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  • The Face of Everything

    by Allan Cooper ...
    Our faces express a wide range of emotions, but with masking restrictions during Covid, we all had to learn to listen more carefully and read emotions through people’s eyes. Some of the poems in this book directly express those feelings of isolation and it is a theme which influences the entire collection.Reflecting on the notion of “the persistence of memory” and immortality, Cooper writes ... Read more

    $11.59 USD

  • Toward the Country of Light

    New and Selected Poems 1978-2018

    by Allan Cooper ...
    This collection brings together Allan Cooper's best poems over the last forty years. He weaves visions of nature with insight into the workings of the human heart. Read them individually or read them as a single long, flowing and eloquent narrative. The meditative and compassionate observations will transport the reader from the chaos of everyday life into a healing realm of possibility.In Toward ... Read more

    $11.59 USD

  • Waiting for the Small Ship of Desire

    by Allan Cooper ...
    This latest collection of Cooper’s poetry includes some of his most personal poems, including revelations to him after the death of his mother and sharply etched emotional memories of childhood and grandparents. It includes other verse as well inspired by Robert Bly, John Keats, and the Urdu poet Ghalib, among others.Readers return to Allan Cooper’s poems to be reminded of the quiet power of ... Read more

    $11.59 USD

  • The Shadow that Lingers

    What Slavery Teaches Us about Freedom

    by Allan D Cooper ...
    Allan D. Cooper demonstrates how the resistance to slavery served to unveil the nature of freedom that made possible the abolition movement and anti-colonial struggles. The corpus of human rights law that has evolved over the past two centuries is constructed around the negation of slavery. This book analyzes how slavery mutated into racial identification that governments enforce against their own ... Read more

    $105.29 USD

  • The Geography of Genocide

    by Allan D. Cooper ...
    The Geography of Genocide offers a unique analysis of over sixty genocides in world history, explaining why genocides only occur in territorial interiors and never originate from cosmopolitan urban centers. This study explores why genocides tend to result from emasculating political defeats experienced by perpetrator groups and examines whether such extreme political violence is the product of a ... Read more

    $55.09 USD

  • U.S. Economic Power And Political Influence In Namibia, 1700-1982

    by Allan D. Cooper ...
    This first comprehensive examination of U.S. relations with Namibia offers a critical analysis of the economic and historical determinants of current U.S. policy in southern Africa. Dr. Cooper first traces American ties to Namibia dating from the 1700s, documenting an extensive commercial interest in the area prior to German colonization. Subsequen ... Read more

    $62.99 USD

  • Patriarchy and the Politics of Beauty

    by Allan D. Cooper ...
    Political philosophers from the beginning of history have articulated the significance of beauty. Allan D. Cooper argues that these writings are coded to justify patriarchal structures of power, and that each epoch of global history has reflected a paradigm of beauty that rationalizes protocols of gender performance. Patriarchy is a system of knowledge that trains men to become soldiers but is now ... Read more

    $38.09 USD

  • Precolonial Communities in Postcolonial Africa

    The Resilience of Indigenous Groups in Contemporary Politics

    Edited by Allan D. Cooper, Emmanuel O. Oritsejafor, Allan Cooper, Emmanuel Oritsejafor ...
    This collection takes on one of the most important and vexing issues in African development - the role played by African states in under-development on the continent - and shows how empowering resilient precolonial communities offers under-explored routes forward.Rather than comparing African states to states elsewhere, this book takes a unique bottom-up approach and compares how major ethnic ... Read more

    $93.19 USD

  • Conversations with Donald Hall

    Edited by John Martin-Joy, Allan Cooper, Richard Rohfritch ...
    Series series Literary Conversations Series
    Conversations with Donald Hall offers a unique glimpse into the creative process of a major American poet, writer, editor, anthologist, and teacher. The volume probes in depth Hall’s evolving views on poetry, poets, and the creative process over a period of more than sixty years. Donald Hall (1928–2018) reveals vivid, funny, and moving anecdotes about T. S. Eliot, Ezra Pound, and the sculptor ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Africa and the Global System of Capital Accumulation

    Edited by Emmanuel O Oritsejafor, Allan D. Cooper ...
    Series series Routledge Contemporary Africa
    Africa and the Global System of Capital Accumulation offers a groundbreaking analysis of the strategic role Africa plays in the global capitalist economy.The exploitation of Africa’s rich resources, as well as its labor, make it possible for major world powers to sustain their authority over their own middle-class populations while rewarding African collaborators in leadership positions for ... Read more

    $62.99 USD

  • The Solar System

    Discover the mysteries of our sun and neighboring planets

    by Sophie Allan ...
    Illustrated by Dawn Cooper ...
    Series series Space Explorers
    A spectacular reference book for children ages 7-9 that explores our sun and the planets that surround itThis incredible guide to the solar system launches 7- to 9-year-olds on a breathtaking journey into space through stunning illustrations, photographs, and fascinating information.The perfect introduction for young readers who want to learn about our local star-the sun-and the planets that orbit ... Read more

    $6.99 USD

  • The Collected Works (Annotated)

    Enriched Edition. Pioneering Detective Case Studies, Civil War Spy Narratives, and True Crime Chronicles from 19th-Century America

    by Allan Pinkerton, Cooper White ...
    The Collected Works gathers the principal writings associated with Allan Pinkerton's career as a detective, investigator, and chronicler of crime. Combining case narratives, reminiscence, sensational incident, and documentary assertion, these texts occupy the borderland between nineteenth-century police report, adventure literature, and popular history. Their characteristic style is brisk, ... Read more

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