BOOKS by Richard Price

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1	Lush Life more books like this by Richard Price add to wishlist In "Lush Life," Price tears the shiny veneer off the "new" New York to show the underground networks of control and violence beneath the glamour, in this novel that reads like a movie in prose" ("New York Times"). see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.41! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
2	Merrill Chemistry more books like this by Robert C Smoot, Richard G Smith, Jack Price add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! new only from $13.62! \| first editions \| SVS
3	Freedomland more books like this by Richard Price add to wishlist When a white woman appears in the emergency room of an inner-city hospital wounded and bleeding and tells police that she had been carjacked by a black who drove off with her young son in the back seat, a furious manhunt ensues. Lorenzo Council, a black detective assigned to the case, begins to have doubts about the woman's story. Jesse Haus, a ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
4	Clockers more books like this by Richard Price add to wishlist Richard Price's gripping, gritty tale of the battle of nerves between the police and the drug dealers across the river from Manhattan in the slums of New Jersey. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $4.50! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
5	Samaritan more books like this by Richard Price add to wishlist Dempsy, New Jersey, is right across the river from New York City, and Ray Mitchell has returned there--his home town--from Los Angeles, where he has made a bundle as a screenwriter. Ray is white, and when he is attacked and badly beaten, Nerese Ammons, a black police detective, takes the case, even though she is close to early retirement. A New ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
6	Revolutionary Road: The Easter Parade; Eleven Kinds of Loneliness more books like this by Richard Yates add to wishlist A suburban family--Frank, April, and the two kids--breaks down when April decides they should change their lives by moving to Paris and Frank gets involved in a messy affair at the office. Richard Yates's brilliant 1961 novel, in which there are no winners, is a satirical dissection of suburbia in the 1950s and a probing examination of the sadness ... see all copies from $14.65! new only from $15.52! \| first editions \| SVS
7	Breaks more books like this by Richard Price add to wishlist Peter "Speedo" Keller is the first college graduate in his working class family - majoring in English, minoring as class clown. His lurching entrance into adult life includes a fantasy-arousing interlude as a telephone sales solicitor and a mind-deadening stint at the post office. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $9.97! \| signed copies \| first editions
8	The Birth of African-American Culture: An Anthropological Perspective more books like this by Sidney W Mintz, Richard Price add to wishlist In this provocative study, two anthropologists add a measured voice to the debate on the roots of African-American culture. Exploring the cultural ties between Africans and African-Americans, the authors argue that there was no single culture that enslaved Africans transported intact to the Americas. see all copies from $3.00! new only from $16.23! \| SVS
9	Wanderers more books like this by Richard Price add to wishlist A novel set in the Bronx in the early 1960s, where a teenage gang are trying to stay alive and perhaps get to know some girls, but it is not going to be easy, for they face murderous parents, an all-Chinese gang, apathetic teachers and a 10-year-old cold-blooded killer. From the author of FREEDOMLAND and LADIES' MAN. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $6.05! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
10	Alabi's World more books like this by Richard Price add to wishlist Alabi's World relates the history of a nation founded by escaped slaves deep in the Latin American rain forest. It tells of the black men and women's bloody battles for independence, their uneasy truce with the colonial government, and the attempt of their great leader, Alabi, to reconcile his people with white law and a white God. see all copies from $4.18! new only from $19.68! \| first editions \| SVS
11	Bloodbrothers more books like this by Richard Price add to wishlist Stony de Coco is 18 and the son of a pugnacious construction worker who expects his son to follow in his footsteps. Stony, however, is determined to break loose from his belligerent life despite the opposition from everyone else in his family. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
12	Clockers CL more books like this by Richard Price add to wishlist Richard Price's gripping, gritty tale of the battle of nerves between the police and the drug dealers across the river from Manhattan in the slums of New Jersey. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $27.90! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
13 view cover	Ladies man more books like this by Richard Price add to wishlist Abandoned by his live-in girlfried, Kenny Becker, an unemployed door-to-door salesman, sets off to explore his new freedom. His journey takes him through singles bars, peep shows, massage parlours and other questionable destinations in New York's underground. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $88.82! \| signed copies \| first editions
14 view cover	Maroon Societies: Rebel Slave Communities in the Americas more books like this by Richard Price (Editor) add to wishlist 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 lasted less than a year to powerful states encompassing thousands of members and surviving for generations and even centuries. The volume includes eyewitness accounts written by escaped ... see all copies from $3.99! new only from $22.64! \| first editions \| SVS
15 view cover	First-Time: The Historical Vision of an Afro-American People more books like this by Richard Price add to wishlist A classic of historical anthropology, First-Time traces the shape of historical thought among peoples who had previously been denied any history at all. Each page of the book presents a transcript of oral histories told by living Saramakas about their eighteenth-century ancestors along with commentary from Price that places their accounts into a ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $184.88! \| signed copies \| first editions
16 view cover	Travels with Tooy: History, Memory, and the African American Imagination more books like this by Richard Price add to wishlist Thirty-five years into his research among the descendants of rebel slaves living in the South American rain forest, anthropologist Richard Price encountered Tooy, a priest, philosopher, and healer living in a rough shantytown on the outskirts of Cayenne, French Guiana. Tooy is a time traveler who crosses boundaries between centuries, continents, ... see all copies from $18.70! new only from $18.70! \| SVS
17 view cover	Information Systems Solutions: A Project Approach more books like this by Richard Van Horn, Albert Schwarzkopf, R Leon Price add to wishlist The development, implementation and maintenance of computer-based information system solutions require innovative thinking, research and communication skills, extensive documentation, and the ability to effectively apply proposed solutions. "Information System Solutions: A Project Approach" integrates basic information systems knowledge with these ... see all copies from $40.00! new only from $43.25! \| first editions
18 view cover	The Convict and the Colonel: A Story of Colonialism and Resistance in the Caribbean more books like this by Richard Price add to wishlist This work brings together an election day massacre in colonial Martinique; a "mad" artist who lives in a cave; a satirical wooden bust of a white colonel; the artist's banishment to the Devil's Island penal colony for "impertinence"; and a young anthropologist who arrives in Martinique in 1962, on the eve of massive modernization. In a stunning ... see all copies from $11.70! new only from $28.52! \| SVS
19 view cover	Future of Spacetime more books like this by Stephen W. Hawking, Kip S. Thorne, Richard Price (Introduction by) add to wishlist This volume reports on where the science of black holes, gravitational waves, and time travel will likely lead, as reported by spacetime's most important theoreticians and observers. Here are six essays by those who walk that line, moving ever further out in discovering the patterns of nature. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $10.57! \| first editions \| SVS
20	Three Screenplays Pa more books like this by Richard Price add to wishlist Three powerhouse screenplays by Clockers author Price, "the best screenwriter in America" (David Denby).-known screenplays offers readers the chance to see for themselves why major movie critics consider Price an equally brilliant screenwriter. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
21 view cover	Causation, Physics, and the Constitution of Reality: Russell's Republic Revisited more books like this by Huw Price (Editor), Richard Corry (Editor) add to wishlist In philosophy as in ordinary life, cause and effect are twin pillars on which much of our thought seems based. But almost a century ago, Bertrand Russell declared that modern physics leaves these pillars without foundations. Russell's revolutionary conclusion was that 'the law of causality is a relic of a bygone age, surviving, like the monarchy, ... see all copies from $28.00! new only from $37.56! \| first editions \| SVS
22 view cover	Clockers: Richard Price more books like this by Richard Price add to wishlist Richard Price's gripping, gritty tale of the battle of nerves between the police and the drug dealers across the river from Manhattan in the slums of New Jersey. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $10.44! \| first editions
23 view cover	Convict & the Colonel more books like this by Richard Price add to wishlist The life of Medard Aribot of Martinique--artist, convict, madman, legend--spans much of the twentieth century. With an exciting combination of scholarship and storytelling, award-winning anthropologist Richard Price takes readers on a search for the real Medard, using Martinique's transition from colonial society to modern society as a backdrop to ... see all copies from $4.32! new only from $4.86! \| first editions
24 view cover	Equatoria more books like this by Richard Price, Professor Sally Price add to wishlist "Equatoria" probes the nature of power relations between "us" and "them". This diary of an artifact-collecting expedition in French Guiana is accompanied by a sideshow of epigraphs and sketches. The authors detailed their day-to-day adventures and misadventures, constantly confronting their ambivalence about the act of collecting, the very ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $6.00! \| first editions
25	Where the River Runs: A Portrait of a Refugee Family more books like this by Nancy Price Graff, Richard Howard (Photographer) add to wishlist This study of a refugee family follows the daily life of a Cambodian family as they adapt to life in the United States. Illustrated with b&w photographs. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $6.44! \| signed copies \| first editions

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