Right from the start, Bigger Thomas had been headed for jail. It could have been for assault or petty larceny; by chance, it was for murder and rape. Native Son tells the story of this young black man caught in a downward spiral after he kills a young white woman in a brief moment of panic. Set in Chicago in the 1930s, Richard Wright’s powerful novel is an unsparing reflection on the poverty and feelings of hopelessness experienced by people in inner cities across the country and of what it means to be black in America.

In this up-to-date new Edition, Wright and his team of expert contributing authorsincorporate results of the latest studies on sex offender policies in their critical analysesof current laws, and assess the most effective approaches in preventing sex offenderrecidivism. This provocative book has been updated throughout to reflect the latestresearch in the fields of criminal justice, law, forensic psychology, and social work. It isthe only book on the market that offers such a focused and comprehensive examinationof current sex offender laws and policies and what is known about their efficacy. Thisnew and expanded Edition of the book presents alternative models and approaches tosex offense laws and policies, including a brand new chapter on Sexual Assault NurseExaminer programs. The authors explore critical, cutting-edge topics, such as sexting,internet sexual solicitation, the death penalty, and community responses to sex offense.

'Every day in the United States, children and adolescents are victims of commercial sexual exploitation and sex trafficking. Despite the serious and long-term consequences for victims as well as their families, communities, and society, efforts to prevent, identify, and respond to these crimes are largely under supported, inefficient, uncoordinated, and unevaluated. Confronting Commercial Sexual Exploitation and Sex Trafficking of Minors in the United States examines commercial sexual exploitation and sex trafficking of U.S. citizens and lawful permanent residents of the United States under age 18. According to this report, efforts to prevent, identify, and respond to these crimes require better collaborative approaches that build upon the capabilities of people and entities from a range of sectors. In addition, such efforts need to confront demand and the individuals who commit and benefit from these crimes. The report recommends increased awareness and understanding, strengthening of the law's response, strengthening of research to advance understanding and to support the development of prevention and intervention strategies, support for multi-sector and interagency collaboration, and creation of a digital information-sharing platform. A nation that is unaware of these problems or disengaged from solutions unwittingly contributes to the ongoing abuse of minors. If acted upon in a coordinated and comprehensive manner, the recommendations of Confronting Commercial Sexual Exploitation and Sex Traffickingof Minors in the United States can help advance and strengthen the nation's emerging efforts to prevent, identify, and respond to commercial sexual exploitation and sex trafficking of minors in the United States'--Publisher's description.

A skateboarding book like no other, this collection of stunning color photographs from around the world reveals an authentic, unsentimental view of an often overglamorized subculture. The Irish photographer and skateboarder Richard Gilligan spent four years traveling through Europe and the US to photograph homemade skateparks. The resulting photographs are not your run-of-the-mill action shots filled with miraculous body moves, slashes, twists, and turns. Instead, Gilligan chooses to focus on the sport's 'negative space': the out-of-the-way concrete embankments, nondescript suburban lots where kids come to practice, a simple wooden ramp so insubstantial that no one but a skateboarder would recognize its use. Many of these photographs can be appreciated as unique, if prosaic, landscapes, but Gilligan also populates his pictures with skaters at rest, smoking alone, hanging out together, or walking home, board in hand. The images offer a grittily beautiful tribute to the ineffable hunger that unites all skateboarders--young, old, rich, poor. In these photographs Gilligan realizes the act of skating represents more than a quest for glory, but a means of self expression.

Collecting BATMAN: DARK VICTORY #0-13, this epic continues the story of THE LONG HALLOWEEN. It is early in Batman's crimefighting career, when James Gordon, Harvey Dent, and the vigilante himself were all just beginning their roles as Gotham's protectors.

Once a town controlled by organized crime, Gotham City suddenly finds itself being run by lawless freaks, such as Poison Ivy, Mr. Freeze, and the Joker. Witnessing his city's dark evolution, the Dark Knight completes his transformation into the city's greatest defender. He faces multiple threats, including the seeming return of a serial killer called Holiday. Batman's previous investigation of Holiday's killings revealed that more than one person was responsible for the murders. So the question remains: who is committing Holiday's crimes this time? And how many will die before Batman learns the truth?

Un racconto aggrappato alla realtà, 'vissuto alla giornata': la lenta maturazione d'un giovane solo e arrabbiato, avido di conoscere, affamato di parole e di libri. 'Ragazzo negro', quasi un romanzo di formazione, è l'autobiografia simbolica di Richard Wright, scrittore negro nativo del Mississippi, dapprima sguattero, spazzino, spalatore, poi impiegato alle poste, agente di assicurazioni, disoccupato, infine narratore di brevi racconti pagati pochi dollari a cartella. L'esperienza di vivere nelle cose, scoprire le parole come arma di liberazione: il coraggio di progettare la propria esistenza proiettandola verso il viaggio dell'utopia come scelta d'una fuga che non è più passiva sconfitta.

The stories of the men and women who dug for gold on Williams Creek are told in this revised and updated edition of a Canadian bestseller.

The legendary town of Barkerville is flourishing today, just as it did more than 150 years ago, but this time under the care of professional and amateur historians. Richard Thomas Wright peels back the pages of history as he unearths the area's history and chronicles the fortunes and the follies of gold-rush-era Barkerville. The result of years of around-the-world research, Barkerville and the Cariboo Goldfields brings to life the men and women of the creeks who came in search of gold and left their mark on BC history. Wright mined the archives to bring forth new information on the development of the Cariboo goldfields and nearby places of interest.

Barkerville includes dozens of little-known historical photos and a complete index. It is the best, most comprehensive source of detailed information on this important national heritage site.

The fiendish Eerie Archives series is back with a lucky thirteenth volume of horror, fantasy, and science fiction from Warren Publishing’s classic anthology! Collecting issues 61 through 64 from the mid-seventies, this terrible tome features dark and dystopian tales from talents like Wally Wood ('Killer Hawk'), Alex Toth ('Daddy and the Pie'), Bernie Wrightson ('Cool Air'), and Richard Corben ('The Butcher'). Revel in the vengeful exploits of favorite recurring characters Dr. Archaeus, Coffin, Exterminator One, the Spook, and others! This deluxe hardcover also includes all original letters columns and color frontispieces, haunting painted covers by Ken Kelly and Sanjulian, and a new introduction by modern horror pioneer and painter Tom Neely (The Blot, The Wolf).

We're introduced to the Spook, a voodoo-inspired zombie hero of the antebellum South. We continue the post apocalyptic adventures of Hunter and follow Dr Archaeus as he tracks down each of the twelve jurors who sentenced him to death.

Richard Wright, one of the early forceful and eloquent spokesmen for black Americans, author of the acclaimed Native Son and Black Boy, discovered the haiku in the last eighteen months of life. He attempted to capture, through his sensibility as an African-American, the elusive Zen discipline and beauty in depicting man's relationship, not only to his fellow man as he had in the raw and forceful prose of his fiction, but to the natural world. In all, he wrote over 4,000 haiku.

Here are the 817 he personally chose; Wright's haiku, disciplined and steeped in beauty, display a universality that transcends both race and color without ever denying them. Wright wrote his haiku obsessively—in bed, in cafes, in restaurants, in both Paris and the French countryside. They offered him a new form of expression and a new vision: with the threat of death constantly before him, he found in them inspiration, beauty, and insights. Fighting illness and frequently bedridden, deeply upset by the recent loss of his mother, Ella, Wright continued, as his daughter notes in her introduction, “to spin these poems of light out of the gathering darkness.”

Richard Paul Roe spent more than twenty years traveling the length and breadth of Italy on a literary quest of unparalleled significance.

Using the text from Shakespeare?s ten ?Italian Plays? as his only compass, Roe determined the exact locations of nearly every scene in Romeo and Juliet, The Two Gentlemen of Verona, The Merchant of Venice, Much Ado about Nothing, The Tempest, and the remaining dramas set in Italy. His chronicle of travel, analysis, and discovery paints with unprecedented clarity a picture of what the Bard must have experienced before penning his plays.

Equal parts literary detective story and vivid travelogue?containing copious annotations and more than 150 maps, photographs, and paintings?The Shakespeare Guide to Italy is a unique, compelling, and deeply provocative journey that will forever change our understanding of how to read the Bard . . . and irrevocably alter our vision of who William Shakespeare really was.

Leadership. What does it mean? How do I do it? Who is a leader and who is not? Relational Leadership will stimulate your thinking about leadership and management, causing you to both ask questions and find answers. Ultimately, this will enable you to invest yourself in people for the sake of the kingdom. Drawing on leadership theory, his own experience and insights from Jude, Philemon and Colossians, Walter Wright has written a book that will be valuable to anyone in a position of leadership. Leadership is not an assigned role but a way of living that suffuses everything we do and are. The goal of this book is to empower others to contribute to achieving the mission of the organizations with which they are involved. Wright not only presents an ideal but offers practical suggestions for handling such thorny issues as the management of volunteers and performance reviews.

The recent media and congressional furor concerning the deplorable conditions facing veterans of the Iraq and Afghanistan occupations at the Walter Reed Army Medical Center and the less trumpeted difficulties many recent veterans are facing in receiving adequate care and readjusting to life back home likely came as no surprise to author Taylor (ret., US Army), who describes similar situations throughout American history from the Revolutionary War to the present. He covers such issues as social readjustment and acceptance, job training and placement, medical care and disability compensation, education, retirement, burial. He also provides coverage of the often-differing experiences of women and minority veterans. Annotation ©2009 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

'This volume of readings provides an excellent source of information about sex offender laws and policies.'--International Journal of Offender Therapy and Comparative Criminology

'Sex Offender Laws...is a good source for balanced, objective, and thorough critique of our current sex offender policies as well as a source for accurate information about a very heterogeneous population...The message that sexual abuse is often a multifaceted and complex issue and that policy based on quick fixes or knee jerk reactions do not often work will be informative and enlightening to many readers.'--Sex Roles

'[T]his fine book by Richard Wright and his distinguished collaborators provides the evidence that wise policy-makers would want to consider. It covers every major field of research concerning sex offenders and sexual offenses and provides evidence of bad practices and policies .Intellectually honest politicians should read this book.'
--Michael Tonry, LL.B,
Professor of Law and Public Policy
University of Minnesota Law School (From the Foreword)

In response to many high-profile cases of sexual assault, federal and state governments have placed a number of unique criminal sanctions on sex offenders. These include residency restrictions, exclusionary zones, electronic monitoring, and chemical castration. However, the majority of sex offender policies are not based on empirical evidence, nor have they demonstrated any significant reductions in offender recidivism. In fact, some of these policies have unintended consequences, which actually increase the likelihood of sexual offenses.

In this book, Wright critically analyzes existing policies, and assesses the most effective approaches in preventing sex offender recidivism. This provocative and timely book draws from the fields of criminal justice, law, forensic psychology, and social work to examine how current laws and policies are enacted and what to-date is known about their efficacy. In response to the failed policies of sex offender laws, this book presents alternative models and approaches to sex offense laws and policies. Wright also explores critical, cutting-edge topics, such as internet sexual solicitation, the death penalty, and community responses to sex offense.

Key Features:

• An introduction and overview of the history of sex offender laws
• Analyzes the role of the media in sex offense and sex offender policies
• Examines the political 'untouchability' of sex offender laws and their adverse effects
• Features interviews with victims of sexual assault, investigating their points of views on what kinds of reforms need to be made to sex offender laws

Thought-provoking and insightful, Sex Offender Laws serves as a vital resource for policy makers, researchers, and students of criminal justice, law, and social work.

Wright, an expert in security and crisis management, addresses the worldwide growth of kidnapping for ransom and offers tips and advice on how to avoid and resolve these situations. Written for both law enforcement personnel and general readers, this volume offers a historical perspective on this crime before exploring the reasons why kidnapping incidents have increased 1968. The author offers expert analysis of the commission of the crime, the role of the authorities and the media, the tactical response, the negotiation strategies and the resolution. Insight into the criminal methodologies are also examined, and tips are offered on how victims and the families should behave in order to stay out of danger during such a crisis. Annotation ©2009 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Richards, Gwenyth. Welsh noblewomen in the thirteenth century : an historical study of medieval Welsh law and gender roles / Gwenyth Richards ; with a foreword by Jane Cartwright. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN-13: 978-0-7734-4672-4 ISBN-10: 0-7734-4672-9 I. Title. hors série.A CIP catalog record for this book is available from the British Library.Front cover photos: Window at Bronllys Castle and Valle Crucis Abbey, Northern Powys Photos by Brian Richards, September 2004 Copyright © 2009 Gwenyth Richards All rights reserved. For information contact The Edwin Mellen Press The Edwin Mellen Press Box 450 Box 67 Lewiston, New York Queenston, Ontario USA 14092-0450 CANADA L0S 1L0 The Edwin Mellen Press, Ltd. Lampeter, Ceredigion, Wales UNITED KINGDOM SA48 8LT Printed in the United States of America Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Richards, Gwenyth. Welsh noblewomen in the thirteenth century : an historical study of medieval Welsh law and gender roles / Gwenyth Richards ; with a foreword by Jane Cartwright. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN-13: 978-0-7734-4672-4 ISBN-10: 0-7734-4672-9 I. Title. hors série.A CIP catalog record for this book is available from the British Library.Front cover photos: Window at Bronllys Castle and Valle Crucis Abbey, Northern Powys Photos by Brian Richards, September 2004 Copyright © 2009 Gwenyth Richards All rights reserved. For information contact The Edwin Mellen Press The Edwin Mellen Press Box 450 Box 67 Lewiston, New York Queenston, Ontario USA 14092-0450 CANADA L0S 1L0 The Edwin Mellen Press, Ltd. Lampeter, Ceredigion, Wales UNITED KINGDOM SA48 8LT Printed in the United States of America Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Richards, Gwenyth. Welsh noblewomen in the thirteenth century : an historical study of medieval Welsh law and gender roles / Gwenyth Richards ; with a foreword by Jane Cartwright. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN-13: 978-0-7734-4672-4 ISBN-10: 0-7734-4672-9 I. Title. hors série.A CIP catalog record for this book is available from the British Library.Front cover photos: Window at Bronllys Castle and Valle Crucis Abbey, Northern Powys Photos by Brian Richards, September 2004 Copyright © 2009 Gwenyth Richards All rights reserved. For information contact The Edwin Mellen Press The Edwin Mellen Press Box 450 Box 67 Lewiston, New York Queenston, Ontario USA 14092-0450 CANADA L0S 1L0 The Edwin Mellen Press, Ltd. Lampeter, Ceredigion, Wales UNITED KINGDOM SA48 8LT Printed in the United States of America This book analyzes the role of Welsh nobelwomen in 13th century Welsh history, discussing their absence from this history until recently and examines several outstanding Welsh nobelwomen, including mothers, wives, and daughters of the native Welsh rulers.Richards, Gwenyth. Welsh noblewomen in the thirteenth century : an historical study of medieval Welsh law and gender roles / Gwenyth Richards ; with a foreword by Jane Cartwright. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN-13: 978-0-7734-4672-4 ISBN-10: 0-7734-4672-9 I. Title. hors série.A CIP catalog record for this book is available from the British Library.Front cover photos: Window at Bronllys Castle and Valle Crucis Abbey, Northern Powys Photos by Brian Richards, September 2004 Copyright © 2009 Gwenyth Richards All rights reserved. For information contact The Edwin Mellen Press The Edwin Mellen Press Box 450 Box 67 Lewiston, New York Queenston, Ontario USA 14092-0450 CANADA L0S 1L0 The Edwin Mellen Press, Ltd. Lampeter, Ceredigion, Wales UNITED KINGDOM SA48 8LT Printed in the United States of America Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Richards, Gwenyth. Welsh noblewomen in the thirteenth century : an historical study of medieval Welsh law and gender roles / Gwenyth Richards ; with a foreword by Jane Cartwright. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN-13: 978-0-7734-4672-4 ISBN-10: 0-7734-4672-9 I. Title. hors série.A CIP catalog record for this book is available from the British Library.Front cover photos: Window at Bronllys Castle and Valle Crucis Abbey, Northern Powys Photos by Brian Richards, September 2004 Copyright © 2009 Gwenyth Richards All rights reserved. For information contact The Edwin Mellen Press The Edwin Mellen Press Box 450 Box 67 Lewiston, New York Queenston, Ontario USA 14092-0450 CANADA L0S 1L0 The Edwin Mellen Press, Ltd. Lampeter, Ceredigion, Wales UNITED KINGDOM SA48 8LT Printed in the United States of America This book analyzes the role of Welsh nobelwomen in 13th century Welsh history, discussing their absence from this history until recently and examines several outstanding Welsh nobelwomen including mothers, wives, and daughters of the native Welsh rulers.

Richard Wright is one of the greatest African-American writers of the 20th century. His masterpiece Native Son is analyzed in this volume of essays.

Cross Damon is a man at odds with society and with himself—a man of superior intellect who hungers for peace but who brings terror and destruction wherever he goes.

From Richard Wright, one of the most powerful, acclaimed, and essential American authors of the twentieth century, comes a compelling story of a black man's attempt to escape his past and start anew in Harlem. The Outsider is an important work of fiction that depicts American racism and its devastating consequences in raw and unflinching terms. At once brilliantly imagined and frighteningly prescient, it is an epic exploration of the tragic roots of criminal behavior.

Right from the start, Bigger Thomas had been headed for jail. It could have been for assault or petty larceny; by chance, it was for murder and rape. Native Son tells the story of this young black man caught in a downward spiral after he kills a young white woman in a brief moment of panic. Set in Chicago in the 1930s, Wright's powerful novel is an unsparing reflection on the poverty and feelings of hopelessness experienced by people in inner cities across the country and of what it means to be black in America.

Right from the start, Bigger Thomas had been headed for jail. It could have been for assault or petty larceny; by chance, it was for murder and rape. Native Son tells the story of this young black man caught in a downward spiral after he kills a young white woman in a brief moment of panic. Set in Chicago in the 1930s, Wright's powerful novel is an unsparing reflection on the poverty and feelings of hopelessness experienced by people in inner cities across the country and of what it means to be black in America.

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 to him, pitying, or cruel, and on the other by blacks who resented anyone trying to rise above the common lot.

Black Boy is Richard Wright's powerful account of his journey from innocence to experience in the Jim Crow South. It is at once an unashamed confession and a profound indictment—a poignant and disturbing record of social injustice and human suffering.