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Imagine knowing a lot about liquid toxic poison that goes into our landfillshow it's created, how we make it, what it's doing to our city, country, worldand not being able to do anything about it because we don't have the simple systems in place to allow us to stop killing ourselves, or the air, water, and seas. Or because we are too lazy to stop for a minute and think about what it is that we are throwing away: our world. Join our revolution against global warming and creating garbage, eliminating toxic liquids with changing just one bad habit: the mixing of liquids with our trash (i.e.,...

The nation's capital that serves as the setting for the stories in Edward P. Jones's prizewinning collection, Lost in the City, lies far from the city of historic monuments and national politicians. Jones takes the reader beyond that world into the lives of African American men and women who work against the constant threat of loss to maintain a sense of hope. From "The Girl Who Raised Pigeons" to the well-to-do career woman awakened in the night by a phone call that will take her on a journey back to the past, the characters in these stories forge bonds of community as they struggle...

»Eines der seltenen Bücher, die Wunden aufreißen und zugleich heilen.« Oprah Magazine 

Henry Townsend, ein ehemaliger Schuhmacher und Sklave, ist selbst Sklavenhalter und Besitzer einer Farm geworden. Als er stirbt, zerbricht das fragile Gefüge. Seine Witwe Caldonia erstarrt in Trauer; Sklaven entfliehen; Familien, die unter dem Gewicht der Unfreiheit zusammenhielten, beginnen einander zu betrügen; weiße Patrouillen sehen zu, wie freie Schwarze in die Sklaverei verkauft werden.  

Edward P. Jones' Meisterwerk handelt davon, wie die Institution...

Unfortunately, man's nature complicates things, and we often cheat ourselves out of great joy by doing "our own thing." How sad. There is no doubt God's plan for man includes man's happiness. God teaches us joyful living in at least two places. Biblically it is called "walking in fellowship." This First Epistle of John focuses on "fellowship." A verse-by-verse expository of that valuable material is extremely helpful. Also, the Old Testament prophet Enoch was given to us as a role model. God reduced his life of several years into three short phrases: "He walked with God. He pleased God. He...

Bringing together a broad range of case studies written by a team of international scholars, this Concise Companion establishes how manuscripts and printed books met the needs of two different approaches to literacy in the early modern period.

• Features essays illustrating the particular ways a manuscript and a printed book reflect the different emphases of an elite, private and an egalitarian, public culture, both of which account for the literary achievements of the Renaissance
• Includes wide-ranging essays, from printing the Gospels in Arabic to a contemporary...

One of the most acclaimed novels in recent memory, The Known World is a daring and ambitious work by Pulitzer Prize winner Edward P. Jones.

The Known World tells the story of Henry Townsend, a black farmer and former slave who falls under the tutelage of William Robbins, the most powerful man in Manchester County, Virginia. Making certain he never circumvents the law, Townsend runs his affairs with unusual discipline. But when death takes him unexpectedly, his widow, Caldonia, can't uphold the estate's order, and chaos ensues. Jones has woven a footnote of history...

Three years after the publication of his much-heralded, Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, The Known World, Edward P. Jones returned with an elegiac, luminous masterpiece, All Aunt Hagar's Children. In these fourteen sweeping and sublime stories, Jones resurrects the minor characters in his first award-winning story collection, Lost in the City. The result is vintage Jones: powerful, magisterial tales that showcase his ability to probe the complexities and tenaciousness of the human spirit.

All Aunt Hagar's Children is filled with people who call...