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Walter Rodney
The life of the great Guyanese scholar and revolutionary Walter Rodney burned with a rare intensity. The son of working class parents, Rodney showed great academic promise and was awarded scholarships to the University of the West Indies in Jamaica and the School of African and Oriental Studies in London. He received his PhD from the latter at the age of twenty-four, and his thesis was published as A History of the Upper Guinea Coast, now a classic of African history. His most famous work, How Europe Underdeveloped Africa, is a mainstay of radical literature and anticipated the influential world systems theory of Immanuel Wallerstein. Not content merely to study the world, Rodney turned to r...
The Greatest Freak Show on Earth
When one man's scheme to create the Greatest Freak Show on Earth leads to an insane obsession that can only end in devastating tragedy. The ghoulish proprietor of a Victorian arcade specifically designed to showcase the myriad of freaks, outcasts, and oddities that abound in old London town is a man driven by his own dark desires. Rodney Thompson is an emotionless, sadistic person who craves glory above all else - at least until the beautiful Violet wafts into his world. From the very day when Violet first takes a dainty step inside the arcade, Rodney is determined to make her his own. A naturally arrogant, conceited man, Rodney has no doubt that she will eventually play into his hands. However, his plans soon go array when the freaks that he has been creating through his own evil means begin to die in increasing numbers. To add to Rodney's despair, it seems that professional competition in the form of another freak show is soon to arrive on his doorstep. As Rodney's anger and the number of victims grow, carefree Violet remains innocent to the horrible danger that she has placed herself in. Will her eyes be opened before it's too late to save herself?
After Lives
History holds many examples of political activists who have paid for their politics with their lives. From military suppressions to secretly engineered assassinations, the price of revolutionary politics is often dear, especially when the revolutionaries are writers, whose only offences against the state are their words. In a powerful study of three victims of political assassination, Barbara Harlow explores the intricate relations between politically engaged imaginative writing and participation in revolutionary struggles. Ghassan Kanafani in Palestine, Roque Dalton in El Salvador and Ruth First in South Africa laboured on behalf of social revolutions that none of them lived to see. In all three cases, the result of the armed conflict in which they were involved has been negotiated settlements with the enemy. After Lives explores the complex tensions that motivate and condition political writing, as well as its legacies to the movements in whose names it was undertaken. A product of political passion and engagement, but also an impressive work of scholarship, After Lives measures the costs and benefits that accrue to writers who put their lives and works on the line.
White
White is set in the Nebraska sandhills, a vast area of dunes covered with grass and incised by a number of rivers fed entirely by springs. The subtle beauty of the sandhills defies exaggeration. The principal protagonist of the story is Charles Hays (usually known as Chick) Moore, who serves as County Attorney in Hooker County, Nebraska. All of the settings and place names in the novel are real. Chick drives a red XK8 Jaguar convertible which he readily acknowledges as a concession to his vanity. As he approaches a young woman hitchhiking along Nebraska highway 2 east of Mullen, Nebraska she turns, sees the car and is obviously terrified. She runs away from the highway and directly in front of a coal train, to her grisly death. Murders occur, which are rare in the sparsely populated sandhills. The investigation ultimately reveals a white slave trade originating in a remote part of the sandhills. The novel takes us to Tuscany, Saudi Arabia, and back to the ‘hills.
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Original Cyn
C. Rodney James, Ph.D. is a forensic firearms examiner (currently involved in ongoing cases) and firearms writer in both the popular and scientific press. In a previous incarnation he was a university professor teaching courses in film and television at Concordia University, Montréal P.Q. Canada. Saturn collides with Venus as disillusioned firearms examiner Chris Vickers and 18-going-on-30 Cyn Longacre investigate murder and kidnapping to their mutual astonishment. Original Cyn presents two exciting new investigators to mystery readers -- Cynthia Longacre, a more than bright and pretty eighteen-year old, and Chris Vickers, a fortyish forensic firearms examiner with a sense of humor. They pu...
The Lady's Friend
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