Elijah: 140 books

You perhaps wonder why we call this little book "The Supreme Wisdom." It is because most every word used in it is from the Lord of the worlds, "THE SUPREME BEING," especially where you read of the History of the Caucasian Race; the History of the Black Nation and Prophets; the Doom of America—how...

An acclaimed sociologist illuminates the public life of an American city, offering a major reinterpretation of the racial dynamics in America. Following his award-winning work on inner-city violence, Code of the Street, sociologist Elijah Anderson introduces the concept of the “cosmopolitan...

Praised as "suave, soulful, ebullient" (Tom Waits) and "a meticulous researcher, a graceful writer, and a committed contrarian" (New York Times Book Review), Elijah Wald is one of the leading popular music critics of his generation. In The Blues, Wald surveys a genre at the heart...

The life of blues legend Robert Johnson becomes the centerpiece for this innovative look at what many consider to be America's deepest and most influential music genre. Pivotal are the questions surrounding why Johnson was ignored by the core black audience of his time yet now celebrated as the greatest...

One of the music world’s pre-eminent critics takes a fresh and much-needed look at the day Dylan “went electric” at the Newport Folk Festival, timed to coincide with the event’s fiftieth anniversary. On the evening of July 25, 1965, Bob Dylan took the stage at Newport Folk Festival,...

"There are no definitive histories," writes Elijah Wald, in this provocative reassessment of American popular music, "because the past keeps looking different as the present changes." Earlier musical styles sound different to us today because we hear them through the musical filter...

From Two Live Crew's controversial comedy to Ice Cube's gangsta styling and the battle rhymes of a streetcorner cypher, rap has always drawn on deep traditions of African American poetic word-play, In Talking 'Bout Your Mama, author Elijah Wald explores one of the most potent sources of rap: the viciously...

After a UFO crashes in the Atlantic Ocean, Federal Agents are dispatched to discover the mystery behind the Bermuda Triangle.

Translocation experiments lead to a program that discovers the key to time-travel 130 million years in the past.

The educational system is societys best ally and should not be allowed to break down. Our objective in this study was to identify the causes of high dropout rates and low passion for learning among college students. The common view that students are lazy or lacking interest in education is unfounded....

In this rare compilation of question and answer sessions by Messenger Muhammad taken from various sources, he delivers very powerful and profound insight into subjects that are uncommon to most of the general public. Within this book, the reader is granted this rare privilege to sit as a “bee on...

The book is about how people perceive business to be with full of ideas but without the courage, objectives and determination to start. People tend to have the fear of unknown hence the shadow of business drives the readers to make a decision and to take action. The ability of individuals to think...

CSR is not Charity provides ground-breaking insight into total capital of business entity: Delineating every componential contribution that adds up systematically to yield total capital, and determining relevance and role of contributing investors with the aim of developing feasible framework for...

We know about our immediate environment—about the people, animals, and things around us—by having sensory perceptions. According to a tradition that traces back to Plato, we know about abstract reality—about mathematics, morality, and metaphysics—by having intuitions, which can be thought...