This book explores Africa's involvement in the Atlantic world from the fifteenth century to the eighteenth century. It focuses especially on the causes and consequences of the slave trade, in Africa, in Europe, and in the New World. African institutions, political events, and economic structures shaped Africa's voluntary involvement in the Atlantic arena before 1680. Africa's economic and military strength gave African elites the capacity to determine how trade with Europe developed. Thorn...

The Questioning of Intelligence is an inquiry by intelligence of intelligence. It is a questioning of the ground on which we understand our selves and our capacity for intelligent thought and action. Our means of inquiry is the way of phenomenology, the way of entering the immediacy of consciousness, now. It is from here we investigate the philosophical and scientific inheritance that has formed the collective understanding we currently have of our place in the universe. ...

The Brooks Brothers Suit and Other Stories is John’s fourth book, the first, however, as a collection of short stories about persons and events during his pastoral ministry over fifty-six years as a deacon, priest and bishop of the Episcopal Church. Forthcoming is a collection of poems titled Moon and Fog and Poems of Land and Spirit.

John Thornton Caldwell’s landmark Specworld demonstrates how twenty-first-century media industries monetize and industrialize creative labor at all levels of production. Through illuminating case studies and rich ethnography of colliding social-media and filmmaking practices, Caldwell takes readers into the world of production workshopping and trade mentoring to show media production as an untidy social construct rather than a unified, stable practice. This messy complex system, h...

Warfare in Atlantic Africa, 1500-1800 investigates the impact of warfare on the history of Africa in the period of the slave trade and the founding of empires. It includes the discussion of:: * the relationship between war and the slave trade * the role of Europeans in promoting African wars and supplying African armies * the influence of climatic

Based on substantial new research from primary sources and archives, this accessible interpretative history of West Central Africa from earliest times to 1852 gives comprehensive and in-depth coverage of the region. With equal focus given to both internal histories or inter-state interactions and external dynamics and relationships, this study represents an original approach to regional histories which goes beyond the existing scholarship on the area. By contextualising and expanding its r...

Understanding the young adults who came of age during the rise of China's economic and global powerThis book by a prominent Chinese sociologist explores how China's youth will influence the country's future. Focusing on millennials-those born between the early 1980s and the mid-1990s-the book examines the status, lifestyles, attitudes, values, and behaviors of this key segment of the country's population. Li Chunling's study presents a native Chinese perspective on ...

A classic Christian text from the founder of the Jesuit Order.The Spiritual Exercises of St. Ignatius of Loyola is the core work of religious formation for members of the Society of Jesus, the single largest religious order within the Roman Catholic Church. For four and a half centuries in many thousands of editions in all languages, The Exercises have embodied fundamental spiritual principles essential to authentic Christian living.The my...

Have you actually read the whole of Pilgrim's Progress? Me neither. Why don't we? Huckleberry Finn said, "The statements was interesting, but tough." But most people have to get past the 17th Century language before they can even begin to make such an assessment. So why has this book had such an impact? For 300 years Bunyan's concept of life as a journey from 'this world to that which...

Thornton Wilder, author of such landmark works for the stage as Our Town and The Skin of Our Teeth as well as the classic novel The Bridges of San Luis Rey is considered one of America's greatest man of letters. This two volume publication collects the complete short works for the stage, including a never-before-published one act play.

"The Bahá'í Revelation is a profound concept that lies at the heart of the Bahá'í Faith. Let us explore this spiritual perspective: God's Light and Progressive Revelation: God, the Creator of the universe, is all-knowing, all-loving, and all-merciful. Just as the physical sun shines upon the world, so does the light of God illuminate all of Creation. However, it is impossible for any mortal mind to fully comprehend the reality of God. Throughout history, God has sent Divine Messengers, kno...

The Adventures of Buster Bear is another set of children's stories by the conservationist, Thornton W. Burgess. Buster Bear has many adventures and misadventures as he meets the different characters in the Green Forest near the Laughing Brook. Along the way, we learn about the habits of Buster and his friends and we learn little lessons about life such as the importance of sharing, not stealing, making friends and not sticking one's head into tin pails.