This book presents readers with a new way of thinking about religious doubt through an ethnographic exploration of how Ahmadi Muslims in India--members of a minority's minority--confront an impossible question: how do I prove that I'm Muslim--
Set against a backdrop of intense emotions, this novel explores themes of love, loyalty, guilt, and honor. The story introduces a compelling hero, crafted by the acclaimed author of a bestselling work. Readers can expect a deep dive into the complexities of human relationships, where personal sacrifices and moral dilemmas play a crucial role in shaping the characters' journeys. The narrative promises to engage with profound questions of fidelity and redemption, appealing to fans of heartfelt and thought-provoking storytelling.
Helen Ross is a 29-year-old biologist, sent into a hostile place to protect the wolves from those who seek to destroy them. She struggles for survival and for self-esteem, embarking on a love affair with the 18-year-old son of her most powerful opponent, brutal and charismatic rancher, Buck Calder.
The papers deal with a range of questions raised for linguistic theory and description by polysynthetic languages. Prototypical polysynthetic lamguages, found among unrelated language families in such varied parts of the world as North America, Meso-America, Siberia, northern Australia, and Papua New Guinea, display remarkably similar suites of grammatical characteristics. But, nearly two centuries after Humboldt and Kleinschmidt began to make the existence and interest of polysythetic languages widely known among linguistics, languages of this type continue to pose a challange to every major linguistic theory.
The next century will see more than half of the world's 6,000 languages become extinct, and most of these will disappear without being adequately recorded. Written by one of the leading figures in language documentation, this fascinating book explores what humanity stands to lose as a result.This book explores the unique philosophy, knowledge, and cultural assumptions of languages, and their impact on our collective intellectual heritage questions why such linguistic diversity exists in the first place, and how can we can best respond to the challenge of recording and documenting these fragile oral traditions while they are still with us.It is written by one of the leading figures in language documentation, and draws on a wealth of vivid examples from his own field experience Brings conceptual issues vividly to life by weaving in portraits of individual 'last speakers' and anecdotes about linguists and their discoveries.
In The Still Of A Snow-Covered Morning In Upstate New York, A Girl Out Riding Her Horse Is Hit By A 40-Ton Truck. Though Horribly Injured, Both Thirteen-Year-Old Grace Maclean And Her Horse Pilgrim Survive. But The Impact On Their Lives And The Lives Of Those Who Love Them Is Devastating.Grace Is The Only Child Of A Prominent New York Magazine Editor, Annie Graves, And Her Lawyer Husband Robert. In A Way Which None Of Them At First Understand, Their Destiny Comes To Depend Upon Pilgrim'S. So Mutilated And Traumatized Is He That Even The Vet Who Saved His Life Now Wishes He Hadn'T. Annie Refuses To Have Him Destroyed, Sensing That If She Does, Something In Grace Will Die Too.She Hears About A Man In Montana, A 'Whisperer' Who Is Said To Have The Gift Of Healing Troubled Horses. Abandoning Her Job, Annie Sets Off Across The Continent Like Some Latter-Day Pioneer, With Grace And Pilgrim, To Find Him. The Man'S Name Is Tom Booker And He Lives On The Rocky Mountain Front, A Place Of Daunting Beauty, Where The High Plains Run Smack Into A Hundred-Million-Year-Old Wall Of Limestone. Here, Under The Massive Montana Sky, All Their Lives Are Changed For Ever.The Horse Whisperer Is About The Power Of Redemption: How Shattered Souls Can Make Themselves One Again With The World. But Above All It Is An Epic Love Story That Will Fill With Yearning The Hearts Of All Who Read It.
Two backcountry skiers find the body of a young woman embedded in the ice of a remote mountain creek. All through the night police work with arc lights and chainsaws to prise her out. Identifying her doesn't take so long. Abbie Cooper is wanted for murder and her picture is on law enforcement computers all across America. But how did she die? And what was the trail of events that led this golden child of a loving family so tragically astray?
The motto of the boarding school to which Tommy Bedford is dispatched is Fortune Favours the Brave. It's 1959 and the school bristles with bullies and sadistic staff. Tommy, a quirky loner, obsessed with cowboys and Indians, needs all the bravery he can summon. Salvation comes when his glamorous actress sister is swept off to Hollywood by one of his heroes, TV cowboy Ray Montane. But with the Cold War looming, the sinister side of Tinseltown seeps through and Tommy and Diane soon find themselves in jeopardy. Forty years on, Tommy has to confront his boyhood ghosts when his own son finds himself charged with murder.
