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  • Sefer Yetzirah

    The Book of Formation

    by Akiba Ben Joseph ...
    Sefer Yetzirah, or the Book of Formation, is among the earliest and most important treatises on Jewish mysticism. Traditionally ascribed to the patriarch Abaraham or the first century CE Rabbi Akiba ben Joseph, Sefer Yetzirah explores how the universe was created through "32 wondrous ways of wisdom", including the ten numbers or aspects of God in Kabbalistic thought, and twenty-two letters, ... Read more

    $12.39 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • How We Fight White Supremacy

    A Field Guide to Black Resistance

    by Akiba Solomon, Kenrya Rankin ...
    This celebration of Black resistance, from protests to art to sermons to joy, offers a blueprint for the fight for freedom and justice -- and ideas for how each of us can contributeMany of us are facing unprecedented attacks on our democracy, our privacy, and our hard-won civil rights. If you're Black in the US, this is not new. As Colorlines editors Akiba Solomon and Kenrya Rankin show, Black ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

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  • Langston Hughes: Short Stories

    by Langston Hughes ...
    Stories capturing "the vibrancy of Harlem life, the passions of ordinary black people, and the indignities of everyday racism" by "a great American writer" ( Kirkus Reviews).This collection of forty-seven stories written between 1919 and 1963—the most comprehensive available—showcases Langston Hughes's literary blossoming and the development of his personal and artistic concerns in the decades ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • The Return of Simple

    by Langston Hughes ...
    Collected humorous stories from the iconic American writer's newspaper column, featuring his most memorable and spirited fictional character.In 1940, Langston Hughes introduced Jesse B. Semple, or "Simple," to readers in his Chicago Defender column, "From Here to Yonder." From his familiar perch in a fictional Harlem bar, Simple held forth on a variety of subjects—low wages, interracial marriage, ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Rorty and the Prophetic

    Jewish Engagements with a Secular Philosopher

    by Akiba Lerner, Gary Slater, Samuel Hayim Brody, Elliot Ratzman, Stephen Minister, Megan Craig, Hannah Hashkes, J. Aaron Simmons ...
    Rorty and the Prophetic interrogates and provides a constructive assessment to the American neo-pragmatist philosopher Richard Rorty’s critiques of Jewish ethics. Rorty dismisses the public applicability of Jewish moral reasoning, because it is based on “the will of God” through divine revelation. As a self-described secular philosopher, it comes as no surprise that Rorty does not find public ... Read more

    $97.99 USD

  • Naked

    Black Women Bare All About Their Skin, Hair, Hips, Lips, and Other Parts

    Edited by Ayana Byrd, Akiba Solomon ...
    Provocative essays on body image by black women.Candid, witty, and insightful, Naked is a compelling collection of essays that captures what today's black women think about their bodies-from head to toe.Tackling such issues as hair texture, skin color, weight, and sexuality, it follows women on their paths to acceptance-and enjoyment -of their unique features...to a place where it doesn't matter ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Simple's Uncle Sam

    by Langston Hughes ...
    The award-winning author's most beloved character comes back to life in this extraordinary collection.With an Introduction by Akiba Sullivan HarperLangston Hughes is best known as a poet, but he was also a prolific writer of theater, autobiography, and fiction. None of his creations won the hearts and minds of his readers as did Jesse B. Semple, better known as "Simple."Simple speaks as an ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Indeterminacy, Vagueness, and Truth

    The Boolean Many-Valued Approach

    by Ken Akiba ...
    Series series Philosophy and Religion (R0)
    This book shows that the assumption that classical logic is essentially a bivalent (i.e., 2-valued) logic, a logic of truth and falsity, is an incorrect and harmful conception. Classical logic is certainly a Boolean logic, and the smallest (non-degenerate) Boolean algebra is the 2-element Boolean algebra; however, there are numerous Boolean algebras that have more than 2 elements, such as the 4-, ... Read more

    $116.99 USD

  • Electronic States of Narrow-Gap Semiconductors Under Multi-Extreme Conditions

    by Kazuto Akiba ...
    Series series Physics and Astronomy (R0)
    This book discusses the latest investigations into the electronic structure of narrow-gap semiconductors in extreme conditions, and describes in detail magnetic field and pressure measurements using two high-quality single crystals: black phosphorus (BP) and lead telluride (PbTe).The book presents two significant findings for BP and PbTe. The first is the successful demonstration of the pressure ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • Theories of Hope

    Exploring Alternative Affective Dimensions of Human Experience

    by Rochelle M. Green, Akiba Lerner, Allison Merrick, Darren Webb, Lisa Kretz, Luc Bovens, Nancy Snow, Patrick Shade, Associate Professor and Chair of Philosophy, Rhodes College ...
    Theories of Hope: Exploring Affective Dimensions of Human Experience is a collection of essays dedicated to inquiring into the nature of hope in its multiple and varied guises. Looking specifically at the ways in which some experiences of hope emerge within contexts of marginalization, transgression, and inquiry, this volume seeks to explore the experiences of hope through a lens of its more ... Read more

    $93.99 USD

  • Computational Aesthetics

    by Yasuhiro Suzuki, Katsushi Nakagawa, Takashi Sugiyama, Fuminori Akiba, Eric Maestri, Insil Choi, Shinya Tsuchiya ...
    Series series Intelligent Technologies and Robotics (R0)
    The essence of natural computing is aesthetics; for example, in cooking, one of the most common forms of natural computation, the decision to add salt, and how much, is based on the aesthetics of taste. Because touch perception is instinctively related to a sense of beauty, the aesthetics of tactile sense are considered as algorithms by using the Tactile Score, which encodes tactile sensation. ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • Not So Simple

    The "Simple" Stories by Langston Hughes

    by Donna Akiba Sullivan Harper ...
    The "Simple" stories, Langston Hughes's satirical pieces featuring Harlem's Jesse B. Semple, have been lauded as Hughes's greatest contribution to American fiction. In Not So Simple, Donna Akiba Sullivan Harper provides the first full historical analysis of the Simple stories.Harper traces the evolution and development of Simple from his 1943 appearance in Hughes's weekly Chicago Defender column ... Read more

    $18.69 USD