Author: Gasman Marybeth/Segdwick Katherine
Publisher: Peter Lang
Keywords: people, uplifting
Number of Pages: 204
Published: 2005-04-26
List price: $29.95
ISBN-10: 0820474746
ISBN-13: 9780820474748

Philanthropy is typically considered to be within the province of billionaires. This book broadens that perspective by highlighting modest acts of giving by African Americans on behalf of their own people. Examining the important tradition of Black philanthropy, this groundbreaking work documents its history: its beginning as a response to discrimination through self-help among freed slaves, and its expansion to include the support of education, religion, the arts, and legal efforts on behalf of civil rights. Using diverse approaches, the authors illuminate a new world of philanthr

Author: Oscar Londo
Publisher: Ten Speed Pre
Keywords: essays, doctor, tricks, uplifting, medicine, viagra, magic, voodoo
Number of Pages: 144
Published: 2001-05-01
List price: $14.95
ISBN-10: 1580082874
ISBN-13: 9781580082877

The doctor who dispensed the invaluable advice KILL AS FEW PATIENTS AS POSSIBLE is at it again with a collection of waggish musings on everything from Stanley Kubrick’s Eyes Wide Shut to voodoo, ballerinas, and Krispy Kreme doughnuts. Dr. Oscar London’s FROM VOODOO TO VIAGRA pokes fun at the serious and sometimes outrageous world of medicine, from the ability of doctors to work in the face of disagreeable smells, to the surgeon who uses a scalpel to excise fat from the "B" in his BLT. No one in the medical community is safe from Dr. London’s fine-tuned wit. Whether you’