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26 produkter
El Sicario: The Autobiography of a Mexican Assassin
Av Molly Molloy, Molly Molloy m. fl.
Häftad, 2011
239 kr
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El Sicario
Confessions of a Cartel Hit Man
Av Molly Molloy, Charles Bowden
Häftad, 2012
198 kr
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MEET EL SICARIO.A fugitive in the US with a $250,000 price tag on his head.He has executed hundreds of people, is an expert in torture, spent years working for the state police, and received training from the FBI. In grim and graphic detail he offers a series of confessions:-- Why he first became …
Clinical Trial Design Challenges in Mood Disorders
Av Mauricio Tohen, Charles Bowden m. fl.
Inbunden, 2015
694 kr
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Poor clinical trial designs result in failed studies wasting research funds and limiting the advancement of cures for disorders. Clinical Trial Design Challenges in Mood Disorders outlines classic problems researchers face in designing clinical trials and discusses how best to address them for the …
Clinical Trial Design Challenges in Mood Disorders
Av John Geddes, Andrew A. Nierenberg m. fl.
E-bok, 2015
869 kr
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Poor clinical trial designs result in failed studies wasting research funds and limiting the advancement of cures for disorders. Clinical Trial Design Challenges in Mood Disorders outlines classic problems researchers face in designing clinical trials and discusses how best to address them for the …
Inferno
Inbunden, 2006
511 kr
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One of America's foremost environmental writers joins with an acclaimed landscape photographer to create an unmatched portrait of the Sonoran Desert in all its harsh beauty.Winner, Southwest Book Award, Border Regional Library Association, 2007Runner-up, Honorable Mention, Orion Book Award, …
Exodus/Éxodo
Inbunden, 2008
584 kr
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Immigration has become one of the most important and contentious issues of our time. But even as policy makers in the United States and Mexico argue over what to do about the half million or more Mexicans who cross the border illegally each year to work in the United States, one fact has become …
Charles Bowden Reader
Av Charles Bowden, Erin Almeranti m. fl.
Häftad, 2010
382 kr
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“I will make bold to say that Bowden is America’s most alarming writer. Just when you think you’ve heard it all you learn you haven’t in the most pungent manner possible. . . . With The Charles Bowden Reader in hand you get a taste of it all, and any literate resident or visitor should want this …
Killing the Hidden Waters
Häftad, 1985
217 kr
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In the quarter-century since his first book, Killing the Hidden Waters, was published in 1977, Charles Bowden has become one of the premier writers on the American environment, rousing a generation of readers to both the wonder and the tragedy of humanity's relationship with the land. Revisiting …
Down by the River
Drugs, Money, Murder, and Family
Häftad, 2004
276 kr
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Offers an illuminating tour of the drug war, revealing the dark, troubling recesses of drug lords, high-level corruption, and ultra-violence that respects no borders.
Blue Desert
Häftad, 1988
318 kr
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In the promised land of the Sunbelt, people come by the thousands to escape the crush of Eastern cities and end up duplicating the very world they have fled. Can the land remain unchanged? In Blue Desert, Charles Bowden presents a view of the Southwest that seeks to measure how rapid growth has …
Blue Desert
Häftad, 2018
290 kr
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Published in 1986, Blue Desert was Charles Bowden's third book-length work and takes place almost entirely in Arizona, revealing Bowden's growing and intense preoccupation with the state and what it represented as a symbol of America's ""New West."" Bowden presents a view of the Southwest that …
Frog Mountain Blues
Häftad, 2018
290 kr
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The Santa Catalina Mountains north of Tucson—whose summit is called Frog Mountain by the Tohono O'odham—offers up to the citizens of the basins below a wilderness in their own backyard. When it was first published in 1987, Frog Mountain Blues documented the creeping sprawl of new development up the …
El Sicario
Confessions of a Cartel Hit Man
Av Molly Molloy, Charles Bowden
E-bok, 2011
147 kr
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MEET EL SICARIO.A fugitive in the US with a $250,000 price tag on his head.He has executed hundreds of people, is an expert in torture, spent years working for the state police, and received training from the FBI. In grim and graphic detail he offers a series of confessions:-- Why he first became …
Desierto
Memories of the Future
Häftad, 2018
233 kr
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"A dark, troubling vision of life in the desert, defined broadly; of mountain lions and drug kingpins, Mexican hopes and Indian feuds."—Los Angeles Times"In these powerful epic tales of the Sonora Desert, Bowden peoples the harsh land on both sides of the US-Mexican border with saints and sinners, …
Red Line
Häftad, 2018
233 kr
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“At its best, Red Line can read like an original synthesis of Peter Matthiessen and William Burroughs . . . a brave and interesting book.”-David Rieff, Los Angeles Times Book Review“Charles Bowden’s Red Line is a look at America through the window of the southwest. His vision is as nasty, peculiar, …
Blood Orchid
An Unnatural History of America
Häftad, 2018
233 kr
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Through stark observations and visceral experiences, Blood Orchid begins Charles Bowden’s dizzying excavation of the brutal, systemic violence and corruption at the roots of American society. Like a nightmarish fever dream that turns out to be our own reality, Bowden visits dying friends in skid …
Some of the Dead Are Still Breathing
Living in the Future
Häftad, 2018
233 kr
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The third book in Charles Bowden’s “accidental trilogy” that began with Blood Orchid and Blues for Cannibals, Some of the Dead Are Still Breathing attempts to resolve the overarching question: “How can a person live a moral life in a culture of death?” As humanity moves further into the …
Mezcal
Häftad, 2020
233 kr
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Praise for Mezcal:"Mezcal is also a lyrical meditation upon the ultimate strength of the land, specifically the desert Southwest, and how that land prevails and endures despite every effort of modern industry and development to rape and savage it in the name of progress. Mezcal lingers in the mind …
Jericho
Inbunden, 2020
329 kr
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When Charles Bowden died in 2014, he left behind an archive of unpublished manuscripts. Jericho marks the fifth installment in his venerable “Unnatural History of America” sextet. In it he invokes the cycles of destruction and rebirth that have defined the ancient biblical city over millennia. From …
Sonata
Inbunden, 2020
329 kr
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"I believe every sunrise and I remember the smell of wet grass, the color of robins, and rustle of leaves on the big oaks that outlive nations, all this comes with each sunrise."Sonata marks the sixth and final installment of Charles Bowden’s towering “Unnatural History of America” series. While …
Red Caddy
Into the Unknown with Edward Abbey
Häftad, 2020
232 kr
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A passionate advocate for preserving wilderness and fighting the bureaucratic and business forces that would destroy it, Edward Abbey (1927–1989) wrote fierce, polemical books such as Desert Solitaire and The Monkey Wrench Gang that continue to inspire environmental activists. In this eloquent …
Dakotah
The Return of the Future
Häftad, 2026
316 kr
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“On a bend, I will see it, a piece of ground off to the side. I will know the feel of this place: the leaves stir slowly on the trees, dry air smells like dust, birds dart and the trails are made by beasts living free.”When award-winning author Charles Bowden died in 2014, he left behind a trove of …
Murder City
Ciudad Juarez and the Global Economy's New Killing Fields
Häftad, 2011
225 kr
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Ciudad Juárez lies just across the Rio Grande from El Paso, Texas. A once-thriving border town, it now resembles a failed state. Infamously known as the place where women disappear, its murder rate exceeds that of Baghdad or Mogadishu. In Murder City , Charles Bowden has written an extraordinary …
Down by the River
Drugs, Money, Murder, and Family
E-bok, 2023
226 kr
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Lionel Bruno Jordan was murdered on January 20, 1995, in an El Paso parking lot, but he keeps coming back as the key to a multibillion-dollar drug industry, two corrupt governments -- one called the United States and the other Mexico -- and a self-styled War on Drugs that is a fraud. Beneath all …
Blues for Cannibals
The Notes from Underground
Häftad, 2018
233 kr
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Cultivated from the fierce ideas seeded in Blood Orchid, Blues for Cannibals is an elegiac reflection on death, pain, and a wavering confidence in humanity’s own abilities for self-preservation. After years of reporting on border violence, sex crimes, and the devastation of the land, Bowden …
