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  • Steady Change

    Changing is Hard, Make it Stick

    by Brent Edward McNamara ...
    Steady Change: Changing is Hard, Make it Stick, is a self-help book written for people who are trying to change something, anything, about themselves. Whether it's substance use, co-dependency, or something altogether different, Steady Change shares what works and what doesn't work. The author is a recovering addict and professional addiction counselor. His years in recovery and in the field of ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

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  • Easily Slip into Another World

    A Life in Music

    by Henry Threadgill, Brent Hayes Edwards ...
    **A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF THE YEAR • An autobiography of one of the towering figures of contemporary American music and a powerful meditation on history, race, capitalism, and art.A Best Book of the Year: The New York Times, NPR*, The New Yorker***Henry Threadgill has had a singular life in music. At 79, the saxophonist, flautist, and celebrated composer is one of three jazz artists ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

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  • The Global Education Policy Field

    Theorization and Problematization

    Edited by D. Brent Edwards Jr ...
    This book challenges conventional approaches to global education policy (GEP) by exploring its often-overlooked onto-epistemic and religio-spiritual dimensions. Through eight thought-provoking chapters, leading scholars critically examine how fundamental questions of knowing, being, and worldview shape the field's theoretical foundations and practical implications.The contributors delve deep into ... Read more

    $77.99 USD

  • The Global Governance of Education and Sustainable Development

    Edited by D. Brent Edwards, Jr., Amber Webb, M Niaz Asadullah, Husaina Banu Kenayathulla ...
    Series series Education (R0)
    This book offers insights into the development and implementation of Sustainable Development Goal 4, the UN’s global education agenda. It highlights important tensions within the agenda and identifies key topics to address as we move closer to--and beyond--the conclusion of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs, 2015-2030). Novel research, new perspectives, and critical reflection on these ... Read more

    $179.09 USD

  • The Souls of Black Folk

    by W. E. B. Du Bois ...
    Series series Oxford World's Classics
    'The problem of the twentieth-century is the problem of the color-line.' Originally published in 1903, The Souls of Black Folk is a classic study of race, culture, and education at the turn of the twentieth century. With its singular combination of essays, memoir, and fiction, this book vaulted W. E. B. Du Bois to the forefront of American political commentary and civil rights activism. The Souls ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

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  • Banjo

    by Claude McKay ...
    **Claude McKay’s picaresque of 1920s Marseille, a paean to Black diasporaA Penguin Classic**On the shores of the Vieux Port of Marseille, Lincoln Agrippa Daily, better known as “Banjo,” panhandles alongside friends and fellow migrants, busking at bars and escaping drunken scrums, in search of money, wine, camaraderie, and a good time. As Banjo and the “beach boys” drift through the dives of “The ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

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  • The Souls of Black Folk

    by W. E. B. Du Bois ...
    Series series Oxford World's Classics
    'The problem of the twentieth-century is the problem of the color-line.' Originally published in 1903, The Souls of Black Folk is a classic study of race, culture, and education at the turn of the twentieth century. With its singular combination of essays, memoir, and fiction, this book vaulted W. E. B. Du Bois to the forefront of American political commentary and civil rights activism. The Souls ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobooks

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  • The Practice of Diaspora

    Literature, Translation, and the Rise of Black Internationalism

    by Brent Hayes Edwards ...
    A pathbreaking work of scholarship that will reshape our understanding of the Harlem Renaissance, The Practice of Diaspora revisits black transnational culture in the 1920s and 1930s, paying particular attention to links between intellectuals in New York and their Francophone counterparts in Paris. Brent Edwards suggests that diaspora is less a historical condition than a set of practices: the ... Read more

    $34.49 USD

  • Uptown Conversation

    The New Jazz Studies

    Edited by Robert O'Meally, Brent Hayes Edwards, Farah Jasmine Griffin ...
    Jackson Pollock dancing to the music as he painted; Romare Bearden's stage and costume designs for Alvin Ailey and Dianne McIntyre; Stanley Crouch stirring his high-powered essays in a room where a drumkit stands at the center: from the perspective of the new jazz studies, jazz is not only a music to define—it is a culture. Considering musicians and filmmakers, painters and poets, the intellectual ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

  • ......And the Dogs Were Silent/......Et les chiens se taisaient

    by Aimé Césaire ...
    Translated by Alex Gil ...
    Available to readers for the first time, Aimé Césaire’s three-act drama . . . . . . And the Dogs Were Silent—written during the Vichy regime in Martinique in 1943 and lost until 2008—dramatizes the Haitian Revolution and the rise and fall of Toussaint Louverture as its heroic leader. This bilingual English and French edition stands apart from Césaire’s more widely known 1946 closet drama. ... Read more

    $20.89 USD

  • New Technology in Sociology

    Practical Applications in Research and Work

    by Grant Blank, James L. McCartney, Edward Brent ...
    When technology has been applied in business environments, its justification has usually been cast in terms of saving time or saving money. In the social sciences, the justification must be different; the viability of sociology as a profession, for example, will not be enhanced by cost reductions. The focus in this volume is on a different bottom l ... Read more

    $68.99 USD

  • Amiable with Big Teeth

    by Claude McKay ...
    A monumental literary event: the newly discovered final novel by seminal Harlem Renaissance writer Claude McKay, a rich and multilayered portrayal of life in 1930s Harlem and a historical protest for black freedomOne of The Atlantic’s Great American Novels of the Past 100 YearsThe unexpected discovery in 2009 of a completed manuscript of Claude McKay’s final novel was celebrated as one of the most ... Read more

    $10.99 USD