![]() ![]() But things get even stranger when a photograph turns up in the victim's purse that ties her murder to one from Longmire's past-a case he tackled as a Marine Corps investigator forty years earlier in Vietnam. In Another Man's Moccasins, the body of a Vietnamese woman dumped along the Wyoming interstate opens a baffling case for Sheriff Longmire, whose only suspect is a Crow Indian with a troubled past. It delivers more of the taut prose, engrossing characters, beautiful Wyoming setting, and satisfying depth that reviewers have been hailing since his first book, The Cold Dish. ![]() We have new and used copies available, in 3 editions - starting at 3.50. ![]() Parker will love the fourth mystery in New York Times bestselling author Craig Johnson's award-winning Walt Longmire series, the basis for LONGMIRE, the hit A&E original drama series, is not to be missed. Buy Another Man's Moccasins by Craig Johnson online at Alibris. ANOTHER MAN’S MOCCASINS When the body of a young Vietnamese woman is found alongside the interstate in Absaroka County, Sheriff Walt Longmire is determined to discover the identity of the victim and is forced to confront the horrible similarities of this murder to that of his first homicide case as a Marine investigator in Vietnam. A murder victim might connect to Walt’s past in this enthralling novel from the New York Times bestselling author of The Cold Dish and As the Crow Flies, the fourth in the Walt Longmire Mystery Series, the basis for LONGMIRE, the hit A&E original drama series Fans of Ace Atkins, Nevada Barr and Robert B. ![]()
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![]() ![]() When the three traditional descriptions of faith were used, there was an assumption that the word fiducia (cordial trust) alongside notitia (knowledge) and assensus (mental assent) included more than trusting Jesus as an ignominious but effective rescuer from hell. For centuries, theologians have assumed that saving faith includes more than the confidence that Christ is competent, like the lecherous surgeon. The traditional way of describing saving faith has always assumed something. Which means what? Something Has Been Assumed Which of these two would we trust for our brain surgery: a foulmouthed, dishonest, lustful, highly skilled, highly effective surgeon at the top of his profession, or a kind, honest, chaste young surgeon with little actual experience? We would trust the lecher with our life. For example, experience teaches us that it is possible, even necessary at times, to trust a person with our lives whom we neither love, nor admire, nor even want to be around. We know there are different kinds of faith and different ways of trusting. ![]() ![]() Experience teaches us to probe for distinctions. If Christ is not embraced as our supreme treasure, he is not embraced for who he is.Įven our own experience impels us to probe into those contexts for more depth and precision. In this Bible-saturated meditation on the nature of saving faith, John Piper argues that the spiritual affection of treasuring Christ belongs to the very essence of saving faith. ![]() ![]() ![]() Combine that with Nisioisin’s distinct writing style and you’re in for a fun ride.ĭel Rey translated this and volume 2 before they went under, but unfortunately this volume is long out of print and sold out everywhere. In fact, the series is essentially a character study on Ii-chan – take someone with his purely apathetic personality, throw him into an abnormal situation with outlandish characters, and see what happens. He’s all too familiar with murderers and geniuses and strange people and would rather just not be bothered. Our Ii-chan just can’t give less of a damn. Our unnamed narrator (commonly referred to by fans as Ii-chan) is unwillingly thrown into a new absurd situation every volume, usually involving some sort of murder or conspiracy or scheming and whatnot, but in the end it always boils down to nonsense. It’s widely regarded as Nisio’s best work, his crowning achievement, to this day. A mere nine months later the series had five books out, although the final ninth volume wasn’t released until 2005. Kubikiri Cycle is Nisioisin’s debut work, published in 2002 at the age of 20. It’s been years since I read the first volume of Zaregoto and I barely remember anything about it now, so let’s use this space as a general introduction to the series. ![]() ![]() Kubikiri Cycle (The Beheading Cycle: The Blue Savant and the Nonsense Bearer / クビキリサイクル 青色サヴァンと戯言遣い) ![]() ![]() ![]() After a couple of years “circling the wagon,” as Bauer calls it, he decided to apply for a job as a guard with Corrections Corporation of America (CCA), which as of 2015 was America’s largest private corrections company. Instead of returning to the Middle East full time, as he had intended, his reporting lens began to refocus on prisons closer to home.īauer quickly learned that prisons - especially those run by private companies - are secretive and suspicious of reporters. He and the two others, Sarah Shourd and Joshua Fattal eventually wrote a book about their experience, A Sliver of Light: Three Americans Imprisoned in Tehran.Īfter returning home to the Bay Area, Bauer heard about the conditions of California prisoners living in solitary confinement - something he had experienced in Tehran. Bauer spent the next two years in an Iranian prison. In 2009, when he was a freelance journalist living in Iraqi Kurdistan, Iranian border guards arrested him and two others when they accidentally crossed into the country on a hiking trip. ![]() ![]() Over there, he ends up meeting more people who are just like him and finds out that he has superpowers. This book follows Mike, a Brazilian man who gets thrown out of his mundane life after he gets admitted into a psychiatric unit. With this book, I intend to address my experience in a fictional manner so that others may find solace in knowing that they are not alone. Many people around the world go through the same kind of experience, but they are often seen as lunatics and are placed in hospices for treatment. ![]() It is a crisis when the process of growth and change becomes chaotic and overwhelming. The name of this series is called “The Sacred Trilogy – The Real Series.” I wanted to name it The Real Series because it has been inspired by a mystical experience that I had back in the Amazon of Brazil, mainly after consuming Ayahuasca, an indigenous tea produced by the Amazon Indians.īetween 20, I experienced what some psychologists may call a spiritual emergency. For a few years now, I have had this idea of a fiction book in my head. ![]() ![]() Stanislaw Ulam is credited with the initial idea for Monte Carlo mathematics, and he developed it in collaboration with John von Neumann and the astoundingly named Nicholas Metropolis. Of course, this is one of several important random number tables, but its connection with Cold-War weaponization is particularly interesting. As it happened, the main complex system in need of modeling was the chaotic reaction inside the thermonuclear weapons that RAND scientists were then helping to design at Los Alamos. Scientists there were developing a new branch of mathematics called the Monte Carlo Method, which uses random sampling to model complex systems. Production of the so-called RAND Book began at the Los Alamos National Laboratory in 1947. ![]() ![]() One can hardly resist the impulse to open this hefty volume, but good luck actually reading it. First published for the RAND Corporation in 1955 by the Free Press of Glencoe, Illinois, A Million Random Digits with 100,000 Normal Deviates contains exactly what you’d suspect: an extremely large table of random digits. ![]() ![]() No one could make up these outrageous-but-true tales: the young woman who rejected the recommended safari-friendly khaki to wear a more "fashionable" hot pink ensemble the lost tourist who happened to be drunk, half-naked, and a member of the British royal family establishing a real friendship with the continent's most vicious animal the Japanese tourist who requested a repeat performance of Allison's being charged by a lion so he could videotape it and spending a crazy night in the wild after blowing a tire on a tour bus, revealing that Allison has as much good-natured scorn for himself. ![]() As he serves the whims of his wealthy clients, he often has to stop the impulse to run as far away from them as he can, as these tourists are sometimes more dangerous than a pride of lions. Passionate for the animals of the Kalahari, Allison works as a top safari guide in the wildlife-rich Okavango Delta. Peter Allison gives us the guide's-eye view of living in the bush, confronting the world's fiercest terrain of wild animals and, most challenging of all, managing herds of gaping tourists. A hilarious, highly original collection of essays based on the Botswana truism: "only food runs " With a new introduction and new material from the authorIn the tradition of Bill Bryson, a new writer brings us the lively adventures and biting wit of an African safari guide. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() This necessarily emphasizes ââthe implications of incorporating whites in Lakota ceremonies and the independent use of the ceremony by nonIndiansââ (15). ![]() In the ï¬nal chapter, Bucko considers the signiï¬cance of the sweat lodge as a cultural vehicle for incorporating persons into Lakota groups within the cultural prerogatives of their system of kinship. In chapter six he examines the ceremonyâs role ââwithin the larger context of social exchange and interactionââ (15). In chapter ï¬ve he turns to a biographical treatment of various participants and how they came to be involved in sweat lodges and the range of interpretations they oï¬er about its meanings. In chapter four he addresses the role of the Lakota language and other types of communication that occur in and through the sweat. In the third chapter, he scrutinizes the recorders of the texts in the ethnographic record, which reveals certain contentions about the regulation of practice across a variety of groups of believers, including assorted outsiders. This also reï¬ects transformations in the social life of Lakotas. ![]() Grit-Tempered: Early Women Archaeologists in the Southeastern United States Grit-Tempered: Early Women Archaeologists in the Southeastern United StatesĦ498 Ethnohistory 48:4 / sheet 170 of 228 continuities and changes in the ceremony reï¬ect the dynamics recurrent in contemporary Lakota ritual practice. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Since their discovery 150 years ago, Neanderthals have gone from the losers of the human family tree to A-list hominins. This book sheds new light on where they lived, what they ate, and the increasingly complex Neanderthal culture that researchers have discovered. ![]() In Kindred, Neanderthal expert Rebecca Wragg Sykes shoves aside the cliché of the shivering ragged figure in an icy wasteland, and reveals the Neanderthal you don't know, our ancestor who lived across vast and diverse tracts of Eurasia and survived through hundreds of thousands of years of massive climate change. ![]() " bold and magnificent attempt to resurrect our Neanderthal kin."- The Wall Street Journal "Kindred is important reading not just for anyone interested in these ancient cousins of ours, but also for anyone interested in humanity."- The New York Times Book Review ![]() ![]() So that’s what I’m asking: when the project goes live, look it over. And seriously, if this fully funds in the first few days it’ll be waaaaay less stressful for me! If we can get a big push on day one, the project gets more attention, like the possibility of getting promotion from Kickstarter. Here’s where you come in: the project launches on Thursday, and that first day is really important for all kinds of reasons. But if we do reach the goal, supporters get cool exclusive rewards you can’t get anywhere else. ![]() It’s all or nothing - if the project doesn’t reach its goal, there’s no funding. A way to get backing for projects before they launch. What is Kickstarter? It’s a crowdfunding platform. ![]() Sign up here to get an alert when the project goes live. ![]() I’ll be launching it via Kickstarter on Thursday. I’m putting together my next short story collection - WATER FIRE FAE: STORIES - bringing together my favorite stories from the last few years, including the Hugo-finalist “That Game We Played During the War.” It’ll have amazing cover art by award-winning artist Elizabeth Leggett I’m doing a thing and I could use your help. ![]() |