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The Death and Life of the Great Lakes

Author : Dan Egan
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 0393246442
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (932 download)

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Download or read book The Death and Life of the Great Lakes written by Dan Egan and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2017-03-07 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New York Times Bestseller Winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize Winner of the J. Anthony Lukas Award "Nimbly splices together history, science, reporting and personal experiences into a taut and cautiously hopeful narrative.… Egan’s book is bursting with life (and yes, death)." —Robert Moor, New York Times Book Review The Great Lakes—Erie, Huron, Michigan, Ontario, and Superior—hold 20 percent of the world’s supply of surface fresh water and provide sustenance, work, and recreation for tens of millions of Americans. But they are under threat as never before, and their problems are spreading across the continent. The Death and Life of the Great Lakes is prize-winning reporter Dan Egan’s compulsively readable portrait of an ecological catastrophe happening right before our eyes, blending the epic story of the lakes with an examination of the perils they face and the ways we can restore and preserve them for generations to come.

Our Stories Remember

Author : Joseph Bruchac
Publisher : Fulcrum Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1555918700
Total Pages : 186 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (559 download)

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Download or read book Our Stories Remember written by Joseph Bruchac and published by Fulcrum Publishing. This book was released on 2016-12-20 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An illuminating look at Native origins and lifeways, a treasure for all who value Native wisdom and the stories that keep it alive.

The New Werner Twentieth Century Edition of the Encyclopaedia Britannica

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 944 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (243 download)

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Download or read book The New Werner Twentieth Century Edition of the Encyclopaedia Britannica written by and published by . This book was released on 1906 with total page 944 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Death Is All around Us

Author : Jonathan M. Weber
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
ISBN 13 : 149621434X
Total Pages : 294 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (962 download)

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Download or read book Death Is All around Us written by Jonathan M. Weber and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2019-04-01 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Late nineteenth-century Mexico was a country rife with health problems. In 1876, one out of every nineteen people died prematurely in Mexico City, a staggeringly high rate when compared to other major Western world capitals at the time, which saw more modest premature death rates of one out of fifty-two (London), one out of forty-four (Paris), and one out of thirty-five (Madrid). It is not an exaggeration to maintain that each day dozens of bodies could be found scattered throughout the streets of Mexico City, making the capital city one of the most unsanitary places in the Western Hemisphere. In light of such startling scenes, in Death Is All around Us Jonathan M. Weber examines how Mexican state officials, including President Porfirio Díaz, tried to resolve the public health dilemmas facing the city. By reducing the high mortality rate, state officials believed that Mexico City would be seen as a more modern and viable capital in North America. To this end the government used new forms of technology and scientific knowledge to deal with the thousands of unidentified and unburied corpses found in hospital morgues and cemeteries and on the streets. Tackling the central question of how the government used the latest technological and scientific advancements to persuade citizens and foreigners alike that the capital city—and thus Mexico as a whole—was capable of resolving the hygienic issues plaguing the city, Weber explores how the state’s attempts to exert control over procedures of death and burial became a powerful weapon for controlling the behavior of its citizens.

Big Trouble

Author : J. Anthony Lukas
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1439128103
Total Pages : 884 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (391 download)

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Download or read book Big Trouble written by J. Anthony Lukas and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2012-07-17 with total page 884 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hailed as "toweringly important" (Baltimore Sun), "a work of scrupulous and significant reportage" (E. L. Doctorow), and "an unforgettable historical drama" (Chicago Sun-Times), Big Trouble brings to life the astonishing case that ultimately engaged President Theodore Roosevelt, Supreme Court justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, and the politics and passions of an entire nation at century's turn. After Idaho's former governor is blown up by a bomb at his garden gate at Christmastime 1905, America's most celebrated detective, Pinkerton James McParland, takes over the investigation. His daringly executed plan to kidnap the radical union leader "Big Bill" Haywood from Colorado to stand trial in Idaho sets the stage for a memorable courtroom confrontation between the flamboyant prosecutor, progressive senator William Borah, and the young defender of the dispossessed, Clarence Darrow. Big Trouble captures the tumultuous first decade of the twentieth century, when capital and labor, particularly in the raw, acquisitive West, were pitted against each other in something close to class war. Lukas paints a vivid portrait of a time and place in which actress Ethel Barrymore, baseball phenom Walter Johnson, and editor William Allen White jostled with railroad magnate E. H. Harriman, socialist Eugene V. Debs, gunslinger Charlie Siringo, and Operative 21, the intrepid Pinkerton agent who infiltrated Darrow's defense team. This is a grand narrative of the United States as it charged, full of hope and trepidation, into the twentieth century.

When Mischief Came to Town

Author : Katrina Nannestad
Publisher : HarperCollins
ISBN 13 : 0544633768
Total Pages : 197 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (446 download)

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Download or read book When Mischief Came to Town written by Katrina Nannestad and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2016-01-05 with total page 197 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the tradition of ANNE OF GREEN GABLES and PIPPI LONGSTOCKING comes a heart-warming novel about love, family, grief, joy and the power of laughter and imagination. When Inge Maria arrives on the tiny island of Bornholm in Denmark to live with her grandmother, she's not sure what to expect. Her grandmother is stern, the people on the island are strange, and children are supposed to be seen and not heard. But no matter how hard Inge tries to be good, mischief has a way of finding her. Could it be that a bit of mischief is exactly what Grandmother and the people of Bornholm need?

Death Where the Bad Rocks Live

Author : C. M. Wendelboe
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 110158145X
Total Pages : 386 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (15 download)

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Download or read book Death Where the Bad Rocks Live written by C. M. Wendelboe and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2012-09-04 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: FBI agent Manny Tanno thought he had left his tribe and the Pine Ridge Reservation behind him years ago. But now with a cold case unearthed in the hot plains sun, he knows that the past never really goes away. In Badlands National Park, there is a desolate area the Lakota refer to as the Stronghold. General Custer called it hell on earth. During World War II, the Army Air Corps used it as a bombing range. At the end of the war, many unexploded ordnances were swallowed up in its sweltering sands. But that’s not all that’s buried there… Sixty-five years after the war, the Sioux tribe has contracted an ordnance removal company to defuse any remaining ammunition in the Stronghold. When the company finds a human arm near a live bomb, Tanno and the Tribal police are called to investigate. As the body is exhumed, two more are discovered. The remains are close together, but the murders were decades apart—and the story behind them is about to blow up…

Death Comes for the Archbishop (大主教之死)

Author : Willa Cather
Publisher : Hyweb Technology Co. Ltd.
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1141 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book Death Comes for the Archbishop (大主教之死) written by Willa Cather and published by Hyweb Technology Co. Ltd.. This book was released on 2011-10-15 with total page 1141 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Nail in the Skull and Other Victorian Urban Legends

Author : Simon Young
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
ISBN 13 : 1496839447
Total Pages : 270 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (968 download)

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Download or read book The Nail in the Skull and Other Victorian Urban Legends written by Simon Young and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on 2022-07-15 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the last fifty years, folklorists have amassed an extraordinary corpus of contemporary legends including the “Choking Doberman,” the “Eaten Ticket,” and the “Vanishing Hitchhiker.” But what about the urban legends of the past? These legends and tales have rarely been collected, and when they occasionally appear, they do so as ancestors or precursors of the urban legends of today, rather than as stories in their own right. In The Nail in the Skull and Other Victorian Urban Legends, Simon Young fills this gap for British folklore (and for the wider English-speaking world) of the 1800s. Young introduces seventy Victorian urban legends ranging from “Beetle Eyes” to the “Shoplifter’s Dilemma” and from “Hands in the Muff” to the “Suicide Club.” While a handful of these stories are already known, the vast majority have never been identified, and they have certainly never received scholarly treatment. Young begins the volume with a lengthy introduction assessing nineteenth-century media, emphasizing the importance of the written word to the perpetuation and preservation of these myths. He draws on numerous nineteenth-century books, periodicals, and ephemera, including digitized newspaper archives—particularly the British Newspaper Archive, an exciting new hunting ground for folklorists. The Nail in the Skull and Other Victorian Urban Legends will appeal to an academic audience as well as to anyone who is interested in urban legends.

Another Day in the Death of America

Author : Gary Younge
Publisher : Bold Type Books
ISBN 13 : 156858976X
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (685 download)

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Download or read book Another Day in the Death of America written by Gary Younge and published by Bold Type Books. This book was released on 2016-10-04 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the 2017 J. Anthony Lukas PrizeShortlisted for the 2017 Hurston/Wright Foundation AwardFinalist for the 2017 Helen Bernstein Book Award for Excellence in JournalismLonglisted for the 2017 Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Non Fiction On an average day in America, seven children and teens will be shot dead. In Another Day in the Death of America, award-winning journalist Gary Younge tells the stories of the lives lost during one such day. It could have been any day, but he chose November 23, 2013. Black, white, and Latino, aged nine to nineteen, they fell at sleepovers, on street corners, in stairwells, and on their own doorsteps. From the rural Midwest to the barrios of Texas, the narrative crisscrosses the country over a period of twenty-four hours to reveal the full human stories behind the gun-violence statistics and the brief mentions in local papers of lives lost. This powerful and moving work puts a human face-a child's face-on the "collateral damage" of gun deaths across the country. This is not a book about gun control, but about what happens in a country where it does not exist. What emerges in these pages is a searing and urgent portrait of youth, family, and firearms in America today.

Death in the City

Author : Francis A. Schaeffer
Publisher : Crossway
ISBN 13 : 1433516578
Total Pages : 161 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (335 download)

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Download or read book Death in the City written by Francis A. Schaeffer and published by Crossway. This book was released on 2002-05-30 with total page 161 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Few Christians had greater impact during the last half of the twentieth century than Dr. Francis A. Schaeffer. A man with penetrating insight into post-Christian, post-modern life, Schaeffer also cared deeply about people and their search for truth, meaning, and beauty. If there is one central theme throughout Schaeffer's work, it is that "true truth" is revealed in the Bible by "the God who is there," and that what we do with this truth has decisive consequences in every area of life. Death in the City was Schaeffer's third book and is foundational to his thinking. Written against the backdrop of the sixties countercultural upheaval, it reads today with the same ring of truth regarding personal, moral, spiritual, and intellectual concerns. Especially in light of 9/11, Schaeffer seems disturbingly prophetic. The death that Schaeffer writes about is more than just physical death—it is the moral and spiritual death that subtly suffocates truth and meaning and beauty out of the city and the wider culture. What is the answer that Schaeffer offers in response? It is commitment to God's Word as truth—a costly practice in the midst of the intellectual, moral, and philosophical battles of our day. It is compassion for a world that is lost and dying without the Gospel. It is yielding our lives to God and allowing Him to bring forth His fruit through us. Few have demonstrated this commitment to truth and "persistence of compassion" so consistently as Schaeffer did. And because of this, few who begin reading these pages will come to the end without having their life profoundly changed.

Songs of Love and Death

Author : George R. R. Martin
Publisher : Gallery / Saga Press
ISBN 13 : 1982156058
Total Pages : 480 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (821 download)

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Download or read book Songs of Love and Death written by George R. R. Martin and published by Gallery / Saga Press. This book was released on 2020-12-01 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A groundbreaking and “wonderful” (Library Journal, starred review) anthology of fantasy, science fiction, and romance from New York Times bestselling and award-winning authors, edited by the acclaimed George R.R. Martin and Gardner Dozois. From epic fantasy, post-apocalyptic America, to faerie-haunted rural fields in 18th-century England, to an intergalactic empire, join star-crossed lovers as they struggle against the forces of magic and fate. A star-studded cross-genre anthology Songs of Love and Death features all-original tales from seventeen of the most prestigious names in romance, fantasy, and science fiction. Contributors include: -Neil Gaiman -Diana Gabaldon -Jim Butcher -Robin Hobb -Marjorie M. Liu -Jo Beverley -Mary Jo Putney -Peter S. Beagle -Jacqueline Carey -Carrie Vaughn -Yasmine Galenorn -MLN Hanover -Kristine Kathryn Rusch -Linnea Sinclair -Cecelia Holland -Tanith Lee -Melinda Snodgrass -Lisa Tuttle

The Telltale Lilac Bush and Other West Virginia Ghost Tales

Author : Ruth Ann Musick
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
ISBN 13 : 9780813101361
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (13 download)

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Download or read book The Telltale Lilac Bush and Other West Virginia Ghost Tales written by Ruth Ann Musick and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 1965-12-31 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: " West Virginia boasts an unusually rich heritage of ghost tales. Originally West Virginians told these hundred stories not for idle amusement but to report supernatural experiences that defied ordinary human explanation. From jealous rivals and ghostly children to murdered kinsmen and omens of death, these tales reflect the inner lives—the hopes, beliefs, and fears—of a people. Like all folklore, these tales reveal much of the history of the region: its isolation and violence, the passions and bloodshed of the Civil War era, the hardships of miners and railroad laborers, and the lingering vitality of Old World traditions.

The Egg and Other Stories

Author : Sherwood Anderson
Publisher : Courier Corporation
ISBN 13 : 048615713X
Total Pages : 148 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (861 download)

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Download or read book The Egg and Other Stories written by Sherwood Anderson and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2013-01-23 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Published two years after the 1919 masterpiece Winesburg, Ohio, this collection of short stories explores intriguing psychological depths, redolent with personal epiphanies, erotic undercurrents, and bursts of passion among seemingly repressed, inarticulate Midwesterners.

Zane Grey - Ultimate Collection: 60+ Western Classics, Historical Novels & Baseball Stories

Author : Zane Grey
Publisher : Good Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 12149 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (596 download)

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Download or read book Zane Grey - Ultimate Collection: 60+ Western Classics, Historical Novels & Baseball Stories written by Zane Grey and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2023-12-05 with total page 12149 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Zane Grey's 'Ultimate Collection' is a comprehensive anthology containing over 60 Western Classics, Historical Novels, and Baseball Stories, showcasing the author's versatility and wide-ranging interests. Grey's writing style is characterized by vivid descriptions of the American West, intricate character developments, and gripping plots that captivate readers from the first page. Incorporating elements of adventure, romance, and suspense, this collection offers a multifaceted view of the various genres that Grey excelled in, solidifying his reputation as a prominent figure in American literature. Set against the backdrop of the Wild West, these stories provide a glimpse into a bygone era and explore themes of honor, loyalty, and the enduring spirit of the frontier. Zane Grey, a prolific writer and avid outdoorsman, drew inspiration from his firsthand experiences in the rugged landscapes of the American West, which shaped his narratives with authenticity and depth. His passion for baseball also shines through in the engaging sports stories included in this anthology, reflecting his diverse literary interests and unique storytelling approach. Grey's enduring legacy as a masterful storyteller continues to resonate with readers of all ages, making this collection a must-read for fans of classic American literature. For readers who appreciate immersive historical fiction, thrilling Western adventures, and enthralling sports tales, Zane Grey's 'Ultimate Collection' offers a captivating literary journey through the landscapes and cultures of America's past. With its rich tapestry of stories and timeless themes, this anthology is a treasure trove for fans of Grey's work and newcomers alike, inviting them to explore the vibrant world of one of America's most beloved authors.

Willa Cather On Writing

Author : Willa Cather
Publisher : Knopf
ISBN 13 : 0307831477
Total Pages : 79 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (78 download)

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Download or read book Willa Cather On Writing written by Willa Cather and published by Knopf. This book was released on 2013-05-01 with total page 79 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Whatever is felt upon the page without being specifically named there—that, one might say, is created." This famous observation appears inWilla Cather on Writing, a collection of essays and letters first published in 1949. In the course of it Cather writes, with grace and piercing clarity, about her own fiction and that of Sarah Orne Jewett, Stephen Crane, and Katherine Mansfield, among others. She concludes, "Art is a concrete and personal and rather childish thing after all—no matter what people do to graft it into science and make it sociological and psychological; it is no good at all unless it is let alone to be itself—a game of make-believe, of re-production, very exciting and delightful to people who have an ear for it or an eye for it."

True Crime Stories of Western North Carolina

Author : Cathy Pickens
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1467152153
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (671 download)

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Download or read book True Crime Stories of Western North Carolina written by Cathy Pickens and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2022-09 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explore the international headlines and the little-known crimes, the solved and the wrongly solved, in these tales of the North Carolina mountains. Western North Carolina is known for mountain vistas and wild, rocky rivers, but remote wilderness and quaint small towns can have a dark side. Learn the truth behind the famous murder ballad Tom Dooley. Delve into the criminal history of moonshine, and the tales of two unexpected bombers in idyllic Mayberry. Crime writer Cathy Pickens brings a novelist's eye to Western North Carolina's crime stories that define the sinister--and quirky--side of the mountains.