This collection of 22 essays, intended for both computer scientists and biologists, shows the vital new role that computers play in developmental biology research. Researchers can acquire a better understanding of developmental processes by using computer modeling, according to essays. Their usage in building computer algorithms to solve computer science challenges in fields like neural network design, robot control, evolvable…
The Developmental Psychology of the Black Child, the first of a series of books on black children's growth, development, and education, is the first book to focus only on the physical and psychological development of black children in a scientific yet accessible manner.
This relevant study pushes our knowledge of African American men and women past the fork in the road. Dr. Aldridge's wisdom and vision set Black male-female interactions in a liberating framework from which Blacks may begin the critical process of reclaiming ourselves, restoring our traditions, and rebuilding the African world.
Without the feeling and strength of its ancient principles, no nation can stand as a principled, honorable force. And no people who are determined to be independent, empowered, and sovereign can establish and preserve themselves without a dedicated, industrious, disciplined, respected, and informed warrior class who sees it as their job to defend their people's name and ensure their survival.…
"How lovely it is to be taught by a free teacher, a spiritual leader, a member of our family who actually loves the family, an architect of transformational processes, and a defender of African people. He has given us yet another crucial gift in the form of this book. It is our job to thoroughly examine these ideas. Allowing these…
Visions for Black Men provided a lifeline for me, challenging me to construct a masculinity strategy beyond the language of manhood.I can tell you that Visions was one of the many tools I needed to start a path of Manhood that has not ended yet, and that I hope will never do so.It was my go-to text for years when…
Iyanla Vanzant, a New York Times best-selling author, recounts the last ten years of her life and the spiritual lessons she is learned—from the cost of success during her meteoric rise as a TV celebrity on Oprah, the Iyanla TV show (produced by Barbara Walters), to the dissolution of her marriage and her daughter's 15-month illness and death on Christmas…
"[Exposes] the role Eurocentric history-writing plays in rationalizing European oppression of Afrikan peoples and in the falsification of Afrikan consciousness ... [and contends] that the alleged mental and behavioral maladaptiveness of oppressed Afrikan peoples is a political-economic necessity for the maintenance of White domination and imperialism." —From the back cover.
"Self-hatred has profound historical origins that may be traced all the way back to colonial history in the fifteenth century and beyond. Amos Wilson traces the history of slavery from biblical antiquity, with the curse of Ham in the Old Testament, through the Middle Ages, enslavement, Jim Crow sadism, and up to the present day. This experience has had a…
