Desert Cut
Desert Cut

Author: Betty Webb

Publisher: Sourcebooks, Inc.

Published: 2012-08-31

Total Pages: 290

ISBN-13: 1615952217

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While scouting locations for a film documentary on Arizona's Apache Wars, private investigator Lena Jones and Oscar-winning director Warren Quinn discover the mutilated body of a young girl. The gruesome manner of the child's death evokes memories of Lena's own rough childhood. Defying the local law, Lena investigates the child's death and uncovers a small town with a big secret. Founded by the descendants of pioneers who fought Geronimo, Los Perdidos now holds a significant population of documented and undocumented foreign-born residents who live and work at a modern plant. Lena senses a sinister force at work in the town - but where? When two more girls disappear from Los Perdidos, Lena is tempted to implement some frontier justice of her own to battle a cruel and ancient practice.

Desert Oracle
Desert Oracle

Author: Ken Layne

Publisher: MCD

Published: 2020-12-08

Total Pages: 193

ISBN-13: 0374722382

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The cult-y pocket-size field guide to the strange and intriguing secrets of the Mojave—its myths and legends, outcasts and oddballs, flora, fauna, and UFOs—becomes the definitive, oracular book of the desert For the past five years, Desert Oracle has existed as a quasi-mythical, quarterly periodical available to the very determined only by subscription or at the odd desert-town gas station or the occasional hipster boutique, its canary-yellow-covered, forty-four-page issues handed from one curious desert zealot to the next, word spreading faster than the printers could keep up with. It became a radio show, a podcast, a live performance. Now, for the first time—and including both classic and new, never-before-seen revelations—Desert Oracle has been bound between two hard covers and is available to you. Straight out of Joshua Tree, California, Desert Oracle is “The Voice of the Desert”: a field guide to the strange tales, singing sand dunes, sagebrush trails, artists and aliens, authors and oddballs, ghost towns and modern legends, musicians and mystics, scorpions and saguaros, out there in the sand. Desert Oracle is your companion at a roadside diner, around a campfire, in your tent or cabin (or high-rise apartment or suburban living room) as the wind and the coyotes howl outside at night. From journal entries of long-deceased adventurers to stray railroad ad copy, and musings on everything from desert flora, rumored cryptid sightings, and other paranormal phenomena, Ken Layne's Desert Oracle collects the weird and the wonderful of the American Southwest into a single, essential volume.

The Desert Fayum Reinvestigated
The Desert Fayum Reinvestigated

Author: Simon J. Holdaway

Publisher: Cotsen Institute of Archaeology Press

Published: 2017-12-31

Total Pages: 286

ISBN-13: 1938770501

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The Neolithic is thought to have arrived in Egypt via diffusion from an origin in southwest Asia, relatively late compared to neighboring locations. The authors suggest an alternative approach to understanding the development of food production in Egypt based on the results of new fieldwork in the Fayum. They provide the results of a detailed study of the Fayum archaeological landscape interpretable at different temporal and spatial scales, using an expanded version of low-level food production to organize observations concerning paleoenvironment, socioeconomy, settlement, and mobility. While domestic plants and animals were indeed introduced from elsewhere, when a number of aspects of the archaeological record are compared, a settlement system is suggested that has no obvious analogues with the Neolithic in southwest Asia. The results obtained from the Fayum are used to assess other contemporary sites in Egypt.

Desert Passages
Desert Passages

Author: Patricia Nelson Limerick

Publisher: UNM Press

Published: 1985

Total Pages: 228

ISBN-13: 9780826308085

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Traces the development of American attitudes toward the desert using case studies from many writers over the years.

Other Worlds Than These
Other Worlds Than These

Author: John Joseph Adams

Publisher: Start Publishing LLC

Published: 2012-07-01

Total Pages: 529

ISBN-13: 1597804347

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What if you could not only travel any location in the world, but to any possible world? We can all imagine such “other worlds”--be they worlds just slightly different than our own or worlds full of magic and wonder--but it is only in fiction that we can travel to them. From The Wizard of Oz to The Dark Tower, from Philip Pullman's The Golden Compass to C. S. Lewis's The Chronicles of Narnia, there is a rich tradition of this kind of fiction, but never before have the best parallel world stories and portal fantasies been collected in a single volume--until now.

Signs of Song
Signs of Song

Author: Janet Sethre

Publisher: Strategic Book Publishing & Rights Agency

Published: 2020-03-29

Total Pages: 258

ISBN-13: 1952269148

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Born around 1,000 years ago, most probably in Tuscany, Guido d’Arezzo is remembered as the father of modern musical notation. His musical contributions surpassed all former methods of writing music, which did not represent the exact notes to be sung or played. He developed a linear system of musical notation capable of indicating pitch with absolute precision. His innovations accompanied a cultural crisis fundamental to the growth of Western music. While still a boy, Guido entered the Benedictine monastery at Pomposa, on the Adriatic coast. He probably died in the hermitage of Fonte Avellana in about 1050. This book envisions his life in relation to ancient musical history, to plainchant, and to the glories and conflicts of medieval monasticism. In writing of Guido, the author reveals her love for Italy and her fascination with Gregorian chant and Catholic traditions. She says, “Few documents remain concerning Guido’s life. I had to create a framework around his existence, considering ancient musical traditions, plainchant, medieval monasticism, the Italian countryside, and the revolutionary importance of clear notation.”

Report
Report

Author: United States. Congress Senate

Publisher:

Published:

Total Pages: 2732

ISBN-13:

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Power
Power

Author: W.J.L. Mason

Publisher: Booktango

Published: 2015-08-06

Total Pages: 285

ISBN-13: 146896352X

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Retired Pastor W.J.L. Mason brings us a fast paced high adventure story about Rev. Ty Jackson and his wife Diana who have been lovingly forced by their congregation to take a vacation on a small yacht. Two days pass and the greatest earthquake and tidal wave the world has ever known hits the entire earth killing billions of people. Little do they know God has chosen them to be left behind from the rapture!. They end up on a treasure hunt, rescuing the Aztec Nation, saving the US from a terrible Dictator, and fighting the Anti-Christ. Along with their friends Roy and Rosa whom they also rescued along the way they end up the oldest four people the world has ever seen. Be prepared for fast action and good humor as we follow our four Ancient Ones as they streak across history!