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Henry Louis Gates
A foundational reckoning with how Black Americans have used the written word to define and redefine themselves, by one of the nation's major literary critics
Distilled over many years from…
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Dr. Nina Jablonski, Dr. Holly Y. McGee
Hi!! I'm Epi Dermis, but my friends just call me Skin!
Raise your hands if you sweat, tan, itch, have hair, or have freckles!
I've been feeling pretty sensitive lately…
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In 1739 Bordeaux's Royal Academy of Sciences held an essay contest seeking answers to a pressing question: What was the cause of Africans' black skin? Published here for the first…
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Maurice Berger
The first title in Aperture's Vision & Justice Book Series-featuring a collection of award-winning short essays by Maurice Berger that explore the intersections of photography, race, and visual culture. Created…
An affordable, compact primer on the artist who drastically shifted the course of late 20th-century art
This reader provides a concise introduction to the widely popular yet oft-misunderstood artist Jean-Michel…
Zora Neale Hurston
'One of the greatest writers of our time.' Toni Morrison
Henry Louis Mencken
Nietzsche left no systematic exposition of his philosophy and so it remains the subject of intense scholarly dispute and interpretation. Because of Nietzsche's evocative style and often outrageous claims his…
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"Henry Louis Gates is a national treasure. Here, he returns with an intellectual and at times deeply personal meditation on the hard-fought evolution and the very meaning of African American…
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Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
Host of PBS's Finding Your Roots and famed Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates, Jr. discusses African-American immigration and ancestry in the context of the American political climate.
Noliwe Rooks
An intimate and searching account of the life and legacy of one of America's towering educators, a woman who dared to center the progress of Black women and girls in…
Tiya Miles
"Though broad strokes of Tubman's story are widely known, Miles probes deeper, examining her inner life, faith and relationships with other enslaved Black women to paint a deeper, more vibrant…
H.L. Mencken was America's most prominent iconoclastic journalist of the first half of the 20th century, and he still has a considerable following. Mencken's writings have been in print continuously…
Tony Nourmand
From the collection of the world-renowned Separate Cinema archives, this is an extensive look at some of the most iconic poster art in black cinema history.
Randy Louis Cox
Editor-photographer Randy Cox literally had a front-row seat to history when he covered the Braves' 1974 home opener and his hero Henry Aaron belted career home run #715. Pull up…
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Stuart Hall
In this work drawn from lectures delivered in 1994 a founding figure of cultural studies reflects on the divisive, deadly consequences of our politics of identification. Stuart Hall untangles the…
The Image of the Black in Latin American and Caribbean Art is the first comprehensive survey of the visual representation of people of African descent in the region. This first…
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The Image of the Black in Latin American and Caribbean Art is the first comprehensive survey of the visual representation of people of African descent in the region. This second…
William Louis Henry
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.
This work is in the public…
The farming of fish, algae, crustaceans and mollusks is known as aquaculture or aquafarming. It involves the cultivation of saltwater and freshwater populations in a controlled environment. Hydroponics involves growing…
Aquaponics refers to a food production system which makes use of the principles of both aquaculture and hydroponics. It involves feeding nutrient rich aquaculture water to a hydroponically grown plant…
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Louis Henry
Ce qui plait aux dames, balet-pantomime en trois actes Date de l'edition originale: 1806
Le present ouvrage s'inscrit dans une politique de conservation patrimoniale des ouvrages de la litterature Francaise…
Louis Henry Jordan
This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curated for quality. Quality assurance was conducted on each of these books in an attempt to remove books with imperfections introduced by…
Jordan's survey provides a comprehensive rundown of recent literature on the subject of comparative religion.
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of…
Louis-Henry Lecomte
This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either…
This volume is an attempt to give the reader a condensed yet comprehensive view of the origin, progress and aim of the science of comparative religion. It presents a sketch…
Louis Henry Gibson
This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe…
Jordan Louis Henry
First published in 1920, this work is an introduction to the study of religion from a comparative perspective. It covers the major religious traditions of the world, including Hinduism, Buddhism…
Louis Henry Tosswill
This is a comprehensive guide to the diagnosis and treatment of diseases and injuries of the eye and eyelids. The author provides detailed information on a wide range of conditions…
Edward Louis Henry
Temple Buck returns to the Rockies in 1828 and resumes the carefree life of the American free trapper. He and his comrades explore uncharted, beaver-rich country, gaining new and different…
In this, the second volume of the Temple Buck Quartet, they push ever farther west in their quest for beaver pelts, exploring new country and encountering fresh adventures, some of…
Temple tells this true-to-life tale with homespun humor, matter-of-fact acceptance of high times and hardship, and the mountaineer’s abiding confidence that tomorrow will be better if you make it so…
This is an EXACT reproduction of a book published before 1923. This IS NOT an OCR’d book with strange characters, introduced typographical errors, and jumbled words. This book may have…
Louis Henri Ayme
""Notes On Mitla, Oaxaca, Mexico: With Plans And Measurements Of The Ruins"" is a book written by Louis Henri Ayme in 1882. The book is a detailed account of the…
Louis Henri Goizet
""Never Grow Old: How To Live For More Than One Hundred Years"" is a book written by Louis Henri Goizet and published in 1920. The book is a guide to…
This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger Publishing’s Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because…
Louis Henri Seukwa
In diesem Buch werden die Fluchtlings- und die Bildungsforschung miteinander verknupft und eine bislang eher selten gewahlte Beobachtungsperspektive eingenommen, theoretisch reflektiert und empirisch untersucht: In der Forschung zu Fluchtlingen sind…
Louis Henry Curzon
This scarce antiquarian book is included in our special Legacy Reprint Series. In the interest of creating a more extensive selection of rare historical book reprints, we have chosen to…
