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  • How We Fight White Supremacy

    A Field Guide to Black Resistance

    by Akiba Solomon, Kenrya Rankin ...
    This celebration of Black resistance, from protests to art to sermons to joy, offers a blueprint for the fight for freedom and justice -- and ideas for how each of us can contributeMany of us are facing unprecedented attacks on our democracy, our privacy, and our hard-won civil rights. If you're Black in the US, this is not new. As Colorlines editors Akiba Solomon and Kenrya Rankin show, Black ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

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  • Naked

    Black Women Bare All About Their Skin, Hair, Hips, Lips, and Other Parts

    Edited by Ayana Byrd, Akiba Solomon ...
    Provocative essays on body image by black women.Candid, witty, and insightful, Naked is a compelling collection of essays that captures what today's black women think about their bodies-from head to toe.Tackling such issues as hair texture, skin color, weight, and sexuality, it follows women on their paths to acceptance-and enjoyment -of their unique features...to a place where it doesn't matter ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • The Return of Simple

    by Langston Hughes ...
    Collected humorous stories from the iconic American writer's newspaper column, featuring his most memorable and spirited fictional character.In 1940, Langston Hughes introduced Jesse B. Semple, or "Simple," to readers in his Chicago Defender column, "From Here to Yonder." From his familiar perch in a fictional Harlem bar, Simple held forth on a variety of subjects—low wages, interracial marriage, ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Getting Started with Bluetooth Low Energy

    Tools and Techniques for Low-Power Networking

    by Kevin Townsend, Carles Cufí, Akiba, Robert Davidson ...
    With Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE), smart devices are about to become even smarter. This practical guide demonstrates how this exciting wireless technology helps developers build mobile apps that share data with external hardware, and how hardware engineers can gain easy and reliable access to mobile operating systems.This book provides a solid, high-level overview of how devices use BLE to ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • Langston Hughes: Short Stories

    by Langston Hughes ...
    Stories capturing "the vibrancy of Harlem life, the passions of ordinary black people, and the indignities of everyday racism" by "a great American writer" ( Kirkus Reviews).This collection of forty-seven stories written between 1919 and 1963—the most comprehensive available—showcases Langston Hughes's literary blossoming and the development of his personal and artistic concerns in the decades ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Sefer Yetzirah

    The Book of Formation

    by Akiba Ben Joseph ...
    Sefer Yetzirah, or the Book of Formation, is among the earliest and most important treatises on Jewish mysticism. Traditionally ascribed to the patriarch Abaraham or the first century CE Rabbi Akiba ben Joseph, Sefer Yetzirah explores how the universe was created through "32 wondrous ways of wisdom", including the ten numbers or aspects of God in Kabbalistic thought, and twenty-two letters, ... Read more

    $12.39 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Organo Main Group Chemistry

    by Kin-ya Akiba ...
    Forging a new association; main group elements and organic chemistryCovering the essentials of all main group elements in organic chemistry, along with the synthesis and reactions of their organic compounds in just one volume, Organo Main Group Chemistry breaks important new ground. While main group chemistry has traditionally been classified as part of inorganic chemistry, this book establishes ... Read more

    $86.00 USD

  • Preventive Diplomacy, Security, and Human Rights in West Africa

    Edited by Okon Akiba ...
    This edited volume focuses on the development and conflict prevention mechanism of the Economic Community of West African States, ECOWAS. The contributors discuss complex socio-political and economic issues and use a cross disciplinary approach to treat most of the dominant research questions in the field. The chapters come nicely together in a kaleidoscope of knowledge deriving from scholarly ... Read more

    $134.99 USD

  • European Governance After Nice

    Edited by Hiroyi Akiba, Koji Fukuda ...
    What is the impact of institutional reform implemented by the Nice Treaty on European Governance? What should be done to enhance democratic legitimacy in the EU? This book provides an up-to-date guide to understanding the European Union as an institution. Globalisation has led to enormous changes in the international environment which, in turn, have demanded institutional reform of the European ... Read more

    $40.99 USD

  • International Handbook of Teacher Quality and Policy

    Edited by Motoko Akiba, Gerald K. LeTendre ...
    The International Handbook of Teacher Quality and Policy is a comprehensive resource that examines how teacher quality is conceptualized, negotiated, and contested, and teacher policies are developed and implemented by global, national, and local policy actors. Edited by two of the leading comparative authorities in the field, it draws on the research and contributions of scholars from across the ... Read more

    $179.99 USD

  • Foreign News on Television

    Where in the World Is the Global Village?

    Edited by Akiba Cohen ...
    Spanning several years of research, this book compares and contrasts how public and commercial TV stations present foreign, domestic, and hybrid news from a number of different countries. It examines what viewers of television news think about foreign news, their interest in it, and what sense they make of it. The book also assesses what the gatekeepers of foreign news – journalists, producers, ... Read more

    $45.99 USD

  • Constitutionalism and Society in Africa

    Edited by Okon Akiba ...
    Series series Contemporary Perspectives on Developing Societies
    The issues addressed in this rewarding book provide new insight into the way we conceive, reflect and study the problems of political transformation and constitution-making in Africa. The study provides a refreshingly in-depth analysis of the strengths and weaknesses of constitutional provisions for managing the challenges of race, religion, ethnicity, citizenship, civil liberties and civil ... Read more

    $64.99 USD