Ethnic Studies

In The Politics of Decolonial Investigations Walter D. Mignolo provides a sweeping examination of how coloniality has operated around the world in its myriad forms from the sixteenth century to the twenty-first. Decolonial border thinking allows Mignolo...

Iran was home to some of the greatest civilizations of both the ancient and medieval worlds, but these achievements are now little known outside the country. Epic Iran brings together 250 fascinating objects and images to cast a rare light on 5,000 years...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781943686575Author Jay MorrisonFormat PaperbackPage Count 142Imprint Good2go PublishingPublisher Good2go PublishingWeight(grams) 172gDimensions(mm) 216mm *...

A gripping portrait of the relentless women taking missing persons, kidnapping, and extortion cases into their own hands-and building a movement for one another. In this riveting exploration of the lives of mothers whose children are among the 100,000...

Clad in white tie and tails, dancing and scatting his way through the "Hi-de-ho" chorus of "Minnie the Moocher," Cab Calloway exuded a sly charm and sophistication that endeared him to legions of fans. In Hi-de-ho, author Alyn Shipton offers the first...

Winner: Native American and Indigenous Studies Association's Best Subsequent Book 2017 Honorable Mention: Labriola Center American Indian National Book Award 2017 Across North America, Indigenous acts of resistance have in recent years opposed the...

WINNER OF THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD FOR AUTOBIOGRAPHY 2021 FINALIST FOR THE PULITZER PRIZE FOR GENERAL NON-FICTION 2021 A New York Times Top Book of 2020 Chosen as a Guardian Book of 2020 A BBC Culture Best Books of 2020 Nominated...

Loss of Mother, Bereavement, and Moving On"I wish I had read this before I lost my mom a few years ago and a dear friend soon after..." -Nina Lesowitz, author of Living Life as a Thank You#1 Best Seller in Grief & Bereavement, Obsessive Compulsive...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143127161Author Nicholas WadeFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Penguin USAPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 264g

A contribution to the history of the blues in particular and of Afro-American culture in general, new information about a remarkable set of assertive, creative women as well as new insights into the musical heritage they have left behind. Sippie Wallace,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781416591061Author S C GwynneFormat PaperbackPage Count 384Imprint Simon & SchusterPublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 363gDimensions(mm) 211mm * 140mm...

Miles: The Autobiography, like the man himself, holds nothing back. He talks about his battles against drugs and racism, and discusses the many women in his life. But above all, Miles talks about music and musicians, including the legends he has played...

Maryse Conde is one of the best-known and most beloved French Caribbean literary voices. The author of more than twenty novels, she was shortlisted for the Man Booker International Prize in 2015 and has long been recognized as a giant of black feminist...

Nassim Soleimanour is an Iranian writer playwright who experiments with form. This collection contains Soleimanpour's international hit White Rabbit Red Rabbit and his second play BLANK. White Rabbit Red Rabbit has been translated into over 30...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsShort-listed for Kirkus Prize for Non-Fiction 2021.Book InformationISBN 9780593687796Author Juan VilloroFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780962088117Author Rudolph WindsorFormat HardbackPage Count 155Imprint Windsor Golden SeriesPublisher Windsor Golden Series

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780814258668Author Linda Janet HolmesFormat PaperbackPage Count 216Imprint Ohio State University PressPublisher Ohio State University PressWeight(grams)...

From the acclaimed author and scholar James C. Scott, the compelling tale of Asian peoples who until recently have stemmed the vast tide of state-making to live at arm's length from any organized state society For two thousand years the disparate groups...

A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER *SELECTED AS ONE OF BARACK OBAMA'S FAVOURITE BOOKS OF 2023*Vividly written and exhaustively researched, Jonathan Eig's King is the first major biography in decades of the civil rights icon Martin Luther King Jr. - and the...

As Spain and England vied for dominance of the Atlantic world during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, mounting political and religious tensions between the two empires raised a troubling specter for contemporary British writers attempting to...

Although Daniel Everett was a missionary, far from converting the Pirahas, they converted him. He shows the slow, meticulous steps by which he gradually mastered their language and his gradual realisation that its unusual nature closely reflected its...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781640320024Author Benjamin FranklinFormat HardbackPage Count 46Imprint Value Classic ReprintsPublisher Value Classic ReprintsWeight(grams) 408g

Of all the interactions between American Indians and Euro-Americans, none was as fundamental as the acquisition of the indigenous peoples' lands. To Euro-Americans this takeover of lands was seen as a natural right, an evolution to a higher use; to...

Prioritize your wellbeing with these 150 self-care exercises designed specifically to help Black women revitalize their outlook on life, improve their mental health, eliminate stress, and self-advocate.Between micro- and macro-aggressions at school, at...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsLong-listed for Porchlight Business Book Awards - Big Ideas and New Perspectives 2022.Book InformationISBN 9780593132739Author Danyel SmithFormat PaperbackPage Count...

Winner of the Toshihide Numata Book Award in Buddhism of the Center for Buddhist Studies at the University of California, Berkeley In Tibetan Manuscripts and Early Printed Books, Volume I, Matthew T. Kapstein and an international team of specialists...

Romeyn de Hooghe was the most inventive and prolific etcher of the later Dutch Golden Age. The producer of wide-ranging book illustrations, newsprints, allegories, and satire, he is best known as the chief propaganda artist working for stadtholder and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780870785665Author Sajad JiyadFormat PaperbackPage Count 154Imprint Century Foundation PressPublisher Century Foundation PressWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780465060689Author Beverly Daniel TatumFormat PaperbackPage Count 464Imprint Basic Civitas BooksPublisher INGRAM PUBLISHER SERVICES USWeight(grams)...

This book traces how medicine in modern Iran was both theoretically and institutionally transformed in the 19th and 20th centuries. It explores the process by which local physicians, in a non-colonial context, assimilated the emerging "modern...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781734879742Author Latoya NicoleFormat PaperbackPage Count 58Imprint Precise Publishing Inc.Publisher Precise Publishing Inc.Weight(grams)...

"Rarely has a short book accomplished so much as Terborg-Penn's seminal work. With the utmost attention to detail Terborg-Penn examines the contributions of black suffragist stalwarts . . . It undoubtedly will become the definitive work on African...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781608687732Author Jeremy NarbyFormat HardbackPage Count 144Imprint New World LibraryPublisher New World Library

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781943155064Author Nigel SuttonFormat PaperbackPage Count 178Imprint Tambuli MediaPublisher Tambuli MediaWeight(grams) 245gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm *...

Photographer of excellence, and among the most appreciated in the contemporary art scene, the Dutch photographer Erwin Olaf (1959) is to be considered one of the greatest interpreters of modern portrait photography: he is known all over the world...

An authoritative examination of "Xi Jinping Thought"--now the official dogma of the Chinese Communist Party--that marshals Xi's personal words and writings to reveal his plan to make "the China Dream of national rejuvenation" a reality in the coming...

Nearly 300 entries, from accession to yoke, describe the main gods and symbols of the Aztecs, Olmecs, Zapotecs, Maya, Teotihuacanos, Mixtects and Toltecs.Introductory essays provide succinct accounts of Mesoamerican history and religion.This...

This book investigates the formation, configuration and consolidation of elites amongst Kenya's Maasai. The Maasai ethnic group is one of the world's most anthropologized populations, but research tends to focus on what appears to be their dismal...

Tarana Burke and Dr. Brene Brown bring together a dynamic group of Black writers, organisers, artists, academics and cultural figures to discuss the topics the two have dedicated their lives to understanding and teaching: vulnerability and shame...

This Bible published in the classic King James Version includes cross references and extra-large print type allowing for an easy Bible reading experience. This edition is published in large KJV Comfort Print type, which was designed exclusively for...