Social Science
Social Science
Black Critics and Kings: The Hermeneutics of Power in Yoruba Society
How can we account for the power of ritual? This is the guiding question of Black Critics and Kings, which examines how Yoruba forms of ritual and knowledge shape politics, history, and resistance against the state. Focusing on "deep" knowledge in...
$122.00
Arts of Being Yoruba: Divination, Allegory, Tragedy, Proverb, Panegyric (African Expressive Cultures)
There is a culturally significant way of being Yorùbá that is expressed through dress, greetings, and celebrations―no matter where in the world they take place. Adélékè Adék documents Yorùbá patterns of behavior and articulates a philosophy of how to be...
$44.00
Arts of Being Yoruba: Divination, Allegory, Tragedy, Proverb, Panegyric (African Expressive Cultures)
There is a culturally significant way of being Yorùbá that is expressed through dress, greetings, and celebrations―no matter where in the world they take place. Adélékè Adék documents Yorùbá patterns of behavior and articulates a philosophy of how to be...
$222.00
Aromasodu: Archives of Yoruba Names and Their Meaning (Yoruba and English Edition)
This Book covers some background history of Yorùbá names and supplies about 1600 Yorùbá children names with their meaning.
$33.00
The Architects of Existence: Aje in Yoruba Cosmology, Ontology, and Orature
With her first book, Our Mothers, Our Powers, Our Texts: Manifestations Aje in Africana Literature, Teresa N. Washington reveals the Pan-African power and profundity of Aje and its myriad sister systems in Pan-African literature and culture. In The Architects of Existence: Aje...
$122.00
Ancient Echoes: A Modulation of Prose Music Culture and Yoruba Traditions
This book is a multiple resource for beginning students in liberal studies who need hands-on approach in studying African literature, art, religion, percussion, politics, and mythology. In spite of its diverse scope, the book has highlighted cogent issues, such as...
$22.99
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African American Culture [3 Volumes]: From Dashikis to Yoruba (Cultures of the American Mosaic)
$444.00
African American Culture [3 Volumes]: From Dashikis to Yoruba (Cultures of the American Mosaic)
According to the latest census data, less than 13 percent of the U.S. population identify as African American; African Americans are still very much a minority group. Yet African American cultural expression and strong influences from African American culture are...
$444.00
Abbeokuta Or Sunrise Within The Tropics: An Outline Of The Origin And Progress Of The Yoruba Mission (1855) Hardcover
Abbeokuta or Sunrise Within the Tropics: An Outline of the Origin and Progress of the Yoruba Mission is a historical book written by Sarah Tucker in 1855. The book provides a detailed account of the establishment and development of the...
$45.95
Blacks and Science Volume Two: West and East African Contributions to Science and Technology AND Intellectual Life and Legacy of Timbuktu
Blacks and Science Volume Two Did YOU know any of the following facts? o The Bamoun Kingdom, now in today’s Cameroon, has 7,000 surviving manuscripts in their own script o Timbuktu astronomers used the cosine, tangent, cotangent, secant and cosecant...
$17.00
The Hebrew Israelite Community (hardcover)
The Hebrew Israelite Community introduces the African-Americans who are members of the Hebrew Israelite Community in Israel from a sociological and anthropological perspective. This community has passed through several phases since its beginning in Chicago in 1963 as the followers of...
$99.00
The Great Awakening of the Black Hebrew Israelites...in these last days
The book, The Great Awakening of the Black Hebrew Israelites... in these last days takes a Biblical journey through the Holy Scriptures that reveals beyond doubt the truth regarding God's Chosen People- who they were and who they still are...
$33.00
Cognitive Perspectives on Israelite Identity (The Library of Hebrew Bible/Old Testament Studies)- Paperback
Cognitive Perspectives on Israelite Identity breaks new ground in the study of ethnic identity in the ancient world through the articulation of an explicitly cognitive perspective. In presenting a view of ethnicity as an epistemological rather than an ontological entity, this...
$66.00
Cognitive Perspectives on Israelite Identity (The Library of Hebrew Bible/Old Testament Studies, 519)- Hardcover
Cognitive Perspectives on Israelite Identity breaks new ground in the study of ethnic identity in the ancient world through the articulation of an explicitly cognitive perspective. In presenting a view of ethnicity as an epistemological rather than an ontological entity, this...
$333.00
The British Israelites: Or Evidences Of Our Hebrew Origin, Gathered From History, Genealogy, Philology, And Heathen Customs (1885)- Paperback
""The British Israelites: Or Evidences Of Our Hebrew Origin, Gathered From History, Genealogy, Philology, And Heathen Customs"" is a book written by Henry William J. Senior in 1885. The book puts forth the theory that the British people are descended...
$44.00
My Name Is Maria Isabel
For María Isabel Salazar López, the hardest thing about being the new girl in school is that the teacher doesn't call her by her real name. "We already have two Marías in this class," says her teacher. "Why don't we...
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Women Holding Things
From the critically acclaimed artist, designer, and author of the bestsellers The Principles of Uncertainty and My Favorite Things comes a wondrous collection of words and paintings that is a moving meditation on the beauty and complexity of women’s lives and roles, revealed in...
$35.00
I'm NOT just a Scribble
A story about kindness and inclusion.Scribble, the book's main character, never thought he was different until he met his first drawing. Then, after being left out because he didn't look like everyone else, Scribble teaches the drawings how to accept...
$17.99
All You Need Is Love: The Beatles in Their Own Words: Unpublished, Unvarnished, and Told by The Beatles and Their Inner Circle
An oral history of The Beatles from never-before-seen interviews.All You Need Is Love is a groundbreaking oral history of the one of the most enduring musical acts of all time. The material is comprised of intimate interviews with Paul McCartney, Yoko...
$32.00
The Way of the Superior Man: A Spiritual Guide to Mastering the Challenges of Women, Work, and Sexual Desire
Though much has changed in society since the first publication of The Way of the Superior Man, men of all ages still "tussle with the challenges of women, work, and sexual desire." Including an all-new preface by author David Deida, this...
$19.99
Age of Revolutions: Progress and Backlash from 1600 to the Present
The CNN host and best-selling author explores the revolutions―past and present―that define the polarized and unstable age in which we live. Populist rage, ideological fracture, economic and technological shocks, war, and an international system studded with catastrophic risk―the early decades...
$29.99
Meditations: A New Translation
NATIONAL BESTSELLER • “Meditations offers a glimpse into [Marcus Aurelius’s] mind, his habits, and his approach to life. . . . I think any reader would find something useful to take away from it.”—James Clear, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Atomic Habits“To me,...
$11.00
The World Was in Our Hands: Voices from the Boko Haram Conflict
While the Boko Haram conflict has reached a certain level of culturation saturation, what is known about the conflict remains patchy. This collection, featuring interviews with 47 people of all genders, ages and a variety of religious backgrounds, foregrounds the...
$20.95
Sold Out: How Black Feminism Lost Its Soul
Are advertising campaigns really the tools with which we dismantle the master's house? Can we afford to separate the demand for racial justice from class, sexual and regional inequalities? Why should we care if events aimed at Black women are...
$15.95
Love Offers No Safety: Nigeria's Queer Men Speak
Love Offers No Safety: Nigeria’s Queer Men Speak is a raw and powerful collection of 25 first-person narratives that explore the diverse experience of queer Nigerian men. These stirring stories cut across age, class, religion, ethnicity, family and relationships, offering a...
$20.95
Grandma and the Moon's Hidden Secret (international)
Àdùké lives with her grandparents in Ibidan and Grandma is her favorite person in the world. She loves when Grandma sings to her, and gives her treats from her stall. But one day, Àdùké comes home from school and can’t...
$9.66
Grandma and the Moon's Hidden Secret
Àdùké lives with her grandparents in Ibidan and Grandma is her favourite person in the world. She loves when Grandma sings to her, and gives her treats from her stall. But one day, Àdùké comes home from school and can’t...
$20.95
Female Fear Factory: Unravelling Patriarchy's Cultures of Violence
"Patriarchy does not respect national boundaries. It is unabashedly promiscuous in its influences and tethers. Yet, it does use nationalism very productively." An empty street at night. A crowded bus. A lecture hall. All sites of female fear, instilled in...
$20.95
The Hate U Give: A Printz Honor Winner
8 starred reviews · Goodreads Choice Awards Best of the Best · William C. Morris Award Winner · National Book Award Longlist · Printz Honor Book · Coretta Scott King Honor Book · #1 New York Times Bestseller! "Absolutely riveting!" —Jason Reynolds "Stunning." —John Green...
$18.99
You Are Your Best Thing: Vulnerability, Shame Resilience, and the Black Experience
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Tarana Burke and Dr. Brené Brown bring together a dynamic group of Black writers, organizers, artists, academics, and cultural figures to discuss the topics the two have dedicated their lives to understanding and teaching: vulnerability and shame resilience.Contributions by Kiese Laymon, Imani Perry, Laverne...
$17.00
You Are Your Best Thing: Vulnerability, Shame Resilience, and the Black Experience
New York Times Best Seller Tarana Burke and Dr. Brené Brown bring together a dynamic group of Black writers, organizers, artists, academics, and cultural figures to discuss the topics the two have dedicated their lives to understanding and teaching: vulnerability and...
$27.00