Roy V Richard

East to East: A journey of my life

You may think, amidst the glamour and dazzle of celebrities, that the personal experiences of ordinary men at work are boring, but the truth could not be more different. It is the real life stories of ordinary men like Roy Richards, the memories of family and friends and life together, that remind u...

Perspectives on Africa: A Reader in Culture, History and Representation by Grinker, Roy Richard Published by Wiley-Blackwell 2nd (second) edition (2010) Paperback

Hemp: Lifeline to the Future: The Unexpected Answer for Our Environmental and Economic Recovery

An easy-to-read, highly documented work, Hemp: Lifeline to the Future is the most comprehensive book on the uses, history, and politics of cannabis ever assembled. It looks at detailed industrial applications of cannabis hemp, the medical and nutritional uses of the plants flowers and seeds, and the...

Korea and Its Futures: Unification and the Unfinished War

Despite the passage of over forty years since the official end of the civil war in Korea, the north and the south sections of the country remain technically at war. Roy Richard Grinker suggests that a fundamental obstacle to peace on the peninsula is that South Korea has become a nation in which nea...

Unstrange Minds: Remapping the World of Autism

When anthropologist Richard Grinker’s daughter was diagnosed with autism in 1994, it occurred in only about 1 in every 10,000 children. Within ten years, rates had skyrocketed, and the media was declaring autism an epidemic. Unstrange Minds documents Grinker’s quest across the globe to discover the ...