Richard Wright
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Newly Revised! The Council of Christian Colleges and Universities Series - Stressing the biblical message of stewardship, biologist Richard T. Wright celebrates the study of God's creation and examines the interaction of the life sciences with society in medicine, genetics, and the environment. The author brings a biblical perspective to theories on origins, contrasting creationism, intelligent design, and evolution. Highlighting the unique nature...
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Savage Holiday, first published in 1954 by noted American author Richard Wright, is a tense, well-written psychological thriller about Erskine Fowler, an insurance executive forced into early retirement, who, over the course of a bizarre weekend, is responsible for the accidental death of his neighbor's young son. Tragic consequences follow as Fowler attempts to redeem himself and is forced to question his own life, as events spiral out-of-control...
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Never before published, the final work of one of America's greatest writersA Father's Law is the novel Richard Wright, acclaimed author of Black Boy and Native Son, never completed. Written during a six-week period near the end of his life, it appears in print for the first time, an important addition to this American master's body of work, submitted by his daughter and literary executor, Julia, who writes:It comes from his guts and ends at the hero's...
4) Pagan Spain
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A master chronicler of the African-American experience, Richard Wright brilliantly expanded his literary horizons with Pagan Spain, originally published in 1957. The Spain he visited in the mid-twentieth century was not the romantic locale of song and story, but a place of tragic beauty and dangerous contradictions. The portrait he offers is a blistering, powerful, yet scrupulously honest depiction of a land and people in turmoil, caught in the strangling...
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Originally published in 1954, Richard Wright's Black Power is an extraordinary nonfiction work by one of America's premier literary giants of the twentieth century. An impassioned chronicle of the author's trip to Africa's Gold Coast before it became the free nation of Ghana, it speaks eloquently of empowerment and possibility, and resonates loudly to this day. Also included in this omnibus edition are two nonfiction works Wright produced around the...
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La España que Richard Wright visitó en 1954 no era el escenario romántico de la canción y la historia, sino un lugar de trágica belleza y peligrosas contradicciones. Como hombre negro en los años cincuenta, castiga a Occidente por su colonialismo e imperialismo, mientras que como
intelectual abraza el humanismo secular de la civilización occidental. Sus sentimientos encontrados sobre Occidente se adaptan perfectamente a su análisis de España,...
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This children book is about a four year old's first day at school. The other children exclude him and are mean to him. It is written to help young ones to know how to deal with such a situation - it is a must have for anyone with young ones. Like a tree you can bend a child when young, after a few years they are set in their ways.
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Es scheint ein Samstagabend wie jeder andere zu sein: Der schwarze Arbeiter Fred Daniels ist auf dem Weg nachhause zu seiner hochschwangeren Frau, Rachel, den Wochenlohn in der Hosentasche. Als ihn plötzlich drei Polizisten anhalten und verhaften, geht er noch von einem Missverständnis aus, aber als sie ihn eines Mordes beschuldigen, ahnt er langsam, in was für einen Albtraum er geraten ist. Schläge, Kreuzverhör, psychische Manipulation entfremden...
9) Almos' A Man
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A 15-year-old boy from a family of poor sharecroppers in the 1930's Deep South finds a way to buy a pistol to prove his manhood and earn respect. But when the gun overpowers the boy's body and he loses control and his young life forever changed.
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In a small town in Canada, Clara Callan reluctantly takes leave of her sister, Nora, who is bound for New York. It's a time when the growing threat of fascism in Europe is a constant worry, and people escape from reality through radio and the movies. Meanwhile, the two sisters -- vastly different in personality, yet inextricably linked by a shared past -- try to find their places within the complex web of social expectations for young women in the...
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A graduated intermediate reader of biblical Koine Greek with selections from the New Testament, the Septuagint, and noncanonical early Christian writings.
This intermediate reader is for students, clergy, and scholars who have completed at least one year of Greek instruction and want to build reading proficiency. Through twenty-nine texts from the New Testament, the Septuagint, and noncanonical early Christian writings, readers will be exposed to...
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This ethnography of teenage suburban drug dealers "provides a fascinating and powerful counterpoint to the devastation of the drug war" (Alice Goffman, author of On the Run).
When we think about young people dealing drugs, we tend to picture it happening in disadvantaged, crime-ridden, urban neighborhoods. But drugs are used everywhere. And teenage users in the suburbs tend to buy drugs from their peers, dealers who have their own culture and code,...
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From walking a dog to watching a sunset to finding a beetle, Richard Wright's haiku puts everyday moments into focus. Now, more than fifty years after they were written, these poems continue to reflect our everyday experiences. Paired with the photo-collage artwork of Nina Crews, Seeing into Tomorrow celebrates the lives of contemporary African American boys and offers an accessible introduction to one of the most important African American writers...
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El dios que fracasóes una obra clásica, un documento esencial de la Guerra Fría, que reúne los testimonios de algunos de los escritores más importantes del siglo xx acerca de su fascinación por el comunismo y su posterior desilusión.
El premio Nobel francés André Gide; el poeta y narrador afroamericano Richard Wright, autor de Hijo de esta tierra, uno de los relatos más crudos sobre el racismo en su país; el luchador antifascista y novelista...