Why hasn’t polygamous marriage died out in African cities, as experts once expected it would? Enduring Polygamy considers this question in one of Africa’s fastest-growing cities: Bamako, the capital of Mali, where one in four wives is in a polygamous marriage. Using polygamy as a lens through which to survey sweeping changes in urban life, it offers ethnographic and demographic insights into the customs, gender norms and hierarchies, kinship structures, and laws affecting marriage...

In cities throughout Africa, local inhabitants live alongside large populations of "strangers." Bruce Whitehouse explores the condition of strangerhood for residents who have come from the West African Sahel to settle in Brazzaville, Congo. Whitehouse considers how these migrants live simultaneously inside and outside of Congolese society as merchants, as Muslims in a predominantly non-Muslim society, and as parents seeking to instill in their children the customs of their communities of o...

It started with a question about the blues: what makes the music of the downtrodden black man so alluring to white middle-class ears? And that’s where it gets interesting. Because blues is more than a musical genre: it’s a cultural phenomenon that spans several centuries on both sides of the Atlantic, from slavery to Black Lives Matter, from Jan van Riebeeck to Fees Must Fall, from Robert Johnson to Abdullah Ibrahim. In Blues for the White Man, Fred de Vries looks for answers in America’s ...

What happens when a criminal — a convicted felon — occupies the White House? He destroys it … along with the rule of law, civil liberties, freedoms, and justice for across the United States of America. In the process, litigation becomes a routine occurrence to buy time, challenge norms and regulations, and exceed the powers delegated to him.In the first book to focus on the legal actions brought by and against Trump & Company, award-winning author Bruce H. Joffe details how Donald ...

Everyone knows the story of the Delta blues, with its fierce, raw voices and tormented drifters and deals with the devil at the crossroads at midnight. In this compelling book, Marybeth Hamilton radically rewrites that story.Archaic and primeval though the music may sound, the idea of something called 'Delta blues' emerged in the late twentieth century, the culmination of a longstanding white fascination with 'uncorrupted' black singers, untainted by the city, by commerce, by the s...

Keri has grown up fascinated by stories of her parent's travels throughout Europe and vows to retrace their steps, finishing her journey on the little Greek island they loved so much. Can she recreate the same magical journey?Unbeknown to Keri, the residents of Galazios Bay are coming to terms with a catastrophic event that took away the lives of their loved ones. After such a tragedy on the island, will things ever be the same again?Manos longs to have his own art studio i...

African Americans and the Presidency explores the long history of African American candidates for President and Vice President, examining the impact of each candidate on the American public, as well as the contribution they all made toward advancing racial equality in America. Each chapter takes the story one step further in time, through original essays written by top experts, giving depth to these inspiring candidates, some of whom are familiar to everyone, and some whose storie...

Includes an active table of contents for easy navigation.ContentsChinese-Japanese Cook Book by Onoto Watanna (1914)Armour's Monthly Cook Book, Volume 2, No. 12, October 1913California Mexican-Spanish Cook Book (1914)The Cookery Blue Book (1891)The Community Cook Book (1914)Pennsylvania Dutch CookingThe Vegetarian Cook Book by E. G. Fulton (1904)365 Foreign Dishes (1908)The Whitehouse Cookbook (1887) by F. L. Gi...

Horror meets humorous urban fantasy in second book of the White Trash Zombie series • Winner of the 2012 Best Urban Fantasy Protagonist by the RT AwardsAngel Crawford is finally starting to get used to life as a brain-eating zombie, but her problems are far from over. Her felony record is coming back to haunt her, more zombie hunters are popping up, and she’s beginning to wonder if her hunky cop-boyfriend is involved with the zombie mafia. Yeah, that’s right—the zo...

**Doc Ford has long lived a double life. This time, it may finally have caught up to him. The electrifying new thriller from the New York Times-bestselling author.“I’ll make an example of someone close to you.”On a moonless night on Sanibel Island, Florida, marine biologist Marion “Doc” Ford carefully watches a video of a hooded man executing three hostages. The man is an American working with ISIS, and in the next few days, it’ll be Ford’s job, as...

**A festive book celebration of national holidays and all-American traditions, featuring Thing One and Thing Two from Dr. Seuss’s The Cat in the Hat—just in time for America’s 250th birthday!Written in super-simple rhyme, this fun book features Thing One and Thing Two as they spend a day celebrating a national holiday—waving flags at a parade, eating barbeque, watching fireworks, and more! This is an ideal way to introduce babies and toddlers to beloved all-Americ...

The Studebaker household is in turmoil; the news that President McKinley has been assassinated is more than anyone can stand. South Bend, Indiana, is not a hotbed of anarchist activity, but something is clearly going on. When McKinley's death is blamed on foreign-born anarchists, Hilda Johansson, a recent immigrant, is concerned that fellow immigrants might be swept up in a wave of xenophobia. Despite orders to mind her own business, she sets out to discover exactly what is happening, no m...