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While books about adoption proliferate, none of them addresses the subject of open and interracial adoption like Jana Wolff’s personal and frank account does in [i]Secret Thoughts of an Adoptive Mother[/i]. Often irreverent, always insight… more

A Feminist Ethic of Risk proposes a new model for ethics and new life orientation for social justice. It directly addresses American and European “middle-class despair” over issues and challenges seemingly too large to tackle, such as envir… more

The complete classic by Mark Twain

Focus of Research: The United States’ illegal exportation of waste to IndiaThis essay is an in-depth analysis concerning the growing problem of garbage disposal. The United States has taken NIMBY to an extreme level by exporting our waste t… more

“Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (often shortened to Huck Finn) is a novel written by Mark Twain and published in 1884. It is commonly regarded as one of the Great American Novels, and is one of the first major American novels written in the… more

A good reputation is certainly an asset for any company, but to a public that has raised its expectations of business’ responsibility to society, being good just isn’t good enough. More than public relations posturing or kowtowing to politi… more

With over 200,000 copies sold, this perennial classic from the Newmarket “Words Of” series belongs in every home, school and library.Throughout his brief life, Martin Luther King, Jr. communicated vision, passion, and inspiration. He led mi… more

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How To Be Black, the enhanced e-book edition, contains 14 author-conducted video interviews with individuals who exemplify “how to be black,” an audio clip of the author delivering an essay to a live audience, links to a companion website w… more

The wildly popular New York Times bestseller and reading group favorite Aibileen is a black maid in 1962 Jackson, Mississippi, who’s always taken orders quietly, but lately she’s unable to hold her bitterness back. Her friend Minny has neve… more

While resisting eviction from the Queensland family property at the start of the Great Depression, Emma McKenna’s father is shot dead. Emma is left destitute, with her crippled mother and twelve-year-old twin brothers to care for. But she i… more

The Inversion of Western Aesthetic SensibilityOur experience of “race” is based on how we define beauty. In the past, we thought that discipline was liberating and beautiful, while raw nature was confining and ugly. Today we believe that ra… more

Three women and two girls face political, racial and personal bombshells during the tension-filled days of the Cuban Missile Crisis in 1962.Flossie Johnson is a housekeeper who wants to sit in the front of the bus instead of the back on the… more

Her name was Henrietta Lacks, but scientists know her as HeLa. She was a poor Southern tobacco farmer who worked the same land as her slave ancestors, yet her cells—taken without her knowledge—became one of the most important tools in medic… more

Intense, powerful, and compelling, Matterhorn is an epic war novel in the tradition of Norman Mailer’s The Naked and the Dead and James Jones’s The Thin Red Line. It is the timeless story of a young Marine lieutenant, Waino Mellas, and his … more

A philosopher, psychiatrist, and political activist, Frantz Fanon was a fierce, acute critic of racism and oppression. Born of African descent in Martinique in 1925, Fanon fought in defense of France during World War II but later against Fr… more

When the actor playing Rambunctious Rabbit - the mascot of Lamaar Studio’s Familyland theme park - is brutally murdered on park grounds, LAPD detectives Mike Lomax and Terry Biggs are brought in to investigate. Asked to keep the investigati… more

Just after WWII, when America is under the arduous task of redefining itself both domestically and abroad, Esther embarks on a profound spiritual journey to redefine herself as an African American and as a woman. Set in a rural East Texas t… more

Endorsements for Apartheid South Africa[Allen] ‘may well be the top contemporary reference on the subject. Rarely have I got so much information from one book…re-readings will be necessary…I want a copy on order for my university’s libr… more