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Frederick Douglass, Harriet Jacobs, Booker T. Washington, William Grimes, Solomon Northup, Sojourner Truth, Mary Prince, Zamba Zembola, Boyrereau Brinch, Olaudah Equiano, Solomon Bayley, Henry Watson, John Brown, William Craft, Ellen Craft, J. W. Loguen, John Andrew Jackson, Willie Lynch, Nat Turner, Louis Hughes, Jacob D. Green, Elizabeth Keckley, Josiah Henson, Charles Ball, Austin Steward, Henry Bibb, William Wells Brown, L. S. Thompson, James W. C. Pennington, Kate Drumgoold, Lucy A. Delaney, Moses Grandy, Leonard Black, Henry Box Brown, Phillis Wheatley, James L. Smith, Joseph Mountain, Peter Still, Annie L. Burton, Israel Campbell, Lewis Clarke, Francis Fedric, William Still, Moses Roper, Joseph Vance Lewis, Rev. Greensbury Washington Offley, John Thompson, Venture Smith, Isaac D. Williams, William Walker, Octavia Albert

Born in Chains—Collected Slave Narratives assembles a capacious archive of bondage, flight, resistance, emancipation, and memory. Spanning autobiography, dictated testimony, spiritual reflection, political argument, and documentary recollection, the volume reveals the formal range of slave narrative traditions across the Atlantic world. Accounts of escape, family separation, literacy, labor, violence, and self-emancipation stand beside meditations on religion, citizenship, and the unfinish...

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Bruce McAllister, Julian F. Grow, Algis Budrys, Donald Dale, Keith Laumer, Frank Banta, Clifford Simak, Andrew Fetler, Allen Kim Lang, David Mason, Albert Teichn, Kris Neville, Albert Teichner, William Harris, Fritz Leiber, Robert Lory, Frederick Pohl, Gary Wright, Jim Harmon, Vance Aandahl, Bryce Walton, Robert Scott, C.C. MacApp, Charles V. De Vet, Richard Sheridan, James Stame, R.A. Lafferty, Stephen Barr, Donald E. Westlake, Charles Minor Blackford, Jack Sharkey, H.B. Fyfe, Lester Del Rey, William W. Stuart, Robert F. Young, Sylvia Jacobs, Max Williams, James Stamers, Robert Wicks, Christopher Anv, Isaac Asimov, Ray Bradbury, Philip K. Dick, Scott F. Grenville, Hayden Howard, Art Lewis, Joseph Wesley, Bascom Jones, E. Mittlema, Philip Jose Farmer, James Bell, Arnold Castle, A.M. Lightner, Charles Fontenay, Marion Zimmer Bradley, Harry Harrison, Ron Goulart, Bob Farnham, Mack Reynolds, Jerry Sohl, Miriam Allen DeFord, Rosel George Brown, F.L. Wallace, Theodore L. Thomas, H. Beam Piper, Andre Norton, Frank Herbert, Don Berry, Sol Boren, Poul Anderson, Randall Garrett, Ben Bova

«101 Science Fiction Short Stories», by Bruce McAllister, Julian F. Grow, Algis Budrys, Donald Dale, Keith Laumer, Frank Banta. This digital edition brings together the text and its chapter structure for continuous reading. Contents include: 1. The faces Outside - Bruce McAllister ; 2. Countdown - Julian F. Grow ; 3. Die, Shadow - Algis Budrys ; 4. Another Earth - David Evens & Al Landau ; 5. The Abandoned of 7an - Donald Dale.

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Albert Cossery, Anna Della Subin

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William Goyen

A portrait of a family of proud layabouts who avoid work and sleep all day by the Egyptian writer often referred to as "the Voltaire of the Nile"Laziness in the Fertile Valley is Albert Cossery’s biting social satire about a father, his three sons, and their uncle — slackers one and all. One brother has been sleeping for almost seven years, waking only to use the bathroom and eat a meal. Another savagely defends the household from women. Serag, th...

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William Albert Robinson

This is William Albert Robinson’s seminal 1944 travel book, "Deep Water and Shoal". Complete with cannibal encounters and contretemps with hostile tribesmen, this fascinating and exciting account of twenty-five-year-old Robinson’s epic sailing adventure is highly recommended for fans of fascinating travel writing. Few have written a book about sailing round the world as good as Mr. Robinson's, which is arguably one of the most enthralling travel books ever written. Many vintage books such ...

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Routledge Advances in Management Learning and Education

Management Education in Canada: Historical Reflections offers a fresh and critical look at the evolution of management education in Canada. Nearly 25 years after the seminal work Capitalizing Knowledge by Barbara Austin, this edited collection revisits and expands upon the debates that shaped the field, while introducing new perspectives and overlooked histories.Featuring ten scholarly essays from leading academics, this volume explores a range of critical and his...

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Albert Rhys Williams

In Moscow I saw two peasant soldiers gazing at a poster being stuck up on a kiosk. “We can’t read a word of it,” they cried, indignant tears in their eyes. “The Czar only wanted us to plough and fight and pay taxes. He didn’t want us to read. He put out our eyes.” “To put out the eyes” of the masses, to put out their minds and consciences, was the deliberate policy of the Russian autocracy. For centuries the people were steeped in ignorance, narcotized by the church, terrorized by the Blac...

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Richard Francis Burton

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Richard F. Burton, Edward Rehatsek, Isabel Burton

The Complete Works of Sir Richard Francis Burton presents the extraordinary range of a Victorian polymath whose books move among travel narrative, ethnography, linguistics, exploration, translation, and personal memoir. In an illustrated and annotated format, the edition places such landmark achievements as his accounts of journeys through Africa, Arabia, India, and the Middle East alongside his controversial translations of The Arabian Nights and the Kama Sutra. Burton's prose is expansiv...

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Albert Schweitzer

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William Montgomery

The Quest of the Historical Jesus is a review of all prior work on the question of the "historical Jesus" starting with the late 18th century. The author points out how Jesus' image has changed with the times and with the personal proclivities of the various authors. He concludes with his own synopsis and interpretation of what had been learned over the course of the previous century. The author takes the position that the life and thinking of Jesus must be interpreted in the light of Jesu...

Handbook on ICT in Developing Countries: Next Generation ICT Technologies is the second volume of the Handbook of ICT in Developing Countries. The first volume was on the potential implementation and service delivery of the forth-coming 5G networks. Here the focus is on the new technologies and services enabled by 5G networks or broadband Internet networks including artificial Intelligence (AI), machine learning, augmented reality, Internet of Things (IoT), autonomous driving, blockchain s...

The mobile communications market in developing countries is growing at a rapid rate. This is evident in the rapid spread of mobile broadband cellular networks such as 3G. 4G is also being deployed in developing countries around the world. As the global communications market proceeds towards 5G, it is evident that developing countries will not be left behind. However, there are challenges and barriers on the road ahead specific to developing countries. To aid policy makers, researchers and ...

Handbook on ICT in Developing Countries: Next Generation ICT Technologies is the second volume of the Handbook of ICT in Developing Countries. The first volume was on the potential implementation and service delivery of the forth-coming 5G networks. Here the focus is on the new technologies and services enabled by 5G networks or broadband Internet networks including artificial Intelligence (AI), machine learning, augmented reality, Internet of Things (IoT), autonomous driving, blockchain s...

The mobile communications market in developing countries is growing at a rapid rate. This is evident in the rapid spread of mobile broadband cellular networks such as 3G. 4G is also being deployed in developing countries around the world. As the global communications market proceeds towards 5G, it is evident that developing countries will not be left behind. However, there are challenges and barriers on the road ahead specific to developing countries. To aid policy makers, researchers and ...