This book is an African American Womans Vision realized from societies paradigm of addictions to a paradigm shift in Consciousness back to her True Self. To you, the reader, know this may not be what you expected, in that the title appears to be all about women. Well, this is true, however, we have all asked the question, "why am I here"? Book I, is only intended to validate the true status of women. Who hold the sacred portal of love to transport "YOU" into the world. The primary counterpart who complement and set the premise for the protective and social qualities. That bond society and man....to suckle; nurture an affection of love and that it is "you" who must keep the love flowing. Therefore, apparently this quest includes men as well. Everybody! Realized God did not leave us alone with academia to point the way of discovering who we are, or why we are here, on Earth. That there are Universal Laws that support all of academia, yet these laws unveil a greater purpose and our collective destiny......

This book is an African American Womans Vision realized from societies paradigm of addictions to a paradigm shift in Consciousness back to her True Self. To you, the reader, know this may not be what you expected, in that the title appears to be all about women. Well, this is true, however, we have all asked the question, "why am I here"? Book I, is only intended to validate the true status of women. Who hold the sacred portal of love to transport "YOU" into the world. The primary counterpart who complement and set the premise for the protective and social qualities. That bond society and man....to suckle; nurture an affection of love and that it is "you" who must keep the love flowing. Therefore, apparently this quest includes men as well. Everybody! Realized God did not leave us alone with academia to point the way of discovering who we are, or why we are here, on Earth. That there are Universal Laws that support all of academia, yet these laws unveil a greater purpose and our collective destiny......

Hendrik Petrus Berlage, the Dutch architect and architectural philosopher, created a series of buildings and a body of writings from 1886 to 1909 that were among the first efforts to probe the problems and possibilities of modernism. Although his Amsterdam Stock Exchange, with its rational mastery of materials and space, has long been celebrated for its seminal influence on the architecture of the 20th century, Berlage's writings are highlighted here. Bringing together Berlage's most important texts, among them "Thoughts on Style in Architecture", "Architecture's Place in Modern Aesthetics", and "Art and Society", this volume presents a chapter in the history of European modernism. In his introduction, Iain Boyd Whyte demonstrates that the substantial contribution of Berlage's designs to modern architecture cannot be fully appreciated without an understanding of the aesthetic principles first laid out in his writings.

"Human beings," the acclaimed Egyptologist Jan Assmann writes, "are the animals that have to live with the knowledge of their death, and culture is the world they create so they can live with that knowledge." In his new book, Assmann explores images of death and of death rites in ancient Egypt to provide startling new insights into the particular character of the civilization as a whole. Drawing on the unfamiliar genre of the death liturgy, he arrives at a remarkably comprehensive view of the religion of death in ancient Egypt. Assmann describes in detail nine different images of death: death as the body being torn apart, as social isolation, the notion of the court of the dead, the dead body, the mummy, the soul and ancestral spirit of the dead, death as separation and transition, as homecoming, and as secret. Death and Salvation in Ancient Egypt also includes a fascinating discussion of rites that reflect beliefs about death through language and ritual.

Employs a critical Afrocentric reading of Western constructions of knowledge so as to overcome the dehumanizing tendencies of modernity. Afrocentricity is the most intellectually dominant idea in the African world, one that is having a growing impact on social science discourse. This paradigm, philosophically rooted in African cultures and values, fundamentally challenges major epistemological traditions in Western thought, such as modernism and postmodernism, Marxism, existentialism, feminism, and postcolonialism. In The Demise of the Inhuman, Ana Monteiro-Ferreira reviews what Molefi Kete Asante has called the “infrastructures of dominance and privilege,” arguing that Western concepts such as individualism, colonialism, race and ethnicity, universalism, and progress, are insufficient to overcome various forms of oppression. Afrocentricity, she argues, can help lead us beyond Western structures of thought that have held sway since the early

The twentieth anniversary edition of a transformative blueprint for ancestral healing—featuring new material and gateways, from the renowned herbalist, natural health expert, and healer of women’s bodies and souls “This book was one of the first that helped me start practices as a young woman that focused on my body and spirit as one.”—Jada Pinkett Smith Through extraordinary meditations, affirmations, holistic healing plant-based medicine, KMT temple teachings, and The Rites of Passage guidance, Queen Afua teaches us how to love and rejoice in our bodies by spiritualizing the words we speak, the foods we eat, the relationships we attract, the spaces we live and work in, and the transcendent woman spirit we manifest. With love, wisdom, and passion, Queen Afua guides us to accept our mission and our mantle as Sacred Women—to heal ourselves, the generations of women in our families, our communities, and our world.