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Author : Peter Lamont
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ISBN 13 : 9784444419246
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (192 download)
Download or read book Rise of Indian Rope Trick B Pbp How a Spectacular Hoax Became History written by Peter Lamont and published by . This book was released on 2005-05 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Peter Lamont
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ISBN 13 : 9781422351185
Total Pages : 263 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (511 download)
Download or read book The Rise of the Indian Rope Trick written by Peter Lamont and published by . This book was released on 2006-03 with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fascinating & authoritative investigation into the world's greatest mystery. It has been consistently voted one of the world's top ten tricks. For years it has been thought of as an ancient piece of authentic Indian magic. But the thing about the Indian rope trick is that it isn't Indian, it doesn't involve a rope, & it isn't a trick. In this remarkable & acclaimed book, Peter Lamont traces the roots of a spectacular hoax to reveal just how it became the world's most famous mystery. Lamont's historical detective work shows that the truth here is more bizarre than even the most outlandish fiction. A riveting yarn, full of quirky stories & wisdom about our need for mystery. The truth here is more bizarre than even the most outlandish fiction.Ó Illustrations.
Author : Peter Lamont
Publisher : Little Brown GBR
ISBN 13 : 9780316724302
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (243 download)
Download or read book The Rise of the Indian Rope Trick written by Peter Lamont and published by Little Brown GBR. This book was released on 2004-01-01 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is the greatest legend of the Orient. A rope is thrown into the air and rises into the sky until it is completely vertical. A boy then climbs the rope, higher and higher. There, in broad daylight and surrounded by spectators, the boy disappears. In this book th3e author reveals the truth behind this remarkable legend. The Indian rope trick isn't Indian, it doesn't involve a rope, and it isn't a trick. The author describes how a simple hoax grew into the world's most famous mystery, assisted on its way by those in search of fame and fortune, and by others whose aim was to destroy it in defence of the West.
Author : Miro Roman
Publisher : Birkhäuser
ISBN 13 : 3035624054
Total Pages : 528 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (356 download)
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Author : Jacques Ellul
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0593315685
Total Pages : 531 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (933 download)
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Author : Scott L Greer
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
ISBN 13 : 0472902466
Total Pages : 416 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (729 download)
Download or read book Coronavirus Politics written by Scott L Greer and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 2021-04-19 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: COVID-19 is the most significant global crisis of any of our lifetimes. The numbers have been stupefying, whether of infection and mortality, the scale of public health measures, or the economic consequences of shutdown. Coronavirus Politics identifies key threads in the global comparative discussion that continue to shed light on COVID-19 and shape debates about what it means for scholarship in health and comparative politics. Editors Scott L. Greer, Elizabeth J. King, Elize Massard da Fonseca, and André Peralta-Santos bring together over 30 authors versed in politics and the health issues in order to understand the health policy decisions, the public health interventions, the social policy decisions, their interactions, and the reasons. The book’s coverage is global, with a wide range of key and exemplary countries, and contains a mixture of comparative, thematic, and templated country studies. All go beyond reporting and monitoring to develop explanations that draw on the authors' expertise while engaging in structured conversations across the book.
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Total Pages : 552 pages
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Download or read book The Health Robbers written by Stephen Barrett and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 552 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: And it answers such questions as: "Are 'organic' foods worth their extra cost?" "Can acupuncture cure anything?" "Will vitamin B[subscript 12] shots pep me up?" "Can diet cure arthritis?" "Will spinal adjustments help my health?" "Will amino acids 'pump up' my muscles?" "Where can reliable information be obtained?" and "What's the best way to get good medical care?" Even if the answers to some of these questions seem obvious, the details in this volume, written in an informative, highly readable, and easy-to-understand style, will astound you. Quackery often leads to harm because it turns ill people away from legitimate and trusted therapeutic procedures. However, its heaviest toll is in financial loss not only to those who pay directly, but to everyone who pays for bogus treatments through taxes, insurance premiums, and other ways that are less obvious.
Author : Lesley Green
Publisher : HSRC Publishers
ISBN 13 : 9780796924285
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (242 download)
Download or read book Contested Ecologies written by Lesley Green and published by HSRC Publishers. This book was released on 2013 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contests over knowledge are central to contests over environments. Many of those contests are not just about Ægood scienceÆ or æbad scienceÆ, but over the idea of nature itself: the idea that the nature that science makes known to the world is set apart from æcultureÆ or æsocietyÆ, or that nature is comprised of objects û rivers, fish, soil û the knowledge of which lies outside of social life and democratic politics. Contested Ecologies: Dialogues in the South on Nature and Knowledge focuses on moments in which contests over ecology become moments for rethinking this ecology of knowledge. The chapters cover a wide variety of settings-from urban Cape Town to indigenous activism in Peru; from MugabeÆs Zimbabwe to the Beguela ecosystem fisheries, and include protected areas in the Aboriginal territories of northern Australia. Contested Ecologies could be read as an enlightened report on the status of knowledge worldwide. Not only does it demonstrate, with a powerful collective voice from the Global South that will be difficult to ignore, that differences between knowledges ineluctably imply differences among forms of making the world, it actually succeeds in exemplifying paths for genuine and constructive conversations across seemingly intractable divides. The volume offers the first concrete demonstration that it is indeed possible to go beyond the alleged rift between nature and culture, moving us closer towards the elusive goal of healing our planet through new knowledge formations. At a time when the academy seems mired in training students to perform well in so-called 'globalization' (understood as market success), this courageous volume represents a breath of fresh air in the debates over how to re-imagine the university as a central player in the construction of a new ethics of life. Arturo Escobar, Kenan Distinguished Professor of Anthropology, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, Extraordinarily interesting ... A new anthropology is afoot. Contested Ecologies sets out a new approach beyond the boundaries of modernity as we know it. Here different versions of nature are at play, and a 'political ontology' has emerged to grasp this problem. Cosmopolitics comes into its own in this collection. Anna Tsing, author of Friction: An ethnography of global connection Book jacket.
Author : Ty M. Bollinger
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ISBN 13 : 9780978806507
Total Pages : 452 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (65 download)
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Author : Albert Goodwill Spalding
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Total Pages : 586 pages
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Download or read book America's National Game written by Albert Goodwill Spalding and published by . This book was released on 1911 with total page 586 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is Albert Spaldings work of "historic facts concerning the beginning, evolution, development and popularity of base ball, with personal reminiscences of its vicissitudes, its victories and its votaries." It is one of the defining books in the early formative years of modern baseball.
Author : Mark Lubbock
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Total Pages : 953 pages
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Author : Philip K. Dick
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0679752978
Total Pages : 204 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (797 download)
Download or read book Galactic Pot-healer written by Philip K. Dick and published by Vintage. This book was released on 1994 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What could an omnipresent and seemingly omnipotent entity want with a humble pot-healer? Or with the dozens of other odd creatures it has lured to Plowman's Planet? And if the Glimmung is a god, are its ends positive or malign? Combining quixotic adventure, spine-chilling horror, and deliriously paranoid theology, Galactic Pot-Healer is a uniquely Dickian voyage to alternate worlds of the imagination.
Author : Gloria Gaynor
Publisher : Macmillan + ORM
ISBN 13 : 1466865954
Total Pages : 253 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (668 download)
Download or read book I Will Survive written by Gloria Gaynor and published by Macmillan + ORM. This book was released on 2014-03-11 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I Will Survive is the story of Gloria Gaynor, America's "Queen of Disco." It is the story of riches and fame, despair, and finally salvation. Her meteoric rise to stardom in the mid-1970s was nothing short of phenomenal, and hits poured forth that pushed her to the top of the charts, including "Honey Bee," "I Got You Under My Skin," "Never Can Say Goodbye," and the song that has immortalized her, "I Will Survive," which became a #1 international gold seller. With that song, Gloria heralded the international rise of disco that became synonymous with a way of life in the fast lane - the sweaty bodies at Studio 54, the lines of cocaine, the indescribable feeling that you could always be at the top of your game and never come down. But down she came after her early stardom, and problems followed in the wake, including the death of her mother, whose love had anchored the young singer, as well as constant battles with weight, drugs, and alcohol. While her fans always imagined her to be rich, her personal finances collapsed due to poor management; and while many envied her, she felt completely empty inside. In the early 1980s, sustained by her marriage to music publisher Linwood Simon, Gloria took three years off and reflected upon her life. She visited churches and revisited her mother's old Bible. Discovering the world of gospel, she made a commitment to Christ that sustains her to this day.
Author : Aleksandr Lebed
Publisher : Regnery Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780895264220
Total Pages : 410 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (642 download)
Download or read book General Alexander Lebed written by Aleksandr Lebed and published by Regnery Publishing. This book was released on 1997-09-01 with total page 410 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Forty-five year old Alexander Lebed is a charismatic figure whose dry wit and brusque no-nonsense style sets him apart from most of the familiar faces of Moscow's political elite. In this brawling autobiography, General Alexander Lebed tells his dramatic life story, demonstrating the strengths that make him a likely candidate for a future Russian leadership role. photos.
Author : Lawrence Solomon
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ISBN 13 : 9780980076370
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (763 download)
Download or read book The Deniers written by Lawrence Solomon and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Eminent environmentalist Solomon set out to find whether any real scientists diverged from global warming orthodoxy. This fully revised new edition features two new chapters that present fresh exposs on climate profiteers and global warming affirmers.
Author : Alice Parker
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ISBN 13 : 9780929650432
Total Pages : 100 pages
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ISBN 13 : 9781735993805
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