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Ancient Ruins and Rock Art of the Southwest
An Archaeological Guide
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2015
This fourth edition of David Grant Noble's indispensable guide to archaeological ruins of the American Southwest includes updated text and many newly opened archaeological sites. From Alibates Flint Quarries in Texas to the Zuni-Acoma Trail in New Mexico, readers are provided with such favorites as...
Exploring The Big City
Grab This Handbook And Get Vacation Ideas In The Big City And Learn New York City Tourism, Best Shopping Centers, New York Sports Clubs, Coney Island Park And Tips To Enjoy New York City On A Budget!
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2012
If you've never been to New York City, you may be surprised to know that there is so much more to this great city than skyscrapers, lots of people, and really fantastic parades. While it is in fact the wonderful people of this city that make it the exciting place to visit that it has become, there...
by Hilary McD. Beckles
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2014
Britain's Black Debt is the first scholarly work that looks comprehensively at the reparations discussion in the Caribbean. It looks at the origins and development of reparations as a regional and international process.
The Age of Garvey
How a Jamaican Activist Created a Mass Movement and Changed Global Black Politics
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2014
Jamaican activist Marcus Garvey (1887–1940) organized the Universal Negro Improvement Association in Harlem in 1917. By the early 1920s, his program of African liberation and racial uplift had attracted millions of supporters, both in the United States and abroad. The Age of Garvey presents an expansive...
Farewell, Fred Voodoo
A Letter from Haiti
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2013
Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for Autobiography, this is a brilliant writer’s account of a long, painful, ecstatic—and unreciprocated—affair with a country that has long fascinated the world.
A foreign correspondent on a simple story becomes, over time and in the pages...
by Beverley Manley
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2014
From stationmaster's daughter to wife of one of Jamaica's mot charismatic prime ministers, Beverley Manley's life has been an odyssey.
As a young girl, starved of her mother's love because she was darker that her sibblings and forced to do housework while her sisters relaxed, Beverley was...
Freedom's Children
The 1938 Labor Rebellion and the Birth of Modern Jamaica
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2014
Freedom's Children is the first comprehensive history of Jamaica's watershed 1938 labor rebellion and its aftermath. Colin Palmer argues that, a hundred years after the abolition of slavery, Jamaica's disgruntled workers challenged the oppressive status quo and forced a morally ossified British colonial...
Thieving Three-Fingered Jack
Transatlantic Tales of a Jamaican Outlaw, 1780-2015
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 2017
The fugitive slave known as “Three-Fingered Jack” terrorized colonial Jamaica from 1780 until vanquished by Maroons, self-emancipated Afro-Jamaicans bound by treaty to police the island for runaways and rebels. A thief and a killer, Jack was also a freedom fighter who sabotaged the colonial...
Cubano Be, Cubano Bop
One Hundred Years of Jazz in Cuba
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2016
Based on unprecedented research in Cuba, the direct testimony of scores of Cuban musicians, and the author's unique experience as a prominent jazz musician, Cubano Be, Cubano Bop is destined to take its place among the classics of jazz history. The work pays tribute not only to a distinguished lineage...
Negro Soy Yo
Hip Hop and Raced Citizenship in Neoliberal Cuba
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2015
In Negro Soy Yo Marc D. Perry explores Cuba’s hip hop movement as a window into the racial complexities of the island’s ongoing transition from revolutionary socialism toward free-market capitalism. Centering on the music and lives of black-identified raperos (rappers), Perry examines the ways...
The Music of the Netherlands Antilles
Why Eleven Antilleans Knelt before Chopin's Heart
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2015
Why Eleven Antilleans Knelt before Chopin's Heart is not your usual musical scholarship. In October 1999, eleven Antilleans attended the service held to commemorate the 150th anniversary of Frédéric Chopin's death. This service, held in the Warsaw church where the composer's heart is kept in an...
The Pirate King
The Incredible Story of the Real Captain Morgan
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2015
A compelling account of history's most famous pirate.
The Pirate King is the compelling true story of a Welshman who became one of the most ruthless and brutal buccaneers of the golden age of piracy. The inspiration for dozens of fictionalized pirates in film, television, and literature-as...
by Bob Oedy
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2014
The Punk Rock Las Vegas Survival Guide is a Las Vegas travel guide for punks. Thousands of punk rock music enthusiasts from all over the globe travel to Las Vegas on Memorial Day weekend for an annual pilgrimage of live shows and tournament bowling. They begin planning for the next year as early as...
by Mark Masek
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2011
Although Forest Lawn Memorial-Park’s Glendale location might be more popular and more widely known, the Hollywood Hills location includes the final resting places of dozens of top film and TV stars, acclaimed musicians, and legends of animation and entertainment. “Forest Lawn Hollywood Hills:...