Corner Boys is Robert Hunt’s memoir of growing up on the mean streets of St. John’s in the 1950s and ’60s. Within the working-class neighbourhoods that are central to this tale, trouble seemed to lurk behind every corner, ready to be found by those who were looking for it. This dark yet humorous coming-of-age story follows a young and mischievous boy along the sidewalks and into the backyards of a turbulent—and sometimes violent—city.

Townies is the sequel to Robert Hunt’s memoir Corner Boys and takes us back to the mean streets – and schools – of St. John’s in the 1950s and 1960s. This is a coming-of-age story about the friendships between young Robert and his fellow students of Holy Cross School, who often lived in fear of punishment from the Irish Christian Brothers who taught them. Poverty and iron-fisted authority ruled supreme in the lives of the boys from Brazil Street, and the pleasures they knew were simple and...

"The Early Negro Convention Movement" by John Wesley Cromwell explores the significant yet often overlooked history of the early conventions organized by African Americans in the 19th century. These gatherings served as a platform for discussing issues such as civil rights, education, and social justice. Cromwell meticulously details the motivations behind these conventions, highlighting the contributions of key figures who fought for the rights and dignity of Black Americans. The book emp...

Paphos Publishers offers a wide catalog of rare classic titles, published for a new generation.Popular Romances of the West of England is a classic collection of tales from Western England.

In *The Poetry of Science; or, Studies of the Physical Phenomena of Nature*, Robert Hunt presents scientific inquiry as a source of intellectual wonder and imaginative illumination. Moving through subjects such as light, sound, heat, electricity, magnetism, geology, meteorology, and the living world, he translates complex physical processes into lucid, evocative prose without surrendering their explanatory rigor. The book belongs to the tradition of nineteenth-century scientific populariza...

Originally published in 1865, "Popular Romances of the West of England" is a complete collection of English fairy tales by Robert Hunt, a famous British mineralogist, as well as an antiquarian, an amateur poet, and an early pioneer of photography.Excerpt from the Introduction"...Sending my box forward to Liskeard by a van, my wanderings commenced; my purpose being to visit each relic of Old Cornwall, and to gather up every existing tale of its a...

This is a collection of heartwarming stories set in Newfoundland during the Christmas season. At times heartbreaking, but always uplifting at the end, these stories share a touching message with readers that the best gifts are not material things, but rather the kindness we show others. Bestselling author Robert Hunt tells stories of an athlete who runs a marathon for a girl he never knew, of two soldiers who forget the horrors of war to acknowledge one another on the battlefield during Ch...

Sergeant Charles Windolph was the last white survivor of the Battle of Little Big Horn when he told his story nearly 70-years later. A six-year veteran in the Seventh Cavalry, Windolph rode in the 1873 Yellowstone Expedition, and the 1874 Black Hills Expe

This is the first book-length study of Delta Cooperative Farm (1936–42) and its descendant, Providence Farm (1938–56). The two intentional communities drew on internationalist practices of cooperative communalism and pragmatically challenged Jim Crow segregation and plantation labor. In the winter of 1936, two dozen black and white ex-sharecropping families settled on some two thousand acres in the rural Mississippi Delta, one of the most insular and oppressive regions in the nation. Thus ...

Murder marks the Kid's first day on the team carving the Mountain monument in the Black Hills. These artists use dynamite and jackhammers to carve granite and show the Kid the ropes of working atop a forty-story drop. All struggle with painful personal crises, and baseball binds them as the complications of a bloody body on the Mountain unfold. More murders crop up as they unravel the mystery, racing against the demands of dangerous work, heat, deceit, and the money menace of Dust Bowl '34...

The Lost Cause and the Great War tells the stories of central Tennessee Progressive-era reformers to illustrate the fascinating broader issue of how Southerners steeped in Lost Cause Civil War mythologies simultaneously developed patriotic American fervor. Focusing on Luke Lea, a prominent politician and American army officer who attempted to capture Kaiser Wilhelm II during World War I, the book reveals the intricate interplay between three competing ideas: attachment to the memo...

All Brain and No Soul? Real Humanity in an AI Age explores the profound shifts in human identity and understanding in the context of historical, scientific, and technological revolutions, particularly the rise of artificial intelligence. Beginning with the author's personal reflections on chaos and order in a changing world, it delves into humanity's displacement from the cosmic center through the Copernican Revolution, the evolution of modern science, and the redefining of intelligence an...