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View book details for The First Ethiopians
The image of Africa and Africans in the early Mediterranean world
Wits University Press
The First Ethiopians explores the images of Africa and Africans that evolved in ancient Egypt, in classical Greece and imperial Rome, in the early Mediterranean world, and in the early domains of Christianity. Inspired by curiosity regarding the origins of …
View book details for Marxisms in the 21st Century
Crisis, critique and struggle
Wits University Press
The current resurgence of Marxism is based on new sources of inspiration and creativity from movements that seek democratic, egalitarian and ecological alternatives to capitalism. The Marxism of many of these movements is neither dogmatic nor prescriptive, but rather, open, …
Dzanc Books
Pursued by a mermaid, two boys talk their way into pirating and end up in the Arctic where a secret unhinges them both. Disabled piecemeal, harassed by a parrot, marooned on a tree-challenged island, posing as Pilgrims, scrimshawing and singing …
View book details for Stopping the Spies
Constructing and resisting the surveillance state in South Africa
Wits University Press
Is South Africa on its way to becoming a surveillance state, and will it need a whistleblower?In 2013, former National Security Agency (NSA) contractor Edward Snowden leaked secret documents revealing that state agencies like the NSA had spied on the …
View book details for Five Hundred Years Rediscovered
Southern African precedents and prospects
Wits University Press
In the age of the African Renaissance, southern Africa has needed to reinterpret the past in fresh and more appropriate ways. The last 500 years represent a strikingly unexplored and misrepresented period which remains disfigured by colonial/apartheid assumptions, most notably …
Graphic Arts Books
It's Only the Wind is set in the foothills of the mountains. It is that time of night when young kids have a hard time transitioning to sleep and call out to mom from bed with one request after another. …
Graphic Arts Books
A picture book highlighting scenic rides through some of Oregon's most beautiful sites, I Want a Real Bike in Oregon is the perfect book for the young cyclist who is ready for a new bike. From award-winning author Eric A. …
View book details for Build It! Race Cars
Make Supercool Models with Your Favorite LEGO Parts
Graphic Arts Books
The Build It! series of visually rich instruction books for LEGO creations is perfect for children ages 5 and up. Inside Racecars, you'll find a range of creative models to put together-- from formula one to stock cars, rally cars …
View book details for Le defi de lenracinement napoleonien entre Rhin et Meuse, 1810-1814
Lopinion publique dans les departements de la Roer, de lOurthe, des Forets et de la Moselle
De Gruyter
A en croire nombre dessayistes du XIXe siecle, cest lopinion publique, et elle seule, qui aurait fait tomber du trone lhomme qui la confondue avec sa propre ambition. La reine du monde a-t-elle cesse de soutenir Napoleon, le fossoyeur et …
View book details for The Sacred Balance
Rediscovering Our Place in Nature
Greystone Books
In this extensively revised and enlarged edition of his best-selling book, David Suzuki reflects on the increasingly radical changes in nature and science from global warming to the science behind mother/baby interactions and examines what they mean for humankinds place …
LSU Press
Since its publication in 1936, Gone with the Wind has held a unique position in American cultural memory, both for its particular vision of the American South in the age of the Civil War and for its often controversial portrayals …
View book details for An Absolute Massacre
The New Orleans Race Riot of July 30, 1866
LSU Press
In the summer of 1866, racial tensions ran high in Louisiana as a constitutional convention considered disenfranchising former Confederates and enfranchising blacks. On July 30, a procession of black suffrage supporters pushed through an angry throng of hostile whites. Words …
Blink Publishing
Is it more like The West Wing or House of Cards? Do you have to put your try table up on Air Force One? Is the President any good at basketball? What do you call him when you talk to …
View book details for Untold
The Murder of Daniel Morgan and True Story Behind The Headlines
Blink Publishing
Private Investigator Daniel Morgan was killed in cold blood with an axe to the head in the pub car park of The Golden Lion, Sydenham, south London, on 10th March 1987. It was the most brutal of murders under the …
View book details for Dracula and Philosophy
Dying to Know
Open Court
Twenty-four nocturnal philosophers stake out and vivisect Dracula from many angles, unearthing evidence from numerous movies and showsmacabre, terrifying, tragic, and comic. Altmann decides whether Dracula can really be blamed for his crimes, since its his nature as a vampire …
View book details for The Golden Compass and Philosophy
God Bites the Dust
Open Court
The popularity of the His Dark Materials trilogy has generated a major motion picture, a stage play, video games, and a new prequel. The series has also been highly controversial with its use of exciting adventure stories for children to …
View book details for Divergent and Philosophy
The Factions of Life
Open Court
Courtland Lewis has scoured the planet to bring together the most talented faction members, factionless, and even a few from the Bureau to discuss the philosophy of Divergent.Divergent and Philosophy begins by examining the personal struggles that all people face …
Open Court
John Searles The Construction of Social Reality and Hernando de Sotos The Mystery of Capital shifted the focus of current thought on capital and economic development to the cultural and conceptual ideas that underpin market economies and that are taken …
Open Court
The Occupy Movement Explained is a readable, compact account and analysis of the Occupy protests, by a scholar who participated in several Occupy events. The book is thoroughly researched, painstakingly accurate, and fully documented. It debunks a number of myths …
View book details for The Rape of the Masters
How Political Correctness Sabotages Art
Encounter Books
Colleges and universities used to teach art history to encourage connoisseurship and acquaint students with the riches of our artistic heritage. But now, as Roger Kimball reveals in this witty and provocative book, the student is less likely to learn …
Severn House Publishers
A murdered priest, a missing body, stolen treasure: Brother Athelstan tackles his most challenging investigation to date. October, 1381. Brother Athelstan is summoned to the church of St Benets in Queenhithe to investigate the murder of a priest. Parson Reynaud …
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How Humans Shaped the North Woods
Minnesota Historical Society Press
Author Jeff Forester describes how humans have occupied and managed the northern borderlands of Minnesota, from tribal burning to pioneer and industrial logging to evolving conceptions of wilderness and restoration forestry. On the surface a story of Minnesota's borderlands, The …
View book details for Creating Minnesota
A History from the Inside Out
Minnesota Historical Society Press
Winner of a Spur Award, presented by the Western Writers of America (WWA), for the Best Western Nonfiction Historical Book.Renowned historian Annette Atkins presents a fresh understanding of how a complex and modern Minnesota came into being in Creating Minnesota. …
View book details for All the Lights On
Reimagining Theater with Ten Thousand Things
Minnesota Historical Society Press
Michelle Hensley, founder of Ten Thousand Things Theater in Minneapolis, shares more than twenty years of her company's nationally unique work bringing professional theater to those in prisons, homeless shelters, adult education centers, and rural areas, as well as the …
View book details for Finding Common Ground
The Art of Legislating in an Age of Gridlock
Minnesota Historical Society Press
Democracy has never been a quick or easy process by which to get things done. But many citizens are fed up with the current, extreme partisan gridlock at the national, state, and even local levels of government.Dave Bishop spent most …
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