Fin Galloway loves comic books, maybe a little too much. He's fifteen now and far too old to be bewitched by childish fantasies. He must grow up and face the real world. But what if the whole wide world was one big comic book? What if he was the hero? What if one wish could bring all his dreams to life?

South-African Folk-Tales provides an invaluable contribution to the literature on cultural anthropology, providing a rich and varied exploration of traditional folk stories from the region. Through an analysis of narrative structures, motifs, characters, as well as relevant social and cultural context, Honey offers an in-depth look at the diverse myths and legends of South Africa.

More than fifty years ago an assassin's bullet robbed us of one of the most eloquent voices for twentieth-century human rights and justice. Drawing on a new generation of scholarship about the civil rights era, To the Promised Land goes beyond the iconic view of King as an advocate of racial harmony to explore his profound commitment to the poor and working class, and his call for "nonviolent resistance" to all forms of oppression, including economic...

A Journey through the Stars is in-sorts, an autobiography. This book is to represent the end of an era. Throughout this collection of poems and stories, I lay out a road-map of what I will soon realize is my future. In writing my poems, I have decided that the interpretation of a person, while up to each individual, is what shapes a person. The poems are, in their own respect, an outcome of the way people have shaped me. They may also mirror a universal...