Death in the Forest

Death in the Forest
Author: J. K. Zawodny
Publisher: Literary Licensing, LLC
Total Pages: 258
Release: 2011-10-01
Genre:
ISBN: 9781258130572

A Good Forest for Dying

A Good Forest for Dying
Author: Patrick Beach
Publisher: Doubleday
Total Pages: 240
Release: 2004-04-06
Genre: Law
ISBN: 038550618X

Early on a September morning in 1998, David “Gypsy” Chain and eight fellow Earth First! activists went into the redwood forests of Scotia, California. Their loosely organized plan to protest the destruction caused by the logging industry almost immediately turned farcically tragic. A. E. Ammons, a logger for Pacific Lumber, confronted the group, threatening them in an obscenity-ridden diatribe: if they didn't leave "I'll make sure I got a tree comin' this way!" The group retreated, moving deeper into the wilderness. A short time later, just as they were attempting to confront the logger yet again, Gypsy was dead, crushed to death by a tree Ammons felled. A GOOD FOREST FOR DYING traces the long history of bitter clashes between environmental concerns and economic interests in the American West and shows why these tensions came to a head in northern California in the 1990s. It tells the story of how Pacific Lumber, once an environmentally friendly, family-owned business, became part of a conglomerate whose business practices made it a ripe target for environmental activists. But A GOOD FOREST FOR DYING is also the story of Gypsy Chain, a troubled young man raised in a loving family. A social misfit in his small Texas hometown, he died in a faraway forest before he had a chance to come to terms with himself and his family. His mother never lost faith in her sometimes wayward, idealistic son. After his death, and helped by a team of shrewd, leftist lawyers, she mounted a fight for justice in the name of her son and the cause of saving the redwoods. A balanced, highly readable examination of complex, emotionally charged issues, A GOOD FOREST FOR DYING will appeal to a wide audience. Its insights into the inner workings of the radical environmental movement and its dissection of corporate greed and misdeeds are reminiscent of such provocative exposés as A Civil Action and Erin Brockovich. The story of Gypsy’s strange odyssey and the disturbing circumstances of his death–seen primarily through the eyes of his mother–is as powerful and as moving as Jon Krakauer’s classic Into the Wild.

Death in the Forest

Death in the Forest
Author: Anton Chekov
Publisher: Vishv Books Private Limited
Total Pages: 176
Release:
Genre: Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN: 8179875563

"She was so beautiful that, drunk as I was, I forgot everything on this earth and crushed her in my arms. She began vowing to me that she had never loved anybody but me. And that was right, she did love me. But in the very heat of her vows, she suddenly came out with a revolting sentence I am so unhappy if I hadn't married Urbenin. I could marry the count now. Everything that had been simmering in my breast boiled over. I was overwhelmed by a feeling of revolution of disgust. I seized the tiny nasty little creature by the shoulders and threw her to the ground as if she were a ball. My fury was at its height. So ..... I finished her off ..... I just finished with Kuzma and so on ........." Chekhov's name rightly stands beside those of Leo Tolstoy and Fyodor Dostoyevsky. Chekhov hated tyranny, falsehood, the complacency of the 'strong' and the humanity of weak and attracted vulgarity in all his forms. Most of all he valued truth, human dignity and moral beauty.

City of Trees

City of Trees
Author: Sophie Cunningham
Publisher: Text Publishing
Total Pages: 321
Release: 2019-04-02
Genre: Nature
ISBN: 1925774244

A rich and insightful collection of personal essays about life, death and our connection to the environment from bestselling Australian author Sophie Cunningham

The Forest in the Hallway

The Forest in the Hallway
Author: Gordon R. Smith
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Total Pages: 248
Release: 2006
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 9780618688470

Accompanied by a mysterious lost boy and a rowdy family with strange powers, fourteen-year-old Beatriz searches for her missing parents while evading a band of slave traders and a vengeful witch.

Beyond the Dead Forest

Beyond the Dead Forest
Author: Steve Groll
Publisher: Tate Publishing
Total Pages: 420
Release: 2010-05
Genre:
ISBN: 161566436X

Carter and Kat think they know every tree, river, and rock within five miles of their homes, but this section of wood, completely devoid of life, was not supposed to exist. Stepping through a doorway into a bizarre world filled with darkness, terror, and death, they embark on a quest to discover the greatest treasure of all.

Death's End

Death's End
Author: Cixin Liu
Publisher: Macmillan
Total Pages: 605
Release: 2016-09-20
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0765377101

Mutually assured destruction has led to decades of peace between humanity and the Trisolarans, but a new force is awakening and this delicate balance can no longer hold... Half a century after the Doomsday Battle, the uneasy balance of Dark Forest Deterrence keeps the Trisolaran invaders at bay. Earth enjoys unprecedented prosperity due to the infusion of Trisolaran knowledge. With human science advancing daily and the Trisolarans adopting Earth culture, it seems that the two civilizations will soon be able to co-exist peacefully as equals without the terrible threat of mutually assured annihilation. But the peace has also made humanity complacent. Cheng Xin, an aerospace engineer from the early twenty-first century, awakens from hibernation in this new age. She brings with her knowledge of a long-forgotten program dating from the beginning of the Trisolar Crisis, and her very presence may upset the delicate balance between two worlds. Will humanity reach for the stars or die in its cradle? Death's End is the New York Times bestselling conclusion to Cixin Liu's tour-de-force series that began with The Three-Body Problem. "The War of the Worlds for the twenty-first century . . . Packed with a sense of wonder." --The Wall Street Journal "A meditation on technology, progress, morality, extinction, and knowledge that doubles as a cosmos- in-the-balance thriller." --NPR The Remembrance of Earth's Past Trilogy The Three-Body Problem The Dark Forest Death's End Other Books Ball Lightning (forthcoming)

Trails of Death

Trails of Death
Author: Fred Rosen
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2011
Genre: True Crime
ISBN: 9780982720691

Features a chronicle of America's only known national parks serial killer, Gary Michael Hilton. This title explores the crimes with co-operation from the victim families and brings readers into what makes a serial killer through interviews with those who know him.

A Death in the Rainforest

A Death in the Rainforest
Author: Don Kulick
Publisher: Algonquin Books
Total Pages: 289
Release: 2019-06-18
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1616209046

“Perhaps the finest and most profound account of ethnographic fieldwork and discovery that has ever entered the anthropological literature.” —The Wall Street Journal “If you want to experience a profoundly different culture without the exhausting travel (to say nothing of the cost), this is an excellent choice.” —The Washington Post As a young anthropologist, Don Kulick went to the tiny village of Gapun in New Guinea to document the death of the native language, Tayap. He arrived knowing that you can’t study a language without understanding the daily lives of the people who speak it: how they talk to their children, how they argue, how they gossip, how they joke. Over the course of thirty years, he returned again and again to document Tayap before it disappeared entirely, and he found himself inexorably drawn into their world, and implicated in their destiny. Kulick wanted to tell the story of Gapuners—one that went beyond the particulars and uses of their language—that took full stock of their vanishing culture. This book takes us inside the village as he came to know it, revealing what it is like to live in a difficult-to-get-to village of two hundred people, carved out like a cleft in the middle of a tropical rainforest. But A Death in the Rainforest is also an illuminating look at the impact of Western culture on the farthest reaches of the globe and the story of why this anthropologist realized finally that he had to give up his study of this language and this village. An engaging, deeply perceptive, and brilliant interrogation of what it means to study a culture, A Death in the Rainforest takes readers into a world that endures in the face of massive changes, one that is on the verge of disappearing forever.

Into the Forest

Into the Forest
Author: Rebecca Frankel
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Total Pages: 222
Release: 2021-09-07
Genre: History
ISBN: 125026765X

A 2021 National Jewish Book Award Finalist One of Smithsonian Magazine's Best History Books of 2021 "An uplifting tale, suffused with a karmic righteousness that is, at times, exhilarating." —Wall Street Journal "A gripping narrative that reads like a page turning thriller novel." —NPR In the summer of 1942, the Rabinowitz family narrowly escaped the Nazi ghetto in their Polish town by fleeing to the forbidding Bialowieza Forest. They miraculously survived two years in the woods—through brutal winters, Typhus outbreaks, and merciless Nazi raids—until they were liberated by the Red Army in 1944. After the war they trekked across the Alps into Italy where they settled as refugees before eventually immigrating to the United States. During the first ghetto massacre, Miriam Rabinowitz rescued a young boy named Philip by pretending he was her son. Nearly a decade later, a chance encounter at a wedding in Brooklyn would lead Philip to find the woman who saved him. And to discover her daughter Ruth was the love of his life. From a little-known chapter of Holocaust history, one family’s inspiring true story.