Richard Price - Böcker

In this electrifying novel, Richard Price, the author of Clockers and a writer on The Wire , gives us razor-sharp anatomy of an ever-changing Harlem. East Harlem, 2008. In an instant, a five-story tenement collapses into a fuming hill of rubble, p...

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“An unforgettable picture of inner-city decay and despair” ( USA Today ), the classic novel by Richard Price, the bestselling author of Lush Life and a writer on The Wire —now with a new introduction by the author. Rocco Klein, a...

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Is there a crisis in leadership in Canada? How are leaders chosen? What do they do? What are their relationships to the institutions of political life? These are among the questions discussed in this accessible account.

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A Review of the Principal Questions in Morals

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Thirty-five years into his research among the descendants of rebel slaves living in the South American rain forest, anthropologist Richard Price encountered Tooy, a priest, philosopher, and healer living in a rough shantytown on the outskirts of C...

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Thirty-five years into his research among the descendants of rebel slaves living in the South American rain forest, anthropologist Richard Price encountered Tooy, a priest, philosopher, and healer living in a rough shantytown on the outskirts of C...

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Thirty-five years into his research among the descendants of rebel slaves living in the South American rain forest, anthropologist Richard Price encountered Tooy, a priest, philosopher, and healer living in a rough shantytown on the outskirts of C...

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A classic of historical anthropology, First-Time traces the shape of historical thought among peoples who had previously been denied any history at all. Each page of the book presents a transcript of oral histories told by living Saramakas about t...

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"Whatever has gotten into the Prices?" asks the apocryphal Professor Goodfellow in the opening lines of Two Evenings in Saramaka. "After all those books on history and ethnography," he muses, "why are they now turning to c...

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"Whatever has gotten into the Prices?" asks the apocryphal Professor Goodfellow in the opening lines of Two Evenings in Saramaka. "After all those books on history and ethnography," he muses, "why are they now turning to c...

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This pedagogical introduction to the physics of black holes emphasizes the membrane paradigm, which translates the mathematics and physics of black holes into a form accessible to readers with little knowledge of general relativity but a solid gro...

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In 1998, Richard Price returned to the gritty urban landscape of his national bestseller Clockers to produce Freedomland, a searing and unforgettable novel about a hijacked car, a missing child, and an embattled neighborhood polarized by racism, d...

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Maroon Societies is a systematic study of the communities formed by escaped slaves in the Caribbean, Latin America, and the United States. These societies ranged from small bands that survived less than a year to powerful states encompassing ...

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Novelist and Academy Award]-nominated screenwriter Price's bestselling secondnovel offers "an unforgettable picture of inner-city decay and despair" ("USAToday").

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When a cocky young hipster is shot by a street kid from the "other" Lower East Side, the crime ripples through every stratum of the city, in this brilliant and kaleidoscopic portrait of the "new" New York.

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This brilliant early work from one of America's finest writers is a soulful and often profane story of working-class life in the Bronx, and one young man's bruising initiation into adulthood.

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From the Bestselling Author of "Lush Life" Peter Keller, first college grad from a working-class Yonkers family, thought he was on the road to success. Until no law school wanted him. As he watches his friends advance into promising care...

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Kenny Becker just dumped his girlfriend--the reasons are a little complex. Young and newly unemployed, his main assets at the moment are six-pack abs and a healthy libido--he's ready to get out, find a little action, and maybe find himself too. Bu...

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By the co-writer of the HBO miniseries The Night Of "A masterpiece, to stand with such earlier Price classics as Clockers and Lush Life . . . [ The Whites has] a compelling plot, yet the real joy of the book lies page by page, line by line, i...

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Since its first published edition more than 30 years ago, the BASES (British Association of Sport and Exercise Sciences) Physiological Testing Guidelines have represented the leading knowledge base of current testing methodology for sport and exer...

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Since its first published edition more than 30 years ago, the BASES (British Association of Sport and Exercise Sciences) Physiological Testing Guidelines have represented the leading knowledge base of current testing methodology for sport and exer...

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Indigeneity is inseparable from empire, and the way empire responds to the Indigenous presence is a key historical factor in shaping the flow of imperial history. This book is about the consequences of the encounter in the early nineteenth century...

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Indigeneity is inseparable from empire, and the way empire responds to the Indigenous presence is a key historical factor in shaping the flow of imperial history. This book is about the consequences of the encounter in the early nineteenth century...

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In this electrifying novel, Richard Price, the author of Clockers and a writer on The Wire , shines a light in every corner of New York City. Boom! A June morning on Frederick Douglass Boulevard in Harlem. Suddenly, where a five-story building had...

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After a lucrative television writing career comes to an abrupt end, a former high school teacher returns to New Jersey to rethink his life, reconnect with his teenage daughter and to give back to the housing project that reared him.

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A white woman stumbles into an inner-city emergency room and announces that she has just been carjacked and her young son is still in the car. Under a white-hot media glare, Detective Lorenzo Council must take desperate measures to get to the bott...

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A teenage gang comes of age in the 1960s Bronx. Written when the author was twenty-four, this story was the basis for a major feature film.

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This volume looks at the process of enlargment which the European Union is currently undertaking, focusing on both the economic and political dimensions of the subject. The volume examines how enlargment has evolved and looks at the roles and rela...

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First published in 2006. This study looks at a time when Victorian Britain was a time for self-doubt. There was an increasing fear that the 'place in the sun' that had so long been hers was being shadowed by the rising powers of Germany ...

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