Download or read book Diego in the Dark written by Cynthia Stierle and published by Simon & Schuster. This book was released on 2009 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Diego and Baby Jaguar embark on a nighttime journey to bring Baby Kinkajou home to his parents. Along the way, they meet other nocturnal animals. Includes two sheets of glow-in-the-dark stickers and a pull-out poster. Full color. Consumable.
Download or read book Diego in the Dark written by Cynthia Stierle and published by Simon Spotlight/Nickelodeon. This book was released on 2008-11-25 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Diego and Baby Jaguar embark on a nighttime journey to bring Baby Kinkajou home to his parents. Along the way, they meet other nocturnal animals, including red-eyed tree frogs and free-tail bats. Diego also gets a chance to use his flashlight and night-vision goggles, and Rescue Pack transforms into an ATV and a raft! This book is perfect for bedtime and sleepovers, all year long! Includes two sheets of glow-in-the-dark stickers and a pull-out poster.
Download or read book The Special One The Dark Side of Jose Mourinho written by Diego Torres and published by HarperCollins UK. This book was released on 2014-04-10 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An explosive and shocking biography of Jose Mourinho – revealing the dark side of 'the special one'.
Download or read book Hold the Dark A Novel written by William Giraldi and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2014-09-08 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Now a Netflix original film starring Alexander Skarsgard, Riley Keough, and Jeffrey Wright At the edge of civilization, nature and evil collide in what “stands out as one of the decade’s best books of its kind” (Alan Cheuse, Boston Globe). Written with “force and precision and grace” (John Wilwol, New York Times Book Review) Hold the Dark is a “taut and unforgettable journey into the heart of darkness” (Dennis Lehane). At the start of another pitiless winter, wolves have taken three children from the remote Alaskan village of Keelut, including the six-year-old son of Medora and Vernon Slone. Wolf expert Russell Core is called in to investigate these killings and discovers an unholy truth harbored by Medora before she disappears. When her husband returns home to discover his boy dead and his wife missing, he begins a maniacal pursuit that cuts a bloody swath across the frozen landscape. With the help of a local police detective, Core attempts to find Medora before her husband does, setting in motion a deadly chain of events in this “chilling, mysterious, and completely engaging novel” (Tim O’Brien) that marks the arrival of a major American writer.
Download or read book Dark Persuasion written by Joel E. Dimsdale and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2021-08-10 with total page 301 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A harrowing account of brainwashing’s pervasive role in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries This gripping book traces the evolution of brainwashing from its beginnings in torture and religious conversion into the age of neuroscience and social media. When Pavlov introduced scientific approaches, his research was enthusiastically supported by Lenin and Stalin, setting the stage for major breakthroughs in tools for social, political, and religious control. Tracing these developments through many of the past century’s major conflagrations, Dimsdale narrates how when World War II erupted, governments secretly raced to develop drugs for interrogation. Brainwashing returned to the spotlight during the Cold War in the hands of the North Koreans and Chinese. In response, a huge Manhattan Project of the Mind was established to study memory obliteration, indoctrination during sleep, and hallucinogens. Cults used the techniques as well. Nobel laureates, university academics, intelligence operatives, criminals, and clerics all populate this shattering and dark story—one that hasn’t yet ended.
Download or read book Paradise Plundered written by Steven P. Erie and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 2011-08-15 with total page 536 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The early 21st century has not been kind to California's reputation for good government. But the Golden State's governance flaws reflect worrisome national trends with origins in the 1970s and 1980s. Growing voter distrust with government, a demand for services but not taxes to pay for them, a sharp decline in enlightened leadership and effective civic watchdogs, and dysfunctional political institutions have all contributed to the current governance malaise. Until recently, San Diego, California—America's 8th largest city—seemed immune to such systematic governance disorders. This sunny beach town entered the 1990s proclaiming to be "America's Finest City," but in a few short years its reputation went from "Futureville" to "Enron-by-the-Sea." In this eye-opening and telling narrative, Steven P. Erie, Vladimir Kogan, and Scott A. MacKenzie mix policy analysis, political theory, and history to explore and explain the unintended but largely predictable failures of governance in San Diego. Using untapped primary sources—interviews with key decision makers and public documents—and benchmarking San Diego with other leading California cities, Paradise Plundered examines critical dimensions of San Diego's governance failure: a multi-billion dollar pension deficit; a chronic budget deficit; inadequate city services and infrastructure; grandiose planning initiatives divorced from dire fiscal realities; an insulated downtown redevelopment program plagued by poorly-crafted public-private partnerships; and, for the metropolitan region, inadequate airport and port facilities, a severe underinvestment in firefighting capacity despite destructive wildfires, and heightened Mexican border security concerns. Far from a sunny story of paradise and prosperity, this account takes stock of an important but understudied city, its failed civic leadership, and poorly performing institutions, policymaking, and planning. Though the extent of these failures may place San Diego in a league of its own, other cities are experiencing similar challenges and political changes. As such, this tale of civic woe offers valuable lessons for urban scholars, practitioners, and general readers concerned about the future of their own cities.
Download or read book Lady Midnight written by Cassandra Clare and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2016-03-08 with total page 720 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Shadowhunters of Los Angeles star in this #1 New York Times and USA TODAY bestselling novel in Cassandra Clare’s newest series, The Dark Artifices, a sequel to the internationally bestselling Mortal Instruments series. Lady Midnight is a Shadowhunters novel. It’s been five years since the events of City of Heavenly Fire that brought the Shadowhunters to the brink of oblivion. Emma Carstairs is no longer a child in mourning, but a young woman bent on discovering who killed her parents and avenging her losses. Together with her battle partner Julian Blackthorn, Emma must learn to trust her head and her heart as she investigates a demonic plot that stretches across Los Angeles, from the Sunset Strip to the enchanted sea that pounds the beaches of Santa Monica. If only her heart didn’t lead her in treacherous directions… Making things even more complicated, Julian’s brother Mark—who was captured by the faeries five years ago—has been returned as a bargaining chip. The faeries are desperate to find out who is murdering their kind—and they need the Shadowhunters’ help to do it. But time works differently in faerie, so Mark has barely aged and doesn’t recognize his family. Can he ever truly return to them? Will the faeries really allow it? Glitz, glamours, and Shadowhunters abound in this heartrending opening to Cassandra Clare’s Dark Artifices series.
Download or read book Diego Garcia written by Natasha Soobramanien and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2022-06-21 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sad and funny and bitter and true, a novel about grief, discovering your own story, and trying to listen for those stories that are not yours to tell. August 2014. Two friends, writers Damaris Caleemootoo and Oliver Pablo Herzberg, arrive in Edinburgh from London, the city that killed Daniel—his brother, her frenemy and loved by them both. Every day is different but the same. Trying to get to the library, they get distracted by bickering—will it rain or not and what should they do about their tanking bitcoin?—in the end failing to write or resist the sadness which follows them as they drift around the city. On such a day they meet Diego, a poet. They learn that Diego’s mother was from the Chagos Archipelago, that she and her community were forced to leave their ancestral islands by soldiers in 1973 to make way for a military base. They become obsessed with this notorious episode in British history and the continuing resistance of the Chagossian people, and feel urged to write in solidarity. But how to share a story that is not theirs to tell? Sad, funny and angry, this collaborative fiction builds on the true fact of another: a collaborative fiction created by the British and US governments to dispossess a people of their homeland.
Download or read book A Night Too Dark written by Dana Stabenow and published by Minotaur Books. This book was released on 2010-02-16 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Night Too Dark is New York Times bestselling writer Dana Stabenow's latest, the seventeenth in a series chronicling life, death, love, tragedy, mischief, controversy, nature, and survival in Alaska, America's last real frontier. In Alaska, people disappear every day. In Aleut detective Kate Shugak's Park, they've been disappearing a lot lately. Hikers head into the wilderness unprepared and get lost. Miners quit without notice at the busy Suulutaq Mine. Suicides leave farewell notes and vanish. Not only are Park rats disappearing at an alarming rate, but so is life in the Park as Kate knows it. Alaska state trooper Jim Chopin's workload has increased to where he doesn't make it home three nights out of four, the controversial mine has seduced Johnny and his classmates with summer jobs and divided the Niniltna Native Association—the aunties are to a woman selling out—and a hostile environmental activist organization has embraced the Suulutaq Mine as their reason for being. It's almost a relief when Kate finds a body. This she can handle. Until the identity of the body vanishes, too. In this latest Kate Shugak novel, the smart, sexy PI, her wolf/husky hybrid Mutt, and Chopper Jim are only just beginning to realize the fallout from the discovery of the world's second-largest gold mine in their backyard. "Mine change everything," Auntie Vi said in Whisper to the Blood (the previous book in the series and the first to hit the New York Times bestseller list). And it's only just beginning.
Download or read book Halloween Rescue written by Cynthia Stierle and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2007-08-07 with total page 22 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On Halloween night, Diego and Baby Jaguar must rescue some bats that are trapped in a cave, and along the way they encounter different night creatures.
Download or read book Report of the Agricultural Experiment Station of the University of California written by California Agricultural Experiment Station and published by . This book was released on 1903 with total page 636 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Hand of God written by Jimmy Burns and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 1997-05-08 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a biography of Diego Maradona, one of the world's most controversial and flamboyant sportsmen, arguably the greatest and certainly the most widely-known footballer of the modern age. During his tempestuous career he has played for top clubs in South America and Europe, and has been a central figure in four World Cups. With the fortunes he has earned from sponsorship and transfer deals, he has personified football, both as popular sport and big business.
Download or read book Extreme Rescue Dolphin Mission written by Erica David and published by Simon Spotlight/Nickelodeon. This book was released on 2009-06-02 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Diego and his sister Alicia are exploring the ocean on board the Animal Rescue Center's new boat when Click the Camera locates a baby bottlenose dolphin tangled in seaweed. Diego dons his new scuba gear and dives in to rescue her. Full color.
Download or read book Diego s Secret written by Bryan T. Clark and published by Cornbread Publishing. This book was released on 2018-05-01 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Diego Castillo struggles daily under the weight of his secret. He’s forced to hide his desire for other men from his brothers. Lately, the only time he can really be himself is when he’s with his landscaping client, Winston—a man as beautiful as he is intimidating. They come from two different worlds, but in Winston he senses a vulnerable kindred spirit, and even though getting involved could uncover Diego’s secret, putting his entire family at risk, he’s powerless to stay away. Winston Makena is suffering, too. All his millions can’t buy a minute’s peace from the crushing grief he’s felt since his husband’s death. The only relief he finds these days is when he’s with Diego. Despite their differences, Winston finds himself inexorably drawn to Diego’s honesty, kindness, and gentle soul. But he can never truly love again…can he? It’s not long before Diego and Winston’s clandestine attraction grows into something much more complicated. As cultures clash, misunderstandings mount, and secrets loom, they wonder if the cost of following their hearts is more than they can ever pay.
Download or read book Report of the Agricultural Experiment Station of the University of California written by and published by . This book was released on 1894 with total page 2240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Report of Work of the Agricultural Experiment Station of the University of California written by California Agricultural Experiment Station and published by . This book was released on 1900 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Report of the Agricultural Experiment Stastion of the University of California written by California Agricultural Experiment Station and published by . This book was released on 1900 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
