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Author | : Elizabeth Marshall Thomas |
Publisher | : Vintage |
Total Pages | : 336 |
Release | : 2010-11-24 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 0307772950 |
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“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
Author | : Elizabeth Marshall Thomas |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 266 |
Release | : 1965 |
Genre | : Kalahari Desert |
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Author | : Dana Reinhardt |
Publisher | : Wendy Lamb Books |
Total Pages | : 242 |
Release | : 2008-12-18 |
Genre | : Young Adult Fiction |
ISBN | : 0307485846 |
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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.
Author | : Elizabeth Marshall Thomas |
Publisher | : Macmillan |
Total Pages | : 370 |
Release | : 2006 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9780374225520 |
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Author | : Rowan Hisayo Buchanan |
Publisher | : W. W. Norton & Company |
Total Pages | : 256 |
Release | : 2017-02-28 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1324000759 |
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“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.
Author | : Brooke Bolander |
Publisher | : Macmillan |
Total Pages | : 64 |
Release | : 2018-01-23 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 125016947X |
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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.
Author | : Elizabeth Marshall Thomas |
Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | : 294 |
Release | : 2001-06 |
Genre | : Pets |
ISBN | : 0743426894 |
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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.
Author | : Pete Minard |
Publisher | : UNC Press Books |
Total Pages | : 209 |
Release | : 2019-04-22 |
Genre | : Nature |
ISBN | : 1469651629 |
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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.
Author | : Eoin Colfer |
Publisher | : Hachette Books |
Total Pages | : 364 |
Release | : 2009-10-12 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1401394809 |
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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...
Author | : Saint Augustine (of Hippo) |
Publisher | : CUA Press |
Total Pages | : 543 |
Release | : 2010 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 0813217431 |
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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