[PDF] The Edge Of Paradise eBook

Author : Paul Frederick Kluge
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 22,34 MB
Release : 1993-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780824815677

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In 1967 the Peace Corps sent P. F. Kluge to paradise - or so the American possessions in Micronesia seemed. His assignment was as noble as it was adventurous: to help the people of those half-forgotten Pacific islands move from old to new, so that paradise would have prosperity and freedom as well as physical beauty. He immersed himself in the lives of the diverse peoples of the islands. He composed speeches for their leaders. He wrote a stirring manifesto that became the Preamble to the Constitution of Micronesia. He began a friendship with a man who would one day be president of Palau. And then, a generation later, P. F. Kluge went back. . . . The result is a book the New Yorker called "remarkably effective," the Economist deemed "terrific"; a book Smithsonian Magazine found to be "written from the heart." The Edge of Paradise shows the impact and ironies of America's presence in an undeveloped part of the world, how perhaps there's no way "a big place can touch a little one without harming it."

Author : John Wehrheim
Publisher : Serindia Publications
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 42,85 MB
Release : 2009
Category : Communal living
ISBN : 9781932476460

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This title documents the history of Taylor Camp, a clothing-optional, pot-friendly, tree house village set up in 1969 on Kauai, Hawaii by Howard Taylor, brother of Elizabeth. The book features photographs accompanied by moving texts and interviews with the principal protagonists (and antagonists).

Author : Joseph James
Publisher : iUniverse
Page : 135 pages
File Size : 43,18 MB
Release : 2006-06
Category : Bahamas
ISBN : 0595386350

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Sex with multiple females, the abuse of drugs from marijuana to mushrooms, and ecstasy to tobacco, and cocaine to alcohol, and prescription pills to paradise was probably the reason why our relationship was facing pure pandemonium. We rode the surf; this getaway took its toll. I knew, in retrospect, this would happen the moment we planned the trip (except we didn't remember planning it), but I didn't think drugs and alcohol would spoil a good buzz this quickly. Grabbing the phone from my hands with a smile, Mr. Edwards-the blame for half of my mistakes-said, "Its over," and fell on the floor after he unplugged the phone from its outlet. Paradise Island, Bahamas, January 2005: Joseph James and Jeffrey Edwards are two men who push life to the edge. But they're on the verge of going overboard. Traveling to Paradise Island from Detroit, Michigan, the two cousins disrespect and destroy the tourist haven in an attempt to break the paradox between total control and reckless abandon. From mixing with happy families, high-stakes gambling, and nightlife with upper society to sharing a pint of rum with a homeless local and sleeping with random women, the pair's contribution to the Bahamas is nothing more than an abuse of free will and destiny.

Author : Peggy Webb
Publisher : Loveswept
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 10,60 MB
Release : 1992
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780553442007

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When David Kelly rents a house next door to Rosalie Brown, he finds himself drawn to the window--and to the woman across the way. Soon the two lost souls share a tender and beautiful passion, nurture each other's spirits, and discover the path that leads to their dreams.

Author : Dale Terbush
Publisher :
Page : 177 pages
File Size : 28,95 MB
Release : 2000
Category : American poetry
ISBN : 9780970438706

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The Art of Inspiration coffee table book for 2002. The art works of Dale TerBush, from dramatic too inspirational, romantic too healing, his images, poetry and quotes are uplifting and beautiful.

Author : Kenneth Little
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 32,65 MB
Release : 2020-02-04
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1789206472

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There are beastly forces in Belize. Forces that are actively involved in making paradise impossible. On the Nervous Edge of an Impossible Paradise is a collection of seven stories about local lives in the fictional village of Wallaceville. They turn rogue in the face of runaway forces that take the form and figure of a Belize beast-time, which can appear as a comic mishap, social ruin, tragic excess, or wild guesses. Inciting the affective politics of life in the region, this fable of emergence evokes the unnerving uncertainties of life in the tourist state of Belize.

Author : Terri Jentz
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 756 pages
File Size : 26,21 MB
Release : 2007-03-20
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780312426699

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Powerful, eloquent, and paced like a thriller, Strange Piece of Paradise is the electrifying account of the author's investigation into her near murder.

Author : Romesh Gunesekera
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 402 pages
File Size : 29,6 MB
Release : 2012-02-02
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1408825678

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Lucy Gladwell arrives in Mauritius from England to live with her aunt and uncle at their grand plantation house. Under the surface of this beautiful island paradise, poised between India and Africa, there is unease, and Lucy cannot help but feel discomfited by the restrictions she sees around her, and by the strangely attractive Don Lambodar, a young translator from Ceylon. It is 1825: the age of slavery is coming to its messy end, and word is lapping against the shores of the island of a charismatic new Indian leader who will shine the light of liberty. For Lucy, for Don, for everyone on the island, a devastating storm is coming...

Author : Alessandro Scafi
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 177 pages
File Size : 10,86 MB
Release : 2014-02-15
Category : History
ISBN : 022610608X

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Where is paradise? It always seems to be elsewhere, inaccessible, outside of time. Either it existed yesterday or it will return tomorrow; it may be just around the corner, on a remote island, beyond the sea. Across a wide range of cultures, paradise is located in the distant past, in a longed-for future, in remote places or within each of us. In particular, people everywhere in the world share some kind of nostalgia for an innocence experienced at the beginning of history. For two millennia, learned Christians have wondered where on earth the primal paradise could have been located. Where was the idyllic Garden of Eden that is described in the Bible? In the Far East? In equatorial Africa? In Mesopotamia? Under the sea? Where were Adam and Eve created in their unspoiled perfection? Maps of Paradise charts the diverse ways in which scholars and mapmakers from the eighth to the twenty-first century rose to the challenge of identifying the location of paradise on a map, despite the certain knowledge that it was beyond human reach. Over one hundred illustrations celebrate this history of a paradox: the mapping of the unmappable. It is also a mirror to the universal dream of perfection and happiness, and the yearning to discover heaven on earth.

Author : Jim L. Bowyer
Publisher : Levins Publishing
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 32,17 MB
Release : 2016-09-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780997672602

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In ''The Irresponsible Pursuit of Paradise, '' Dr. Jim L. Bowyer clearly documents an ethically bankrupt position that underlies much of our environmental policy. High consumption in wealthy countries usually goes hand-in-hand with resistance to domestic raw materials extraction and half-hearted interest in recycling. Because of this, the world's wealthiest countries increasingly rely on imported raw materials from poorer nations to fuel consumption. This, in turn, allows citizens of wealthy countries to smugly enjoy high levels of consumption with minimal exposure to the environmental impacts of that consumption. Bowyer concludes, ''Contrary to common practice today, high consuming nations need to be asking, 'Why not in my back yard?'''