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Claiming the Desert

Author : James A. Williams
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN 13 : 9781721684373
Total Pages : 238 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (843 download)

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Download or read book Claiming the Desert written by James A. Williams and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2018-08-05 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What was it like to live in Oro Valley in 1900? 1940? This detailed book takes the reader into the lives of early settlers, homesteaders and ranchers when Oro Valley was an open and desolate, desert area. Claiming the Desert describes the settlers' world of simple adobe homes, kerosene lamps, rough roads and difficult lives. Learn how they claimed the land, established schools and roads, grew citrus and raised cattle. Discover what everyday life was like on the homestead, and the special issues faced by women and Hispanic settlers. This book includes a profile of each original homesteader in the Oro Valley area.

They Claimed a Desert

Author : Faye Morris
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780877701613
Total Pages : 383 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (16 download)

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Download or read book They Claimed a Desert written by Faye Morris and published by . This book was released on 1976-01-01 with total page 383 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Claiming His Desert Princess

Author : Marguerite Kaye
Publisher : HarperCollins Australia
ISBN 13 : 1489237224
Total Pages : 162 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (892 download)

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Download or read book Claiming His Desert Princess written by Marguerite Kaye and published by HarperCollins Australia. This book was released on 2017-04-01 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Stolen nights with the secret princess... Bound to marry for duty, Princess Tahira finds her only freedom in forbidden escapes to the desert. Then one night she encounters a stranger under the stars–adventurer Christopher Fordyce. He's wildly attractive and thrillingly dangerous...an illicit fantasy she can't resist! Even unaware of Tahira's royal blood, Christopher knows his shameful past makes any future with her impossible. But in the sultry desert heat, desires are uncovered and secrets unveiled, and soon Christopher will risk everything to claim his desert princess!

Cries in the Desert

Author : John Glatt
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 1429904712
Total Pages : 297 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (299 download)

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Download or read book Cries in the Desert written by John Glatt and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2007-04-01 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the fall of 1999, a twenty-two-year-old woman was discovered naked and bleeding on the streets of a small New Mexico town south of Albuquerque. She was chained to a padlocked metal collar. The tale she told authorties--of being beaten, raped, and tortured with electric shock--was unthinkable. Until she led them to 59-year-old David Ray Parker, his 39-year-old financee Cindy Hendy--and the lakeside trailer they called their "toy box". What the FBI uncovered was unprecedented in the annals of serial crime: restraining devices, elaborate implements of torture, books on human anatomy, medical equipment, scalpels, and a gynecologist's examination table. But these horrors were only part of the shocking story that would unfold in a stunning trial... Cries in the Desert is the true story of "The Toy Box Killer"--a shocking story of torture and murder in the New Mexico desert.

Strangers in the Desert

Author : Lynn Raye Harris
Publisher : Harlequin
ISBN 13 : 0373130570
Total Pages : 189 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (731 download)

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Download or read book Strangers in the Desert written by Lynn Raye Harris and published by Harlequin. This book was released on 2012-02-21 with total page 189 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Isabella, the wife Sheikh Adan thought was dead, has just walked back into his life on the eve of his wedding to another woman. Now Adan is to be crowned King, Isabella must be his Queen--sharing his desert throne and the royal bed. But gone is the dutiful, pure girl he once knew; in her place is a defiant, sultry woman who makes Adan's blood run hot. A woman who has no memory of being his wife"--Publisher.

The Nature of Desert Claims

Author : Kevin Kinghorn
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108960480
Total Pages : 239 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (89 download)

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Download or read book The Nature of Desert Claims written by Kevin Kinghorn and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2021-05-20 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Our everyday conversations reveal the widespread assumption that positive and negative treatment of others can be justified on the grounds that 'they deserve it'. But what is it exactly to deserve something? In this book, Kevin Kinghorn explores how we came to have this concept and offers an explanation of why people feel so strongly that redress is needed when outcomes are undeserved. Kinghorn probes for that core concern which is common to the range of everyday desert claims people make, ultimately proposing an alternative model of desert which represents a fundamental challenge to the received wisdom on the structure of desert claims. In the end, he argues, our plea for deserved treatment ends up being linked to the universal human concern for a shared narrative, as we seek healthy relationships within a community.

Desert Oracle

Author : Ken Layne
Publisher : MCD
ISBN 13 : 0374722382
Total Pages : 193 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (747 download)

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Download or read book Desert Oracle written by Ken Layne and published by MCD. This book was released on 2020-12-08 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The cult-y pocket-size field guide to the strange and intriguing secrets of the Mojave—its myths and legends, outcasts and oddballs, flora, fauna, and UFOs—becomes the definitive, oracular book of the desert For the past five years, Desert Oracle has existed as a quasi-mythical, quarterly periodical available to the very determined only by subscription or at the odd desert-town gas station or the occasional hipster boutique, its canary-yellow-covered, forty-four-page issues handed from one curious desert zealot to the next, word spreading faster than the printers could keep up with. It became a radio show, a podcast, a live performance. Now, for the first time—and including both classic and new, never-before-seen revelations—Desert Oracle has been bound between two hard covers and is available to you. Straight out of Joshua Tree, California, Desert Oracle is “The Voice of the Desert”: a field guide to the strange tales, singing sand dunes, sagebrush trails, artists and aliens, authors and oddballs, ghost towns and modern legends, musicians and mystics, scorpions and saguaros, out there in the sand. Desert Oracle is your companion at a roadside diner, around a campfire, in your tent or cabin (or high-rise apartment or suburban living room) as the wind and the coyotes howl outside at night. From journal entries of long-deceased adventurers to stray railroad ad copy, and musings on everything from desert flora, rumored cryptid sightings, and other paranormal phenomena, Ken Layne's Desert Oracle collects the weird and the wonderful of the American Southwest into a single, essential volume.

Great American Desert

Author : Terese Svoboda
Publisher : Mad Creek Books
ISBN 13 : 9780814255209
Total Pages : 199 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (552 download)

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Download or read book Great American Desert written by Terese Svoboda and published by Mad Creek Books. This book was released on 2019 with total page 199 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Stories from prehistoric times to the future, about land, our abuse of the land, and the impact on the people who come after

Cadillac Desert

Author : Marc Reisner
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1440672822
Total Pages : 674 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (46 download)

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Download or read book Cadillac Desert written by Marc Reisner and published by Penguin. This book was released on 1993-06-01 with total page 674 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “I’ve been thinking a lot about Cadillac Desert in the past few weeks, as the rain fell and fell and kept falling over California, much of which, despite the pouring heavens, seems likely to remain in the grip of a severe drought. Reisner anticipated this moment. He worried that the West’s success with irrigation could be a mirage — that it took water for granted and didn’t appreciate the precariousness of our capacity to control it.” – Farhad Manjoo, The New York Times, January 20,2023 "The definitive work on the West's water crisis." --Newsweek The story of the American West is the story of a relentless quest for a precious resource: water. It is a tale of rivers diverted and dammed, of political corruption and intrigue, of billion-dollar battles over water rights, of ecological and economic disaster. In his landmark book, Cadillac Desert, Marc Reisner writes of the earliest settlers, lured by the promise of paradise, and of the ruthless tactics employed by Los Angeles politicians and business interests to ensure the city's growth. He documents the bitter rivalry between two government giants, the Bureau of Reclamation and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, in the competition to transform the West. Based on more than a decade of research, Cadillac Desert is a stunning expose and a dramatic, intriguing history of the creation of an Eden--an Eden that may only be a mirage. This edition includes a new postscript by Lawrie Mott, a former staff scientist at the Natural Resources Defense Council, that updates Western water issues over the last two decades, including the long-term impact of climate change and how the region can prepare for the future.

A Desert Called Peace

Author : Tom Kratman
Publisher : Baen Publishing Enterprises
ISBN 13 : 1618246054
Total Pages : 1035 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (182 download)

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Download or read book A Desert Called Peace written by Tom Kratman and published by Baen Publishing Enterprises. This book was released on 2007-09-01 with total page 1035 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: HE RAISED AN ARMY AGAINST THOSE WHO TOOK EVERYTHING FROM HIM They should have picked their enemies more carefully. Five centuries from now, on a remarkably Earthlike planet that is mankind's sole colony in space, religious fanatics called the "Salafi Ikhwan" have murdered the uncle of former colonel Patrick Hennessey. That was their first mistake, because uncle was rich and Hennessey was rather a good colonel. But they also murdered Hennessey's wife, Linda, and their three small children, and that was their worst mistake for she was the only restraint Hennessey had ever accepted. From the pile of rubble and the pillar of fire that mark the last resting place of Linda Hennessey and her children arises a new warrior¾Carrera, scourge of the Salafis. He will forge an army of ruthless fanatics from the decrepit remains of failed state's military. He will wage war across half a world. He will find those who killed his family. He will destroy them, and those who support them, utterly, completely, without restraint or remorse. Only when he is finished will there be peace: the peace of an empty wind as it blows across a desert strewn with the bones of Carrera's enemies. At the publisher's request, this title is sold without DRM (Digital Rights Management).

Desert America

Author : Rubén Martínez
Publisher : Metropolitan Books
ISBN 13 : 0805095616
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (5 download)

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Download or read book Desert America written by Rubén Martínez and published by Metropolitan Books. This book was released on 2012-08-07 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A brilliantly illuminating portrait of the twenty-first-century West—a book as vast, diverse, and unexpected as the land and the people, from one of our foremost chroniclers of migration The economic boom—and the devastation left in its wake—has been writ nowhere as large as on the West, the most iconic of American landscapes. Over the last decade the West has undergone a political and demographic upheaval comparable only to the opening of the frontier. Now, in Desert America, a work of powerful reportage and memoir, Rubén Martínez, acclaimed author of Crossing Over, evokes a new world of extremes: outrageous wealth and devastating poverty, sublime beauty and ecological ruin. In northern New Mexico, an epidemic of drug addiction flourishes in the shadow of some of the country's richest zip codes; in Joshua Tree, California, gentrification displaces people and history. In Marfa, Texas, an exclusive enclave triggers a race war near the banks of the Rio Grande. And on the Tohono O'odham reservation, Native Americans hunt down Mexican migrants crossing the most desolate stretch of the border. With each desert story, Martínez explores his own encounter with the West and his love for this most contested region. In the process, he reveals that the great frontier is now a harbinger of the vast disparities that are redefining the very idea of America.

Desert

Author : George Sher
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780691023168
Total Pages : 246 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (231 download)

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Download or read book Desert written by George Sher and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 1987 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Studies the range of acts and traits for which persons are said to deserve things. These include acting wrongly, being victimized by others' wrongdoing, extending sustained effort, working productively, performing well in competition, being best qualified for positions, and possessing or exhibiting moral virtue.

The Nature of Desert Claims

Author : Kevin Kinghorn
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108845320
Total Pages : 239 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (88 download)

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Download or read book The Nature of Desert Claims written by Kevin Kinghorn and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2021-05-20 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Offers a new approach to understanding the concept of desert and its relationship to justice.

Desert Banquet

Author : David G. R. Keller
Publisher : Liturgical Press
ISBN 13 : 0814633870
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (146 download)

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Download or read book Desert Banquet written by David G. R. Keller and published by Liturgical Press. This book was released on 2011 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The wisdom of the desert fathers and mothers lies in their experiences of solitude, prayer, community life, work, and care for their neighbors. Their goal was transformation of their lives through openness to the presence and energy of God in Christ. They taught by example and by sharing narratives and sayings that reflect the deep human psychological and spiritual aspects of their journey toward authentic human life. The venue for their transformation was the whole person 'body, mind, and spirit. They emphasized self-knowledge, humility, purity of heart, and love of God and neighbor. Far from being naïve, their sayings and narratives reflect honest struggles, temptations, and failures. They also demonstrate the disciplines of prayer and meditation that kept them centered in God as their only source of strength. The daily reflections in Desert Banquet introduce readers to a variety of these early Christian mentors and offer reflections on the significance of their wisdom for life in the twenty-first century. David G. R.Keller, an Episcopal priest, is adjunct professor of ascetical theology at the General Theological Seminary in New York City. He is co-steward, with his wife, Emily Wilmer, of Oasis of Wisdom: An Institute for Contemplative Study, Practice, and Living based in Asheville, North Carolina (www.oasisofwisdom.net). He is the author of Oasis of Wisdom: The Worlds of the Desert Fathers and Mothers (Liturgical Press) and Come and See: The Transformation of Personal Prayer (Morehouse Publishing).

Twilight in the Desert

Author : Matthew R. Simmons
Publisher : Wiley + ORM
ISBN 13 : 111804052X
Total Pages : 500 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (18 download)

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Download or read book Twilight in the Desert written by Matthew R. Simmons and published by Wiley + ORM. This book was released on 2011-01-04 with total page 500 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Twilight in the Desert reveals a Saudi oil and production industry that could soon approach a serious, irreversible decline. In this exhaustively researched book, veteran oil industry analyst Matthew Simmons draws on his three-plus decades of insider experience and more than 200 independently produced reports about Saudi petroleum resources and production operations. He uncovers a story about Saudi Arabias troubled oil industry, not to mention its political and societal instability, which differs sharply from the globally accepted Saudi version. Its a story that is provocative and disturbing, based on undeniable facts, but until now never told in its entirety. Twilight in the Desert answers all readers questions about Saudi oil and production industries with keen examination instead of unsubstantiated posturing, and takes its place as one of the most important books of this still-young century.

The Desert Between Us

Author : Phyllis Barber
Publisher : University of Nevada Press
ISBN 13 : 1948908573
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (489 download)

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Download or read book The Desert Between Us written by Phyllis Barber and published by University of Nevada Press. This book was released on 2020-04-15 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 2020 Reading the West Book Awards, Longlist for Fiction 2020 Association for Morman Letters Finalist, Fiction The Desert Between Us is a sweeping, multi-layered novel based on the U.S. government’s decision to open more routes to California during the Gold Rush. To help navigate this waterless, largely unexplored territory, the War Department imported seventy-five camels from the Middle East to help traverse the brutal terrain that was murderous on other livestock. Geoffrey Scott, one of the roadbuilders, decides to venture north to discover new opportunities in the opening of the American West when he—and the camels—are no longer needed. Geoffrey arrives in St. Thomas, Nevada, a polygamous settlement caught up in territorial fights over boundaries and new taxation. There, he falls in love with Sophia Hughes, a hatmaker obsessed with beauty and the third wife of a polygamist. Geoffrey believes Sophia wants to be free of polygamy and go away with him to a better life, but Sophia’s motivations are not so easily understood. She had become committed to Mormon beliefs in England and had moved to Utah Territory to assuage her spiritual needs. The death of Sophia’s child and her illicit relationship with Geoffrey generate a complex nexus where her new love for Geoffrey competes with societal expectations and a rugged West seeking domesticity. When faced with the opportunity to move away from her polygamist husband and her tumultuous life in St. Thomas, Sophia becomes tormented by a life-changing decision she must face alone.

Claimed by the Desert Prince

Author : Meredith Webber
Publisher : Harlequin
ISBN 13 : 1426832451
Total Pages : 188 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (268 download)

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Download or read book Claimed by the Desert Prince written by Meredith Webber and published by Harlequin. This book was released on 2009-05-01 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the desert kingdom of Zaheer, Jenny Stapleton meets Kam, a man she thinks is a doctor. Though she's instantly attracted to him, her past makes her wary of getting involved—especially when she discovers he's actually Sheikh Kamid, doctor and heir to the throne of Zaheer! Kam is struck by Jen's passion for his people—and the passion she arouses in him. Soon to be king, Kam needs a wife, and Jenny's the perfect candidate. Now he'll claim her as his convenient bride—and his queen!