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Book Tamar Black   Pantheon

    Book Details:
  • Author : Nicola Rhodes
  • Publisher : Lulu.com
  • Release : 2010-06-25
  • ISBN : 0956149588
  • Pages : 232 pages

Download or read book Tamar Black Pantheon written by Nicola Rhodes and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2010-06-25 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The final book in the Tamar Black saga. Denny should never have crashed the mainframe! Rebooting was the easy bit, making sure all the deleted files didn't reboot was a little harder. He should have been more careful. Now the mythological age is back, in fact, it never went away. The Greek gods are still on Mount Olympus. And the clerks in mainframe are furious and insisting that Tamar and Denny fix it. Right now! The only problem is, they have to go back to when the age of myths was supposed to have ended and make sure that it does. Well, that's not the only problem...

Book Tamar Black   Rise Of The Nephilim

Download or read book Tamar Black Rise Of The Nephilim written by Nicola Rhodes and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2010-06-24 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tamar and Co. - the Next Generation. Who's that girl? Meet Iphigenia Black - daughter of Tamar (oh, and er Denny too) Cindy's back and madder than ever - and she's brought a little surprise with her. Isn't it amazing how fast they grow up? Renamed Ashtoreth, son of Cindy has become a powerful threat. Born of a fallen angel and a mortal woman, he is the Nephilim. And Cindy intends to throw him full force at Tamar and co - revenge is sweet. But Tamar and Denny have a little surprise of their own. With the power of the Rheingold, Cindy herself has become a formidable enemy. But what will happen when she meets Denny again and realizes that she has not quite forsaken love after all?

Book Tamar Black   Faerie Tale

Download or read book Tamar Black Faerie Tale written by Nicola Rhodes and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2010-04-24 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "All The World's A Stage" Tamar's back! And this time, she's off the chart and travelling without a map. There are Faeries in the woods and they're not the cute little wingéd creatures from the stories your mummy read to you. Faeries are, at best, con artists and tricksters. And at worst, homicidal maniacs. And these Faeries are out to take over the world. Just for the fun of it.

Book Tamar Black   Anything But Ordinary

Download or read book Tamar Black Anything But Ordinary written by Nicola Rhodes and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2010-06-24 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The sixth book in the Tamar Black series. Is Denny Sanger the sexiest man in the world? This, and other crucial questions, are now being asked by the world's press (and secret government agencies?) Since saving the world from the faeries, Tamar, Denny and Co are now famous! Reporters are now camping out on the doorstep 24 hours a day, and who are the two strange men in the blacked out car? And, as if that wasn't enough, Tamar is having so much fun going shopping and painting her nails that Denny is going absolutely crazy trying to convince her that she is ... ANYTHING BUT ORDINARY As the wedding approaches, and the strain is beginning to tell on Tamar and Denny, their friends are beginning to wonder if they will make it to the church (this time) And then they discover that they are not the only ones out there saving the world.

Book American  African  and Old European Mythologies

Download or read book American African and Old European Mythologies written by Yves Bonnefoy and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 1993-05-15 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Here are 80 articles on mythologies from around the world, including Native Americans, African, Celtic, Norse, and Slavic, and about such topics as fire, the cosmos, and creation. Also includes an overview of the Indo-Europeans and an essay on the religions and myths of Armenia. Illustrations.

Book The Citadel   The SCI ON Trilogy Part Three

Download or read book The Citadel The SCI ON Trilogy Part Three written by Nicola Rhodes and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2012-12 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Part 3 of The SCI'ON Trilogy. Life Is But A Dream ... Out of the destruction of the old worlds, a new SCI'ON has arisen. For, it seems, that no matter what decision is taken - even the complete destruction of the universe - a choice is always made, and from that choice, an alternate possibility appears and becomes its own reality. Those who were once the Undying are now the gods, and before they can begin to try to understand the true nature of the universe, they must first adjust to their new situation. Now the Citadel is a part of the world. The former Undying and the dwellers of the Citadel are, once more, contemporaries and equals. New gods in the new world. And new rivals. But everything is different now, soon the time of the gods will be over and Johnny and all the new gods will shortly go the way of the old, leaving the worlds to the domination of mortals and the new Undying.

Book North Carolina   the Problem of AIDS

Download or read book North Carolina the Problem of AIDS written by Stephen Inrig and published by Univ of North Carolina Press. This book was released on 2011 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thirty years after AIDS was first recognized, the American South constitutes the epicenter of the United States' epidemic. Southern states claim the highest rates of new infections, the most AIDS-related deaths, and the largest number of adults and adoles

Book Black Diamond Queens

    Book Details:
  • Author : Maureen Mahon
  • Publisher : Duke University Press
  • Release : 2020-10-09
  • ISBN : 1478012773
  • Pages : 231 pages

Download or read book Black Diamond Queens written by Maureen Mahon and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2020-10-09 with total page 231 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: African American women have played a pivotal part in rock and roll—from laying its foundations and singing chart-topping hits to influencing some of the genre's most iconic acts. Despite this, black women's importance to the music's history has been diminished by narratives of rock as a mostly white male enterprise. In Black Diamond Queens, Maureen Mahon draws on recordings, press coverage, archival materials, and interviews to document the history of African American women in rock and roll between the 1950s and the 1980s. Mahon details the musical contributions and cultural impact of Big Mama Thornton, LaVern Baker, Betty Davis, Tina Turner, Merry Clayton, Labelle, the Shirelles, and others, demonstrating how dominant views of gender, race, sexuality, and genre affected their careers. By uncovering this hidden history of black women in rock and roll, Mahon reveals a powerful sonic legacy that continues to reverberate into the twenty-first century.

Book African Kings and Black Slaves

Download or read book African Kings and Black Slaves written by Herman L. Bennett and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2018-09-10 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A thought-provoking reappraisal of the first European encounters with Africa As early as 1441, and well before other European countries encountered Africa, small Portuguese and Spanish trading vessels were plying the coast of West Africa, where they conducted business with African kingdoms that possessed significant territory and power. In the process, Iberians developed an understanding of Africa's political landscape in which they recognized specific sovereigns, plotted the extent and nature of their polities, and grouped subjects according to their ruler. In African Kings and Black Slaves, Herman L. Bennett mines the historical archives of Europe and Africa to reinterpret the first century of sustained African-European interaction. These encounters were not simple economic transactions. Rather, according to Bennett, they involved clashing understandings of diplomacy, sovereignty, and politics. Bennett unearths the ways in which Africa's kings required Iberian traders to participate in elaborate diplomatic rituals, establish treaties, and negotiate trade practices with autonomous territories. And he shows how Iberians based their interpretations of African sovereignty on medieval European political precepts grounded in Roman civil and canon law. In the eyes of Iberians, the extent to which Africa's polities conformed to these norms played a significant role in determining who was, and who was not, a sovereign people—a judgment that shaped who could legitimately be enslaved. Through an examination of early modern African-European encounters, African Kings and Black Slaves offers a reappraisal of the dominant depiction of these exchanges as being solely mediated through the slave trade and racial difference. By asking in what manner did Europeans and Africans configure sovereignty, polities, and subject status, Bennett offers a new depiction of the diasporic identities that had implications for slaves' experiences in the Americas.

Book Trabelin  on

    Book Details:
  • Author : Mechal Sobel
  • Publisher : Princeton University Press
  • Release : 1988-04-21
  • ISBN : 0691006032
  • Pages : 343 pages

Download or read book Trabelin on written by Mechal Sobel and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 1988-04-21 with total page 343 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Originally published, with appendix, in the Greenwood Press series, Contributions in Afro-American and African studies, no. 36, Westport, CT, c1979"--T.p. verso.

Book Winning the Race

Download or read book Winning the Race written by John McWhorter and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2006-12-28 with total page 449 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In his first major book on the state of black America since the New York Times bestseller Losing the Race, John McWhorter argues that a renewed commitment to achievement and integration is the only cure for the crisis in the African-American community. Winning the Race examines the roots of the serious problems facing black Americans today—poverty, drugs, and high incarceration rates—and contends that none of the commonly accepted reasons can explain the decline of black communities since the end of segregation in the 1960s. Instead, McWhorter posits that a sense of victimhood and alienation that came to the fore during the civil rights era has persisted to the present day in black culture, even though most blacks today have never experienced the racism of the segregation era. McWhorter traces the effects of this disempowering conception of black identity, from the validation of living permanently on welfare to gansta rap’s glorification of irresponsibility and violence as a means of “protest.” He discusses particularly specious claims of racism, attacks the destructive posturing of black leaders and the “hip-hop academics,” and laments that a successful black person must be faced with charges of “acting white.” While acknowledging that racism still exists in America today, McWhorter argues that both blacks and whites must move past blaming racism for every challenge blacks face, and outlines the steps necessary for improving the future of black America.

Book If We Must Die

    Book Details:
  • Author : Aimé J. Ellis
  • Publisher : Wayne State University Press
  • Release : 2011-06-15
  • ISBN : 0814336655
  • Pages : 225 pages

Download or read book If We Must Die written by Aimé J. Ellis and published by Wayne State University Press. This book was released on 2011-06-15 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: African Amerian studies scholars and those interested in race in contemporary American culture will appreciate this thought-provoking volume.

Book World Shores and Beaches

Download or read book World Shores and Beaches written by Mary Ellen Snodgrass and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2005-08-15 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This reference work begins with an introduction expressing the significance of beaches and shores. Each entry begins with a topographical description and contacts for the region, discusses topics such as mythical and tribal stories, artistry, religious meanings and pilgrimages, activism, conquests and the slave trade, piracy, human development, and tourism, concluding with a summary of coastal activities today"--Provided by publisher.

Book The Racial Order

    Book Details:
  • Author : Mustafa Emirbayer
  • Publisher : University of Chicago Press
  • Release : 2015-08-04
  • ISBN : 022625366X
  • Pages : 487 pages

Download or read book The Racial Order written by Mustafa Emirbayer and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2015-08-04 with total page 487 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Proceeding from the bold and provocative claim that there never has been a comprehensive and systematic theory of race, Mustafa Emirbayer and Matthew Desmond set out to reformulate how we think about this most difficult of topics in American life. In The Racial Order, they draw on Bourdieu, Durkheim, and Dewey to present a new theoretical framework for race scholarship. Animated by a deep and reflexive intelligence, the book engages the large and important issues of social theory today and, along the way, offers piercing insights into how race actually works in America. Emirbayer and Desmond set out to examine how the racial order is structured, how it is reproduced and sometimes transformed, and how it penetrates into the innermost reaches of our racialized selves. They also consider how—and toward what end—the racial order might be reconstructed. In the end, this project is not merely about race; it is a theoretical reconsideration of the fundamental problems of order, agency, power, and social justice. The Racial Order is a challenging work of social theory, institutional and cultural analysis, and normative inquiry.

Book What the Children Told Us

Download or read book What the Children Told Us written by Tim Spofford and published by Sourcebooks, Inc.. This book was released on 2022-08-09 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Does racial discrimination harm Black children's sense of self? The Doll Test illuminated its devastating toll. Dr. Kenneth Clark visited rundown and under-resourced segregated schools across America, presenting Black children with two dolls: a white one with hair painted yellow and a brown one with hair painted black. "Give me the doll you like to play with," he said. "Give me the doll that is a nice doll." The psychological experiment Kenneth developed with his wife, Mamie, designed to measure how segregation affected Black children's perception of themselves and other Black people, was enlightening—and horrifying. Over and over again, the young children—some not yet five years old—selected the white doll as preferable, and the brown doll as "bad." Some children even denied their race. "Yes," said brown-skinned Joan W., age six, when questioned about her affection for the light-skinned doll. "I would like to be white." What the Children Told Us is the story of the towering intellectual and emotional partnership between two Black scholars who highlighted the psychological effects of racial segregation. The Clarks' story is one of courage, love, and an unfailing belief that Black children deserved better than what society was prepared to give them, and their unrelenting activism played a critical role in the landmark Brown v. Board of Education case. The Clarks' decades of impassioned advocacy, their inspiring marriage, and their enduring work shines a light on the power of passion in an unjust world.

Book The American South in the Twentieth Century

Download or read book The American South in the Twentieth Century written by Craig S. Pascoe and published by University of Georgia Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the South today, the sight of a Latina in a NASCAR T-shirt behind the register at an Asian grocery would hardly draw a second glance. That scenario, and our likely reaction to it, surely signals something important--but what? Here some of the region’s most respected and readable observers look across the past century to help us take stock of where the South is now and where it may be headed. Reflecting the writers’ deep interests in southern history, politics, literature, religion, and other matters, the essays engage in new ways some timeless concerns about the region: How has the South changed--or not changed? Has the South as a distinct region disappeared, or has it absorbed the many forces of change and still retained its cultural and social distinctiveness? Although the essays touch on an engaging diversity of topics including the USDA’s crop spraying policies, Tom Wolfe’s novel A Man in Full, and collegiate women’s soccer, they ultimately cluster around a common set of themes. These include race, segregation and the fall of Jim Crow, gender, cultural distinctiveness and identity, modernization, education, and urbanization. Mindful of the South’s reputation for insularity, the essays also gauge the impact of federal assistance, relocated industries, immigration, and other outside influences. As one contributor writes, and as all would acknowledge, those who undertake a project like this “should bear in mind that they are tracking a target moving constantly but often erratically.” The rewards of pondering a place as elusive, complex, and contradictory as the American South are on full display here.

Book Black Bostonians

Download or read book Black Bostonians written by James Oliver Horton and published by . This book was released on 1979-10 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: