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Easthampton: Small Beer Press, 2021. First edition, TPBO, Trade paperback, New,. Wesley Allsbrook. Easthampton: Small Beer Press:, 2021. First edition, TPBO, Trade paperback, New, 338 p… More...

Easthampton: Small Beer Press, 2021. First edition, TPBO, Trade paperback, New,. Wesley Allsbrook. Easthampton: Small Beer Press:, 2021. First edition, TPBO, Trade paperback, New, 338 pp.<br/> Cover artwork by: Wesley Allsbrook "Nineteen sparkling stories that weave between the lands of the living and the lands of the dead. Spirits Abroad is an expanded edition of Zen Cho's Crawford Award winning debut collection with nine added stories including Hugo Award winner 'If at First You Don't Succeed, Try, Try Again.' A teenage pontianak struggles to balance homework, bossy aunties, first love, and eating people. An earth spirit gets entangled in protracted negotiations with an annoying landlord, and Chang E spins off into outer space, the ultimate metaphor for the Chinese diaspora.", Small Beer Press, 2021, 6, Baton Rogue. 1991. Louisiana State University Press. 1st Printing. very Good in Dustjacket. 0807116114. 110 pages. hardcover. FROM THE PUBLISHER - In these eleven sharply realized stories, Stephen Hathaway skillfully weaves a tapestry that has the Viet Nam conflict at its center, memories of earlier wars at its left fringe, and postwar trauma at the other. Hathaway writes with unflinching honesty and clarity about soldiers caught up in a conflict they cannot comprehend. In the title story a young man contrasts his own military experience with that of his father, who proudly served in World War II. In ‘The Colonial,' an unnamed interrogator becomes something he despises when he is obliged to shoot a Vietnamese garbage collector trying to kill him. Simmons, the protagonist of ‘Freedom Bird,' is given the news that his father has been killed in a freeway accident and must confront the bitter irony that his father's death will insure his transfer out of Viet Nam. A central character in many of the stories is Timothy Grote, a college graduate and former Peace Corps volunteer who has been trained by the Army to be a translator. Older and better-educated than many of his fellow soldiers, he is in a unique position to observe what is happening around him. ‘Welcome to the Hothouse' features Grote on his arrival in Viet Nam, nervous and tense as he tries to calculate his chances of surviving the ordeal ahead of him. Other stories focus on Grote as he attempts to adjust to postwar life. He has a soldier's nightmares, and his drinking, haunted memories, and general estrangement from society fracture his marriage. Only with the passage of time is he able to come to terms with his seemingly meaningless war experience and to heal his lingering mental wounds. Collectively, the stories in A KIND OF REDEMPTION represent a metaphorical tour of duty that readers will not soon forget. inventory #24310 ISBN: 0807116114., 0, St. Martin's Griffin, 2000. 1st Edition . Soft cover. As New/Fine. 28-19-3. Very Good Condition No Highlighting Or Writing. For More Information On Condition. Please See All Photos Winner Of The National Book Critics Circle Award The Hairstons Is The Extraordinary Story Of The Largest Family In America, The Hairston Clan. With Several Thousand Black And White Members, The Hairstons Share A Complex And Compelling History: Divided In The Time Of Slavery, They Have Come To Embrace Their Past As One Family. The Black Family's Story Is Most Exceptional. It Is The Account Of The Rise Of A Remarkable People-The Children, Grandchildren, And Great-Grandchildren Of Slaves-Who Took Their Rightful Place In Mainstream America. In Contrast, It Has Been The Fate Of The White Family-Once One Of The Wealthiest In America-To Endure The Decline And Fall Of The Old South, And To Become An Apparent Metaphor For That Demise. But The Family's Fall From Grace Is Only Part Of The Tale. Beneath The Surface Lay A Hidden History-The History Of Slavery's Curse And How That Curse Plagued Slaveholders For Generations. For The Past Seven Years, Journalist Wiencek Has Listened Raptly To The Tales Of Hundreds Of Hairston Relatives, Including The Aging Scions Of Both The White And Black Clans. He Has Crisscrossed The Old Plantation Country In Virginia, North Carolina, And Mississippi To Seek Out The Descendants Of Slaves. Visiting Family Reunions, Interviewing Family Members, And Exploring Old Plantations, Wiencek Combs The Far-Reaching Branches Of The Hairston Family Tree To Gather Anecdotes From Members About Their Ancestors And Piece Together A Family History That Involves The Experiences Of Both Plantation Owners And Their Slaves. He Expertly Weaves The Hairstons' Stories From All Sides Of Historical Events Like Slave Emancipation, Reconstruction, School Segregation, And Lynching. Paradoxically, Wiencek Demonstrates That These Families Found That The Way To Come To Terms With The Past Was To Embrace It, And This Lyrical Work, A Parable Of Redemption, May In The End Serve As A Vital Contribution To Our Nation's Attempt To Undo The Twisted Historical Legacy Of The Past., St. Martin's Griffin, 2000, 5, New York: Viking, 2005. First edition, fourth printing. Hardcover. Extremely light edgewear to DJ protected in archival mylar sleeve, extremely little wear to spine head & foot, barely rubbed corners, else near fine(-) in near fine(+) DJ.. Large octavo in grey DJ; xi, 575 p, [24] p of b&w plates & maps ; 25 cm. "In his Pulitzer Prize-winning bestseller Guns, Germs, and Steel, Jared Diamond examined how and why Western civilizations developed the technologies and immunities that allowed them to dominate much of the world. Now, Diamond probes the other side of the equation: What caused some of the great civilizations of the past to collapse into ruin, and what can we learn from their fates?" "As in Guns, Germs, and Steel, Diamond weaves an all-encompassing global thesis through a series of historical-cultural narratives. Moving from the prehistoric Polynesian culture on Easter Island to the formerly flourishing Native American civilizations of the Anasazi and the Maya, the doomed medieval Viking colony on Greenland, and finally to the modern world, Diamond traces a fundamental pattern of catastrophe, spelling out what happens when we squander our resources, when we ignore the signals our environment gives us, and when we reproduce too fast or cut down too many trees. Environmental damage, climate change, rapid population growth, unstable trade partners, and pressure from enemies were all factors in the demise of the doomed societies, but other societies found solutions to those same problems and persisted."--Jacket. || Contents: Prologue : a tale of two farms -- Two farms -- Collapses, past and present -- Vanished Edens? -- A five-point framework -- Businesses and the environment -- The comparative method -- Plan of the book -- pt. 1. Modern Montana -- 1. Under Montana's big sky -- Stan Falkow's story -- Montana and me -- Why begin with Montana? -- Montana's economic history -- Mining -- Forests -- Soil -- Water -- Native and non-native species -- Differing visions -- Attitudes towards regulation -- Rick Laible's story -- Chip Pigman's story -- Tim Huls's story -- John Cook's story -- Montana, model of the world.; pt. 2. Past societies -- 2. Twilight at Easter -- The quarry's mysteries -- Easter's geography and history -- People and food -- Chiefs, clans, and commoners -- Platforms and statues -- Carving, transporting, erecting -- The vanished forest -- Consequences for society -- Europeans and explanations -- Why was Easter fragile? -- Easter as metaphor -- 3. The last people alive : Pitcairn and Henderson Islands -- Pitcairn before the Bounty -- Three dissimilar islands -- Trade -- The movie's ending -- 4. The ancient ones : the Anasazi and their neighbors -- Desert farmers -- Tree rings -- Agricultural strategies -- Chaco's problems and packrats -- Regional integration -- Chaco's decline and end -- Chaco's message -- 5. The Maya collapses -- Mysteries of lost cities -- The Maya environment -- Maya agriculture -- Maya history -- Copán -- Complexities of collapses -- Wars and droughts -- Collapse in the southern lowlands -- The Maya message -- 6. The Viking prelude and fugues -- Experiments in the Atlantic -- The Viking explosion -- Autocatalysis -- Viking agriculture -- Iron -- Viking chiefs -- Viking religion -- Orkneys, Shetlands, Faeroes -- Iceland's environment -- Iceland's history -- Iceland in context -- Vinland -- 7. Norse Greenland's flowering -- Europe's outpost -- Greenland's climate today -- Climate in the past -- Native plants and animals -- Norse settlement -- Farming -- Hunting and fishing -- An integrated economy -- Society -- Trade with Europe -- Self-image -- 8. Norse Greenland's end -- Introduction to the end -- Deforestation -- Soil and turf damage -- The Inuit's predecessors -- Inuit subsistence -- Inuit/Norse relations -- The end -- Ultimate causes of the end -- 9. Opposite paths to success -- Bottom up, top down -- New Guinea highlands -- Tikopia -- Tokugawa problems -- Tokugawa solutions -- Why Japan succeeded -- Other successes.; pt. 3. Modern societies -- 10. Malthus in Africa : Rwanda's genocide -- A dilemma -- Events in Rwanda -- More than ethnic hatred -- Buildup in Kanama -- Explosion in Kanama -- Why it happened -- 11. One island, two peoples, two histories : the Dominican Republic and Haiti -- Differences -- Histories -- Causes of divergence -- Dominican environmental impacts -- Balaguer -- The Dominican environment today -- The future -- 12. China, lurching giant -- China's significance -- Background -- Air, water, soil -- Habitat, species, megaprojects -- Consequences -- Connections -- The future -- 13. "Mining" Australia -- Australia's significance -- Soils -- Water -- Distance -- Early history -- Imported values -- Trade and immigration -- Land degradation -- Other environmental problems -- Signs of hope and change.; pt. 4. Practical lessons -- 14. Why do some societies make disastrous decisions? -- Road map for success -- Failure to anticipate -- Failure to perceive -- Rational bad behavior -- Disastrous values -- Other irrational failures -- Unsuccessful solutions -- Signs of hope -- 15. Big businesses and the environment : different conditions, different outcomes -- Resource extraction -- Two oil fields -- Oil company motives -- Hardrock mining operations -- Mining company motives -- Differences among mining companies -- The logging industry -- Forest Stewardship Council -- The seafood industry -- Businesses and the public -- 16. The world as a polder : what does it all mean to us today? -- Introduction -- The most serious problems -- If we don't solve them ... -- Life in Los Angeles -- One-liner objections -- The past and the present -- Reasons for hope. || Social history; Environmental policy., Viking, 2005, 0, Paperback / softback. New. By weaving practical insights and exercises through a rich tapestry of multicultural myths, ancient legends, and folktales, Johnston explores the themes of empowerment and self-discovery that help women overcome food obsessions., 6<

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Paperback. New. Santina uses the natural world relationship between a ladybug and a parasitic wasp to weave biological processes into a children's literary tale about survival, love … More...

Paperback. New. Santina uses the natural world relationship between a ladybug and a parasitic wasp to weave biological processes into a children's literary tale about survival, love and life's meaning. Rich with metaphor, the story brings Santina and the reader to gain perspective from the viewpoint itself in a discovery called life's kaleidoscope., 6, A tight and unmarked copy-" A deeply heartfelt weave of reflections and poems about what it means to live the creative, expressive life."I cherish the wisdom and embrace the practices offered in this luminous book." -Mirabai Starr, author of Caravan of No Despair and Wild Mercy"Meaningful art, enduring art-and the transformative process it awakens-keeps us alive," writes Mark Nepo. With Drinking from the River of Light, this bestselling poet and philosopher will lead you on a journey to discover just how art and authentic expression can bring our deepest truths to bear in the world. This collection of interconnected essays and poetry-covering subjects ranging from the importance of staying in conversation with other forms of life to a consideration of how innovators such as Matisse, Rodin, and Beethoven saw the world-Nepo presents a lyrical ode to the creative urge that stirs in each of us. Whether it's the search for a metaphor to reveal life's beauty or the brushstroke that will thoroughly capture the moment, Drinking from the River of Light examines what it means to go ". . . beyond the boundaries of art, where the viewer and participant are one."Here you will discover:* The importance of openly embracing the full scope of your emotions* The need for raw honesty and self-exploration in education* Why a new perspective always waits only a "quarter turn" away* The importance of staying in constant conversation with other creative voices* The crucial difference between giving and getting attention* Concrete guidelines for respectful peer review* What it means to channel the sound of your innermost being-and the universe. In Nepo's words, "This book is meant to be experienced and journeyed with." Including dozens of journaling prompts and personal exercises meant to enliven the reader's creative instincts, Drinking from the River of Light traces the search for our most essential selves and the importance of the life of expression to bear witness to the sorrow, depth, and joy of life."-Minor edge wear-one page dog eared., Sounds True, 2019, 2.5, London England: Hutchinson, 2004. Hardback. First Edition. Eleventh Month, Eleventh Day, Eleventh Hour. This is the story of the day on which World War I, the war to end all wars, ended. Although general knew that fighting would end precisely at 11:00 a.m., many officers saw a last opportunity for glory and advancement, while others merely wanted to kill as many Germans as possible. So superiors ordered their men to engage an already beaten enemy, resul;ting in eleven thousand casualties - more than during the D-Day invasion of Normandy. Using military archives and public records, along with journals and diaries, the author weaves together the eleventh hour experiences of the famous, such as Lloyd George, President Woodrow Wilson, Field Marshall Haig and General Pershing. But more dominately, he reveals the lives of the ordinary men in the trenches, unsung and unremembered, the British Tommies, French Poilus, American Doughboys and German Feldgrau. Where, for example, the Austrian corporal, Adolf Hitler, on that day? The author's study is as broad in scope as the twentieth century itself and as intimate as a man confronting his death on the very eve of peace. The pointless fighting on the last day of war is the perfect metaphor for the four years of senseless slaughter that preceded it. This book is sure to become the definitive history of the end of a conflict Winston Churchill called 'the hardest, cruellest, and least-reward of all the wars that have been fought'. Illustrated. 456 pp. (We carry a wide selection of titles in The Arts, Theology, History, Politics, Social and Physical Sciences. academic and scholarly books and Modern First Editions, Reference books ,and all types of Academic Literature.). First Edition. Cloth. Fine/Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" Tall Octavo. Hardcover., Hutchinson, 2004, 4.5, ISBN: 9781844676460Verso Books | 04 Sep 2012Hardback | 376 pagesDescriptionOpening in 2006 after ten years in the making, British Petroleum's $4 billion pipeline, running from the Caspian Sea to the Mediterranean, has become an icon of globalization. Over a thousand miles long, it weaves a route around the Russian and Iranian borders, transporting oil and gas to hungry Western markets. Bringing to bear a wealth of expertise on their subject, the authors look at the reality behind the pipeline's gleaming facade. Traveling along its route, they trace the shadowy forces and institutions behind it, meeting whistleblowers, security forces, local villagers and fishermen; in doing so, they expose a story of cracked coatings, new arms races and displaced local communities. They explore, too, the wider forces the pipeline represents, from state repression, investment banking and energy security, to environmental degradation and social movements. A compelling travelogue, The Oil Road explores the hidden history of an iconic project that is also a metaphor for our age., 0, Toronto: Abbeyfield Publishers, 1997. Book. Fine. Paperback. Clean unmarked copy. Secure boxed packaging! "From Cynwyd Castle resonates with a richness and power which one might expect from a self-proclaimed "Exalted Castle Keep and Poet Emeritus". The poems range from word paintings of the Great Canadian Landscape to contemplations of the illusive mysteries of outer space and human existence. Metaphors and allegories weave magical mind images, sharing space with blunt expressions of the author's reaction to tragedies of street kids and Canadian politics. A rollicking weird sense of humour surfaces in some poems, buth there are also deeply moving memories of heart-wrenching experiences which will be familiar to many. The collection includes the 1996 Scarborough Arts Council Poetry Contest Grand Award winning "Morning Serentiy". c1., Abbeyfield Publishers, 1997, 5, Anchor, 2018. Trade Paperback. A new copy. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award, this #1 New York Times bestseller chronicles a young slave's adventures as she makes a desperate bid for freedom in the antebellum South. The basis for the acclaimed original Amazon Prime Video series directed by Barry Jenkins. Cora is a slave on a cotton plantation in Georgia. An outcast even among her fellow Africans, she is on the cusp of womanhood--where greater pain awaits. And so when Caesar, a slave who has recently arrived from Virginia, urges her to join him on the Underground Railroad, she seizes the opportunity and escapes with him. In Colson Whitehead's ingenious conception, the Underground Railroad is no mere metaphor: engineers and conductors operate a secret network of actual tracks and tunnels beneath the Southern soil. Cora embarks on a harrowing flight from one state to the next, encountering, like Gulliver, strange yet familiar iterations of her own world at each stop. As Whitehead brilliantly re-creates the terrors of the antebellum era, he weaves in the saga of our nation, from the brutal abduction of Africans to the unfulfilled promises of the present day. The Underground Railroad is both the gripping tale of one woman's will to escape the horrors of bondage--and a powerful meditation on the history we all share. Look for Colson Whitehead's bestselling new novel, Harlem Shuffle!, Anchor, 2018, 0, Paperback / softback. New. By weaving practical insights and exercises through a rich tapestry of multicultural myths, ancient legends, and folktales, Johnston explores the themes of empowerment and self-discovery that help women overcome food obsessions., 6<

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