Wright: 3168 books
by Richard Wright
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2009
Richard Wright grew up in the woods of Mississippi, with poverty, hunger, fear, and hatred. He lied, stole, and raged at those around him; at six he was a "drunkard," hanging about taverns. Surly, brutal, cold, suspicious, and self-pitying, he was surrounded on one side by whites who were either indifferent...
by Eric Wright
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2011
What happens when a farm girl from South Carolina and a city boy from Toronto trade their suburban split-level for a log house in the country? Besides crazy craft on the Ganny and live theatre in a barnyard, Eric and Mary Helen Wright discover crickets in the bedroom, thunder on the ridges, and romance...
F
Poems
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2013
In these riveting poems, Wright declares, “I’ve said all that / I had to say. / In writing. / I signed my name. / It’s death’s move.” As he considers his mortality, the poet finds a new elation and clarity on the page, handing over for our examination the flawed yet kneeling-in-gratitude...
Rock the Casbah
Rage and Rebellion Across the Islamic World
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2011
A decade after the 9/11 attacks, this groundbreaking book takes readers deep into rebellions against both autocrats and extremists that are redefining politics, culture, and security threats across the Islamic world. The awakening involves hundreds of millions of people. And the political transformations—...
Code of the Suburb
Inside the World of Young Middle-Class Drug Dealers
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2015
When we think about young people dealing drugs, we tend to picture it happening on urban streets, in disadvantaged, crime-ridden neighborhoods. But drugs are used everywhere—even in upscale suburbs and top-tier high schools—and teenage users in the suburbs tend to buy drugs from their peers, dealers...
Physics of Blackness
Beyond the Middle Passage Epistemology
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2015
What does it mean to be Black? If Blackness is not biological in origin but socially and discursively constructed, does the meaning of Blackness change over time and space? In Physics of Blackness: Beyond the Middle Passage Epistemology, Michelle M. Wright argues that although we often explicitly define...
by Tony Wright
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2006
This is a revised and updated edition of Tony Wright's critically acclaimed work that first appeared a decade ago. It provides a lucid and accesible survey of the major strands of socialist thinking right up to the present day and includes an assessment of the renewal of socialism in Britain. It is...
Postmodern Brecht
A Re-Presentation
Language: English
Release Date: August 19, 2016
In this radical and deliberately controversial re-reading of Brecht, first published in 1989, Elizabeth Wright takes a new view of the playwright, giving us a more ‘Brechtian’ reading than so far achieved and making his work historically relevant here and now. The author discusses in detail Brecht’s...
The Last Great Revolution
Turmoil and Transformation in Iran
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2010
Robin Wright has reported from over 120 countries for many leading news organizations, but her perceptive coverage of Iran has garnered her the most respect and praise among her colleagues. In The Last Great Revolution, Wright meticulously describes the ongoing transformation of society, politics...
Daddy Dates
Four Daughters, One Clueless Dad, and His Quest to Win Their Hearts: The Road Map for Any Dad to Raise a Strong and Confident Daughter
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2012
One day motivational leader Greg Wright realized that the four set of pretty young eyes under his own roof were looking to Dad to be strong, fearless, and wise.
The reality was, the lone male in an all-girl household ("heck, even the dog was female") was only thirty years old and...
You Can Self Heal
How to Use the Natural Healing Power of Your Mind & Body
Language: English
Release Date: December 29, 2013
Reviews Someone once said "If the mind can conceive it and the heart can believe it - you can achieve it." Anthony is a living testimony to that latent, undiscovered God-implanted power within our minds to overcome the apparent impossible. Most are unaware that it even exists. It took a life change...
A Bridge from Darkness to Light
Thirteen Young Photographers Explore Their Afghanistan
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2013
In 2006, Texas historian and photographer Bill Wright traveled to Afghanistan to teach a course—sponsored by the Afghan NGO ASCHIANA, which seeks to support working children and their families—on digital photography to young Afghans living in Kabul. In this illuminating, visually captivating book,...
by Wright, Wendy M.
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2009
The Essential Handbook series provides a concise resource for understanding and practicing your faith. The Essential Spirituality Handbook presents the foundations of Catholic spirituality in five sections. Beginning with the theological understanding of the term spirituality, Wendy Wright presents an...
Pauline Perspectives
Essays on Paul, 1978-2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2013
This companion volume to Paul and the Faithfulness of God and Paul and His Recent Interpreters brings together N.T. Wright's most important and influential articles on Paul over the last 35 years. This text includes previously unpublished exegetical essays on Paul's letters, specially written for...