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The All-American Skin Game, or Decoy of Race
Written by Stanley Crouch

eBook | 288 pages | Knopf Group E-Books | Social Science - African-American Studies
978-0-307-55421-5 (0-307-55421-X)

November 17, 2010 | $21.00



In this brilliantly acerbic collection of essays--a New York Times Notable Book in 1995--Stanley Crouch confirms that he is one of the most eloquent and unpredictable commentators on race and culture in American society--something already known to anyone who's seen him on 60 Minutes or read his columns in The Village...

Also available as a trade paperback.

The Big 40!

eBook | 192 pages | Crown | Social Science - Popular Culture
978-0-307-51419-6 (0-307-51419-6)

November 17, 2010 | $17.95



Do you know someone turning the Big 40?

Are you approaching the age yourself and worried about being “over the hill”? Are you looking for the perfect birthday gift? Featuring everything you wanted to know about your 40s—and a few things you probably didn’t—The Big 40! offers a chance to reflect on...

Also available as a hardcover.

Blues Legacies and Black Feminism
Written by Angela Y. Davis

eBook | 464 pages | Vintage | Social Science - Women's Studies; Social Science - African-American Studies; Music - Blues
978-0-307-57444-2 (0-307-57444-X)

November 17, 2010 | $21.00





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Fangoria's 101 Best Horror Movies You've Never Seen
Written by Adam Lukeman

eBook | 288 pages | Three Rivers Press | Performing Arts - Film - Guides & Reviews; Social Science - Popular Culture
978-0-307-52347-1 (0-307-52347-0)

November 17, 2010 | $15.95



A FEAST OF FRIGHTFUL FLICKS WAITING TO BE REDISCOVERED

As the leading name in the world of horror, Fangoria magazine has been the source of information for fans of fright flicks for more than twenty years—covering feature films, video games, comic books, collectibles, and all aspects of horror entertainment. Working closely with...


Flash of the Spirit

eBook | 336 pages | Vintage | Art - History - African; Social Science - African-American Studies
978-0-307-87433-7 (0-307-87433-8)

November 17, 2010 | $22.95



This book reveals how five distinct African civilizations have shaped the specific cultures of their New World descendants.


From the Trade Paperback edition.

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Foxfire 11

eBook | 336 pages | Knopf Group E-Books | Crafts & Hobbies; Social Science - Folklore & Mythology; Education
978-0-307-56756-7 (0-307-56756-7)

November 17, 2010 | $23.00



With this newest volume in the Foxfire series comes a wealth of the kind of folk wisdom and values of simple living that have made these volumes beloved bestsellers for the last three decades, with more than two million copies in print.

In 1966, in the Appalachian Mountains of Northeast Georgia, Eliot...

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Foxfire 3
Written by Foxfire Fund, Inc.
Edited by Eliot Wigginton

eBook | 512 pages | Knopf Group E-Books | Crafts & Hobbies; Social Science - Folklore & Mythology; Education
978-0-307-47767-5 (0-307-47767-3)

November 17, 2010 | $23.00



Volume 3 of this series covers animal care, banjos and dulcimers, wild plant foods, butter churns, ginseng and more.


From the Trade Paperback edition.

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The House That Race Built
Edited by Wahneema Lubiano

eBook | 336 pages | Knopf Group E-Books | Social Science - African-American Studies
978-0-307-55679-0 (0-307-55679-4)

November 17, 2010 | $21.00





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How Soon Is Never?
Written by Marc Spitz

eBook | 400 pages | Three Rivers Press | Fiction; Social Science - Popular Culture
978-0-307-53116-2 (0-307-53116-3)

November 17, 2010 | $15.95



There is a light and it never goes out . . . or is there?

Welcome to the big Reagan ’80s, where ketchup is a vegetable and the Cold War looms large and chilly. If like Joe Green you were coming of age during this boom era, your main concerns include one...

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How to Marry A Black Man

eBook | 256 pages | Broadway | Social Science - African-American Studies
978-0-307-75492-9 (0-307-75492-8)

November 17, 2010 | $10.95





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In Ruins

eBook | 288 pages | Knopf Group E-Books | Social Science - Archaeology
978-0-307-53198-8 (0-307-53198-8)

November 17, 2010 | $21.00



In this enchanting meditation on ruins, Christopher Woodward takes us on a thousand-year journey from the plains of Troy to the monuments of ancient Rome, from the crumbling palaces of Sicily, Cuba, and Zanzibar to the rubble of the London Blitz. With an exquisite sense of romantic melancholy, we encounter the...

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In Small Things Forgotten
Written by James Deetz

eBook | 304 pages | Anchor | History - United States - Colonial Period (1600-1775); Social Science - Archaeology
978-0-307-87438-2 (0-307-87438-9)

November 17, 2010 | $19.95



History is recorded in many ways. According to  author James Deetz, the past can be seen most fully  by studying the small things so often forgotten.  Objects such as doorways, gravestones, musical  instruments, and even shards of pottery fill in the  cracks between large historical events and depict  the intricacies of daily life. In his completely  revised and...

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Indian Givers
Written by Jack Weatherford

eBook | 288 pages | Ballantine Books | History - Native American; Social Science - Native American Studies; Literary Criticism & Collections - Native American
978-0-307-75539-1 (0-307-75539-8)

November 17, 2010 | $18.95



"As entertaining as it is thoughtful...Few contemporary writers have Weatherford's talent for making the deep sweep of history seem vital and immediate."
THE WASHINGTON POST
After 500 years, the world's huge debt to the wisdom of the Indians of the Americas has finally been explored in all its vivid drama by anthropologist Jack...

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Making Whiteness

eBook | 448 pages | Knopf Group E-Books | History - United States - 20th Century; Social Science - African-American Studies; Social Science - Discrimination & Race Relations
978-0-307-48793-3 (0-307-48793-8)

November 17, 2010 | $24.00



Making Whiteness is a profoundly important work that explains how and why whiteness came to be such a crucial, embattled--and distorting--component of twentieth-century American identity.  In intricately textured detail and with passionately mastered analysis, Grace Elizabeth Hale shows how, when faced with the active citizenship of their ex-slaves after the Civil War...

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The Mars Mystery
Written by Graham Hancock

eBook | 368 pages | Three Rivers Press | Social Science - Archaeology; History
978-0-307-55779-7 (0-307-55779-0)

November 17, 2010 | $8.99



An asteroid transformed Mars from a lush planet with rivers and oceans into a bleak and icy hell. Is Earth condemned to the same fate, or can we protect ourselves and our planet from extinction?

In his most riveting and revealing book yet, Graham Hancock examines the evidence that the barren Red...

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