Cultural Literature

This politically-incorrect book not only reveals the most critical problems facing Black America, if offers real solutions, and a blueprint for total economic and psychological transformation.(NON-FICTION/CURRENT EVENTS/BLACK HISTORY)

Triumphs in Adversity is the compelling biography of a man who accepted fate's challenges, but also believed in his strength and determination to influence his destiny. Experiencing an accident resulting in amputation, watching history unfold during...

Shortlisted for the Financial Times and McKinsey Best Book of the Year Award in 2011 "A masterpiece." --Steven D. Levitt, coauthor of Freakonomics "Bursting with insights." --The New York Times Book Review A pioneering urban economist presents a...

A milestone in the study of culture from the father of structural anthropologyThis watershed work records Claude Lévi-Strauss's search for a human society reduced to its most basic expression. From the Amazon basin through the dense upland jungles of...

Recording artist, saxophonist, educator, and author Gary Campbell presents an effective strategy for constructing fresh-sounding melodic lines. He progresses step by step through the concept, the practice exercises, and the practical application of Triad...

A jazz legend shares his life in a story as lyrical as his music A legend on both the clarinet and the soprano saxophone, one of the most brilliant exponents of New Orleans jazz, Sidney Bechet (1897-1959) played with such fellow jazz legends as Louis...

A collection of true and extraordinary stories that speak of the abuse suffered by Guyanese women, girls, and members of the LGBT community both in their native country and after having emigrated to the United States. Through carefully crafted prose and...

A few years ago, an email from AT&T misspelled Indah Gunawan's name as "India Guinea Pig." Every time she told people she was an international student from Indonesia, the most common follow-up question was about why her "English is so good" and how she...

The world around us is a wreck. When there's so much conflict around the country and around the corner, it's easy to feel overwhelmed, powerless, and helpless. What can one person do to make a difference?Here's the good news. Millions of everyday people...

Transformed tells how civic leaders in Pittsburgh--once the world's steel capital--brought new uses to five derelict industrial brownfield sites. Polluted and largely abandoned Herr's Island became Washington's Landing, with upscale housing, a marina,...

Martin Luther King, Jr once said, 'I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character'. This is one of the aspirations many had when...

In the tradition of Guns, Germs, and Steel and Sapiens, a winner of the Royal Society Prize for Science Books shows how four tools enabled has us humans to control the destiny of our speciesA wondrous, visionary work. --Tim Flannery, scientist and author...

-This groundbreaking work was conducted in the late 1960s, together with a recent follow-up volume (Trans-Himalayan Traders Transformed, ISBN 9789745242029 which traces the evolution that has occurred in northwestern Nepal in the subsequent five decades)...

-This important follow-up study accompanies the author's original report on the village culture of northwestern Nepal (Trans-Himalayan Traders, ISBN 9789745242012 based on work five decades earlier and recently reprinted) -Both volumes will be of...

Tranquility Grove: The Great Abolitionist Picnic of 1844 tells the story of an important event that took place in Hingham, Massachusetts. Attended by as many as 10,000 people, the largest abolitionist picnic in history marked the tenth anniversary of the...