Murder In The Black Land
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Murder In The Black Land
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Author : Resa Nelson
language : en
Publisher: Independently Published
Release Date : 2022-05-29
Murder In The Black Land written by Resa Nelson and has been published by Independently Published this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-05-29 with categories.
This novel is a prequel. Murder in the Black Land is just the beginning. The story concludes with Our Lady of the Absolute. Ancient Egypt meets our modern world. How do you choose between love of your family and love of your country? Queen Angelique is caught in a quandary. She has ruled The Black Land since the death of her husband, the pharaoh. She defied tradition by refusing to name her son Penaware as the next pharaoh, even though everyone knows he was too young and immature to rule. Time is running out. Prince Penaware's approaching birthday means he'll come of age soon. The nation and the powerful priests who strongly influence it expect Angelique to proclaim Penaware the new pharaoh. But there's another option. She could break tradition once more and claim the title of pharaoh for herself. It's never been done in modern times, and the priests will protest. Queen Angelique loves her son and wants him to succeed. She also loves her country and worries his ineptitude might destroy it. There's one more problem: the royal magician warns of a premonition that someone plots to murder the next pharaoh. Should Angelique believe it? If she doesn't, will she put her son's life or her own at risk? This modern-day novel is Inspired by historical events and the mythology of ancient Egypt.
Our Lady Of The Absolute
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Author : Resa Nelson
language : en
Publisher: Independently Published
Release Date : 2022-08-07
Our Lady Of The Absolute written by Resa Nelson and has been published by Independently Published this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-08-07 with categories.
Our Lady of the Absolute is the sequel to Murder in the Black Land. Ancient Egypt meets the modern day in this historical fantasy novel. To save her husband's soul from destruction, an innocent and trusting woman delves into a web of lies and manipulation. She doesn't know the local priests have sent a serial killer to stop her from uncovering the truth that would end their power. In an alternate history where a modern-day country worships the gods of ancient Egypt, Meres is horrified to see her husband nailed into a sarcophagus and thrown into the river during a festival day. It wasn't supposed to happen. Everything is going terribly wrong. Why would the priests want to kill him? Running away from the White-Walled City and the temple she loves, Meres hides in the desert of The Black Land, determined to follow the river and find her husband's body to rescue his soul before it's destroyed forever. But nothing she encounters makes sense ... until she meets someone with a wild claim about the recent and secret murder of her husband's sister and nieces. Why is his family being killed? Does that mean Meres will be next? Determined to uncover the truth, Meres doesn't know she'll soon come face-to-face with a terrifying serial killer. Nor does she realize that the fate of the entire nation rests on her shoulders. Our Lady of the Absolute is the sequel to Murder in the Black Land. If you like ancient Egypt, historical fantasy blended with a modern-day setting, and plenty of twists and turns, then you'll love Resa Nelson's tale of heroic women, courage, and determination.
Out Of The Black Land
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Author : Kerry Greenwood
language : en
Publisher: Clan Destine Press
Release Date : 2018-09-01
Out Of The Black Land written by Kerry Greenwood and has been published by Clan Destine Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-09-01 with Fiction categories.
Eighteenth Dynasty Egypt is peaceful and prosperous under the dual rule of the Pharaohs Amenhotep III and IV, until the younger Pharaoh begins to dream new and terrifying dreams. Ptah-hotep, a young peasant boy studying to be a scribe, wants to live a simple life in a Nile hut with his lover Kheperren and their dog Wolf. But Amenhotep IV appoints him as Great Royal Scribe. Surrounded by bitterly envious rivals and enemies, how long will Ptah-hotep survive? The child-princess Mutnodjme sees her beautiful sister Nefertiti married off to the impotent young Amenhotep. But Nefertiti must bear royal children, so the ladies of the court devise a shocking plan. Kheperren, meanwhile, serves as scribe to the daring teenage General Horemheb. But while the Pharaoh's shrinking army guards the Land of the Nile from enemies on every border, a far greater menace impends. For, not content with his own devotion to one god alone, the newly-renamed Akhnaten plans to suppress the worship of all other gods in the Black Land. His horrified court soon realise that the Pharaoh is not merely deformed, but irretrievably mad; and that the biggest danger to the Empire is in the royal palace itself.
The Story Of Black
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Author : John Harvey
language : en
Publisher: Reaktion Books
Release Date : 2013-07-15
The Story Of Black written by John Harvey and has been published by Reaktion Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-07-15 with History categories.
As a color, black comes in no other shades: it is a single hue with no variation, one half of a dichotomy. But what it symbolizes envelops the entire spectrum of meaning—good and bad. The Story of Black travels back to the biblical and classical eras to explore the ambiguous relationship the world’s cultures have had with this sometimes accursed color, examining how black has been used as a tool and a metaphor in a plethora of startling ways. John Harvey delves into the color’s problematic association with race, observing how white Europeans exploited the negative associations people had with the color to enslave millions of black Africans. He then looks at the many figurative meanings of black—for instance, the Greek word melancholia, or black bile, which defines our dark moods, and the ancient Egyptians’ use of black as the color of death, which led to it becoming the standard hue for funereal garb and the clothing of priests, churches, and cults. Considering the innate austerity and gravity of black, Harvey reveals how it also became the color of choice for the robes of merchants, lawyers, and monarchs before gaining popularity with eighteenth- and nineteenth-century dandies and with Goths and other subcultures today. Finally, he looks at how artists and designers have applied the color to their work, from the earliest cave paintings to Caravaggio, Rembrandt, and Rothko. Asking how a single color can at once embody death, evil, and glamour, The Story of Black unearths the secret behind black’s continuing power to compel and divide us.
The Black Reparations Project
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Author : William Darity
language : en
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Release Date : 2023-05-23
The Black Reparations Project written by William Darity and has been published by Univ of California Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-05-23 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
This groundbreaking resource moves us from theory to action with a practical plan for reparations. A surge in interest in black reparations is taking place in America on a scale not seen since the Reconstruction Era. The Black Reparations Project gathers an accomplished interdisciplinary team of scholars—members of the Reparations Planning Committee—who have considered the issues pertinent to making reparations happen. This book will be an essential resource in the national conversation going forward. The first section of The Black Reparations Project crystallizes the rationale for reparations, cataloguing centuries of racial repression, discrimination, violence, mass incarceration, and the immense black-white wealth gap. Drawing on the contributors’ expertise in economics, history, law, public policy, public health, and education, the second section unfurls direct guidance for building and implementing a reparations program, including draft legislation that addresses how the program should be financed and how claimants can be identified and compensated. Rigorous and comprehensive, The Black Reparations Project will motivate, guide, and speed the final leg of the journey for justice.
Black Earth
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Author : Timothy Snyder
language : en
Publisher: Random House
Release Date : 2015-09-17
Black Earth written by Timothy Snyder and has been published by Random House this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-09-17 with History categories.
LONGLISTED FOR THE 2015 SAMUEL JOHNSON PRIZE We have come to see the Holocaust as a factory of death, organised by bureaucrats. Yet by the time the gas chambers became operation more than a million European Jews were already dead: shot at close range over pits and ravines. They had been murdered in the lawless killing zones created by the German colonial war in the East, many on the fertile black earth that the Nazis believed would feed the German people. It comforts us to believe that the Holocaust was a unique event. But as Timothy Snyder shows, we have missed basic lessons of the history of the Holocaust, and some of our beliefs are frighteningly close to the ecological panic that Hitler expressed in the 1920s. As ideological and environmental challenges to the world order mount, our societies might be more vulnerable than we would like to think. Timothy Snyder’s Bloodlands was an acclaimed exploration of what happened in eastern Europe between 1933 and 1945, when Nazi and Soviet policy brought death to some 14 million people. Black Earth is a deep exploration of the ideas and politics that enabled the worst of these policies, the Nazi extermination of the Jews. Its pioneering treatment of this unprecedented crime makes the Holocaust intelligible, and thus all the more terrifying.
The Truman Gumshoes
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Author : J.K. Van Dover
language : en
Publisher: McFarland
Release Date : 2022-02-07
The Truman Gumshoes written by J.K. Van Dover and has been published by McFarland this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-02-07 with Literary Criticism categories.
The hard-boiled style of detective fiction emerged in America in the years after the First World War. In the late 1940s, following the Depression, the New Deal, and the Second World War, a new generation of young writers revisited the conventions governing the fictional private eye, and began to move him (the tough detective was still always male) and his world in new directions. This book examines the work of the four most important writers of this second generation of hard-boiled fiction. It offers the first substantial literary analysis of the Max Thursday novels of Wade Miller and the Carney Wilde novels of Bart Spicer, and it develops new perspectives on the well-known Mike Hammer novels of Mickey Spillane and the Lew Archer novels of Ross Macdonald. A particular focus is upon the theme of the detective's status as a loner who succeeds in discovering truth and achieving justice because he works outside organized social structures.
The Contested Murder Of Latasha Harlins
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Author : Brenda Stevenson
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2013-06-24
The Contested Murder Of Latasha Harlins written by Brenda Stevenson and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-06-24 with History categories.
Helicopters patrolled low over the city, filming blocks of burning cars and buildings, mobs breaking into storefronts, and the vicious beating of truck driver Reginald Denny. For a week in April 1992, Los Angeles transformed into a cityscape of rage, purportedly due to the exoneration of four policemen who had beaten Rodney King. It should be no surprise that such intense anger erupted from something deeper than a single incident. In The Contested Murder of Latasha Harlins, Brenda Stevenson tells the dramatic story of an earlier trial, a turning point on the road to the 1992 riot. On March 16, 1991, fifteen-year-old Latasha Harlins, an African American who lived locally, entered the Empire Liquor Market at 9172 South Figueroa Street in South Central Los Angeles. Behind the counter was a Korean woman named Soon Ja Du. Latasha walked to the refrigerator cases in the back, took a bottle of orange juice, put it in her backpack, and approached the cash register with two dollar bills in her hand-the price of the juice. Moments later she was face-down on the floor with a bullet hole in the back of her head, shot dead by Du. Joyce Karlin, a Jewish Superior Court judge appointed by Republican Governor Pete Wilson, presided over the resulting manslaughter trial. A jury convicted Du, but Karlin sentenced her only to probation, community service, and a $500 fine. The author meticulously reconstructs these events and their aftermath, showing how they set the stage for the explosion in 1992. An accomplished historian at UCLA, Stevenson explores the lives of each of these three women-Harlins, Du, and Karlin-and their very different worlds in rich detail. Through the three women, she not only reveals the human reality and social repercussions of this triangular collision, she also provides a deep history of immigration, ethnicity, and gender in modern America. Massively researched, deftly written, The Contested Murder of Latasha Harlins will reshape our understanding of race, ethnicity, gender, and-above all-justice in modern America.
The Assassination Of The Black Male Image
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Author : Earl Ofari Hutchinson
language : en
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Release Date : 1997-09-03
The Assassination Of The Black Male Image written by Earl Ofari Hutchinson and has been published by Simon and Schuster this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1997-09-03 with Social Science categories.
A compelling expose of the truth behind society's racial and sexual stereotypes of black men, this book offers a wide historical perspective and insights into such recent racially charged events as the Clarence Thomas hearings, the O.J. Simpson trial, and the Million Man March. Hutchinson brilliantly counters the image of black men as a population entrenched in crime, drugs, and violence.
Inherit The Land
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Author : Gene Stowe
language : en
Publisher: Univ. Press of Mississippi
Release Date : 2006
Inherit The Land written by Gene Stowe and has been published by Univ. Press of Mississippi this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006 with African Americans categories.
In the early twentieth century, two wealthy white sisters, cousins to a North Carolina governor, wrote identical wills that left their substantial homeplace to a black man and his daughter. Maggie Ross, whose sister Sallie died in 1909, was the richest woman in Union County, North Carolina. Upon Maggie's death in 1920, her will bequeathed her estate to Bob Ross--who had grown up in the sisters' household--and his daughter Mittie Bell Houston. Mittie had also grown up with the well-to-do women, who had shown their affection for her by building a house for her and her husband. This house, along with eight hundred acres, hundreds of dollars in cash, and two of the white family's three gold watches went to Bob Ross and Houston. As soon as the contents of the will became known, more than one hundred of Maggie Ross's scandalized cousins sued to break the will, claiming that its bequest to black people proved that Maggie Ross was mentally incompetent. Revealing the details of this case and of the lives of the people involved in it, Gene Stowe presents a story that sheds light on and complicates our understanding of the Jim Crow South. Stowe's account of this famous court battle shows how specific individuals, both white and black, labored against the status quo of white superiority and ultimately won. An evocative portrait of an entire generation's sins, Inherit the Land: Jim Crow Meets Miss Maggie's Will hints at the possibility for color-blind justice in small-town North Carolina.