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Dawn of A New Day is a thrilling, heartbreaking love story that is filled with suspense, drama, and murder. A ruthless killer caused great sadness to a loving family of three. Beth Miller and her twelve-year-old son, Danny, are heartbroken over the death of John Miller, Beth’s husband. Young Danny has vowed to kill the person who killed his father. A sheriff’s detective named Randy Johnson has been assigned to solve John Miller’s murder. He has a daughter named Shelia, who is about Danny’s age. Danny disobeys his grandfather’s warning for him to stay away from a place named the Wellington house. Harry Spears is a very wealthy man but an extremely shy individual that lives next door to Beth and Danny Miller. With the passing of his wife and now his mother with terminal cancer, he stays inside his home much of the time, saddened and lonely. Marcus Hendrix, a sheriff’s deputy and coworker with Randy Johnson, is a single middle-aged man looking for the right lady to be his wife. Doris Thigpen, a widow, has been a nurse for many years, and she never thought that one day, she would meet the man of her dreams. This novel is written for a wide audience—young and old.
Miracles On The Poke-A-No is a heart-warming, tear-dropping love story about a young teenage boy, Danny Johnson, and his admiration and affection for three girls. Danny wants to fulfill his dream of floating down a dangerous river near his hometown. At only fourteen years old, Danny is faced with life or death decisions. His only hope to save his friend's life is to navigate an aluminum boat many miles down the notorious river in almost total darkness. His life is further complicated when his father buys the Sadie Watkins farm which is shrouded with deep dark secrets. This novel will leave you spellbound from one chapter to the next as it introduces a host of interesting characters that will soften your heart and test your emotions. Miracles On The Poke-A-No takes place in rural America, 2009. This novel is packed with action, suspense, love, drama, and mystery. It is written in an audacious manner, yet intended for young and older readers alike.
Tears Of Love, profoundly, portrays the love, respect, devotion, and loyalty that two sisters have for each other even though each of them are in love with the same man. Josh Lambert is a very handsome man that is devoted to his employer, which happens to be the father of these sisters. To Josh, it was love at first sight when he saw one of the sisters at a Christmas party. In order to meet the woman that had captured his heart he would have to face her bully boyfriend. An action packed love story filled with suspense, action, drama and mystery. This fictional novel will soften your heart and grip your emotions as it takes the reader on a journey of shattered dreams, and broken hearts. Tears Of Love is a fantastic book to read as it reflects the unyielding love between a man and a woman. This novel will surely make you laugh, cry, and perhaps reflect back on some of your own life experiences. The setting is in rural America, 2009.
With a long history and deep connection to the Earth’s resources, indigenous peoples have an intimate understanding and ability to observe the impacts linked to climate change. Traditional ecological knowledge and tribal experience play a key role in developing future scientific solutions for adaptation to the impacts. The book explores climate-related issues for indigenous communities in the United States, including loss of traditional knowledge, forests and ecosystems, food security and traditional foods, as well as water, Arctic sea ice loss, permafrost thaw and relocation. The book also highlights how tribal communities and programs are responding to the changing environments. Fifty authors from tribal communities, academia, government agencies and NGOs contributed to the book. Previously published in Climatic Change, Volume 120, Issue 3, 2013.
James Hardison (1759-1842) was born in Martin County, North Carolina. After serving in the Revolutionary War he migrated to Maury County, Tennessee where he married Mary Roberson in about 1789 and Mary Smithwick in 1808 or 1809. Descendants and relatives lived in Tennessee, North Carolina and Virginia.
This sensitive examination of the meanings of landscape draws on the author's rich experience with diverse enviornments and peoples: the Gitksan and Witsuwit'en of norwestern British Columbia, the Kaska Dena of the southern Yukon, and the Gwich'in of the Mackenzie Delta. Johnson maintains that the ways people understand and act upon land have wide implications, shaping cultures and ways of life, determining identity and polity, and creating and mainting environmental relationships and economies. Her emphassis on landscape and ways of knowing the land provides a particular take on ecological relationships of First Peoples to land.
This highly original work demonstrates the fundamental role of customary law for the realization of Indigenous peoples’ human rights and for sound national and international legal governance. The book reviews the legal status of customary law and its relationship with positive and natural law from the time of Plato up to the present. It examines its growing recognition in constitutional and international law and its dependence on and at times strained relationship with human rights law. The author analyzes the role of customary law in tribal, national and international governance of Indigenous peoples’ lands, resources and cultural heritage. He explores the challenges and opportunities f...
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The topic of intangible natural heritage is new, recently emerging as an important subject of inquiry. It describes the untouchable elements of the environment that combine to create natural objects, and help define our relationship to them. These elements can be sensory, like auditory landscapes, or processes like natural selection. As a concept, intangible natural heritage is growing in prominence, as museums are increasingly charged safeguarding and interpreting the milieux from which their objects originate. This book is a significant advance on the subject of intangible natural heritage; no book on the topic has yet been written and current scholarship is confined to a few isolated pape...