Product Description: Blood will flow. Fire will fall. Days will end.The end of the world started in Glasgow, with a kiss. Two people - two creatures - fated to be eternal enemies downed their blazing spears and loved. To do so they broke rules hardwired into the DNA of the universe...read more

Product Description: The fight to survive is all in the mind.There is nothing exceptional about Greg Summers, until the day he returns home to discover that his wife no longer recognises him and is married to a stranger using his name.Perhaps it is an elaborate hoax, yet that wouldn't explain his vivid flashbacks to childhood, or the violent eruptions of blood that accompany them...read more

Shares more than eight hundred haiku written during the last eighteen months of the author's life

Product Description: Thorough, engaging and accessible - this series is a companion volume to Libby Ahluwalia's popular Understanding Philosophy of Religion for AS & A2. For use with the 2008 OCR A Level Religious Studies specification.

A masterful chronicler of the African American experience, Richard Wright (1908-1960) was one of the most controversial and insightful writers America has produced. In 1957 the publication of Pagan Spain, marked a profound change in his literary and intellectual life and reflected a style more suitable for polemic than for travel writing. Indeed, as Pagan Spain portrays midcentury Spain as a country of tragic beauty, political oppression, and contradictions, Wright amalgamates at once polemic, travel narrative, history, and journalistic essay. He combines, as well, first-person narrative, eyewitness reporting, commentary, anecdotes, vignettes, and dramatic monologue. At the time this book was originally published, the Spanish, despite a strong Catholic heritage, were shown as embracing a primitive and primeval faith. Expanding his comments on this paradox, Wright fashions a candid portrait of a country scarred by civil war and with an excoriating condemnation of Francisco Franco's dictatorship. In this opinionated travelogue Wright sees himself as a humanist and reporter, a nonpartisan freedom fighter who is ceaselessly probing, tracing, analyzing, and denouncing the signs of evil he associates with white patriarchy and Western imperialism. Pagan Spain, less a journalistic account of a people and an exotic locale than it is a sociological critique of a corrupt system of government, is Wright's only nonfiction book on the subject of a European country. It reveals the striking contradictions within himself as well as within Spain. As a black man in the 1950s he castigates the West for its colonialism and imperialism, while as an intellectual he embraces the secular humanism of Western Civilization. His conflicted feelings about the West are perfectly suited to his analysis of Spain, a country allied with the West but also removed from it. The book is a daring portrait of a country in turmoil. The introduction by Faith Berry puts Pagan Spain in context with the trajectory of Wright's philosophical thought. She notes how his dissatisfaction with the Franco government was, in part, the result of his disillusionment with the Communist Party, of which he had been a member. Richard Wright is the author of Native Son, Uncle Tom's Children, Black Boy, The Color Curtain, and other books. Faith Berry is the author of Langston Hughes: Before and Beyond Harlem and is the editor of A Scholar's Conscience: Selected Writings of J. Saunders Redding, 1942-1977 and of the forthcoming book From Bondage to Liberation: Writings by and about Afro-Americans from 1700 to the Present.

Written shortly before and left unfinished at the time of his death and published for the first time, a masterful novel by the author of Native Son explores one man's conflict over his dual roles as a black police officer and father, especially after he begins to suspect that his son is a murderer. Original. 50,000 first printing.

The Outsider is Richard Wright's compelling story of a black man's attempt to escape his past.

Updated with passages deleted by the original publishers, this collection of short stories by the author of Native Son introduces a cast of colorful characters from the post-slavery era. By the author of The Outsider. Reprint. 10,000 first printing.

Product Description: Harlem. The late 1940s. Fifteen-year-old Johnny Gibbs loves his parents, respects his teachers, and is a model student. Suddenly, his familiar world falls apart. Johnny learns he is really a foster child who the welfare authorities have decreed now must go and live with another family...read more

Product Description: Dark Terrains... Matt Donovan stares into a mirror, and what looks back may not be entirely human... in a Glasgow nightclub cigarettes are smoked freely, but something enters with the fumes and refuses to leave... an angel and demon become lovers, and discover what happens when you work for God or the Devil and break the company rules...read more

Product Description: Street criminals live in a dangerous world, but they cannot realistically rely on the criminal justice system to protect them from predation by fellow lawbreakers; they are on their own when it comes to dealing with crimes perpetrated against them and often use retaliation as a mechanism for deterring and responding to victimization...read more

Product Description: "This is an excellent collection of papers which celebrates the best of traditional approaches to fieldwork, whilst also looking to its future. The Handbook will quickly become essential reading for the novice and experienced fieldworker across many of the social sciences"--Chris Pole, University of Leicester Fieldwork is widely practiced but little written about, yet accounts of the exotic, mundane, complex and often dangerous are central to not only sociology and anthropology but also geography, social psychology and criminology...read more

A sixtieth anniversary edition of the American autobiographical classic traces the author's poignant coming of age in the Jim Crow-era South, a period during which he struggled to survive while journeying from innocence to adulthood. By the author of Native Son. 15,000 first printing.

Product Description: Get your "A" in gear!They're today's most popular study guides-with everything you need to succeed in school. Written by Harvard students for students, since its inception SparkNotes™ has developed a loyal community of dedicated users and become a major education brand...read more

Product Description: Get your "A" in gear!They're today's most popular study guides-with everything you need to succeed in school. Written by Harvard students for students, since its inception SparkNotes™ has developed a loyal community of dedicated users and become a major education brand...read more

First published in 1941 with text by Richard Wright, this photographic tour of black America during the Great Depression depicts a wide range of people and lifestyles, from rural shanty's to storefront churches in Harlem. Reissue. NYT. (view table of contents)

A collection of the works of African American authors and poets recorded during the 1950s-60s include selections from Zora Neal Hurston's Their Eyes Were Watching God, performed by Ruby Dee; selections from Lorraine Hansberry's A Raisin in the Sun, performed by Ruby Dee and Ossie Davis; Richard Wright's Black Boy, performed by Brock Peters; and both Nikki Giovanni and Langston Hughes reading their own poetry.

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Product Description: World of Iron and World of Meat provides a comprehensive review of the action painting and site-specific installations by Glasgow-based artist Richard Wright. One of the artist's goals is that of "making sure his work does not look like painting...read more

In a small town in Mississippi, a prosperous black mortician's business arrangements with police and politicians unravel as his son enters adulthood.