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  • Wealth and Our Commonwealth

    Why America Should Tax Accumulated Fortunes

    by William H. Gates, Chuck Collins ...
    The ‘Man Bites Dog’ story of over 1,000 high net-worth individuals who rose up to protest the repeal of the estate tax made headlines everywhere last year. Central to the organization of what Newsweek tagged the ‘billionaire backlash’ were two visionaries: Bill Gates, Sr., cochair of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, the largest foundation on earth, and Chuck Collins, cofounder of United for ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Planning with Neighborhoods

    by William M. Rohe, Lauren B. Gates ...
    Series series Urban and Regional Policy and Development Studies
    Neighborhood planning programs involve citizens in developing plans and self-help projects for their neighborhoods through local organizations. They also assist residents in reviewing projects developed by city agencies. Based on a survey of fifty–one neighborhood planning programs and in–depth case studies of Atlanta, Cincinnati, Houston, St. Paul, Wilmington, N.C., and Raleigh, Planning with ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • The Portable Charles W. Chesnutt

    by Charles W. Chesnutt, Henry Louis Gates Jr. ...
    A collection from one of our most influential African American writersAn icon of nineteenth-century American fiction, Charles W. Chesnutt, an incisive storyteller of the aftermath of slavery in the South, is widely credited with almost single-handedly inaugurating the African American short story tradition and was the first African American novelist to achieve national critical acclaim. This major ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • Commentary Upon the Maya-Tzental Perez Codex

    by William E. Gates ...
    In presenting this Commentary on the Codex Perez to students of American Archaeology, the Peabody Museum adds another paper to its series relating to the study of the hieroglyphic writing of the ancient peoples of Mexico and Central America. It will be seen that this Commentary is more in the line of suggestion to be expanded after Further studies, than in the way of conclusions. At the close of ... Read more

    $6.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Yucatan Before and After the Conquest

    The Maya

    by Diego de Landa Calderon ...
    Translated by William Gates ...
    A rare firsthand account of Maya life emerges from the same figure responsible for erasing much of it. This translation presents Diego de Landa's defense of his actions in 1562, offering one of the few surviving descriptions of Maya society, ritual practice, scientific knowledge, and artistic traditions before Spanish domination.Framed by William Gates's detailed contextual notes, the text ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • Slave Narratives (LOA #114)

    James Albert Ukawsaw Gronniosaw / Olaudah Equiano / Nat Turner / Frederick Douglass / William Wells Brown / Henry Bibb / Sojourner Truth / William and Ell

    Edited by William L. Andrews, Henry Louis Gates Jr. ...
    This collection of landmark slave narratives demonstrates how a diverse group of writers challenged the conscience of a nation and laid the foundations of the African American literary traditionNo literary genre speaks as directly and as eloquently to the brutal contradictions in American history as the slave narrative. The works collected in this volume present unflinching portrayals of the ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

  • The Autobiography of William Sanders Scarborough

    An American Journey from Slavery to Scholarship

    by William Sanders Scarborough ...
    Series series African American Life
    An important autobiography that reveals the story of William Sanders Scarborough who rose out of slavery to become a renowned classical philologist and African American icon."If W.E.B Du Bois, the antecedent of today's black public intellectuals, himself has an antecedent, it is W. S. Scarborough, the black scholar's scholar." – Henry Louis Gates Jr.This illuminating autobiography traces ... Read more

    $24.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

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    Christian Oeconomie (Unabridged)

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    by William Perkins ...
    Narrated by James Erwin, Frances Gates, Trina Breen, Tisha Powell ...

    Unabridged

    3 hours 3 min

    A Short Survey of the Right Manner of Erecting and Ordering a Family According to the Scriptures. Proverbs 24:3-4 Through wisdom is an house builded, and with understanding it is established. And by knowledge shall the chambers be filled with all precious and pleasant riches. ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

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    The Mother and Child Project

    Raising Our Voices for Health and Hope

    by Melinda Gates, Zondervan ...
    Narrated by Rachel Held Evans, Natalie Grant, James Nardella, Kristen James, Stu Gray, Gabe Wicks, Devon O'day ...

    Unabridged

    6 hours 39 min

    Dozens of influential leaders have heard the pleas of mothers and children in developing countries. Raising their voices to inspire a movement to increase healthy pregnancies and lower death rates, Melinda Gates, Kay Warren, Bill Frist, Kimberly Williams Paisley, Michael W. Smith and more speak out about why people of faith must get involved in The Mother and Child Project: Raising Our Voices for ... Read more

    $23.99 USD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

  • Regulating Cannabis

    A Global Review and Future Directions

    by Toby Seddon, William Floodgate ...
    Series series Law and Criminology (R0)
    This book explores one of the most pressing public policy questions for the 2020s: how should we regulate cannabis? The global cannabis prohibition regime is fragmenting as more countries experiment with decriminalization and legalization, and this book aims to make sense of this rapidly changing world. The ‘cannabis challenge’ is complex. How do we balance creating a potentially lucrative legal ... Read more

    $62.99 USD

  • Gazing Into The Void

    by Horatio Gates, Asia Williams ...
    A collection of poetry that lingered in the dormant of my mind. This has helped me grow as a person and understand my emotions better. Poetry is an ideology in how the poet views reality. ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • An Aztec Herbal

    The Classic Codex of 1552

    Series series Native American
    "I love that this book is the real deal. A truly unique and informative read." — Texas Kitchen and Garden and MoreOriginally written in the Aztec language, Nahuatl, in 1552, this classic codex was the first herbal and medical text compiled in the New World. The author of this extraordinarily rare and valuable document was Martín de la Cruz, an Aztec physician, whose work was subsequently ... Read more

    $9.99 USD