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Africa's Stalled Development: International Causes and Curesby David K. Leonard, Scott StrausISBN 1588261166 (1-58826-116-6)
Softcover, Lynne Rienner Pub
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African Kingsby Daniel LaineISBN 1580082246 (1-58008-224-6)
Hardcover, Ten Speed Pr
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The Albert N'Yanza: Great Basin of the Nile, and Explorations of the Nile Sourcesby Samuel W. BakerISBN 1589761952 (1-58976-195-2)
Softcover, Narrative Pr
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Amaby Manu HerbsteinISBN 1585869325 (1-58586-932-5)
Softcover, E-Rights/E-Reads Ltd
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Amilcar Cabral: Revolutionary Leadership And People's Warby Patrick ChabalISBN 1592210821 (1-59221-082-1)
Softcover, Africa World Pr
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Badge of Gloryby Douglas ReemanISBN 1590130138 (1-59013-013-8)
Softcover, McBooks Press, Incorporated
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The Beautiful Things That Heaven Bearsby Dinaw MengestuISBN 1594489408 (1-59448-940-8)
Hardcover, Riverhead Books
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Soon Sepha's neighborhood begins to change. Hope comes in the form of new neighbors-Judith and Naomi, a white woman and her biracial daughter-who become his friends and remind him of what having a family is like for the first time in years. But when the neighborhood's newfound calm is disturbed by a series of racial incidents, Sepha may lose everything all over again. Told in a haunting and powerful first-person narration that casts the streets of Washington, D.C., and Addis Ababa through Sepha's eyes, The Beautiful Things That Heaven Bears is a deeply affecting and unforgettable debut novel about what it means to lose a family and a country-and what it takes to create a new home. [via]
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Before the Dawn: Recovering the Lost History of Our Ancestorsby Nicholas WadeISBN 1594200793 (1-59420-079-3)
Hardcover, Penguin Group USA
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Just in the last three years a flood of new scientific findings-driven by revelations discovered in the human genome-has provided compelling new answers to many long-standing mysteries about our most ancient ancestors-the people who first evolved in Africa and then went on to colonize the whole world. Critically acclaimed New York Times science reporter Nicholas Wade weaves this host of news-making findings together for the first time into an intriguing new history of the human story before the dawn of civilization. Sure to stimulate lively controversy, he makes the case for novel arguments about many hotly debated issues such as the evolution of language and race and the genetic roots of human nature, and reveals that human evolution has continued even to today.
In wonderfully lively and lucid prose, Wade reveals the answers that researchers have ingeniously developed to so many puzzles: When did language emerge? When and why did we start to wear clothing? How did our ancestors break out of Africa and defeat the more physically powerful Neanderthals who stood in their way? Why did the different races evolve, and why did we come to speak so many different languages? When did we learn to live with animals and where and when did we domesticate man's first animal companions, dogs? How did human nature change during the thirty-five thousand years between the emergence of fully modern humans and the first settlements?
Wade takes readers to the forefront of research in a sweeping and engrossing narrative unlike any other, the first to reveal how genetic discoveries are helping to weave together the perspectives of archaeology, paleontology, anthropology, linguistics, and many other fields. This will be the most talked about science book of the season. [via]More editions of Before the Dawn: Recovering the Lost History of Our Ancestors:
The Bible or the Axe: One Man's Dramatic Escape from Persecution in the Sudanby William O. LeviISBN 157921732X (1-57921-732-X)
Softcover, Winepress Pub
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Captive Passage: The Transatlantic Slave Trade and the Making of the AmericasISBN 1588340171 (1-58834-017-1)
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Casablanca: Colonial Myths and Architectural Venturesby Jean-Louis Cohen, Monique ElebISBN 1580930875 (1-58093-087-5)
Hardcover, Monacelli Pr
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Chiefs, Power, and Social Change: Chiefship and Modern Politics in Botswana, 1880S-1990sby Olufemi VaughanISBN 1592210945 (1-59221-094-5)
Softcover, Africa World Pr
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The Clumsiest People in Europe: Or, Mrs. Mortimer's Bad-tempered Guide to the Victorian Worldby Todd PruzanISBN 1596911506 (1-59691-150-6)
Softcover, St Martins Pr
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Death on the Nileby Agatha ChristieISBN 1579126898 (1-57912-689-8)
Hardcover, Black Dog & Leventhal Pub
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Democratic Reform in Africa: The Quality of Progressby E. Gyimah-BoadiISBN 1588262464 (1-58826-246-4)
Softcover, Lynne Rienner Pub
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Development and Underdevelopment: The Political Economy of Global Inequalityby Mitchell A. Seligson, John T. Passe-SmithISBN 1588262065 (1-58826-206-5)
Softcover, Lynne Rienner Pub
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Dick Tiger: The Life And Times of a Boxing Immortalby Adeyinka MakindeISBN 1595710426 (1-59571-042-6)
Softcover, Word Assn Pub
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Discourse on Colonialismby Aime Cesaire, Robin D.G. Kelley, Aime Csaire, Joan PinkhamISBN 1583670254 (1-58367-025-4)
Softcover, Monthly Review Pr
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Dragons of Eden: Speculations on the Evolution of Human Intelligenceby Carl SaganISBN 1579124313 (1-57912-431-3)
Hardcover, Black Dog & Leventhal Pub
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"A history of the human brain from the big bang, fifteen billion years ago, to the day before yesterday...It's a delight."
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Dreams of the N'Doroboby Gary GabelhouseISBN 1592280668 (1-59228-066-8)
Hardcover, Globe Pequot Pr
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Egyptian Magicby E. Wallis BudgeISBN 1596052155 (1-59605-215-5)
Softcover, Cosimo Inc
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Egyptian Religion: Egyptian Ideas of the Future Lifeby E.A. Wallis BudgeISBN 1596052147 (1-59605-214-7)
Softcover, Cosimo Inc
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Elizabeti's Dollby Stephanie Stuvebodeen, Christy HaleISBN 1584300817 (1-58430-081-7)
Softcover, Lee & Low Books
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Elizabeti's Schoolby Stephanie Stuvebodeen, Christy HaleISBN 1600602347 (1-60060-234-7)
Softcover, Lee & Low Books
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Equiano's Travels: The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano or Gustavus Vassa the Africanby EquianoISBN 1577664876 (1-57766-487-6)
Softcover, Waveland Pr Inc
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The Ethnic Vegetarian : Traditional and Modern Recipes from Africa, America, and the Caribbeanby Angela Shelf MedearisISBN 1579546188 (1-57954-618-8)
Hardcover, Rodale Press, Incorporated
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Five Weeks in a Balloonby Jules VerneISBN 1596055286 (1-59605-528-6)
Softcover, Cosimo Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Five Weeks in a Balloon'Book summary:"The chiefs are armed with muskets," said he, "and our balloon is too easy a mark for them." "Would a hole make us fall?" asked Joe. "Not immediately; but the hole would soon become a vast rent, through which all our gas would escape." "Then let us keep at a respectful distance. What can they think of us? I'm sure they want to worship us!" "We will let ourselves be worshipped," answered the doctor, "but from afar..." 13.5013.5013.50 First published in France in 1863, this is the first of Jules Verne's novels of imaginative adventures. Much more down to earth-figuratively, if not literally-than his later works, his heroes here encounter no lost civilizations, no anachronistic dinosaurs, and no extraordinary perils beyond that which actual explorers of the era might have met on a balloon voyage across the Dark Continent. An inspiration to generations of writers and readers, Verne's fiction remains compelling and thoroughly enjoyable today. French author JULES GABRIEL VERNE (1828-1905) is considered the father of modern science fiction. Among his many groundbreaking books are Journey to the Center of the Earth (1864), From the Earth to the Moon (1865), 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (1870), and Around the World in Eighty Days (1872). [via]
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The Four Feathersby Michael G. Wood, A. E. W. MasonISBN 1593083130 (1-59308-313-0)
Softcover, Sterling Pub Co Inc
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Giraffeby J. M. LedgardISBN 1594200998 (1-59420-099-8)
Hardcover, Penguin Group USA
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God's AmbassadorsISBN 1586601318 (1-58660-131-8)
Softcover, Barbour Pub Inc
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Haunting Capital: Memory, Text And the Black Diasporic Bodyby Hershini YoungISBN 1584655194 (1-58465-519-4)
Softcover, Univ Pr of New England
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Hemingway in Africa: The Last Safariby Christopher OndaatjeISBN 1585675393 (1-58567-539-3)
Hardcover, Penguin USA
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The Hunter, the Hammer, and Heaven: Journeys to Three Worlds Gone Madby Robert Young PeltonISBN 1585744166 (1-58574-416-6)
Hardcover, Globe Pequot Pr
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I Laugh So I Won't Cry: Kenya's Women Tell The Story Of Their Livesby Helena HalperinISBN 1592213049 (1-59221-304-9)
Softcover, Africa World Pr
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I Refuse to Die: My Journey for Freedomby Koigi Wa WamwereISBN 158322615X (1-58322-615-X)
Softcover, Seven Stories Pr
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Imaroby Charles SaundersISBN 1597800368 (1-59780-036-8)
Softcover, Nightshade Book
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Into the Out ofby Alan Dean FosterISBN 1587150484 (1-58715-048-4)
Softcover, Wildside Pr
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Jungle Tales of Tarzanby Edgar Rice BurroughsISBN 1596055227 (1-59605-522-7)
Softcover, Cosimo Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Jungle Tales of Tarzan'Book summary:It was true that Tarzan and Tantor were the best of friends, and that Tarzan never yet had tasted of the flesh of the elephant; but the Gomangani evidently had slain one, and as they were eating of the flesh of their kill, Tarzan was assailed by no doubts as to the ethics of his doing likewise, should he have the opportunity. Had he known that the elephant had died of sickness several days before the blacks discovered the carcass, he might not have been so keen to partake of the feast, for Tarzan of the Apes was no carrion-eater. Hunger, however, may blunt the most epicurean taste, and Tarzan was not exactly an epicure. ~~~ Edgar Rice Burroughs created one of the most iconic figures in American pop culture, Tarzan of the Apes, and it is impossible to overstate his influence on entire genres of popular literature in the decades after his enormously winning pulp novels stormed the public's imagination. Jungle Tales of Tarzan, first published in 1919, is the sixth book of Burroughs' tales of the ape-man. This collection of short stories explores the life of the young Tarzan, his adventurous boyhood and teen years among the great apes and other wild creatures that were his only family. American novelist EDGAR RICE BURROUGHS (1875-1950) wrote dozens of adventure, crime, and science fiction novels that are still beloved today, including Tarzan of the Apes (1912), At the Earth's Core (1914), A Princess of Mars (1917), The Land That Time Forgot (1924), and Pirates of Venus (1934). He is reputed to have been reading a comic book when he died. [via]
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Kehindeby Buchi EmechetaISBN 1577664191 (1-57766-419-1)
Softcover, Waveland Pr Inc
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Let My People Go!: The True Story Of Present Day Persecution And Slaveryby Cal BombayISBN 1590528247 (1-59052-824-7)
Softcover, Multnomah Pub
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Liberia: Portrait of a Failed Stateby John-Peter PhamISBN 1594290121 (1-59429-012-1)
Hardcover, Sourcebooks Inc
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Life and Adventures of Robinson Crusoeby Daniel Defoe, J. J. GrandvilleISBN 1582790345 (1-58279-034-5)
Hardcover, Trident Pr Intl
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The Life, Adventures, and Piracies of the Famous Captain Singletonby Daniel DefoeISBN 1592244262 (1-59224-426-2)
Softcover, Wildside Pr
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Lonely Planet Ethiopia & Eritreaby Jean-Bernard CarilletISBN 1740592905 (1-74059-290-5)
Softcover, Lonely Planet
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Lonely Planet Gambia and Senegalby David Else, Andrew BurkeISBN 1740591372 (1-74059-137-2)
Softcover, Lonely Planet
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The Lost River - A Memoir of Life, Death, and Transformation on Wild Waterby Richard BangsISBN 1578050634 (1-57805-063-4)
Softcover, Sierra Club Books
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Mama Elizabetiby Stephanie Stuvebodeen, Christy HaleISBN 1584302364 (1-58430-236-4)
Softcover, Lee & Low Books
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Manly Pursuitsby Ann HarriesISBN 1582340730 (1-58234-073-0)
Softcover, St Martins Pr
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Middle Passages : African American Journeys to Africa, 1787-2005by James T. CampbellISBN 1594200831 (1-59420-083-1)
Hardcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
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No Hurry to Get Home: The Captivating Memoir of the Unconventional Life and Far-Flung Adventures of a Veteran New York Writerby Emily Hahn, Ken Cuthbertson, Sheila McGrathISBN 158005045X (1-58005-045-X)
Softcover, Seal Pr
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No Picnic On Mount Kenya: A Daring Escape, A Perilous Climbby Felice BenuzziISBN 1592287247 (1-59228-724-7)
Softcover, Lyons Pr
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Pretty Girl in Crimson Rose: A Memoir of Love, Exile, and Crosswordsby Sandy BalfourISBN 1585421987 (1-58542-198-7)
Hardcover, J P Tarcher
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The Processby Brion GysinISBN 1585671614 (1-58567-161-4)
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Reclaiming Zimbabwe: The Exhaustion of the Patriarchal Model of Liberationby Horace CampbellISBN 1592210929 (1-59221-092-9)
Softcover, Africa World Pr
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Religions of Africa: Traditions in Transformationby E. Thomas LawsonISBN 1577660129 (1-57766-012-9)
Softcover, Waveland Pr Inc
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Revolt in the Desertby T. E. LawrenceISBN 1579124380 (1-57912-438-0)
Hardcover, Black Dog & Leventhal Pub
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Rhinocerosby L. MartinISBN 1589520211 (1-58952-021-1)
Hardcover, Rourke Pub Group
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Robinson Crusoeby Daniel DefoeISBN 1593080115 (1-59308-011-5)
Softcover, Sterling Pub Co Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Robinson Crusoe'Book summary:[via]Robinson Crusoe, by Daniel Defoe, is part of the Barnes & Noble Classics series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted extras. Here are some of the remarkable features of Barnes & Noble Classics:Widely regarded as the first English novel, Daniel Defoes Robinson Crusoe is one of the most popular and influential adventure stories of all time. This classic tale of shipwreck and survival on an uninhabited island was an instant success when first published in 1719 and has inspired countless imitations.In his own words, Robinson Crusoe tells of the terrible storm that drowned all his shipmates and left him marooned on a deserted island. Forced to overcome despair, doubt, and self-pity, he struggles to create a life for himself in the wilderness. From practically nothing, Crusoe painstakingly learns how to make pottery, grow crops, domesticate livestock, and build a house. His many adventures are recounted in vivid detail, including a fierce battle with cannibals and his rescue of Friday, the man who becomes his trusted companion.
Full of enchanting detail and daring heroics, Robinson Crusoe is a celebration of courage, patience, ingenuity, and hard work.
L. J. Swingle is Professor Emeritus of English Literature at the University of Kentucky, where his primary field of study is the intellectual contexts of British Romanticism as reflected in the works of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century poets and novelists.
Safe Journey: An African Adventureby Glenn L. PaceISBN 1590382315 (1-59038-231-5)
Hardcover, Deseret Book Co
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Salammboby Gustave FlaubertISBN 1595690352 (1-59569-035-2)
Softcover, Mondial
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Samuel Morris: Missionary to Americaby W. Terry WhalinISBN 1597891177 (1-59789-117-7)
Softcover, Barbour Pub Inc
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The Science of the Dogon: Decoding the African Mystery Traditionby Laird Scranton, John Anthony WestISBN 1594771332 (1-59477-133-2)
Softcover, Inner Traditions
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South Africa: The Structure of Things Thenby Neville Dubow, David GoldblattISBN 1580930263 (1-58093-026-3)
Hardcover, Penguin Group USA
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Southern Africaby Deanna Swaney, Mary Fitzpatrick, Paul Greenway, Andrew Stone, Justine VaisutisISBN 1740592239 (1-74059-223-9)
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Tom Sawyer Abroadby Mark TwainISBN 1587157047 (1-58715-704-7)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Tom Sawyer Abroad'Book summary:Purchase one of 1st World Library's Classic Books and help support our free internet library of downloadable eBooks. 1st World Library-Literary Society is a non-profit educational organization. Visit us online at www.1stWorldLibrary.ORG - - DO you reckon Tom Sawyer was satisfied after all them adventures? I mean the adventures we had down the river, and the time we set the darky Jim free and Tom got shot in the leg. No, he wasn't. It only just p'isoned him for more. That was all the effect it had. You see, when we three came back up the river in glory, as you may say, from that long travel, and the village received us with a torchlight procession and speeches, and everybody hurrah'd and shouted, it made us heroes, and that was what Tom Sawyer had always been hankering to be. For a while he WAS satisfied. Everybody made much of him, and he tilted up his nose and stepped around the town as though he owned it. Some called him Tom Sawyer the Traveler, and that just swelled him up fit to bust. You see he laid over me and Jim considerable, because we only went down the river on a raft and came back by the steamboat, but Tom went by the steamboat both ways. The boys envied me and Jim a good deal, but land! they just knuckled to the dirt before TOM. [via]
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The Travels of Marco Poloby Marco PoloISBN 160206024X (1-60206-024-X)
Hardcover, Cosimo Inc
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Tree of Life : The World of the African Baobabby Barbara BashISBN 1578050863 (1-57805-086-3)
Softcover, Sierra Club Books for Children
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Uncle Tom's Cabinby Harriet Beecher Stowe, Amanda ClaybaughISBN 1593080387 (1-59308-038-7)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Uncle Tom's Cabin'Book summary:[via]Uncle Tom's Cabin, by Harriet Beecher Stowe, is part of the Barnes & Noble Classics series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted extras. Here are some of the remarkable features of Barnes & Noble Classics:Nearly every young author dreams of writing a book that will literally change the world. A few have succeeded, and Harriet Beecher Stowe is such a marvel. Although the American anti-slavery movement had existed at least as long as the nation itself, Stowes Uncle Toms Cabin (1852) galvanized public opinion as nothing had before. The book sold 10,000 copies in its first week and 300,000 in its first year. Its vivid dramatization of slaverys cruelties so aroused readers that it is said Abraham Lincoln told Stowe her work had been a catalyst for the Civil War.
Today the novel is often labeled condescending, but its charactersTom, Topsy, Little Eva, Eliza, and the evil Simon Legreestill have the power to move our hearts. Though Uncle Tom has become a synonym for a fawning black yes-man, Stowes Tom is actually American literatures first black hero, a man who suffers for refusing to obey his white oppressors. Uncle Toms Cabin is a living, relevant story, passionate in its vivid depiction of the cruelest forms of injustice and inhumanityand the courage it takes to fight against them.
Amanda Claybaugh is Assistant Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University.
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Voyage Homeby Jane RogersISBN 1585677078 (1-58567-707-8)
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We Are All The Same: A Story of a Boy's Courage and a Mother's Loveby James T. WootenISBN 1594200289 (1-59420-028-9)
Hardcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'We Are All The Same: A Story of a Boy's Courage and a Mother's Love'Book summary:The extraordinary story of the little South African boy whose bravery and fierce determination to make a difference despite being born with AIDS has made him the human symbol of the world's fight against the disease, told by the veteran American journalist whose life he changed.
Five million more people contracted HIV last year alone. We've all seen the statistics, and they numb us; on some level our minds shut down to a catastrophe of this scope. As with other such immense human tragedies in the past, it can take the story of one special child's life to make us open our minds and our hearts.
While the majority of all AIDS cases occur in Africa, a South African boy named Nkosi Johnson did not become "an icon of the struggle for life," in Nelson Mandela's words, because he was representative but because he was so very remarkable. Everyone who met Nkosi Johnson was struck by his blinding life force, his powerful intelligence and drive, his determination to make something of his short life. By the time of his death, the work he had done in his eleven years on earth was such that The New York Times ran his obituary on the front page, as did many other papers, and tributes appeared on the evening news broadcasts of every major network.
Nkosi Johnson did not live to tell his own story, but one writer whose life he changed has taken up the work of telling it for him. Luckily for the world that writer is Jim Wooten. In his hands, We Are All the Same is a powerful testament to the strength of the human spirit, even as it bears witness to the scope of the tragedy that is unfolding in Africa and around the world, cutting down millions of boys and girls like Nkosi Johnson before they can reach their promise. Written with the brevity and power of a parable, We Are All the Same is a book that is meant to be read by all of us, of all ages and walks of life. Its beginning and ending are terribly sad, but in the middle is the extraordinarily inspiring story of a very unlucky little boy who said, Never mind. I'm going to make my life matter. And he did. [via]More editions of We Are All The Same: A Story of a Boy's Courage and a Mother's Love:
We Are the Poors: Community Struggles in Post-Apartheid South Africaby Ashwin DesaiISBN 1583670505 (1-58367-050-5)
Softcover, Monthly Review Pr
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When The Lion Roarsby Diann MillsISBN 1589190300 (1-58919-030-0)
Softcover, Riveroak Pub
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The White Man's Burden: Why the West's Efforts to Aid the Rest Have Done So Much Ill And So Little Goodby William EasterlyISBN 1594200378 (1-59420-037-8)
Hardcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The White Man's Burden: Why the West's Efforts to Aid the Rest Have Done So Much Ill And So Little Good'Book summary:An informed and excoriating attack on the tragic waste, futility, and hubris of the West's efforts to date to improve the lot of the so-called developing world, with constructive suggestions on how to move forward.
William Easterly's The White Man's Burden is about what its author calls the twin tragedies of global poverty. The first, of course, is that so many are seemingly fated to live horribly stunted, miserable lives and die such early deaths. The second is that after fifty years and more than $2.3 trillion in aid from the West to address the first tragedy, it has shockingly little to show for it. We'll never solve the first tragedy, Easterly argues, unless we figure out the second.
The ironies are many: We preach a gospel of freedom and individual accountability, yet we intrude in the inner workings of other countries through bloated aid bureaucracies like the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and World Bank that are accountable to no one for the effects of their prescriptions. We take credit for the economic success stories of the last fifty years, like South Korea and Taiwan, when in fact we deserve very little. However, we reject all accountability for pouring more than half a trillion dollars into Africa and other regions and trying one "big new idea" after another, to no avail. Most of the places in which we've meddled are in fact no better off or are even worse off than they were before. Could it be that we don't know as much as we think we do about the magic spells that will open the door to the road to wealth?
Absolutely, William Easterly thunders in this angry, irreverent, and important book. He contrasts two approaches: (1) the ineffective planners' approach to development-never able to marshal enough knowledge or motivation to get the overambitious plans implemented to attain the plan's arbitrary targets and (2) a more constructive searchers' approach-always on the lookout for piecemeal improvements to poor peoples' well-being, with a system to get more aid resources to those who find things that work. Once we shift power and money from planners to searchers, there's much we can do that's focused and pragmatic to improve the lot of millions, such as public health, sanitation, education, roads, and nutrition initiatives. We need to face our own history of ineptitude and learn our lessons, especially at a time when the question of our ability to "build democracy," to transplant the institutions of our civil society into foreign soil so that they take root, has become one of the most pressing we face. [via]More editions of The White Man's Burden: Why the West's Efforts to Aid the Rest Have Done So Much Ill And So Little Good:
With Christ In The School Of Prayerby Andrew MurrayISBN 1593107099 (1-59310-709-9)
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Wonders of the World: 100 Great Man-Made Treasures of Civilizationby Richard Cavendish, Rosemary BurtonISBN 1586637517 (1-58663-751-7)
Hardcover, Sterling Pub Co Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Wonders of the World: 100 Great Man-Made Treasures of Civilization'Book summary:What city claims to be the world's oldest? What is the largest construction ever built by human hands? The answers to these and many other questions are here, revealed in fascinating detail and shown in remarkable photographs of the world's most spectacular sights. There are enigmatic megaliths such as Stonehenge and the Easter Island statues that have not yet yielded their age-old secrets. Exquisite edifices, such as St. Peter's in Rome, rub shoulders with the surreal structure of Gaudi's Sagrada Familia in Barcelona. The stark outline of the Great Pyramid at Giza contrasts with the extravagant opulence of Hearst's castle at San Simeon. Feats of engineering are represented with the Trans-Siberian Railway and Japan's Seto Ohashi Suspension Bridge. Each entry includes location details, a description of the site, a panel of additional information, and large color pictures. For easy reference, everything is broken up by continent with its own location map and introductory feature, and arranged chronologically.[via]More editions of Wonders of the World: 100 Great Man-Made Treasures of Civilization:
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World War II: A Photographic Historyby David BoyleISBN 1586630946 (1-58663-094-6)
Hardcover, Sterling Pub Co Inc
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The Yoruba Domino Oracleby Carlos G. Y. Poenna, Garlos G. Y. PoennaISBN 1578631491 (1-57863-149-1)
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