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  • Journey to Chernobyl

    Encounters in a Radioactive Zone

    Glenn Cheney arrived in Kiev during those first days when the Soviet Union ceased to exist and Ukraine was reborn. Almost immediately he found himself talking with scientist, journalist, refugees, engineers, top-level government officials, doctors, environmentalists, parents of sick children and people living just a few kilometers from the Chernobyl complex. He heard stories about the disaster ... Læs mere

    104,49 kr. eller Gratis med Kobo Plus

  • Notions from a Time of Peril

    A collection of newspaper columns and editorials by Glenn Alan Cheney published between January 2020 and August 2021. In a warm, human, often humorous style he discusses such topics as penmanship, couches, covid, a Model T, a hermit, golf, statues, mascots, elections, history, litter, skunks, dogs, the Mayflower, and much more. ... Læs mere

    46,77 kr.

  • Seasons of a Refractive Mind: Poems and Aphorisms

    A wide-ranging collection of poems and aphorisms by an American writer and public policy scholar born in California in the 1950s and raised in the American South and Pacific Northwest. Topics include faith and its loss, nature and the environment, war, social justice, friendship, teaching, chronic pain, mental health, and the struggle to communicate with others when ordinary words fail. This is a ... Læs mere

    37,01 kr.

  • Ex Cathedra: Stories by Machado de Assis -- Bilingual Edition

    Translations of 21 short stories by Machado de Assis, with Portuguese and English on facing pages. Most have never before appeared in English. Translators include Laura Cade Brown, Krista Brune, David George, Linda Ledford-Miller, Ana Lessa-Schmidt, Nelson López Rojas, John Maddox, Adam Morris, Rex P. Nielson, Leila Osman, Marissel Hernández Romero, Steven K. Smith, Lisandra Sousa, Luciana Tanure, ... Læs mere

    78,52 kr.

  • Thanksgiving

    The Pilgrims' First Year in America

    Thanksgiving is not a book about a holiday. It s about something that a few dozen survivors did after a year of suffering, death, struggle, and courage.They bowed their heads to give thanks.The Pilgrims journey began as a joint venture of business and religion, but soon it became a matter of survival.With 102 men, women, and children packed into a dim, wet space below the main deck, the Mayflower ... Læs mere

    70,66 kr.

  • Quilombo dos Palmares

    Brazil's Lost Nation of Fugitive Slaves

    For almost a hundred years, a nation of fugitive Africans, Indians, whites, and mixed races fought off the world’s most powerful empires in a struggle to survive in freedom. Over the span of the 17th century, the Quilombo dos Palmares melded several cultures to form its own language, religion, government, values, and way of life. Its population may have exceeded 20,000. Its last king is believed ... Læs mere

    70,35 kr.

  • Journey on the Estrada Real:

    Encounters in the Mountains of Brazil

    Brazil's Estrada Real — the Royal Road — was constructed in 1697 to bring the gold and diamonds from the mountains of Minas Gerais to ports at Rio de Janeiro and Paraty. The road is still there, winding through the mountains, passing through villages and towns once opulent, now in decadence. Glenn Alan Cheney hiked up the road for two months to write about its history, geography, culture, and ... Læs mere

    54,94 kr.

  • Love and Death in the Kingdom of Swaziland

    Sister Diane DalleMolle and Sister Barbara Staley arrived in Swaziland at the height of an HIV epidemic that today afflicts a third of the population. Under under extremely difficult conditions in the harsh, semi-arid outback, they managed to establish a clinic, care for over 100 orphans, install a municipal-scale water system, and in so many ways achieve the impossible. This is the story of their ... Læs mere

    31,36 kr.

  • Passion in an Improper Place

    Ysa should have known better.She shouldn't have believed Kit. Shouldn't have gone up the Amazon with the Gumball King. Should haven't let a Mundurucu take up her up a river in a canoe. Shouldn't have ventured alone into mining camp.Kit should have known better. He shouldn't have taken women into Amazonia. Shouldn't have taken a hippie-chick and 20,000 porpoises up in an airplane. Shouldn't have ... Læs mere

    27,43 kr.

  • Promised Land

    A Nun’s Struggle to Resist Landlessness, Lawlessness, Slavery, Poverty, Corruption, Injustice, and Environmental Devastation in Amazonia

    Sister Leonora Brunetto lives and works in Brazil’s state of Mato Grosso. In 1978, rainforest covered the region. Today, cattle pastures stretch to the horizon, their unshaded grass rippling with heatwaves. Ranches of tens of thousands of acres benefit single families who have no title to the land. Nearby, scores of families camp in ramshackle huts, awaiting the land they are entitled to. but may ... Læs mere

    46,77 kr.

  • Lydbog

    Final Millennium, The

    af David T. Wolf ...
    Fortalt af Glenn Alan ...

    Uforkortet

    Nuclear Armageddon is on the BallotThe leading candidate for US President is certain God has chosen him to bring on The Rapture by launching nuclear war. His march to the White House is unstoppable. Journalist Dan Jessup finally unearths the candidate’s virulent past, but if he reveals it, his pregnant wife and son, now being held hostage, will be murdered. Meanwhile, Lt. Greg Pangborn, a tech ... Læs mere

    115,15 kr.