 | The Dream of the Celt: A Novel
Release Date: June 5, 2012A subtle and enlightening novel about a neglected human rights pioneer by the Nobel Laureate Mario Vargas LlosaIn 1916, the Irish nationalist Roger Casement was hanged by the British government for treason. Casement had dedicated his extraordinary life to improving the plight of oppressed peoples around the world—especially the native populations in the Belgian Congo and the Amazon—but when he dared to draw a parallel between the injustices he witnessed in African and American colonies and those committed by the British in Northern Ireland, he became inv...
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 | Native Son (Perennial Classics)
Release Date: August 2, 2005| Series: Perennial Classics Right from the start, Bigger Thomas had been headed for jail. It could have been for assault or petty larceny; by chance, it was for murder and rape. Native Son tells the story of this young black man caught in a downward spiral after he kills a young white woman in a brief moment of panic. Set in Chicago in the 1930s, Wright's powerful novel is an unsparing reflection on the poverty and feelings of hopelessness experienced by people in inner cities across the country and of what it means to be black in America. ...
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 | Darker Shade of Green
Publication Date: April 28, 2011J.T. is a sensitive but privileged 12-year-old who's runaway to New York City. He soon comes under the guidance of Allie Romano, a homeless man who stays afloat by challenging people to chess and scamming book clubs for free books to sell. Allie quickly becomes a teacher and mentor for J.T. setting off a chain of events that just might explain how an American chess champion could wind up wanted by the FBI for "eco-terrorism."Told in a documentary style, this manifesto/expose weaves internet posts, diary entries, quotes and interviews to tell stories within sto...
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 | Eat the Document: A Novel
Release Date: November 28, 2006An ambitious and powerful story about idealism, passion, and sacrifice, Eat the Documentshifts between the underground movement of the 1970s and the echoes and consequences of that movement in the1990s. A National Book Award finalist, Eat the Document is a riveting portrait of two eras and one of the most provocative and compelling novels of recent years. ...
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 | The Taking of the King
Release Date: April 25, 2006The USS Martin Luther King is the pride of the American navy. Faster than anything in the ocean, and capable of avoiding all detection, it is the ultimate weapon-and it is about to be stolen. A Russian operative has been secreted aboard the King. Armed with a powerful nerve agent, he will incapacitate the entire crew and deliver the submarine to his superiors. Now, the only chance of stopping them rests with two isolated sailors- unarmed and trapped under the sea in their own ship-against an enemy trained to kill and win at all costs. ...
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![Understanding Zora Neale Hurston's Their Eyes Were Watching God: A Student Casebook to Issues, Sources, and Historical Documents (The Greenwood Press "Literature in Context" Series)](https://imageproxy.pixnet.cc/imgproxy?url=https://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/515PAWJ0NBL._SL500_PIsitb-sticker-arrow-big,TopRight,35,-73_OU01_SS500_.jpg&width=150 "Understanding Zora Neale Hurston's Their Eyes Were Watching God: A Student Casebook to Issues, Sources, and Historical Documents (The Greenwood Press "Literature in Context" Series)") | Understanding Zora Neale Hurston's Their Eyes Were Watching God: A Student Casebook to Issues, Sources, and Historical Documents (The Greenwood Press "Literature in Context" Series)
Publication Date: October 30, 1999| ISBN-10: 0313302103 | ISBN-13: 978-0313302107Zora Neale Hurston's Their Eyes Were Watching God highlights the vitality of African American culture. This casebook demonstrates how African Americans fashioned themselves individually and collectively to combat racism, classism, and sexism. With provocative documents that contextualize the complex issues of the novel, Lester provides an excellent resource for students and teachers first approaching the excitement and cultural flavor that define Hurston's novels.The casebook is an encyclopedia of African Am...
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 | Ibsen Plays: One
Publication Date: May 15, 2000| Series: Ibsen Collection The plays in this volume range from the once shockingly realistic Ghosts (1881), 'the play that launched a thousand ships of critical fury'; through The Wild Duck (1884) with its innovatory symbolism and its touching portrait of a fourteen-year-old girl held in thrall by her feckless father ('Where,' asked George Bernard Shaw, 'shall I find an epithet magnificent enough for The Wild Duck?'); to The Master Builder (1892), showing the semi-autobiographical relationship between an ageing genius and a dynamic young woman.Michael Meyer's tr...
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 | The Shi King: The Old Poetry Classic of the Chinese a Close Metrical Translation with Annotations
Publication Date: March 1, 20041891. A collection of ancient Chinese poetry that represents the circumstances, thoughts, habits, joys and sorrows of persons of all classes of society in China more than 3,000 years ago, written in their own words. ...
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 | The Other World of Richard Wright: Perspectives on His Haiku (Margaret Walker Alexander Series in African American Studies)
Publication Date: April 11, 2011| Series: Margaret Walker Alexander Series in African American Studies The Other World of Richard Wright: Perspectives on His Haiku reveals Richard Wright's poetic vision toward the human world. Through the minimal form of haiku, Wright (1908-1960) found his poetic connection to nature. This sensibility displays not only the change in him as a writer but also the tenderness in him as a human being.These essays open up a new territory in Wright studies by tracing the development of Wright's aesthetic and its relationship to African and Japanese cultures. The bo...
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 | Allen Ginsberg: collected poems 1947-80
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 | The Radio Room
Publication Date: November 2010| ISBN-10: 1877578037 | ISBN-13: 978-1877578038Poet Laureate Cilla McQueen travels space and time, throwing 'thought-lines' from her present-day corner of the world to the ancient Celtic islands of her ancestors ('On a cliff-top above screeching gulls I stand still thinking backwards, antipodean poet grafted from ancient taproot in this bedrock' ...'if they spoke, what would they say? Could I understand that language at the root of my tongue?' Her point of view is at once small, interior and intimate (I sit on an upturned apple box in the shade of my hat lo...
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| Jin dai ci chao (Mandarin Chinese Edition)
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 | Working with Discourse: Meaning Beyond the Clause (Open Linguistics)
Publication Date: May 27, 2003| Series: Open Linguistics This book is for researchers and students interested in exploring how speakers and writers construe meaning through discourse. It draws on tools for discourse analysis developed in systemic functional linguistics and register and genre theory but requires no prior knowledge of functional linguistics, avoiding academic complexity wherever possible. Rather it builds a highly accessible set of analytic tools that can be used with ease by workers from a range of disciplines, including educational research, critical discourse analysis, cult...
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 | The Uses of the Erotic: The Erotic as Power
Publication Date: January 1, 2000There are many kinds of power, used and unused, acknowledged or otherwise. Thus begins this powerful essay; Uses of the Erotic defines the power of the erotic, names the process by which women have been stripped of this power, and considers how women can reclaim it. Uses of the Erotic shines among Audre Lorde's powerful legacy of speeches and essays, and has influenced feminist thinking for more than 15 years. The false dichotomies that Lorde debunks persist in our cultural imagination: the separation of the erotic from the spiritual and political. Now, Kore ...
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 | The Nature of the Gods (Penguin Classics)
Release Date: October 30, 1972| Series: Penguin Classics Towards the end of his life, Cicero turned away from his oratorical and political career and looked instead to matters of philosophy and religion. The dialogue The Nature of the Gods both explores his own views on these subjects, as a monotheist and member of the Academic School, and considers the opinion of other philosophical schools of the Hellenistic age through the figures of Velleius the Epicurean and Balbus the Stoic. Eloquent, clearly argued and surprisingly modern, it focuses upon a series of fundamental religious questions in...
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 | The Dedalus Book of Medieval Literature: The Grin of the Gargoyle (Medieval Literature S.)
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 | Lover Avenged (Black Dagger Brotherhood, Book 7)
Release Date: November 24, 2009Rehvenge is used to living in the shadows and dealing with the roughest night walkers around—including the Black Dagger Brotherhood. As his secret identity as a sympath is threatened, he turns to the only light in his ever darkening world—a female vampire untouched by corruption, who’s the only thing standing between him and eternal damnation....
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 | Lestrade and the Kiss of Horus (The Lestrade Mystery Series)
Publication Date: May 8, 2001| Series: The Lestrade Mystery Series (Book 15) All around Chief Superintendent Lestrade men are dying. And so it was that Sholto Lestrade flew to Egypt to solve a riddle every bit as impenetrable as that of the Sphinx. ...
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 | THE COMPLETE SHERLOCK HOLMES IN TWO HANDSOME VOLUMES
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 | African Cooking
Publication Date: January 1, 1970One man's view of a part of Africa- very special, very personal, and, of course, far from comprehensive. Lots of recipes and beautiful photos. ...
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