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Author : Sam Hurst
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780990397205
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (972 download)
Download or read book Rattlesnake Under His Hat written by Sam Hurst and published by . This book was released on 2016-05-11 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Rilla Askew
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN 13 : 0806157836
Total Pages : 177 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (61 download)
Download or read book Most American written by Rilla Askew and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 2017-06-08 with total page 177 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 2018 PEN America Literary Award Finalist! In her first nonfiction collection, award-winning novelist Rilla Askew casts an unflinching eye on American history, both past and present. As she traverses a line between memoir and social commentary, Askew places herself—and indeed all Americans—in the role of witness to uncomfortable truths about who we are. Through nine linked essays, Most American: Notes from a Wounded Place evokes a vivid impression of the United States: police violence and gun culture, ethnic cleansing and denied history, spellbinding landscapes and brutal weather. To render these conditions in the particulars of place, Askew spotlights the complex history of her home state. From the Trail of Tears to the Tulsa Race Riot to the Murrah Federal Building bombing, Oklahoma appears as a microcosm of our national saga. Yet no matter our location, Askew argues, we must own our contradictory selves—our violence and prejudices, as well as our hard work and generosity—so the wounds of division in our society can heal. In these writings, Askew traces a personal journey that begins with her early years as an idealistic teenager mired in what she calls “the presumption of whiteness.” Later she emerges as a writer humble enough to see her own story as part of a larger historical and cultural narrative. With grace and authority she speaks honestly about the failures of the dominant culture in which she grew up, even as she expresses a sense of love for its people. In the wake of increasing gun violence and heightened national debate about race relations and social inequality, Askew’s reflections could not be more relevant. With a novelist’s gift for storytelling, she paints a compelling portrait of a place and its people: resilient and ruthless, decent but self-deceiving, generous yet filled with prejudice—both the best and the worst of what it means to be American.
Author : Dan Eatherley
Publisher : Skyhorse
ISBN 13 : 1628725559
Total Pages : 385 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (287 download)
Download or read book Bushmaster written by Dan Eatherley and published by Skyhorse. This book was released on 2015-06-27 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The amazing story of one man’s obsession with an enigmatic and deadly reptile. Raymond Ditmars (1876–1942), the first curator of reptiles at New York’s famous Bronx Zoo, brought cold-blooded animals to public attention as never before. Through wildly successful books and movies, he inspired a generation of zoologists with his fascination for snakes, insects, and other misunderstood creatures. Ditmars was among the most celebrated naturalists in America. His reptile-collecting trips for the zoo spawned newspaper headlines across the world. Although a serpent lover, he was all too aware of the devastating effects of snakebites and was instrumental in the development of antivenom. His films and writings brought him fame, but he remained a devoted zoo employee, doing what he loved most: caring for animals. Bushmaster tells the story of this remarkable man and what became an obsession with the mysterious bushmaster of the South American rainforest. Measuring up to thirteen feet in length, this is the world’s largest viper, and its scientific name, Lachesis muta, translates as “silent fate.” Despite numerous expeditions to jungles from Honduras to Brazil, Ditmars could never capture a bushmaster for himself. Now, British author Dan Eatherley follows in Ditmars’s footsteps, revisiting his early haunts in the United States and South America. He attempts to do what Ditmars himself failed to achieve: to find a bushmaster in the wild. But eighty years later, will Dan have any more luck? Through the author’s own quest, Bushmaster reveals the life of a pioneer herpetologist, wildlife filmmaker, and zoo curator.
Author : Laurence M. Klauber
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 9780520017757
Total Pages : 782 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (177 download)
Download or read book Rattlesnakes: Their Habits, Life Histories, and Influence on Mankind written by Laurence M. Klauber and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1972-01-01 with total page 782 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Focuses on rattlesnake ecology, taxonomy, physiology, reproduction, and behavior.
Author : Melinda Rice
Publisher : Taylor Trade Publications
ISBN 13 : 1556227876
Total Pages : 121 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (562 download)
Download or read book Secrets In The Sky written by Melinda Rice and published by Taylor Trade Publications. This book was released on 2001-02-26 with total page 121 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While her brother is off flying planes for the Air Corps, twelve-year-old Bethany becomes involved with women training with the Women Airforce Service Pilots (WASPS) right in her hometown of Sweetwater, Texas.
Author : Laird Barron
Publisher : Start Publishing LLC
ISBN 13 : 1597802484
Total Pages : 367 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (978 download)
Download or read book Occultation written by Laird Barron and published by Start Publishing LLC. This book was released on 2010-07-01 with total page 367 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Laird Barron has emerged as one of the strongest voices in modern horror and dark fantasy fiction, building on the eldritch tradition pioneered by writers such as H. P. Lovecraft, Peter Straub, and Thomas Ligotti. His stories have garnered critical acclaim and been reprinted in numerous year's best anthologies and nominated for multiple awards, including the Crawford, International Horror Guild, Shirley Jackson, Theodore Sturgeon, and World Fantasy Awards. His debut collection, The Imago Sequence and Other Stories, was the inaugural winner of the Shirley Jackson Award. He returns with his second collection, Occultation. Pitting ordinary men and women against a carnivorous, chaotic cosmos, Occultation's eight tales of terror (two never before published) include the Theodore Sturgeon and Shirley Jackson Award-nominated story "The Forest" and Shirley Jackson Award nominee "The Lagerstatte." Featuring an introduction by Michael Shea, Occultation brings more of the spine-chillingly sublime cosmic horror Laird Barron's fans have come to expect.
Author : Florence Merriam Bailey
Publisher : DigiCat
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 175 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (596 download)
Download or read book A-Birding on a Bronco written by Florence Merriam Bailey and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-05-29 with total page 175 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A-Birding on a Bronco is a naturalist piece by Florence Augusta Merriam Bailey. It shares a record of the writer's birding observations over a couple of years in southern California.
Author : Robert Macdonald
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
ISBN 13 : 1442613130
Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (426 download)
Download or read book Sons of the Empire written by Robert Macdonald and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2011-11-01 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Sons of the Empire, Robert MacDonald explores popular ideas and myths in Edwardian Britain, their use by Baden-Powell, and their influence on the Boy Scout movement. In particular, he analyses the model of masculinity provided by the imperial frontier, the view that life in younger, far-flung parts of the empire was stronger, less degenerate than in Britain. The stereotypical adventurer - the frontiersman - provided an alternative ethic to British society. The best known example of it at the time was Baden-Powell himself, a war scout, the Hero of Mafeking in the South African war, and one of the first cult heroes to be created by the modern media. When Baden-Powell founded the Boy Scouts in 1908, he used both the power of the frontier myth and his own legend as a hero to galvanize the movement. The glamour of war scouting was hard to resist, its adventures a seductive invitation to the first recruits. But Baden-Powell had a serious educational program in mind: Boy Scouts were to be trained in good citizenship. MacDonald documents his study with a wide range of contemporary sources, from newspapers to military memoirs. Exploring the genesis of an imperial institution through its own texts, he brings new insight into the Edwardian age.
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 688 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)
Download or read book Mrs. Stephens' New Monthly written by and published by . This book was released on 1856 with total page 688 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Walter Mosley
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1101011378
Total Pages : 330 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (1 download)
Download or read book The Long Fall written by Walter Mosley and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2009-03-24 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The widely praised New York Times bestseller, and Mosley's first new series since his acclaimed Easy Rawlins novels... Leonid McGill is an ex-boxer and a hard drinker looking to clean up his act. He's an old-school P.I. working a New York City that's gotten a little too fancy all around him. But it's still full of dirty secrets, and as McGill unearths them, his commitment to the straight and narrow is going to be tested to the limit...
Author : Johnny Hughes
Publisher : iUniverse
ISBN 13 : 0595915108
Total Pages : 210 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (959 download)
Download or read book Texas Poker Wisdom written by Johnny Hughes and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2007-10-19 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Scrolling the pages of a Hughes narrative is like lighting a lantern into the darkest recess of poker's subculture. [Hughes] brings the legends of the past and present to life and often provides the very best portrait of these unique, real-life characters of anyone on record." -Nolan Dalla, media director, World Series of Poker, best-selling author and columnist for Card Player "Johnny Hughes's poker stories are a national treasure hilarious stories and colorful characters timeless classics the stuff of history one of my all-time favorite poker writers." -Iggy, a.k.a. Ignatius J. Reilly, the Blogfather of Poker, GuinnessandPoker.com "Told with authenticity and the knowledge that only a true road gambler could possess a book that you will love a highly enjoyable read." -Anthony Kelly, editor-in-chief, Player Europe magazine. Dublin. "Cryptic, dark. Irrefutably unique. Elliptical euphemism and metaphor are (Hughes's) tools. Gambling folklore and parables abound. All told with a twinkle in the eye and one finger on the trigger ... Johnny writes evasively, challenging us to refute, compelling us to believe." -James Dodd, a.k.a. Tetuso, Bet-the-Pot.com. London.
Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Finance. Subcommittee on Public Assistance
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Welfare Reform Proposals written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Finance. Subcommittee on Public Assistance and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Finance. Subcommittee on Public Assistance
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 226 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (17 download)
Download or read book Administration testimony written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Finance. Subcommittee on Public Assistance and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Mrs. Stephens' Illustrated New Monthly written by and published by . This book was released on 1856 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 360 pages
Book Rating : 4.E/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Amateur Naturalist written by and published by . This book was released on 1904 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Hamlin Garland
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
ISBN 13 : 9780803250703
Total Pages : 480 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (57 download)
Download or read book Boy Life on the Prairie written by Hamlin Garland and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 1961-01-01 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Boy Life on the Prairie was first published in 1899, some eighteen years before the appearance of Hamlin Garland?s A Son of the Middle Border. The broad scope of the latter book, as B. R. McElderry, Jr., tells us in the introduction to this new edition of Boy Life, has overshadowed the ?earlier and better book of reminiscence dealing specifically with Garland?s boyhood experiences on an Iowa farm from 1869 to about 1881. When he wrote Boy Life on the Prairie Garland was much closer to the subject than he was in 1917, and he had the advantage of a more restricted aim: to tell directly and specifically what it was like to grow up in northeast Iowa in the years just after the Civil War. It may safely be said that no one else has given so clear and informative an account. When one considers other accounts of boyhood in nineteenth-century America?those of Aldrich, Clemens, Warner, and Howells, for example?one is impressed with the thoroughness and precision of Garland?s book. Aside from Main-Travelled Roads, Boy Life, is probably the best single book that Garland ever wrote.? The Bison Book edition is the first in more than fifty years to reproduce in full the 1899 text. It also includes an introduction addressed ?To My Young Readers? and the ?Author?s Notes? which appeared in the 1926 edition published by Allyn & Bacon. The forty-seven line drawings and six full-page illustrations by E. W. Deming are reproduced from the 1899 edition. In his introduction, Dr. McElderry provides a thorough and interesting analysis of Boy Life and compares it with the sketches written in 1888 which were Garland?s first attempt at reminiscence, as well as with A Son of the Middle Border.
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 750 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Amateur Naturalist written by and published by . This book was released on 1904 with total page 750 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
