Gold and Ghosts

Gold and Ghosts
Author: David W. De Havelland
Publisher:
Total Pages: 348
Release: 1985
Genre: Gold mines and mining
ISBN:

Between Dreams and Ghosts

Between Dreams and Ghosts
Author: Andrea Wright
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Total Pages: 358
Release: 2021-11-09
Genre: History
ISBN: 1503630110

More than one million Indians travel annually to work in oil projects in the Gulf, one of the few international destinations where men without formal education can find lucrative employment. Between Dreams and Ghosts follows their migration, taking readers to sites in India, the United Arab Emirates, and Kuwait, from villages to oilfields and back again. Engaging all parties involved—the migrants themselves, the recruiting agencies that place them, the government bureaucrats that regulate their emigration, and the corporations that hire them—Andrea Wright examines labor migration as a social process as it reshapes global capitalism. With this book, Wright demonstrates how migration is deeply informed both by workers' dreams for the future and the ghosts of history, including the enduring legacies of colonial capitalism. As workers navigate bureaucratic hurdles to migration and working conditions in the Gulf, they in turn influence and inform state policies and corporate practices. Placing migrants at the center of global capital rather than its periphery, Wright shows how migrants are not passive bodies at the mercy of abstract forces—and reveals through their experiences a new understanding of contemporary resource extraction, governance, and global labor.

Men, Women, and Ghosts

Men, Women, and Ghosts
Author: Elizabeth Stuart Phelps
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
Total Pages: 346
Release: 2020-09-23
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 3752508760

Reprint of the original, first published in 1869.

Men, Women and Ghosts

Men, Women and Ghosts
Author: Amy Lowell
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
Total Pages: 250
Release: 2023-08-26
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 3387002629

Reproduction of the original. The publishing house Megali specialises in reproducing historical works in large print to make reading easier for people with impaired vision.

Needles, Herbs, Gods, and Ghosts

Needles, Herbs, Gods, and Ghosts
Author: Linda L. BARNES
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Total Pages: 475
Release: 2009-06-30
Genre: History
ISBN: 0674020545

When did the West discover Chinese healing traditions? Most people might point to the "rediscovery" of Chinese acupuncture in the 1970s. In Needles, Herbs, Gods, and Ghosts, Linda Barnes leads us back, instead, to the thirteenth century to uncover the story of the West's earliest known encounters with Chinese understandings of illness and healing. A medical anthropologist with a degree in comparative religion, Barnes illuminates the way constructions of medicine, religion, race, and the body informed Westerners' understanding of the Chinese and their healing traditions.

Vampires, Zombies, Werewolves and Ghosts

Vampires, Zombies, Werewolves and Ghosts
Author: Barbara H. Solomon
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 404
Release: 2011-09-06
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1101544023

They are the fearful images that have stalked humanity’s nightmares for centuries, supernatural creatures that feast on flesh and haunt the soul, macabre and uncanny beings that frighten and fascinate the imagination. Vampires, Zombies, Werewolves, and Ghosts collects classic stories from literary masters inspired by folklore and mythology who dared to explore the darker side of human nature and crafted tales that defied convention, stirred up controversy, and gave life to a storytelling genre that has endured for generations. With stories by Charles Dickens, Rudyard Kipling, Henry James, Anne Sexton, Oscar Wilde, Yvonne Navarro, Fritz Leiber, Ramsey Campbell, Chelsea Quinn Yarbro, Angela Carter, and others…

Gold

Gold
Author: Annie Linden
Publisher:
Total Pages: 272
Release: 1896
Genre:
ISBN:

Magic, Witchcraft, and Ghosts in the Greek and Roman Worlds

Magic, Witchcraft, and Ghosts in the Greek and Roman Worlds
Author: Daniel Ogden
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Total Pages: 380
Release: 2002
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780195151237

In a culture where the supernatural possessed an immediacy now strange to us, magic was of great importance both in the literary mythic tradition and in ritual practice. In this book, Daniel Ogden presents 300 texts in new translations, along with brief but explicit commentaries. Authors include the well known (Sophocles, Herodotus, Plato, Aristotle, Virgil, Pliny) and the less familiar, and extend across the whole of Graeco-Roman antiquity.

City of Ghosts: An Ava Gold Mystery (Book 4)

City of Ghosts: An Ava Gold Mystery (Book 4)
Author: Blake Pierce
Publisher: Blake Pierce
Total Pages: 266
Release: 2022-03-15
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1094375101

1920s. New York City. When a second immigrant woman turns up murdered in the Lower East Side, Ava Gold, the city’s first female detective, is summoned to crack the case. But this serial killer is savage, and Ava’s dangerous game of cat and mouse may just lead her too close to home. “A MASTERPIECE OF THRILLER AND MYSTERY. Blake Pierce did a magnificent job developing characters with a psychological side so well described that we feel inside their minds, follow their fears and cheer for their success. Full of twists, this book will keep you awake until the turn of the last page.” --Books and Movie Reviews, Roberto Mattos (re Once Gone) CITY OF GHOSTS (An Ava Gold Mystery—Book 4) is a new novel in a long-anticipated new series by #1 bestseller and USA Today bestselling author Blake Pierce, whose bestseller Once Gone (a free download) has received over 1,000 five star reviews. In the rough streets of 1920s New York City, 34 year-old Ava Gold, a widower and single mom, claws her way up to become the first female homicide detective in her NYPD precinct. She is as tough as they come, and willing to hold her own in a man’s world. Ava fights an uphill battle to get her precinct to take the murder of an immigrant woman seriously. But Ava refuses to give up, and when the case leads only to dead ends, she’s forced to take matters into her own hands Could her own husband’s murderer hold the secret to cracking the case open? And if he does—can Ava delve into her own past and catch the killer in time without being pushed to the edge? A heart-pounding suspense thriller filled with shocking twists, the authentic and atmospheric AVA GOLD MYSTERY SERIES is a riveting page-turner, endearing us to a strong and brilliant character that will capture your heart and keep you reading late into the night. Books #5 and #6 in the series—CITY OF DEATH and CITY OF VICE—are now also available.