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Remember Me to Harlem
Langston Hughes is widely remembered as a celebrated star of the Harlem Renaissance -- a writer whose bluesy, lyrical poems and novels still have broad appeal. What's less well known about Hughes is that for much of his life he maintained a friendship with Carl Van Vechten, a flamboyant white criti... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 0019 -
Black Is the Body: Stories from My Grandmother's Time, My Mother's Time, and Mine
"I am black--and brown, too," writes Emily Bernard. "Brown is the body I was born into. Black is the body of the stories I tell." <p><p> And the storytelling, and the mystery of Bernard's storytelling, of getting to the truth, begins with a stabbing in a New England college town. Bernard writes... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2019 -
Carl Van Vechten and the Harlem Renaissance
Carl Van Vechten was a white man with a passion for blackness who played a crucial role in helping the Harlem Renaissance, a black movement, come to understand itself. Carl Van Vechten and the Harlem Renaissanceis grounded in the dramas occasioned by the Harlem Renaissance, as it is called today, or... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2012 -
Death in Paris (A Death in Paris Mystery)
A charming series debut featuring two American sleuths in Paris, Death in Paris is a perfect traditional mystery for fans of M. L. Longworth and Juliet Blackwell.The only thing chillier than a Parisian winter is cold-blooded murder.When French financier Edgar Bowen drowns in a bowl of soup, his form... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2018 -
The Books of the Dead: A Death in Paris Mystery (A Death in Paris Mystery #2)
The second book in Emilia Bernhard's charming Death in Paris series, featuring two American sleuths in the City of Lights, is perfect for fans of M. L. Longworth and Juliet Blackwell.Parisian summers are for strolls in the park . . . and solving a murder--or two. When American sleuth Rachel Levis ... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2019 -
Designs on the Dead (A Death in Paris Mystery #3)
Emilia Bernhard's third Death in Paris novel, featuring two American sleuths in the City of Lights, is perfect for fans of M. L. Longworth and Juliet Blackwell.In Paris, some are dying for the latest fashion...others will kill for it.Having successfully solved two murders in the City of Lights, self... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2021 -
New Thoughts On The Black Arts Movement
by Emily Bernard • James Smethurst • Lee Bernstein • Alondra Nelson • Margo Natalie Crawford • Kellie Jones • Erina Duganne • Lisa Gail Collins • Cherise Pollard • Cherise Smith • Wendy Walters • Michelle Joan Wilkinson • Lorrie Smith • Houston Baker • Adam Gussow • Rod Hernandez • Mary Ellen LennonDuring the 1960s and 1970s, a cadre of poets, playwrights, visual artists, musicians, and other visionaries came together to create a renaissance in African American literature and art. This charged chapter in the history of African American culture—which came to be known as the Black Arts Movement—... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2006 -
The Development of Byron's Philosophy of Knowledge
Taking a fresh approach to Byron, this book argues that he should be understood as a poet whose major works develop a carefully reasoned philosophy. Situating him with reference to the thought of the period, it argues for Byron as an active thinker, whose final philosophical stance - reader-centred... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2010 -
W.E.B. Du Bois on Race and Culture
Interpreting Du Bois' thoughts on race and culture in a broadly philosophical sense, this volume assembles original essays by some of today's leading scholars in a critical dialogue on different important theoretical and practical issues that concerned him throughout his long career: the conundrum o... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 1997 -
Will You Buy My Peg? The Credibility of a Fixed Exchange Rate Regime As a Determinant of Bilateral Trade
A report from the International Monetary Fund.... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2004 -
The Silver Fairy Book
by Voltaire • Sarah Bernhardt • Hegesippe Moreau • Horace Murreigh • Wilhelm Hauf • E. P. Larkin • Xavier Marmier • Emile De Girardin • Louis De Gramont • QuatrellesArabian, French, German, Scandinavian, and Spanish fairy tales first compiled in 1895. These stories teach moral lessons to children while capturing their imagination.... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 1936 -
Thinking with Balibar: A Lexicon of Conceptual Practice (Idiom: Inventing Writing Theory)
by Emily Apter • Étienne Balibar • J. M. Bernstein • Judith Butler • Monique David-Ménard • Hanan Elsayed • Didier Fassin • Stathis Gourgouris • Bernard Harcourt • Jacques Lezra • Patrice Maniglier • Warren Montag • Adi Ophir • Bruce Robbins • Ann Laura Stoler • Gary WilderThis volume, the first sustained critical work on the French political philosopher Étienne Balibar, collects essays by sixteen prominent philosophers, psychoanalysts, anthropologists, sociologists, and literary critics who each identify, define, and explore a central concept in Balibar’s thought. T... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2020 -
The Child's World, Third Edition: The Essential Guide to Assessing Vulnerable Children, Young People and their Families
by Julie Taylor • David Jones • Michael Murphy • Emma Palmer • Gillian Ruch • David Shemmings • Yvonne Shemmings • Jane Barlow • Danielle Turney • Dendy Platt • Audrey Tait • Helen Wosu • Arnon Bentovim • Jenny Gray • Claudia Bernard • Simon Hackett • Jan Horwath • Emily Munro • Stephen Pizzey • Michaela Rogers • Ruth Marchant • Emilie Smeaton • Beth Tarleton • Nadine Tilbury • Katherine Bishop • Dave Backwith • Christine Gould • Barbara Lawrie • Jane Appleton • Karen Whittaker • Stan Houston • Aideen Naughton • Liz Hadcroft • Dawn Hodson • Patrick NeilThis definitive textbook provides accessible information on best practice for assessing the needs and strengths of vulnerable children and their families. It explores the challenges that practitioners face routinely - with suggestions as to how to address them - as well as the established areas for ... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2018 -
Banana Systems in the Humid Highlands of Sub-Saharan Africa
by Michael Bolton • David Turner • Guy Blomme • Anne Rietveld • Nicolas Roux • Deo Kantungeko • Laurence Jassogne • Idd Ramathani • William Tinzaara • Emily Ouma • Svetlana Gaidashova • Fenton Beed • Muller Kamira • Alex Barekye • Francois Iradukunda • Valentine Nakato • Emmanuel Njukwe • Piet Van Asten • Charles Sivirihauma • Faustin Ngama Boloy • Edouard Rurangwa • Walter Ocimati • Bernard Vanlauwe • Sam Mpiira • Idja Sikyolo • Joseph Adheka • Alex Rutikanga'Banana Systems in the Humid Highlands of Sub-Saharan Africa: Enhancing Resilience and Productivity' addresses issues related to agricultural intensification in the (sub)humid highland areas of Africa, based on research carried out in the Great Lakes Region by the Consortium for Improving Agricultur... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2013 -
Genre, féminismes et développement: Une trilogie en construction (Études en développement international et mondialisation)
by Sarah A. Radcliffe • Sirma Bilge • Nora Nagels • Nadia Abu-Zahra • Marie France Labrecque • Christine Verschuur • Ochy Curiel • Sophie Tornhill • Christine Catarino • Emily Regan Wills • Emma Swan • Simone Bohn • Fabienne Richard • Stéphanie Florquin • Myriam Dieleman • Marie De Brouwere • Anne E. Calvès • Isabelle Auclair • Andrea Pequeño • Valentine Verdonck • Gülçin Erdi-Lelandais • Safaa Monqid • Nora Semmoud • Denise Beaulieu • Denyse Côté • Hélène Guétat-Bernard • Chantal Ndami • Denise Piché • Émilie Pinard • Maria del Rosario Ortiz Quijano • Isabelle Collet • Sophie Brière • Sophie M. Lavoie • Carmen ChouinardMisant sur la capacité d’agir et le pouvoir de transformation sociale des femmes des Suds, ce livre examine les enjeux du genre et du développement. Ce manuel féministe, clair et facile à consulter, est spécifiquement conçu pour les cours de premier cycle universitaire sur les femmes, le genre et le... More
Language: FRECopyright: 2019