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Atavist magazine volume issue 10
Publisher
Atavist
Pub. Date
2011.
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1 online resource.
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English
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Welcome to a place where even beer runs are a matter of life and death. As the Iraq War draws to an official close, Joshuah Bearman tells the funny and poignant story of the real-life Baghdad Country Club, a bar in the Green Zone during the conflict's bloodiest years. Against all odds, its proprietors struggle to keep their raucous watering hole safe and well-stocked as the insurgency rages outside. --Provided by publisher.
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Atavist magazine volume issue 3
Publisher
Atavist
Pub. Date
2011.
Physical Desc
1 online resource.
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English
Description
Mark Moffett doesn't just study ants, he travels among them. Moffet holds a Harvard Ph.D. in entomology and is an accomplished scientist, an award-winning author and journalist, and one of the best nature photographers of his generation. Years ago, this free-spirited naturalist left academia behind to plunge into the deepest jungles and observe insect societies up close. Now author Nicholas Griffin takes us inside Moffett's own world, to explore his...
3) Blindsight
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Atavist magazine volume issue 7
Publisher
Atavist
Pub. Date
2011.
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1 online resource.
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English
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In March of 1994, Simon Lewis was a Hollywood man on the rise. He had started in the film industry as a lawyer and worked his way up to become a big-budget studio producer. He'd helped shepherd one of the most successful comedies in film history. He'd married the love of his life. And then one night, in a few seconds, everything changed. In Blindsight, author Chris Colin unspools the remarkable true story of a horrific accident and the life that followed...
4) The Defender
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Atavist magazine volume issue 6
Publisher
Atavist
Pub. Date
2011.
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1 online resource.
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English
Description
Manute Bol was the first African-born player drafted into the NBA and, at seven foot seven inches, the tallest. In the 1980s and 90s he was also among the league's most fearsome shot-blockers and its most beloved figures. Off the basketball court, however, Bol's story was more remarkable than most fans ever knew. Activist, gambler, joker, rebel-Bol was a complex man whose fate was inextricably bound with that of the South Sudan, his homeland. On the...
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Atavist magazine volume issue 8
Publisher
Atavist
Pub. Date
2011.
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1 online resource.
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English
Description
In 1966, Brian Wilson entered the studio to compose Smile, a Beach Boys album that he believed would change the band, and perhaps the face of popular music, forever. What happened next became legend, as captured by journalist Jules Siegel, who had been given entry into Wilson's inner circle. "Goodbye Surfing, Hello God" ran in Cheetah magazine, helping to create the legend and mystery of Wilson's madcap genius. Then the story, like the album, disappeared....
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Atavist magazine volume issue 4
Publisher
Atavist
Pub. Date
2011.
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1 online resource.
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English
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In 2008, a small band of political activists in Egypt led by a young engineer named Ahmed Maher began organizing on Facebook under the moniker April 6 Youth. Dodging the secret police both online and off, they built a Web page into a movement. Then, in January 2011, they helped architect a final showdown with the country's dictator. David Wolman unspools the riveting behind-the-scenes story of these daring activists and how they planted the digital...
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Atavist magazine volume issue 9
Publisher
Atavist
Pub. Date
2011.
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1 online resource.
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English
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If geologist, adventurer, and risk-prone eccentric John Lane can prove the existence of the elusive tree kangaroo on the remote Pacific island of New Britain, he just might be able to save one of the last truly wild endangered forests on earth. But first he and his ragtag expedition party-college students, adventure-seeking biologists, disinterested local teenagers-will have to find the rare animal. Award-winning journalist Matthew Power plunges into...
8) Lifted
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Atavist magazine volume issue 2
Publisher
Atavist
Pub. Date
2011.
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1 online resource.
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English
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The robbers had a crew of two dozen specialists, a stolen helicopter, perfectly-designed explosives, and inside information on a $150-million cash repository in Stockholm. The police were on to them-or so they thought. What happened next would make headlines around the world, but the robbery was just part of the story. Evan Ratliff presents the inside tale of one of history's most elaborate heists, and the race to unravel it. --Provided by publisher....
9) Piano Demon
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Atavist magazine volume issue 1
Publisher
Atavist
Pub. Date
2011.
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1 online resource.
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English
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The globetrotting, gin-soaked, too-short life of Teddy Weatherford, the Chicago jazzman who conquered Asia. At age six, Teddy Weatherford was working in the coal mines of Virginia. By his early twenties he was the toast of Chicago's jazz scene, rivaling Louis Armstrong and wowing Jelly Roll Morton with his piano talent. But when Weatherford left segregated America for the allures of Shanghai and Bombay, he set out on a adventure he hadn't imagined....
10) Agent Zapata
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Atavist magazine volume issue 19
Publisher
Atavist
Pub. Date
2012.
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1 online resource.
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English
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On an afternoon in February 2011, two U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents were driving on a highway in central Mexico when they were ambushed by drug cartel gunmen. In the firefight that followed, one of the agents, Jaime Zapata, was killed-the first U.S. law-enforcement agent to die in the line of duty in Mexico in more than a quarter of a century. Mexican authorities quickly apprehended members of the Zetas, Mexico's most notorious...
11) Angel Killer
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Atavist magazine volume issue 18
Publisher
Atavist
Pub. Date
2012.
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1 online resource.
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English
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In the mid-1920s, young children began to vanish from neighborhoods around New York City. It took the police a decade to find their abductor, an unassuming 64-year-old handyman named Albert Fish. Fish had committed crimes of unspeakable horror: He had not only abducted and murdered the children, but also tortured and, in some cases, eaten them. During Fish's trial, some of the country's most prominent psychiatrists debated the exact nature of Fish's...
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Atavist magazine volume issue 12
Publisher
Atavist
Pub. Date
2012.
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1 online resource.
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English
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Joseph Gutheinz is on a mission to save the moon. Decades ago, astronauts brought back 850 pounds of rocks from their lunar journeys; the U.S. gave some away as "goodwill" gifts to the world's nations. Over time, many of them disappeared, stolen or lost in the aftermath of political turmoil,and offered for millions on the black market. Gutheinz, first as a NASA investigator and then the leader of a ragtag group of students, has dedicated his life...
13) D for Deception
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Atavist magazine volume issue 16
Publisher
Atavist
Pub. Date
2012.
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1 online resource.
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English
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Before Ian Fleming there was Dennis Wheatley. A best-selling spy novelist at the outset of World War II, Wheatley became a master of deception for Great Britain, turning pulp fiction fantasies into real-life espionage. Pulitzer Prize-winning author Tina Rosenberg tells the amazing true story of one man who applied the plots of his own novels to the battlefield-and changed the course of history. --Provided by publisher.
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Atavist magazine volume issue 15
Publisher
Atavist
Pub. Date
2012.
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1 online resource.
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English
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Paralyzed and unable to speak after a stroke, Cathy Hutchinson was trapped inside her mind, only communicating with the outside world through her eyes. Then she heard about an experiment called BrainGate at Brown University that hoped to allow immobilized patients to control robotic limbs with their thoughts. But can what sounds like science fiction eventually transform the lives of quadriplegics? And could it help Cathy take control of her life?...
15) Half-Safe
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Atavist magazine volume issue 20
Publisher
Atavist
Pub. Date
2012.
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1 online resource.
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English
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In 1948, a young Australian mining engineer named Ben Carlin set out to do the impossible: circumnavigate the globe, by land and sea, in a single vehicle. The vehicle in question was an amphibious jeep developed by the U.S. Army, which Carlin christened Half-Safe, after a deodorant slogan. It was a mechanical mongrel that was supposed to move with equal ease across land and water but in practice wasn't much good at either. Undaunted, Carlin and his...
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Atavist magazine volume issue 13
Publisher
Atavist
Pub. Date
2012.
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1 online resource.
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English
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When Andre Bamberski's daughter died 30 years ago, he was helpless to save her. Suspicions of murder began to surround her stepfather, a German doctor named Dieter Krombach, yet Bamberski could only hope the truth would prevail. But when the authorities gave up their pursuit, he knew he had to act. So against the odds, Bamberski embarked on an obsessive quest to capture and punish his daughter's killer. In this riveting true story by Joshua Hammer,...
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Atavist magazine volume issue 14
Publisher
Atavist
Pub. Date
2013.
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1 online resource.
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English
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Yasith Chhun was just a 42-year-old accountant living a comfortable life in California. Then he tried to overthrow the Cambodian government from his humble office in Long Beach. Inspired by films like Braveheart, Chhun planned "Operation Volcano," a scheme replete with espionage, jungle guerrillas, and East German rocket launchers. Could Chhun's quixotic, incredibly risky and potentially bloody coup possibly succeed? And what happens to a man when...
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Atavist magazine volume issue 29
Publisher
Atavist
Pub. Date
2013.
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1 online resource.
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English
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With its manicured lawns and well-kept, college-style buildings, the Arthur G. Dozier School for Boys in Marianna, Florida--the largest reform school in the country--seemed like a model for how to turn wayward teens back into productive members of society. But for decades, the century-old school's alumni whispered about a nightmarish reality that lurked behind the gleaming facade--a legacy of beatings, sexual abuse, and even murder, the evidence buried...
19) Coronado High
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Atavist magazine volume issue 27
Publisher
Atavist
Pub. Date
2013.
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1 online resource.
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English
Description
Finalist for the National Magazine Award for Multimedia, 2014 Nobody would've figured the kids from the sleepy beach town of Coronado, California, for criminal masterminds. They were just some hippie surfers, high school friends who'd come up with the idea of swimming bundles of marijuana across the border from Tijuana during the summer of 1969. Within a decade, however, the Coronado Company had become the largest pot-smuggling operation on the West...
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Atavist magazine volume issue 28
Publisher
Atavist
Pub. Date
2013.
Physical Desc
1 online resource.
Language
English
Description
In 2008, a troubled Vietnam veteran turned struggling actor named Hamilton Meadows became obsessed with a question: What did William Shakespeare's English sound like when the Bard and his actors spoke it? Others had asked the same thing before--the quest to piece together the pronunciation of Elizabethan English, the language as it was spoken during Shakespeare's lifetime, has captivated English scholars, theater directors, and romantic adventurers...
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