Native Son

Right from the start, Bigger Thomas had been headed for jail. It could have been for assault or petty larceny; by chance, it was for murder and rape. Native Son tells the story of this young black man caught in a downward spiral after he kills a young white woman in a brief moment of panic. Set in Chicago in the 1930s, Wright's powerful novel is an unsparing reflection on the poverty and feelings of hopelessness experienced by people in inner cities across the country and of what it means to be black in America.

Literature & Fiction

Wright, Richard A.

United States

Harper-perennial

Acme Auto Parts: Foreign & Domestic : A Small-Business Application With Forms

Engineering & Transportation

Automotive

Mcgraw-Hill College

This is a casebook with essays and reading selections for biomedical ethics courses.

Human Values in Health Care: The Practice of Ethics

Medical Books

Medicine

This comprehensive examination of the effectiveness of prisons is virtually alone in showing that prisons are moderately effective in achieving specific and general deterrence and collective and selective incapacitation. Wright provides evidence which defends prisons as important social institutions and argues that noninterventionist alternative measures are less likely to prevent crime than conventional imprisonment policies. He also offers sentencing recommendations that may maximize the effectiveness of prisons as agents of social control. This up-to-date assessment is required reading for students, teachers, policymakers, and practitioners in corrections, penology, and criminal justice.

In Defense of Prisons: (Contributions in Criminology and Penology)

Politics & Social Sciences

Social Sciences

Praeger

Using citation analysis, this study examines the influence and prestige of scholars, journals, and university departments in the fields of criminology and criminal justice. In the tradition of Marvin E. Wolfgang's Evaluating Criminology, the authors apply this quantitative method to evaluate the impact of individuals and their research efforts on two fields and to identify interconnections among scholars and their publications. This examination of the most-cited scholars, works, and topics in major American and international journals from 1986 to 1990 and from 1991 to 1995 provides valuable and unbiased feedback for researchers and practitioners.The nine chapters of this book detail a wide range of findings in both criminology and criminal justice. After an introduction to the methodology, chapters two, three, and four divide recent scholarship into two periods, 1986 to 1990 and 1991 to 1995, in order to consider the most-cited scholars, works, and topics. Chapter five provides a longitudinal analysis of scholars in the discipline since 1945. Chapters six and seven provide a system of prestige-ratings for relevant journals as well as page coverage analysis of the most influential scholars. The continuing controversy over whether the two fields are converging or diverging is the subject of chapter eight, and the work concludes with a prescription for further research.

Evaluating Criminology and Criminal Justice (Contributions in Criminology and Penology)

Farrington, David P.

Cohn, Ellen G.

Called the Uncle Tom's Cabin of our time, Nineteen Eighty-Four continues to have moral force as a political early warning. A brief biography of the author is included, as well as structural and thematic analysis of the novel. Of course, numerous critical essays from prominent critics offer various views on the novel. This series is edited by Harold Bloom, Sterling Professor of the Humanities, Yale University; Henry W. and Albert A. Berg Professor of English, New York University Graduate School. These texts are the ideal aid for all students of literature, presenting concise, easy-to-understand biographical, critical, and bibliographical information on a specific literary work. Also provided are multiple sources for book reports and term papers with a wealth of information on literary works, authors, and major characters.

Bloom's Reviews/ Comprehensive Research & Study Guides: George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four

Children's Books

ORWELL, GEORGE

See Editorial Dept

Chelsea House Pub

A graduated intermediate reader of biblical Koine Greek with selections from the New Testament, the Septuagint, and noncanonical early Christian writings.\nThis intermediate reader is for students, clergy, and scholars who have completed at least one year of Greek instruction and want to build reading proficiency. Through twenty-nine texts from the New Testament, the Septuagint, and noncanonical early Christian writings, readers will be exposed to a variety of different genres and authors while still being given enough content from each author to become acquainted with that author’s individual style. Notes within each selection gloss low-frequency words and clarify syntactical intricacies, and each new section of texts gradually increases in its level of difficulty, so that lessons can be worked through sequentially or as stand-alone exercises, as needed.\nWright’s selections are all texts that Christians in the fourth century CE would have read, with intertextual connections between them that will stimulate discussion and reflection on the development of important ideas in the early church. Thus, this useful resource encourages progress both in Koine reading proficiency and in knowledge of Christian tradition.

A Reader in Biblical Greek (Eerdmans Language Resources (ELR))

Reference

Foreign Language Study & Reference

Eerdmans

African philosophy: An introduction

Philosophy

University Press of America

Contents: The Question of African Philosophy; Do We Have an African Philosophy?; Investigating African Philosophy; The African Philosophical Tradition; The African Foundations of Greek Philosophy; Time in Yoruba Thought; Causal Theory in Akwapim Akan Philosophy; How Not to Compare African Thought with Western Thought; The Categories of Mtu and The Categories of Aristotle; Person and Community in African Traditional Thought; The Human Person and Immortality in IBO Metaphysics; Akan Concept of a Person; African and Western Philosophy: A Comparative Study; Philosophical Justifications for Contemporary African Social and Political Values and Strategies; A Comparative Analysis of Pan-Africanism.^R

African Philosophy

Not Many Fathers

Majesty Pubns

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