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View book details for Becoming Rasta
Origins of Rastafari Identity in Jamaica
NYU Press
An exploration into why and how Jamaicans become Rastafari in spite of increasing incrimination of the religionSo much has been written about the Rastafari, yet we know so little about why and how people join the Rastafari movement. Although popular …
View book details for Classical Black Nationalism
From the American Revolution to Marcus Garvey
NYU Press
Examines the evolution of black nationalist thought from its earliest proto-nationalistic phase in the 1700s to the Garvey movement in the 1920sRecent years have seen a resurgence of interest in modern black nationalist leaders such as Stokely Carmichael and Malcolm …
View book details for The Shun Lee Cookbook
Recipes from a Chinese Restaurant Dynasty
HarperCollins
Until the 1960s, nearly all Chinese food served in the United States was Cantonese. Egg Foo Yung. Barbecued Spareribs. Egg Drop Soup. But with the opening of his Shun Lee restaurants more than forty years ago, Michael Tong and his …
View book details for Here We Are Now
The Lasting Impact of Kurt Cobain
HarperCollins
In Here We Are Now: The Lasting Impact of Kurt Cobain, Charles R. Cross, author of the New York Times bestselling Cobain biography Heavier Than Heaven, examines the legacy of the Nirvana front man and takes on the question: why …
HarperCollins
The Cottage at Glass Beach, an enchanting novel about mothers and daughters on an isolated island, is a romantic, delicious read. Barbieris beautiful writing and beguiling world view revel in the realities and the mysteries of the sea and of …
View book details for Empress of Fashion
A Life of Diana Vreeland
HarperCollins
The first comprehensive bio of legendary magazine editor Diana Vreeland is a cant-put-down read. Stuart separates facts from faction (Vreelands term for her dramatic exaggerations) and gets to the core of the fashion pioneer. PeopleDiane von Furstenberg once called Diana …
View book details for A City Upon a Hill
How Sermons Changed the Course of American History
HarperCollins
Pivotal moments in U.S. history are indelibly marked by the sermons of the nation's greatest orators. America's Puritan founder John Winthrop preached about "a city upon a hill", a phrase echoed more than three centuries later by President Ronald Reagan …
View book details for Dark Forces
The Truth About What Happened in Benghazi
HarperCollins
The New York Times bestselling author of Shadow Warriors investigates the tragedy of Benghazi to answer the questions: what really happenedand why?We know the Obama administrations story, of a demonstration caused by an Internet movie that went out of control. …
View book details for The Loveliest Woman in America
A Tragic Actress, Her Lost Diaries, and Her Granddaughter's Search for Home
HarperCollins
Her name was Rosamond Pinchot: hailed as "The Loveliest Woman in America," she was a niece of Pennsylvania governor Gifford Pinchot; cousin to Edie Sedgwick; half sister of Mary Pinchot Meyer, JFK's lover; friend to Eleanor Roosevelt and Elizabeth Arden. …
HarperCollins
From rising culinary star Danny Bowien, chef and cofounder of the tremendously popular Mission Chinese Food restaurants, comes an exuberant cookbook that tells the story of an unconventional idea born in San Francisco that spread cross-country, propelled by wildly inventive …
View book details for The History of Last Night's Dream
Discovering the Hidden Path to the Soul
HarperCollins
Our Dreams Will Never Be the Same AgainInternational bestselling author Rodger Kamenetz believes it is not too late to reclaim the lost power of our nightly visions. He fearlessly delves into this mysterious inner realm and shows us that dreams …
View book details for The Treasure of Montsegur
A Novel of the Cathars
HarperCollins
One woman's unforgettable quest for freedom, love, and god.
View book details for Supreme Commander
MacArthur's Triumph in Japan
HarperCollins
Seymour Morris Jr. combines political history, military biography, and business management to tell the story of General Douglas MacArthur's tremendous success in rebuilding Japan after World War II in Supreme Commander, a lively, in-depth work of biographical history complementary to …
B&H Publishing Group
It only takes a few little words to tell some big Bible stories! Noah and the ark, David and Goliath, the birth of Jesusthe Bible has some big stories for little ones to hear and learn. These 19 stories say …
View book details for The Tender Cut
Inside the Hidden World of Self-Injury
NYU Press
Choice's Outstanding Academic Title list for 20132013 Honorable Mention for the Distinguished Book Award presented by the Midwest Sociological SocietyHonorable Mention for the Charles H. Cooley Award for Outstanding Book from the Society for the Study of Symbolic InteractionIlluminates the …
View book details for On the Side of My People
A Religious Life of Malcolm X
NYU Press
The first book-length evaluation of Malcolm X's religious lifeThe mythic figure of Malcolm X conjures up a variety of images--black nationalist, extremist, civil rights leader, hero. But how often is Malcolm X understood as a religious leader, a man profoundly …
View book details for Religion Out Loud
Religious Sound, Public Space, and American Pluralism
NYU Press
For six months in 2004, controversy raged in Hamtramck, Michigan, as residents debated a proposed amendment that would exempt the adhan, or Islamic call to prayer, from the citys anti-noise ordinance. The call to prayer functioned as a flashpoint in …
NYU Press
Sophie Freud author, teacher, social worker, mother, daughter, and grand-daughter of Sigmund Freudhere offers, for the first time, a candid portrait of her struggles in her own life. Blessed and cursed with the legacy of a famous family, Dr. Freud …
HarperCollins
The Tao Is Silent Is Raymond Smullyan's beguiling and whimsical guide to the meaning and value of eastern philosophy to westerners."To me," Writes Smullyan, "Taoism means a state of inner serenity combined with an intense aesthetic awareness. Neither alone is …
HarperCollins
The Complete Nose to Tail is an exhilarating compendium that brings together maverick chef Fergus Hendersons two acclaimed cookbooksWhole Beast and Beyond Nose to Tail. Adventurous palates as well as some of the most famous names in the food worldincluding …
HarperCollins
The classic New York Times bestseller from actor/comedian Paul Reiser, a book that the San Francisco Chronicle calls an out-loud laugh on every page, is now available in trade paperback for the very first time. For fans of Reisers long-running …
View book details for The Physics of Baseball
Third Edition, Revised, Updated, and Expanded
HarperCollins
Blending scientific fact and sports trivia, Robert Adair examines what a baseball or player in motion does-and why. How fast can a batted ball go? What effect do stitch patterns have on wind resistance? How far does a curve ball …
View book details for Duck Season
Eating, Drinking, and Other Misadventures in Gascony, France's Last Best Place
HarperCollins
A delicious memoir about the eight months food writer David McAninch spent in Gasconya deeply rural region of France virtually untouched by mass tourismmeeting extraordinary characters and eating the best meals of his life.Though hed been a card-carrying Francophile all …
View book details for The Book of Vice
Very Naughty Things (and How to Do Them)
HarperCollins
Somewhere, somebody is having more fun than you are.Orso everyone believes. Peter Sagal, a mild-mannered, Harvard-educated radio hostthe man who puts the second "l" in "vanilla"decided to find out if it's true. From strip clubs to gambling halls to swingers …
View book details for Lincoln's Bishop
A President, A Priest, and the Fate of 300 Dakota Sioux Warriors
HarperCollins
In the tradition of Doris Kearns Goodwin's Team of Rivals comes Gustav Niebuhr's compelling history of Abraham Lincoln's decision in 1862 to spare the lives of 265 condemned Sioux men, and the Episcopal bishop who was his moral compass, helping …
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