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The overall aim of the first chapter is to improve the knowledge about the simulation of thermal indoor climate for buildings in different climate conditions and its application for computer-based simulations. The work is done in order to simplify the...

This informative book explains the life cycle of a chicken, including the stages of development and changes it goes through to become an adult. The book also includes a table of contents, one infographic, informative sidebars, a "That's...

This title explores the role of cane toads in introduced environments, how humans helped spread the species, the threats they pose to ecosystems, and efforts being taken to manage them. This book also includes a table of contents, two infographics,...

The thrust-area of this book is the connection between imperial anxieties and tropical health situations along with intriguing psychological questions involving race, politics, gender, history and colonial modernity. For a long time, the focus has...

This book examines how the production of goods and waste affects the environment, as well as ways that people can reduce, reuse, and recycle. This book also includes a table of contents, fun facts, a "That's Amazing!" special feature, quiz...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781903254370Author Josiah HowardFormat HardbackPage Count 240Imprint FAB PressPublisher FAB Press

This book emanated from the research outputs of different authors whose diverse academic traditions and wide geographic spread play a major role in enriching its contents. The volume is mainly a compilation on smallholder farmers and their practices. The...

As seen on ABC's The View * One of W magazine's Most Anticipated Books of Fall 2023"We reserve this space for our humanity in all of its fond, ironic, elated, grief-stricken, confused glory . . . When you find yourself alone and downtrodden, when the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781685890933Author Margaret Juhae LeeFormat HardbackPage Count 304Imprint Melville House PublishingPublisher Melville House Publishing

An uplifting collection of speeches by African American women, curated by the civil and human rights activist, scholar, and author When Mary Ann Shadd Cary-the first Black woman publisher in North America-declared, "break every yoke . . . let the...

"[A]n ethnographically rich, historically meticulous, theoretically informed analysis of ethnic conflict in a strategically important area of Africa. It shows the value of multi-sited methodologies that bring international, national and regional...

A Century of Dishonor (1884) is a work of nonfiction by Helen Hunt Jackson. Inspired by a speech given by Ponca chief Standing Bear in Boston, A Century of Dishonor attempts to reckon with the genocide and displacement of Native Americans and the passage...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780865432017Author John Henrik ClarkeFormat PaperbackPage Count 360Imprint Africa Research & PublicationsPublisher Africa World PressWeight(grams) 489g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781438453620Author Julia V. EmberleyFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint State University of New York PressPublisher State University of New York...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781595589170Author Laura E. GomezFormat HardbackPage Count 336Imprint The New PressPublisher The New Press

"What the women I write about have in common is that they are all rebels with a cause, and I see myself represented in their mirror," asserts Alicia Gaspar de Alba. Looking back across a career in which she has written novels, poems, and scholarly works...

No other story in the Bible has fired the imagination of African Americans quike like that of Exodus. Its tale of suffering and the journey to redemption offered hope and a sense of possibility to people facing seemingly insurmountable evil. "Exodus!"...

Emerging from a matrix of Old Left, black nationalist, and bohemian ideologies and institutions, African American artists and intellectuals in the 1960s coalesced to form the Black Arts Movement, the cultural wing of the Black Power Movement. In this...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781499509816Author Alexandria Ocasio-CortezFormat PaperbackPage Count 132Imprint Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublisher Createspace...

In 1860, when four million African Americans were enslaved, a quarter-million others, including William Ellison, were "free people of color." But Ellison was remarkable. Born a slave, his experience spans the history of the South from George Washington...

Over the course of his long career, legendary bluesman William ""Big Bill"" Broonzy (1893@-1958) helped shape the trajectory of the genre, from its roots in the rural Mississippi River Delta, through its rise as a popular genre in the north, to its...

In his seminal article "Freedom Then, Freedom Now," renowned civil rights historian Steven F. Lawson described his vision for the future study of the civil rights movement. Lawson called for a deeper examination of the social, economic, and political...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.About the AuthorBenjamin Quarles (1904-1996) was a noted author, editor, and historian and the first African American to be published in what later became the Journal of American...

The Last "Darky" establishes Bert Williams, the comedian of the late nineteenth century and early twentieth, as central to the development of a global black modernism centered in Harlem's Renaissance. Before integrating Broadway in 1910 via a...

Why are so many Black males dropping out of school? Why are prisons filled with Black males? When does a Black male become a man? This book answers these questions. It also provides how the rites of passage ceremony should be conducted.About the...

In All My Relatives David C. Posthumus offers the first revisionist history of the Lakotas' religion and culture in a generation. He applies key insights from what has been called the "ontological turn," particularly the dual notions of...

With a compassionate eloquence reminiscent of James Baldwin's Letter to My Nephew, Ellis Cose presents a realistic examination of the challenges facing black men in modern America.Black men have never had more opportunity for success than today-yet, as...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780807019412Author Charlene CarruthersFormat HardbackPage Count 240Imprint Beacon PressPublisher Beacon Press

Introduces key terms, interdisciplinary research, debates, and histories for African American Studies As the longest-standing interdisciplinary field, African American Studies has laid the foundation for critically analyzing issues of race, ethnicity,...

With the new geological age known as the Anthropocene heralding dramatic disruptions in the earth system, geopolitics needs to be fundamentally reconsidered to deal with these new circumstances. Planetary boundaries and ecological change are now the key...

Examining how undocumented migrants are using film, video, and other documentary media to challenge surveillance, detention, and deportation As debates over immigration increasingly become flashpoints of political contention in the United States, a...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780486794822Author Harriet Beecher StoweFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint Dover Publications Inc.Publisher Dover Publications Inc.Weight(grams)...

This volume assembles essential essays-some published only posthumously, others obscure, another only recently translated-by W. E. B. Du Bois from 1894 to early 1906. They show the first formulations of some of his most famous ideas, namely, "the veil,"...

From the civil rights and Black Power era of the 1960s through antiapartheid activism in the 1980s and beyond, black women have used their clothing, hair, and style not simply as a fashion statement but as a powerful tool of resistance. Whether using...

In Migrant Futures Aimee Bahng traces the cultural production of futurity by juxtaposing the practices of speculative finance against those of speculative fiction. While financial speculation creates a future based on predicting and mitigating risk for...

For courses in Introduction to Psychology, African American Psychology, African American Studies, Multicultural Counseling and Cross Cultural Counseling and Psychotherapy.This text highlights the limitations of traditional psychological theories and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780688004712Author Beverly Hungry WolfFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint William MorrowPublisher HarperCollins Publishers Inc

2020 Alan Merriam Prize for Best Book Published in Ethnomusicology, Society for Ethnomusicology A free open access ebook is available upon publication. Learn more at www.luminosoa.org.Louder and Faster is a cultural study of the phenomenon of Asian...

Hong Kong's 'Umbrella Revolution' has been widely regarded as a watershed moment in the polity's post-1997 history. While public protest has long been a routine part of Hong Kong's political culture, the preparedness of large numbers of citizens to...

This is a remarkable set of linked essays on the African American male experience. Alexander picks a number of settings that highlight Black male interaction, sexuality, and identity_the student-teacher interaction, the black barbershop, drag queen...