Charles Johnson

The 18th century was a wealth of knowledge, exploration and rapidly growing technology and expanding record-keeping made possible by advances in the printing press. In its determination to preserve the century of revolution, Gale initiated a revolution of its own: digitization of epic proportions...

The 18th century was a wealth of knowledge, exploration and rapidly growing technology and expanding record-keeping made possible by advances in the printing press. In its determination to preserve the century of revolution, Gale initiated a revolution of its own: digitization of epic proportions...

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This thrilling account of piracy in the 17th and 18th centuries offers a detailed look at the lives and exploits of some of the most notorious pirates in history. With colorful descriptions of battles at sea, daring prison escapes, and other high-stakes adventures, this...

Reprint of the popular first edition (1926) of this well-known book, which has presumably been written by Daniel Defoe (The given name of the author seems to be assumed).Author: Charles JohnsonISBN-10: 3861950596ISBN-13: 9783861950592Publisher: Salzwasser-Verlag GmbhLanguage: EnglishPublished: 10/22/2009Pages: 642Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.83lbsSize: 8.27h x 5.83w x...

Little is known about the many achievements of African American guardsmen in U.S. history from the late nineteenth to the mid-twentieth centuries. This detailed account thus fills an important gap in our knowledge about the establishment of African American militias in 1877 and their...

This work covers Reserve Officer Training Corps (ROTC) detachments at historically African American colleges and universities throughout the United States from the inception of the Student Army Training Corps to the advanced programs currently in place. The armistices following World War I allowed for...

A riveting narrative history of America, from the 1607 landing in Jamestown to the brink of the Civil War, Africans in America tells the shared history of Africans and Europeans as seen through the lens of slavery. It is told from the point of...

Years before he wrote his National Book Award-winning novel Middle Passage, Charles Johnson created these sidesplitting and subversive gag comics about Black life in America, now collected for the first time in nearly half a century. Before Charles Johnson found fame as a novelist...

The Adventures of Emery Jones, Boy Science Wonder From National Book Award-Winner Charles JohnsonWhen ten-year-old genius Emery Jones accidentally sends his nemesis Chippy 190 million years back in time, he's not sure he can reverse the process--or if he even wants to. Will Emery...

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States,...

From National Book Award-winning author Charles Johnson comes a sly, witty, and insightful collection of short stories exploring issues of race and identity. In "Sweet Dreams," a Kafkaesque tale is set in a world where dreams are taxed--a reality that leads to a man...

From the National Book Award-winning author of Middle Passage, a fearless fictional portrait of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and his pivotal moment in American history. Set against the tensions of Civil Rights era America, Dreamer is a remarkable fictional excursion into the last...

Faith Cross, a beautiful and purely innocent young black woman, is told by her dying mother to go and get herself "a good thing." Thus begins an extraordinary pilgrim's progress that takes Faith from the magic and mysticism of the rural South to the...

A twenty-fifth anniversary edition of Charles Johnson's National Book Award-winning masterpiece--"a novel in the tradition of Billy Budd and Moby-Dick...heroic in proportion...fiction that hooks the mind" (The New York Times Book Review)--now with a new introduction from Stanley Crouch. Rutherford Calhoun, a newly freed...

A Scribner Classics edition of Charles Johnson's masterpiece, winner of the National Book Award--"a novel in the tradition of Billy Budd and Moby-Dick...heroic in proportion...fiction that hooks the mind" (The New York Times Book Review). It is 1830. Rutherford Calhoun, a newly freed slave...

A masterful story collection--thirteen years in the making--from National Book Award winner Charles Johnson, showcasing the incredible range and resonant voice of this American treasure. This new collection of stories from National Book Award winner Charles Johnson offers an eclectic, engaging range of narratives,...

From National Book Award winner Charles Johnson, "the celebrated novelist, short story writer, screenwriter, and essayist...comes a small treasure, one to be read and considered and reread" (The New York Times Book Review), showcasing his incredible range and resonant voice. Charles Johnson's Night Hawks...

From National Book Award-winning author, Charles Johnson, comes a wonderful mythic novel, part slave narrative, part comedy, part myth--first published in 1982 this phenomenally imaginative work marries Johnson's knowledge of philosophy, religion, race and history. One night in the antebellum South, a slave owner...

Five Tales with a Supernatural TwistTales are based on the author's experiences with some exaggerations and twists from reality.The author entered military service at the age of sixteen and served as a military policeman, MP investigator, customs investigator, and drill sergeant, followed by experiences...

The publication of the King James version of the Bible, translated between 1603 and 1611, coincided with an extraordinary flowering of English literature and is universally acknowledged as the greatest influence on English-language literature in history. Now, world-class literary writers introduce the book of...

Chronic illness and pain are now, more than ever, seen asas major problems in the current health care system. Because they are unresponsive to both antibiotics and surgery, theyr are seen as elusive and mysterious. The National Medical Expenditure Survey estimates that over 80...

Chronic illness and pain are now, more than ever, seen asas major problems in the current health care system. Because they are unresponsive to both antibiotics and surgery, theyr are seen as elusive and mysterious. The National Medical Expenditure Survey estimates that over 80...

Shadow of the Plantation focuses on descendants of slaves in one rural Southern community in the early part of this century. In the process, Johnson reviews the troubled history of race relations in the United /States. When reread half a century after it was...

Twelve stories about the African experience of slavery in America, by the National Book Award-winning novelist. Nothing has had as profound an effect on American life as slavery. For blacks and whites alike, the experience has left us with a conflicted and contradictory history....

Twelve stories about the African experience of slavery in America, by the National Book Award-winning novelist. Nothing has had as profound an effect on American life as slavery. For blacks and whites alike, the experience has left us with a conflicted and contradictory history....

Buddhism-influenced essays, stories, and reviews by National Book Award winner Charles R. Johnson. This wide and varied collection of essays, reviews, and short stories by the renowned author Charles Johnson offers incisive views on poltics, race, and Buddhism. Johnson notes that in his life...

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States,...

Reprint of the original, first published in 1861.Author: Charles JohnsonISBN-10: 3375055072ISBN-13: 9783375055073Publisher: Salzwasser-VerlagLanguage: EnglishPublished: 06/12/2022Pages: 516Format: HardcoverWeight: 2.04lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 1.31d

The Grasses of Great Britain is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1861. Hansebooks is editor of the literature on different topic areas such as research and science, travel and expeditions, cooking and nutrition, medicine, and other genres.As a publisher we...

The Adventures of Emery Jones, Boy Science Wonder Book #2 From National Book Award-Winner Charles JohnsonIt's the first day of middle school and nothing's going right for poet Gabby Sykes. She's in a bad mood, her hearing aid is missing, she's not allowed to...

Memories of the Wilmington, Delaware of old The stores, The shops and the fun . Memories for all . And poems about the streets . From Church Street, To Union StreetAuthor: Charles JohnsonISBN-10: 1453779922ISBN-13: 9781453779927Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformLanguage: EnglishPublished: 09/07/2010Pages: 80Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.26lbsSize:...

The 18th century was a wealth of knowledge, exploration and rapidly growing technology and expanding record-keeping made possible by advances in the printing press. In its determination to preserve the century of revolution, Gale initiated a revolution of its own: digitization of epic proportions...

The 18th century was a wealth of knowledge, exploration and rapidly growing technology and expanding record-keeping made possible by advances in the printing press. In its determination to preserve the century of revolution, Gale initiated a revolution of its own: digitization of epic proportions...

In this exciting new story from The Adventures of Emery Jones, Boy Science Wonder series, Gabby Sykes & Emery Jones begin their freshman year in high school as heroes, having just saved the world from killer alien robots... but as all too often happens...

From Charles Johnson--a National Book Award winner, Professor Emeritus at University of Washington, and one of America's preeminent scholars on literature and race--comes an instructive, inspiring guide to the craft and art of writing.An award-winning novelist, philosopher, essayist, screenwriter, professor, and cartoonist, Charles Johnson...

"Were it not for the Buddhadharma, says Charles Johnson in his preface to Turning the Wheel, "I'm convinced that, as a black American and an artist, I would not have been able to successfully negotiate my last half century of life in this country....