Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity
From Pulitzer Prize-winner Katherine Boo, a landmark work of narrative nonfiction that tells the dramatic and sometimes heartbreaking story of families striving toward a better life in one of the twenty-first century’s great, unequal cities. In this brilliantly written, fast-paced book, based on three years of uncompromising reporting, a bewildering age of global change and inequality is made human.
It was in the fierce, icy wilderness that was Alaska in 1895, that he was born. Here in the frozen north, he learned the law of the wild, the law of meat - eat or be eaten! His experiences with the man-gods did not breed love, only respect for brutal power. Then a man rescued him from the jaws of death and showed him kindness and White Fang did not understand.
In "The Downfall" Zola tells the story of a terrific land-slide which overwhelmed the French Second Empire: It is a story of war, grim and terrible; of a struggle to death between two great nations.
Out of the depths of time ... out of mysterious India comes the Moonstone worshipped by the Hindus and bearing for the white man the death curse of the great god Vishnu.
Covering a wide range of topics on snake reproduction and phylogeny, this comprehensive book discusses everything from primordial germ migration in developing embryos to semelparity (death after reproduction) in the aspic viper.
