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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781684422302Author Paul RobesonFormat PaperbackPage Count 402Imprint Turner Publishing CompanyPublisher Turner Publishing Company

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A groundbreaking collection of poetry, personal narratives, and art from refugee youth around the world. Foreword by actor and UNHCR Goodwill Ambassador Ben Stiller.Beginning in 2018, Ahmed M. Badr-an Iraqi-American poet and former refugee-traveled to...

In 1849, Henry Brown escaped from slavery by shipping himself in a three-foot-by-two-foot wooden crate from Virginia to an anti-slavery office in Philadelphia. Twenty-seven hours and 350 miles later, Brown stepped out of his box to begin a new life. This...

"When at last we were approaching the Harem, the Sultan, surely quite alarmed, said to me in a low voice (was that so the eunuch walking in front of us wouldn't hear, or because in this lonely and dark passageway he was frightened of his own voice?), Ne...

Born into slavery on a Virginia plantation in 1857, James Solomon Russell (1857-1935) rose to become one of the most prominent African American pastors in the post-Civil War South. As a minister, educator, and founder of St. Paul's College in...

Twenty years after his assassination, what is it about Malcolm X's life and words that speaks so powerfully to so many? In Making Malcolm, Michael Eric Dyson probes the myths and meanings of Malcolm X for our time. From Spike Lee's film biography to...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143112112Author June CrossFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Penguin BooksPublisher Penguin Books

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781950154197Author Mike SagerFormat PaperbackPage Count 80Imprint Sager Group LLCPublisher Sager Group LLCWeight(grams) 127gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm *...

Read Martha A. Sandweiss's posts on the Penguin Blog The secret double life of the man who mapped the American West, and the woman he loved Clarence King was a late nineteenth-century celebrity, a brilliant scientist and explorer once described by...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781420968682Author Sarah H BradfordFormat PaperbackPage Count 76Imprint Digireads.comPublisher Digireads.comWeight(grams) 109gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 140mm *...

As a young college student in Atlanta, Vernon E. Jordan, Jr. had a summer job driving a white banker around town. During the man's post-luncheon siestas, Jordan passed the time reading books, a fact that astounded his boss."Vernon can read!" the man...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780062293299Author Toni BraxtonFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint CollinsPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams) 227gDimensions(mm) 203mm *...

From the prison farms and lynch mobs of Mississippi to the political intrigue of the African liberation wars, Stokely Carmichael's remarkable life story covers the full range of the black liberation struggle in our time. Carmichael recounts his...

What does it mean to be a Pakistani? Can it mean more than one thing? And what do others think it means? Ziauddin Sardar explores what makes a Pakistani, and whether it's something one wants or ought to be. Reflecting on his culture and heritage...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781476748412Author David MaranissFormat PaperbackPage Count 672Imprint Atria BooksPublisher Simon & Schuster

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781913606053Author Charles MoseleyFormat HardbackPage Count 450Imprint Eyewear PublishingPublisher Eyewear PublishingWeight(grams) 707gDimensions(mm) 215mm...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780807018101Author Cornel WestFormat PaperbackPage Count 264Imprint Beacon PressPublisher Beacon PressWeight(grams) 283gDimensions(mm) 227mm * 152mm * 19mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780743276917Author Luis J RodriguezFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Atria BooksPublisher Atria BooksWeight(grams) 254gDimensions(mm) 211mm * 137mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of Christopher Award 2016.Book InformationISBN 9780399573224Author Wendell PierceFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint Penguin Putnam IncPublisher Penguin Putnam Inc

As seen on The Today Show and in the Washington Post's most inspiring stories of the year! "Important in helping us understand America's complex racial history."-Kenyatta D. Berry, Host of PBS's Genealogy RoadshowIncludes a new afterword by bestselling...

From the leader of Canada's New Democratic Party-Jagmeet Singh-comes a personal and heartfelt story about family and overcoming adversity.In October 2017, Jagmeet Singh was elected as the first visible minority to lead a major federal political party in...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsShort-listed for National Book Critics Circle Awards 2010.Book InformationISBN 9780812977615Author Tracy KidderFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Random House...

Packaged in handsome, affordable trade editions, Clydesdale Classics is a new series of essential literary works. It features literary phenomena with influence and themes so great that, after their publication, they changed literature forever. From the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781328460141Author Alex TizonFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Mariner BooksPublisher Houghton MifflinWeight(grams) 227gDimensions(mm) 203mm * 132mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780992843076Author Philip HeseltonFormat HardbackPage Count 378Imprint Centre for Pagan Studies LtdPublisher Centre for Pagan Studies LtdWeight(grams) 572g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781984860422Author Amisha PadnaniFormat HardbackPage Count 320Imprint Ten Speed PressPublisher Potter/Ten Speed/Harmony/Rodale

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)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781934389195Author Denise DennisFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint For BeginnersPublisher For Beginners

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789881376428Author Maisie J. MeyerFormat PaperbackPage Count 480Imprint Blacksmith BooksPublisher Blacksmith BooksWeight(grams) 930g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsShort-listed for Hurston/Wright LEGACY Award (Nonfiction) 2002.Book InformationISBN 9780471242659Author Paul RobesonFormat HardbackPage Count 400Imprint John Wiley & Sons...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780971397941Author Douglas E FriedmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 396Imprint Booklocker.comPublisher Booklocker.comWeight(grams) 526gDimensions(mm) 229mm *...

Town planning. Interest-led, open-minded education. Preservation of buildings with historical worth. All are so central to modern society that our age tends to claim these notions as its own. In fact they were first visualised by Sir Patrick Geddes, a...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781845409906Author K.J. FindlayFormat PaperbackPage Count 230Imprint Amphora PressPublisher Imprint AcademicWeight(grams) 350gDimensions(mm) 234mm * 156mm *...

The child of Italian immigrants and an award-winning scholar of Italian literature, Joseph Luzzi straddles these two perspectives in My Two Italies to link his family's dramatic story to Italy's north-south divide, its quest for a unifying language, and...

A Finalist for the NAACP Image AwardA Finalist for the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award for NonfictionA Finalist for the Thurber Prize for American HumorLonglisted for the PEN/Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award for the Art of the EssayAn NPR Best Book of the YearA...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781250150660Author Riad SattoufFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Metropolitan BooksPublisher Metropolitan BooksWeight(grams) 680gDimensions(mm) 234mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781631680083Author Solomon NorthupFormat HardbackPage Count 247Imprint Graymalkin MediaPublisher Graymalkin MediaWeight(grams) 295gDimensions(mm) 211mm *...

A gripping biography that brings together the most recent research to shed provocative new light on the life of Saint Patrick Saint Patrick was, by his own admission, a controversial figure. Convicted in a trial by his elders in Britain and hounded by...

"I can't wait to read...This Will Be My Undoing."-Roxane Gay One of the sharpest, fiercest, and most eloquent critics writing right now, Morgan Jerkins's byline has appeared around the Internet for The New Yorker's Page-Turner,...