In 1989, strange animal attacks occur throughout Costa Rica. One of the species behind the attacks is believed to be Procompsognathus, an extinct species of dinosaur. Paleontologist Alan Grant and his paleobotanist colleague Ellie Sattler are contacted to confirm the animal's identity, but are abruptly whisked away by billionaire John Hammond, the founder of bioengineering firm InGen, for a wee…
The book uses the frame story literary device; the frame is presented in first-person narration as the remembrances of an elderly woman in 1995, whose name is initially not revealed. She has a son named Julien and lives off the coast of Oregon. However, the main action of the book is told in third-person, following two sisters, Vianne Mauriac and Isabelle Rossignol, who live in France around 19…
The blue-collar worker-what is his special style of life? How is he different from others in the community? How does he see himself as a citizen and a member of the community? What are his moral values and his religious convictions? What are his fears, his expectations? In short, who is he? Growing out of the conviction of the editors concerning the need for a definitive portrait of America's b…
Underworld Evolition merupakan novel fiksi ilmiah karya Greg Cox yang menceritakan perseteruan antara dua kaum ras yang berbeda dalam peristiwa yang meliputi kekuasaan, pemberontakan dan konflik. Metode yang digunakan adalah analisis deskriptif, penulisan skripsi ini bertujuan untuk menggambarkan diskriminasi ras antara kaum vampire dan kaum lyncan. Persoalan ini menimbulkan konflik fisik ber…
Product details Hardcover: 1008 pages Publisher: WORLD BOOK (1988) Language: English ASIN: B0046PNXZE Package Dimensions: 9.8 x 7.3 x 1.7 inches Shipping Weight: 4.6 pounds Customer Reviews: Be the first to review this item
San Piedro Island, north of Puget Sound, is a place so isolated that no one who lives there can afford to make enemies. But in 1954 a local fisherman is found suspiciously drowned, and a Japanese American named Kabuo Miyamoto is charged with his murder. In the course of the ensuing trial, it becomes clear that what is at stake is more than a man's guilt. For on San Pedro, memory grows as thickl…
Here are songs and ballads which Allied servicemen made up and sang during World War II - Bawdy, resentful, haunting, cynical, humorous and, above all, incorrigbly robust.
This is the story of Lin Kong, a man living in two worlds, struggling with the conflicting claims of two utterly different women as he moves through the political minefields of a society designed to regulate his every move and stifle the promptings of his innermost heart. For more than seventeen years, this devoted and ambitious doctor has been in love with an educated, clever, modern woman,…