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They Shoot Orcas, Don't They? - TheTyee.ca
They Shoot Orcas, Don't They?TheTyee.ca, Canada - 45 minutes agoBy Daniel Francis [Editor's note: The book Operation Orca (Harbour Publishing) recounts the efforts to save Springer in Puget Sound and Luna near Gold River ...
 | Balls and Strikes: The Money Game in Professional Baseball author: Kenneth M. Jennings asin: 0275934411 |
 | Chaos Theory in Economics: Methods, Models and Evidence (International Library of Critical Writings in Economics) asin: 1858982162 |
Very Funny - Now Change Me Back Again
 | author: Peter Biddlecombe asin: 0349109699 binding: Paperback list price: $14.99 USD amazon price: $9.89 USD |
This is the fifth in a series of dispatches from all over the world in which Peter Biddlecombe recounts his battles to survive the black magic voodoo of 5-star international travel. Former European footballers of the year open their own high street bank, alcohol-free lager is invented to give the good people of Oslo an excuse to enjoy themselves, and the formation dancing team of the Ukranian mafia can register 6.7 on the Richter scale.
Six Women's Slave Narratives (Schomburg Library of Nineteenth-Century Black Women Writers)
 | asin: 0195052625 binding: Hardcover list price: $45.00 USD amazon price: $45.00 USD |
Written by six black women, these stories embody most of the predominant themes and narrative forms found in African-American women's autobiographies from the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The History of Mary Prince, a West Indian Slave (1831), the first female slave narrative from the Americas, recounts one woman's suffering and courage in the pursuit of freedom. The Story of Mattie J. Jackson (1866) not only tells of a quest for personal freedom, but also concludes with a family reunion in the North after the Civil War. read more »
The Bellstone: The Greek Sponge Divers of the Aegean
 | author: Michael N. Kalafatas asin: 1584652721 binding: Hardcover list price: $26.00 USD amazon price: $26.00 USD |
For centuries,the young men of the Dodecanese Islands, a string of islands in the Aegean Sea between Greece and the coast of Asia Minor, earned their living by diving for sponges. They would descend to the bottom of the sea on just a single breath of air, using as a weight and rudder a flat, marble diving stone called a bellstone. They used this ancient technique of "naked diving" until 1863 when the deep-sea diving suit was introduced into the sponge-fishing industry. read more »
Crossing Boundaries: Selected Writings
 | author: Albert O. Hirschman asin: 1890951048 binding: Hardcover list price: $32.95 USD amazon price: $24.50 USD |
"Crossing Boundaries is not only characteristic of the physical moves I have undertaken (or had to undertake) in the course of my life: it is also distinctive of the interdisciplinary travels I have engaged in ever since I started to write." --Albert O. Hirschman, from Crossing Boundaries read more »
