This revised and updated edition of The Making of an African King takes into account the 2015 Ghana Supreme Court ruling on the internecine kinship struggle among the ?wutu (Effutu) of Simpa (Winneba)
In this book, James C. Humes candidly accounts all the famous people he has met over the past fifty years, including Presidents Eisenhower, Nixon, Ford, Reagan, Bush, Kennedy, and Truman, Sir Winston
Black Administrators in Higher Education: Autoethnographic Explorations and Personal Narratives offers uniquely designed chapters grouped in theory. This volume edited by Terence Hicks and Lemuel Wats
This collection of ten essays on African American philosophy addresses a wide range of issues beyond the bounds of traditional racial discourse. The essays are dialectical in the sense that they are c
This book tells the little known story of Dacia, the powerful and rich land that became Transylvania and Romania. This kingdom was once the cornerstone of Eastern Europe. By A.D. 1, Dacia was the thi
"Anne Yero has worked intimately with battered women for over a decade. She has learned a great deal, not only about the women she's encountered, but also about her own past history. Yero shares her p
That Does It is an enfilade of critical attacks on the absurdities, stupidities, and crimes of present-day American life. The book provides a handy checklist of ills, from the life threatening to the
An Unplanned Roundtrip recounts author Arthur O. Klein's transition from life in a middle class Jewish home in prewar 1930s Vienna to a new life as an American citizen after serving in the U.S. Army C
In Classrooms and Barrooms, David J. Jackson recounts his experiences during a semester-long Fulbright Fellowship in Poland where he taught classes at the university level and learned more about Polan
This Louisiana sociologist welcomed Hurricane Katrina evacuees into his school, and then a few weeks later became an evacuee himself as Hurricane Rita struck Louisiana. This book serves as a remembran
Running Naked Through the Streets is an account of the year Dr. Caramine White lived in the former Communist country Slovakia, from August 2004-May 2005.
This handbook in practical spirituality proposes that the level of stress, violence, fear and disconnect from Nature in the global society has risen in direct proportion to a fall in the collective le
New Aphorisms & Reflections: Second Series, the fifth volume of a major work in progress, features more than 400 entries, some of which are autobiographical. Like its predecessors, New Aphorisms &
This book chronicles a writer's journey to find faith, hope, and meaning following the country's worst national disaster— Hurricane Katrina. Acknowledging that everyone experiences catastrophic events
In 1820, liberal revolutions broke out in the Iberian Peninsula and these conflicts led to the Portuguese War of the Two Brothers (1831-1834) and the Spanish First Carlist War (1833-1840). During this
Suicidal Thoughts is a compilation of some of the most moving and insightful writing accomplished on the topic of suicide. It presents the thoughts and experiences of fifteen writers who have contemp
The Boy Who Lost His Birthday is the uplifting story of one man's journey from boyhood in rural Hungary to triumph over oppression during the Holocaust and finally to a role as a spiritual leader in A
As a supplement to his previously published memoirs, Rubel details his efforts to address concerns about Minuteman launch control problems and recalls sitting through the December 1962 SIOP briefing o
Equity, diversity, and social justice are the values to which global democracies aspire. These elements have strong implications for our children and their schools. They are truly timely issues for al
