Author: Caryl Phillips
Publisher: Knopf
Keywords: snow, falling
Number of Pages: 320
Published: 2009-09-01
List price: $25.95
ISBN-10: 0307272567
ISBN-13: 9780307272560

From one of our most admired fiction writers: the searing story of breakdown and recovery in the life of one man and of a society moving from one idea of itself to another.Keith—born in England in the early 1960s to immigrant West Indian parents but primarily raised by his white stepmother—is a social worker heading a Race Equality unit in London whose life has come undone. He is separated from his wife of twenty years (whose family “let her go” when she married a black man), kept at arm’s length by his seventeen-year-old son, estranged from his father, and accused of harassment by a

Author: Caryl Phillips
Publisher: Vintage
Keywords: river, crossing
Number of Pages: 237
Published: 1995-01-15
List price: $14.00
ISBN-10: 0679757945
ISBN-13: 9780679757948

In a vastly ambitious and intensely moving novel, the author of Cambridge creates a many-tongued chorus of the African diaspora in the complex and riveting story of a desperate father who sells his three children into slavery.

Author: Caryl Phillips
Publisher: Vintage
Keywords: dancing
Number of Pages: 224
Published: 2006-10-10
List price: $13.95
ISBN-10: 1400079837
ISBN-13: 9781400079834

In this searing novel, Caryl Phillips reimagines the life of the first black entertainer in the U.S. to reach the highest levels of fame and fortune.After years of struggling for success on the stage, Bert Williams (1874—1922), the child of recent immigrants from the Bahamas, made the radical decision to don blackface makeup and play the “coon.” Behind this mask he became a Broadway headliner–as influential a comedian as Chaplin, Laurel and Hardy, and W. C. Fields, who called him “the funniest man I ever saw, and the saddest man I ever knew.” It is this dichotomy at Williams’ cor

Author: Caryl Phillips
Publisher: Knopf
Keywords: foreigners
Number of Pages: 256
Published: 2007-10-23
List price: $24.95
ISBN-10: 1400043972
ISBN-13: 9781400043972

A powerful and affecting new book from Caryl Phillips: a brilliant hybrid of reportage, fiction, and historical fact that tells the stories of three black men whose lives speak resoundingly to the place and role of the foreigner in English society.Francis Barber, “given” to the great eighteenth-century writer Samuel Johnson, more companion than servant, afforded an unusual depth of freedom that, after Johnson’s death, hastened his wretched demise . . . Randolph Turpin, who made history in 1951 by defeating Sugar Ray Robinson, becoming Britain’s first black world-champion boxer, a top-c

Author: Caryl Phillips
Publisher: Vintage
Keywords: anthology, tennis, right
Number of Pages: 368
Published: 1999-07-27
List price: $15.00
ISBN-10: 0375706461
ISBN-13: 9780375706462

From stately lawns and gentlemen players to Andre Agassi and Venus Williams: 65 great writings on tennis that chronicle the transformation of the sport.Since its inception, tennis has embraced traditions more patrician than plebeian. But times--and te

Authors:Jack J. Phillips, Patricia Pulliam Phillips, Toni Kr
Publisher: ASTD Press
Keywords: work, evaluation, training
Number of Pages: 160
Published: 2004-10-01
List price: $38.95
ISBN-10: 1562863495
ISBN-13: 9781562863494

Evaluation is key to proving the value of training, yet many organizations still struggle with implementing a fully functioning evaluation program that is integrated throughout the learning process. This title is designed to break through organizational inertia and is structured to allow both selective exploration of the topic by seasoned professionals or beginning-to-learning experiences for the less experienced practitioner.

Authors:Nancy Phillips, Michael Phillips, Rosemary Gladstar,
Publisher: Chelsea Green
Keywords: plant, medicines, chelsea, healing, practice, way, art, herbalist
Number of Pages: 352
Published: 2005-08-19
List price: $30.00
ISBN-10: 1931498768
ISBN-13: 9781931498760

This updated edition of The Village Herbalist provides a complete guide to the art and practice of herbalism, as well as an introduction to the herbalist’s role in family and community life. Inspirational profiles of practicing herbalists from across the country add a human touch to the authors’ wealth of practical herbal knowledge. The Herbalist’s Way includes time-honored healing wisdom from many cultures, as well as information on: • Roles and responsibilities of herbalists in their communities • Herbal workshops, conferences, and education centers • Growing, drying