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The unique narrative of a slave who fled to freedom and sailed aboard a whaling vessel.
John Thompson was born into slavery on a Maryland plantation in 1812. Originally published in 1856, The Life of John...
Nora Ephron struck a chord with I Feel Bad about My Neck. Women’s advocate and acclaimed writer Shari Graydon set out to counter the supposed downhill slideinspired grief by inviting notable women from across...
J.R.R. Tolkien's novels of Middle-earth – The Hobbit, The Lord of the Rings trilogy, and The Silmarillian – have become some of the most famous, and most beloved, literary works of the twentieth century....
An eye-opening account of the great black personalities of world history.
In this first volume: outstanding blacks of Asia and Africa, and historical figures before Christ -- including Akhenaton, Aesop, Hannibal,...
This is the eBook version of the printed book.
The Best of the Year in Editorial Cartoons The best cartoonists in the world contributed to this collection of the best cartoons of 2009, from Daryl Cagle's Political...
DAD IS THE MOST IMPORTANT MAN IN A BRO’S LIFE.
He teaches you how to swing a baseball bat, grill a steak, and master a stick shift. Dad helps you laugh off a breakup, guides you on big decisions, and doesn’t...
In the bestselling tradition of Stuff White People Like and I Can Has Cheezburger?, the next online humor sensation makes the leap to book form When humorist Sarah Schmelling transformed Hamlet into a Facebook...
Rudman skillfully explores his own life and past.
Honor Book for the 2012 Stonewall Book Awards in non-fiction
The next-generation Stone Butch Blues--a contemporary memoir of gender awakening and a classic tale of first love and self-discovery.
Ambitious,...
This impassioned and informed book is the first to describe how government and industry have failed working families and what we can do to get beyond this critical impasse
Why, despite continued efforts to increase understanding and expand opportunities, do black and white Americans still lead separate lives, continually marked by tension and hostility? In his much-lauded classic,...
In The Protestant Ethic, Max Weber opposes the Marxist concept of dialectical materialism and relates the rise of the capitalist economy to the Calvinist belief in the moral value of hard work and the fulfillment...
With a New Afterword
As a prizewinning foreign correspondent for The Wall Street Journal, Geraldine Brooks spent six years covering the Middle East through wars, insurrections, and the volcanic upheaval of resurgent...
When slavery was abolished throughout the British Empire, effective August 1, 1834, people of African descent celebrated their newfound freedom and former slaves could live unfettered lives in Canada. This well-researched...
A theoretical investigation into the culture of precarious work, digital consumption and personal flexibility, calling for a counter-discourse of resistance.
A retrieved man tells how music, from Patrick Cargill to Jay-Z, retained the power to change the world in 2008.
What started as a game of Pong, with little blips dancing across a computer screen, has evolved into a multi-billion-dollar industry that is changing the future, making inroads into virtually all aspects of...
Why does our popular culture seem so consistently hostile to the values that most Americans hold dear? Why does the entertainment industry attack religion, glorify brutality, undermine the family, and deride...
Latina daughters finally have a chance to honor their mothers and inspire readers -- by paying homage in Mamá to the strong women who have sacrificed and struggled, laughed and cried, and fought hard to create...
In Remember Me, Time writer Lisa Takeuchi Cullen has created a humorous and poignant chronicle of her travels around the country to discover how Americans are reinventing the rites of dying. What she learned...