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  • Hustling Is Not Stealing

    Stories of an African Bar Girl

    While living in West Africa in the 1970s, John Chernoff recorded the stories of “Hawa,” a spirited and brilliant but uneducated woman whose insistence on being respected and treated fairly propelled her, ironically, into a life of marginality and luck as an “ashawo,” or bar girl. Rejecting traditional marriage options and cut off from family support, she is like many women in Africa who come to ... Read more

    $26.69 USD

  • Exchange Is Not Robbery

    More Stories of an African Bar Girl

    While living in West Africa in the 1970s, John Chernoff recorded the stories of "Hawa," a spirited and brilliant but uneducated woman whose insistence on being respected and treated fairly propelled her, ironically, into a life of marginality and luck as an "ashawo," or bar girl. Rejecting traditional marriage options and cut off from family support, she is like many women in Africa who come to ... Read more

    $28.79 USD

  • The Chicago Food Encyclopedia

    Series series Heartland Foodways
    The Chicago Food Encyclopedia is a far-ranging portrait of an American culinary paradise. Hundreds of entries deliver all of the visionary restauranteurs, Michelin superstars, beloved haunts, and food companies of today and yesterday. More than 100 sumptuous images include thirty full-color photographs that transport readers to dining rooms and food stands across the city. Throughout, a roster of ... Read more

    $14.39 USD

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    This book was written to expose the suffering pain and devastation the African people are subjected to by their political leaders, who were elected to office under questionable circumstances and by a rigged election and who subjects the people to horrific human rights violations while leaving a country that is ravaged from war and depleted of its rich natural resources. Proceeds of this book will ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • Living Cargo

    How Black Britain Performs Its Past

    Offering a wide-ranging study of contemporary literature, film, visual art, and performance by writers and artists who live and work in the United Kingdom but also maintain strong ties to postcolonial Africa and the Caribbean, Living Cargo explores how contemporary black British culture makers have engaged with the institutional archives of colonialism and the Atlantic slave trade in order to ... Read more

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  • Escape from Slavery

    The True Story of My Ten Years in Captivity—and My Journey to Freedom in America

    A Sudanese man recounts his harrowing journey from child enslavement to escape and freedom in this "touching [and] inspirational" memoir ( The Boston Globe).May 1986: Seven-year-old Francis Bok was selling his mother's eggs and peanuts near his village in southern Sudan when Arab raiders on horseback burst into the quiet marketplace, murdering men and gathering the women and young children into a ... Read more

    $2.99 USD

  • Why I’m No Longer Talking to White People About Race

    The Sunday Times Bestseller

    'Every voice raised against racism chips away at its power. We can't afford to stay silent. This book is an attempt to speak'*Updated edition featuring a new afterword*The book that sparked a national conversation. Exploring everything from eradicated black history to the inextricable link between class and race, Why I'm No Longer Talking to White People About Race is the essential handbook for ... Read more

    $12.29 USD

  • Fix-It and Forget-It Big Cookbook

    1400 Best Slow Cooker Recipes!

    by Phyllis Good ...
    Series series Fix-It and Forget-It
    1,400 slow-cooker recipes with over 1,500 *FIVE STAR* customer reviews!Finally, the best of the New York Times bestselling series all in one handsome volume!This is the perfect BIG COOKBOOK!Easy to understand, easy to useAbsolutely manageable for those who lack confidence in the kitchenConvenient for those who are short on timeWill create a chorus of “make-it-again” requests!The recipes in ... ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • Black Swan

    A Koorie woman's life

    A frank and powerful memoir of the life of an Aboriginal woman, from her early years on the Lake Tyers mission to discovery of her talent as a painter.'It's bad luck to catch a black swan.'Eileen Harrison grew up at the Lake Tyers Aboriginal Mission Station in the 1950s as one of eleven children in a tight-knit and loving family. When the new assimilation policy comes in, they are wrenched from ... Read more

    $22.39 USD

  • The Sweethearts

    Tales of love, laughter and hardship from the Yorkshire Rowntree's girls

    Whether in wartime or peace, tales of love, laughter and hardship from the girls in the Rowntrees factory in Yorkshire“On a warm Monday morning in 1932, just two days after leaving school, fourteen-year-old Madge was about to join her nine brothers and sisters at Rowntree’s. The smell of chocolate was in the air but as she walked up the road, her footsteps slowed at the daunting thought of what ... Read more

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  • King Brown Country: the betrayal of Papunya

    The betrayal of Papunya

    Award-winning journalist Russell Skelton presents a devastatingly revealing portrait of Papunya a Western Desert community that once showed such promise now a community in severe crisis. 'Why don't you check out Papunya? It's the sniffing capital of Australia it's a Bermuda triangle for taxpayer funds. Nobody in the NT government gives a rats. The council just tossed out World Vision. People are ... Read more

    $13.79 USD

  • Meatonomics

    How the Rigged Economics of Meat and Dairy Make You Consume Too Much―and How to Eat Better, Live Longer, and Spend Smarter (Men Birthday Gift, for Readers of Comfortably Unaware)

    Stop Being Manipulated by the Animal Foods IndustryStop the meat industry from eating into your wallet. Few Americans are aware of the realities of the economic system that supports our country's supply of animal foods. Yet these forces affect us in ways we can hardly imagine. Though we only fork over a few dollars per pound of meat products at the grocery store, we end up paying much more than ... Read more

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