Cultural Literature

This story is both a memoir and a handbook for survival for young men and women of color in 21st-century America. It includes a step-by-step instructional on how to become a commercial pilot, with specific advice that lays out a road map showing how to...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - From a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist comes "the best Jordan book so far" (The Washington Post), the story of Michael Jordan's legendary years with the Chicago Bulls, capped by the 1998 NBA Finals and the team's second...

The Tales Of Miles Grey goes deep into many real-life challenges faced in inner-city Brooklyn. Through the experiences of this young man trying to break free of his rough environment, light is shed on the impact fathers and mentors hold in becoming the...

This book is for all songwriters, pianists, singers, musicians, music producers and music teachers wanting to learn how to play by ear on the piano. In Part 1 you will learn STEP by STEP how to add harmony to the tune Twinkle Twinkle Little Star using...

After landing a job in the auto plant in the Motor City, Detroit, it seemed inevitable that Michael would follow in his family's footsteps. Fate would intervene and take him to near top as a deejay, only to then take him down as a crack addict. The one...

After landing a job in the auto plant in the Motor City, Detroit, it seemed inevitable that Michael would follow in his family's footsteps. Fate would intervene and take him to near top as a deejay, only to then take him down as a crack addict. The one...

For the half million people living in the remote mountains of Northern Thailand, survival is dependent upon the forest. This study, based on extended field research, identifies more than 1,000 plant species, with particular emphasis on medicinal plants...

The riveting, heart wrenching story of slave traders and abolitionists, kidnappers and freedmen, cruelty and courage on Maryland's eastern shore.African Americans, both enslaved and free, were vital to the economy of the Eastern Shore

"With laser-like precision, Graham fuses together our collective cultural memory and experience as he captivatingly describes "the contract" so many of us sign. A tacit agreement to don the cloak of cultural invisibility in exchange for the basement keys...

Plantation Memories is a compilation of episodes of everyday racism written in the form of short psychoanalytical stories. From the question Where do you come from? to Hair Politics to the N-word, the book is a strong, eloquent, and elaborate piece,...

This book celebrates the enormous achievement of the Area Assistance Scheme over its 30-year history in encouraging and resourcing community and social infrastructure, networks, support systems, and innovation. In sharing the history of the AAS in...

This textbook presents as positive procedural planning theory, it deals with the various methods available to help planners in decision making with urban problems. The texts gives a definition of physical planning and how urban land use planning should...