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Speculative Light: The Arts of Beauford Delaney and James Baldwin Amy J. Elias 9781478024873
RRP: $195.00Booksplease Price: $157.60Over the course of a thirty-eight-year friendship, writer James Baldwin and painter Beauford Delaney shared their private lives and shaped one another's artistic values. Speculative Light brings... -
Speculative Light: The Arts of Beauford Delaney and James Baldwin Amy J. Elias 9781478030058
RRP: $52.63Booksplease Price: $45.84Over the course of a thirty-eight-year friendship, writer James Baldwin and painter Beauford Delaney shared their private lives and shaped one another's artistic values. Speculative Light brings... -
James Baldwin: The Life Album Magdalena J. Zaborowska 9780300262209
RRP: $37.03Booksplease Price: $37.01An intimate portrait of James Baldwin, offering a new understanding of his life and works as seen through his close relationships and private life James Baldwin (1924-1987) was a pivotal figure of... -
Go Tell It on the Mountain by James Baldwin 9781841593715
RRP: $33.13Booksplease Price: $24.84'Go back to where you started, or as far back as you can, examine all of it, travel your road again and tell the truth about it. Sing or shout or testify or keep it to yourself: but know whence you... -
Zero to Birth: How the Human Brain Is Built by William A. Harris 9780691253947
RRP: $33.13Booksplease Price: $30.23A revelatory tale of how the human brain develops, from conception to birth and beyondBy the time a baby is born, its brain is equipped with billions of intricately crafted neurons wired together... -
Zero to Birth: How the Human Brain Is Built by William A. Harris
RRP: $42.90Booksplease Price: $36.21A revelatory tale of how the human brain develops, from conception to birth and beyondBy the time a baby is born, its brain is equipped with billions of intricately crafted neurons wired together... -
James Baldwin: American and Beyond by Cora Kaplan 9780472071524
Booksplease Price: $163.53"This fine collection of essays represents an important contribution to the rediscovery of Baldwin's stature as essayist, novelist, black prophetic political voice, and witness to the Civil Rights... -
Malcolm X at Oxford Union: Racial Politics in a Global Era by Saladin Ambar 9780199975471
RRP: $88.71Booksplease Price: $82.19In 1964 Malcolm X was invited to debate at the Oxford Union Society at Oxford University. The topic of debate that evening was the infamous phrase from Barry Goldwater's 1964 Republican Convention... -
James Baldwin and Toni Morrison: Comparative Critical and Theoretical Essays by Lovalerie King 9781403970732
Booksplease Price: $179.67This collection of comparative critical and theoretical essays examines James Baldwin and Toni Morrison's reciprocal literary relationship. By reading these authors side-by-side, this collection... -
The Bad Trip: Dark Omens, New Worlds and the End of the Sixties by James Riley
RRP: $19.48Booksplease Price: $14.25'A history that makes perfect sense when the sky is falling down.' - The Sunday TimesBeneath the psychedelic utopianism of the sixties lay a dark seam of apocalyptic thinking that seemed to rupture... -
James Baldwin and Toni Morrison: Comparative Critical and Theoretical Essays by Lovalerie King 9780230619722
Booksplease Price: $179.67This collection of comparative critical and theoretical essays examines James Baldwin and Toni Morrison's reciprocal literary relationship. By reading these authors side-by-side, this collection... -
James Baldwin and the 1980s: Witnessing the Reagan Era by Joseph Vogel 9780252083365
RRP: $33.13Booksplease Price: $29.48By the 1980s, critics and the public alike considered James Baldwin irrelevant. Yet Baldwin remained an important, prolific writer until his death in 1987. Indeed, his work throughout the decade... -
Read Until You Understand: The Profound Wisdom of Black Life and Literature by Farah Jasmine Griffin
RRP: $25.33Booksplease Price: $21.82Farah Jasmine Griffin has taken to her heart the phrase "read until you understand," a line her father, who died when she was nine, wrote in a note to her. She has made it central to this book about... -
James Baldwin: The Life Album Magdalena J. Zaborowska 9780300288704
Booksplease Price: $27.14An intimate portrait of James Baldwin, offering a new understanding of his life and works as seen through his close relationships and private life"Baldwin authority Zaborowska's gracefully... -
The Night Malcolm X Spoke at the Oxford Union: A Transatlantic Story of Antiracist Protest by Stephen Tuck 9780520279339
RRP: $39.00Booksplease Price: $33.25Less than three months before he was assassinated, Malcolm X spoke at the Oxford Union the most prestigious student debating organization in the United Kingdom. The Oxford Union regularly welcomed... -
Dirty Books: Erotic Fiction and the Avant-Garde in Mid-Century Paris and New York Barry Reay 9781526181466
RRP: $25.33Booksplease Price: $19.38An intimate history of the pornographic publisher behind some of the greatest works of the twentieth-century avant-garde.From the 1930s to the 1970s, in New York and in Paris, daring publishers and... -
Terrorism and Modern Literature: From Joseph Conrad to Ciaran Carson by Alex Houen 9780198187707
Booksplease Price: $157.19Is terrorism's violence essentially symbolic? Does it impact on culture primarily through the media? What kinds of performative effect do the various discourses surrounding terrorism have? Such... -
Terrorism and Modern Literature: From Joseph Conrad to Ciaran Carson by Alex Houen 9780198187714
Booksplease Price: $110.51Is terrorism's violence essentially symbolic? Does it impact on culture primarily through the media? What kinds of performative effect do the various discourses surrounding terrorism have? Such... -
Eric Walrond: A Life in the Harlem Renaissance and the Transatlantic Caribbean by James Davis
RRP: $58.50Booksplease Price: $49.16Eric Walrond (1898-1966) was a writer, journalist, caustic critic, and fixture of 1920s Harlem. His short story collection, Tropic Death, was one of the first efforts by a black author to depict... -
The New Science of Consciousness: Exploring the Complexity of Brain, Mind, and Self by Paul L. Nunez
RRP: $33.13Booksplease Price: $30.91This book explains in layperson's terms a new approach to studying consciousness based on a partnership between neuroscientists and complexity scientists. The author, a physicist turned... -
Eric Walrond: A Life in the Harlem Renaissance and the Transatlantic Caribbean by James Davis 9780231157841
RRP: $228.15Booksplease Price: $178.35Eric Walrond (1898-1966) was a writer, journalist, caustic critic, and fixture of 1920s Harlem. His short story collection, Tropic Death, was one of the first efforts by a black author to depict... -
Jim: The Life and Afterlives of Huckleberry Finn's Comrade Shelley Fisher Fishkin 9780300288612
Booksplease Price: $27.14The origins and influence of Jim, Mark Twain's beloved yet polarizing literary figure "Astute. . . . Sheds new light on a much-studied character."-Publishers Weekly Mark Twain's Jim, introduced... -
Darker than Blue: On the Moral Economies of Black Atlantic Culture by Paul Gilroy 9780674060234
RRP: $52.55Booksplease Price: $45.40Paul Gilroy seeks to awaken a new understanding of W. E. B. Du Bois's intellectual and political legacy. At a time of economic crisis, environmental degradation, ongoing warfare, and heated debate... -
F.B. Eyes: How J. Edgar Hoover's Ghostreaders Framed African American Literature by William J. Maxwell 9780691130200
RRP: $68.25Booksplease Price: $61.62Few institutions seem more opposed than African American literature and J. Edgar Hoover's white-bread Federal Bureau of Investigation. But behind the scenes the FBI's hostility to black protest was... -
The New Negro: The Life of Alain Locke by Jeffrey C. Stewart 9780195089578
RRP: $63.36Booksplease Price: $62.48A tiny, fastidiously dressed man emerged from Black Philadelphia around the turn of the twentieth century to mentor a generation of young artists like Langston Hughes, Zora Neale Hurston, and Jacob... -
Little Man, Little Man: A Story of Childhood by James Baldwin
RRP: $15.58Booksplease Price: $14.90Four-year-old TJ spends his days on his lively Harlem block playing with his best friends WT and Blinky and running errands for neighbors. As he comes of age as a "Little Man" with big dreams, TJ... -
The Lives of Frederick Douglass by Robert S. Levine 9780674055810
RRP: $70.10Booksplease Price: $59.01Frederick Douglass's fluid, changeable sense of his own life story is reflected in the many conflicting accounts he gave of key events and relationships during his journey from slavery to freedom... -
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American Cocktail: A "Colored Girl" in the World by Anita Reynolds 9780674073050
RRP: $70.10Booksplease Price: $59.01This is the rollicking, never-before-published memoir of a fascinating woman with an uncanny knack for being in the right place in the most interesting times. Of racially mixed heritage, Anita...