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The Harmless People

Author : Elizabeth Marshall Thomas
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0307772950
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (77 download)

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Download or read book The Harmless People written by Elizabeth Marshall Thomas and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2010-11-24 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “A study of primitive people which, for beauty of . . . style and concept, would be hard to match.” —The New York Times Book Review In the 1950s Elizabeth Marshall Thomas became one of the first Westerners to live with the Bushmen of the Kalahari desert in Botswana and South-West Africa. Her account of these nomadic hunter-gatherers, whose way of life had remained unchanged for thousands of years, is a ground-breaking work of anthropology, remarkable not only for its scholarship but for its novelistic grasp of character. On the basis of field trips in the 1980s, Thomas has now updated her book to show what happened to the Bushmen as the tide of industrial civilization—with its flotsam of property rights, wage labor, and alcohol—swept over them. The result is a powerful, elegiac look at an endangered culture as well as a provocative critique of our own. "The charm of this book is that the author can so truly convey the strangeness of the desert life in which we perceive human traits as familiar as our own. . . . The Harmless People is a model of exposition: the style very simple and precise, perfectly suited to the neat, even fastidious activities of a people who must make their world out of next to nothing." —The Atlantic

The Harmless People

Author : Elizabeth Marshall Thomas
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 266 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (61 download)

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Download or read book The Harmless People written by Elizabeth Marshall Thomas and published by . This book was released on 1965 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Old Way

Author : Elizabeth Marshall Thomas
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 9780374225520
Total Pages : 370 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (255 download)

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Download or read book The Old Way written by Elizabeth Marshall Thomas and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2006 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Publisher description

The Harmless People

Author : Elizabeth Marshall Thomas
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 067972446X
Total Pages : 338 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (797 download)

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Download or read book The Harmless People written by Elizabeth Marshall Thomas and published by Vintage. This book was released on 1989-10-23 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “A study of primitive people which, for beauty of . . . style and concept, would be hard to match.” —The New York Times Book Review In the 1950s Elizabeth Marshall Thomas became one of the first Westerners to live with the Bushmen of the Kalahari desert in Botswana and South-West Africa. Her account of these nomadic hunter-gatherers, whose way of life had remained unchanged for thousands of years, is a ground-breaking work of anthropology, remarkable not only for its scholarship but for its novelistic grasp of character. On the basis of field trips in the 1980s, Thomas has now updated her book to show what happened to the Bushmen as the tide of industrial civilization—with its flotsam of property rights, wage labor, and alcohol—swept over them. The result is a powerful, elegiac look at an endangered culture as well as a provocative critique of our own. "The charm of this book is that the author can so truly convey the strangeness of the desert life in which we perceive human traits as familiar as our own. . . . The Harmless People is a model of exposition: the style very simple and precise, perfectly suited to the neat, even fastidious activities of a people who must make their world out of next to nothing." —The Atlantic

Harmless

Author : Dana Reinhardt
Publisher : Wendy Lamb Books
ISBN 13 : 0307485846
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (74 download)

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Download or read book Harmless written by Dana Reinhardt and published by Wendy Lamb Books. This book was released on 2008-12-18 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There was a man. He had a knife. He attacked us down by the river.It was just a harmless little lie.Anna, Emma and Mariah concoct a story about why they're late getting home one night—a story that will replace their parents' anger withconcern. They just have to stand by it. No matter what. Suddenly the police are involved, and the town demands that someone be punished. And then there is the man who is arrested and accused of a crime that never happened.

The Tribe of Tiger

Author : Elizabeth Marshall Thomas
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 0743426894
Total Pages : 294 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (434 download)

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Download or read book The Tribe of Tiger written by Elizabeth Marshall Thomas and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2001-06 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author who revealed the secret lives of dogs in the best-selling The Hidden Life of Dogs offers a journey into the hidden life of cats and reports that cats, surprisingly, are not solitary beings. Reissue.

Reindeer Moon

Author : Elizabeth Marshall Thomas
Publisher : HMH
ISBN 13 : 0544409884
Total Pages : 359 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (444 download)

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Download or read book Reindeer Moon written by Elizabeth Marshall Thomas and published by HMH. This book was released on 2015-03-17 with total page 359 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “A whole culture is imaginatively and authoritatively illuminated” in this “suspenseful, insightful, poignant” novel of prehistoric times (Publishers Weekly). Twenty thousand years ago, a courageous girl lived in Siberia near Woman Lake, a place you won’t find on any modern map. Only thirteen, Yanan and her companions—hunters of deer, gatherers of roots and twigs—struggle to survive the harsh realities of hunger and cold, bound by an unending cycle of birth, kinship, violence, and death. As Yanan recounts the terrible adventures of her brief life, she departs on spirit journeys that evoke the lives of the animals to which she and her people are intimately linked. A lyrical novel of our species’ prehistory, Reindeer Moon opens up corridors to the imagination that lead us back to the long-forgotten echoes of our distant human past. “Unforgettable . . . Reindeer Moon beautifully resurrects a lost world of merciless magnificence. Dozens of memorable characters live and die in this moving tale, which should become a classic.” —Chicago Tribune Book World “Those familiar with the author’s landmark study, The Harmless People, will not be surprised at the range of anthropological information she brings to her first novel, or at the lucidity of her prose. What will astonish, engross and move readers in her narrative of a group of hunter-gatherers who lived 20,000 years ago is the dramatic immediacy of the story and the depth and range of character development.” —Publishers Weekly

And Another Thing...

Author : Eoin Colfer
Publisher : Hachette Books
ISBN 13 : 1401394809
Total Pages : 364 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (13 download)

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Download or read book And Another Thing... written by Eoin Colfer and published by Hachette Books. This book was released on 2009-10-12 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: And Another Thing ... will be the sixth novel in the now improbably named Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy trilogy. Eight years after the death of its creator, Douglas Adams, the author's widow, Jane Belson, has given her approval for the project to be continued by the international number one bestselling children's writer, Eoin Colfer, author of the Artemis Fowl novels. Douglas Adams himself once said, 'I suspect at some point in the future I will write a sixth Hitchhiker book. Five seems to be a wrong kind of number, six is a better kind of number.' Belson said of Eoin Colfer, 'I love his books and could not think of a better person to transport Arthur, Zaphod and Marvin to pastures new.' Colfer, a fan of Hitchhiker since his schooldays, said, 'Being given the chance to write this book is like suddenly being offered the superpower of your choice. For years I have been finishing this incredible story in my head and now I have the opportunity to do it in the real world.' Prepare to be amazed...

Harmless Like You: A Novel

Author : Rowan Hisayo Buchanan
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 1324000759
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (24 download)

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Download or read book Harmless Like You: A Novel written by Rowan Hisayo Buchanan and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2017-02-28 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Rowan Hisayo Buchanan’s debut is a beautifully textured novel, befitting the story of an artist.” —Washington Post Written in startlingly beautiful prose, Harmless Like You is set across New York, Connecticut, and Berlin. At its heart is Yuki Oyama, a Japanese girl fighting to make it as an artist, and her struggle with her decision to leave her two-year-old son, Jay. As an adult, Jay sets out to find his mother and confront her abandonment.

All Things Harmless, Useful, and Ornamental

Author : Pete Minard
Publisher : UNC Press Books
ISBN 13 : 1469651629
Total Pages : 209 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (696 download)

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Download or read book All Things Harmless, Useful, and Ornamental written by Pete Minard and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2019-04-22 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Species acclimatization--the organized introduction of organisms to a new region--is much maligned in the present day. However, colonization depended on moving people, plants, and animals from place to place, and in centuries past, scientists, landowners, and philanthropists formed acclimatization societies to study local species and conditions, form networks of supporters, and exchange supposedly useful local and exotic organisms across the globe. Pete Minard tells the story of this movement, arguing that the colonies, not the imperial centers, led the movement for species acclimatization. Far from attempting to re-create London or Paris, settlers sought to combine plants and animals to correct earlier environmental damage and to populate forests, farms, and streams to make them healthier and more productive. By focusing particularly on the Australian colony of Victoria, Minard reveals a global network of would-be acclimatizers, from Britain and France to Russia and the United States. Although the movement was short-lived, the long reach of nineteenth-century acclimatization societies continues to be felt today, from choked waterways to the uncontrollable expansion of European pests in former colonies.

Mostly Harmless

Author : Douglas Adams
Publisher : Del Rey
ISBN 13 : 0345379330
Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (453 download)

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Download or read book Mostly Harmless written by Douglas Adams and published by Del Rey. This book was released on 1993-10-19 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Now celebrating the 42nd anniversary of The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, soon to be a Hulu original series! “Hitchhiker fans rejoice! . . . [Here’s] more of the same zany nonsensical mayhem.”—The New York Times Book Review It’s easy to get disheartened when your planet has been blown up and the woman you love has vanished due to a misunderstanding about space/time. However, instead of being disheartened, Arthur Dent makes the terrible mistake of starting to enjoy life a bit—and immediately all hell breaks loose. Hell takes a number of forms: there’s the standard Ford Prefect version, in the shape of an all-new edition of The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, and a totally unexpected manifestation in the form of a teenage girl who startles Arthur Dent by being his daughter when he didn’t even know he had one. Can Arthur save the Earth from total multidimensional obliteration? Can he save the Guide from a hostile alien takeover? Can he save his daughter, Random, from herself? Of course not. He never works out exactly what is going on. Will you? “Douglas Adams is a terrific satirist. . . . He is anything but harmless.”—The Washington Post Book World

Augustine in His Own Words

Author : Saint Augustine (of Hippo)
Publisher : CUA Press
ISBN 13 : 0813217431
Total Pages : 543 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (132 download)

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Download or read book Augustine in His Own Words written by Saint Augustine (of Hippo) and published by CUA Press. This book was released on 2010 with total page 543 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume offers a comprehensive portrait--or rather, self-portrait, since its words are mostly Augustine's own--drawn from the breadth of his writings and from the long course of his career

The Only Harmless Great Thing

Author : Brooke Bolander
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 125016947X
Total Pages : 64 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (51 download)

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Download or read book The Only Harmless Great Thing written by Brooke Bolander and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2018-01-23 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the Nebula Award for Best Novelette Finalist for the Hugo, Locus, Shirley Jackson, and Sturgeon Awards The Only Harmless Great Thing is a heart-wrenching alternative history by Brooke Bolander that imagines an intersection between the Radium Girls and noble, sentient elephants. In the early years of the 20th century, a group of female factory workers in Newark, New Jersey slowly died of radiation poisoning. Around the same time, an Indian elephant was deliberately put to death by electricity in Coney Island. These are the facts. Now these two tragedies are intertwined in a dark alternate history of rage, radioactivity, and injustice crying out to be righted. Prepare yourself for a wrenching journey that crosses eras, chronicling histories of cruelty both grand and petty in search of meaning and justice. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

Not Bad People

Author : Brandy Scott
Publisher : HarperCollins
ISBN 13 : 0062854135
Total Pages : 505 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (628 download)

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Download or read book Not Bad People written by Brandy Scott and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2019-05-14 with total page 505 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Three friends, thirty years of shared secrets, one impulsive gesture . . . and a terrible accident. When friendship goes bad, someone has to pay. It’s New Year’s Eve. Three thirty-something women—Aimee, Melinda, and Lou, best friends for decades—release sky lanterns filled with resolutions: for meaning, for freedom, for money. As the glowing paper bags float away, there’s a bright flare in the distance. It could be a sign of luck—or the start of a complete nightmare that will upend their friendships, families, and careers. The day after their ceremony, the newspapers report a small plane crash—two victims were pulled from the wreckage, one a young boy. Are the three friends responsible? Aimee thinks they are, Melinda won’t accept it, and Lou has problems of her own. It’s a toxic recipe for guilt trips, shame, obsession, blackmail, and power games. They’re not bad people. But desperate times call for desperate measures.

A Little Harmless Sex

Author : Melissa Schroeder
Publisher : Harmless Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1956633332
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (566 download)

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Download or read book A Little Harmless Sex written by Melissa Schroeder and published by Harmless Publishing. This book was released on 2023-10-20 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Get the Expanded 20th Anniversary Edition that includes new scenes, an expanded epilogue, and surprises every Harmless Addict will love. He's always been her knight in armor. Anna DeWinter hasn't always had the best of luck with men. From early on, she learned hard lessons to never trust them, and it's why she keeps her relationships purely superficial. The only man she trusts--other than her father--is Max. He's always been the guy she could count on to support her dreams, even if she knows she isn't the woman for him. She's always been his complete opposite. Max Chandler has always admired Anna's free spirit. Whenever he gets too stuck in his own thoughts, he knows he can count on her to loosen him up. He's always kept her at arm's length because he knows he needs a certain amount of control and Anna isn't the type of woman to give him that. But all that changes after his broken engagement and too much tequila. There's no going back to being just friends. One night will never be enough for either of them, but that doesn't mean it will be easy. Anna doesn't believe in happily ever after, but there is one thing she's about to learn about Max: When it comes to love, Max always plays to win. »WARNING: The following book contains super sexy times, graphic terms for body parts, torture via silk stockings, a little spanking, and shower and office sex. THE HARMLESS WORLD The Original Harmless Five A Little Harmless Sex A Little Harmless Pleasure A Little Harmless Obsession A Little Harmless Lie A Little Harmless Addiction Rough 'n Ready Rough Submission-->formerly A Little Harmless Submission Rough Fascination-->formerly A Little Harmless Fascination Rough Fantasy-->formerly A Little Harmless Fantasy Rough Ride-->formerly A Little Harmless Ride Harmless Trouble Harmless Secrets-->formerly A Little Harmless Secret Harmless Revenge-->formerly A Little Harmless Revenge Harmless Scandals-->formerly A Little Harmless Scandal The Wulf Family Faith-->formerly A Little Harmless Faith Taboo-->formerly A Little Harmless Taboo Trust--> New Release A Little Harmless Military Romance Infatuation Possession Surrender Task Force Hawaii Seductive Reasoning Hostile Desires Constant Craving Tangled Passions Wicked Temptations Twisted Emotions--> coming 2025

Growing Old

Author : Elizabeth Marshall Thomas
Publisher : HarperCollins
ISBN 13 : 0062956450
Total Pages : 187 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (629 download)

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Download or read book Growing Old written by Elizabeth Marshall Thomas and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2020-04-28 with total page 187 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Growing Old is unlike anything you've read before about old age. It's not a chirpy guidebook to successful aging (often written by people in their forties and fifties—who haven't gotten there yet!) but something far deeper and revelatory. By turns hilarious, poignant, fascinating, and disturbing, every page is brutally honest. If you ever plan to grow old or know anyone else who's already there, you'll find insights here you'll see nowhere else." — Sy Montgomery, New York Times bestselling author of The Soul of an Octopus “Written by one of our most distinguished observers of human and animal behavior who has now decided to observe herself, this book is a witty, wise, frank, and ultimately comforting look--from the inside out--at the universal experience of growing old.” — Dale Peterson, author of Jane Goodall: The Woman Who Redefined Man and The Ghosts of Gombe “This is a true gift. Elizabeth has trekked the Arctic Circle and lived with the Bushmen—not your typical human. Yet, she shares how time catches up with us all. Her unexpectedly delightful book made me realize the good decisions my grandparents made, and think about how I should should approach my own future. A unique look at a universal process that we need not fear—and might come to relish.” — Dr. Mark W. Moffett, anthropologist-explorer and author of The Human Swarm: How Our Societies Arise, Thrive, and Fall "Octogenarian Thomas tackles old age in this clever and astute memoir…Thomas is an inspiring example of a life well lived, and her sense of humor, honesty, and curiosity will resonate.” — Publisher’s Weekly, STARRED review "With wit and humor, Thomas thoughtfully conveys the realities of aging. This fully absorbing memoir will especially resonate with readers over 65 and those who work with geriatric populations, yet all readers should find much wisdom to be gained from this warm offering." — Library Journal "Thomas turns her curiosity about all things natural toward a subject that many choose to ignore, willfully or not....With each age-related topic, Thomas writes candidly and with occasional dark humor, sharing both the good and the bad...." — Kirkus Reviews

The Hidden Life of Dogs

Author : Elizabeth Marshall Thomas
Publisher : HMH
ISBN 13 : 0547504683
Total Pages : 195 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (475 download)

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Download or read book The Hidden Life of Dogs written by Elizabeth Marshall Thomas and published by HMH. This book was released on 2010-09-10 with total page 195 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “A fascinating glimpse into the canine world, possibly deeper and more accurate than any we have had until now” (The New York Times Book Review). Long before the Dog Whisperer, anthropologist Elizabeth Marshall Thomas revealed to readers the nature of pack dynamics, leading to a completely new understanding of dogs, their personalities, and their desires. Based on thirty years of living with and observing dogs, The Hidden Life of Dogs asks one question: What do dogs want? To find out, we must meet the pack. First there is Misha, a husky Thomas followed on her daily rounds of more than 130 square miles. Then there is Maria, who adored Misha, bore his puppies, and clearly mourned when he moved away; the brave pug Bingo and his little wife, Violet; the dingo Viva; and other colorful characters. In observing them, Thomas learned that what dogs want most of all is other dogs. Informative and captivating, The Hidden Life of Dogs will give every canine owner and canine lover great insight into dog behavior. “A wonderful book . . . Too bad dogs can’t read. They’d be fascinated. Dog people will be too.” —USA Today