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The Thousand Families by Ali Shabani, former court journalist and writer under Mohammad Reza Shah, is a lively and entertaining anecdotal history o...

Why is it that the more advanced our society becomes, the unhappier we are?Seeking an answer from the only honest perspective, Tobias Jones and his...

Selected from his newspaper feature which appeared in most major black newspapers from 1945 to 1986, this fourth installment of George L. Lee's ...

Though Latin America has a strong tradition of poetry, many of its best poets remain untranslated in the United States. Elias Nandino (1900-1993...

2014 Locus Awards Finalist, Nonfiction Category In this hip, accessible primer to the music, literature, and art of Afrofuturism, author Ytasha Wom...

African American theater buildings were theaters owned or managed by blacks or whites for an African American audience. Such theaters included nick...

In 1912, Guillermo Calles (1893-1958) became the first Mexican actor to appear in films made in California. Despite limited resources, he began ...

In this pioneering study of slavery in colonial Ecuador and southern Colombia-Spain's Kingdom of Quito-Sherwin Bryant argues that the most fundamen...

This handbook of urban transportation planning presents case studies detailing 40 best practices from 33 states in the U.S. and 19 countries on ...

For as long as an American naval force has existed, black sailors have served it with bravery, distinction, and little or no recognition. They h...

This book looks at the movement of urban American blacks into the Midwest through the experience of Iowa City, a town desperately trying to rede...

Throughout its 300-year modern history, Saigon has remained the unknown city of the Mekong Delta. This historical text examines the development of ...

Super serious Asahi Suzumura and laidback, easygoing Mitsuki Sayama might seem like an odd couple, but they made a deal; they'll vacation around th...

Examining the development of gay American fiction and providing an essential reading list, this literary survey covers 257 works--novels, novell...

Bachata--a guitar-based romantic music that debuted in Santo Domingo's urban shantytowns in the 1960s--is today one of the hottest Latin genres....

This book investigates efforts to promote the political and economic unification of Latin America. Every generation of the region has known some ef...

This book is a record of the men and events, team by team, during Major League Baseball's integration. It focuses especially on the owners, exec...