Stony De Coco is 18 and the son of a pugnacious construction worker who expects his son to follow in his footsteps. But Stony is determined to break loose from this belligerent life despite opposition from everyone else in his family.

The classic novel of 1950s New York by the author of Clockers and Samaritan

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.

First published in 2006. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Presents a film tie-in. An injured woman stumbles into an inner-city hospital: she has just been carjacked by a man apparently unaware that her son was asleep on the back seat. A shrewd detective and an ambitious young reporter begin to suspect that the wo

This collection of essays has its origin in a conference held at Oxford in 2006 to mark the publication of the first English edition of the Acts of Chalcedon. Its aim is to place Chalcedon in a broader context, and bring out the importance of the acts of the early general councils from the fifth to the seventh century, documents that because of their bulk and relative inaccessibility have received only limited attention till recently. This volume is evidence that this situation is now rapidly changing, as historians of late antiquity as well as specialists in the history of the Christian...

The past ten years have seen rapid growth in the economic and maritime importance of the Arabian GCC states and an equally rapid modernisation of their domestic laws. Nevertheless, much of the maritime law and procedure in the region remains unknows or misunderstood both outside and even inside the region. Since the region is likely to remain significant in terms of maritime commerce, a better understanding of the law and regulations is required. The Maritime Laws of Arabian Gulf Cooperation States is intended as a guide not only for lawyers concerned with maritime law in the Gulf region, but...

This is the dramatic story of the colonial encounter and the construction of empire in Southern Africa in the nineteenth century. What did the British make of the Xhosa and how did they make sense of their politics and culture? How did the British establish and then explain their dominion, especially when it ran counter to the cultural values they believed themselves to represent? In this book, Richard Price answers these questions by looking at the ways in which individual missionaries, officials and politicians interacted with the Xhosa. He describes how those encounters changed and shaped...

'So, what do you do?' Whenever people asked him, Eric Cash used to have a dozen answers. Artist, actor, screenwriter. But now he's 35 and he's still living on the Lower East Side, still in the restaurant business, still serving the people he wanted to be.