The Ancient Rain

Author : Domenic Stansberry
Publisher : Minotaur Books
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2013-11-19
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781466857766

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The Ancient Rain by Domenic Stansberry Pdf

Edgar Award winner and master of contemporary noir Domenic Stansberry returns to San Francisco's North Beach and Dante Mancuso, the dark PI who grew up on its tough streets. After a career with a shadowy security firm with interests on both sides of the law, Dante has come home to put all that behind him and has gone to work for a private investigator. A call alerts him early one morning that Bill Owens, a fellow PI, has been charged with a notorious thirty-year-old killing. Bill was involved in a political group in the late sixties, which among other pranks and small-time crimes, held up a bank. Except that time, an innocent bystander was shot and killed. To clear Owens of these charges, Dante will have to retrace the original investigation through San Francisco's radical underground and bring in the man who was pulling the strings. The Ancient Rain is a chilling novel from one of crime fiction's finest. Stansberry spools out a narrative filled with deceit and betrayal, and in his hands the line between justice and revenge is razor sharp.

Author : Bob Kaufman
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
Page : 100 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 1981
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 081120801X

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The Ancient Rain by Bob Kaufman Pdf

"Mr. Kaufman has a genuine lyric talent, and his poetry is sensuous, exciting, and charged with vitality." --Publishers Weekly

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 1981
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:926428251

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The Ancient Rain : Poems, 1956-1978 by Anonim Pdf

Author : John Oliver Killens,Jerry Washington Ward
Publisher : Plume
Page : 632 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Fiction
ISBN : UOM:39015029233130

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Black Southern Voices by John Oliver Killens,Jerry Washington Ward Pdf

Anthology of fifty-six African-American Southern writers whose works address the living contradictions of the South.

Author : Bob Kaufman
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
Page : 96 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2017-05-17
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9780811213639

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The Ancient Rain, Poems 1956-1978 by Bob Kaufman Pdf

"Mr. Kaufman has a genuine lyric talent, and his poetry is sensuous, exciting, and charged with vitality." —Publishers Weekly The Ancient Rain: Poems 1956-1978 is San Francisco poet Bob Kaufman’s third collection and his first to be published since the late 1960s. One of the original Beat poets (the coinage "beatnik" is his), Kaufman’s work has always been essentially improvisational, often done to jazz accompaniment. And he became something of a legendary figure at the poetry readings in the early days of the San Francisco renaissance of the 1950s. With his extemporaneous technique, akin in many ways to Surrealist automatic writing, he has produced a body of work ranging from a visionary lyricism infused with satirical, almost Dadaistic elements to a prophetic poetry of political and social protest. Born in New Orleans of mixed Black and Jewish parentage, Kaufman was one of fourteen children. During twenty years in the Merchant Marine, he cultivated an intense taste for literature on his long sea voyages. Settling in California, in the ’50s, he became active in the burgeoning West Coast literary scene. Disappointment, drugs, and imprisonment led him to take a ten-year vow of complete silence that lasted until 1973. The present volume includes previously uncollected poems written prior to his pledge and newer work composed in the years 1973-1978, before the poet once again lapsed into silence.

Author : Gary Lockhart
Publisher : Turner Publishing Company
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2008-05-02
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9780470355428

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The Weather Companion by Gary Lockhart Pdf

The Weather Companion An Album of Meteorological History, Science, Legend, and Folklore Throughout history, as farmer, sailor, hunter, and artist, humans have watched and worried about the weather. We have devised ways to observe it, to predict it, to protect ourselves from it, to take advantage of it. It plays a major role in the science and folklore of every culture. Gary Lockhart's The Weather Companion is a fascinating compendium of meteorological facts and fables, from ancient myths to the latest research, from the rain forests to the desert regions. You'll learn about the meteorology of Noah's flood; methods of forecasting; the behavior of weather cycles; weather predictors such as the thickness of corn husks, the height of saw grass, and the behavior of animals; weather prophets; and much more. Gary Lockhart reveals what makes rain "smell," how natural barometers work, and the long history of weather fish, once kept to predict rain, and revived during China's Cultural Revolution. You'll even learn the best time to go fishing! Beautifully illustrated, captivating and original, The Weather Companion is a delightful experience for all ages. Your skies and sunsets will never be the same.

Author : Sir Charles Lyell
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1014 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 1857
Category : Geology
ISBN : STANFORD:36105032433653

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A Manual of Elementary Geology: Or, The Ancient Changes of the Earth and Its Inhabitants by Sir Charles Lyell Pdf

Author : Tan Twan Eng
Publisher : Canongate Books
Page : 424 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2022-02-03
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781838858353

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The Gift of Rain by Tan Twan Eng Pdf

LONGLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE Penang, 1939. Being half Chinese and half English, Philip Hutton always felt like he never belonged. That is until he befriends Hayato Endo, a mysterious Japanese diplomat and master in the art of aikido. But when Japan invades Malaya, Philip realises Endo bears a secret, one powerful enough to jeopardise everything he loves. This masterful début conjures an unforgettable tale of courage, brutality, loyalty, deceit and love.

Author : Jonathan M. Kenoyer,Kimberley Burton Heuston
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 178 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : History
ISBN : 9780195222432

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The Ancient South Asian World by Jonathan M. Kenoyer,Kimberley Burton Heuston Pdf

Learn about the history and civilizations from ancient South Asia through the study of a variety of archaeological discoveries.

Author : Jan A. Wagenaar
Publisher : Otto Harrassowitz Verlag
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Calendar, Jewish
ISBN : 344705249X

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Origin and Transformation of the Ancient Israelite Festival Calendar by Jan A. Wagenaar Pdf

The book focusses on the origin and transformation of the priestly festival calendar. Since the epoch-making work of Julius Wellhausen at the end of the 19th century the differences between the various ancient Israelite festival calendars have often been explained in terms of a gradual evolution, which shows an increasing historicisation, denaturalisation and ritualisation. The festivals were in Wellhausen's view gradually detached from agricultural conditions and celebrated more and more at fixed points in the year. This study tries to show that the changes in the priestly festival calendar reflect a conscious effort to adapt the ancient Israelite festival calendar to the semi-annual layout of the Babylonian festival year. The ramifications of the change only come to the fore after a careful study of the agricultural conditions of ancient Israel - and Mesopotamia - makes clear that passover and the festival of unleavened bread were originally celebrated in the second month of the year. The first month of the year envisaged by the priestly festival calendar for the celebration of passover and the festival of unleavened bread in turn mirrors the date of one of the two semi-annual Babylonian New Year festivals. The two Babylonian New Year festivals were celebrated exactly six months apart at the vernal and autumnal equinoxes. In order to adapt the ancient Israelite festival calendar to the Babylonian scheme with two New Year festivals a year, the date of passover and the festival of unleavened bread had to be moved up by one month. The consequences for the origin of passover, the festival of unleavened bread, the festival of weeks and the festival of huts are charted and the relations between the various ancient Israelite festival calendars are determined anew.

Author : John Gardner Wilkinson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 514 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 1837
Category : Agriculture
ISBN : NYPL:33433062179696

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Manners and Customs of the Ancient Egyptians by John Gardner Wilkinson Pdf

Author : John Gardner Wilkinson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 518 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 1847
Category : Egypt
ISBN : OXFORD:302144731

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The Manners and Customs of the Ancient Egyptians by John Gardner Wilkinson Pdf

Author : Craig Childs
Publisher : Back Bay Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2008-07-03
Category : History
ISBN : 0316067547

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House of Rain by Craig Childs Pdf

In this landmark work on the Anasazi tribes of the Southwest, naturalist Craig Childs dives head on into the mysteries of this vanished people. The various tribes that made up the Anasazi people converged on Chaco Canyon (New Mexico) during the 11th century to create a civilization hailed as "the Las Vegas of its day," a flourishing cultural center that attracted pilgrims from far and wide, and a vital crossroads of the prehistoric world. By the 13th century, however, Chaco's vibrant community had disappeared without a trace. Was it drought? Pestilence? War? Forced migration, mass murder or suicide? Conflicting theories have abounded for years, capturing the North American imagination for eons. Join Craig Childs as he draws on the latest scholarly research, as well as a lifetime of exploration in the forbidden landscapes of the American Southwest, to shed new light on this compelling mystery. He takes us from Chaco Canyon to the highlands of Mesa Verde, to the Mongollon Rim; to a contemporary Zuni community where tribal elders maintain silence about the fate of their Lost Others; and to the largely unexplored foothills of the Sierra Madre in Mexico, where abundant remnants of Anasazi culture lie yet to be uncovered.

Author : Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 120 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 1875
Category : Albatrosses
ISBN : BL:A0026185620

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The Rime of the Ancient Mariner by Samuel Taylor Coleridge Pdf

Author : Arthur Demarest
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 396 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2004-12-09
Category : History
ISBN : 0521533902

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Ancient Maya by Arthur Demarest Pdf

Ancient Maya comes to life in this new holistic and theoretical study.