Hip Hop Africa explores a new generation of Africans who are not only consumers of global musical currents, but also active and creative participants. Eric Charry and an international group of contributors look carefully at youth culture and the explosion of hip hop in Africa, the embrace of other contemporary genres, including reggae, ragga, and gospel music, and the continued vitality of drumming. Covering Senegal, Mali, Côte d'Ivoire, Ghana, Nigeria, Kenya, Tanzania, Malawi, and South A...

One thing in life that’s for certain, great food doesn’t have to cost a fortune; not when it’s prepared with quality and love. As you may be asking yourself; “What do I mean by quality?”Quality begins with freshness of food, then comes the technique of preparation, and presentation.Whether you’re a home cook, or prepare food in a restaurant for a community of people, these things matter in the outcome of your final product.Lastly love what you do. If you’re heart isn...

In The Heart Of Cooking With Gin Lee, you will find many of Virginia's personal Southern Home-Style recipes.For your sweet obsessions, you will find various cookie, candy, and dessert recipes; most are made for low-calorie intake, and for those who are diabetic. Virginia uses Splenda as a sugar substitute, although her recipe's can be made with sugar. Virginia encourages all to at least try using Splenda, at least once while making her recipes. Virginia promotes eating healthier, i...

Over the next several decades, as human populations grow and developing countries become more affluent, the demand for energy will soar. Parts of the energy sector are preparing to meet this demand by increasing renewable energy production, which is necessary to combat climate change. But many renewable energy sources have a large energy sprawl—the amount of land needed to produce energy—which can threaten biodiversity and conservation. Is it possible to meet this rise in energy demand, wh...

The Heart Of Cooking: Treasured Recipes is a collection of many of my personal recipes.You will find many sugar-free, guilt free dessertr ecipes included, with breakfast dishes, as well as recipes for main courses, one-pot crock-pot dinners, comfort foods, grilled recipes and a recipes or my home-made BBQ Sauce.When I realized several years ago that my husband was a borderline diabetic, I quickly started paying attention to everything that I made.It wasn’t my cooking habits...

It’s important to share the good things in life. Great Home Style Southern comfort food is in my opinion one of the best things!Within my newest cookbook, (Southern Home-Style Cooking With Gin Lee) you will find a lot of really yummy food recipe’s. Many recipe’s included show different ways to prepare Southern Home-Style Chicken, breakfast meals, One pot Crock-Pot dinners, casseroles, desserts, HOME-STYLE ICE CREAM, and much more.You’ll find, I use mostly canola oil, canned P...

Winner of an Abraham Lincoln Institute Book AwardThough not blind to Abraham Lincoln's imperfections, Black Americans long ago laid a heartfelt claim to his legacy. At the same time, they have consciously reshaped the sixteenth president's image for their own social and political ends. Frederick Hord and Matthew D. Norman's anthology explores the complex nature of views on Lincoln through the writings and thought of Frederick Douglass, Ida B. Wells-Barnett, Mary Mc...

Many of us are striving to reach our full potential at work and beyond—to achieve our goals, rise to challenges, and connect well with others. But how can we actively develop our performance, while also taking care of our well-being and life satisfaction? The Performance Curve is a bold new holistic guide that effectively tackles this challenge, providing practical insights into how you can develop and sustain a productive and fulfilling life.Crucially, this book explores ...

Research Perspectives on Social Media Influencers and their Followers argues that the brands that find the most success on social media are the ones that acknowledge the real key to social media marketing—it’s all about the followers. This collection, edited by Brandi Watkins, explores how social media has shifted power dynamics away from brands and toward the consumers themselves—the social media users who choose to like, share, and engage with brands online. This dynamic has paved the wa...

The sequel to The Corpse-Rat King. Find the dead a King, save himself, win the love of his life, live happily ever after. No wonder Marius dos Helles is bored.But now Keth, his one love, is missing. Gerd has re-entered his life, and something has stopped the dead from, well, dying. It's up to Marius, Gerd, and Gerd's not-dead-enough Granny to journey across the continent and put the dead back in the afterlife where they belong. But someone has the dead ril...

Four years after the horrific events in Leadville, a young woman from England, Victoria Dawes, sets into motion a series of events that will lead Cora and herself out into the New Mexico desert in pursuit of Anaba, a Navajo witch bent on taking revenge for the atrocities committed against her people.File Under: Dark Fantasy [ The Wilder West | Unseen Forces | A Conspiracy | Fight For Life ]

Marius dos Hellespont and his apprentice, Gerd, are professional looters of battlefields. When they stumble upon the corpse of the King of Scorby and Gerd is killed, Marius is mistaken for the monarch by one of the dead soldiers, is transported down to the Kingdom of the Dead. The dead need a King--the King is God's representative, and someone needs to remind God where they are.Marius is banished to the surface with one message: if he wants to recover his life he must find the dead...