Описание: In a lyrical mix of natural science, history, and memoir, Melissa L. Sevigny ponders what it means to make a home in the American Southwest at a time when its most essential resource, water, is overexploited and undervalued. She writes a new map for the future of the American Southwest, a vision that accepts the desert`s limits in exchange for an intimate relationship with the natural world.
Автор: Fuller, Claire Название: Bitter Orange ISBN: 0241341825 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780241341827 Издательство: Random House - Penguin Рейтинг: Цена: 1385.00 р. Наличие на складе: Поставка под заказ.
Описание: 'A compulsive page-turner. Fuller creates an atmosphere of simmering menace with all the assurance of a latter-day Daphne du Maurier' The TimesFrom the attic of a dilapidated English country house, she sees them - Cara first: dark and beautiful, clinging to a marble fountain of Cupid, and Peter, an Apollo. It is 1969 and they are spending the summer in the rooms below hers while Frances writes a report on the follies in the garden for the absent American owner.
But she is distracted. Beneath a floorboard in her bathroom, she discovers a peephole which gives her access to her neighbours' private lives. To Frances' surprise, Cara and Peter are keen to spend time with her.
It is the first occasion that she has had anybody to call a friend, and before long they are spending every day together: eating lavish dinners, drinking bottle after bottle of wine, and smoking cigarettes till the ash piles up on the crumbling furniture. Frances is dazzled. But as the hot summer rolls lazily on, it becomes clear that not everything is right between Cara and Peter.
The stories that Cara tells don't quite add up - and as Frances becomes increasingly entangled in the lives of the glamorous, hedonistic couple, the boundaries between truth and lies, right and wrong, begin to blur. Amid the decadence of that summer, a small crime brings on a bigger one: a crime so terrible that it will brand all their lives forever. 'An intoxicating, unsettling masterpiece' Kirkus'Bewitching, otherworldly .
. . full of dark foreboding.
Claire Fuller is a dazzling storyteller' Scotsman'It is rare for me to put down a novel and then immediately consider rereading it to see what cleverness I might have missed. This time, though, I am tempted' Lucy Atkins, Sunday Times
Описание: Tales of intrigue in this book include unusual unsolved crimes, unidentified flying objects, spine-tingling ghost stories, well-documented sea creature sightings, and more. Based on historic accounts from the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, Montana Myths and Legends recounts several myths and mysteries from the Big Sky State's past, verifying some tales from multiple accounts and exposing some stories for what may have really occurred. From a haunted prison in Red Lodge to persistent rumors of bigfoot appearances, from whispered descriptions of the "tommyknockers" who help miners in trouble to a famous union organizer found lynched from a bridge in Butte, this selection of fourteen stories from Montana's past explores some of the Treasure State's most compelling mysteries and debunks some of its most famous myths.
Автор: Holmes MR Lawrence Edward Название: Clearstream Style ISBN: 0615965512 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780615965512 Издательство: Неизвестно Цена: 2923.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Beginning One of the greatest mysteries confronting the United States, Great Britain and the free world is how is terrorism getting funded? One of the most likely theories being discussed is that the money is coming from either hidden Swiss bank accounts and/or Saudi Arabia. The CIA is out to prove that just prior to the beginning of World War Two starting in 1937; the Swiss Banks collaborated with the Third Reich in hiding the gold stolen from the Jews. In 2001, the United States learned that the Swiss had protected an International Bank that handled finances for Osama Bin Laden. One of them, the Bahrain International Bank, had funds transiting through non-published accounts of Clearstream, which has been qualified as a "bank of banks" and was involved in one of Luxembourg's major financial scandals. Middle Ultimately, CIA agent Montana Style is able to prove that the Swiss banks had many secret numbered accounts that contained the stolen "money", taken from the persecuted Jews and is indeed the money being used by Al Qaeda to fund world terrorism. The narrative tells how the United States intelligence agencies and its Allies aggressively attempt to recover and restore gold and other assets stolen by Germany during World War II and hidden by the Swiss Banks for over three generations. End Style is successful in tracking down the Al Qaeda financial support in Germany. Much of that capital has been used to finance worldwide terrorism, including the attack on the World Trade Center, September 11 and funded by the money taken from the Jews in World War II. THE PLOT CIA agent Montana Style investigation documents one of the greatest thefts by a government in history. The illegal confiscation by Nazi Germany of an estimated $580 million of central bank gold around $100 billion in today's values along with indeterminate amounts in other assets during World War II. These goods were stolen from governments and civilians in the countries Germany overran and from Jewish and non-Jewish victims of the Nazis alike, including Jews murdered in extermination camps, from whom everything was taken down to the gold fillings of their teeth. Eventually, Styles is able to show the direct connection between the Swiss banks and terrorism conducted by Al-Qaeda, including the 911 hijacking that led to the death of nearly 3000 Americans.
The story of the twentieth century is largely the story of the power of science and technology. Within that story is the incredible tale of the human conflict between three men-Robert Oppenheimer, Ernest Lawrence, and Edward Teller-the scientists most responsible for the advent of weapons of mass destruction. How did science, enlisted in the service of the state during the Second World War, become a slave to its patron during the Cold War-and scientists with it? The story of these three men, is fundamentally about loyalty-to the country, to science, and to each other-and about the wrenching choices that had to be made when these allegiances came into conflict.
Gregg Herken gives us the behind-the-scenes account based upon a decade of research, interviews, and new documents. Brotherhood of the Bomb is a vital slice of American history told authoritatively-and grippingly-for the first time.
Автор: Fouraker Lawrence Edward, Siegel Sidney Название: Bargaining Behavior ISBN: 125827826X ISBN-13(EAN): 9781258278267 Издательство: Неизвестно Цена: 6612.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Title: Memoir of Edward A. Holyoke, M.D., LL.D.: prepared in compliance with a vote of the Essex South District Medical Society and published at their request.
Author: Abel Lawrence Peirson
Publisher: Gale, Sabin Americana
Description:
Based on Joseph Sabin's famed bibliography, Bibliotheca Americana, Sabin Americana, 1500--1926 contains a collection of books, pamphlets, serials and other works about the Americas, from the time of their discovery to the early 1900s. Sabin Americana is rich in original accounts of discovery and exploration, pioneering and westward expansion, the U.S. Civil War and other military actions, Native Americans, slavery and abolition, religious history and more.
Sabin Americana offers an up-close perspective on life in the western hemisphere, encompassing the arrival of the Europeans on the shores of North America in the late 15th century to the first decades of the 20th century. Covering a span of over 400 years in North, Central and South America as well as the Caribbean, this collection highlights the society, politics, religious beliefs, culture, contemporary opinions and momentous events of the time. It provides access to documents from an assortment of genres, sermons, political tracts, newspapers, books, pamphlets, maps, legislation, literature and more.
Now for the first time, these high-quality digital scans of original works are available via print-on-demand, making them readily accessible to libraries, students, independent scholars, and readers of all ages.
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SourceLibrary: Huntington Library
DocumentID: SABCP00290700
CollectionID: CTRG10168464-B
PublicationDate: 18290101
SourceBibCitation: Selected Americana from Sabin's Dictionary of books relating to America
Notes: Attributed to Abel Lawrence Peirson. Cf. Sabin, v. 14, p. 295.
Collation: 80 p., 2] leaves of plates: ports.; 22 cm
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