Jamaica Louise James

Jamaica Louise James
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Publisher : Candlewick Press
Total Pages : 36
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ISBN-10 : 0763602841
ISBN-13 : 9780763602840
Rating : 4/5 (41 Downloads)

Synopsis Jamaica Louise James by : Amy Hest

On her eighth birthday Jamaica receives paints which she uses to surprise her grandmother and to brighten the subway station where Grammy works.

A Fierce Hatred of Injustice

A Fierce Hatred of Injustice
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Publisher : Verso
Total Pages : 300
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ISBN-10 : 1859847404
ISBN-13 : 9781859847404
Rating : 4/5 (04 Downloads)

Synopsis A Fierce Hatred of Injustice by : Winston James

The first detailed consideration of McKay's formative years, the themes and politics of his early poetry, and his pioneering use of Jamaican creole.

The Book of Night Women

The Book of Night Women
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Publisher : Penguin
Total Pages : 436
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ISBN-10 : 9781101011317
ISBN-13 : 1101011319
Rating : 4/5 (17 Downloads)

Synopsis The Book of Night Women by : Marlon James

From the author of the National Book Award finalist Black Leopard, Red Wolf and the WINNER of the 2015 Man Booker Prize for A Brief History of Seven Killings "An undeniable success.” — The New York Times Book Review A true triumph of voice and storytelling, The Book of Night Women rings with both profound authenticity and a distinctly contemporary energy. It is the story of Lilith, born into slavery on a Jamaican sugar plantation at the end of the eighteenth century. Even at her birth, the slave women around her recognize a dark power that they- and she-will come to both revere and fear. The Night Women, as they call themselves, have long been plotting a slave revolt, and as Lilith comes of age they see her as the key to their plans. But when she begins to understand her own feelings, desires, and identity, Lilith starts to push at the edges of what is imaginable for the life of a slave woman, and risks becoming the conspiracy's weak link. But the real revelation of the book-the secret to the stirring imagery and insistent prose-is Marlon James himself, a young writer at once breath­takingly daring and wholly in command of his craft.

The Verdict of Battle

The Verdict of Battle
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Publisher : Harvard University Press
Total Pages : 329
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ISBN-10 : 9780674071872
ISBN-13 : 0674071875
Rating : 4/5 (72 Downloads)

Synopsis The Verdict of Battle by : James Q. Whitman

Today, war is considered a last resort for resolving disagreements. But a day of staged slaughter on the battlefield was once seen as a legitimate means of settling political disputes. James Whitman argues that pitched battle was essentially a trial with a lawful verdict. And when this contained form of battle ceased to exist, the law of victory gave way to the rule of unbridled force. The Verdict of Battle explains why the ritualized violence of the past was more effective than modern warfare in bringing carnage to an end, and why humanitarian laws that cling to a notion of war as evil have led to longer, more barbaric conflicts. Belief that sovereigns could, by rights, wage war for profit made the eighteenth century battle’s golden age. A pitched battle was understood as a kind of legal proceeding in which both sides agreed to be bound by the result. To the victor went the spoils, including the fate of kingdoms. But with the nineteenth-century decline of monarchical legitimacy and the rise of republican sentiment, the public no longer accepted the verdict of pitched battles. Ideology rather than politics became war’s just cause. And because modern humanitarian law provided no means for declaring a victor or dispensing spoils at the end of battle, the violence of war dragged on. The most dangerous wars, Whitman asserts in this iconoclastic tour de force, are the lawless wars we wage today to remake the world in the name of higher moral imperatives.

Black Leopard, Red Wolf

Black Leopard, Red Wolf
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Publisher : Penguin
Total Pages : 640
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ISBN-10 : 9780735220195
ISBN-13 : 0735220190
Rating : 4/5 (95 Downloads)

Synopsis Black Leopard, Red Wolf by : Marlon James

One of TIME’s 100 Best Fantasy Books of All Time Winner of the L.A. Times Ray Bradbury Prize Finalist for the 2019 National Book Award The New York Times Bestseller Named a Best Book of 2019 by The Wall Street Journal, TIME, NPR, GQ, Vogue, and The Washington Post "A fantasy world as well-realized as anything Tolkien made." --Neil Gaiman "Gripping, action-packed....The literary equivalent of a Marvel Comics universe." --Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times The epic novel from the Man Booker Prize-winning author of A Brief History of Seven Killings In the stunning first novel in Marlon James's Dark Star trilogy, myth, fantasy, and history come together to explore what happens when a mercenary is hired to find a missing child. Tracker is known far and wide for his skills as a hunter: "He has a nose," people say. Engaged to track down a mysterious boy who disappeared three years earlier, Tracker breaks his own rule of always working alone when he finds himself part of a group that comes together to search for the boy. The band is a hodgepodge, full of unusual characters with secrets of their own, including a shape-shifting man-animal known as Leopard. As Tracker follows the boy's scent--from one ancient city to another; into dense forests and across deep rivers--he and the band are set upon by creatures intent on destroying them. As he struggles to survive, Tracker starts to wonder: Who, really, is this boy? Why has he been missing for so long? Why do so many people want to keep Tracker from finding him? And perhaps the most important questions of all: Who is telling the truth, and who is lying? Drawing from African history and mythology and his own rich imagination, Marlon James has written a novel unlike anything that's come before it: a saga of breathtaking adventure that's also an ambitious, involving read. Defying categorization and full of unforgettable characters, Black Leopard, Red Wolf is both surprising and profound as it explores the fundamentals of truth, the limits of power, and our need to understand them both.

The Black Jacobins

The Black Jacobins
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Publisher : Vintage
Total Pages : 465
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ISBN-10 : 9780593687338
ISBN-13 : 0593687337
Rating : 4/5 (38 Downloads)

Synopsis The Black Jacobins by : C.L.R. James

A powerful and impassioned historical account of the largest successful revolt by enslaved people in history: the Haitian Revolution of 1791–1803 “One of the seminal texts about the history of slavery and abolition.... Provocative and empowering.” —The New York Times Book Review The Black Jacobins, by Trinidadian historian C. L. R. James, was the first major analysis of the uprising that began in the wake of the storming of the Bastille in France and became the model for liberation movements from Africa to Cuba. It is the story of the French colony of San Domingo, a place where the brutality of plantation owners toward enslaved people was horrifyingly severe. And it is the story of a charismatic and barely literate enslaved person named Toussaint L’Ouverture, who successfully led the Black people of San Domingo against successive invasions by overwhelming French, Spanish, and English forces—and in the process helped form the first independent post-colonial nation in the Caribbean. With a new introduction (2023) by Professor David Scott.

The Economy of Prestige

The Economy of Prestige
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Publisher : Harvard University Press
Total Pages : 444
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ISBN-10 : 0674018842
ISBN-13 : 9780674018846
Rating : 4/5 (42 Downloads)

Synopsis The Economy of Prestige by : James F. English

This is a book about one of the great untold stories of modern cultural life: the remarkable ascendancy of prizes in literature and the arts. Such prizes and the competitions they crown are almost as old as the arts themselves, but their number and power--and their consequences for society and culture at large--have expanded to an unprecedented degree in our day. In a wide-ranging overview of this phenomenon, James F. English documents the dramatic rise of the awards industry and its complex role within what he describes as an economy of cultural prestige. Observing that cultural prizes in their modern form originate at the turn of the twentieth century with the institutional convergence of art and competitive spectator sports, English argues that they have in recent decades undergone an important shift--a more genuine and far-reaching globalization than what has occurred in the economy of material goods. Focusing on the cultural prize in its contemporary form, his book addresses itself broadly to the economic dimensions of culture, to the rules or logic of exchange in the market for what has come to be called "cultural capital." In the wild proliferation of prizes, English finds a key to transformations in the cultural field as a whole. And in the specific workings of prizes, their elaborate mechanics of nomination and election, presentation and acceptance, sponsorship, publicity, and scandal, he uncovers evidence of the new arrangements and relationships that have refigured that field.

Brasil No Olhar de William James

Brasil No Olhar de William James
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Publisher : David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies
Total Pages : 240
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ISBN-10 : UTEXAS:059173022565540
ISBN-13 :
Rating : 4/5 (40 Downloads)

Synopsis Brasil No Olhar de William James by : William James

From 1865-1866, James accompanied the director of the recently established Museum of Comparative Zoology on a research expedition to Brazil. This critical, bilingual (English-Portuguese) edition of his diaries and letters includes reproductions of his drawings. This original material belongs to the Houghton Archives at Harvard University.

I'll Fix Anthony

I'll Fix Anthony
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Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Total Pages : 32
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9781534404823
ISBN-13 : 1534404821
Rating : 4/5 (23 Downloads)

Synopsis I'll Fix Anthony by : Judith Viorst

A little brother thinks of the ways he will some day get revenge on his older brother.

Live and Let Die

Live and Let Die
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Publisher : DigiCat
Total Pages : 195
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ISBN-10 : EAN:8596547194590
ISBN-13 :
Rating : 4/5 (90 Downloads)

Synopsis Live and Let Die by : Ian Fleming

DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "Live and Let Die" by Ian Fleming. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.