TITLE: THE ETHIOPIAN BOOK OF LIFE:- Also Known As THE BANDLET OF RIGHTEOUSNESS
AUTHOR: Edited and Translated by Sir E.A. WALLIS BUDGE
ISBN#: 0-94839-087-5
PRICE: $14.95
EZANA, king of all Ethiopia, abjured paganism about A.D.350, and, under the influence of political and commercial necessities, proclaimed Christianity the national religion of his Empire. He abandoned the use of the crescent and star on his memorial stelae, and the Cross of Christ took their place.

TITLE: THE RASTAFARI MOVEMENT in ENGLAND: A Historical Report
AUTHOR: NORMAN ADAMS [JAH BLUE]
ISBN#: 0-9543025-0-8
PRICE: $17.95
This brilliant and authentic documentation traces the Rastafarian Movement in England. Set against a concise history of Jamaica and the Rastafari Doctrine, the author presents a factual chronology of events and a first-hand, eyewitness, insightful look into the Movement's development in England and it's connections with Jamaica, North America and Ethiopia / Africa

TITLE: ITES of REASONING on RASTAFARI
AUTHOR: MIGULE LORNE & WINSTON DAVIDSON
ISBN#: 976-8139-83-8
PRICE: $18.95
In reading the Ites of Reasoning on Ras Tafari one would realise the naturalness of Ras Tafari as a livity i.e. a way of life. This book brings a new and fresh reasoning that influenced the developmental stages of Ras Tafari from the different strands, religious order and practices. Ras Tafari livity has been influenced by some Eastern philosophies such as Hinduism to African religious traditions such as pocomania. This book also looks at Rastafari Judeo / Christian influences from both the Old Testamen and New Testamen.

TITLE: THE TESTIMONY OF HIS IMPERIAL MAJESTY: Emperor Haile Selassie 1 Defender of the Faith
AUTHOR: KARL PHILLPOTTS NAPHTALI
ISBN#: 0-9609684-1-5
PRICE: $15.00
"I find this scholarly book a landmark in the growth and development of Rastafarian Theology. It represents a new (yet ancient) faculty of interpretation based on the teachings of His Imperial Majesty Emperor Haile Selassie 1 and the Holy Scriptures. It should be carefully and thoughtfully read by all those seeking to understand our King and our Faith."

TITLE: THE ROYAL PARCHMENT SCROLL OF BLACK SUPREMACY.
AUTHOR:Rev. FITZ BALINTINE PETTERSBURGH
ISBN#: 976-8139-88-9
PRICE: $9.95
This book influenced the Rastafarian leaders of the 1920's It emphasized Black Pride, Black Dignity and Black Glory. Leonard Howell, used it extensively. The Government banned it. The white plantocracy feared it. The Black masses loved it and treated it as sacred as The Bible. Truly a bold and remarkable writing especially in Jamaica where downpression of the people is a way of life.

TITLE: RASTAFARI IN TRANSITION:- The Politics of Cultural Confrontation in Africa and the Caribbean (1966-1988)
AUTHOR: IKAEL TAFARI, Ph. D
ISBN#: 0-94839-083-2
PRICE: $25.00
A authentic comprehensive study of Rastafari, HIM Haile Sellassie 1 and the radical Pan-African politics of the 1970s and beyond - the first of its kind. "Dr. Tafari writes not only with the authority of a very disciplined and well-read scholar, but also with the conviction of a man who began to `manifest Rastafari` as a student of the University of the West Indies at Mona three decades ago. He has remained true to his conviction on his return to Barbados when it was grossly unpopular, and now brings into the academy a rich and compelling voice.

TITLE: DREAD HISTORY:- Leonard P. Howell and Millenarian Visions in the Early Rastafarian Religion
AUTHOR: PROFESSOR ROBERT A. HILL
ISBN#: 0-94839-078-6
PRICE: $9.95
A Rastafarian strives to follow the life and teachings of the I- Majesty and His exemplary lifestyle; and thus seeks to obtain the freedom of all Africans and all of Africa from colonial and neo-colonial bondage. Rastafari was created by Black people for Black people in a Black context, within the confines and parameters of Black Supremacy in the geographical landscape of a former slave Island--Jamaica.

TITLE: FROM BABYLON TO RASTAFAI:-
AUTHOR: DOUGLAS R. A. MACK
ISBN#: 0-94839-047-6
PRICE: $14.95
Douglas R. A. Mack in the role as griot reveals his first encounter with the early Rastafarians in Kingston, Jamaica, in the forties and fifties. He visited the Rasta camps with his elder cousins; then to his pioneering role as one of the three Rastafarians emissaries who were part of the Jamaican Government sponsored ifficial mission to Africa in 1961 seeking repartriation. He returned to Africa in 1963, as a member of an independent repartriation mission following up on the groundwork laid by the 1961 mission.

TITLE: THE MISSION ....The Life, Reign and Character of Haile Sellassie 1
AUTHOR: HANS WILHELM LOCKOT
ISBN#: 0-938818-46-5
PRICE: $14.95
Haile Sellassie, the ruler, was a man obsessed by his task of leading Ethiopia into the modern world. He spared no effort, as far as his considerable abilities allowed, todo what he believed would be best toachieve that end. Faithful throughout his life to his self-imposed mission, he remained, up to very end, 'every inch a kin'.

TITLE: RASTA HEART....A Journey into One Love
AUTHOR: ROBERT ROSKIND
ISBN#: 1-56522-074-9
PRICE: $14.95
SINCE HIS PASSING IN 1981,Bob Marley's music, like triba drumming, has been sending out a message of love and freedom for all humanity. Twenty years later, Julia and Robert Roskind traveled to Jamaica to learn more about Rastafari--the people and philosophy that inspired his music. Their life-changing odyssey through the towns, villages and mountains of this beautiful island, revealed not only the Rasta way of life but an anciant mystery as well. Rasta Heart is truly a journey into One Love.

TITLE: ETHIOPIAN SOVEREIGNTY:AFRICAN NATIONHOOD
AUTHOR: RAS E.S.P. McPHERSON
ISBN#: 1-886433-32-1
PRICE: $9.95
Unless the political liberty for which Africans have so long struggled is complemented and bolstered by a corresponding economic and social growth, the breath of life which sustains our freedom may flicker out.

TITLE: DREADS
AUTHOR: FRANCESCO MASTALIA & ALFONSE PAGANO
ISBN#: 1-57965-150-X
PRICE: $19.95
I couldn't imagine those black ropes in their heads were hair...natural hair to which nothing was added, not even a brushing....I wondered what such hair felt like, smelled like. What a person dreamed about at night, with hair like that spreading across the pillow...

TITLE: THE ORIGINAL MACCABEES BIBLE
AUTHOR: REV. ROBERT M. MCLEAN, PH.D
ISBN#: 0-94839-046-8
PRICE: $18.95
I beseech therefore those that read this book, that they be not discouraged because of the calamities, but for the chastening of our race. For indeed that those who act impiously be not let alone any longtime, but straightway meet with retribution, is a sign of great beneficence.

TITLE: AFRICA: ROOTS OF JAMAICAN CULTURE
AUTHOR: MERVYN ALLEYNE
ISBN#: 0-94839-008-5
PRICE: $14.95
In Roots of Jamaican Culture, Professor Mervyn Alleyne challenges established views to argue that the history of a people, especially a subject people, can never be conveyed in conventional political, economic and constitutional accounts. He examines the language, religion, music and social organisation of the Jamaican people to reveal the strong cultural continuities with Africa--and the origins of new cultural forms and political movements, such as Garveyism and Rastafarianism.

TITLE: THE HOLY PIBY
AUTHOR: SHEPHERD ROBERT ATHLYI ROGERS
ISBN#: 0-94839-063-8
PRICE: $11.95
The Holy Piby is one of the foundation writings that helped to influence the Rastafari movement. Athyli Rogers the Author of The Holy Piby is a special and unique brother with great leadership and organizing skills. He was born in Anguilla in the Caribbean and established the house of Athlyi in New Jersey in the U.S.A. and Kimberly in South Africa amongst other placess.

TITLE: MY LIFE AND ETHIOPIA'S PROGRESS VOL. 2
AUTHOR: HAILE SELLASSIE
ISBN#: 0-94839-033-6
PRICE: $39.95
"In this volume, many will be reading for the first time of the attempts made by Mussolini to give the I Majesty replied and said: " I left my country, not to sell it, but to seek justice for my people and my country. The history of Ethiopia will not be despoiled by a guinea stained with the blood of Ethiopian's."

TITLE: RASTAFARI A WAY OF LIFE
AUTHOR: HAILE SELLASSIE
ISBN#: 0-94839-016-6
PRICE: $18.95
During the 1920's, Marcus Garvey's "back to africa" philosophy affected much of the thinking of the African diaspora of the Western Hemisphere. Nowhere was he more influential than in Jamaica, his island homeland, for here was a greatly downpressed people, most of whom were directly descended from slaves. These are the rough beginnings of the Rastafarians.