight into the varied and shifting experiences of A...

Reducere. In March 1856, a dead body washed onto the shore of the Mississippi River. Nothing out of the ordinary. In those days, people fished corpses from t...

Provides a novel defense of liberalism that weaves together a commitment to republican self-government, an emphasis on the value of unregulated cho...

This book provides an overview of different systems of frequency distributions, their properties, and applications to the fields of water resources...

How did Mary Shelley's Frankenstein give rise to the iconic green monster everyone knows today? In 1823, only five years after publication, Shelley...

Reducere. Natalya Bekhta's We-Narratives: Collective Storytelling in Contemporary Fiction analyzes a storytelling form shaped by the pronoun "we, " probing t...

Reducere. Do we take pleasure in reading ancient Greek tragedy despite the unsettling content or because of it? Does a safe aesthetic distance protect us fro...

The Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, which journalist Lucius Beebe once called the "Mother of Railroads, " was the brainchild of Baltimore city planner...

Reducere. In Unstable Masks: Whiteness and American Superhero Comics, Sean Guynes and Martin Lund bring together a series of essays that contextualize the hi...

Reducere. In Unstable Masks: Whiteness and American Superhero Comics, Sean Guynes and Martin Lund bring together a series of essays that contextualize the hi...

Reducere. Never before has a collection of original essays strived to create such constructive, shared discourse between ecocritical, narrative scholars and ...

Reducere. DescriptionThe history of the Islamic faith on the continent of Africa spans fourteen centuries. For the first time in a single volume, The History...

A deeply personal story of heartbreak, despair, desperation, carnage, and deep mourning, but it is also one of courage, persistence, evolution, and...

Reducere. In Literary Afrofuturism in the Twenty-First Century, eminent contributors pay tribute to Afrofuturism as a powerful and evolving aesthetic practic...

In Seeing Red, Cari M. Carpenter examines anger in the poetry and prose of three early American Indian writers: S. Alice Callahan, Pauline Johnson,...

Winesburg, Ohio (1919) is Sherwood Anderson's masterpiece, a cycle of short stories concerning life in a small town at the end of the nineteenth ce...

Reducere. In Literary Afrofuturism in the Twenty-First Century, eminent contributors pay tribute to Afrofuturism as a powerful and evolving aesthetic practic...

While African National Congress narratives dominate much of the scholarship on South Africa's freedom struggle, Josie Mpama/Palmer's political life...

HPublisher: Ohio University PressAuthor(s): Moses E. OchonuNumber of pages: 272Collection: New African HistoriesPublication date: 2009Dimensions: 1...

While narrative fracturing, multiplicity, and experimentalism are commonly associated with modernist and postmodern texts, they have largely been u...

Reducere. An epic story of a Bedouin family's survival and legacy amid their changing world in the unforgiving Sahara Desert. Ahmed is a camel herder, as his...

Reducere. Diverse Futures: Science Fiction and Authors of Color examines the contributions of late-twentieth- and twenty-first-century US and Canadian scienc...

Reducere. A photographic documentation of the most outstanding natural habitats in Ohio "We hope this book never becomes an epitaph for what once was. Ohio i...

Reducere. A facsimile edition of Wilcox's classic 1933 pictorial survey of the Indian trails of Ohio Shawnee, Miami, Delaware, Wyandot, Ottawa, Iroquois, and...

Reducere. Growing out of the music scene, afrofuturism has emerged as an important aesthetic through films such as Black Panther and Get Out. While the signi...

Reducere. The way we talk about living beings can raise or lower their perceived value. Consider the pro-life strategy of calling a fetus a child, thereby ef...

Drawing from distinctly African source materials and methods, Achebe's groundbreaking historical account examines the shared power, influence, and ...

A timely and original short biography reintroducing Fanon for a new generation of readers. Written with clarity and passion, Christopher J. Lee's a...

Reducere. Jordan Peele's Get Out: Political Horror is a collection of sixteen essays devoted to exploring Get Out's roots in the horror tradition and its com...

Reducere. Originally published in 1947, The Trial of Sören Qvist has been praised by a number of critics for its intriguing plot and Janet Lewis's powerful w...

The often-violent realities of international relations in the post-World War II era have challenged Winston Churchill's characterization of the Uni...

This book-ideal for African and world history classes, as well as for potential travelers to the continent-takes readers on a journey through the d...

Ankylosing spondilitis is a chronic form of arthritis known to affect around 1 in 200 people (over 1 million sufferers in the USA alone). Ankylosin...

Reducere. When you look at a bird, do you see feathers and a beak? Or do you see circles and triangles? Artist Charley Harper spent his life reducing subject...

Reducere. In this companion volume to the bestselling The Midwestern Native Garden: Native Alternatives to Nonnative Plants, Charlotte Adelman and Bernard L....

Reducere. Welcome to Our Hillbrow is an exhilarating and disturbing ride through the chaotic and hyper-real zone of Hillbrow-microcosm of all that is contrad...

Reducere. Blending historical fact and classical myth, the author of Zorba the Greek and The Last Temptation of Christ transports the reader 3, 000 years int...

Reducere. Emperor Haile Selassie was an iconic figure of the twentieth century, a progressive monarch who ruled Ethiopia from 1916 to 1974. This book, writte...

This addition to the Cambridge Centre of African Studies Series presents multidisciplinary essays that demonstrate how individual and collective an...

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 ...

Reducere. In the years following 1975, a group of female-created comic strips came to national attention in a traditionally male-dominated medium. Typical Gi...