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Bribes, Bullets, and Intimidation

Julie Marie Bunck

Bribes, Bullets, and Intimidation

Bribes, Bullets, and Intimidation is the first book to examine drug trafficking through Central America and the efforts of foreign and domestic law enforcement officials to counter it. Drawing on interviews, legal cases, and an array of Central American sources, Julie Bunck and Michael Fowler track the changing routes, methods, and networks involved, while comparing the evolution and consequences of the drug trade through Belize, Costa Rica, Guatemala, Honduras, and Panama over a span of more...

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Julie Marie Bunck

Death Blossoms

Mumia Abu-Jamal

Death Blossoms

– In Dec 2018, Judge Leon Tucker of the Philadelphia Court of Common Pleas threw out the Pennsylvania Supreme Court’s repeated denials of Mumia’s appeals—five appeals over 27 years. Mumia will now be able to argue his innocence, expose the tainted evidence and chronic police and judicial misconduct which, according to Amnesty International, denied Mumia the fair and impartial trial guaranteed to all citizens, despite their race or political orientation. News of...

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Mumia Abu-Jamal

Providential

Colin Channer

Providential

Channer's debut poetry collection is highly accessible, and it tackles issues of policing and justice from a highly unique perspective (Channer's father was a policeman). It is also timely since police violence against black men is a major news story in 2015. Channer is Jamaica's best-selling writer, and also has a strong and dedicated following in the US. Russell Banks is very supportive of Channer. He has already contributed a blurb (see below) and will likely appear publicly...

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Colin Channer

The Roving Tree

Elsie Augustave

The Roving Tree

One of the South Florida Times's Best Bets For Your Weekend!Essence Magazine: Summer Reading Pick!"Augustave, a first-time novelist, pens a well-balanced story about a young woman, caught between two worlds, who struggles to connect with her heritage…a polished narrative that addresses racism and cultural and class differences and provides a wealth of information about vaudou beliefs."–Kirkus Reviews"With her skillful incorporation of literary realism, Augustave brilliantly synthesizes the...

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Elsie Augustave

Border Vigils

Jeremy Harding

Border Vigils

Searing reportage and analysis of the new politics of immigration in both Europe and America. Ours is an era marked by extraordinary human migrations, with some 200 million people alive today having moved from their country of origin. The political reaction in Europe and the United States has been to raise the drawbridge: immigrant workers are needed, but no longer welcome. So migrants die in trucks or drown en route; they are murdered in smuggling operations or ruthlessly exploited in illegal...

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Jeremy Harding

Omm Sety's Egypt

Hanny el Zeini

Omm Sety's Egypt

Omm Sety, a brilliant, adventuring Englishwoman, worked under some of the greatest Egyptologists of the 20th century and «saw» into the past. Hers is a story of ancient love – of gods, pyramids, pharaohs and queens, and treasures that wait beneath the sand. In Omm Sety's Egypt , the authors present never-before-seen episodes from her truly incredible life, including important revelations about Egypt's lost history. Drawing on Omm Sety's diaries and on hundreds of hours of...

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Hanny el Zeini

RENDANG

Will Harris

RENDANG

In RENDANG, Will Harris complicates and experiments with the lyric in a way that urges it forward. With an unflinching yet generous eye, RENDANG is a collection that engages equally with the pain and promise of self-perception. Drawing on his Anglo-Indonesian heritage, Harris shows us new ways to think about the contradictions of identity and cultural memory. He creates companions that speak to us in multiple languages; they sit next to us on the bus, walk with us through the...

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Will Harris

Contours of White Ethnicity

Yiorgos Anagnostou

Contours of White Ethnicity

In Contours of White Ethnicity , Yiorgos Anagnostou explores the construction of ethnic history and reveals how and why white ethnics selectively retain, rework, or reject their pasts. Challenging the tendency to portray Americans of European background as a uniform cultural category, the author demonstrates how a generalized view of American white ethnics misses the specific identity issues of particular groups as well as their internal differences. Interdisciplinary in scope, Contours of...

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Yiorgos Anagnostou

Cubanisms

Pedro García-Menocal

Cubanisms

#1 Amazon Best Seller! ─  Cubanisms  ─ The evolution of Cuban slang, Spanish slang, and Spanglish The history of Spanish slang:  Spanish is a unique language. From Argentina to Spain, accents, meanings, connotations and more get lost between borders.  Cubanisms  by Pedro García-Menocal details the diverse history of the Spanish language as it evolved in the Lost City. The humor of Spanish slang:  With beautifully traditional illustrations...

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Pedro García-Menocal

Voices on the Corner

Harold J. Recinos

Voices on the Corner

Harold J. Recinos is the son of a Guatemalan father and Puerto Rican mother who at age twelve was abandoned to New York City streets. After living on the streets between the ages of twelve and sixteen, Recinos met a Presbyterian minister who had discovered the God of the oppressed while active in civil rights marches in the 60s. The minister took Recinos into his family, helped him kick a heroin habit, and enrolled him in school. Voices on the Corner documents life at the edges of American...

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Harold J. Recinos

Agape and Hesed-Ahava

David L. Goicoechea

Agape and Hesed-Ahava

Goicoechea presents his third volume in a series on agape. In this book he shows in four ways how the agape of Jesus fulfills the ahava and hesed of the Hebrew Bible. First, he shows existentially how he learned and lived this for six years in a Benedictine Minor Seminary and then for three years in a Sulpician Major Seminary. Second, he demonstrates how ahava or our love for God and neighbor and hesed or God's love for us develop through the Hebrew Bible. Goicoechea argues that St....

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David L. Goicoechea

The Divine Mandates

Morris A. Inch

The Divine Mandates

Two rival analogies compete for our attention: the law of the jungle, and the sacred canopy. As for the former, life consists of the survival of the fittest. As for the latter, the divine mandates serve as a framework for social ethics. This is in keeping with the conviction that we live in God's world, by his grace, and for his glory. The first major segment consists of a paper trail, where the topic is explored in context of biblical narrative. The second discusses the four traditional...

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Morris A. Inch

Baleen Basketry of the North Alaska...

Molly Lee

Baleen Basketry of the North Alaskan Eskimo

Baskets made of baleen, the fibrous substance found in the mouths of plankton-eating whales�a malleable and durable material that once had commercial uses equivalent to those of plastics today�were first created by Alaska Natives in the early years of the twentieth century. Because they were made for the tourist trade, they were initially disdained by scholars and collectors, but today they have joined other art forms as a highly prized symbol of native identity. Baskets of...

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Molly Lee

A Wealth of Thought

Boas Franz

A Wealth of Thought

Although Franz Boas–one of the most influential anthropologists of the twentieth century–is best known for his voluminous writings on cultural, physical, and linguistic anthropology, he is also recognized for breaking new ground in the study of so-called primitive art. His writings on art have major historical value because they embody a profound change in art history.Nineteenth-century scholars assumed that all art lay on a continuum from primitive to advanced: artworks of all nonliterate...

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Boas Franz

From a Three-Cornered World

James Masao Mitsui

From a Three-Cornered World

From a Three-Cornered World presents 60 poems by James Mitsui, 25 of them new. His poetry has, over two decades� time and three previous volumes, asserted a strong and significant voice within the growing tradition of Asian American literature.Mitsui�s poems contain a family history of immigration to the Pacific Northwest from Japan and the assimilation of American culture over three generations, including the relocation of Japanese Americans during World War II. His...

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James Masao Mitsui

Cities of Others

Xiaojing Zhou

Cities of Others

Asian American literature abounds with complex depictions of American cities as spaces that reinforce racial segregation and prevent interactions across boundaries of race, culture, class, and gender. However, in Cities of Others, Xiaojing Zhou uncovers a much different narrative, providing the most comprehensive examination to date of how Asian American writers – both celebrated and overlooked – depict urban settings. Zhou goes beyond examining popular portrayals of Chinatowns by paying equal...

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Xiaojing Zhou

Indian Rock Art of the Columbia Pla...

James D. Keyser

Indian Rock Art of the Columbia Plateau

From the river valleys of interior British Columbia south to the hills of northern Oregon and east to the continental divide in western Montana, hundreds of cliffs and boulders display carved and painted designs created by ancient artists who inhabited this area, the Columbia Plateau, as long as seven thousand years ago.Expressing a vital social and spiritual dimension in the lives of these hunter-gathers, rock art captivates us with its evocative power and mystery. At once an irreplaceable yet...

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James D. Keyser

Who Wrote the Dead Sea Scrolls?

Norman Boone's Golb

Who Wrote the Dead Sea Scrolls?

Dr. Norman Golb's classic study on the origin of the Dead Sea Scrolls is now available online. Since their earliest discovery in 1947, the Scrolls have been the object of fascination and extreme controversy. Challenging traditional dogma, Golb has been the leading proponent of the view that the Scrolls cannot be the work of a small, desert-dwelling fringe sect, as various earlier scholars had claimed, but are in all likelihood the remains of...

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Norman Boone's Golb

Raven's Cry

Christie Harris

Raven's Cry

Raven�s Cry is a Northwest Coast classic – a moving and powerful work that is a fictionalized retelling of the near destruction of the Haida nation.The Haida are a proud and cultured people, whose home is Haida Gwaii (the Queen Charlotte Islands) off the coast of northern British Columbia. Until the first Europeans arrived in 1775, the Haida were the lords of the coast. The meeting of cultures was a fateful one: the Europeans had the advantages of firearms and immunity to their own...

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Christie Harris

Eat a Bowl of Tea

Louis Chu

Eat a Bowl of Tea

At the close of the Second World War, racist immigration laws trapped enclaves of old men in Chinatowns across the United States, preventing their wives or families from joining them. They took refuge from loneliness in the repartee and rivalries exchanged over games of mahjong in the backrooms of barbershops or at the local tong. These bachelors found hope in the nascent marriages and future children who would someday grow roots in American soil, made possible at last by the repeal of the...

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Louis Chu

The Meaning of Freedom

Angela Y. Davis

The Meaning of Freedom

Want to Better Understand Socialism? New York Magazine recommends The Meaning of Freedom What is the meaning of freedom? Angela Y. Davis' life and work have been dedicated to examining this fundamental question and to ending all forms of oppression that deny people their political, cultural, and sexual freedom. In this collection of twelve searing, previously unpublished speeches, Davis confronts the interconnected issues of power, race, gender, class, incarceration, conservatism, and...

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Angela Y. Davis

Marjorie Prime (TCG Edition)

Jordan Harrison

Marjorie Prime (TCG Edition)

Finalist for the 2015 Pulitzer Prize for Drama   Now a major motion picture starring Jon Hamm, Geena Davis, Lois Smith, and Tim Robbins.   “An elegant, thoughtful and quietly unsettling drama.  Marjorie Prime [/i]operates by stealth… at some point, you realize that it’s been landing skillfully targeted punch after punch, right where it hurts… It keeps developing in your head, like a photographic...

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Jordan Harrison

Sotto Voce (TCG Edition)

Nilo Cruz

Sotto Voce (TCG Edition)

"The poetry of Cruz's writing is what those who love his work cite most often about his style, and [i]Sotto Voce has that. Yet it also contains passages that are realistic, whimsical, sensual and heartbreaking. Cruz may be that rarity, a poet of the stage, but he is first and foremost a dramatist."—[i]The Miami HeraldAriel Strauss, a Jewish Cuban man, strives to explore his cultural history when he encounters Bemadette Kahn, an older woman and famed novelist who seeks to...

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Nilo Cruz

Barbecue / Bootycandy (TCG Edition)

Robert O'Hara

Barbecue / Bootycandy (TCG Edition)

• World premiere in 2011 at Woolly Mammoth Theatre in Washington DC, where it received strong reviews.• Additional production at The Wilma Theatre in Philadelphia in 2013.• Upcoming New York premiere, Off-Broadway at Playwrights Horizons in fall 2014, as the opening production of Playwrights Horizons’ season.• O’Hara is also a director, and has directed all three productions of Bootycandy so far.• Play is structured as a collection of short sketches, which has earned it comparisons to George C....

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Robert O'Hara

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