Joe Leaphorn, former Navajo tribal police lieutenant, is not a happy retiree. So when his successor asks him to look into how a young Hopi named Billy Tuve came by a valuable diamond the boy tried to pawn for a fraction of its worth, Joe finds himself involved in a five decade old mystery. It dates back to a plane crash in the Grand Canyon, one that took the life of a man whose putative daughter also has an interest in the diamond;
In this compelling work, Keith Gandal reveals how the slum in nineteenth-century America, long a topic for sober moral analysis, became in the 1890s an unprecedented source of spectacle, captured in novels, newspapers, documentary accounts, and photographs. Reflecting a change in the middle-class vision of the poor, the slum no longer drew attention simply as a problem of social conditions and vice but emerged as a subject for aesthetic, ethnographic, and psychological description.
The Little Book of Australia: A Snapshot of Who We Are
What makes Australians uniquely Australian? An essential, comprehensive guide for every Aussie packed with fascinating and humorous facts, figures, and quotations about our politics, our icons, literature and language, sport, flora and fauna, key dates, and events. It's been a long step in a short time from meat pies, football, kangaroos, and Holden cars to iPods, lattes, Facebook, and Masterchef.
King Arthur's story encapsulates the medieval romance and the tragedy of the Dark Ages. Yet legends shroud his life, and to this day scholars cannot agree on his dates, his location or even whether he really existed.
Contents: Where is Santa's Sleigh? A fun way to use imagination Super trivia game Photocopiable activities Christmas cooking December's special dates A toast to professionalism
