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Celebrating Fifty Years of Picador Books Winner of the National
Book Award 1990 The Apocalypse would definitely put a crimp in my
career plans. Rutherford Calhoun, a puckish rogue and newly freed
slave, spends his days loitering around the docks of New Orleans,
dodging debt collectors, gangsters, and Isadora Bailey, a prim and
frugal woman who seeks to marry him and curb his mischievous
instincts. When the heat from these respective pursuers becomes too
much to bear, he cons his way on to the next ship leaving the dock:
the Republic. Upon boarding, to his horror he discovers that he is
on an illegal slave ship embarking on the Middle Passage, the
portion of the triangular trade route that saw slaves transported
from Africa to the US. Staffed by a crew of criminals and
degenerates, the Republic is on a mission to enslave members of the
legendary Allmuseri tribe, while the sadistic yet philosophical
Captain Falcon has a secondary objective: securing a mysterious
cargo that possesses a terrifying and otherworldly power. What
follows is a story of Rutherford's battle for survival, as he finds
himself juggling loyalties between the ship's crew and the enslaved
passengers, and is forced to use every ounce of the charm and
cunning that he possesses to endure the desperate conditions and
battle the myriad deadly forces on the high seas. A masterful blend
of allegory, black comedy, naval adventure and supernatural horror,
Charles Johnson's wildly inventive Middle Passage is a true modern
classic. Part of the Picador Collection, a series showcasing the
best of modern literature.
Captain Charles Johnson's General History of Pirates was one of the
best-selling books of 1724, when it was first published. It
provides a sweeping account of what has come to be called the
Golden Age of Piracy. It went through four editions in two years,
and without doubt owed a substantial part of its success to a
dramatic writing style that vividly captures the realities of
pirates' savage existence. The book contains documentary evidence
of events during the lives of its subjects. In the 270 years since
its original publication, Johnson's work has come to be regarded as
the classic study of one of the most popular subjects in maritime
history.
It is 1830. Rutherford Calhoun, a newly treed slave and irrepressible rogue, is desperate to escape unscrupulous bill collectors and an impending marriage to a priggish schoolteacher. He jumps aboard the first boat leaving New Orleans, the Republic, a slave ship en route to collect members of a legendary African tribe, the Allmuseri. Thus begins a daring voyage of horror and self-discovery. Peopled with vivid and unforgettable characters, nimble in its interplay of comedy and serious ideas, this dazzling modern classic is a perfect blend of the picaresque tale, historical romance, sea yarn, slave narrative, and philosophical novel.
Product Note: Volume 4 of the 5 volume facsimile collection Key Writings on Subcultures, 1535-1727: Classics from the Underworld [0-415-28675-1]
Buoyed by the runaway success of his bestselling A General History
of the Pirates (1724), Captain Charles Johnson went on to publish a
much-expanded edition of the work to include a further 80 accounts
of some of the most extraordinary British criminals of the
seventeenth and eighteenth centuries entitled A General History of
the Lives and Adventures of the Most Famous Pirates, Highwaymen,
Murderers, Street-Robbers, &c. (1734). He added further pirate
biographies but expanded the cast to include a ferocious band of
ruthless and vicious highwaymen, murderers, and wider criminals.
Johnson's volumes, featuring fictional accounts based on factual
sources, are significant as the forerunners of the real-life
criminal biography genre, and for their influence on such early
novels as Defoe's Moll Flanders and Fielding's Jonathan Wild but
equally resonate right through to the present day inspiring the
fiction of Ben Aaronovich and Jake Arnott. Originally published in
folio size complete with fine engravings, this new collection of
rogues includes the very best of these original decorative plates
but also presents a series of related illustrations, playbills, and
portraits from the British Library collections.
This searing collection of photographs by LIFE photographer Bob
Adelman takes the reader on a rollercoaster ride through Americas
Civil Rights Movement. These unforgettable photographs of Americas
dramatic journey through racial conflicts include evocative and
penetrating portraits of ordinary people rallying under some of the
most charismatic leaders of recent years, as well as artists and
writers as diverse as Sidney Poitier, Miles Davis, James Baldwin
and Ralph Ellison.
While there are many books that teach the "how-to" of photography,
Science for the Curious Photographer is a book for those who also
want to understand how photography works. Beginning with an
introduction to the history and science of photography, Charles S.
Johnson, Jr. addresses questions about the principles of
photography, such as why a camera needs a lens, how lenses work,
and why modern lenses are so complicated. Addressing the complex
aspects of digital photography, the book discusses color
management, resolution, "noise" in images, and the limits of human
perception. The creation and appreciation of art in photography is
discussed from the standpoint of modern cognitive science. A
crucial read for those seeking the scientific context to
photographic practice, this second edition has been comprehensively
updated, including discussion of DSLRs, mirror-less cameras, and a
new chapter on the limits of human vision and perception.
Captain Charles Johnson's celebrated A General History of the
Pirates (1724) is the most famous book about pirates ever written.
Buoyed by the volume's runaway success Johnson followed up with the
equally engrossing The Lives and Adventures of the Most Famous
Highwaymen (1734) which, published here for the first time in two
centuries, provides over 50 accounts of the most notorious British
criminals of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. These
include the famous highwayman William Davis, alias The Golden
Farmer, the cross-Channel gentleman highwayman Claude du Vall, the
prolific road adventurer Old Mob and the royalist carriage raider
James Hind. Johnson's volumes, featuring fictional accounts based
on factual sources, are significant as the forerunners of the
real-life criminal biography genre, and for their influence on such
early novels as Defoe's Moll Flanders and Fielding's Jonathan Wild.
Originally published in folio size complete with fine engravings,
this new edition of Highwaymen not only includes the very best of
these original decorative features but also presents a series of
related illustrations, playbills, and portraits from the British
Library collections.
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Eightfold Path
Steven Barnes, Charles Johnson; Illustrated by Bryan Christopher Moss
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R337
Discovery Miles 3 370
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From award-winning authors Charles Johnson and Steven Barnes comes
a graphic novel anthology of interconnected Afrofuturistic parables
inspired by the teachings of Buddha—now in paperbackEight
strangers—looking for enlightenment from an ancient spiritual
teacher—are trapped in a cave high in the mountains on their way
to his temple. One of his acolytes directs them to each tell a
story that the group can learn from as they wait out the horrible
snowstorm that rages outside the cave’s entrance.One by one, the
travelers each share a story that, unbeknownst to them, is actually
a morality tale representing one of the aspects of final
enlightenment as taught in Buddhism. As the wind howls through the
night, they tell symbolic stories of horror, dystopia, high
adventure, cyberpunk, and urban fantasy. Each story is a spoke on
the symbolic Dharma wheel, and each interlocking tale gets the
travelers closer to their true destiny: unveiling the future of the
entire human race. This remarkable collection borrows heavily from
the traditions of pop culture morality anthology series such as The
Twilight Zone,The Outer Limits, Night Gallery, Lovecraft Country,
and the publications of E.C. Comics. Strongly influenced by the
science fiction pulps of the 1950s and 1960s, this brilliant
collection remixes classic social narratives, such as Plato’s
Allegory of the Cave, Chaucer’s The Canterbury Tales, and The
Arabian Nights, through an edgy, contemporary, yet spiritually
centered lens. In The Eightfold Path, our destinies lie in heeding
the lessons given in every one of these entrancing tales.
Between 1760 and 1902, more than 200 book-length autobiographies of
ex-slaves were published; together they form the basis for all
subsequent African American literature. "I Was Born a Slave"
collects the 20 most significant "slave narratives." They describe
whippings, torture, starvation, resistance, and hairbreadth
escapes; slave auctions, kidnappings, and murders; sexual abuse,
religious confusion, the struggle of learning to read and write;
and the triumphs and difficulties of life as free men and women.
Many of the narratives--such as those of Frederick Douglass and
Harriet Jacobs--have achieved reputations as masterpieces; but some
of the lesser-known narratives are equally brilliant. This
unprecedented anthology presents them unabridged, providing each
one with helpful introductions and annotations, to form the most
comprehensive volume ever assembled on the lives and writings of
the slaves.
Volume One (1770-1849) includes the narratives of James Albert
Ukawsaw Gronniosaw, Olaudah Equiano (Gustavus Vassa), William
Grimes, Nat Turner, Charles Ball, Moses Roper, Frederick Douglass,
Lewis & Milton Clarke, William Wells Brown, and Josiah
Henson.
While there are many books that teach the "how-to" of photography,
Science for the Curious Photographer is a book for those who also
want to understand how photography works. Beginning with an
introduction to the history and science of photography, Charles S.
Johnson, Jr. addresses questions about the principles of
photography, such as why a camera needs a lens, how lenses work,
and why modern lenses are so complicated. Addressing the complex
aspects of digital photography, the book discusses color
management, resolution, "noise" in images, and the limits of human
perception. The creation and appreciation of art in photography is
discussed from the standpoint of modern cognitive science. A
crucial read for those seeking the scientific context to
photographic practice, this second edition has been comprehensively
updated, including discussion of DSLRs, mirror-less cameras, and a
new chapter on the limits of human vision and perception.
From award-winning authors Charles Johnson and Steven Barnes comes
a graphic novel anthology of interconnected Afrofuturistic parables
inspired by the teachings of BuddhaEight strangers looking for
enlightenment from an ancient spiritual teacher are trapped in a
cave high in the mountains on their way to his temple. One of his
acolytes directs them to each tell a story that the group can learn
from as they wait out the horrible snowstorm that rages outside the
cave's entrance.One by one the travelers each share a story that,
unbeknownst to them, is actually a morality tale representing one
of the aspects of final enlightenment as taught in Buddhism. As the
wind howls through the night, they tell symbolic stories of horror,
dystopia, high adventure, cyberpunk, and urban fantasy. Each story
is a spoke on the symbolic Dharma wheel, and each interlocking tale
gets the travelers closer to their true destiny-unveiling the
future of the entire human race. This remarkable collection borrows
heavily from the traditions of pop-culture morality anthology
series such as The Twilight Zone, The Outer Limits, Night Gallery,
Lovecraft Country, and the publications of E.C. Comics. Heavily
influenced by the science fiction pulps of the 1950s and 1960s,
this brilliant collection remixes classic social narratives such as
Plato's Allegory of the Cave, Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales, and
The Arabian Nights, through an edgy, contemporary, yet spiritually
centered lens. In The Eightfold Path, our destinies lie in heeding
the lessons given in every one of these entrancing tales.
Martin Luther King Jr is a political visionary, human rights
activist, preacher, scholar and martyr. Chaym Smith is his dark
mirror, a violent, cynical criminal with a mind and talent to mimic
King's. When Smith begins to act as King's double at rallies, the
contradictions and strange similarities between the two men set one
question into sharp focus - is evil inherent or a product of
circumstance? Dreamer is a multi-layered masterpiece, capturing
Civil Rights-era America in a snapshot of racism and brutality,
revolution and hope.
Chronic illness and pain are now, more than ever, seen asas major
problems in the current health care system. Because they are
unresponsive to both antibiotics and surgery, theyr are seen as
elusive and mysterious. The National Medical Expenditure Survey
estimates that over 80 million U.S. citizens live with a chronic
illness. The most prevalent are arthritis, diabetes, respiratory
diseases, hypertension and mental illness. This book uses the novel
Robinson Crusoe as an archetypal metaphor for the patients who must
learn to survive on their own isolated "island" of chronic pain.
This unique style is combined with a variety of in-session
approaches and other tools which clients have found helpful in
identifying their goals and progress. By emphasizing the importance
of self-care the authors hope to diminish the sense of helplessness
felt by the both the patients their loved ones.
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