Download or read book Vanishings written by Time-Life Books and published by Time Life Medical. This book was released on 1990 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contains fascinating facts about disappearances, including missing persons, lost worlds, extinct species, and more.

Download or read book Dark Vanishings written by Patrick Brantlinger and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2014-01-15 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Patrick Brantlinger here examines the commonly held nineteenth-century view that all "primitive" or "savage" races around the world were doomed sooner or later to extinction. Warlike propensities and presumed cannibalism were regarded as simultaneously noble and suicidal, accelerants of the downfall of other races after contact with white civilization. Brantlinger finds at the heart of this belief the stereotype of the self-exterminating savage, or the view that "savagery" is a sufficient explanation for the ultimate disappearance of "savages" from the grand theater of world history. Humanitarians, according to Brantlinger, saw the problem in the same terms of inevitability (or doom) as did scientists such as Charles Darwin and Thomas Henry Huxley as well as propagandists for empire such as Charles Wentworth Dilke and James Anthony Froude. Brantlinger analyzes the Irish Famine in the context of ideas and theories about primitive races in North America, Australia, New Zealand, and elsewhere. He shows that by the end of the nineteenth century, especially through the influence of the eugenics movement, extinction discourse was ironically applied to "the great white race" in various apocalyptic formulations. With the rise of fascism and Nazism, and with the gradual renewal of aboriginal populations in some parts of the world, by the 1930s the stereotypic idea of "fatal impact" began to unravel, as did also various more general forms of race-based thinking and of social Darwinism.

Download or read book Mysterious Vanishings written by Virginia Loh-Hagan and published by Cherry Lake. This book was released on 2018-01-01 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mysterious Vanishings checks out the weirdest vanishings in the world--stories too strange to be made up! The book is written with a high interest level to appeal to a more mature audience with a lower level of complexity for struggling readers. Clear visuals and colorful photographs help with comprehension. Fascinating information and wild facts that will hold the readers' interest are conveyed in considerate text for older readers, allowing for successful mastery of content. A table of contents, glossary, and index all enhance comprehension and vocabulary.

Download or read book The Vanishings written by Jerry B. Jenkins and published by Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.. This book was released on 1998 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A six-volume set that centers around four kids who suddenly find themselves alone after millions around the world disappear.

Download or read book Vampires and Vanishings written by Lily Webb and published by Lily Webb. This book was released on 2019-09-02 with total page 185 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There’s new blood in town… Zoe Clarke’s name is on everyone’s lips. After Zoe was elected Head Witch in an upstart campaign, Moon Grove’s paranormal populace can’t stop talking about their youngblood new leader. But not all press is good press. The media that Zoe used to be part of is tracking her every move with a critical eye — and they aren’t alone. So when several of Zoe’s colleagues begin vanishing inexplicably, Zoe worries she’s bitten off more than she can chew. From the fresh-faced new king of the vampires to a powerful coalition of paranormal species demanding representation, Zoe’s certain there’s bad blood at work — and when her grandmother is the next to disappear, Zoe realizes she’ll have to pull teeth to get to the truth. Will Zoe put a stake in the captor’s plans? Or is the culprit out for blood? Vampires and Vanishings is the sixth book in the Magic and Mystery series of witch cozy mysteries. If you like vindictive vampires, persnickety paranormals, and magical murder mysteries, then you’ll love this lighthearted sixth entry in Lily Webb’s spellbinding series. Keywords: witch, witch cozy mystery, paranormal cozy mystery, supernatural mystery, paranormal, amateur sleuth, female sleuth, woman sleuth, psychic, telepathic, vampire, werewolf, cozy mystery, cozy, mystery

Download or read book The Disappearance of Percy Fawcett and Other Famous Vanishings written by Jane Clapp and published by Skyhorse. This book was released on 2017-03-14 with total page 122 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There is nothing more disconcerting than someone vanishing into thin air. Unanswered questions abound and the mysteries only tend to grow. The Disappearance of Percy Fawcett and Other Famous Vanishings attempts to provide clarity and background on several individuals’ unexplained departures. While looking for his mythical Lost City of Z, Percy Fawcett vanished. Amelia Earhart did the same while circling the earth on her historic flight. Much like these two historical figures, there has been a slew of cases that have never been solved—noted author Ambrose Bierce, Czar Alexander I, Judge Joseph Force Crater, famed adventurer Richard Halliburton, and others who never managed to return from their adventures. This book examines and documents each case in extensive detail, in an attempt to bring together some of the loose ends. History.com writer Evan Andrews provides a detailed foreword to add some contemporary insight into the accounts of the vanished in The Disappearance of Percy Fawcett and Other Famous Vanishings.

Download or read book Milner Dunn Valentine s Vanishings Paranormal Gay Romance written by Trina Solet and published by Trina Solet. This book was released on 2022-08-24 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Adrian still can't get used to being in the ghost hunting business with a hot partner. When the owners of a romantic inn need help with a supernatural problem, Dunn sees no reason why he can't use the opportunity for a getaway in the country with Adrian. But is either of them ready for what they are going to face or for their growing feelings for each other?

Download or read book Vanishings written by Gary Fincke and published by Stephen F. Austin University Press. This book was released on 2014 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vanishings is a stunning collection of autobiographical narratives that propel us into the life and mind of a literary genius. "Yams were in stories about Africa that I read in Sunday school. Tribes ate them, villagers who still carried spears and stared at missionaries who visited them to explain Jesus. I was out of college before I willingly ate a yam, filling a groove I cut in its skin with butter and brown sugar a minute before I took it from the oven. A few years later, when I had children of my own who complained about yams, wishing for French fries or mashed potatoes with gravy, the milk carton that sat on the table during dinner always featured the face of a missing child. "Have You Seen Me?" its caption read, and those faces reminded me to be thankful even as my children yammered their petty complaints. As the three of them poked at their half-eaten yams, wasting what was left after a half hour of whining, those milk carton faces kept my anger in check." --from the book

Download or read book Vanishings written by Jerry B. Jenkins and published by Turtleback Books. This book was released on 1998-07 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Four former Christian teenagers find themselves alone and afraid following the Rapture when God spirits His followers away to Heaven.

Download or read book Vanishings from that Neighborhood written by Joe Bonomo and published by Kent State University Press. This book was released on 1996 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume provides a collection of the work of American poet, Joe Bonomo.

Download or read book Supernatural Vanishings written by Rodney Davies and published by Sterling. This book was released on 1996 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents researched and documented cases of supernatural vanishings, including stories of appearances and disappearances, animal entrances and exits, teleportation and bilocation, and other mysterious comings and goings.

Download or read book Visitors Vanishings and Va va va Voom written by Karen McCombie and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ally and her mates are most chuffed when a bunch of French boys turn up at Palace Gates school because of a French exchange. Only Jen seems a bit distracted, but Ally doesn't have time to get to the bottom of it before it's too late - Jen's pulled a vanishing act

Download or read book The Vanishing The End of Time Chronicles written by Heath Jannusch and published by The End of Time Chronicles. This book was released on 2012-08-19 with total page 235 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first book in The End of Time Chronicles, The Vanishing, begins the moment after millions of people vanish in a bright light. The ground begins to shake violently as hundreds of meteors crash down all over the planet. Nations are thrown into chaos as famine and disease sweep across the globe. The world is forever changed! Full of riveting action and unsuspecting twists, The Vanishing exposes the revelation of what's to come. As the story unfolds monsters foretold in legends, written long ago, will once again emerge. Giants, dragons, and sea-monsters, reclaim territory once lost to champions of old. No place on earth will be safe from evil or the men and beasts it controls. But where there are villains, there are heroes. Lex Mancini is an attractive rebel who's never really been anything but a con-man. But something miraculous is about to find him, love. Fleeing the scene of a crime, he's unaware the fate of many will depend on him. The town of Clearview becomes a sanctuary for the righteous and a resting place for those in need. Nestled at the base of the majestic Sierra Nevada Mountains, the small town finds itself in the middle of anarchy, war and turmoil, struggling to survive. His family gone, Shiloh Evans has been taking it one day at a time. Working on a mysterious project, he must face his personal demons and find the strength to lead the town to safety. Betrayed by their government, Michael Mason and Cleo Brown, covert agents for the CIA, are in possession of top secret, encrypted documents. The information they possess might be the key to saving the world. As the future unfolds there are things foretold which will come to pass. It isn't a matter of if, but a matter of when...

Download or read book White Vanishing written by Elspeth Tilley and published by Brill. This book was released on 2012-01-01 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of the vulnerable white person vanishing without trace into the harsh Australian landscape is a potent and compelling element in multiple genres of mainstream Australian culture. It has been sung in “Little Boy Lost,” brought to life on the big screen in Picnic at Hanging Rock, immortalized in Henry Lawson’s poems of lost tramps, and preserved in the history books’ tales of Leichhardt or Burke and Wills wandering in mad circles. A world-wide audience has also witnessed the many-layered and oddly strident nature of Australian disappearance symbolism in media coverage of contemporary disappearances, such as those of Azaria Chamberlain and Peter Falconio. White Vanishing offers a revealing and challenging re-examination of Australian disappearance mythology, exposing the political utility at its core. Drawing on wide-ranging examples of the white-vanishing myth, the book provides evidence that disappearance mythology encapsulates some of the most dominant and durable categories at the heart of white Australian culture, and that many of those ideas have their origin in colonial mechanisms of inequality and oppression. White Vanishing deliberately (and perhaps controversially) reminds readers that, while power is never absolute or irresistible, some narrative threads carry a particularly authoritative inheritance of ideas and power-relations through time.

Download or read book Discourses of the Vanishing written by Marilyn Ivy and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2010-02-15 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Japan today is haunted by the ghosts its spectacular modernity has generated. Deep anxieties about the potential loss of national identity and continuity disturb many in Japan, despite widespread insistence that it has remained culturally intact. In this provocative conjoining of ethnography, history, and cultural criticism, Marilyn Ivy discloses these anxieties—and the attempts to contain them—as she tracks what she calls the vanishing: marginalized events, sites, and cultural practices suspended at moments of impending disappearance. Ivy shows how a fascination with cultural margins accompanied the emergence of Japan as a modern nation-state. This fascination culminated in the early twentieth-century establishment of Japanese folklore studies and its attempts to record the spectral, sometimes violent, narratives of those margins. She then traces the obsession with the vanishing through a range of contemporary reconfigurations: efforts by remote communities to promote themselves as nostalgic sites of authenticity, storytelling practices as signs of premodern presence, mass travel campaigns, recallings of the dead by blind mediums, and itinerant, kabuki-inspired populist theater.

Download or read book Vanishing Women written by Karen Redrobe and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2003-04-01 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With the help of mirrors, trap doors, elevators, photographs, and film, women vanish and return in increasingly spectacular ways throughout the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Karen Beckman tracks the proliferation of this elusive figure, the vanishing woman, from her genesis in Victorian stage magic through her development in conjunction with photography and film. Beckman reveals how these new visual technologies projected their anxieties about insubstantiality and reproducibility onto the female body, producing an image of "woman" as utterly unstable and constantly prone to disappearance. Drawing on cinema studies and psychoanalysis as well as the histories of magic, spiritualism, and photography, Beckman looks at particular instances of female vanishing at specific historical moments—in Victorian magic’s obsessive manipulation of female and colonized bodies, spiritualist photography’s search to capture traces of ghosts, the comings and goings of bodies in early cinema, and Bette Davis’s multiple roles as a fading female star. As Beckman places the vanishing woman in the context of feminism’s discussion of spectacle and subjectivity, she explores not only the problems, but also the political utility of this obstinate figure who hovers endlessly between visible and invisible worlds. Through her readings, Beckman argues that the visibly vanishing woman repeatedly signals the lurking presence of less immediately perceptible psychic and physical erasures, and she contends that this enigmatic figure, so ubiquitous in late-nineteenth- and twentieth-century culture, provides a new space through which to consider the relationships between visibility, gender, and agency.

Download or read book The Beginning Woods written by Malcolm McNeill and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2018-01-09 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A 2018 Carnegie Medal Nominee A MYSTERY NO ONE CAN SOLVE The Vanishings started without warning. People disappearing into thin air—just piles of clothes left behind. Each day, thousands gone without a trace. A BABY NO ONE WANTED Abandoned in a bookshop, Max has grown up haunted by memories of his parents. Only he can solve the mystery of the Vanishings. A SECRET THAT COULD SAVE THE FUTURE To find the answers, Max must leave this world and enter the Beginning Woods, a realm of magic and terror where stories are all too real. A STORY THAT WILL TAKE YOU TO ANOTHER WORLD Greater than your dreams. Darker than your fears. Full of more wonder than you could ever desire. Welcome to the ineffable Beginning Woods. . . .