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Still Life with Bones

Genocide, Forensics, and What Remains

par Alexa Hagerty ...

New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice • An anthropologist working with forensic teams and victims’ families to investigate crimes against humanity in Latin America explores what science can tell us about the lives of the dead in this haunting account of grief, the power of ritual, and a quest for justice.“Absorbing . . . multifaceted and elegiac . . . Still Life with Bones captures the ethos ... En savoir plus

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New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice • An anthropologist working with forensic teams and victims’ families to investigate crimes against humanity in Latin America explores what science can tell us about the lives of the dead in this haunting account of grief, the power of ritual, and a quest for justice.“Absorbing . . . multifaceted and elegiac . . . Still Life with Bones captures the ethos
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Dispatches from Home and the Field during the COVID-19 Pandemic

par Robert Desjarlais, Sabina M. Perrino, Joshua O. Reno, Nicholas Bartlett, Aurora Donzelli, Margaux Fitoussi, Alexa Hagerty, Rafadi Hakim, Parthiban Muniandy, Emily Ng ...

Collections series Social Sciences (R0)
This volume, written in a readable and enticing style, is based on a simple premise, which was to have several exceptional ethnographers write about their experiences in an evocative way in real time during the COVID-19 pandemic. Rather than an edited volume with dedicated chapters, this book thus offers a new format wherein authors write several, distinct dispatches, each short and compact, ... En savoir plus

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This volume, written in a readable and enticing style, is based on a simple premise, which was to have several exceptional ethnographers write about their experiences in an evocative way in real time during the COVID-19 pandemic. Rather than an edited volume with dedicated chapters, this book thus offers a new format wherein authors write several, distinct dispatches, each short and compact,
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Still Life with Bones

Genocide, Forensics, and What Remains

par Alexa Hagerty ...

Lu par Rose Akroyd ...

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8 heure 8 min

New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice • An anthropologist working with forensic teams and victims’ families to investigate crimes against humanity in Latin America explores what science can tell us about the lives of the dead in this haunting account of grief, the power of ritual, and a quest for justice.“Absorbing . . . multifaceted and elegiac . . . Still Life with Bones captures the ethos ... En savoir plus

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New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice • An anthropologist working with forensic teams and victims’ families to investigate crimes against humanity in Latin America explores what science can tell us about the lives of the dead in this haunting account of grief, the power of ritual, and a quest for justice.“Absorbing . . . multifaceted and elegiac . . . Still Life with Bones captures the ethos
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Ruin Their Crops on the Ground

The Politics of Food in the United States, from the Trail of Tears to School Lunch

par Andrea Freeman ...

Lu par Heni Zoutomou ...

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7 heure 28 min

The first and definitive history of the use of food in United States law and politics as a weapon of conquest and control, a Fast Food Nation for the Black Lives Matter eraIn 1779, to subjugate Indigenous nations, George Washington ordered his troops to “ruin their crops now in the ground and prevent their planting more.” Destroying harvests is just one way that the United States has used food as ... En savoir plus

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The first and definitive history of the use of food in United States law and politics as a weapon of conquest and control, a Fast Food Nation for the Black Lives Matter eraIn 1779, to subjugate Indigenous nations, George Washington ordered his troops to “ruin their crops now in the ground and prevent their planting more.” Destroying harvests is just one way that the United States has used food as
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Vanishing Treasures

A Bestiary of Extraordinary Endangered Creatures

par Katherine Rundell ...

Lu par Katherine Rundell, Lenny Henry ...

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3 heure 19 min

A Most Anticipated Book from Boston Globe, Parade, & Literary Hub • From the award-winning author Katherine Rundell comes a “rare and magical book” (Bill Bryson) reckoning with the vanishing wonders of our natural worldThe world is more astonishing, more miraculous, and more wonderful than our wildest imaginings. In this brilliant and passionately persuasive book, Katherine Rundell takes us on a ... En savoir plus

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A Most Anticipated Book from Boston Globe, Parade, & Literary Hub • From the award-winning author Katherine Rundell comes a “rare and magical book” (Bill Bryson) reckoning with the vanishing wonders of our natural worldThe world is more astonishing, more miraculous, and more wonderful than our wildest imaginings. In this brilliant and passionately persuasive book, Katherine Rundell takes us on a
... En savoir plus

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Days of Rage

America's Radical Underground, the FBI, and the Forgotten Age of Revolutionary Violence

par Bryan Burrough ...

Lu par Ray Porter ...

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22 heure 13 min

From the bestselling author of Public Enemies and The Big Rich, an explosive account of the decade-long battle between the FBI and the homegrown revolutionary movements of the 1970sThe Weathermen. The Symbionese Liberation Army. The FALN. The Black Liberation Army. The names seem quaint now, when not forgotten altogether. But there was a stretch of time in America, during the 1970s, when bombings ... En savoir plus

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From the bestselling author of Public Enemies and The Big Rich, an explosive account of the decade-long battle between the FBI and the homegrown revolutionary movements of the 1970sThe Weathermen. The Symbionese Liberation Army. The FALN. The Black Liberation Army. The names seem quaint now, when not forgotten altogether. But there was a stretch of time in America, during the 1970s, when bombings
... En savoir plus

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Leave It As It Is

A Journey Through Theodore Roosevelt's American Wilderness

par David Gessner ...

Lu par Fred Sanders ...

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12 heure 24 min

Bestselling author David Gessner’s wilderness road trip inspired by America’s greatest conservationist, Theodore Roosevelt, is “a rallying cry in the age of climate change” (Robert Redford).“Leave it as it is,” Theodore Roosevelt announced while viewing the Grand Canyon for the first time. “The ages have been at work on it and man can only mar it.” Roosevelt’s pronouncement signaled the beginning ... En savoir plus

$35.99 CAD

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Bestselling author David Gessner’s wilderness road trip inspired by America’s greatest conservationist, Theodore Roosevelt, is “a rallying cry in the age of climate change” (Robert Redford).“Leave it as it is,” Theodore Roosevelt announced while viewing the Grand Canyon for the first time. “The ages have been at work on it and man can only mar it.” Roosevelt’s pronouncement signaled the beginning
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We Love the Nightlife

par Rachel Koller Croft ...

Lu par Katharine Lee McEwan, Suzanne Elise Freeman ...

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11 heure 13 min

**A USA TODAY BESTSELLER!Locked in a toxic female friendship, two vampires careen toward catastrophe in this dark and dazzling page-turner, set amidst London's glittering disco scene.**London 1979. Two women with a deep love for disco meet one fateful night on the dance floor, changing the course of both their lives forever.Nicola, a beautiful and brooding vampire for nearly two centuries, can’t ... En savoir plus

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**A USA TODAY BESTSELLER!Locked in a toxic female friendship, two vampires careen toward catastrophe in this dark and dazzling page-turner, set amidst London's glittering disco scene.**London 1979. Two women with a deep love for disco meet one fateful night on the dance floor, changing the course of both their lives forever.Nicola, a beautiful and brooding vampire for nearly two centuries, can’t
... En savoir plus

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Holding It Together

How Women Became America's Safety Net

par Jessica Calarco ...

Lu par Jessica Calarco, Karen Murray ...

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8 heure 32 min

Other countries have social safety nets. The U.S. has women. Holding It Together chronicles the causes and dire consequences.America runs on women—women who are tasked with holding society together at the seams and fixing it when things fall apart. In this tour de force, acclaimed Sociologist Jessica Calarco lays bare the devastating consequences of our status quo.Holding It Together draws on five ... En savoir plus

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Other countries have social safety nets. The U.S. has women. Holding It Together chronicles the causes and dire consequences.America runs on women—women who are tasked with holding society together at the seams and fixing it when things fall apart. In this tour de force, acclaimed Sociologist Jessica Calarco lays bare the devastating consequences of our status quo.Holding It Together draws on five
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Boys Enter the House

The Victims of John Wayne Gacy and the Lives They Left Behind

par David Nelson ...

Lu par T. Ryder Smith ...

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12 heure 34 min

As investigators brought out the bagged remains of several dozen young menfrom a small Chicago ranch home and paraded them in front of a crowd of TVreporters and spectators, attention quickly turned to the owner of the house.John Gacy was an upstanding citizen, active in local politics and charities, famousfor his themed parties and appearances as Pogo the Clown. But in the winter of1978–79, he ... En savoir plus

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As investigators brought out the bagged remains of several dozen young menfrom a small Chicago ranch home and paraded them in front of a crowd of TVreporters and spectators, attention quickly turned to the owner of the house.John Gacy was an upstanding citizen, active in local politics and charities, famousfor his themed parties and appearances as Pogo the Clown. But in the winter of1978–79, he
... En savoir plus

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Off-Earth

Ethical Questions and Quandaries for Living in Outer Space

par Erika Nesvold ...

Lu par April Doty ...

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9 heure 43 min

Can we do better in space than we've done here on Earth?We've pinpointed the destination, refined the technology, designed the habitat. Are we forgetting something? A timely reminder that it's not just rocket science, this book explores the all-too-human issues raised by the prospect of settling in outer space. Accordingly, her work highlights the complex ethical challenges that accompany any ... En savoir plus

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Can we do better in space than we've done here on Earth?We've pinpointed the destination, refined the technology, designed the habitat. Are we forgetting something? A timely reminder that it's not just rocket science, this book explores the all-too-human issues raised by the prospect of settling in outer space. Accordingly, her work highlights the complex ethical challenges that accompany any
... En savoir plus

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The Lost Men

The Harrowing Saga of Shackleton's Ross Sea Party

par Kelly Tyler-Lewis ...

Lu par Graeme Malcolm ...

Version Abrégée

6 heure 17 min

In 1914, Sir Ernest Shackleton sailed south aboard the Endurance to be the first to cross Antarctica. Shackleton's endeavor is legend, but few know the astonishing story of the Ross Sea party, the support crew he dispatched to the opposite side of the continent to build a vital lifeline of food and fuel depots.When the Ross Sea ship, the Aurora, broke free of her moorings and disappeared in a gale ... En savoir plus

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In 1914, Sir Ernest Shackleton sailed south aboard the Endurance to be the first to cross Antarctica. Shackleton's endeavor is legend, but few know the astonishing story of the Ross Sea party, the support crew he dispatched to the opposite side of the continent to build a vital lifeline of food and fuel depots.When the Ross Sea ship, the Aurora, broke free of her moorings and disappeared in a gale
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