The Evidence of Things Not Seen

This edition of a classic work by one of Americaâs premier writers offers a new Foreword by Derrick Bell (with Janet Dewart Bell) to the 1995 paperback edition, and is as meaningful today as it was when it was first published in 1985. In his searing and moving essay, James Baldwin explores the Atlanta child murders that took place over a period of twenty-two months in 1979 and 1980. Examining this incident with a reporterâs skill and an essayistâs insight, he notes the significance of Atlanta as the site of these brutal killingsâa city that claimed to be âtoo busy to hateââand the permeation of race throughout the case: the black administration in Atlanta; the murdered black children; and Wayne Williams, the black man tried for the crimes. Rummaging through the ruins of American race relations, Baldwin addresses all the hard-to-face issues that have brought us a moment in history where it is terrifying to to be a black child in white America, and where, too often, public officials fail to ask real questions about âjustice for all.â Baldwin takes a time-specific event and makes it timeless: The Evidence of Things Not Seen offers an incisive look at race in America through a lens at once disturbing and profoundly revealing.

Politics & Social Sciences

James, Baldwin

Sociology

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Sam, of Martha Vineyard's All-Island Integrated Police Force, stars in twenty-four new picture mysteries, including "The Peek-a-Boo Girl," "Night of the Crabs," and "Incident at the Ferry." Original.

Crime and Puzzlement 5: On Martha's Vineyard, Mostly

Lawrence Treat

Children's Books

Traces the life and career of the influential jazz musician from the 1920s to his death in 1991

Miles Davis: The Man in the Green Shirt

Biographies & Memoirs

Williams, Richard

Arts & Literature

Introduces the Spanish, or Ruy Lopez chess opening, looks at how it has been used by Garry Kasparov, Bobby Fischer, and Nigel Short, and provides a variety of examples

Mastering the Spanish: With the Read and Play Method (Batsford Chess Library)

Humor & Entertainment

KING, Daniel

Ponzetto, Pietro

Puzzles & Games

An important horticultural memoir articulating a new landscape art that's both environmentally sensitive and rich in creativity. Janet Marinelli left her comfortable city garden to join a botanist colleague in search of the rare Seabeach Amaranth--one of our many native species that is in danger of extinction. The result of the ensuing seven-year odyssey, Stalking the Wild Amaranth is a work of science and a work of art. Marinelli tells the story of her discovery that contemporary gardening is out of sync with theories evolving on the frontiers of science and philosophy. She also tells of her quest for a new garden art that nurtures a greater richness and variety of earthly life. Inspired by the legacy of Henry David Thoreau, Marinelli bls history, horticulture, erudition, and personal insight into a narrative that ponders the relationship between humankind and nature. She fleshes out a vision for a new, ecologically wise landscape art, disagreeing ultimately with those who insist that growing native plants is the only way to recover our environmental equilibrium. Gardeners, she writes, should be free to experiment, to let our imaginations run wild, to learn how to be the creators of biodiversity as well as the preservers and restorers.

Stalking the Wild Amaranth: Gardening in the Age of Extinction

Crafts, Hobbies & Home

Janet Marinelli

Gardening & Landscape Design

Scriptural passages recounting the birth of the baby Jesus are accompanied by some of their greatest interpretations in art, brought together in a finely produced, miniature volume.

The Christmas Story

Religion & Spirituality

New Age & Spirituality

Brown Bear Brown Bear What Do You See? (45th Anniversary Edition of Brown Bear Brown Bear What do you see?) Hardcover - 2011 by Eric Carle

Brown Bear Brown Bear What Do You See? (45th Anniversary Edition of Brown Bear Brown Bear What do you see?)

Carle, Eric.

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