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The Assault
Reproduction of the original: The Assault by Frederic William Wile
Wings on My Feet
The second novel in Howard W. Odums Black Ulysses trilogy
Eugene Odum
Students of nature around the world revere Eugene Odum as a founder and pioneer of ecosystem ecology. In this biography of Odum, Betty Jean Craige depicts the intellectual growth, creativity, and vision of the scientist who made the ecosystem concept central to his discipline and translated the principles of ecosystem ecology into lessons in preserving the natural environment. Placing Odum's achievements in historical context, Craige traces his life from his childhood through his education, his collaboration with his brother Howard T. Odum in developing methods to study ecosystems, his contributions to the field of radiation ecology, his emergence as an internationally distinguished educator...
Disturbing the Peace
W. C. Handy waking up to the blues on a train platform, Buddy Bolden eavesdropping on the drums at Congo Square, John Lomax taking his phonograph recorder into a southern penitentiary - in Disturbing the Peace, Bryan Wagner revises the history of the black vernacular tradition and gives a new account of black culture by reading these myths in the context of the tradition's ongoing engagement with the law.
The Man Who Killed Apartheid: The Life of Dimitri Tsafendas
On 6 September 1966, inside the House of Assembly in Cape Town, Dimitri Tsafendas stabbed to death Hendrik Verwoerd, South Africa’s Prime Minister and so-called “architect of apartheid”. Tsafendas was immediately arrested and before he had even been questioned by the authorities, they declared him a madman without any political motive for the killing. In the Cape Supreme Court, Tsafendas was found unfit to stand trial on the grounds that he suffered from schizophrenia and that he had no political motive for killing Verwoerd. Tsafendas spent the next 28 years in custody, making him the longest-serving detainee in South African history. For most of his incarnation he was subjected to cru...
Best Science Fiction
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Pech
Zackige Blitze spalteten den Abendhimmel in schwarze Teile. Das Rauschen des Windes wurde nur vom Donner übertönt. Peter Pech, ein schwergewichtiger Mann von fünfzig Jahren, zog die Tür seines Reihenhäuschens zu und trat in das Unwetter hinein. Die Bäume im Lindenweg verströmten einen süßen, klebrigen Duft. Er holte tief Luft und dann begann es wie auf Knopf-druck zu regnen. Abgesehen von einem Jogger war die Straße leer, Hundekläffen in der Ferne. Ohne Ziel lief er durch viele kleine Straßen um den Orankesee, bog dann in die Manetstraße in Richtung Konrad-Wolf-Straße ein. Er musste Ordnung in seine Gedanken bringen. Sechs Zahlen schwirrten in seinem Kopf herum. Das Lottoglück hatte ihn, den Taxifahrer Peter Pech aus Berlin Hohenschönhausen, gefunden.
