Flavors of Africa: Traditional & Modern Recipes Inspired by the Continent’s Rich Heritage By Linda W. LawrenceIn Flavors of Africa, Linda W. Lawrence opens the door to kitchens rich with culture, storytelling, and bold, unforgettable flavor. This vibrant cookbook takes readers on a culinary journey across the continent, uncovering time-honored traditions and reimagining them for the modern home cook.From the smoky stews simmered in clay pots to the soft, spiced breads torn ...

As the military forces of the United States continue to draw down, Special Operations Forces (SOF) are playing a greater role across the entire spectrum of conflict. In order to maintain its relative advantage, SOF is using technology as a means to leverage limited resources—sometimes to the point that mission accomplishment depends critically on a technology's availability. Adversaries will attempt to challenge our advantages. Whether Special Operations Forces are prepared to operate in a...

Character is indispensable to a successful career and a happy life. It's also essential to our liberty, because if a society can't govern itself, then government must step in to police our decisions and actions.Sounds pretty heavy, right? Well, the good news is that character is nothing more than the sum of our choices, and it is something every one of us has total control over. And here's even better news: this book gives us flesh-and-blood models—men and women whose choices and a...

Embrace your inward revolution.God offers you a higher spiritual calling beyond this world's hype, noise, and busyness. To discern what is better—the real key to self-discovery and true spiritual growth—you must learn to listen more closely to God's will. Join Pastor Rodgers on an experiential journey to find an enriched life.Inward Revolution isn't merely a read; it's an invitation to unearth the essence of a transformed life, mirrored in the abil...

Includes World War One In The Desert Illustration Pack- 115 photos/illustrations and 19 maps spanning the Desert campaigns 1914-1918.This monograph analyzes T.E. Lawrence as a military theorist and campaign planner. It investigates whether Lawrence's development of his own theory of war assisted him in planning the Arab campaign during World War I. The monograph focuses in four areas. The first section discusses the historical background of Lawrence and the Arab revolt. This section...

In this book, Hogue re-configures the history of modern America and re-represents the modern American novel, allowing conceptual spaces of race, gender, sex, nature, the non-rational, the non-human, consumption, and class to be critiqued or to be displaced, eventually highlighting that modern American history and literature are not singular. They are much more complex, diverse, heterogeneous, and richer because modern American history is a series of economic, social, anti-colonial, feminis...

The Synthetic Empire: The Rise of Corporate Rule, the Fall of Democracy, and the Path to Reclaim Our Future is a sweeping, unflinching examination of how multinational corporations, surveillance technologies, and manufactured narratives have quietly reshaped modern life. Dr. Lawrence Anderson exposes the hidden architecture of a global system where profit overrides people, public institutions are hollowed out, and citizens are transformed into consumers within an empire that has no borders...

1st Place for 2015 Feathered Quill Award, Science Fiction/FantasyFinalist in the 2014 Book Pipeline ContestTravel to the future - it will only cost you everyone you love.Attacked and injected with a drug which slows his metabolism to a fraction of normal, Martin James becomes an unwilling time traveler who hurtles through the years. His children grow up, his wife grows older, and his only hope is finding th...

When Black Culture and Black Consciousness first appeared thirty years ago, it marked a revolution in our understanding of African American history. Contrary to prevailing ideas at the time, which held that African culture disappeared quickly under slavery and that black Americans had little group pride, history, or cohesiveness, Levine uncovered a cultural treasure trove, illuminating a rich and complex African American oral tradition, including songs, proverbs, jokes, folktales,...

This book contains selections of poetry and prose from the work of an aging Midwestern manlooking back at people, events, sexual experiences and cultures, and the church that has formed him. The content draws on his childhood, family, World War I and II, and summers in Spain. The Villa in the Algarve, Portugal, teaching in Turkey, two gay poets,, and his revisioning of the myths, history, rituals, and the incarnation of his Catholic faith as he lives and approaches his death. He embraces t...

Ashton is your typical kid, friends, likes, hobbies and such. However, he sees things; things that would make a great horror movie. His vivid dreams are scaring his family and friends. His dreams cause a chain reaction of events that will forever shape America and cause us to r eflect on the direction we are headed in. The year is 2016 and the country has never been more divided. Special interest groups run the country and the once great United States of America has become the butt of many...

In this unusually wide-ranging study, spanning more than a century and covering such diverse forms of expressive culture as Shakespeare, Central Park, symphonies, jazz, art museums, the Marx Brothers, opera, and vaudeville, a leading cultural historian demonstrates how variable and dynamic cultural boundaries have been and how fragile and recent the cultural categories we have learned to accept as natural and eternal are.For most of the nineteenth century, a wide variety of express...