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Cultural Ecologies of the Land is a radical and challenging reassessment of the way we relate to the land and to infrastructure. There was a time when the land defined us. Now, with each passing year, we are increasingly detached from it. It was once the centre stage of humanity; now it is the setting for a technological drama. What has happened, and why does it matter?This book is a multi-layered account of people and environment shaping each other through cumulative, mom...

Circle of Greed is the epic story of the rise and fall of Bill Lerach, once the leading class action lawyer in America and now a convicted felon. For more than two decades, Lerach threatened, shook down and sued top Fortune 500 companies, including Disney, Apple, Time Warner, and—most famously—Enron. Now, the man who brought corporate moguls to their knees has fallen prey to the same corrupt impulses of his enemies, and is paying the price by serving time in federal prison....

In the tumultuous aftermath of the Trojan War, a young man battles to save his home and his inheritance. Setting out to find his father, he ends up discovering himself.Telemachus’s father, Odysseus, went off to war before he was born...and never came back. Aged sixteen, Telemachus finds himself abandoned, his father’s house overrun with men pursuing his beautiful mother, Penelope, and devouring the family’s wealth. He determines to leave Ithaca, his island home, an...

On the morning of February 3, 1983, the Americus and Altair, two state-of-the-art crabbing vessels, idled at the dock in their home port of Anacortes, Washington. On deck, the fourteen crewmen--fathers, sons, brothers and friends who'd known one another all their lives--prepared for the ten-day trip to Dutch Harbor, Alaska. From this rough-and-tumble seaport the men would begin a grueling three-month season in one of the nation's most profitable and deadliest occupations-...

Falcon Hollow: 140 YearsA Commemorative EditionFor one hundred and forty years, Falcon Hollow has endured—not through expansion or reinvention, but through continuity.This commemorative volume offers a measured reflection on the town as it exists today. Rather than presenting a complete historical account, it examines the structures, routines, and shared spaces that have remained in use across generations. From Main Street and Town Circle to...

Falcon Hollow: A Historical Perspective examines how a town is shaped not only by events, but by the structures, landscapes, and recurring roles that sustain daily life. Rather than presenting a conventional chronological history, this work assembles the elements that quietly organize Falcon Hollow and places them in relation to one another.Beginning with the terrain itself-the basin, the ridges, and the lake that gathers the town-this study explores how geography influences settle...

Three men are dead.All of them killed on Father's Day.Detective Duke Mantz has spent years trying to forget the case that never sat right—the accidental death ruled closed a decade ago. But when another body turns up, staged with eerie precision and ritual intent, he's forced to confront a pattern no one else wants to see.As the investigation unfolds, Duke teams up with FBI profiler Brooke Allen, and the truth begins to surface: these killings aren't random, and they...

Sacred Places in the Arctic and Beyond brings together indigenous and nonindigenous scholars, rightsholders, and practitioners to explore the status and management of sacred places, which are important as both tangible and intangible cultural heritage. It acknowledges the critical functions and roles that sacred places play in connection with local people, traditions, beliefs, and practices, as identity markers, places of cultural transmission and memory, and locations that support ecosyst...

Every man has a story before he becomes the man everyone knows.Long before Falcon Hollow knew him as Detective Duke Mantz, he was Travis, a boy growing up in western Maryland with a close-knit family, a love of baseball, and a father who seemed capable of fixing anything. Robert Mantz was more than his father. He was his teacher, his friend, and the example Travis would carry with him long after a sudden tragedy changed their lives.As Travis and his mother begin again in Fa...

A definitive history of Britain which tells the story of two islands, Britain and Ireland, and all the people, Scottish, Irish, Welsh and English, who have lived in them.A comprehensive history of Britain that delves into some edgy and less well-known events as well as shining a light on the more traditional narratives of Scottish, Irish, Welsh and English history - William the Conqueror's arrival in 1066, Magna Carta, the Great Fire of London, the execution of Cha...

A definitive history of Britain which tells the story of two islands, Britain and Ireland, and all the people, Scottish, Irish, Welsh and English, who have lived in them.A comprehensive history of Britain that delves into some edgy and less well-known events as well as shining a light on the more traditional narratives of Scottish, Irish, Welsh and English history - William the Conqueror's arrival in 1066, Magna Carta, the Great Fire of London, the execution of Cha...

Behind the Brand: The Making of Falcon Hollow is the story behind the creation of a fictional town that gradually became much more than a setting for a series of mystery novels.What began as a simple writing project eventually grew into an interconnected world of books, maps, websites, newspapers, history projects, and community stories. But none of it happened all at once. Falcon Hollow was built piece by piece over several years through exploration, experimentati...