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Author | : David G. Campbell |
Publisher | : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt |
Total Pages | : 284 |
Release | : 2014-06-10 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 0547523432 |
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The biologist and award-winning author journeys deep inside the Amazon rainforest in this eloquent and insightful look at one of earth’s last wild places. For thirty years, biologist David G. Campbell has been exploring the lush wilderness, of the western Amazon, which contains more species than ever existed anywhere on our planet. In A Land of Ghosts, Campbell takes readers on his latest venture. In Cruzeiro do Sul, 2,800 miles from the mouth of the Amazon, Campbell collects three old friends: Arito, a caiman hunter turned paleontologist; Tarzan, a street urchin brought up in a bordello; and Pimentel, a master canoe pilot. Heading further into the rainforest, they survey every living woody plant they can find. The land is so rich that an area of less than fifty acres contains three times as many tree species as all of North America. Campbell knows the trees individually, and he knows the wildlife and the people as well: the recently arrived colonists with their failing farms; the Caboclos, masters of hunting, fishing, and survival; and the refugee Native Americans. These people live in a land whose original inhabitants were wiped out by centuries of disease, slavery, and genocide, taking their traditions and languages with them: a land of ghosts.
Author | : Gillian Bradshaw |
Publisher | : Farrar, Straus, and Giroux |
Total Pages | : 385 |
Release | : 1999-05-15 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 0312870752 |
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The Roman Empire sends a barbarian warrior to faraway Britain in this historical novel of love and survival in the ancient world. A Sarmatian warrior-prince, Ariantes is uprooted from his home and thrust into the honorless lands of the Romans. The victims of a wartime pact with the emperor Marcus Aurelius, Ariantes and his troop are sent to watch over Hadrian’s Wall. Unsurprisingly, the Sarmatians hate Britain—an Island of Ghosts, filled with pale faces, stone walls, and an uneasy past. Struggling to command his own people to defend a land they despise, Ariantes is accepted by all, but trusted by none. The Romans fear his barbarian background, and his own men fear his gradual Roman assimilation. When Ariantes uncovers a conspiracy sure to damage both his Roman benefactors and his beloved countrymen, as well as put him and the woman he loves in grave danger, he must make a difficult decision—one that will change his own life forever.
Author | : Tina Rosenberg |
Publisher | : Vintage |
Total Pages | : 465 |
Release | : 2010-11-24 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0307773582 |
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The Pulitzer Prize-winning look at the collapse of Communism in Eastern Europe
Author | : Monica Black |
Publisher | : Metropolitan Books |
Total Pages | : 203 |
Release | : 2020-11-17 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1250225663 |
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“A Demon-Haunted Land is absorbing, gripping, and utterly fascinating... Beautifully written, without even a hint of jargon or pretension, it casts a significant and unexpected new light on the early phase of the Federal Republic of Germany’s history. Black’s analysis of the copious, largely unknown archival sources on which the book is based is unfailingly subtle and intelligent.” —Richard J. Evans, The New Republic In the aftermath of World War II, a succession of mass supernatural events swept through war-torn Germany. A messianic faith healer rose to extraordinary fame, prayer groups performed exorcisms, and enormous crowds traveled to witness apparitions of the Virgin Mary. Most strikingly, scores of people accused their neighbors of witchcraft, and found themselves in turn hauled into court on charges of defamation, assault, and even murder. What linked these events, in the wake of an annihilationist war and the Holocaust, was a widespread preoccupation with evil. While many histories emphasize Germany’s rapid transition from genocidal dictatorship to liberal democracy, A Demon-Haunted Land places in full view the toxic mistrust, profound bitterness, and spiritual malaise that unfolded alongside the economic miracle. Drawing on previously unpublished archival materials, acclaimed historian Monica Black argues that the surge of supernatural obsessions stemmed from the unspoken guilt and shame of a nation remarkably silent about what was euphemistically called “the most recent past.” This shadow history irrevocably changes our view of postwar Germany, revealing the country’s fraught emotional life, deep moral disquiet, and the cost of trying to bury a horrific legacy.
Author | : E.V. Seymour |
Publisher | : HarperCollins Australia |
Total Pages | : 277 |
Release | : 2014-08-01 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1743697406 |
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Outnumbered. Outgunned. And running out of time. Meet Paul Tallis – a spy for the 21st Century Fearing an undercover agent working in Chechnya has gone rogue, MI6 look to off-thspook Paul Tallis for help. Tallis is ready for the challenge – then he learns the missing operative is his old school friend, Graham Darke. With intelligence confirming a threat to assassinate the Russian prime minister, Tallis must infiltrate a rebel movement and reach Darke before Anglo-Russian relations are permanently destroyed. But confronted with the reality of the Chechen struggle, Tallis faces an impossible moral choice: bring in Darke and prevent an international crisis, or protect a man fighting for the forgotten innocents. For fans of ROBERT LUDLUM, GERALD SEYMOUR and JOHN LE CARRÉ, this is a must read.
Author | : David G. Campbell |
Publisher | : Rutgers University Press |
Total Pages | : 294 |
Release | : 2007 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780813540528 |
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With great narrative, Campbell takes readers with him as he travels 1,200 miles up the Amazon, turns left up the Rio Jurua, and continues for another 28 days to the town of Cruzeiro do Sul where he collects three friends and continues further into the rainforest.
Author | : Colin Dickey |
Publisher | : Penguin |
Total Pages | : 338 |
Release | : 2016 |
Genre | : Ghosts |
ISBN | : 1101980192 |
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An intellectual feast for fans of offbeat history, Ghostland takes readers on a road trip through some of the country's most infamously haunted places--and deep into the dark side of our history.
Author | : Pascal Khoo Thwe |
Publisher | : Harper Perennial |
Total Pages | : 336 |
Release | : 2003-12-02 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9780060505233 |
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In 1988, Dr. John Casey, a professor visiting Burma, meets a waiter in Mandalay with a passion for the works of James Joyce, and the encounter changes both their lives. Pascal, a member of the Kayan Padaung tribe, was the first member of his community to study English at a university. Within months of his meeting with Dr. Casey, Pascal's world lay in ruins. Burma's military dictatorship forces him to sacrifice his studies, and the regime's brutal armed forces murder his lover. Fleeing to the jungle, he becomes a guerrilla fighter in the life-or-death struggle against the government. In desperation, he writes a letter to the Englishman he met in Mandalay. Miraculously reaching its destination, the letter leads to Pascal's rescue and his enrollment in Cambridge University, where he is the first Burmese tribesman ever to attend. From the Land of Green Ghosts unforgettably evokes the realities of life in modern-day Burma and one man's long journey to freedom despite almost unimaginable odds.
Author | : Gabor Maté, MD |
Publisher | : North Atlantic Books |
Total Pages | : 522 |
Release | : 2011-06-28 |
Genre | : Self-Help |
ISBN | : 1583944206 |
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A “thought-provoking and powerful” study that reframes everything you’ve been taught about addiction and recovery—from the New York Times–bestselling author of The Myth of Normal (Bruce Perry, author of The Boy Who Was Raised as a Dog). A world-renowned trauma expert combines real-life stories with cutting-edge research to offer a holistic approach to understanding addiction—its origins, its place in society, and the importance of self-compassion in recovery. Based on Gabor Maté’s two decades of experience as a medical doctor and his groundbreaking work with people with addiction on Vancouver’s skid row, this #1 international bestseller radically re-envisions a much misunderstood condition by taking a compassionate approach to substance abuse and addiction recovery. In the same vein as Bessel van der Kolk’s The Body Keeps the Score, In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts traces the root causes of addiction to childhood trauma and examines the pervasiveness of addiction in society. Dr. Maté presents addiction not as a discrete phenomenon confined to an unfortunate or weak-willed few, but as a continuum that runs throughout—and perhaps underpins—our society. It is not a medical “condition” distinct from the lives it affects but rather the result of a complex interplay among personal history, emotional and neurological development, brain chemistry, and the drugs and behaviors of addiction. Simplifying a wide array of brain and addiction research findings from around the globe, the book avoids glib self-help remedies, instead promoting a thorough and compassionate self-understanding as the first key to healing and wellness. Dr. Maté argues persuasively against contemporary health, social, and criminal justice policies toward addiction and how they perpetuate the War on Drugs. The mix of personal stories—including the author’s candid discussion of his own “high-status” addictive tendencies—and science with positive solutions makes the book equally useful for lay readers and professionals.
Author | : Margaret Ronan |
Publisher | : Scholastic |
Total Pages | : 100 |
Release | : 1980 |
Genre | : Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | : 9780590306225 |
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Do you believe in ghosts? "Dynamite," today's most popular kids' magazine has dug up these true stories about unexplained happenings. Includes a guide to haunted houses you can visit.