Non-Fiction

This grand tour of First Amendment law underlines the intimate connection between free expression and democratic values as it leads us through the most treacherous and emotionally charged cases in American jurisprudence. "Intellectually venturesome. . . ...

Whatever your position is on Black Lives Matter, defunding the police, and equity in law enforcement, former police chief Carmen Best shares the leadership lessons she learned as the first Black woman to lead the Seattle Police Department--a personal...

Richard A. Morrisey was a first-rate African-American biblical scholar-a valedictorian of Livingston College and a Doctor of Divinity, president of the Greeneville College, and the pastor of a number of churches in the American South and in Pennsylvania...

"Meticulously researched and rewarding to read...Thomas is a gifted storyteller." --The New York Times Book Review Best known as a monumental achievement of the civil rights movement, the 1964 Civil Rights Act also revolutionized the lives of America's...

with/holding is a collection of genre-blurring poems that examines the representation and reproduction of Blackness across communication media and popular culture. Together, text and image call up a nightmarish and seemingly insatiable...

Educated but untaught, involved but unknowing, Catholic but spiritually reserved, white but unwittingly blinded by the ubiquitous whiteness surrounding him. These are some of the many storylines W.E. 'Bill' Wynne explores in this relevant account of his...

A compilation of recipes from Africa, the Caribbean, and the Americas collected from slave quarters, plantations, church suppers, and modern ethnic kitchens. It includes numerous vegetarian dishes, calls for organic ingredients, and offers information...

Alice Walker, author of the National Book Award and Pulitzer Prize-winning The Color Purple-an American novel of permanent importance (San Francisco Chronicle)-crafts a bilingual collection that is both playfully imaginative and intensely moving...

'If you let yourself fall under the spell of Marrakech, everywhere else in the world will seem boring' (Juan Goytisolo, Spanish writer and poet) Step inside Yves St Laurent's private library, drink the best orange juice in the legendary Jamaa el-Fna...

75 satisfying plant-based recipes for comfort food from around the world. A food-lover and keen traveler, Jackie Kearney became a favorite MasterChef UK finalist in 2011 thanks to her creative approach to vegetarian and vegan cooking that took...

This new, thoroughly updated tenth edition of Bradt's Mauritius, Rodrigues and Réunion remains the most comprehensive English-language guide available and is the only full-blown guide to focus solely on the Mascarene Islands, a place where the dodo once...

This accessible and informative biography of an acclaimed anthropologist will appeal to anyone with an interest in anthropology. When Coming of Age in Samoa was published in 1928, the book quickly became a bestseller and brought its author to national...