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131 reviews
Richard Price

Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2008

Going through "Wire" withdrawal?
Price was an award-winning writer for "The Wire," the hit HBO series, and it shows in this fine novel. It's perfect for those of us going through withdrawal after the end of the show; there's even characters that closely mimic McNulty, Kima, and Bunk. As most other reviewers have mentioned, the dialogue is terrific, and Price has an ear for the street dialect. Well done. Great novel.

Causation, Physics, and the Constitution of Reality: Russell's Republic Revisited

Oxford University Press, USA, 2007

The difference between cause and effect seems obvious and crucial in ordinary life, yet missing from modern physics. Almost a century ago, Bertrand Russell called the law of causality 'a relic of a bygone age'. In this important collection 13 leading scholars revisit Russell's revolutionary conclusion, discussing one of the most significant and puzzling issues in contemporary thought.

The Root of Roots: Or, How Afro-American Anthropology Got its Start (Prickly Paradigm)
Richard Price, Sally Price

Prickly Paradigm Press, 2003

Anthropological iconoclasts Richard and Sally Price have spent the last two decades not only creating an unparalleled oeuvre of scholarship in several areas of anthropology but also unabashedly calling foul on any untenable or patronizing concepts of "us" and "them," "primitive" and "modern," that cross their path. For this pamphlet, they crack the yellowing diaries kept by Melville and Frances Herskovits on their famous 1920s expedition deep ...

Samaritan

49 reviews
Richard Price

Vintage, 2004

This is the third of his - - -
- - that I picked up. The first was excellent, the second even better. And, now, I'm only on page 28.... that's all.... and this, I can tell already, is another amazing piece'o'work! So damned BELIEVABLE.... Richard Price is an extraordinary talent. And, now, if you'll pardon me, Ray and Tweetie are there, in the hospital - - - -

The Wanderers

18 reviews
Richard Price

Mariner Books, 1999

Dark side of pre-Beatles teenage America
Anyone who has felt even the slightest pangs of nostalgia for the early '60s should read this marvellous novel. It will shatter their idyllic view of that era forever. The Wanderers is a raw depiction of working class Italian-American life in The Bronx circa 1960 and makes you realise how unglamourous and miserable living in the ghetto must have been back then (probably still is). Bad homes, ...

Stedman's Surinam: Life in an Eighteenth-Century Slave Society. An Abridged, Modernized Edition of Narrative ...
John Gabriel Stedman

The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1992

This abridgment of the Prices' acclaimed 1988 critical edition is based on Stedman's original, handwritten manuscript, which offers a portrait at considerable variance with the 1796 classic. The unexpurgated text, presented here with extensive notes and commentary, constitutes one of the richest and most evocative accounts ever written of colonial life--and one of the strongest indictments ever to appear against New World slavery.

Blood Brothers

6 reviews
Richard Price

Mariner Books, 1999

I don't know how he does it but...
Richard Price is one of my favorite authors, and I have read all of his novels. This is by far my most favorite (and it was the last one I read!). This story really hit home with me...Stony has to chose between doing what he loves for s*** pay, or have a well-paying job that he loathes. When I read this book, I was going through a similar situation, and most of us at least have issues with our ...

Clockers: A Novel

29 reviews
Richard Price

Picador, 2008

Brilliant, mind blowing and extremely well researched
Richard Price first came up with the idea for Clockers whilst sat in a fast food restaurant in New York, during the waning years of what later became known as The Crack Epidemic. Whilst he observed overworked teenage kids sweating behind the counter for minimum wage inside, outside street dealers - in full view of the restaurant staff - made twenty times as much selling Crack. This posed the ...

Romare Bearden: The Caribbean Dimension

2 reviews
Sally Price, Richard Price

University of Pennsylvania Press, 2006

No serious academic library American Art History collection can be considered complete or comprehensive without
"Romare Bearden: The Caribbean Dimension", co-authored by Sally Price and her husband Richard (both of whom are professor of American Studies, Anthropology, and History at the College of William and Mary in Virginia) showcases the life and work of the African American artist Romare Bearden (1911-1988) and his Caribbean work during his last twenty years with its themes of 'enchanted places and ...

Freedomland

75 reviews
Richard Price

Dell, 1999

It's wonderful in SO Many Ways - - - BUT.....
Undoubtedly, Price is among the most gifted writers I've ever had the priviledge to read. His characters, his dialogue, incredible! Some of the reviewers said "too long" and they're right, I guess... BUT this is such a unique book, it really doesn't matter, unless you're looking to zap thru and speed-read for a "story." Myself, I don't read that way; but the joy is so different from those ...

Mad Libs- Who Moved My Cubicle (Mad Libs)

2 reviews
Richard Price, Leonard Stern

Chamberlain Bros., 2006

Mad Libs in the Office
I purchased this for a co-worker's birthday and we are still playing versions of it in the breakroom at lunch. A great distraction that brings humor to the workweek!

The Future of Spacetime

8 reviews
Stephen William Hawking, Kip S. Thorne, ...

W. W. Norton & Company, 2002

Is time-travel possible?
----------------------------------------------------------- This slim volume consists of six essays, based on talks presented at the Kipfest [note 1] on the occasion of Kip Thorne's sixtieth birthday. Thorne, the Feynman Professor of Physics at Caltech is best known to the general public for his 1988 wormhole "time machine" proposal, and indeed much of the book is taken up exploring the ...

Maroon Arts: Cultural Vitality in the African Diaspora
Sally Price, Richard Price

Beacon Press, 1999

Anthropologists Sally and Richard Price transport us into the ancient world of the Saramanka and Ndyuka Maroon, who live in the rainforests of the South American countries Suriname and French Guyana and are possibly the most African people in the Americas. These descendants of slaves were brought to that region nearly 500 years ago by Dutch traders, but they rebelled, escaped, and formed autonomous communities that have survived for centuries. ...

The Taint of Lovecraft

8 reviews

Mythos Books, 2002

Bringing New Perspectives to the Worlds of Cosmic Nihilism
These days one of the hardest problems facing Cthulhu Mythos authors is to be able to write exciting tales within Lovecraft's framework, and yet tell these tales in a new and exciting voice. A fresh approach unfortunately seems to be something that numerous authors who've recently contributed to the cannon have been unable to do. So it is refreshing when an author such as Stanley C. Sargent ...

Corpus Mysticum: The Eucharist and the Church in the Middle Ages (ND Faith in Reason)
Henri de Lubac

University of Notre Dame Press, 2007

A great figure of 20th century Catholic theology, Henri Cardinal de Lubac SJ is renowned for his attention to the doctrine of the Church and its life within the contemporary world. In this book, de Lubac opens an initial exploration of the ways in which the Church has been understood Eucharistically, and gives new expression to that mystery in which the Church is believed to consist. As one whose generous and fervent spirit contributed ...

LADIES MAN

8 reviews
RICHARD PRICE

BLOOMSBURY, 1995

A wrenching look at urban loneliness
Kenny Becker, the protagonist of Richard Price's "Ladies' Man," will appeal to some readers and exasperate others. He had both effects on me, simultaneously. As the novel traces one grueling week in this 30-year-old New Yorker's life, it becomes clear what his problem is: He seems to have a near-pathological aversion to any kind of commitment. His love life is a series of depressing affairs that ...

Made in Goatswood (Call of Cthulhu, No 8)

5 reviews
Ramsey Campbell, A. A. Attanasio, ...

Chaosium, 1995

A mixed bag
Like most Chaosium books, this collection seems intended more as background material for Chaosium's line of fantasy role-playing games than as a stand-alone collection of short fiction. The quality of the contents varies from accomplished journeyman to fan fiction. The exception would be Kevin A. Ross' "The Music of the Spheres". Enschewing the usual compendium of obscure references and ...

Color of Money, Sea of Love, Night and the City: Three Screenplays

2 reviews
Richard Price

Grove Press, 2000

Contemporary master
Richard Price is among the most talented of Hollywood screenwriters working today. His ability to infuse characters with even the smallest unique trait infuses them with depth and reality that few other writers are able to capture. His recent rewrites of such scripts as "Shaft" and "Ransom" prove the level of quality he is able to bring to even the most mainstream films.

Maroon societies: rebel slave communities in the Americas

1 review
Various

Anchor Press, 1973

Amazing collection of primary source material
This is an outstanding collection of primary source documents on maroons societies(groups of escaped slaves) throughout the Americas. Reads almost like a piece of fiction. Its a book that should be read cover to cover, not just used as a reference. Valuable book for anyone interested in resistance to slavery. Includes fine introduction. The societies covered in this book range from small ...

The Devil's Playground

2 reviews
Nan Goldin, Guido Costa, ...

Phaidon Press Inc., 2008

Nan Goldin's Magnum Opus
DEVIL'S PLAYGROUND is a lap-heavy, huge tome of the creative photographs of Nan Goldin, many of which have never before been published. Goldin is know throughout the museums of the world as a photographer who knows no barriers for her subject matter: AIDS victims, mental patients, transvestites, poor families, rural landscapes, constructed still lifes - these are but a few of the categories ...

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