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Reggie Jackson
HarperCollins 2010; US$ 13.99?Dayn Perry, a damn fine writer, brings an insightful, fresh analysis to the career of Mr. October.? ?Peter Golenbock, author of George: The Poor Little Rich Boy Who Built the Yankee Empire FoxSports.com baseball analyst and author of Winners: How Good Baseball Teams Become Great Ones, Dayn Perry brings us Reggie Jackson in all... more...
Rebellion or Revolution?
University of Minnesota Press 2009; US$ 19.00One of the leading writers of African American intellectual life in the second half of the twentieth century, Harold Cruse first came to international attention in 1967 with the publication of his influential and inflammatory book, The Crisis of the Negro Intellectual. This fiercely opinionated and deeply informed critique of both integrationism and... more...
She Changes by Intrigue
Editions Rodopi 2005; US$ 72.80Contemporary feminist theorists have implied a special affinity between women and irony because of their double relation to the prevailing order of things: both speak from within this order while remaining other to it in some way. Irony can be regarded as the obvious mode in which a feminist might speak, as it reflects her relation... more...
All Aunt Hagar's Children
HarperCollins 2009; US$ 12.99In fourteen sweeping and sublime stories, five of which have been published in The New Yorker , the bestselling and Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Known World shows that his grasp of the human condition is firmer than ever Returning to the city that inspired his first prizewinning book, Lost in the City , Jones has filled this new collection... more...
Rooted in the Earth
Chicago Review Press 2010; US$ 14.95With a basis in environmental history, this groundbreaking study challenges the idea that a meaningful attachment to nature and the outdoors is contrary to the black experience. The discussion shows that contemporary African American culture is usually seen as an urban culture, one that arose out of the Great Migration and has contributed to international... more...
Feminist Alliances
Editions Rodopi 2006; US$ 56.00This book is about feminism, its critics, and its possible directions for change. The nine chapters raise questions about theories of sexual difference, power, justice and history. A central theme concerns the prospects for combining feminist with other, non-feminist, political perspectives. more...
Martin Scorsese Presents The Blues: A Musical Journey
HarperCollins 2011; US$ 14.99A companion to the groundbreaking PBS documentary series, this volume is a unique and timeless celebration of the blues, from writers and artists as esteemed and revered as the music that moved them. Included in this stunning collection are Essays by David Halberstam, Hilton Als, Suzan-Lori Parks, Elmore Leonard, Luc Sante, John Edgar Wideman,... more...
Between Father and Son
HarperCollins 2011; US$ 11.99Thirteen-year-old Jordan Garrison is at a crossroads. He's just about to enter high school, and his biggest worries are his new bottom-of-the-totem-pole status as an incoming freshman and his father's constant lectures about becoming a man. Growing further apart from his younger siblings?precocious eight-year-old twins?Jordan thinks his only ally... more...
A New Beginning
Hillcrest Media Group, Inc. 2010; US$ 9.75From life in his war-torn homeland to his quest for the American dream, Alfred Langer's determination and faith helped him surmount overwhelming obstacles and hardships to reach A New Beginning. more...
Bulletproof Diva
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group 2010; US$ 15.00In Bulletproof Diva , Lisa Jones brings the wit and candor of her infamous Village Voice column, "Skin Trade," to a much larger audience. Chock full of the "fierce black girl humor" that has made her column so popular, this provocative collection of essays and observations on race, sex, identity, and the politics of style speaks to a young... more...









