Thirteen Years of Hell in Paradise
Thirteen Years of Hell in Paradise

Author: Rupert Pegram

Publisher: Trafford Publishing

Published: 2010-11

Total Pages: 463

ISBN-13: 1426944535

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After leading a regional office in Africa that studied ticks and tick-borne diseases, Rupert Pegram received a call in 1994 that changed his life. His higher ups wanted him to lead a new program in the Caribbean. The Caribbean Amblyomma Program, known as the CAP, sought to eliminate the Amblyomma tick from the Caribbean region. The stakes were high because ticks transmit terrible diseases. Today, the tropical pest introduced from Africa threatens to invade large areas of the south and central parts of North America. By learning about the progress, setbacks, political and financial constraints, and final heartbreak of failure in the Caribbean, the rest of world can discover how to fight the growing problem. Learn why the CAP program failed and how the Caribbean farmers who were let down by the program suffered. This history and analysis conveys the need to re-establish vigorous research to eradicate tick-borne illnesses. Ticks are invading the larger world, and there are serious implications. They found much of their strength during Thirteen Years of Hell in Paradise.

The Thirteenth Year
The Thirteenth Year

Author: S.T. Nchindo

Publisher: Strategic Book Publishing & Rights Agency

Published: 2016-12-22

Total Pages: 240

ISBN-13: 1625168276

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A novel that revolves around a Christian family, The Thirteenth Year tells the story of identical twins who lost both their parents when they were thirteen years old. The two leave their village for town, where they go to live with their uncle. Theirs was not a smooth road, as their aunt mistreated one of the twins. Despite all their difficulties, the twins excelled in school and reached a high status. Their story tells of the domestic challenges they experienced on a daily basis, as well as the love, education, faith, and crime that were part of their lives. This compelling tale is a learning tool that was written to be used in schools to teach English as a second language.

Paradise Alley
Paradise Alley

Author: Kevin Baker

Publisher: Harper Collins

Published: 2009-03-17

Total Pages: 708

ISBN-13: 0061748986

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They came by boat from a starving land—and by the Underground Railroad from Southern chains—seeking refuge in a crowded, filthy corner of hell at the bottom of a great metropolis. But in the terrible July of 1863, the poor and desperate of Paradise Alley would face a new catastrophe—as flames from the war that was tearing America in two reached out to set their city on fire.

The Catalpa Bow
The Catalpa Bow

Author: Carmen Blacker

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2004-08-02

Total Pages: 399

ISBN-13: 1135318735

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This classic work describes shamanic figures surviving in Japan today, their initiatory dreams, ascetic practices, the supernatural beings with whom they communicate, and the geography of the other world in myth and legend.

Indomitable Spirit: Life in the Shadow of Death
Indomitable Spirit: Life in the Shadow of Death

Author: Ziad Nassar

Publisher: Lulu.com

Published: 2020-01-25

Total Pages: 406

ISBN-13: 0578229951

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An INDOMITABLE SPIRIT: LIFE IN THE SHADOW OF DEATH, is a story about youth of Lebanon who came to age during the war and refused to allow it to subdue them. They resisted the evils of war and defied the death machine destroying the country around them, sustaining their humanity and maintaining their civility in spite of it all. They braved the most dangerous of conditions to find the joys of life in the shadow of death surrounding them. They threw parties in the face of raging battles and danced against all odds. The lived to make beautiful memories that they now look back on with a strange sense of nostalgia. They overcame the evil that befell them in their youth and went on to succeed in all walks of life. This is a story of the resilience and strength of the human spirit. The Indomitable Spirit.

The Steps of Man Towards Civilization
The Steps of Man Towards Civilization

Author: Georg Oesterdiekhoff

Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand

Published: 2011

Total Pages: 238

ISBN-13: 3842342888

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This book delivers an introduction to the theory programme called structure-genetic sociology. I developed this theory programme in the past 30 years. In the meantime, I have written ten books and numerous articles about the subject. The programme mainly bases on developmental psychology and has worked it out to a theory of the evolution of humankind. It encompasses a theory of social change and social evolution, a theory of the development of economy, society, culture, sciences, religion, morals, law, and manners. The fact of the anthropological evolution of humankind from lower, childlike anthropological stages to more elaborated stages is the most groundbreaking and fascinating fact in all social sciences and humanities. It is the only phenomenon within humanities and social sciences whose relevance and importance corresponds to the fact of biological evolution provided by Darwin ́s evolutionary theory. This fact forms the kernel of the entire theory programme. Structure-genetic sociology is the theoretical heir of the outstanding classical approaches such as the classical sociologies, the classical British anthropology, the ethnology of Lucien Lévy-Bruhl, the developmental psychology of Jean Piaget, and the philosophy of symbolic forms of Ernst Cassirer. We can understand these classical achievements only against the background of the more elaborated empirical foundations and theoretical structures of my structure-genetic sociology. It helps to verify, to correct, to develop, and to improve the best traditions of social sciences and humanities. Structure-genetic sociology formulates the essence of three hundred years of social sciences and humanities.

Strange Piece of Paradise
Strange Piece of Paradise

Author: Terri Jentz

Publisher: Macmillan + ORM

Published: 2007-03-20

Total Pages: 566

ISBN-13: 142998807X

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In the summer of 1977, Terri Jentz and her Yale roommate, Shayna Weiss, make a cross-country bike trip. They pitch a tent in the desert of central Oregon. As they are sleeping, a man in a pickup truck deliberately runs over the tent. He then attacks them with an ax. The horrific crime is reported in newspapers across the country. No one is ever arrested. Both women survive, but Shayna suffers from amnesia, while Terri is left alone with memories of the attack. Their friendship is shattered. Fifteen years later, Terri returns to the small town where she was nearly murdered, on the first of many visits she will make "to solve the crime that would solve me." And she makes an extraordinary discovery: the violence of that night is as present for the community as it is for her. Slowly, her extensive interviews with the townspeople yield a terrifying revelation: many say they know who did it, and he is living freely in their midst. Terri then sets out to discover the truth about the crime and its aftermath, and to come to terms with the wounds that broke her life into a before and an after. Ultimately she finds herself face-to-face with the alleged axman. Powerful, eloquent, and paced like the most riveting of thrillers, Strange Piece of Paradise is the electrifying account of Terri's investigation into the mystery of her near murder. A startling profile of a psychopath, a sweeping reflection on violence and the myth of American individualism, and a moving record of a brave inner journey from violence to hope, this searing, unforgettable work is certain to be one of the most talked about books of the year.

The Transformation of the Irish Church in the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries
The Transformation of the Irish Church in the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries

Author: Marie Therese Flanagan

Publisher: Boydell & Brewer

Published: 2010

Total Pages: 312

ISBN-13: 1843835975

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The twelfth century saw a wide-ranging transformation of the Irish church, a regional manifestation of a wider pan-European reform movement. This book, the first to offer a full account of this change, moves away from the previous concentration on the restructuring of Irish dioceses and episcopal authority, and the introduction of Continental monastic observances, to widen the discussion. It charts changes in the religious culture experienced by the laity as well as the clergy and takes account of the particular Irish experience within the wider European context. The universal ideals that were defined with increasing clarity by Continental advocates of reform generated a series of initiatives from Irish churchmen aimed at disseminating reform ideology within clerical circles and transmitting it also to lay society, even if, as elsewhere, it often proved difficult to implement in practice. Whatever the obstacles faced by reformist clergy, their genuine concern to transform the Irish church and society cannot be doubted, and is attested in a range of hitherto unexploited sources this volume draws upon. Marie Therese Flanagan is Professor of Medieval History at the Queen's University of Belfast.

Understanding Chuck Palahniuk
Understanding Chuck Palahniuk

Author: Douglas Keesey

Publisher: Univ of South Carolina Press

Published: 2016-09-30

Total Pages: 153

ISBN-13: 1611176980

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An introduction to the fictions of the Fight Club author, who is both loved and loathed Ever since his first novel, Fight Club, was made into a cult film by David Fincher, Chuck Palahniuk has been a consistent presence on the New York Times best-seller list. A target of critics but a fan favorite, Palahniuk has been loathed and loved in equal measure for his dark humor, edgy topics, and confrontational writing style. In close readings of Fight Club and the thirteen novels that this controversial author has published since, Douglas Keesey argues that Palahniuk is much more than a "shock jock" engaged in mere sensationalism. His visceral depictions of sex and violence have social, psychological, and religious significance. Keesey takes issue with reviewers who accuse Palahniuk of being an angry nihilist and a misanthrope, showing instead that he is really a romantic at heart and a believer in community. In this first comprehensive introduction to Palahniuk's fiction, Keesey reveals how this writer's outrageous narratives are actually rooted in his own personal experiences, how his seemingly unprecedented works are part of the American literary tradition of protagonists in search of an identity, and how his negative energy is really social satire directed at specific ills that he diagnoses and wishes to cure. After tracing the influence of his working-class background, his journalistic education, and his training as a "minimalist" writer, Understanding Chuck Palahniuk exposes connections between the writer's novels by grouping them thematically: the struggle for identity (Fight Club, Invisible Monsters, Survivor, Choke); the horror trilogy (Lullaby, Diary, Haunted); teen terrors (Rant, Pygmy); porn bodies and romantic myths (Snuff, Tell-All, Beautiful You); and a decidedly unorthodox revision of Dante's Divine Comedy (Damned, Doomed). Drawing on numerous author interviews and written in an engaging and accessible style, Understanding Chuck Palahniuk should appeal to scholars, students, and fans alike.