Author: Thomas Dixon
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : African Americans
Languages : en
Pages : 528

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Author: Kristopher Jansma
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0143125028
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 274

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Winner of the Sherwood Anderson Foundation Fiction Award Honorable Mention for the PEN/Hemingway Award "F. Scott Fitzgerald meets Wes Anderson" (The Village Voice) in this inventive and witty debut about a young man’s quest to become a writer and the misadventures in life and love that take him around the globe—from the author of Why We Came to the City As early as he can remember, the narrator of this remarkable novel has wanted to become a writer. From the jazz clubs of Manhattan to the villages of Sri Lanka, Kristopher Jansma’s hopelessly unreliable—yet hopelessly earnest—narrator will be haunted by the success of his greatest friend and literary rival, the brilliant Julian McGann, and endlessly enamored with Evelyn, the green-eyed girl who got away. A profound exploration of the nature of truth and storytelling, this delightful picaresque tale heralds Jansma as a bold, new American voice.

Author: Rudyard Kipling
Publisher: ABDO
ISBN: 9781596793446
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 40

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Relates how the leopard got his spotted coat in order to hunt the animals in the dappled shadows of the forest.

Author: Brian Goodwin
Publisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 0691217807
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 279

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Do genes explain life? Can advances in evolutionary and molecular biology account for what we look like, how we behave, and why we die? In this powerful intervention into current biological thinking, Brian Goodwin argues that such genetic reductionism has important limits. Drawing on the sciences of complexity, the author shows how an understanding of the self-organizing patterns of networks is necessary for making sense of nature. Genes are important, but only as part of a process constrained by environment, physical laws, and the universal tendencies of complex adaptive systems. In a new preface for this edition, Goodwin reflects on the advances in both genetics and the sciences of complexity since the book's original publication.

Author:
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780817272920
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 36

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WHY THE LEOPARD HAS SPOTS SB

Author: Tamar Myers
Publisher: Harper Collins
ISBN: 0062101455
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 328

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Like Alexander McCall Smith’s ever-popular No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency novels, The Boy Who Stole the Leopard’s Spots immerses readers in a breathtaking African landscape they simply will not wish to leave. For the third time, author Tamar Myers carries readers a world away from Charleston, South Carolina, and her Den of Antiquity cozy mysteries—circling the globe to the Belgian Congo in equatorial Africa in the 1950s. The Boy Who Stole the Leopard’s Spots is a wonderfully engrossing, breathtakingly evocative return to the lush locale of her previous acclaimed African-set mysteries, The Witchdoctor’s Wife (“[A] mesmerizing novel….Authentic. Powerful. Triumphant” —Carolyn Hart) and The Headhunter’s Daughter—as a monsignor of the Catholic church, shamed by a secret event in his past and accused of a terrible crime, must join forces with an American missionary, a police chief, and a witchdoctor and his wise-woman wife to clear his name.

Author: Aernout Zevenbergen
Publisher: Spots of a leopard
ISBN: 0620433116
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 28

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"Spots of a leopard" is a quest into manhood. When journalist Aernout Zevenbergen moved to Kenya, he had no idea that his encounters with life would inspire him unto a journey of self-discovery. What is love? When is a man a good father? Can friendship conquer loneliness?Zevenbergen asks questions few have dared to ask men. Faced with their honesty, the author gets to confront his own demons too.

Author: William Stanton
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Anthropology
Languages : en
Pages : 244

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Author: Won-Ldy Paye
Publisher: Fulcrum Publishing
ISBN: 9781555919917
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 72

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Dan stories from Liberia represent great storytelling and universal values.

Author: Robin P. Currie
Publisher: Archway Publishing
ISBN: 1480880280
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 143

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Lies are everywhere, but we can see the truth if we try really hard. Following up on the success of her first philosophical book, Pray without Ceasing, Robin P. Currie leads readers on a humorous adventure into the grey area between truth, lies, and manipulations. She seeks to answer questions such as: • What happens when we live outside of our core truths and values? • What secrets do we keep tucked away deep inside ourselves? • What benefits can we realize by converting to a more fluid way of approaching life’s ups and downs? The author’s purpose is to dispel and refute limiting beliefs, but she also questions whether limiting beliefs are real at all. Are we told we have limiting beliefs, when in fact, we have none? Could the entire concept be a profound untruth that, when believed, places upon us a predestined measure of suffering? Join the author as she exposes ridiculous deceptions, hilarious lies, and the irony of our own beliefs in A Leopard Can’t Change Its Spots.