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"Hanif Kureishi is a proper Englishman. Almost." So observes biographer Kenneth Kaleta. Well known for his films My Beautiful Laundrette and Sammy and Rosie Get Laid, the Anglo-Asian screenwriter, essayist, and novelist has become one of the leading...

This comprehensive Gandhi reader provides an essential new reference for scholars and students of his life and thought. It is the only text available that presents Gandhi's own writings, including excerpts from three of his books-An Autobiography: The...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781250070449Author Chris TomlinsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 448Imprint St. Martin's GriffinPublisher St. Martin's GriffinWeight(grams) 680gDimensions(mm)...

New York Times best-selling author Cornel West is one of America's most provocative and admired public intellectuals. Whether in the classroom, the streets, the prisons, or the church, Dr. West's penetrating brilliance has been a bright beacon shining...

Perhaps no other moment in history crystallized the fears of slave owners in the South like the August 21-22, 1831, slave insurrection led by Nat Turner in Southampton, Virginia. The Confessions of Nat Turner details Turner's life and the events...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of Anisfield-Wolf Book Award 1997.Book InformationISBN 9781594481925Author James McBrideFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint Riverhead Books,U.S.Publisher Penguin...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of NAACP Literary Non-Fiction Award 2009.Book InformationISBN 9780812980035Author Maya AngelouFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random...

In Finding Myself Lost in Louisiana, author Keagan LeJeune brilliantly weaves the unusual folklore, landscape, and history of Louisiana along with his own family lineage that begins in 1760 to trace the trajectory of people’s lives in the Bayou State...

Little known in America but venerated as a martyr in Iran, Howard Baskerville was a twenty-two-year-old Christian missionary from South Dakota who travelled to Persia (modern-day Iran) in 1907 for a two-year stint teaching English and preaching the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781982116378Author Jeff HobbsFormat PaperbackPage Count 384Imprint Simon & SchusterPublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 281g

Long before it became the slogan of the presidential campaign for Barack Obama, Dorothy Ferebee (1898-1980) lived by the motto Yes, We Can. An African American obstetrician and civil rights activist from Washington DC, she was descended from lawyers,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781925162103Author Alice Bilari SmithFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Fremantle PressPublisher Fremantle PressWeight(grams) 256g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781623718985Author Fikry F AndrawesFormat PaperbackImprint Interlink BooksPublisher Interlink BooksWeight(grams) 152g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781585429479Author Suzan Johnson CookFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint TarcherPerigeePublisher Penguin Putnam Inc

Across the Color Line: Reporting 25 Years in Black Cincinnati presents newspaper reporter Mark Curnutte's stories published in The Cincinnati Enquirer over a twenty-five-year period beginning in 1993. With hard-won insights gained from years of community...

" Pearl Harbor, December 7, 1941: High on the bridge of the USS West Virginia Sfc. Lee Ebner was looking forward to the end of his watch and a relaxed Sunday morning breakfast. But the two low-flying planes painted with rising sun insignia and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789948044611Author Alowais Mohamed SultanFormat PaperbackPage Count 156Imprint Austin MacauleyPublisher Austin MacauleyWeight(grams) 304g

Although past research on the African American community has focused primarily on issues of discrimination, segregation, and other forms of deprivation, there has always been some recognition of class diversity within the black population. The New Black...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781910760222Author Zhihui DengFormat PaperbackPage Count 176Imprint ACA Publishing LimitedPublisher ACA Publishing Limited

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788492979271Author Michele DrouartFormat PaperbackImprint Ediciones BaratariaPublisher Ediciones BaratariaWeight(grams) 408g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781925815641Author Yuot A AlaakFormat PaperbackPage Count 232Imprint Fremantle PressPublisher Fremantle PressWeight(grams) 240g

T. R. M. Howard: Doctor, Entrepreneur, Civil Rights Pioneer tells the remarkable story of one of the early leaders of the Civil Rights Movement. A renaissance man, T. R. M. Howard (1908-1976) was a respected surgeon, important black community leader, and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781496739193Author Yvonne S. ThorntonFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint Kensington PublishingPublisher Kensington Publishing

This is an examination of the intellectual formation of W.E.B. Du Bois, tracing the scholar and civil rights leader's thought from his undergraduate days in the 1880s to the 1903 publication of "The Souls of Black Folk", and offering a reading of his...

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices...

Without question, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. is the face of the civil rights revolution that reshaped the social and political landscape of the United States. Although many biographers and historians have examined Dr. King's activism, few have recognized...

"This country needs many more books like this one."-Arundhati Roy, author of Walking with the Comrades and The God of Small Things A powerful eyewitness account of life in an Indian prison shows how abolition is necessary to achieve a democratic...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781982126674Author A'Lelia BundlesFormat PaperbackPage Count 416Imprint Simon & SchusterPublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 431gDimensions(mm) 234mm *...

They Called Us River Rats: The Last Batture Settlement of New Orleans is the previously untold story of perhaps the oldest outsider settlement in America, an invisible community on the annually flooded shores of the Mississippi River. This community...

The powerful, long-repressed classic of Dallas history that examines the violent and suppressed history of race and racism in the city. Written by longtime Dallas political journalist Jim Schutze, formerly of the Dallas Times Herald and Dallas Observer,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262046800Author Karen WeintraubFormat HardbackPage Count 344Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press Ltd

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780717804405Author Frederick DouglassFormat PaperbackPage Count 576Imprint International Publishers Co Inc.,U.S.Publisher International Publishers Co Inc.,U...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of National Book Critics Circle Awards 2015. Short-listed for The Baillie Gifford Prize 2016.Book InformationISBN 9780307473431Author Margo JeffersonFormat...

In 1911, William Pickens published the first edition of his autobiography, The Heir of Slaves, in which he writes about the importance of his education and recounts the experiences that led him into public life. The narrative discusses his family, the...

One wet autumn evening in 1848, fifteen-year-old Mary Ann Gill stole out of a bedroom window in her father's Sydney hotel and took a coach to a local racecourse. There she was to elope with James Butler Kinchela, wayward son of the former...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780806541709Author Michael L LanningFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Citadel PressPublisher Citadel PressWeight(grams) 152g

ONE OF AMAZON'S BEST BOOKS OF 2017A wild and bittersweet memoir of a classic '70s childhoodIt's a story of the 1970s. Of a road trip in a wood-paneled station wagon, with the kids in the way-back, singing along to the Steve Miller Band. Brothers waking...

Imelda Connor is a classic Irish lass-a fiery, red-headed beauty, quick to anger, and fiercely protective of her younger siblings. Growing up on a small farm in the rolling hills of County Cork, she thinks she has her life completely mapped out. Here in...

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780743470223Author Wendy WilliamsFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint Pocket BooksPublisher Simon & Schuster