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Martin Robison Delany (1812-1885) was an African-American abolitionist, journalist, physician, and author. He was one of the first three black people admitted to Harvard Medical School. Delany dreamed of establishing a settlement in West Africa and visited Liberia, a United States colony founded by the American Colonization Society. He was a prolific writer, and his book The Origin and Objects of Ancient Freemasonry, Its Introduction Into the United States, and Legitimacy Among Colored Men was published 1853.

In his 1920 book The Jews of Africa, Mendelssohn attempts to chart the separate and progressive histories of the Jews in the different parts of Africa where they lived since their expulsion from the land by the Romans. He succeeds in compiling a narrative of a large part of the histories of the Jews of Africa during the centuries following the Romans’ destruction of Jerusalem.

Edward Wilmot Blyden (1832-1912) was a diplomat, educator, writer and politician. Born in the West Indies, he migrated to Liberia in 1851. Blyden’s writings on pan-Africanism were influential in Liberia and Sierra Leone, the two countries founded in the time of slavery for the resettlement of free blacks from the United Kingdom and the United States. Blyden believed that Zionism was a model for what he termed Ethiopianism, and that African-Americans could return to Africa and redeem it.

The Mysterious and Prophetic History of Esau Considered (1837) by J H Heath examines the numerous biblical prophecies on Edom and Esau. Drawing on the books of Exodus, Daniel, and Revelation, the author first looks at the history of the Patriarchs, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, and their families, to identify Ishmael and Esau with Edom.

Vietnamese Made Easy with AJ is a book that has been compiled and designed for foreigners who are living and working in Vietnam or for people who want to know more about the people, language, and culture of Vietnam. Vietnamese Made Easy with AJ is designed simply and practically, enabling learners to study by themselves and to be able to communicate effectively with Vietnamese people.

The Things You Left is a 37-story collection built on magical realism and seemingly inconsequential moments between sweet and strange loners that meet in the space between the heart and the mind. A couple throw plates at each other for therapy, a cat shape shifts into a woman, a man is obsessed with canned tuna, a woman relives time with her lover through objects left behind.

In a world full of comparison, it is important to impart to children at a young age that no matter your differences in this world, you are important and play a role in the body of Christ. Your gifts may be different from those around you, but that does not make you lesser than anyone. A follow up to Chayla Cooper’s book Thank You God, You Belong continues to utilize Christian teachings by following a young ant who is about to embark on a journey into the unknown and doesn’t understand why God would choose her when her gifts aren’t as great as those around her.

"Nils, Retter der Galaxis" ist eine neue Hörbuchserie für Kinder ab neun Jahren. Geschrieben wurde sie exklusiv für Audible von Jens Baumeister, der kleine Hörbuchfans diesmal auf eine abenteuerliche Reise in die Weiten des Weltalls mitnimmt. Was für ein Dilemma! Die Zerstörung der Erde steht kurz bevor - und nur der elfjährige Nils kann die drohende Katastrophe verhindern. Ganz allein ist er zum Glück nicht: Zur Hilfe kommen ihm Stella, die Besserwisserin aus der Parallelklasse, und der interstellare Agent Arktus, der dummerweise im Körper eines schwarzen Katers feststeckt.

The Jamaican orator and entrepreneur Marcus Mosiah Garvey Jr. (1887-1940) preached success to the African diaspora. He believed that attaining economic, cultural, and political success would free African Americans in this life. Identifying integrity of character as the first step toward achievement, Garvey promoted capitalism as the means to establish African Americans as an independent group.

Henry Morton Stanley (1841-1904) was a Welsh explorer and journalist. Famous for his meeting with the missionary and explorer David Livingstone, Stanley searched for the source of the Nile as an agent of King Leopold II of Belgium. In Origin of the Negro Race, he attempts an ethnographic description of the continent’s people beginning with Egypt and the North.

Garnet’s 1848 address to the Female Benevolent Society of Troy, New York, was published as The Past and the Present Condition and the Destiny of the Colored Race. In it, he elaborated on his convictions that the ancient Egyptians were Africans, that the Nubian warriors of Kush were celebrated by Homer, that the Song of Solomon was addressed to an African woman, that Moses’ wife was Nubian, and that Hannibal, Euclid, Origen, and Augustine were of African ancestry.

Benjamin Tucker Tanner (1835-1923) was an editor, historian, and prominent theologian of his time who founded The Christian Recorder, an early African American newspaper. In his 1895 book The Color of Solomon, he contends that King Solomon of the Bible did not belong to the white race.

Reverend Richard A. Morrisey (born 1858) was an African-American biblical scholar, a Doctor of Divinity, and the pastor of a number of churches in the South and in Pennsylvania. In 1915, he published Bible History of the Negro, with the hope of inspiring a greater desire to read the Bible which he describes as giving "the Negro a place among the foremost races of the world, in wealth, in education, in honor and in religion, a history to which every member of the race may point with great pride and profound gratitude to Almighty God today”.

Aphra Behn (1640-1689) was an English playwright, poet, translator, and fiction writer from the Restoration era. Oroonoko (1688) is a unique early example of the novel genre. It employs a first-person narrative from a female perspective and addresses some of the controversial political, economic, and social issues of the time. The injustices of the slave trade are exposed through the author’s graphic account of the cruel realities of life in the English colonies.

In November of 1978, while on a visit to New York to speak at the United Nations, Gopi Krishna was interviewed by Dr. Louis Rogers, author of numerous books and publisher of Inner Paths magazine. The interview covered a wide range of topics, including the personal experience of kundalini, meditation, mantras, miracles, psychic phenomena, and the most effective way to achieve success in a spiritual practice.

Luisa Villareal has worked her entire life to find a place in academia. Her love of Shakespeare has driven her, since middle school, to higher and higher levels of scholarship. Now, in April 2014, she finally has her chance to make it at an Ivy League institution. After convincing a renowned association and her university, Assistant Professor Villareal prepares to host the association's annual Shakespeare symposium. Moreover, 2014 marked the 450th anniversary of Shakespeare's birth and death, giving the event added mystique.

Den ganzen Sommer über haben die Bolzplatzhelden hart für den diesjährigen City Cup trainiert - schließlich wollen sie ihn diesmal gewinnen! Anfangs läuft es richtig gut, doch dann scheitern sie am FC Dreckerrode und müssen sich geschlagen geben. Doch irgendwas stimmt da nicht. In der ersten Halbzeit waren ihre Gegner noch ziemlich müde, aber nach der Pause waren sie wie ausgewechselt. Super schnell und stark im Zuspiel. Als Pepe sich einen Tipp vom Stürmer abholen will, macht er eine gefährliche Entdeckung. Können die Bolzplatzhelden das Geheimnis aufklären?

The Rev. Calvin Dill Wilson (1857-1946) was an author and Presbyterian minister. In Black Masters of 1904, he discusses the little-known history of the free African-Americans that bought and sold slaves just like Southern white planters. Free colored men and women could own their families and in this way protect them against oppressive local laws. There was also the desire to attain a position of superiority over other blacks, an ambition to rise to the class of the masters and to be on the same level as white men.

The Moors in Spain is an overview of the Moorish conquest of the Iberian Peninsula. Stanley Edward Lane-Poole (1854 - 1931), the author, was a noted British archaeologist.

Dr. William Lucius Hunter, MD (1850-1915) was a clergyman of the African Methodist-Episcopal Church and a physician who graduated at the University of Buffalo in 1890. In his 1901 book Jesus Christ Had Negro Blood in His Veins, Dr. Hunter researches scripture in order to fight segregation and abuse. He identifies Canaanites as being black and claimed that several important Jewish figures and ancestors of Jesus had children by this group of people. Hunter came to the conclusion that Jesus had black ancestry dating back to Ham, the son of Noah.