TWO CLASSICS OF THE AMERICAN SPIRIT TOGETHER IN ONE VOLUMEThe Way To WealthOriginally a preface to the 1758 edition of Franklin s beloved Poor Richard s Almanac, it presents a brief fable of a local wise man, Father Abraham, quoting Poor Richard to an eager crowd.
DRAMATIC AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF AN AMERICAN SLAVEThis classic of American literature, a dramatic autobiography of the early life of an American slave, was first published in 1845, when its author had just achieved his freedom.
DRAMATIC AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF AN AMERICAN SLAVE INCLUDING 21ST CENTURY STUDY GUIDEThis classic of American literature was first published in 1845, when its author had just achieved his freedom.
Originally published under the title:'Scholasticism Old and New'In this corrected edition of a standard work, Professor Maurice de Wulf, great authority on medieval philosophy, examines the scholastic tradition.
A remarkable account of early slavery and later freedom,The Life of Olaudah Equiano, Or Gustavus Vassa, The African, Written By Himself, is the 1789 autobiography of former slave Olaudah Equiano.
Novel in its approach and unique in its scope, Black Mental Health: Patients, Providers, and Systems examines the role of African Americans within American psychiatric health care from distinct but interconnected perspectives.
Following an extraordinary debut17th place in the 1911 Boston MarathonPenobscot Indian Andrew Sockalexis returned to run a spectacular Boston Marathon on a muddy, rainy course on April 19, 1912.
What is the valuereligious, political, economic, or altogether socialof getting on a bus in Tehran to embark on an eight-hundred-mile journey across two international borders to the Sayyida Zainab shrine outside Damascus?
Based on over ten years of fieldwork in Peru and Aotearoa New Zealand, Recovering Our Ancestral Foodways explores how Quechua and Mori peoples describe, define, and enact wellbeing through the lens of foodways.
The Latinx Philosophy Reader showcases a wide range of significant philosophical works about Latinx people and their experiences, displaying the breadth, distinctiveness, originality, and diversity of Latinx philosophy.
Letters to Tim is a series of poignant letters sent over a ten-month period from a grandfather to his young twenty-year-old grandson who was struggling with very serious health issues in his life.
Al interrogarse sobre las dinámicas culturales en las entrañas de la selva, en el fondo de una Amazonía agobiada por los procesos de cambio, surge la necesidad de cuestionarse sobre los espacios en los cuales se puedan hallar los remantes de un hondo conocimiento ancestral aún exento del conflicto clásico entre modernidad y tradición.
This book investigates the impact of commercial banks in Kenya right through from their origins, to their role during the colonial period, the process of adaptation following independence, and up to their responses to new challenges and economic policies in the twenty-first century.
A ground-breaking, personal exploration of Americas obsession with continuing human bondage from the editor of the New York Times-bestselling Barracoon.
Most children and grandchildren of Holocaust survivors felt the omnipresence of the Holocaust throughout their childhood and for many, the spectre of the Holocaust continues to loom large through the phenomenon of "e;intergenerational"e; or "e;transgenerational"e; trauma.
The Emmy-winning TV judge and host of Cristina's Court delivers her no-nonsense verdict on what it means to be an American in today's divisive climate.
Late at night around the campfires, Seminole children safely tucked into mosquito nets used to listen to the elders retelling the old stories and legends.
The history of whaling as an industry on this continent has been well-told in books, including some that have been bestsellers, but what hasn't been told is the story of whaling's leaders of color in an era when the only other option was slavery.
There is a current revival of Black Consciousness, as political and student movements around the world - as well as academics and campaigners working in decolonization - reconfigure the continued struggle for socio-economic revolution.
When Mai Neng Moua decides to get married, her mother, a widow, wants the groom to follow Hmong custom and pay a bride price, which both honors the work the brides family has done in raising a daughter and offers a promise of love and security from the grooms family.
In this provocative book, sixteen of Minnesotas best writers provide a range of perspectives on what it is like to live as a person of color in Minnesota.
The first biography of the acclaimed African American linguist and author of Africanisms in the Gullah DialectIn this first book-length biography of the pioneering African American linguist and celebrated father of Gullah studies, Margaret Wade-Lewis examines the life of Lorenzo Dow Turner.
Iconoclast: Ideas That Have Shaped the Culture Wars is an anthology of essays by some of the world's most prominent intellectuals on crucial social, cultural, philosophical, scientific and political issues.
