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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781683902324Author Marshall TerrillFormat PaperbackPage Count 260Imprint Pulp Hero PressPublisher Pulp Hero PressWeight(grams) 304gDimensions(mm) 216mm *...

W. E. B. Du Bois was a public intellectual, sociologist, and activist on behalf of the African American community. He profoundly shaped black political culture in the United States through his founding role in the NAACP, as well as internationally...

"In me, there is the red of miry clay, the brown of spring floods, the gold of ripening tobacco. All of these hues are me; I am, in the deepest sense, colored." From these fertile soils of love, land, identity, family, and race emerges The Home Place, a...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780975484852Author Nanako WaterFormat PaperbackPage Count 444Imprint Tonnbo BooksPublisher Tonnbo BooksWeight(grams) 508gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 140mm * 23mm

Hubert Harrison was an immensely skilled writer, orator, educator, critic, and political activist who, more than any other political leader of his era, combined class consciousness and anti-white-supremacist race consciousness into a coherent political...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781906628666Author Joe CoenFormat PaperbackPage Count 140Imprint CheckPoint PressPublisher CheckPoint PressWeight(grams) 195gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm *...

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)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780156976480Author Howard ThurmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Houghton MifflinPublisher Houghton MifflinWeight(grams) 244gDimensions(mm) 205mm *...

This landmark work provides a fundamental reinterpretation of the American South in the years since the Civil War, especially the decades after Reconstruction, from 1877 to 1920. Covering all aspects of Southern life--white and black, conservative and...

A stunning photo essay paired with 100 stories of members gives a rare glimpse into the Bruderhof, a Christian community that has stood the test of time. Yes, it is possible to create a society where there are no rich or poor, where children and elderly...

Despite gold medals, WNBA championships, and a list of accolades, A'ja Wilson knows how it feels to be swept under the rug - to not be heard, to not feel seen, to not be taken seriously. As a fourth grader going to a primarily white school in South...

Written ten years after his legal emancipation, MY BONDAGE AND MY FREEDOM catapulted Frederick Douglass into the international spotlight as a leading spokesperson for American blacks, both freed and in slavery. This, Douglass's second autobiography, was...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780307383419Author Barack ObamaFormat HardbackPage Count 464Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 686gDimensions(mm) 243mm *...

From one of the co-founders of the Black Lives Matter movement comes a poetic memoir and reflection on humanity. Necessary and timely, Patrisse Cullors' story asks us to remember that protest in the interest of the most vulnerable comes from love...

Valtesse de la Bigne was a celebrated nineteenth-century Parisian courtesan. She was painted by Manet and inspired Emile Zola, who immortalised her in his scandalous novel Nana. Her rumoured affairs with Napoleon III and the future Edward VII kept gossip...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780812992335Author John JeromeFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint Random House USA IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 482gDimensions(mm) 229mm...

Two magnificent memoirs by Aleksandar Hemon, presented together in a glorious single edition: together they make a major work from one of our major writers.In My Parents, Aleksandar Hemon tells the story of his parents' immigration to Canada - of the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780914019725Author Shirley RosenFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Discover Your NorthwestPublisher Discover Your NorthwestWeight(grams)...

New York Times Bestseller * Winner of the 2015 WOMEN'S WAY Book Prize * Goodreads Best of 2014 Semi-Finalist * Books for a Better Life Award Finalist * Lambda Literary Award Finalist * Time Magazine "30 Most Influential People on the Internet" * American...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781250022028Author Mikey WalshFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint St Martin's PressPublisher St Martin's PressWeight(grams) 245gDimensions(mm) 210mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780812981155Author Jay-ZFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 919gDimensions(mm) 232mm * 188mm *...

A riveting cautionary tale about the ecstasy and dangers of loving Marvin Gaye, a performer passionately pursued by all-and a searing memoir of drugs, sex, and old school R&B from the wife of legendary soul icon Marvin Gaye. After her seventeenth...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780767914970Author Greg TateFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 270gDimensions(mm) 215mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780452279490Author Peter GuralnickFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint PlumePublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 79gDimensions(mm) 193mm * 132mm * 7mm

The greater freedom is to be who you actually are; to be able to live your life in the way you deem best, free from any sort of restriction to do that, or fear of repercussions for doing so. Egyptian-born and London-raised, Alya Mooro grew up between...

In this biography, Ula Taylor explores the life and ideas of one of the most important, if largely unsung, Pan-African freedom fighters of the twentieth century: Amy Jacques Garvey (1895-1973). Born in Jamaica, Amy Jacques moved in 1917 to Harlem, where...

Chosen as one of the Daily Mail's Memoirs of the YearTim Waterstone is one of Britain's most successful businessmen, having built the Waterstone's empire that started with one small bookshop in 1982. In this charming and evocative memoir, he recalls the...

A SPECTATOR BOOK OF THE YEAR 'A remarkable literary debut . . . Part memoir, part travelogue, Motherlands is ultimately an investigation of how we come to understand the past at all' Guardian Our creation stories begin with the notion of expulsion...

The poet and musician Anthony Joseph met and spoke to Lord Kitchener just once, in 1984, when he found the calypso icon standing alone for a moment in the heat of Port of Spain's Queen's Park Savannah, one Carnival Monday afternoon. It was a pivotal...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780933121232Author George JacksonFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Black Classic Press,U.S.Publisher Black Classic Press,U.S.

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of Black Caucus of the American Library Association Literary_award (Nonfiction) 2011. Short-listed for Nevada Young Readers' Award (Young Adult) 2013 and Eliot...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780992843069Author Philip HeseltonFormat PaperbackPage Count 378Imprint Doreen Valiente FoundationPublisher Doreen Valiente FoundationWeight(grams)...

150 Station Road, Wheeldon Mill - a short stride across the Chesterfield Canal in the heart of Derbyshire - was home to the Nash family and their corner shop, serving a small mining community with everything from Brasso to Dolly Blue, from cheap dress...

When Victoria Hoffarth was at graduate school in the U.S., her lecturer, the anthropologist Margaret Mead, once told her class, "There are so many varied places in the world. It is incumbent upon us to search for one where we most fit." Thus, despite...

'The degradations, the wrongs, the vices, that grow out of slavery, are more than I can describe.' Harriet Jacobs was born a slave in the American South and went on to write one of the most extraordinary slave narratives. First published...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781568588445Author Alia MalekFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint Bold Type BooksPublisher Bold Type BooksWeight(grams) 368gDimensions(mm) 155mm * 229mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780992843076Author Philip HeseltonFormat HardbackPage Count 378Imprint Doreen Valiente FoundationPublisher Doreen Valiente FoundationWeight(grams)...

At birth it was only Amal's father who looked at her and said "I see hope in her face. I want to call her 'Amal'- meaning 'Hope'- in the hope that Allah will give us boys after her." The fifth daughter in a patriarchal society and an indigenous...

Humanitarian, philanthropist, and campaigner for Jewish emancipation on a grand scale, Sir Moses Montefiore (1784-1885) was the preeminent Jewish figure of the nineteenth century-and one of the first truly global celebrities. His story, told here in full...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781250811271Author Edmund de WaalFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint St Martin's PressPublisher St Martin's PressWeight(grams) 318gDimensions(mm) 208mm *...