Download or read book Strangers in High Places written by Michael Frome and published by Univ Tennessee Press. This book was released on 1994 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this expanded edition of his classic Strangers in High Places, Michael Frome continues to capture the attention and admiration of nature lovers, environmentalists, and professionals as he reviews the last quarter-century in and around the Great Smoky Mountains National Park. Frome's superbly written account tells the story of the Great Smoky Mountains and their inhabitants--Eastern Cherokee, back-country settlers, lumbermen, moonshiners, bears and boars. Frome chronicles the power struggles, legislation, and land transactions surrounding the creation of the national park and discusses the continuing threats to the park's natural beauty. Frome's recent conversations with residents, new and old, along with a complement of historic and contemporary photographs, confirm the views stated in the book's original 1966 edition. The author brings his knowledge, experience, and insights to bear on "one of God's special places." He suggests alternatives to commercial overdevelopment and the destruction of the Great Smokies' flora and fauna, citing recent cases such as the Tellico Dam project and the continuing pollution of the Pigeon River. Always emphasizing our inevitable relationship with our surroundings, Frome relates the story of the Great Smoky Mountains with respect and affection for the region, its people, and their history. Michael Frome ranks among the foremost American authors on travel and conservation. His interests are closely associated with national parks, national forests, and natural beauty in the United States and other countries. He has been a columnist and correspondent for major newspapers and magazines and a university lecturer. He is author of Conscience of a Conservationist: Selected Essays.

Download or read book Talking to Strangers written by Malcolm Gladwell and published by Little, Brown. This book was released on 2019-09-10 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Malcolm Gladwell, host of the podcast Revisionist History and author of the #1 New York Times bestseller Outliers, offers a powerful examination of our interactions with strangers and why they often go wrong—now with a new afterword by the author. A Best Book of the Year: The Financial Times, Bloomberg, Chicago Tribune, and Detroit Free Press How did Fidel Castro fool the CIA for a generation? Why did Neville Chamberlain think he could trust Adolf Hitler? Why are campus sexual assaults on the rise? Do television sitcoms teach us something about the way we relate to one another that isn’t true? Talking to Strangers is a classically Gladwellian intellectual adventure, a challenging and controversial excursion through history, psychology, and scandals taken straight from the news. He revisits the deceptions of Bernie Madoff, the trial of Amanda Knox, the suicide of Sylvia Plath, the Jerry Sandusky pedophilia scandal at Penn State University, and the death of Sandra Bland—throwing our understanding of these and other stories into doubt. Something is very wrong, Gladwell argues, with the tools and strategies we use to make sense of people we don’t know. And because we don’t know how to talk to strangers, we are inviting conflict and misunderstanding in ways that have a profound effect on our lives and our world. In his first book since his #1 bestseller David and Goliath, Malcolm Gladwell has written a gripping guidebook for troubled times.

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Download or read book A Concordance to the Poems of John Keats written by Michael G. Becker and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-05-05 with total page 740 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1981. A Concordance to the Poems of John Keats intended to provide the user with a volume suitable to the varying and increasingly specialised interests of scholarship. This title offers a high degree of inclusiveness that attends to the poems and plays, the emended and authoritative headings, and virtually all of the variant readings considered substantive in the riches of the Keats manuscript materials. This title will be of interest to students of literature.

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Download or read book The Stranger s Guide to Talliston written by John Tarrow and published by Unbound Publishing. This book was released on 2019-07-11 with total page 345 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Abandoned and alone, thirteen-year-old Joe’s world is shattered when he enters a deserted council house and becomes trapped within a labyrinth protecting the last magical places on earth. There, Joe discovers a book charting this immense no-man’s land, without time or place, its thirteen doors each leading to a different realm. Hunted by sinister foes, the boy is forced ever deeper into both the maze and the mystery of his missing parents. What will he find at the labyrinth's centre, and can it reunite him with the family he so desperately needs? Crossing through diverse landscapes from Victorian Britain to fifties New Orleans, The Stranger's Guide to Talliston is inspired by the internationally famous house and gardens dubbed 'Britain’s Most Extraordinary Home' by the Sunday Times. It is a classic YA tale of adventure that introduces readers to an otherworld hiding in plain sight, cloaked in magic and steeped in imagined history. Yet beyond its fearsome huntsmen and battling magicians dwells the secret that lies within all of us – the power to live extraordinary lives. Every copy of The Stranger’s Guide to Talliston includes one entry to the Golden Key to Talliston Grand Draw. Every year there is to be a grand draw to award the fabled Golden Key to Talliston to one fortunate child and their guardian. This will be determined by lottery at 12:00 midday on 6th October and include a private and exclusive holiday inside the magical house and gardens featured in this book.

Download or read book On the Crest of Time written by Shawn C. Shannon and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2012-10 with total page 103 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The chapters in this book are titled The New Twist, The Meadow, The Cave, The Promise, The Gathering, The Whisper, The Awakening, and A Trip Through Time. On The Crest Of Time is an Epic. This futuristic story begins with a revelation about the GHOST, (Globally Hosted Offices Securing Time). The main character is Zackory Taylor. He is a Time traveler - a GHOST. The story takes place in the year 3554 A.D. When Zack is mysteriously whisked away and transported back through time. Upon returning to our future, Zack loses his knowledge of the time transference and all events that took place. It was only after a low whispering voice was detected on his Time-Corder during the recalibration process that the event of time travel was revealed. It was then discovered that he had met with an awesome being in the far reaches of the past. This meeting takes place in a time farther away than GHOSTs normally travel which reaches beyond the black wall in time. Trying to determine the signs and flags of the New Twist, the GHOST of time travel launch an investigation. The real heart of the story starts as a Blue Team considered ARK GHOSTS return to 2054 A.D. This is when time travel becomes a reality. The team travels 1500 years into the past to investigate and correct specific events. Whatever the day whatever the year, when they time travel it is always for the same reason -- to secure time. The first book ends with a confirmation that all securities established on time travel were indeed instituted. However, there is still a mystery or the "glitch in time" that the GHOST must solve. It is cause of major concern involving the safety of even our present time.

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