Isbn: 9780590000000 - the Clown Underground (10 results)

Paperback. Condition: Good. 408 pages. Cover worn. Text tanned.As we go about our daily lives, caste is the wordless usher in a darkened theate r, flashlight cast down in the aisles, guiding us to our assigned seats for a pe rformance. The hierarchy of caste is not about feelings or morality. It is about power--which groups have it and which do not. In this brilliant book, Isabel W ilkerson gives us a masterful portrait of an unseen phenomenon in America as she explores, through an immersive, deeply researched narrative and stories about r eal people, how America today and throughout its history has been shaped by a hi dden caste system, a rigid hierarchy of human rankings. Beyond race, class, or o ther factors, there is a powerful caste system that influences people's lives an d behavior and the nation's fate. Linking the caste systems of America, India, a nd Nazi Germany, Wilkerson explores eight pillars that underlie caste systems ac ross civilizations, including divine will, bloodlines, stigma, and more. Using r iveting stories about people--including Martin Luther King, Jr., baseball's Satc hel Paige, a single father and his toddler son, Wilkerson herself, and many othe rs--she shows the ways that the insidious undertow of caste is experienced every day. She documents how the Nazis studied the racial systems in America to plan their out-cast of the Jews; she discusses why the cruel logic of caste requires that there be a bottom rung for those in the middle to measure themselves agains t; she writes about the surprising health costs of caste, in depression and life expectancy, and the effects of this hierarchy on our culture and politics. Fina lly, she points forward to ways America can move beyond the artificial and destr uctive separations of human divisions, toward hope in our common humanity. Beaut.…

Paperback. Condition: Fair. 224 pages. Cover very worn.Sarah Wood is a beautiful young model whose career is taking off. When she is offered a starring role in a film her future looks certain. But once on locatio n Sarah's problems really begin. . . A camera technician dies mysteriously. Sar ah herself nearly drowns. And a fire scene goes horribly wrong. . . Is it coinc idence? Or is something more sinister behind the accidents? Together with Jon, h er brother, Sarah must uncover the truth. But is her own life in danger.…

Paperback. Condition: Fair. 431 pages. Cover very worn.LONDON.KINGSTON.THE COCK PIT First they tempted him with a fortune. Then they threatened him with death. A threat so harsh and implacable that Alex McAu liff knew he must go where they ordered. To the savage depths of the Jamaican jungle area known as the Cock Pit. To the heart of a conspiracy so vast and po werful that only murder could protect it. To the secret centre of a native trib e called THE HALIDON To the very limits of human endurance-and beyond. A spe llbinding novel from one of the greatest storytelling talents in the world.…

Paperback. Condition: Good. 512 pages. Cover worn.Sarah Merritt arrives in the town of Deadwood in 1876, determined to start it s first newspaper and to find her runaway sister, but she soon runs afoul of han dsome Sheriff Noah Campbell, who arrests her. (Romance).

Paperback. Condition: Good. 208 pages. Cover worn.In the fading years of the last century, Guinevere Ellis, Jenny-the-Bastard, farmhand and maid-of-all-work, falls in love with Julian, son of the local gentr y. Her quest for a future leads her into a quest for the past. By the author of Tregaran, The Legacy and Command of the King. …

Paperback. Condition: Good. 624 pages. Cover worn.The life of billionaire Maximilian West unfolds through the eyes of the women who surround him--his wives, mother, mistress, and nanny--as he struggles to re solve old secrets with the help of the woman who holds the key to his past and f uture.

Paperback. Condition: Good. 140 pages. Cover worn.Chris and his brother Terry were just going out for a little skiing and a lit tle hunting. The hungry coyote seemed an easy mark, but the echoing crack of the rifle sets off an avalanche, and Chris is buried alive under a mountain of snow . No one saw him go under. He is all alone.…

Condition: Fine. Signed, 1st ed.; fine condition, DJ fine condition, as new.

Condition: Fine. Signed, 1st ed.; fine condition, DJ fine condition, as new.

Condition: Fine. Signed by Meacham, 1st ed.; fine condition, DJ fine condition.