Solomon Islands Mysteries

Author : Marius Boirayon
Publisher : SCB Distributors
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2010-04-20
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 9781935487128

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Solomon Islands Mysteries by Marius Boirayon Pdf

Near where the sunken warships of the Battle of Guadalcanal lie, glowing UFOs rise out of the Pacific, fly into the mountains and disappear into jungle lakes. Here, a tropical paradise exists with inexplicable, ancient ruins and puzzling writings of an unknown culture. Steamy, rugged mountain ranges are inhabited by strange Sasquatch-like creatures. They have come down to the villages to kidnap the locals for generations. Terrifying stories of abduction and cannibalism are passed on by the villagers to their children. These are some of the incredible tales that the Solomon Islanders have lived with for decades and you will read about in this spellbinding book. Author Marius Boirayon is the son of the World War II central France maquis (resistance) leader, and grew up in Mount Hagen in the Papua New Guinea Highlands. Following a career in the Royal Australian Air Force and as an aircraft/helicopter engineer working in outback Australia, he decided in 1995 to go to the Solomon Islands to live.

Author : Graeme Kent
Publisher : Soho Press
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2011-02-08
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781569478745

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Devil-Devil by Graeme Kent Pdf

First in the series: A “truly fabulous” mystery starring a policeman and a nun in the South Pacific of the 1960s (The Globe and Mail, Toronto). It’s not easy being Ben Kella. As a sergeant in the Solomon Islands police force, as well as an aofia, a hereditary spiritual peacekeeper of the Lau people, he is viewed with distrust by both the indigenous islanders and the British colonial authorities. In the past few days he has been cursed by a magic man, stumbled across evidence of a cargo cult uprising, and failed to find an American anthropologist who had been scouring the mountains for a priceless pornographic icon. Then, at a mission station, Kella discovers an independent and rebellious young American nun, Sister Conchita, secretly trying to bury a skeleton. The unlikely pair of Kella and Conchita are forced to team up to solve a series of murders that tie into all these other strange goings-on, in this crime novel with “a fascinating setting” (The A.V. Club). “A sparkling plot (complete with an unexpected conclusion) and a rich history of the Solomons and their native people. But it’s Kella and Conchita—and Kent’s wit—that makes this unusual mystery work, and readers will eagerly await the next installment.” —Richmond Times-Dispatch

Author : Graeme Kent
Publisher : C & R Crime
Page : 142 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2012-06-07
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781780330341

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One Blood by Graeme Kent Pdf

1960, and Sister Conchita, the young nun with a flair for detection, has been forced to leave her beloved Malaita and assume reluctant command of a run-down mission in the lush, primitive Western District of the Solomon Islands.The group of three elderly sisters currently there are rumoured to have 'gone native' and Conchita tries to grapple with these eccentric, tough-mind insurgents and the secrets they are keeping when an American tourist is murdered in their mission church but perplexingly, the colonial authorities want nothing to do with this bizarre crime. Help is at hand for Sister Conchita in the shape of her friend Sergeant Ben Kella, the local police officer but also the aofia, the traditional law-bringer of the islands. Together, the idealistic young nun and practical witch doctor set out to solve the mystery. In the process they discover links to a local independence organisation, a powerful international logging company, and, most puzzling of all, to John F. Kennedy, a former wartime US naval officer in the area but now, thousands of miles away, about to become the 35th president of the USA. Praise for Devil-Devil: The mystery takes a back seat to [Kent's] knowledge of the exotic location and the combustible chemistry of his protaganists (the oddest couple since The African Queen), which add immensely to his story's charm. Kirkus Review

Author : Henry Brougham Guppy
Publisher : London : S. Sonneschein, Lowrey
Page : 430 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 1887
Category : Ethnology
ISBN : HARVARD:32044072253362

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The Solomon Islands and Their Natives by Henry Brougham Guppy Pdf

Author : Lucyle T Werkmeister Professor of Philosophy and Director of the Program in the History and Philosophy of Science Michael Ruse,Michael Ruse
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2009-06-01
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780674042988

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Mystery of Mysteries by Lucyle T Werkmeister Professor of Philosophy and Director of the Program in the History and Philosophy of Science Michael Ruse,Michael Ruse Pdf

With the recent Sokal hoax--the publication of a prominent physicist's pseudo-article in a leading journal of cultural studies--the status of science moved sharply from debate to dispute. Is science objective, a disinterested reflection of reality, as Karl Popper and his followers believed? Or is it subjective, a social construction, as Thomas Kuhn and his students maintained? Into the fray comes "Mystery of Mysteries," an enlightening inquiry into the nature of science, using evolutionary theory as a case study. Michael Ruse begins with such colorful luminaries as Erasmus Darwin (grandfather of Charles) and Julian Huxley (brother of novelist Aldous and grandson of T. H. Huxley, "Darwin's bulldog" ) and ends with the work of the English game theorist Geoffrey Parker--a microevolutionist who made his mark studying the mating strategies of dung flies--and the American paleontologist Jack Sepkoski, whose computer-generated models reconstruct mass extinctions and other macro events in life's history. Along the way Ruse considers two great popularizers of evolution, Richard Dawkins and Stephen Jay Gould, as well as two leaders in the field of evolutionary studies, Richard Lewontin and Edward O. Wilson, paying close attention to these figures' cultural commitments: Gould's transplanted Germanic idealism, Dawkins's male-dominated Oxbridge circle, Lewontin's Jewish background, and Wilson's southern childhood. Ruse explicates the role of metaphor and metavalues in evolutionary thought and draws significant conclusions about the cultural impregnation of science. Identifying strengths and weaknesses on both sides of the "science wars," he demonstrates that a resolution of the objective and subjective debate is nonetheless possible.

Author : Glen Fritz
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 576 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2019-11-20
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0578560739

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The Exodus Mysteries by Glen Fritz Pdf

A geographical analysis of the location of Mount Sinai of the biblical Exodus and the route used to reach it. The Red Sea of the Exodus is identified as the Gulf of Aqaba and Mount Sinai is identified as Jabal al-Maqla in the Jabal al-Lawz range of northwest Saudi Arabia. The Exodus journeys beyond Mount Sinai are also summarized.

Author : Graeme Kent
Publisher : Soho Press
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2012-02-07
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781616950590

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One Blood by Graeme Kent Pdf

An “appealing and enjoyable” crime novel set in the South Pacific of the early 1960s (Booklist). Ben Kella has his hands full. A sergeant in the Solomon Islands police force, as well as an aofia, a hereditary spiritual peacekeeper of the Lau people, he’s called to investigate acts of sabotage that threaten the local operations of a powerful international logging company. Meanwhile, Sister Conchita, a young nun with a flair for detection, has been forced to assume command of a run-down mission in the lush Western District of the Solomon Islands. When an American tourist is murdered in the mission church, she and Kella join forces to uncover the links between these goings-on and a sudden upsurge of interest in John F. Kennedy—who was once a wartime US naval officer in the area but now, in 1960, thousands of miles away, is about to become the thirty-fifth American president.

Author : Michael B. Cosmopoulos
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 247 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2015-06-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107010994

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Bronze Age Eleusis and the Origins of the Eleusinian Mysteries by Michael B. Cosmopoulos Pdf

This book provides a synthesis of the archaeology of Eleusis during the Bronze Age, reconstructing the origins and early development of the Eleusinian Mysteries.

Author : Elena V. Baraban,Stephen M. Norris
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2021
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781487525767

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Akunin Project by Elena V. Baraban,Stephen M. Norris Pdf

You don't know his name, but Boris Akunin is one of the most popular and prolific Russian writers of the twenty-first century.

Author : Hervé This
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Cooking
ISBN : 9780231141710

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Kitchen Mysteries by Hervé This Pdf

International celebrity and co-founder of molecular gastronomy Herve This answers such fundamental questions as what causes vegetables to change color when cooked and how to keep a souffle from falling. Sharing the empirical principles chefs have valued for generations, he shows how to adapt recipes to available ingredients and how to modify proposed methods to the utensils at hand. His revelations make difficult recipes easier and allow for even more creativity and experimentation in the kitchen.

Author : Mulla Muhsin,Fayd Kashani
Publisher : Islamic College for Advanced Studie
Page : 667 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Hadith
ISBN : 1904063500

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Spiritual Mysteries & Ethical Secrets by Mulla Muhsin,Fayd Kashani Pdf

Since its completion in the seventeenth century, this book has been lauded as a valuable textbook on Islamic spirituality and ethics as well as a spiritually enlightening read. This ground breaking translation brings to light how Mulla Muhsin Fayd Kashani engages with the Sunni Sufi tradition particularly the ideas of al-Ghazzali for the benefit of a Shia audience. In addition to presenting the inner mysteries of Islamic ritual practices, Fayd Kashani also explains the nature of the human character and how to cultivate, balance, and eliminate various traits. The work answers many commonly asked questions by Muslims such as what is the deeper meaning of fasting and how to concentrate in prayer.

Author : Katherine Routledge
Publisher : Good Press
Page : 387 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2023-07-10
Category : Travel
ISBN : EAN:4066339531376

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The mystery of Easter island by Katherine Routledge Pdf

"The mystery of Easter island" by Katherine Routledge. Published by Good Press. Good Press publishes a wide range of titles that encompasses every genre. From well-known classics & literary fiction and non-fiction to forgotten−or yet undiscovered gems−of world literature, we issue the books that need to be read. Each Good Press edition has been meticulously edited and formatted to boost readability for all e-readers and devices. Our goal is to produce eBooks that are user-friendly and accessible to everyone in a high-quality digital format.

Author : Richard Walters,Peter Sheppard
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2017-11
Category : Antiquities, Prehistoric
ISBN : 0947522530

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Archaeology of the Solomon Islands by Richard Walters,Peter Sheppard Pdf

Archaeology of the Solomon Islands presents the outcome of 20 years research in the Solomon Islands undertaken jointly by Richard Walter and Peter Sheppard, both leaders in the eld of Pacific archaeology. At the time of first European encounter, the peoples of Melanesia exhibited some of the greatest diversity in language, socio-political organisation and culture expression of any region on earth. This extraordinary diversity attracted scholars and resulted in coastal Melanesia becoming the birthplace of modern anthropology, and yet the area remains one of the least well-documented regions of the Pacific in archaeological terms. This synthesis of Solomon Island archaeology draws together all the research that has taken place in the field over the past 50 years. It takes a multidisciplinary theoretical and methodological approach and considers the work of archaeologists, environmental scientists, anthropologists and historians. At the same time this volume highlights the results of the authors own considerable field research. Until recently, much Pacific archaeological research focused primarily on colonisation events and cultural-ecological interactions. Walter and Sheppard are interested too in the long-term development of diversity in coastal Melanesia and in the evolution of traditional Melanesian societies. As a case study they focus on the Roviana Chiefdom, an aggressive but highly successful polity based around headhunting, slave raiding and ritual violence that dominated the political economy of the Western Province into the early twentieth century. They also integrate the Solomon Islands into ongoing models and debates around Pacific culture - history, including in such key areas as human expansion during the Pleistocene, the spread of Austronesians, Lapita colonisation, the development of food production, the role of exchange systems, the concept and meaning of culture areas, and human impact on landscapes and ecosystems. This fascinating and very readable book is written for an archaeological audience but is also designed to be accessible to all readers interested in Pacific archaeology, anthropology and history. Featuring more than a hundred maps and figures, Archaeology of the Solomon Islands represents a ground-breaking contribution to Pacific archaeology.

Author : Alfredo Morabia
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2014-06-24
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9780231168854

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Enigmas of Health and Disease by Alfredo Morabia Pdf

This book is the principal account of epidemiology’s role in the development of effective measures to identify, prevent, and treat diseases. Throughout history, epidemiologists have challenged conventional knowledge, elucidating mysteries of causality and paving the way for remedies. From the outbreak of the bubonic plague, cholera, and cancer to the search for an effective treatment of AIDS and the origins of Alzheimer’s disease, epidemiological thought has been crucial in shaping our understanding of population health issues. Alfredo Morabia’s lucid retelling sheds new light on the historical triumphs of epidemiological research and allows for contemporary readers, patients, and nontechnical audiences to make sense of the immense amount of health information disseminated by the media. By drawing from both historical and contemporary sources, Morabia provides the reader with the tools to differentiate health beliefs from health knowledge. The book covers important topics, including the H1N1 swine flu epidemic, breast cancer, the effects of aspirin, and the link between cigarettes and lung cancer. Enigmas of Health and Disease is a concise narrative helping patients and health providers develop a more informed relationship.

Author : Guy MacLean Rogers
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 521 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2012-11-27
Category : History
ISBN : 9780300182705

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The Mysteries of Artemis of Ephesos by Guy MacLean Rogers Pdf

DIV Artemis of Ephesos was one of the most widely worshiped deities of the Graeco-Roman World. Her temple, the Artemision, was one of the seven wonders of the ancient world, and for more than half a millennium people flocked to Ephesos to learn the great secret of the mysteries and sacrifices that were celebrated every year on her birthday. In this work Guy MacLean Rogers sets out the evidence for the celebration of Artemis's mysteries against the background of the remarkable urban development of the city during the Roman Empire and then proposes an entirely new theory about the great secret that was revealed to initiates into Artemis's mysteries. The revelation of that secret helps to explain not only the success of Artemis's cult and polytheism itself but, more surprisingly, the demise of both and the success of Christianity. Contrary to many anthropological and scientific theories, the history of polytheism, including the celebration of Artemis's mysteries, is best understood as a Darwinian tale of adaptation, competition, and change. /div