Author : Christopher Z. Hobson
Publisher : Associated University Presse
Page : 418 pages
File Size : 27,57 MB
Release : 1999
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780838753859
Study of William Blake's radical thought in light of his major works, such as Jerusalem (1804-20).
Author : Lynne Kelly
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 255 pages
File Size : 10,30 MB
Release : 2012-05-08
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 0374312370
To work off a family debt, 10-year-old Hastin leaves his desert village in India to work as a circus elephant keeper but many challenges await him, including trying to keep Nandita, a sweet elephant, safe from the cruel circus owner.
Author : Sofia Samatar
Publisher : Tordotcom
Page : 81 pages
File Size : 17,23 MB
Release : 2024-04-16
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1250881811
Named a Best Sci-Fi Book of 2024 by Esquire A Most Anticipated in 2024 Pick for Goodreads | LitHub | Book Riot | She Reads | The Nerd Daily “I am in love with Sofia Samatar's lyricism and the haunting beauty of her imagination. Her stories linger, like the memory of a sumptuous feast.”—N. K. Jemisin Celebrated author Sofia Samatar presents a mystical, revolutionary space adventure for the exhausted dreamer in this brilliant science fiction novella tackling the carceral state and violence embedded in the ivory tower while embodying the legacy of Ursula K. Le Guin. The boy was raised as one of the Chained, condemned to toil in the bowels of a mining ship out among the stars. His whole world changes—literally—when he is yanked “upstairs” and informed he has been given an opportunity to be educated at the ship’s university alongside the elite. Overwhelmed and alone, the boy forms a bond with the woman he comes to know as “the professor,” a weary idealist and descendent of the Chained who has spent her career striving for validation from her more senior colleagues, only to fall short at every turn. Together, the boy and the woman will embark on a transformative journey to grasp the design of the chains that fetter them both—and are the key to breaking free. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.
Author : Joshua D. Rothman
Publisher : Basic Books
Page : 512 pages
File Size : 24,3 MB
Release : 2021-04-20
Category : History
ISBN : 1541616596
An award-winning historian reveals the harrowing forgotten story of America's internal slave trade—and its role in the making of America. Slave traders are peripheral figures in most histories of American slavery. But these men—who trafficked and sold over half a million enslaved people from the Upper South to the Deep South—were essential to slavery's expansion and fueled the growth and prosperity of the United States. In The Ledger and the Chain, acclaimed historian Joshua D. Rothman recounts the shocking story of the domestic slave trade by tracing the lives and careers of Isaac Franklin, John Armfield, and Rice Ballard, who built the largest and most powerful slave-trading operation in American history. Far from social outcasts, they were rich and widely respected businessmen, and their company sat at the center of capital flows connecting southern fields to northeastern banks. Bringing together entrepreneurial ambition and remorseless violence toward enslaved people, domestic slave traders produced an atrocity that forever transformed the nation.
Author : James Garbarino
Publisher : Anchor
Page : 291 pages
File Size : 24,80 MB
Release : 2000-08-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0385499329
"Remarkable. What sets Lost Boys apart from the ordinary lament is the author's palpable sense of care and compassion."--The Washington Post Book World Our national consciousness has been altered by haunting images of mass slaughters in American high schools, carried out by troubled young boys with guns. It's now clear that no matter where we live or how hard we try as parents, our children are likely to be going to school with boys who are capable of getting guns and pulling triggers. What has caused teen violence to spread from the urban war-zones of large cities right into the country's heartland? And what can we do to stop this terrifying trend? James Garbarino, Ph.D., Cornell University professor and nationally noted psychologist, insists that there are things that we, both as individuals and as a society, can do. In a richly anecdotal style he outlines warning signs that parents and teachers can recognize, and suggests steps that can be taken to turn angry and unhappy boys away from violent action. Full of insight, vivid individual portraits, practical advice and considered hope, this is one of the most important and original books ever written about boys.
Author : Harry M. Ward
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 48,99 MB
Release : 2015-06-04
Category : History
ISBN : 0786498536
Richmond in the late 19th century was not the genteel peaceful community historians have made it. Virginia's capital was cosmopolitan, boisterous and crime-ridden. From 1905 to 1915 there was an official red light district. The police had their hands full with drunks and riffraff, and a variety of street urchins and waifs--most of whom were very poor--found themselves on the wrong side of the law. The juvenile delinquents of Richmond--some barely out of infancy--were held accountable in the Police Court. A juvenile court system was not established until 1916. Presiding over the Police Court for 32 years was Justice John Jeter Crutchfield who, though unlearned in the law, functioned like a biblical Solomon but with great showmanship. The Police Court attracted many tourists and some of Virginia's literary figures cut their teeth writing newspaper coverage of the proceedings, vying with each other for the most hilarious slant. What emerges from the public record is an amusing and touching picture of what life was really like in the post-Reconstruction urban South.
Author : Gale Macaulay-newcombe
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 27,8 MB
Release : 2006-10-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1847289657
The War is over. But for Thorne the Quest is just beginning ...Sixteen-year-old wild child Yldenthorne nu Anathiel is brought to the capital to serve as the High King's heir. Can she make a place for herself in the Sacred City? And, now that peace has been restored and the Apostate defeated, what is the purpose of the mysterious voice in her mind?
Author : Edwin James Houston
Publisher :
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 28,28 MB
Release : 1912
Category : Children's stories
ISBN :
Author : Edmund Routledge
Publisher :
Page : 708 pages
File Size : 28,19 MB
Release : 1881
Category : Children's literature
ISBN :
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Page : 908 pages
File Size : 31,46 MB
Release : 1880
Category : Children's periodicals
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