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Noble Savages: My Life Among Two Dangerous Tribes -- the Yanomamo and the Anthropologists
Napoleon A. Chagnon · Simon & Schuster; 1st Edition, 1st Printing edition
Format: Hardcover
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ONE OF THE MOST IMPORTANT SCIENTIFIC MEMOIRS OF OUR TIME When Napoleon Chagnon arrived in Venezuela’s Amazon region in 1964 to study the Yanomamö Indians, one of the last large tribal groups still living in isolation, he expected to find Rousseau’s “noble savages,”... |
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Every Landlord's Legal Guide
MARCIA STEWART · NOLO
Pages: 496
Format: Paperback
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Every Landlord's Legal Guide gives landlords and property managers the legal and practical solutions they need to rent residential property right. From move-in to move-out, this book covers a wide range of issues, including fair housing, repairs, sublets, screening for good tenants,... |
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Thundersticks: Firearms and the Violent Transformation of Native America
David J Silverman · The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press
Pages: 360
Format: Print book
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The adoption of firearms by American Indians between the seventeenth and nineteenth centuries marked a turning point in the history of North America's indigenous peoples -- a cultural earthquake so profound, says David Silverman, that its impact has yet to be adequately measured. Thundersticks... |
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Adjustment Day: A Novel
Chuck Palahniuk · W. W. Norton & Company
Pages: 316
Format: Hardcover
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The author of Fight Club takes America beyond our darkest dreams in this timely satire.People pass the word only to those they trust most: Adjustment Day is coming. They've been reading a mysterious book and memorizing its directives. They are ready for the reckoning.Adjustment Day, the author's... |
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Ally: My Journey Across the American-Israeli Divide
Michael B Oren · Random House
Pages: 412
Format: Print book
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERMichael B. Oren's memoir of his time as Israel's ambassador to the United States - a period of transformative change for America and a time of violent upheaval throughout the Middle East - provides a frank, fascinating look inside the special relationship between... |
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The Shadow War: Inside Russia's and China's Secret Operations to Undermine America
Jim Sciutto · Harper
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover
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CNN's Chief National Security Correspondent reveals the invisible fronts of twenty-first century warfare and identifies the ongoing battles being waged - often without the public's full knowledge - from disinformation campaigns to advanced satellite weaponry.The United States is currently... |
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Places and Names: On War, Revolution, and Returning
Elliot Ackerman · Penguin Press
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover
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From a decorated Marine war veteran and National Book Award Finalist, an astonishing reckoning with the nature of combat and the human cost of the wars in Iraq, Afghanistan and Syria."War hath determined us ..." - John Milton, Paradise LostToward the beginning of Places and Names,... |
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Add a Pinch: Easier, Faster, Fresher Southern Classics
Robyn Stone · Clarkson Potter/Publishers
Pages: 240
Format: Print book
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With a foreword by Ree Drummond, this beautiful book has 100 easier, faster, lightened-up Southern recipes, from the blogger behind the popular Add a Pinch website. |
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De-Escalate: How to Calm an Angry Person in 90 Seconds or Less
Douglas Noll · Atria Books/Beyond Words
Pages: 256
Format: Paperback
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Discover how to successfully and efficiently calm an angry person or diffuse a volatile situation in ninety seconds or less with this proven and accessible peacekeeping method by self-described "lawyer turned peacemaker" Douglas E. Noll.We live in an increasingly divided world... |
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A Full Life: Reflections at Ninety
Jimmy Carter · Simon & Schuster
Pages: 272
Format: Hardcover
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Jimmy Carter, thirty-ninth President, Nobel Peace Prize winner, international humanitarian, fisherman, reflects on his full and happy life with pride, humor, and a few second thoughts. At ninety, Carter reflects on his public and private life with a frankness that is disarming. He adds... |
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