Cultural, Ethnic & Regional

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780385528207Author Wes MooreFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint Random House USA IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 215gDimensions(mm) 203mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780807073360Author Yaba BlayFormat HardbackPage Count 288Imprint Beacon PressPublisher Beacon Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of 44 weeks on the B.C. Bestsellers list in 2013 & 2014! 2014 (Canada) and George Ryga Award for Social Awareness in Literature (2014), Winner 2014 (Canada)...

Throughout my life I have been told directly and indirectly that dyslexia is found in particular people... [In fact] dyslexia can be found in someone like me. It isn't just 'okay' but something to be proud of. This book has been written because I want...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781092343381Author Hourly HistoryFormat PaperbackPage Count 50Imprint Independently PublishedPublisher Independently PublishedWeight(grams)...

Pop culture is the Pandora's Box of our lives. Racism, wealth, poverty, beauty, inclusion, exclusion, and hope -- all of these intractable and unavoidable features course through the media we consume. Examining pop culture's impact on her life, Nichole...

A Guardian biography of the year 2022 Non-Fiction winner of the OCM Bocas Prize for Literature 2023 This frank, fearless and multi-layered debut centres on a privileged but dysfunctional Indian family, with themes of empire, migration, race, and...

Soon to be a major motion picture starring Golden Globe-winner Taraji P. Henson and Academy Award-winners Octavia Spencer and Kevin Costner Set against the backdrop of the Jim Crow South and the civil rights movement, the never-before-told true story of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781951213527Author Jethro SoutarFormat PaperbackPage Count 214Imprint Unnamed PressPublisher Unnamed Press

In Inside Studio 54, the former owner takes you behind the scenes of the most famous nightclub in the world, through the crowd, to a place where celebrities, friends, and the beautiful people sip champagne and share lines of cocaine using rolled-up...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781947793385Author E J KohFormat HardbackPage Count 203Imprint Tin House BooksPublisher Tin House BooksWeight(grams) 363gDimensions(mm) 226mm * 147mm * 23mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781623170981Author Rev. angel Kyodo WilliamsFormat PaperbackPage Count 248Imprint North Atlantic Books,U.S.Publisher North Atlantic Books,U.S.Weight(grams)...

No boxing book collection is complete without the classic, award-winning, Dark Trade: Lost in Boxing. With this updated edition, brought to the United States for the first time, the original cover art by fine artist Amanda Kelley, depicting James "Lights...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781948226844Author Taylor HarrisFormat HardbackPage Count 272Imprint CatapultPublisher Catapult

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781632060242Author Grace TalusanFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Restless BooksPublisher Restless Books

'It will be seen in these pages that I have lived several lives in one: first, the life of slavery; secondly, the life of a fugitive from slavery; thirdly, the life of comparative freedom; fourthly, the life of conflict and battle; and, fifthly, the life...

In the Clearances of the 19th century, crofts - once the mainstay of Highland life in Scotland - were swept away as the land was put over to sheep grazing. Many of the people of the Highlands and islands of Scotland were forced from their homes by...

'It's brave and honest, and not a moment too soon.' Afua Hirsch, Brit(ish)'[An] outstanding myth-busting book. Everyone should read it.' Bernardine EvaristoWhat is the experience of Black men in Britain today? Never has the conversation about racism and...

This book focuses on the stories of Syrians who have found refuge in Wales, based on their own oral testimonies. They were recorded as part of a research project undertaken by Cardiff University and Amgueddfa Cymru- National Museum Wales. Moving away...

A seminal work that combines ground-breaking philosophy with searing flights of memoir, Afropessimism presents the tenets of an increasingly influential intellectual movement that theorises blackness through the lens of perpetual slavery. Rather than...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780684864655Author SowellFormat PaperbackPage Count 322Imprint The Free PressPublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 475gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 18mm

A seminal work that combines ground-breaking philosophy with searing flights of memoir, Afropessimism presents the tenets of an increasingly influential intellectual movement that theorises blackness through the lens of perpetual slavery. Rather than...

Karoline Kan was born in 1989, the year of the Tiananmen Square massacre: her generation has always been caught between China's authoritarian politics and its hyper-modern technology and economic boom. In her quest to understand the shifting sands of...

Kosovo: the name conjures up blood: ethnic cleansing and war. This book reveals another side to the newest country in the world a land of generous families, strong tastes and lush landscapes: a land of honey. Elizabeth Gowing is rushed to Kosovo, on a...

TRANSLATED BY ALISON McCULLOUGH'One of the best books on the many diverse migrations to London . . . revealing the extent to which the diversity of immigrant origins has had transformative effects - through food, music, diverse types of knowledge and so...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781685890452Author Eirinie CarsonFormat HardbackPage Count 240Imprint Melville House PublishingPublisher Melville House PublishingWeight(grams) 567g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781648450723Author Bill O'NeillFormat PaperbackPage Count 232Imprint Lak PublishingPublisher Lak PublishingWeight(grams) 318gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780767904445Author David HalberstamFormat PaperbackPage Count 448Imprint Broadway Books (A Division of Bantam Doubleday DelPublisher Broadway Books (A...

The story begins with a parting of the sands - the construction of the Suez Canal that united the Mediterranean with the Arabian Sea. It opened the door of opportunity for people living insecurely on the fringes of a turbulent Europe.The Middle East is...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781684116546Author Victor H GreenFormat PaperbackPage Count 58Imprint WWW.Snowballpublishing.comPublisher WWW.Snowballpublishing.comWeight(grams)...

Winner of the STR Theatre Book Prize 2014 The National Theatre Story is filled with artistic, financial and political battles, onstage triumphs - and the occasional disaster. This definitive account takes readers from the National Theatre's...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781644210727Author Ernesto Che GuevaraFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint Seven Stories Press,U.S.Publisher Seven Stories Press,U.S.

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781642595680Author Angela Y DavisFormat HardbackPage Count 392Imprint Haymarket BooksPublisher Haymarket Books

William Carlos Williams's medical practice and his literary career formed an undivided life. For forty years he was a busy doctor in the town of Rutherford, New Jersey, and yet he was able to write more than thirty books. One of the finest chapters in...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780062966728Author Emma DabiriFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint HarperCollins PublishersPublisher HarperCollins Publishers Inc

The author of 'Across the Wire' offers brilliant investigative reporting of what went wrong when, in May 2001, a group of 26 men attempted to cross the Mexican border into the desert of southern Arizona. Only 12 men came back out. 'Superb . . . Nothing...

New York Times and Wall Street Journal Bestseller! Pro wrestler and political commentator Tyrus goes deep into his wild but triumphant life story, from his painfully dysfunctional upbringing to bodyguarding for Snoop Dogg, to becoming a wrestling icon...

'I cannot say enough about How to Read Now... Check it out' Roxane Gay'A red-hot grenade... One of my favourite books of the year' Jia Tolentino'Energetically brilliant, warmly humane, incisively funny' Andrew Sean Greer'I gasped, shouted, and...

The incredible true story of Tiger Woods's dramatic return to glory at the 2019 Masters following his humbling and very public personal, physical, and professional setbacks. One publicly imploded marriage. Two car accidents. Eight surgeries. And...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of New Mexico-Arizona Book Awards (J. Sando Western History) 2012.Book InformationISBN 9780425247853Author Chester NezFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Berkley...