Best Selling Books by David Dalton

Inderjeet Singh, a young Sikh who lives in the Punjab in India, explains his religion, discussing its main beliefs, its symbols, the role of Gurus, dress, places of worship, and festivals.

Table of contents includes: Meet Carbino - The war comes - Life in a refugee camp - The ''lost boys'' - Looking to the future - Darfur and Sudan''s furture.

An analysis of how the Ukrainian super-rich converted wealth into political influence which brought more wealth via rent-extraction in the gas sector

This Spanish edition will be of interest to all campaigning individuals and organisations, not just those working on labour rights. The analysis includes learning points and examples of good practice. The authors describe and analyse what happened in five campaigns in Colombia, Morocco, Nicaragua, Sri Lanka, and the United States

Jake is young, and his life seems boring. Phaedrus is old, and his life seems empty. Phaedrus seems to think that a nightmare is about to happen. Jake just wants to go on dreaming. Does Phaedrus really know something? Or is he just a broken old man? Jake must choose. If Phaedrus is right, then Jake''s life is going to change, and Jake will have to rethink everything he ever knew.

Knapp dreissig Jahre lang hielten die Grateful Dead mit ihrer Musik, vor allem aber mit ihren Live- Konzerten die Aufbruchstimmung der Sechziger für ihre Fans, die "Deadheads", am Leben. Seit dem Ableben ihres Gitarristen Jerry Garcia am 9. August 1995 ist die Gruppe ein Kapitel Rock-Geschichte. Rock Scully schrieb es nieder. Seine Erinnerungen sind eine Reise zurück in den "Sommer der Liebe" nach San Francisco, in die Zeit des LSD und der großen Hippie-Kommunen. Mitreisende auf diesem aufregenden Trip sind Legenden wie Janis Joplin, Ken Kesey, William S. Burroughs, The Who und Crosby, Stills And Nash. Scully, selbst ein Heroin-Überlebender, schildert aber auch offen und ungeschönt den zunehmenden Verfall und die gespaltene Persönlichkeit von Band-Leader Jerry Garcia, der für seine Anhänger eine geradezu messianische Ausstrahlung besass. Dieses Buch ist die Neuauflage des Hannibal-Titels An American Odyssey - in neuer Gestaltung und Ausstattung.

A global catastrophe has returned earth to the Iron Age and killed six billion people. Even the billionaires were tricked and eliminated. An Oxford intelligentsia have taken over the planet. Can such smart people rebuild the world in a better way? With help from the galactic federation, perhaps there is hope. But first, earth''s new elite must retrieve from the past some things that were destroyed long ago -- ways of thinking and living that can avoid a fatal reawakening of the delusions bequeathed to us by Rome. Jake Janaway -- young, modest, handsome, and scared -- is selected for a dangerous mission into the pre-Roman past. Jake has no idea why he was chosen. Jake has a lot to learn. But perhaps no one in the galaxy ever had better teachers, or was more loved.

Can I tell you about the blues? Baby, I was born with the blues... So begins the fictional memoir Been Here and Gone, the extraordinary story of an all-but-forgotten bluesman, Coley Williams. A backup musician to some of the most famous and infamous figures in the annals of blues music, and a former recording artist in his own right, Williams had a backstage pass to a world that most of us could never even imagine. In 1998 at the astonishing age of one hundred and two, Williams agreed to tell his tale for the first time. We can only be thankful for the fruits this "collaboration" with renowned author David Dalton has yielded: as funny, furious and funky as a lick on a talking guitar, Dalton''s rhythmic prose captures the inimitable voice of a man who walks it like he talks it without missing a beat. From his youth as a tenant farmer on the Mississippi plantations to the Great Migration to the Northern cities, from his incarceration in the notorious Sugarland prison farm to the temptations of freedom on the open road, from the juke joints of the deep South to the stages of Swinging London, Coley Williams'' life is at once the story of the blues and the story of the twentieth century. Across a hundred years of tumultuous change, we follow him through the hardships of the Flood of 1927 and the hardscrabble years of the Great Depression, the race riots of the 1960s and the birth of the Civil Rights movement. Along the way, Williams'' vividly recounted anecdotes introduce us to the pantheon of blues legends whose paths he crossed: Charley Patton, Tommy Johnson, Bessie Smith, Blind Lemon Jefferson, Ma Rainey, T-Bone Walker, Muddy Waters, B.B. King, the immortal Robert Johnson, and even the young Elvis Presley. Raucous, rambunctious, and often downright dangerous, these larger-than-life musicians, singers, and all-around rabble-rousers live again in Williams'' wonderfully colorful recollections. And of course, throughout it all, there is the music: whether it''s the plaintive and lonely sound of the Mississippi Delta or Chicago''s lowdown and dirty electric hellfire brew. Here is the boisterous blues in all its hues-salty and soulful and sad with a glimmer of hard-won hope always singing out beyond the last note. Been Here and Gone is a highly personalpanorama of the century as seen and experiencedby one of the most remarkable figures in recentliterature. It is at once a wildly inventive epic, aheartfelt testament to the people and places of avanishing era, and an invaluable contribution tothe literature of - music and popular culture thatwill fascinate blues fans, history buffs, and generalreaders alike. If Coley Williams'' story (to quotethe old son) was nearly the "Blues the WorldForgot," then Been Here and Gone is just the tonicwe need to refresh our memories and remindourselves of the vitality of this music and thepeople who have lived it. Here before us is theAmerican Century, set to the tune of the Americanmusic. Can I tell you about the blues? Baby, I wasborn with the blues...

After fifty years of progress and the advent of gay marriage, statistics on the well-being of gay men are as grim as ever. Rates of suicide, alcoholism, and drug abuse have not budged. Anxiety, depression, loneliness, and poor health are just as widespread. Studies have shown that gay men who live in urban gay communities actually are worse off, not better. The utopia promised by gay marriage has not materialized. Gay men seem to have run out of ideas for progress. There is little acknowledgment of the fact that something remains badly wrong. Nor is there a diagnosis of what is wrong. This book proposes that the diagnosis is obvious if we look at the origins of male sexuality and how it was expressed in other cultures. The anti-sex Puritan system in which we are now immersed is relatively recent in human history. Yet in less than 2,000 years, knowledge of how other cultures lived and loved has been systematically wiped out. Starting with the early Europeans in the last years of Rome and continuing around the globe as Europeans colonized the continents, natural male sexualities have been cruelly repressed and then obliviated. We are all Puritans now. The greatest taboo of all in male sexuality remains unchallenged and is still heavily enforced. That is the taboo of male-male sex, which until 2003 was still a crime. This book argues that the plight of gay men is only a piece of a much larger catastrophe -- the Puritanical repression of the sexualities of all men, in an attempt to co-opt the power of male sexuality, with promises of greater glories to be found in heaven. This book is not arguing for something new, untested, unknown, and radical. Rather, the challenge is to return to something very old -- the joy of male-male sex -- which took similar forms in most of the cultures that we have knowledge of. Those old worlds were worlds in which every gay man was able to take for granted what to us today is the impossible dream -- sex with a straight best friend.

This fascinating book takes readers on a thorough and soulful exploration of the ways in which more than 40 medicinal herbs can be used as flower essences, portraying each flower in a way that is both substantive and inspired.

Steven Tyler é vocalista da famosa banda norte-americana Aerosmith, formada em Boston, Massachusetts, no início dos anos 70. Sua trajetória como líder da banda é narrada aqui, por ele mesmo, sem cortes: desde a formação como músico; o afastamento para tratar da dependência de drogas, sem muito sucesso; o regresso em 1984, quando, em turnê, Tyler chegou a desmaiar no palco... Ele também narra suas aventuras sexuais e fala do reconhecimento da paternidade da atriz Liv Tyler. Um livro polêmico - como é, muitas vezes, a vida de um astro do rock.

On their journey westward, Lewis and Clark demonstrated an amazing ability to identify the new plants and animals they encountered, and their observations enriched science''s understanding of the trans-Mississippi West. Others have written about their discoveries and have faithfully cataloged their findings; now a twenty-first-century biologist reexamines some of those discoveries in the light of modern science to show for the first time their lasting biological significance. The Natural World of Lewis and Clark interprets the expedition''s findings from a modern perspective to show how advances such as DNA research, modern understanding of proteins, and the latest laboratory methods shed new light on them. David Dalton recounts the expedition''s observations and, in clear, readily accessible terms, relates them to principles of ecology, genetics, physiology, and even animal behavior. Writing in informal language with a bit of wry humor, Dalton invites readers to imagine the West that Lewis and Clark found, revealing the dynamic features of nature and the dramatic changes that earlier peoples brought about. He explains surprising facts, ranging from why Indians used cottonwood bark as winter feed for horses to why the explorers experienced gastric distress with some foods, and even why the Expedition''s dog would have been well-advised to avoid a diet of salmon. Dalton introduces the tools and techniques of today''s science in a way that won''t intimidate nonspecialist readers. Throughout the book he expertly balances botanical and zoological information, with coverage ranging from the extinction of large animals in North America a few thousand years ago to the expected effects of invasive species and climate change in the coming centuries. Enhanced with unusual and informative illustrations--not only nature photography but also historical images--this book will fascinate any reader with an interest in the natural history of the American West as well as broader issues in conservation and ecology. The Natural World of Lewis and Clark tells the story behind the story of this remarkable expedition and shows that its legacy extended not only across a continent but also into our own time.

Chemical communication is the primary mode of information transfer among woodland salamanders of the genus Plethodon. These cues have been shown to convey a wide variety of information, and are used to establish territorial boundaries. Responses to chemical cues can include changes in both behavior and energy consumption. The ability of Ozark zigzag salamanders, Plethodon angusticlavius, to detect the sex of a conspecific through chemical substrate markings has not been assessed. In addition, some populations of P. angusticlavius are naturally infected with the ectoparasitic mite Hannemania eltoni. Parasitism can impact both the behavior and metabolism of the host as well as the behavior of others towards the parasitized individual. I examined whether sex and parasitism of the cue donor and receiver influenced behavioral and metabolic responses in P. angusticlavius. In laboratory trials, behavior of P. angusticlavius was influenced by the sex and parasite load of the cue donors and receivers. Behavioral responses were also influenced by whether the receiver was in its own territory or in the territory of the cue donor. Metabolic responses were not affected by the sex or parasite load of the cue donor, but males had higher metabolic rates than females, even after adjusting for differences in body size. Overall, my study indicates that both sex and parasitism can be detected via chemical cues in this species, and the nature of the response depends on residency status, sex, and parasite load of the receiver.