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Author: Chuck Palahniuk Publisher: Doubleday Canada ISBN: 030737372X Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 258
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“Begins here first account of operative me, agent number 67 on arrival midwestern American airport greater _____ area. Flight _____. Date _____. Priority mission top success to complete. Code name: Operation Havoc.” Thus speaks Pygmy, one of a handful of young adults from a totalitarian state sent to the United States, disguised as exchange students, to live with typical American families and blend in, all the while planning an unspecified act of massive terrorism. Palahniuk depicts Midwestern life through the eyes of this thoroughly indoctrinated little killer, who hates Americans with a passion, in this cunning double-edged satire of a xenophobia that might, in fact, be completely justified.
Author: Chuck Palahniuk Publisher: Doubleday Canada ISBN: 030737372X Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 258
Book Description
“Begins here first account of operative me, agent number 67 on arrival midwestern American airport greater _____ area. Flight _____. Date _____. Priority mission top success to complete. Code name: Operation Havoc.” Thus speaks Pygmy, one of a handful of young adults from a totalitarian state sent to the United States, disguised as exchange students, to live with typical American families and blend in, all the while planning an unspecified act of massive terrorism. Palahniuk depicts Midwestern life through the eyes of this thoroughly indoctrinated little killer, who hates Americans with a passion, in this cunning double-edged satire of a xenophobia that might, in fact, be completely justified.
Author: Robert E. Wells Publisher: Albert Whitman & Company ISBN: 0807593540 Category : Juvenile Nonfiction Languages : en Pages : 37
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A pygmy shrew is small—it's among the littlest mammals! A ladybug is even smaller, but it hardly seems tiny when you compare it to a protozoa! And there are many things smaller still—so small that we can see them only with a microscope. Would you believe there are particles that are so tiny that we can't measure their exact size? Explore the huge world of the very small!
Author: Isabel Allende Publisher: Rayo ISBN: Category : Juvenile Fiction Languages : en Pages : 308
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Eighteen-year-old Alexander Cold and his grandmother travel to Africa on an elephant-led safari, but discover a corrupt world of poaching and slavery.
Author: Isaac Bacirongo Publisher: ISBN: 9781925048421 Category : Pygmies Languages : en Pages : 224
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Still a Pygmy is a story of love, pride and prejudice that traces the journey of BaTembo Pygmy Isaac Bacirongo from the forests of Central Africa, through the brutality of dictatorship and war, to arrival and settlement in Australia's melting pot. Isaac's inimitable style and voice draw readers into the heart of this memoir, his relationship with his wife, who survived his mother's attempts to kill her and who helped Isaac through experiences of appalling violence. It is full of warmth, wit and wise insights about life -especially family life and child-rearing. Isaac Bacirongo grew up as a Pygmy hunter-gatherer in the Congo. However, when his Papa left the forest to find work, Isaac went to missionary school, where he fell in love with scientific reason and rejected his mission teachings. He courted and wed Josephine, a 'town girl', whom his mother hated. Complaining that her new daughter-in-law would not be able to catch crabs or collect firewood, she engaged a witchdoctor in an attempt to kill her. Isaac and Josephine moved to the city, and he became a prosperous businessman. Isaac become a community leader involved in the fight for Pygmy rights, but he was imprisoned for his activism by the brutal regime that controls Eastern Congo. He bribed his way out of jail and fled to Kenya with his wife and 10 children in 2000. there he becomes an interpreter on a corruption investigation into the UNHCR. Granted a humanitarian visa, the family resettled as refugees in Sydney, but life started to unravel under the pressure of domestic violence, his children's assimilation and an Australian workplace that tested Isaac's African values. Although this memoir is Isaac's personal story, unique in its perspective on life as a Pygmy, it is also a universal story about the tragedies and challenges faced by many refugees and migrants, and their indomitable spirit they display in rising above challenges and confronting change to touch and transform the new communities they join.
Author: Mark Giannini Publisher: ISBN: 9780615451084 Category : Languages : en Pages :
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The Tallest Pygmy is my attempt to help the legions of CEOsand senior executives I may never meet by sharing my observations,expertise, and wisdom gleaned in the trenches. I do so inthe hope that you won't fall into the same business traps causedby IT departments that cannot, or simply will not, keep abreast ofthe rapid pace of technological change and innovation.This book serves as a friendly caution: If you, as a CEO, don'tembrace and leverage IT for your competitive advantage, you willfind yourself losing more and more deals and clients and youwill not know why.
Author: Phillip T. Robinson Publisher: Oxford University Press ISBN: 0190627875 Category : Science Languages : en Pages : 441
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Though the pygmy hippopotamus has been designated as a flagship species of West African forests (meaning that by raising conservation efforts for a single species, an entire ecological region could benefit), very little research has been published on the animal. They are solitary, nocturnal, and highly evasive, and until recent developments in "camera trap" technology, they were considered the least-photographed large mammal species in the world. The information currently available on this endangered species is scattered, limited, redundant, and often inaccurate, and no major volume exists as a resource for those interested in the conservation effort for the species, until now. Phillip Robinson and his coauthors provide a treatment of the natural history, biology, and ecology of the pygmy hippo, along with a discussion of the rare animal's taxonomic niche and a summary of the research initiatives involving it up to this point. The authors show the ways in which the pygmy hippo has come into contact with people in West African countries, both in terms of ecological and cultural impact. This creature has been the subject of local folktales, and is treated as almost mythic in some regions. Information on issues related to captivity, breeding, and zoos is provided. The book is heavily illustrated with original photographs and anatomic drawings. The project should be of use to conservation biologists, zoologists and natural history readers, and will be the definitive single-volume account of an animal that the scientific community has designated to be ecologically significant to West Africa.
Author: Trolonda Terrell Publisher: AuthorHouse ISBN: 1524620416 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 40
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Danken spends his entire day taking on a task that causes him trouble that could have been avoided if he had not listened to terrible advice. However, Danken survives his adventure and learns a very important life lesson.
Author: Jasper McCutcheon Publisher: ISBN: 9781934625132 Category : Psychology Languages : en Pages : 0
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What evil awaits Captain Henry Mitchell on the island below? A US Navy fighter pilot, he's forced to abandon his plane and parachute down into a rainforest canopy. He is greeted by a lost tribe of pygmies and their insanely cruel leader, a female, Caucasian westerner like himself, who subjects him to unholy tortures both painful and erotic. She believes he's come to take her secrets - but what are these secrets, and how can a man deal with being tortured for answers to something he knows nothing about?
Author: Chuck Palahniuk
Author: Chuck Palahniuk
Author: Jean Pierre Hallet
Author: Robert E. Wells
Author: Isabel Allende
Author: Isaac Bacirongo
Author: Mark Giannini
Author: Luigi Luca Cavalli-Sforza
Author: Phillip T. Robinson
Author: Trolonda Terrell
Author: Jasper McCutcheon