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August's Monthly Promotional Books
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ETHICAL AMBITION
Release Date
(September 2002)
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Author:Derrick Bell
Author Biography: Derrick Bell is one of the most highly respected constitutional law professors in America. He currently teaches Constitutional Law at NYU law school, and is the author of seven books, including the New York Times bestseller Faces at the Bottom of the Well.
Publisher: Derrick Bell has spent a lifetime helping students struggling to maintain a sense of integrity in the face of an overwhelming pressure to succeed at any price. Frequently asked how he managed to be so extraordinarily successful while never giving up the fight for justice and equality, Bell decided to spend his seventieth year writing a book of insight and guidance. The result, Ethical Ambition, is a deeply affecting, uplifting, and brilliant series of meditations that not only challenges us to face some of the most difficult questions that life presents, but dares to offer some solutions. Using incidents from his own life, Bell also looks to literature, history, and other contemporary figures who have refused to compromise their beliefs. In chapters that explore passion, faith courage, inspiration, humility, and relationships, Ethical Ambition address the most fundamental issues of life.
Derrick Bell Other Writings: When Race Becomes Real, Faces At the Bottom of the Well, The Evidence of Things Not Seen, And We Are Not Saved, Afrolantica Legacies, Constitutional Conflicts, Gospel Choirs: Psalms of Survival in an Alien Land Called Home, Race, Racism, and American Law, Confronting Authority.
Retails:$19.95
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THE MAN WHO CRIED I AM
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Author:John A. Williams
Collectiable Edition (out of print)
2002 Winner of the Phyllis Wheatley
Award
Retails:$125.00
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THE MEANING OF MASONRY
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Author:Wilms Hurst
The mystical doctrines of Freemasonry have long been kept secret from those outside its membership; however, as this book amply proves, even insiders need some clarification of the ancient theories and practices of their own organization. Originally written as a series of five papers intended only for the eyes of Masons themselves, this book (first published in 1922) explores the intriguing history, rites, ceremonies, and beliefs of the centuries-old fraternity that boasts among its esteemed membership George Washington, Goethe, Voltaire, Garibaldi, and Mozart, and is reputed to have been involved in many of the major events that have shaped our modern world. The author, himself a member of the Order of Britain, examines the stages (or degrees) along the path to spiritual enlightenment, illuminating in separate chapters Masonry's arcane symbolism, philosophy, and rituals. Originally written as papers intended for the eyes of Masonic Order members only, this book is an intriguing exploration of the ever-fasciating secret fraternal organization said to have been involved in many of the major events that have shaped our modern world. The author, himself a member of the Order of Britain, explains the history, rites, ceremonies, and beliefs of the Masons, whose varied membership has included such historical people as George Washington, Mozart, and Voltaire. Other Writings by Wilms Hurst: Ceremony of Passing, Contemplations: Being Studies in Christian, Masonic Initiation, Parsifal: A Study of Wagner's Music Drama,
Retails:$6.98
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CONFESSION OF NAT TURNER
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Author:William Styron
Just Brave and Beautiful I viewed this book and believed that this novel would just turn out like any other. I was wrong, and I find out that there is an extreme amount of knowledge that I had been baffled about. Once I had read this novel, almost all of my answers have been met. I would recommend this to anyone. I usually don't have a particular caring of a book, but this just made me wonder and wonder about the next step!! Two thumbs up!!!!!! Darkness Visible: A Memoir of Madness, Lie Down In Darkness, Sophie's Choice, Lie Down In Darkness, In The Clap Shack, Inheritance of Night, The Long March, Set This House On Fire,
Retails:$14.00
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THE ENVY OF THE WORLD
On Being a Black Man in America
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Author:Ellis Cose
With an eloquence and compassion reminiscent of James Baldwin's Letter to My Nephew, Ellis Cose presents a frank and realistic examination of the daunting challenges facing black men in twenty-first-century America and offers a way out of the cycle of defeatism and despair that wreaks havoc on America's black communities. Black men have never had more opportunity for success than they do today. Yet, as Ellis Cose bluntly puts it, "We are watching the largest group of black males in history stumbling through life with a ball and chain wrapped around their legs.
Retails:$22.00
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MY LIFE AS A SEER
(The Lost Memoirs)
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Author:Edgar Cayce - A. Robert Smith - Edward Cayce
Excerpts from diaries, dictated memoirs and public talks were pieced together to form this posthumous autobiography of Cayce (1877-1945), a celebrated psychic and spiritualist whose ideas are considered to have anticipated the New Age movement. He called himself a "reader," and tells how, from an early age growing up on a Kentucky farm, "celestial visitors" came to speak "through" him. Early on, questioning whether his ability to see the future and past came from God or the devil, he turned to the Bible for solace. Moving to Louisville as an enterprising young man, he began to perform "healings" of the sick. As he grew older and gained a following, he started his own institute, which he used as a platform to espouse his metaphysical philosophies. These "prophesies" included a strong belief in reincarnation, that humans are returning souls living in eternity; Cayce called this "spiritual reassurance." Narrator Ready is impassioned without coming across as too grandiose, allowing Cayce's indelibly American life as a kook/genius to explain itself in straight, old-fashioned terms
Others Writings by Edgar Cayce:
Edgar Cayce on Healing Foods for Body, Mind and Spirit,(Release Date: September 2002), Auras: An Essay on the Meaning of Colors,Scientific Properties and Occultm, Channeling Your Higher Self: , Edgar Cayce on Atlantis, Self-Hypnosis, The Edgar Cayce Companion, Edgar Cayce's Story of Karma, A Search for God Books ! and 11 Anniversary Edition,Edgar Cayce Returns,Commentary on the Revelation,
Retails:$7.99
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SPIRITUAL BREAK THROUGH
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Author:John Van Auken
From the Back Cover:For those who seek the direct consciousness of God's presence, this volume represents a precise map drawn by a spiritual explorer who has sought and found that presence. John Van Auken sets out for all seekers the path he followed and the effort he has expended to commune with God. The result, as this book makes clear, is a contentment beyond imagining.
Retails:$12.95
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BLACK LIKE ME
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Author:John Howard Griffin, Robert Bonazzi (Afterword)
Outstanding I'm only 15 but i think i understood the book well enough to say anyone interested in African-American books,read this one. I was always interested in racism topics because they teach you alot about life(at least thats how i look at it). I bought the book and read it every chance i could. I couldn't put it down until the end. What John Howard Griffin did was extrodinary and extremely brave of his part. To risk your life and the life of your close ones just to really feel the suffering of others like he did to me is heroic. Other Writings by John Howard Griffin: Follow the ecstacy: The Hermitage years of Thomas Merton,
Retails:$6.99
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MASK OF ART
the Aesthetic Contract--Film and Literature
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Author:Clyde Taylor
Scholar Clyde Taylor exposes the concept of "art" as a device employed by Euro-American culture to dominate historical interpretation. He challenges the history of aesthetics as a recent invention of privileged Western consumerism. Examining various texts, Taylor demonstrates how rationales of "art" are used to mask personal, class, and cultural biases.
Table of Contents
Preface and Acknowledgment
Ch. 1 Color-Coded Art Theory 3
Ch. 2 The Art of Ethnic Cleansing 38
Ch. 3 Discipline and Punish: The Control of Cultural Meaning 53
Ch. 4 A Drowning Man Offers You His Hand: Salvaging the Aesthetic 70
Ch. 5 The Rebirth of the Aesthetic in Cinema 103
Ch. 6 The Aesthetic, the Movie 124
Ch. 7 The Ironies of Majority-Minority Discourse 153
Ch. 8 The Ironies of Aesopianism 176
Ch. 9 Radical Ethiopicism 197
Ch. 10 The Grammar of Resistance 219
Ch. 11 The Self-Authenticating Narrative 240
Ch. 12 The Imperfect Narrative of Resistance 254
Ch. 13 Daughters of the Terreiros 274
Ch. 14 Conclusion: But Is It Art? 289 Notes 311 Index 337
Retails:$22.95
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GOD'S GIFT TO WOMEN
Coming September 1st
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Author:Michael Baisden
While celebrating his last evening in Chicago, Julian has a one night stand with an intriguing woman. Bu after the passion is over, he discovers that she won't let go. Suddenly, Julian finds himself in a situation with a deranged woman who is determined to either win him over-or make his life a living hell. God' Gift to Woman is a suspenseful tale about the consequences of intimacy with a stranger. If you've ever been stalked by a fatal attraction you know how it feels to peek out the window in fear and dread answering the phone.
Retails:$22.95
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A LOVE OF MY OWN
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Author:E. Lynn Harris
Zola Denise Norwood is a young hot editor in chief of Bling Bling, (the magazine for people who want everything!) who�s at the top of her game, ruling the roost in business as well as the bedroom. Having discovered the power of three (not tying herself down to just one guy) Zola surrounds herself with a coterie of men: her best male friend, the gay Hayden; her Monday night man, Jabar, and enjoys stolen nights with married Bling Bling owner and media mogul Davis Vincent McClinton, a man who chases power at all costs Still, Zola dreams of finding true love.
Retails:$24.95
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CANDY DON'T COME IN GRAY
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Author:Roslyn Carrington
Mattie Dinkins lives her life surrounded by mirrors not for vanity's sake, but to assure herself she is real. The illegitimate, velvet-dark daughter of Dominic Evers, a prominent, pass-for-white businessman, Mattie sees her father once a week when he visits the candy store she works in. His denial of her every other day of the week cuts so keenly that she is afraid that one day she will simply disappear. Jonah Reyes was saved from a life of poverty by a scholarship to an elite private school�and by the prosperous man who took an interest in him. Raised in Dominic Evers' home, the light-skinned, half-Spanish Jonah became the man's surrogate son, his prot�g�, and finally his business partner and son-in-law when he marries Dominic's legitimate daughter, Justice.
Retails:$14.00
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DREAM IN COLOR
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Author:Walter Mosley
Sometimes we get what we ask for, as Victoria Chandler soon learn. She met Gerald at a popular night club. She loved the way he held her on the dance floor. She loved the attention she got when she walked beside him. And she loved waking up beside him in the morning. There was no doubt about it, she wanted him and it was only natural for Victoria to think that their relationship should move to the next level and when she got pregnant, Victoria soon learned that Gerald didn�t feel the same way. Now, years later and married to the man she once adored, Victoria Chandler is feeling the remnants of being married to Gerald who feels she trapped him in a marriage he wasn�t ready for. And at every opportunity, he reminds her of it. Desperately trying to salvage her broken marriage, Victoria plans a romantic evening with Gerald only to be stood up. Finally realizing that all may be lost, Victoria try to rationalize what went wrong. That night, she has a dream...
Retails:$13.95
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BAD BOY BRAWLY BROWN
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Author:Darlene Johnson
Asked for a favor by his longtime friend John, Easy hits the streets to make the kind of moves only he knows how to make. He's looking for John's stepson, Brawly Brown, a youthful giant who's mixed up with a radical black-power group, the Urban Revolutionary Party. Easy has barely started on his hunt when he discovers the corpse of Brawly's father and finds himself entangled in murder, politics, and a secret police spy network that monitors black extremists. Along with these troubles, Easy suffers from bouts of guilt involving the death of his best friend, the stone killer Mouse -- who, it turns out, may still be alive. Mosley emphasizes sentiment and thoroughly details black culture, underscoring a harsh existence with scenes of abrupt violence. He remains in excellent form, conveying raw emotion through the medium of a taut plot. As always with his writing, the highest points come when he deals with the intricacy of race relations or the conflicted nature of his ever-evolving, most popular character: Easy has spent his life fighting to escape poverty and bloodshed, but even as he achieves his middle-class dreams he's perpetually drawn back to the terrors of the ghetto. The contradictions of such a man are matched by the complexity of the tumultuous L.A. landscape, and those emotional and historical resonances keep readers deeply engaged in the story.
Retails:$24.95
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