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Native Son

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by Richard Wright

Bigger Thomas, a young black man in Chicago, murders two women and is condemned to death. Bigger, whose crimes escalate as the story takes its sad and terrible course, feels--like Dostoyevsky's Raskolnikov in CRIME AND PUNISHMENT--that the act of murder is a kind of existential act, and is the only kind of freedom he has ever known. Wright ...

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Environmental Science: Toward a Sustainable Future

Environmental Science: Toward a Sustainable Future more books like this

by Richard T Wright, Bernard J Nebel

For introductory courses in Environmental Science, Environmental Studies, and Environmental Biology. This text focuses on the question "What will it take to move our civilization toward a long-term sustainable relationship with the natural world?" Its goal is to engage and inform students so they can critically evaluate environmental issues and ...

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Black boy

Black boy more books like this

by Richard Wright

Published in 1945, this autobiography--the story of Wright's Southern childhood, up to the time when he left Memphis for Chicago--is considered by many critics to be his most important work.

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Outsider

Outsider more books like this

by Richard Wright

Here is Wright's compelling story of a black man's attempt to escape his past. "The novel, which builds steadily to a clamorous denunciation of the rival totalitarianisms of Communism and Fascism, also offers a dire--and accurate--prediction of a world wide revival of religious fundamentalism in response to the spiritual gloom spawned by these ...

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Black Boy: American Hunger a Record of Childhood and Youth

Black Boy: American Hunger a Record of Childhood and Youth more books like this

by Richard Wright, Jerry W Ward, Jr. (Introduction by)

Published in 1945, this autobiography--the story of Wright's Southern childhood, up to the time when he left Memphis for Chicago--is considered by many critics to be his most important work.

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Eight Men

Eight Men more books like this

by Richard Wright

Eight stories of black men and their violent encounters with the white world.

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Uncle Toms Children

Uncle Toms Children more books like this

by Richard Wright

This fascinating and famous collection brings to life postslavery characters in their full psychological and emotional depth and contains all of the short works included in the 1940 second printing.

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Biology Through the Eyes of Faith: Christian College Coalition Series

Biology Through the Eyes of Faith: Christian College Coalition Series more books like this

by Richard T Wright

This comprehensive work, one of a series cosponsored by the Christian College Coalition, addresses the needs of the Christian student of biology to align both science and faith. It demonstrates that the study of biology penetrates to the very depths of existence and can contribute to the construction of a consistent Christian world view. Richard ...

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12 million black voices.

12 million black voices. more books like this

by Richard Wright

12 Million Black Voices, first published in 1941, combines Wright's prose with startling photographs selected by Edwin Rosskam from the Security Farm Administration files compiled during the Great Depression. The photographs include works by such giants as Walker Evans, Dorothea Lange, and Arthur Rothstein. From crowded, rundown farm shacks to ...

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Black Power: Three Books from Exile: Black Power/The Color Curtain/And White, Man, Listen!

Black Power: Three Books from Exile: Black Power/The Color Curtain/And White, Man, Listen! more books like this

by Richard A Wright, Cornel West (Introduction by)

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 ...

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The Cultural Life of the American Colonies more books like this

by Louis B Wright, Henry Steele Commager (Introduction by), Richard Brandon Morris (Introduction by)

Sweeping survey of 150 years of colonial history (1607-1763) offers authoritative, perceptive views by a brilliant scholar on agrarian society and leadership, non-English influences, religion, education, literature, drama, music, architecture, science, much more. "A significant contribution to early American history." -- "American History Review." ...

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Haiku: This Other World more books like this

by Richard Wright

Wright selected these 817 haiku as the best out of the 4,000 he wrote while living in Paris, where he moved in 1946. They are accompanied here by notes and an afterword that explains the history of haiku in Japan and English-speaking countries and ties Wright's other writing to his haiku project.

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TCP/IP Illustrated, Volume 2: The Implementation more books like this

by Gary R Wright, W Richard Stevens

TCP/IP Illustrated, an ongoing series covering the many facets of TCP/IP, brings a highly-effective visual approach to learning about this networking protocol suite. TCP/IP Illustrated, Volume 2 contains a thorough explanation of how TCP/IP protocols are implemented. There isn't a more practical or up-to-date bookothis volume is the only one to ...

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Study Guide for Environmental Science: Toward a Sustainable Future

by Richard T Wright, Clark E Adams

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Black boy, a record of childhood and youth more books like this

by Richard Wright

Published in 1945, this autobiography--the story of Wright's Southern childhood, up to the time when he left Memphis for Chicago--is considered by many critics to be his most important work.

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Lawd Today more books like this

by Richard Wright

Back in its original unabridged form, a novel of Depression-era Chicago.

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Black Voices more books like this

by Richard Wright, Various, Abraham Chapman (Editor)

This anthology featuring fiction, poetry, autobiography, and literary criticism features contributions from noted African-American writers such as Frederick Douglass, James Baldwin, W.E.B. DuBois, Malcolm X, Gwendolyn Brooks, and many more, presenting some of the greatest and most enduring work born out of the African-American experience in the ...

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Environmental Science: The Way the World Works more books like this

by Bernard J Nebel

Known for its currency and readability, this text focuses on enabling students to critically evaluate the latest environmental issues and to apply that understanding to situations and events in their everyday lives. It explores the interactions of humans within the natural environment and probes issues thoroughly-examining their scientific basis, ...

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Microbiology for the Health Sciences more books like this

by Marcus M Jensen, Donald N Wright, Richard A Robison

Appropriate for courses in Microbiology for the Health Sciences. A complete, clinically oriented overview of basic medical microbiology, this book provides a taxonomic approach to organism presentation, using a pathogen-oriented sequence that provides an understanding of the microbe in its setting regardless of the site of infection. Its ...

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OpenGL SuperBible more books like this

by Richard S Wright, Jr., Michael Sweet

In a world where everything from how we take pictures to how we get our food is designed to happen as quickly and easily as possible, it can take a lot longer to learn how to make it all work behind the scenes. Theories and concepts can weigh you down when all you really want to know is how to create, design and go. That's where OpenGL SuperBible ...

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A Father's Law more books like this

by Richard Wright

Wrights daughter, Julia, explains that this novel, written shortly before her fathers death, explores many themes . . . like guilt, the difficult relationship between the generations, [and] the difficulty of being a black police officer and father . . . [and is] astonishingly modern for a novel written in 1960.

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Clara Callan more books like this

by Richard Bruce Wright

This novel, told in diaries, is set in the mid-1930s and tells the story of Clara (the diarist) and her sister Nora. Nora has gone off to New York City where she stars in a radio soap opera, but Clara is a prosaic schoolteacher in their small Canadian town.

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Changing Stages: A View of British and American Theatre in the Twentieth Century more books like this

by Richard Eyre, Nicholas Wright

This volume, an exploration of theater on both sides of the Atlantic, is published in conjunction with a BBC-TV series of the same name. Insider perspectivres on Tennessee Williams, Arthur Miller, Mark Ravenhill, Noel Coward, and many others is included.

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The Divining Heart: Dowsing and Spiritual Unfoldment more books like this

by Patricia C Wright, Richard D Wright

The authors define dowsing as the "process of uncovering information through the medium of the self". They believe that the ability to dowse is innate, but they also feel its proper development is contingent upon the parallel unfoldment of the spiritual qualities in our nature. This guide is an invaluable resource for advanced dowsers as well as ...

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Environmental Science-Annotated Instructor's Edition: Toward a Sustainable Future

by Bernard J. Nebel Richard T. Wright

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