Encyclopedia Of African American Culture And History: The Black Experience In The Americas (Encyclopedia of African American Culture and History) 6 vol. set

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not that many movies.......2007-03-20

The dictionary lists movies with predominantly Negro themes, and also Negro actors. As you might expect, famous movies like "In the Heat of the Night" and stars like Sidney Poitier and Harry Belafonte are described. The text also gives listings for topics like the late, unlamented "blackface" custom of early vaudeville and movies.

Note that as far as Negro-related movies go, there are very few before the late 1960s. Plus, if you look at the actors, few of them rose to prominence before then, in any type of movies. All this of course reflects the pervasive discrimination of earlier times. While the book seems impressively comprehensive, there really aren't that many movies in it, compared to all the films made in the US since the 1910s.

Encyclopedia Of African History And Culture

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Encyclopedia Of African History And Culture
Willie F. Page , and R. Hunt Davis
Manufacturer: Facts on File
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Binding: Hardcover

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ASIN: 0816051992

Encyclopedia of the African Diaspora: Origins, Experiences, and Culture

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Encyclopedia of the African Diaspora: Origins, Experiences, and Culture

Manufacturer: ABC-CLIO
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Release Date: 2008-02-24

The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture: Volume 6: Ethnicity (New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture)

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The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture: Volume 6: Ethnicity (New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture)

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ASIN: 0807858234

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Moving beyond racial designations of "black," "white," and "Indian," this volume of The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture complicates and enriches our understanding of "southernness" by demonstrating the extent to which it exists as a fabric of many cultures. This exploration of southern ethnicities examines the ways people "perform" their cultural identities through, among other things, dress, dance, and family tradition. Contributors identify 88 major ethnic groups that have lived in the South from the Mississippian Period (1000-1600 C.E.) to the present.

The African-American Experience: Selections from the Five-Volume Macmillan Encyclopedia of African-American culture and history (Macmillan Information Now Encyclopedia)

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The African-American Experience: Selections from the Five-Volume Macmillan Encyclopedia of African-American culture and history (Macmillan Information Now Encyclopedia)

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The five-volume Encyclopedia of African-American Culture and History is the ultimate reference work on the lives and significance of African Americans. Since it was published in 1996, however, scholars, students, and general readers have asked for a single-volume version. This book, part of the Macmillan Information Now Encyclopedia series, fills that need. Noted scholars such as Gerald Early (Washington University), Robert Hill (UCLA), and Nell Painter (Princeton University) have contributed over 400 entries on a wide variety of subjects, from Hammerin' Hank Aaron to zydeco. Many of the entries take the form of brief biographies of important African Americans, including civil-rights activists Ella Baker and Martin Luther King Jr., musicians Ray Charles and Miles Davis, writers Alex Haley and Toni Morrison, and sports figures Jackie Joyner-Kersee and Tiger Woods. Other entries focus on important events (Dred Scott v. Sandford, the Attica uprising), artistic movements (Harlem Renaissance, gospel music), places (New Orleans, Tuskegee University), and broader subjects (abolition, reconstruction, folklore). Throughout the book, cross-references, quotations, and definitions of unfamiliar terms appear in the margins and a detailed index helps you find what you're looking for. The text is scholarly yet readable and would be a valuable addition to any library. --C.B. Delaney

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Adapted from the award-winning Encyclopedia of African-American Culture and History , The African-American Experience summary of African-American history from 1619 to the present.

This authoritative reference features fascinating photographs, enduring quotations by notable Americans, and exciting articles about the people, places, ideas and statistics that constitute the African-American experience.

You'll also find informative biographies of history's most extraordinary African-Americans, including:

· Muhammad Ali
· Billie Holiday
· Marian Anderson
· Bill Cosby
· Jesse Owens
· Duke Ellington
· And many more!

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This widely acclaimed and highly regarded book, embraced by students, scholars, policymakers, and activists, now appears in a new edition. Using the theme of visions seen by those who dreamed of what might be, Lauren explores the dramatic transformation of a world patterned by centuries of traditional structures of authority, gender abuse, racial prejudice, class divisions and slavery, colonial empires, and claims of national sovereignty into a global community that now boldly proclaims that the way governments treat their own people is a matter of international concern--and sets the goal of human rights "for all peoples and all nations."

Lauren makes clear the truly universal nature of this movement by drawing into his discussion people and cultures in every part of the globe. In this regard, the book offers particularly remarkable revelations and insights when analyzing the impact of wars and revolutions, non-Western nations, struggles against sexism and racism, liberation movements and decolonization, nongovernmental organizations, and the courage and determination of countless numbers of common men and women who have contributed to the evolution of international human rights.

This new edition incorporates the most recent developments of the International Criminal Court, the arrest of Augusto Pinochet and the trial of Slobodan Milosevic, technology and the Internet, the impact of NGOs like Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch, globalization, terrorism, and the aftermath of the September 11 terrorist attacks.

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Quality Book.......2005-09-14

I was very satisfied with the text book. It is in almost perfect condition and was delievered in a timely fashion. Impressive! Plus I saved a lot of needed money.

A Truly International History of Human rRights.......2001-10-09

One of the major things that striked me about this book is Lauren's acknowledgement that the concept of human rights is not a completely Western creation. Traditions around the world, political, cultural, and religious, have stressed justice and equality.
Lauren's treatment of Human Rights is quite thorough. I have to commend him for the fact that he does not value judgements on any of the events he described. He acknowledges the mistakes made but does not dwell on them.
I also learned a lot of things about history that wasn't touched about in my history classes. I can say that I actually felt smarter reading this book. :)

The Best book ever written on Human Rights Theory.......2001-06-22

The author Paul Gordon Lauren deserves kudos!! A very well written book on Human Rights Theory. A must for all those who seriously want to go into depth on this subject. The concept of Human Rights is not limited to the western world nor it is proper to say that it has arisen mainly from Europe, an idea which has been very well captured in this book.

a wonderful book.......2000-07-18

"For scholars of international human rights, it is difficult to imagine a finer gift on the fiftieth anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights than this study of the Declaration's complex and far-reaching impact. Paul Gordon Lauren has skillfully combined a detailed history of the legal documents with the political, philosophical, and social contexts in which they developed. He has further enriched his study with the personal visions of leading individuals so that the story comes alive, unfolding with a human drama supported by meticulous scholarly research." -- American Historical Review

outstanding.......2000-01-26

Awarded an Outstanding Academic Book for 1999 Award from Choice Magazine

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Bigger than a brontosaurus, more cutting-edge than a T-rex's tooth-The Scientific American Book of Dinosaurs is the book for le-gions of dino-lovers everywhere. New and classic essays by some of the most respected names in paleontology grace its pages: Robert Bakker illustrates the new and unprecedented wave of dinosaur discoveries around the world, while David J. Var-ricchio discusses the familial relationships of dinosaurs. Walter Alvarez and Vincent Courtillot debate their theories of mass extinc-tion, and Ken Carpenter describes the latest techno-logies and basic techniques of excavating fossils. Together, they provide a de-tailed impression of what life was like for the thunder lizards: what they looked like, how they acted and interacted, what they ate, where they lived, and how they died. With a sharp, ac-cess-ible design and loads of illustrations, this book is truly something to roar about.

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Best dinosaur book I own, hands down........2007-04-10

I read Scientific American fairly regularly, and so thought this might be a good book to try. After only a few chapters I was highly impressed. Most books I've bought on the subject are really just lists of dinosaurs with a few blurbs and factoids set against some pretty art, while others are heavy on the mechanics of paleontology and talk about things like the strata of rock you find fossils is (which while important info, can be rather boring.) This book has a high level of detail, while not getting boring. For example, I had only a vaugue idea of what cladistics was, and thought it would be boring even if I did, but the essay on the subject was very simple without being condescending. If you like dinosaur books, but are tired of too much artwork with no substance behind them, this book is for you.

Splendid Overview Of Dinosaur Paleobiology.......2003-09-19

"The Scientific American book of Dinosaurs" edited by distinguished artist and vertebrate paleontologist Gregory S. Paul is a splendid summary of the current state of knowledge of dinosaurian paleobiology. Although there are a couple of classic articles included in this volume, most notably Robert Bakker's "Dinosaur Renaissance", published in Scientific American in the mid 1970's - which sets the tone of much of the book's contents - most of the text is comprised of recent Scientific American articles or new essays commissioned for this volume. The first two chapters are an overview of the history of dinosaur paleontology and the history of reconstructing dinosaurs from both an artistic and scientific perspective. Chapter Three contains several articles on dinosaur systematics, emphasizing the relationships between living dinosaurs (birds) and their nearest cousins, small predatory theropods such as Velociraptor and Deinonychus, and their larger cousins, the tyrannosaurids, most notably Albertosaurus, and of course, Tyrannosaurus. It closes with an elegant essay on the origin of birds and their flight by distinguished paleobiologists Kevin Padian and Luis Chiappe. Chapter Four is an overview of the physical geography and climate of the middle and late Mesozoic Era, when dinosaurs were the dominant creatures on land. Chapter Five delves into intriguing reconstructions of dinosaur behavior, from locomotion, and food gathering to nesting and the rearing of young. Chapter Six contains several essays on dinosaur bioenergetics, exploring issues such as how rapidly they grew and whether they were - or were not warm blooded creatures. Chapter Seven is devoted to the demise of non-avian dinosaurs at the end of the Mesozoic, focusing on extraterrestrial impacts as the likely "smoking gun" for their extinction. Finally, in Chapter Eight, Gregory Paul offers some interesting speculations on the future of dinosaur paleobiology. This is absolutely a must read for anyone fascinated with dinosaurs, replete with many first-rate drawings and color plates of dinosaurs and their world.

Nice art, terrible science.......2002-11-14

If you're looking for a rehash of a few good old articles, plus a set of new articles that are in general of very poor quality, and some decent artwork (most old, some new) then this book is fine for you.

But if you're looking for quality dinosaur science, then this book will greatly disappoint you. The new articles are laden with assertions lacking in concrete data, are generally awful in writing quality, and offer a very narrow view of dinosaur science, with alternative viewpoints barely mentioned. These articles' authors are just a few of the editor's friends, not the best and brightest in the field. Together, these new articles destroy the quality of the book, in my opinion. They are sad, weak, shameful science. I was very disappointed.

The Scientific American Book of Dinosaurs.......2002-11-04

The Scientific American Book of Dinosaurs edited by Gregory S. Paul is a book that combined with the essays that preceed its chapters bring the most current knowledge about dinosaurs to light.

The essays contained within this book are written by some of the foremost thinkers of today about dinosaur life long, long ago. This book attempts to answers some of the most commonly asked questions about dinosaurs; where did they live, how did they evolve, which dinosaur families lived where and when, how did they look, act live, were dinosaurs warm-blooded, did they have feathers, did some of them fly, are birds of today the living descendants of dinosaurs, how are dinosaurs named?

These are just a few of the questions that are answered by some of the best minds now working on these questions from the knowledge of the fossil remains found. You have to remember that the knowledge that is found here has been debated for years and may not be all conclusive, but the best quess is given from some of the most sensational finds.

We are given a remarkable tour of the 140-million-year reign of the dinosaur, a tour that covers some of the most exotic animals that ever walked the earth. This book is written for adults and is not a childrens book.

Excellent Book!.......2002-04-24

This book is up to date and very informative. It has various skeletal rescontructions including one of T .rex in four different views, with muscular and life rescontruction all in one page! By Gregory Paul!! This collection of articles from real paleontologists is a must have in any serious dino-freak's library.

Great Extinctions of the Past (Scientific American)

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Great Extinctions of the Past (Scientific American)
Randi Mehling
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The Scientific American Book of Dinosaurs

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The Scientific American Book of Dinosaurs
Gregory Paul
Manufacturer: St. Martin's Griffin
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Practical, realistic, and easy-to-follow, this book reveals how to tread the earth more lightly, making it a better place to live. Offered are tips on using less energy at home and wasting less paper at work, which are easily incorporated into everyday life and allow individuals to live more responsibly without making dramatic or expensive sacrifices to lifestyle. Addressed are such topics as energy, genetically modified food, packaging, recycling, shopping, cosmetics, and fashion. Pertinent environmental concepts such as global warming are explained and put into a local context.

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Going green with syle!.......2005-03-26

Greeniology is the most fun and valuable book I've purchased in years. It's stock full of fantastic tips on easy ways to a greener lifestsyle -- it's elgantly designed and loads of fun to read. Tanya Ha takes you through every room in the house, from the greener bedroom and kitchen to the green office and garden. And this isn't just the same old, how to save water tips list - this guide is truly comprehensive, creative, effective and totally practical. So far, Tanya's adivce has made my little house warmer in winter, cooler in summer, cleaner and healthier. Plus, I've cut down, not only on energy consumption, but made serious reductions in costs and chemicals too (she's even got me and my friends making our own lavendar scented cleanser). I've also consulted the guide when it's come to buying appliances, or deciding between products. I pick it up again and again, always amazed at the new ways it proves invaluable. Grab a copy, you won't be dissapointed.

Tanya Ha, Greeniology: How to live well, be green and make a difference.(Book Review): An article from: Journal of Australian Studies

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Tanya Ha, Greeniology: How to live well, be green and make a difference.(Book Review): An article from: Journal of Australian Studies
Lisette Kaleveld
Manufacturer: University of Queensland Press
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Binding: Digital
ASIN: B000821IB0
Release Date: 2005-07-31

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This digital document is an article from Journal of Australian Studies, published by University of Queensland Press on September 1, 2003. The length of the article is 605 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Tanya Ha, Greeniology: How to live well, be green and make a difference.(Book Review)
Author: Lisette Kaleveld
Publication: Journal of Australian Studies (Refereed)
Date: September 1, 2003
Publisher: University of Queensland Press
Issue: 79 Page: 197(2)

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