Cultural Literature

Lesotho and its Governing System. One Leadership of all time. Lesotho is a state party to a number of major international conventions, declarations and treaties relating to democracy and political participation. At international level, these instruments...

Leland, Mississippi. once considered the Hellhole of the Delta, transformed itself into a vibrant little community which was able to provide support and encouragement when Velma Allen needed it most. This segregated Mississippi community withheld many...

Robert Johnson, Ma Rainey, Billie Holiday, Howlin' Wolf, Bessie Smith, Muddy Waters--say their names out loud and you can just hear the blues. Now, acclaimed artist William Stout visualizes these artists and their music with 100 stunning portraits. This...

Ziusudu is here warned that a flood is to be sent 'to destroy the seed of mankind'... The destruction of mankind had been decreed in 'the assembly [of the gods]' and would be carried out by the commands of Anu and Enlil... -from The Piety of Ziusudu The...

Leaving No One Behind: How Education Moved an African American Family from the Fields of Poverty to Living the American Dream will share the following: Good interpersonal family communication being the most important aspect when trying to reach...

Description: Between the covers of this tome lay truly wondrous things. Composed of colors previously unseen and sounds rarely heard, these buds will blossom in your hand. As they do, they will burst into light that will illuminate the darkness. As that...

Learning to Bow has been heralded as one of the funniest, liveliest, and most insightful books ever written about the clash of cultures between America and Japan. With warmth and candor, Bruce Feiler recounts the year he spent as a teacher in a small...

"Provocative and personally searching" -San Francisco Chronicle One mother's story of enrolling her daughter in a local public school, and the surprising, necessary lessons she learned with her neighbors. From the time Courtney E. Martin strapped her...

The American Dream is the fundamental story of this country, and my life is a grateful reflection of its reality. When Rosario was fourteen years old she moved from Mexico to California with no grasp of the English language and few resources. She has...

La lecture de 'Mu Nzila Kongo' me fait découvrir les talents des fils et filles de ma propre région. Joël Nsongo, par cet ouvrage, répond au besoin d'un récit fait par un ressortissant de la région du Bas-Congo. Enfin 'Mu Nzila Kongo' devrait interpeller...

Leadership and Development Crises in Africa: A New Approach to an Old Challenge is a book written to unearth the immediate and remote causes of the problems in Africa's political and economic landscape. It asks and tries to answer these two critical...

In the 1930's, the last decade when many men and women who were born under slavery and freed by the Emancipation Proclamation.still lived, the New Deal's Federal Writing Project made an extraordinary and important decision. It sent interviewers to ask...

Larry P. Revisited is a timely effort on the part of a group of dedicated professionals to address failures to afford quality education for African American students because of faulty testing procedures. America can't afford to fail to fully educate its...

Read this book if you want to find out just how crazy Japan is about cats. In a country with millions of cat owners, it's not unusual to find felines in coffee shops, hotel lobbies, and museums; being taken for stroller rides; or even serving as train...