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Book The End of a Primitive

    Book Details:
  • Author : Chester Himes
  • Publisher : Vintage Crime/Black Lizard
  • Release : 2024-10-08
  • ISBN : 0593686713
  • Pages : 225 pages

Download or read book The End of a Primitive written by Chester Himes and published by Vintage Crime/Black Lizard. This book was released on 2024-10-08 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Two lives spiral into a fatal pas de deux during a weekend of sex, alcohol and violence—from the acclaimed author of the Harlem Detectives series Jesse Robinson and Kriss Cummings once shared a passionate weekend in Chicago, but it’s been years since they’ve seen each other. Jesse, a black writer, refuses to pen the inspirational novel his agent wants, and sits in his Harlem tenement as his career plummets accordingly. Kriss, a white divorcée, has found moderate success at her office job, but is disillusioned with life. Often sleeping with black men, she’s pilloried for “solving the Negro Problem in bed.” Each of them lonely and embittered by the racial tensions of McCarthy-era America, they reunite for a whiskey-soaked weekend in 1952, spiraling into a violent, malicious pas de deux that is fated to end in destruction.

Book Gone Primitive

    Book Details:
  • Author : Marianna Torgovnick
  • Publisher : University of Chicago Press
  • Release : 1990
  • ISBN : 9780226808321
  • Pages : 350 pages

Download or read book Gone Primitive written by Marianna Torgovnick and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 1990 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this acclaimed book, Torgovnick explores the obsessions, fears, and longings that have produced Western views of the primitive. Crossing an extraordinary range of fields (anthropology, psychology, literature, art, and popular culture),Gone Primitivewill engage not just specialists but anyone who has ever worn Native American jewelry, thrilled to Indiana Jones, or considered buying an African mask. "A superb book; and--in a way that goes beyond what being good as a book usually implies--it is a kind of gift to its own culture, a guide to the perplexed. It is lucid, usually fair, laced with a certain feminist mockery and animated by some surprising sympathies."--Arthur C. Danto, New York Times Book Review "An impassioned exploration of the deep waters beneath Western primitivism. . . . Torgovnick's readings are deliberately, rewardingly provocative."--Scott L. Malcomson,Voice Literary Supplement

Book Primitive War

    Book Details:
  • Author : Ethan Pettus
  • Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
  • Release : 2017-04-22
  • ISBN : 9781545500743
  • Pages : 0 pages

Download or read book Primitive War written by Ethan Pettus and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2017-04-22 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A search and rescue team known as Vulture Squad is sent to an isolated jungle valley to uncover the fate of a missing Green Beret platoon. As they hunt through the primordial depths of the valley, they discover ancient horrors that not only threaten to unravel their minds, but to end their lives as well. When the casualties mount, the men of Vulture Squad must abandon their human nature and give in to their savage instincts in order to survive...the Primitive War.DISCLAIMER - This novel is set in the Vietnam War, and as such, it isn't suitable for children. There is graphic violence, adult language, drug use, and many references to war-borne tragedy.

Book Primitive

    Book Details:
  • Author : J. F. Gonzalez
  • Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
  • Release : 2017-11
  • ISBN : 9781979312028
  • Pages : 344 pages

Download or read book Primitive written by J. F. Gonzalez and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2017-11 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A new edition of the seminal post-apocalyptic horror novel, featuring an original Introduction by Brian Keene and Cathy Gonzalez. It began as just another day for David Spires and his wife Tracy: coffee, breakfast, and getting the kids ready for school. Then the bottom dropped out of civilization. The world ends not with a bang or a whimper, but with a dizzying downward spiral. Instead of the rat race of commuters scurrying to beat the clock, humans are now packs of animals reduced to snarling primitives. David, Tracy and their daughter Emily, along with fellow survivors, leave Los Angeles for the safety of the country where fewer people means fewer primitives. But as they venture farther away from the city, they realize an unnatural force is at work. Civilization didn't just fall apart...it was overtaken by an ancient evil that was present before the first cave paintings. Human history has no formal record of it, but the dark presence that's fueled nightmares since time began has crept out of the shadows...and its influence is growing.

Book Primitive Weapons

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  • Author : David Barbur
  • Publisher : Cougar Rock Press
  • Release : 2021-11-01
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 314 pages

Download or read book Primitive Weapons written by David Barbur and published by Cougar Rock Press. This book was released on 2021-11-01 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It was supposed to be a simple job: go to the private island, find the missing billionaire. Instead, tracker Tye Caine and his friend Gary find themselves caught in a dark conspiracy that blends ancient artifacts with modern technology. Hunted by an unseen gunman, stalked by dark shapes in the forest, Tye and Gary must first unlock the decades-old secret of the island, then understand the modern-day technological terror that is about to be unleashed. Tye will need all his wilderness skills to survive this one. If you stayed up too late reading The Valley Of Lost Children, if you love mysteries set in the wilderness, if you aren’t afraid of the supernatural, buy Primitive Weapons today.

Book The End of the Line

Download or read book The End of the Line written by Kathryn Marie Dudley and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 1997-06-23 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume tells the story of what the 1988 closing of the Chrysler assembly plant in Kenosha, Wisconsin, meant to the people who lived in that town. Through interviews with displaced autoworkers and other members of the community it dramatizes the lessons Kenoshans drew from the plant shutdown. This volume tells the story of what the 1988 closing of the Chrysler assembly plant in Kenosha, Wisconsin, meant to the people who lived in that company town. Since the early days of the 20th century, Kenosha had forged its identity and politics around the interests of the auto industry. When nearly 6000 workers lost their jobs in the shutdown, the community faced not only a serious economic crisis but also a profound moral one. In this study, Dudley describes the painful, often confusing process of change that residents of Kenosha, like the increasing number of Americans who are caught in the crossfire of de-industrialization, were forced to undergo. Through interviews with displaced autoworkers and Kenosha's community leaders, high-school counsellors and a rising class of upwardly mobile professionals, Dudley dramatizes the lessons Kenoshans drew from the plant shutdown.

Book Primitive Technology

Download or read book Primitive Technology written by John Plant and published by Clarkson Potter. This book was released on 2019-10-29 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the craftsman behind the popular YouTube channel Primitive Technology comes a practical guide to building huts and tools using only natural materials from the wild. John Plant, the man behind the channel, Primitive Technology, is a bonafide YouTube star. With almost 10 million subscribers and an average of 5 million views per video, John's channel is beloved by a wide-ranging fan base, from campers and preppers to hipster woodworkers and craftsmen. Now for the first time, fans will get a detailed, behind-the-scenes look into John's process. Featuring 50 projects with step-by-step instructions on how to make tools, weapons, shelters, pottery, clothing, and more, Primitive Technology is the ultimate guide to the craft. Each project is accompanied by illustrations as well as mini-sidebars with the history behind each item, plus helpful tips for building, material sourcing, and so forth. Whether you're a wilderness aficionado or just eager to spend more time outdoors, Primitive Technology has something for everyone's inner nature lover.

Book The Works of Francis Maitland Balfour

Download or read book The Works of Francis Maitland Balfour written by Francis Maitland Balfour and published by . This book was released on 1885 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Sick Societies

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  • Author : Robert B. Edgerton
  • Publisher : Simon and Schuster
  • Release : 2010-06-15
  • ISBN : 1451602324
  • Pages : 472 pages

Download or read book Sick Societies written by Robert B. Edgerton and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2010-06-15 with total page 472 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Author and scholar Robert Edgerton challenges the notion that primitive societies were happy and healthy before they were corrupted and oppressed by colonialism. He surveys a range of ethnographic writings, and shows that many of these so-called innocent societies were cruel, confused, and misled.

Book The Primitive

Download or read book The Primitive written by Chester B. Himes and published by . This book was released on 1955 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This is a powerful novel about a white woman and an embittered Negro man, each a misfit in his own world, whose desperate effort to find love ended in a nightmare of drink and debauchery."--Cover.

Book Future Primitive

Download or read book Future Primitive written by John Zerzan and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This neo-Luddite sequel to Elements of Refusal includes Future Primitive, The Mass Psychology of Misery, Tonality and the Totality, The Catastrophe of Postmodernism, excerpts from The Nihilists Dictionary, and other essays, columns, and reviews. From the editor of Against Civilization and the confidant of alleged Unabomber Ted Kazcynski.

Book D H  Lawrence

    Book Details:
  • Author : Dolores LaChapelle
  • Publisher : University of North Texas Press
  • Release : 1996
  • ISBN : 9781574410075
  • Pages : 260 pages

Download or read book D H Lawrence written by Dolores LaChapelle and published by University of North Texas Press. This book was released on 1996 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book will change the way you think about D. H. Lawrence. Critics have tried to define him as a Georgian poet, an imagist, a vitalist, a follower of the French symbolists, a romantic or a transcendentalist, but none of the usual labels fit. The same theme runs through all his work, beginning with his very first novel, The White Peacock, and ending with the last line of his final book, Apocalypse. Always it is nature. He said this over and over again, and no one - especially those who feared the "old ways" of harmonious and balanced living on the earth - understood him.

Book The American Naturalist

Download or read book The American Naturalist written by and published by . This book was released on 1881 with total page 1114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Preference for the Primitive

Download or read book The Preference for the Primitive written by E.H. Gombrich and published by Phaidon Press. This book was released on 2006-05-16 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Professor Gombrich's last book and first narrative work in over 20 years.

Book The Primitive

Download or read book The Primitive written by Stephen Amidon and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In North Carolina, a woman escapes from hospital after a car accident, arriving in the office of the real estate agent who caused it, asking his help without explaining why. He is so intrigued he offers her one of the agency's houses and begins an affair behind his wife's back, unaware of what he is getting into.

Book Quarterly Journal of Microscopical Science

Download or read book Quarterly Journal of Microscopical Science written by and published by . This book was released on 1884 with total page 882 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Tame the Primitive Brain

Download or read book Tame the Primitive Brain written by Mark Bowden and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2013-03-04 with total page 307 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A new and simple system to understanding and controlling the behavior of others Noted body language, behavior and communication expert Mark Bowden offers a totally practical, easy-to-read guide to understanding the impulsive actions of others, along with the best tools to manage them. A number one anxiety in business is dealing with problem people. In Tame the Primitive Brain, Mark Bowden's fresh approach is the fastest and most effective way to understand why someone acts towards you the way they do; why you react to their behavior in the way you do; and most importantly, what exactly to do about it to achieve the right outcomes. Brings new and fresh perspectives to business readers for dealing with tricky behaviors Explains how to effectively manage those around you at any level in an organization Shares the latest evolutionary behavioral theory, neuroscientific evidence, and the tried and tested tools and tricks based on these premises This simple model of how we humans can and do relate to each other brings increased depth of understanding and expands your toolset to better manage yourself and others to achieve anything.