Author: Jon Krakauer
Publisher: Anchor
ISBN: 0804170568
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 417
Book Description
NATIONAL BESTSELLER • “A devastating exposé of colleges and local law enforcement.... A substantive deep dive into the morass of campus sex crimes, where the victim is too often treated like the accused.” —Entertainment Weekly Missoula, Montana, is a typical college town, home to a highly regarded state university whose beloved football team inspires a passionately loyal fan base. Between January 2008 and May 2012, hundreds of students reported sexual assaults to the local police. Few of the cases were properly handled by either the university or local authorities. In this, Missoula is also typical. In these pages, acclaimed journalist Jon Krakauer investigates a spate of campus rapes that occurred in Missoula over a four-year period. Taking the town as a case study for a crime that is sadly prevalent throughout the nation, Krakauer documents the experiences of five victims: their fear and self-doubt in the aftermath; the skepticism directed at them by police, prosecutors, and the public; their bravery in pushing forward and what it cost them. These stories cut through abstract ideological debate about acquaintance rape to demonstrate that it does not happen because women are sending mixed signals or seeking attention. They are victims of a terrible crime, deserving of fairness from our justice system. Rigorously researched, rendered in incisive prose, Missoula stands as an essential call to action.
Missoula
Author: Jon Krakauer
Publisher: Anchor
ISBN: 0804170568
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 417
Book Description
NATIONAL BESTSELLER • “A devastating exposé of colleges and local law enforcement.... A substantive deep dive into the morass of campus sex crimes, where the victim is too often treated like the accused.” —Entertainment Weekly Missoula, Montana, is a typical college town, home to a highly regarded state university whose beloved football team inspires a passionately loyal fan base. Between January 2008 and May 2012, hundreds of students reported sexual assaults to the local police. Few of the cases were properly handled by either the university or local authorities. In this, Missoula is also typical. In these pages, acclaimed journalist Jon Krakauer investigates a spate of campus rapes that occurred in Missoula over a four-year period. Taking the town as a case study for a crime that is sadly prevalent throughout the nation, Krakauer documents the experiences of five victims: their fear and self-doubt in the aftermath; the skepticism directed at them by police, prosecutors, and the public; their bravery in pushing forward and what it cost them. These stories cut through abstract ideological debate about acquaintance rape to demonstrate that it does not happen because women are sending mixed signals or seeking attention. They are victims of a terrible crime, deserving of fairness from our justice system. Rigorously researched, rendered in incisive prose, Missoula stands as an essential call to action.
Publisher: Anchor
ISBN: 0804170568
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 417
Book Description
NATIONAL BESTSELLER • “A devastating exposé of colleges and local law enforcement.... A substantive deep dive into the morass of campus sex crimes, where the victim is too often treated like the accused.” —Entertainment Weekly Missoula, Montana, is a typical college town, home to a highly regarded state university whose beloved football team inspires a passionately loyal fan base. Between January 2008 and May 2012, hundreds of students reported sexual assaults to the local police. Few of the cases were properly handled by either the university or local authorities. In this, Missoula is also typical. In these pages, acclaimed journalist Jon Krakauer investigates a spate of campus rapes that occurred in Missoula over a four-year period. Taking the town as a case study for a crime that is sadly prevalent throughout the nation, Krakauer documents the experiences of five victims: their fear and self-doubt in the aftermath; the skepticism directed at them by police, prosecutors, and the public; their bravery in pushing forward and what it cost them. These stories cut through abstract ideological debate about acquaintance rape to demonstrate that it does not happen because women are sending mixed signals or seeking attention. They are victims of a terrible crime, deserving of fairness from our justice system. Rigorously researched, rendered in incisive prose, Missoula stands as an essential call to action.
Lentil Underground
Author: Liz Carlisle
Publisher: Avery
ISBN: 1592409563
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 322
Book Description
"With a new foreword by Frederick L. Kirschenmann..."
Publisher: Avery
ISBN: 1592409563
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 322
Book Description
"With a new foreword by Frederick L. Kirschenmann..."
Breaking Clean
Author: Judy J. Blunt
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 1101973587
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 322
Book Description
“A memoir with the fierce narrative force of an eastern Montana blizzard, rich in story and character, filled with the bone-chilling details of Blunt’s childhood. She writes without bitterness, with an abiding love of the land and the work and her family and friends that she finally left behind, at great sacrifice, to begin to write. This is a magnificent achievement, a book for the ages. I’ve never read anything that compares with it.” —James Crumley, author of The Last Good Kiss Born into a third generation of Montana homesteaders, Judy Blunt learned early how to “rope and ride and jockey a John Deere,” but also to “bake bread and can vegetables and reserve my opinion when the men were talking.” The lessons carried her through thirty-six-hour blizzards, devastating prairie fires and a period of extreme isolation that once threatened the life of her infant daughter. But though she strengthened her survival skills in what was—and is—essentially a man’s world, Blunt’s story is ultimately that of a woman who must redefine herself in order to stay in the place she loves. Breaking Clean is at once informed by the myths of the West and powerful enough to break them down. Against formidable odds, Blunt has found a voice original enough to be called classic.
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 1101973587
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 322
Book Description
“A memoir with the fierce narrative force of an eastern Montana blizzard, rich in story and character, filled with the bone-chilling details of Blunt’s childhood. She writes without bitterness, with an abiding love of the land and the work and her family and friends that she finally left behind, at great sacrifice, to begin to write. This is a magnificent achievement, a book for the ages. I’ve never read anything that compares with it.” —James Crumley, author of The Last Good Kiss Born into a third generation of Montana homesteaders, Judy Blunt learned early how to “rope and ride and jockey a John Deere,” but also to “bake bread and can vegetables and reserve my opinion when the men were talking.” The lessons carried her through thirty-six-hour blizzards, devastating prairie fires and a period of extreme isolation that once threatened the life of her infant daughter. But though she strengthened her survival skills in what was—and is—essentially a man’s world, Blunt’s story is ultimately that of a woman who must redefine herself in order to stay in the place she loves. Breaking Clean is at once informed by the myths of the West and powerful enough to break them down. Against formidable odds, Blunt has found a voice original enough to be called classic.
Animal Weapons
Author: Douglas J. Emlen
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 0805094504
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description
Emlen takes us outside the lab and deep into the forests and jungles where he's been studying animal weapons in nature for years, to explain the processes behind the most intriguing and curious examples of extreme animal weapons. As singular and strange as some of the weapons we encounter on these pages are, we learn that similar factors set their evolution in motion. Emlen uses these patterns to draw parallels to the way we humans develop and employ our own weapons, and have since battle began.
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 0805094504
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description
Emlen takes us outside the lab and deep into the forests and jungles where he's been studying animal weapons in nature for years, to explain the processes behind the most intriguing and curious examples of extreme animal weapons. As singular and strange as some of the weapons we encounter on these pages are, we learn that similar factors set their evolution in motion. Emlen uses these patterns to draw parallels to the way we humans develop and employ our own weapons, and have since battle began.
Educational Administration: Theory, Research, and Practice
Author: Wayne Hoy
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Higher Education
ISBN: 0077526422
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 594
Book Description
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Higher Education
ISBN: 0077526422
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 594
Book Description
Glorious Time
Author: Tom Benjey
Publisher: The University of Montana Press, distributed by Farcountry Press
ISBN: 0990974898
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 266
Book Description
Tom Benjey's Glorious Times tells the fascinating and important story of an American clan of Scots-Irish that settled in the early 1700s in Pennsylvania. From this clan came an astonishing number exceptional people, many of whom dedicated their lives to nature. This book even poses the question as to whether this family had a special "Naturalist DNA". It covers many generations, but appropriately focuses most attention on the famous siblings Frank Jr., John, and Jean (Craighead George).
Publisher: The University of Montana Press, distributed by Farcountry Press
ISBN: 0990974898
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 266
Book Description
Tom Benjey's Glorious Times tells the fascinating and important story of an American clan of Scots-Irish that settled in the early 1700s in Pennsylvania. From this clan came an astonishing number exceptional people, many of whom dedicated their lives to nature. This book even poses the question as to whether this family had a special "Naturalist DNA". It covers many generations, but appropriately focuses most attention on the famous siblings Frank Jr., John, and Jean (Craighead George).
Roadside Geology of Montana
Author: Donald W. Hyndman
Publisher: Mountain Press
ISBN: 9780878426966
Category : Geology
Languages : en
Pages : 480
Book Description
Now, nearly 50 years after the first book, Mountain Press is releasing this completely revised full-color second edition that, like so many things in Montana, is big. But consider this: no other place in the world has such amazingly diverse and well-exposed rocks with such dramatic stories.
Publisher: Mountain Press
ISBN: 9780878426966
Category : Geology
Languages : en
Pages : 480
Book Description
Now, nearly 50 years after the first book, Mountain Press is releasing this completely revised full-color second edition that, like so many things in Montana, is big. But consider this: no other place in the world has such amazingly diverse and well-exposed rocks with such dramatic stories.
Montana's Rocky Mountain Front
Author: Rick Graetz
Publisher: Northern Rockies Publishing, distributed by Farcountry Press
ISBN: 0990974804
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 50
Book Description
Along "The Front" the Great Plains skid to an abrupt halt against the soaring escarpment of the Northern Rockies. Through essays and photography, this book captures the essence of this magnificent and uncommon landscape.
Publisher: Northern Rockies Publishing, distributed by Farcountry Press
ISBN: 0990974804
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 50
Book Description
Along "The Front" the Great Plains skid to an abrupt halt against the soaring escarpment of the Northern Rockies. Through essays and photography, this book captures the essence of this magnificent and uncommon landscape.
Oral History Collections
Author: Alan M. Meckler
Publisher: New York : Bowker
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 360
Book Description
Publisher: New York : Bowker
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 360
Book Description
Searching for Bear Eyes
Author: Kathleen Snow
Publisher: The University of Montana Press, distributed by Farcountry Press
ISBN: 9780990974864
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 248
Book Description
Did a grizzly bear kill Melody Applegate? Or was it something else stalking the remote edges of Yellowstone Park? Searching for Bear Eyes is a mystery novel narrated by the enigmatic X. Wenn, Yellowstone Park's Chief Criminal Investigator. A gifted tracker of bear and man, it's up to him to piece together the story of what may be a mauling by Wild Eye, one of the park's most fabled grizzlies, or a perfect murder. As X. inches toward a reality that he cannot accept, slivers of his own past come to the surfacelost love, shadows of an abusive childhood, estrangement from his son. He assembles the evidence with meticulous precision, but can we trust him to face the truth? Set against the Edenic beauty and pure logic of Yellowstone's "Green World," Searching for Bear Eyes explores the evolutionary psychology of human love.
Publisher: The University of Montana Press, distributed by Farcountry Press
ISBN: 9780990974864
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 248
Book Description
Did a grizzly bear kill Melody Applegate? Or was it something else stalking the remote edges of Yellowstone Park? Searching for Bear Eyes is a mystery novel narrated by the enigmatic X. Wenn, Yellowstone Park's Chief Criminal Investigator. A gifted tracker of bear and man, it's up to him to piece together the story of what may be a mauling by Wild Eye, one of the park's most fabled grizzlies, or a perfect murder. As X. inches toward a reality that he cannot accept, slivers of his own past come to the surfacelost love, shadows of an abusive childhood, estrangement from his son. He assembles the evidence with meticulous precision, but can we trust him to face the truth? Set against the Edenic beauty and pure logic of Yellowstone's "Green World," Searching for Bear Eyes explores the evolutionary psychology of human love.