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  • Dancing in the Glory of Monsters

    The Collapse of the Congo and the Great War of Africa

    by Jason Stearns ...
    A "tremendous," "intrepid" history of the devastating war in the heart of Africa's Congo, with first-hand accounts of the continent's worst conflict in modern times.At the heart of Africa is the Congo, a country the size of Western Europe, bordering nine other nations, that since 1996 has been wracked by a brutal war in which millions have died. In Dancing in the Glory of Monsters, renowned ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Christianity, Islam, and Orisa-Religion

    Three Traditions in Comparison and Interaction

    by J.D.Y. Peel ...
    Series Book 18 - The Anthropology of Christianity
    A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press’s open access publishing program for monographs. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more.The Yoruba of southwestern Nigeria are exceptional for the copresence among them of three religious traditions: Islam, Christianity, and the indigenous orisa religion. In this comparative study, at once historical and ... Read more

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  • Nelson Mandela: A Life From Beginning to End

    by Henry Freeman ...
    A brief biography of an icon like Nelson Mandela is a difficult undertaking. This offering is ideal for someone, not from Africa, who would like to know what motivated a man to give his life to a cause that would see him spend the most productive years of his life in jail.Inside you will read about...✓ A boy in rural South Africa✓ Egoli...place of gold✓ The African National Congress and the birth ... Read more

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  • Into Africa

    When the explorer René Caillié returned to France from Africa in 1828, he published a sketch of the legendary city he had discovered - Timbuctoo. But neither that simple drawing nor his matter-of-fact description gave Caillié's countrymen a sufficiently colorful picture to match their preconceptions of how Africa should look. They turned their backs on the young explorer, ignored his ... Read more

    $9.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • White Mischief

    The Murder of Lord Erroll

    by James Fox ...
    The riveting true story of decadence, deception, and murder among British aristocrats in colonial KenyaIn 1941, with London burning in the Blitz, a group of hedonistic English nobles partied shamelessly in Kenya. Far removed from falling bombs, the wealthy elites of “Happy Valley” indulged in morphine, alcohol, and unrestricted sex, often with their friends’ spouses. But the party turned sinister ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Last Slave Ship

    The True Story of How Clotilda Was Found, Her Descendants, and an Extraordinary Reckoning

    by Ben Raines ...
    An NPR Best Book of the YearThe incredible true story of the last ship to carry enslaved people to America, the remarkable town its survivors founded after emancipation, and the complicated legacy their descendants carry with them to this day—by the journalist who discovered the ship’s remains.Fifty years after the Atlantic slave trade was outlawed, the Clotilda became the last ship in history to ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Primary Accounts of African Civilization: The Meroe, Kush, and Axum

    Primary Accounts of African Civilization: The Meroe, Kush, and Axum is a collection of accounts about African civilizations written by some of the oldest and most prominent historians of antiquity, including Herodotus, also known as the Father of History, who lived in the 5th century B.C. (c.484 BC c.425 BC) and was the first historian known to collect his materials systematically, test their ... Read more

    $0.99 USD

  • American Slavery: History in an Hour

    by Kat Smutz ...
    Love history? Know your stuff with History in an Hour.From the first slaves arriving in Jamestown in 1619, the cotton fields in the Southern States and shipbuilding in New England, to the slaves who laid down their lives in war so that Americans could be free, American Slavery in an Hour covers the breadth of the subject without sacrificing important historical and cultural details.An important ... Read more

    $0.99 USD

  • Tower of the Sun

    Stories from the Middle East and North Africa

    Prize-winning author Michael J. Totten’s gripping first-person narratives from the war zones, police states, and revolutionary capitals of the Middle East and North Africa paint a vivid picture of peoples and nations at war with themselves, each other, and—sometimes—with the rest of the world.His journeys take him from Libya under the gruesome rule of Muammar Qaddafi to Egypt before, during and ... Read more

    $2.99 USD

  • The African Wars

    by Julius Caesar ...
    Julius Caesar (100-44 B.C.) is one of the most famous men in history, and his name was used to denote the status of emperor throughout European countries like Italy, Germany, and Russia nearly 2,000 years after his famous assassination. But before he won the civil war against Pompey the Great and ended the Roman Republic permanently, he became a man of power and fame in modern day France, leading ... Read more

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  • The Shield and the Sword

    An authoritative history of the Knights of St. John, from Jerusalem to Malta, told by the bestselling author of The Great Siege.Known by many names through their centuries-long career, The Knights Hospitaller of Saint John dedicated themselves to defending the poor and sick. First formed in Jerusalem during the Crusades of the eleventh century, the Order of Saint John grew in wealth and power ... Read more

    $13.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Treasures of the Rosicrucian Egyptian Museum

    A Catalogue

    This catalogue features the major artifacts in the Rosicrucian Egyptian Museum in San Jose, California. It includes color photographs and descriptions of each, and essays on various aspects of ancient Egyptian culture. ... Read more

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  • The Orion Mystery

    Unlocking the Secrets of the Pyramids

    A revolutionary book that explains the most enigmatic and fascinating wonder of the ancient world: the Pyramids of Egypt.In 1993, German robotics engineer Rudolf Gatenbrink discovered a sealed door within the Great Pyramid of Giza--a door left unopened for 4,500 years. With this discovery, Robert Bauval--who spent the decade prior to the discovery researching the pyramids--and Adrian Gilbert used ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • China's Second Continent

    How a Million Migrants Are Building a New Empire in Africa

    A New York Times Notable BookChinese immigrants of the recent past and unfolding twenty-first century are in search of the African dream. So explains indefatigable traveler Howard W. French, prize-winning investigative journalist and former New York Times bureau chief in Africa and China, in the definitive account of this seismic geopolitical development. China’s burgeoning presence in Africa is ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Ruined (TCG Edition)

    by Lynn Nottage ...
    Winner of the 2009 Pulitzer Prize for Drama“A powerhouse drama. . . . Lynn Nottage’s beautiful, hideous and unpretentiously important play [is] a shattering, intimate journey into faraway news reports.”—Linda Winer, Newsday“An intense and gripping new drama . . . the kind of new play we desperately need: well-informed and unafraid of the world’s brutalities. Nottage is one of our finest ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • The Shadow of the Sun

    In 1957, Ryszard Kapuscinski arrived in Africa to witness the beginning of the end of colonial rule as the first African correspondent of Poland's state newspaper. From the early days of independence in Ghana to the ongoing ethnic genocide in Rwanda, Kapuscinski has crisscrossed vast distances pursuing the swift, and often violent, events that followed liberation. Kapuscinski hitchhikes with ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • The Ancient Black Hebrews and Arabs

    The evidence from the Bible describes the ancient Hebrews as being Afro-haired and Black. Abraham, Jacob, David and Solomon were Black. Pictures of the ancient Hebrews show this part of Biblical record to be accurate. These pictures are presented here! Most people do not know that the original Arabs of ancient times were Black. This book quotes ancient authorities and the ancient Arabs themselves ... Read more

    $2.75 USD

  • Country of My Skull

    Guilt, Sorrow, and the Limits of Forgiveness in the New South Africa

    by Antjie Krog ...
    Ever since Nelson Mandela dramatically walked out of prison in 1990 after twenty-seven years behind bars, South Africa has been undergoing a radical transformation. In one of the most miraculous events of the century, the oppressive system of apartheid was dismantled. Repressive laws mandating separation of the races were thrown out. The country, which had been carved into a crazy quilt that ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • The House at Sugar Beach

    In Search of a Lost African Childhood

    by Helene Cooper ...
    Journalist Helene Cooper examines the violent past of her home country Liberia and the effects of its 1980 military coup in this deeply personal memoir and finalist for the 2008 National Book Critics Circle Award.Helene Cooper is “Congo,” a descendant of two Liberian dynasties—traced back to the first ship of freemen that set sail from New York in 1820 to found Monrovia. Helene grew up at Sugar ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Book Of The Dead (Mobi Classics)

    The Book of Dead" is the common name for the ancient Egyptian funerary text known as "Spells of Coming" (or "Going") "Forth By Day." The Book of the Dead was a description of the ancient Egyptian conception of the afterlife and a collection of hymns, spells, and instructions to allow the deceased to pass through obstacles in the afterlife. The Book of the Dead was most commonly written on a ... Read more

    $0.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Faces at the Bottom of the Well

    The Permanence of Racism

    by Derrick Bell ...
    The groundbreaking, "eerily prophetic, almost haunting" work on American racism and the struggle for racial justice (Michelle Alexander, author of The New Jim Crow).In Faces at the Bottom of the Well, civil rights activist and legal scholar Derrick Bell uses allegory and historical example—including the classic story "The Space Traders"—to argue that racism is an integral and permanent part of ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Under Fire: The Untold Story of the Attack in Benghazi

    The New York Times bestselling inside account of the attack against the U.S. diplomatic and intelligence outposts in Benghazi, Libya.On the night of September 11, 2012, the American diplomatic mission at Benghazi, Libya, came under ferocious attack by a heavily armed group of Islamic terrorists. The prolonged firefight, and the attack hours later on a nearby CIA outpost, resulted in the deaths of ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Imperial Reckoning

    The Untold Story of Britain's Gulag in Kenya

    A major work of history that for the first time reveals the violence and terror at the heart of Britain's civilizing mission in KenyaAs part of the Allied forces, thousands of Kenyans fought alongside the British in World War II. But just a few years after the defeat of Hitler, the British colonial government detained nearly the entire population of Kenya's largest ethnic minority, the Kikuyu-some ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Black Power

    Three Books from Exile: Black Power; The Color Curtain; and White Man, Listen!

    Three extraordinary and impassioned nonfiction works by Richard Wright, one of America's premier literary giants of the twentieth century, together in one volume, with an introduction by Cornel West.“The time is ripe to return to [Wright’s] vision and voice in the face of our contemporary catastrophes and hearken to his relentless commitment to freedom and justice for all.” — Cornel West (from the ... Read more

    $9.99 USD