General Education

Learn how to count from 1 to 10 in Tshiluba, English, and French. Tshiluba is a Bantu Language. It is spoken in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) by about six million people. It is one of the major languages spoken in DRC besides Lingala,...

Are you looking for guidance? Do you desire to live by God's Word, but don't know where to look or what that means? The Word of God is filled with answers, but you have to know where to look, and that in itself can be overwhelming. Whether you grew up in...

Since its original publication, All About Health and Beauty for the Black Woman has firmly established itself as a classic reference in both the fields of health and beauty. Now, in this newly revised and expanded edition, Naomi Sims--famed model and...

What is legal personhood? Should humans feel threatened by nonhuman persons, which can range from cognitively complex chimpanzees to corporations that live in perpetuity? Are humans the only creatures with emotions, morality and culture? Are all humans...

This "ambitious [and] delightful" (The New York Times) work of literary nonfiction interweaves the science and history of the powerful refrigerant (and dangerous greenhouse gas) Freon with a haunting meditation on how to live meaningfully and morally in...

Addiction: What's Really Going On? contains powerful true-life stories woven together to form a tapestry filled with pain, joy, defeat, and success. The entire book is molded around Deborah McCloskey's heartfelt desire for her clients to be free of drugs...

Though the Black Law did not succeed in forcing Crandall to close the school, vigilante violence finally did, in 1834. In the wake of the hostilities, which has tragic consequences for her family, Crandall took to the prairie, where she spent the...

"One of our true superstars of nonfiction" (David Foster Wallace), Lewis Hyde offers a playful and inspiring defense of forgetfulness by exploring the healing effect it can have on the human psyche. We live in a culture that prizes memory--how much we...

A phonological study of the four Gwari lects (Nigeria): Northern and Southern Gbagyi, and Northern and Southern Gbari. By making an analysis of each dialect, the author seeks greater understanding of the phonology of Gwari as a whole. Since...

Five years in the making, A People's Curriculum for the Earth is a collection of articles, role plays, simulations, stores, poems, and graphics to help breathe life into teaching about the environmental crisis. The book features some of the best articles...

An African Proverb says"it takes a village to raise a child", In this story, it takes two countries.

An African Proverb says"it takes a village to raise a child", In this story, it takes two countries.

A provocative exploration of the tension between our evolutionary history and our modern woes--and what we can do about it. We are living through the most prosperous age in all of human history, yet we are listless, divided, and miserable. Wealth and...

From antiquity to the present day, this book offers a fascinating insight into the histories, movements and conflicts which have come to shape our world, viewed through the stories of the destruction of 21 statues. Confederate soldiers hacked to pieces...

This volume, the result of seven years of fieldwork, is the only comprehensive grammar of the underdocumented Digo (Chidigo) language to date. Digo is the southernmost language of the Mijikenda cluster of Bantu languages, spoken along the coast of East...