Vanishings

Author : Time-Life Books
Publisher : Time Life Medical
ISBN 13 : 9780809476879
Total Pages : 132 pages
Book Rating : 4.78/5 ( download)

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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.

Author : Patrick Brantlinger
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 0801468671
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.74/5 ( download)

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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.

Author : Virginia Loh-Hagan
Publisher : Cherry Lake
ISBN 13 : 1534109560
Total Pages : 32 pages
Book Rating : 4.68/5 ( download)

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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.

Author : Jerry B. Jenkins
Publisher : Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 9780842321938
Total Pages : 166 pages
Book Rating : 4.34/5 ( download)

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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.

Author : Lily Webb
Publisher : Lily Webb
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 185 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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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

Author : Jane Clapp
Publisher : Skyhorse
ISBN 13 : 1631581821
Total Pages : 122 pages
Book Rating : 4.23/5 ( download)

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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.

Author : Trina Solet
Publisher : Trina Solet
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 138 pages
Book Rating : 4.01/5 ( download)

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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?

Author : Jerry B. Jenkins
Publisher : Turtleback Books
ISBN 13 : 9780606252669
Total Pages : 146 pages
Book Rating : 4.65/5 ( download)

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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.

Author : Gary Fincke
Publisher : Stephen F. Austin University Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 202 pages
Book Rating : 4.66/5 ( download)

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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

Author : Joe Bonomo
Publisher : Kent State University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780873385442
Total Pages : 44 pages
Book Rating : 4.46/5 ( download)

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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.