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  • Clowning and Authorship in Early Modern Theatre

    Clowning and Authorship in Early Modern Theatre

    by Richard Preiss

    To early modern audiences, the 'clown' was much more than a minor play character. A celebrity performer, he was a one-man sideshow whose interactive entertainments - face-pulling, farce interludes, jigs, rhyming contests with the crowd - were the main event. Clowning epitomized a theatre that was ... More

    Language: ENG
    Copyright: 2014
  • Childhood, Education and the Stage in Early Modern England

    Childhood, Education and the Stage in Early Modern England

    by Richard Preiss • Deanne Williams

    What did childhood mean in early modern England? To answer this question, this book examines two key contemporary institutions: the school and the stage. The rise of grammar schools and universities, and of the professional stage featuring boy actors, reflect the culture's massive investment in chi... More

    Language: ENG
    Copyright: 2017
  • Saamaka Dreaming

    Saamaka Dreaming

    by Richard Price • Sally Price

    When Richard and Sally Price stepped out of the canoe to begin their fieldwork with the Saamaka Maroons of Suriname in 1966, they were met with a mixture of curiosity, suspicion, ambivalence, hostility, and fascination. With their gradual acceptance into the community they undertook the work that wo... More

    Language: ENG
    Copyright: 2017
  • Equatoria

    Equatoria

    by Richard Price • Sally Price

    A postmodern romp through the rain forest, Equatoria is both travelogue and cultural critique. On the right-hand pages, the Prices chronicle their 1990 artifact-collecting expedition up the rivers of French Guiana, and on the left, stage an accompanying sideshow that enlists the help of Jonathan Swi... More

    Language: ENG
    Copyright: 1994
  • Rainforest Warriors

    Rainforest Warriors

    by Richard Price

    Rainforest Warriors is a historical, ethnographic, and documentary account of a people, their threatened rainforest, and their successful attempt to harness international human rights law in their fight to protect their way of life--part of a larger story of tribal and indigenous peoples that is unf... More

    Language: ENG
    Copyright: 2011
  • Blood Brothers

    Blood Brothers

    by Richard Price

    Eighteen-year-old Stony De Coco is trapped in a working-class world that offers him only one way of proving his loyalty, and no way out.... More

    Language: ENG
    Copyright: 1976
  • The Wanderers: A Novel (Bloomsbury Classic Reads Ser.)

    The Wanderers: A Novel (Bloomsbury Classic Reads Ser.)

    by Richard Price

    A teenage gang comes of age in the 1960s Bronx. Written when the author was twenty-four, this story was the basis for a major feature film.... More

    Language: ENG
    Copyright: 1974
  • CLOCKERS CL: A Novel (Bloomsbury Modern Library)

    CLOCKERS CL: A Novel (Bloomsbury Modern Library)

    by Richard Price

    Eighteen years ago, Richard Price's first novel, The Wanderers, was hailed by Hubert Selby, Jr., in the New York Times Book Review as "an outstanding work of art." Three novels and a dozen years later, Price made an equally stunning debut in Hollywood with his screenplay for The Color of Money, whic... More

    Language: ENG
    Copyright: 1992
  • Freedomland

    Freedomland

    by Richard Price

    A white woman, her hands gashed and bloody, stumbles into an inner-city emergency room and announces that she has just been carjacked by a black man. But then comes the horrifying twist: Her young son was asleep in the back seat, and he has now disappeared into the night. So begins Richard Price's e... More

    Language: ENG
    Copyright: 1998
  • Designed For Dignity: What God Has Made It Possible For You To Be

    Designed For Dignity: What God Has Made It Possible For You To Be

    by Richard Pratt

    Even as Christians, we can puzzle over our self-image. What has God made us? What have we made of ourselves? And what can we become in Christ? Richard L. Pratt shows from Scripture how God’s amazing design for humanity can be realized in his people. Solid biblical insights, vivid illustrations, and ... More

    Language: ENG
    Copyright: 2000
  • Samaritan

    Samaritan

    by Richard Price

    Ray Mitchell is lying in a hospital bed, drifting in and out of consciousness, his head a bloody mess of swabs and bandages. He knows who did it, but he's not saying. He had been a successful and wealthy TV scriptwriter, but losing his job he returned to the mean streets of his youth -- the projects... More

    Language: ENG
    Copyright: 2003
  • Lush Life

    Lush Life

    by Richard Price

    A tale of 2 Lower East sides: one a high-priced Bohemia, the other a home to hardship, its residents pushed to the edges of their time-honored turf.... More

    Language: ENG
    Copyright: 2008
  • Empire and Indigeneity: Histories and Legacies

    Empire and Indigeneity: Histories and Legacies

    by Richard Price

    Indigeneity is inseparable from empire, and the way empire responds to the Indigenous presence is a key historical factor in shaping the flow of imperial history. This book is about the consequences of the encounter in the early nineteenth century between the British imperial presence and the First ... More

    Language: ENG
    Copyright: 2021
  • An Imperial War and the British Working Class: Working-Class Attitudes and Reactions to the Boer War, 1899-1902

    An Imperial War and the British Working Class: Working-Class Attitudes and Reactions to the Boer War, 1899-1902

    by Richard Price

    First published in 2006. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.... More

    Language: ENG
    Copyright: 2006
  • The Whites

    The Whites

    by Richard Price • Harry Brandt

    The electrifying tale of a New York City police detective under siege-by an unsolved murder, by his own dark past, and by a violent stalker seeking revenge.<P><P> Back in the run-and-gun days of the mid-1990s, when a young Billy Graves worked in the South Bronx as part of an aggressive anti-c... More

    Language: ENG
    Copyright: 2015
  • Maroon Societies: Rebel Slave Communities in the Americas

    Maroon Societies: Rebel Slave Communities in the Americas

    by Edited by Richard Price

    Now in its twenty-fifth anniversary edition, Maroon Societies is a systematic study of the communities formed by escaped slaves in the Caribbean, Latin America, and the United States. These societies ranged from small bands that survived less than a year to powerful states encompassing thousands of ... More

    Language: ENG
    Copyright: 1973
  • International Norms, Moral Psychology, and Neuroscience (Elements in International Relations)

    International Norms, Moral Psychology, and Neuroscience (Elements in International Relations)

    by Richard Price • Kathryn Sikkink

    Research on international norms has yet to answer satisfactorily some of our own most important questions about the origins of norms and the conditions under which some norms win out over others. The authors argue that international relations (IR) theorists should engage more with research in moral ... More

    Language: ENG
    Copyright: 2021
  • Narrative of Five Years Expedition Against the Revolted Negroes of Surinam

    Narrative of Five Years Expedition Against the Revolted Negroes of Surinam

    by Richard Price • John Gabriel Stedman • Sally Price

    When John Gabriel Stedman's Narrative of Five Years Expedition was first published in 1796--a bowdlerized edition "full of lies and nonsense"--Stedman claimed to have burned two thousand copies. It nevertheless became an immediate popular success. A first-hand account of an eighteenth-century slave ... More

    Language: ENG
    Copyright: 1980
  • The Complete Illustrated Book of Development Definitions

    The Complete Illustrated Book of Development Definitions

    by Richard Preiss • Dwight Merriam • Harvey S. Moskowitz • Carl G. Lindbloom • David Listokin

    The latest edition of The Illustrated Book of Development Definitions breaks new ground. It addresses traditional and new planning problems: natural and industrial disasters such as hurricanes and oil spills; new housing types and living accommodations; changes in urban design and practice like new ... More

    Language: ENG
    Copyright: 2015
  • The Future of Spacetime

    The Future of Spacetime

    by Alan Lightman • Stephen Hawking • Richard Price • Kip S. Thorne • Igor Novikov • Timothy Ferris

    Selected essays on the theories of Einstein and others in the twentieth century... More

    Language: ENG
    Copyright: 2002
  • Special Responsibilities

    Special Responsibilities

    by Richard Price • Mlada Bukovansky • Christian Reus-Smit • Ian Clark • Nicholas J. Wheeler • Robyn Eckersley

    The language of special responsibilities is ubiquitous in world politics, with policymakers and commentators alike speaking and acting as though particular states have, or ought to have, unique obligations in managing global problems. Surprisingly, scholars are yet to provide any in-depth analysis o... More

    Language: ENG
    Copyright: 2012
  • Los impunes

    Los impunes

    by Richard Price

    La nueva novela de Richard Price, autor de La vida fácil y ganador de un premio Edgar como guionista de la serie The Wire, relata la historia de un policía de Nueva York asediado por un asesinato sin resolver. «La novela criminal del año: cruda, valiente e imposible de dejar.»Stephen King A sus cu... More

    Language: SPA
    Copyright: 2015
  • The Wanderers: las pandillas del Bronx (Bloomsbury Classic Reads Ser.)

    The Wanderers: las pandillas del Bronx (Bloomsbury Classic Reads Ser.)

    by Richard Price

    The Wanderers, una banda adolescente en el Bronx de los años sesenta está llegando a la mayoría de edad y comienzan a separarse. Atormentados por chicas con el corazón de hielo, ignorados profesores apáticos y atemorizados por un niño-asesino de sangre fría, bandas maniacas y padres con instintos a... More

    Language: SPA
    Copyright: 1999
  • Who Am I?: And If So, How Many?

    Who Am I?: And If So, How Many?

    by Shelley Frisch • Richard David Precht

    #1 INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLERTRANSLATED INTO 23 LANGUAGES, WITH MORE THAN ONE MILLION COPIES SOLD What is truth? What is love? Does life have meaning? Bestselling author Richard David Precht, "the Mick Jagger of the nonfiction book" (Tagesanzeiger Zürich), has traveled the globe searching for answers-... More

    Language: ENG
    Copyright: 2011
  • Fourteen Ounces of Prevention: A Casebook for Practitioners

    Fourteen Ounces of Prevention: A Casebook for Practitioners

    by Richard H. Price

    <p>Although a growing number of psychologists agree that a wide range of psychological and health problems are preventable, the logic of prevention must be turned into concrete reality. To do that, we must identify model programs that work. . . . This idea led to the American Psychological Associati... More

    Language: ENG
    Copyright: 1988
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