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 ...

A dark, powerful, and subtly crafted novel that traces the intertwined fates of a CIA case officer and a young woman who is forced to confront her dead father's secret past--at once a gripping, immersive tale of duplicity and espionage, and a moving story of love and loyalty.Anna is the beloved only child of the charismatic Noel, a New York City banker--and a mother who abandoned her. When Noel dies in a mysterious skiing accident in Switzerland the day before his ...

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...

An “exhilarating thrill ride of a novel” (The Washington Post) about the lust for gold and its bloody consequences, set in the unforgiving landscape of the sub-Arctic Canadian wilderness, from the acclaimed author of The North WaterA ragged fur peddler arrives at a remote outpost of the Hudson Bay Company in the winter of 1766 with a lump of gold, claiming that there is plenty more like it further north at a place called Ox Lake. The outpost’s chi...

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...

**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...

The biggest collection of Sherlock Holmes stories ever assembled!Arguably no other character in history has been so enduringly popular as Sherlock Holmes. Ever since his first appearance, in Arthur Conan Doyle’s 1887 novella A Study in Scarlet, readers have loved reading about him almost as much as writers have loved writing about him.Here, Otto Penzler collects eighty-three wonderful stories about Sherlock Holmes and Dr. John Watson, published ove...