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The Broken Circle: A True Story of Murder and Magic in Indian Country
Rodney Barker Manufacturer: Simon & Schuster ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover  Criminology
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ASIN: 0671741462 |
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"As gripping a true-crime book as you're likely to read all year....Read[s] almost as if [it] had been written by Tony Hillerman."Customer Reviews:
as good as its' review.......2003-05-04
The main events of this story take place in the early 1970's. Three Native Americans were brutally murdered by three White teenagers in Farmington, NM. The author introduces us to the story through his own eyes as he discovers the tense aftermath of the murders and the reaction to the light sentencing that the youthful murderers received. Although just passing through Farmington, Rodney Barker finds himself suddenly involved in the turmoil. The events are etched in his mind and, when he dicovers more about it some years later, he decides to investigate the whole story.
Mr. Barker does a very good job in telling the story and trying to do so from all available perspectives. He is sensitive to the Navajo's point of view and goes to great lengths to bring that perspective to the reader. Yet, despite his partisan introduction to the story, he seems to have done a pretty good job of getting the "Anglo" perspective as well. There are times when there doesn't seem to be a reasonable response to some of what has happened. Yet the author often brings us just such a response. He follows the lives of the perpetrators and we find ourselves actually starting to care about them in their later lives. He leaves not with answers but with an awareness instead.
People not familiar with the tension of communities that border Native American reservations will find these events hard to believe. For that matter, so will those who do live in such communities. I read a Native American columnist once who said that the worst racism against Native Americans can be found in those communities that border reservations. Mr. Barker's book is an example of that statement at its' worst. Unfortuanately, while it makes us aware of this problem, it leaves an emptiness as we look for a solution to the problem. Why was it that the teenage activity of "rolling" intoxicated Indians in Farmington was allowed to happen? Was the author's explantion of the problem overstated or was the community's response to it understated? I live near an Indian reservation and I can attest to stereo-typing and tension between the races. However, it is nothing like the description of the situation in Farmington. Thus I am wondering about many things as a result of reading this book. The success of this book is that it has made me thing about things that need to be thought about.
one of the best non-fiction books I have read.......2001-04-08
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Compelling story of racial tension in Navajo Indian country........1997-05-13
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Broken Circle: A Peter Cooper/Josie McGuire Mystery
P. D. Lawrence Manufacturer: AuthorHouse ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback General
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ASIN: 1425902464 |
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"There needs no ghost come from the grave to tell us this," the ever-loyal Horatio assured Hamlet, Shakespeare's famous Danish prince. But four hundred years later and far from Ellsinore, a ghost haunts the dreams of Josie McGuire, assistant professor of history at Lancaster University, high in the Great Smoky Mountains. An evil she can't identify and too powerful to resist draws her into the past, wanting her to see, to know - what? Only her husband's voice seems to be able to break its hold. Peter Cooper, Professor of Veterinary Medicine worries about the toll these nightmares are taking on his diabetic wife. But is the phantom real? And where did it come from? Searching for an ancient Cherokee village site on the Coopers' mountain property university archeology students find human remains. Female, fairly young, and only in the ground about 50 years according to the archeologist and the police forensics team. Who would hide a body in that field? And what role does the retired German professor and his English wife play? Indian archeology and World War II events come together as Peter Cooper and Jim Dalton tackle the mystery of a murder committed half a century ago, hoping to lay a ghost and prevent the killer from striking again.Customer Reviews:
compelling mystery.......2006-01-10
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The Broken Circle
Janelle R Wols Manufacturer: iUniverse, Inc. ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback General
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ASIN: 0595421385 |
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Jocelyn has a loving boyfriend and a roommate who has been her best friend almost all her life. She has many friends who come to her for loving advice but now she is gone. They are all left wondering who would want her dead? Her circle of friends becomes smaller as secrets are revealed and detectives try to solve the murder. They talk to all of her friends, but could they be missing something? Could the person they believed killed her really have done it or are they too quick to place the blame?
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Ecology, Economics, Ethics: The Broken Circle
Manufacturer: Yale University Press ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Ethics & Morality
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In this highly readable book a distinguished group of environmental experts argues that in order to solve global environmental problems, we must view them in a broad interdisciplinary perspective that recognizes the relationships-the interconnected circle-among ecology, economics, and ethics. The contributors-William A. Butler, Paul H. Connett, David Ehrenfeld, Thomas Eisner, Malcolm Gillis, William Goldfarb, Wes Jackson, Gene E. Likens, Norman Myers, David Pimentel, Holmes Rolston III, and Edward O. Wilson-address a wide range of concerns from global atmospheric degradation and spreading toxification of the environment to loss of forests and massive species extinctions. "The problem is how to foster economic development that does not ruin the environment. . . . Accomplishing such a task will not be easy, but it may be assisted by collections of expert essays like Bormann and Kellert's Ecology, Economics, Ethics."-Daniel J. Kevles, New York Review of Books "In this volume some of the best minds in the business focus their attention on key environmental problems. I recommend it highly."-Paul R. Ehrlich, Bing Professor of Population Studies, Stanford University|
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Broken Circle
Kerry Shawn Keys Manufacturer: Virtual Artists Collective ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback 20th Century
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Broken Circle
D.H. Caldwell Manufacturer: iUniverse, Inc. ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover Contemporary
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It's a typical muggy Carolina morning in 1932. Eight-year-old George Campbell is waiting on the front porch. Ahead, he sees the ambulance approach. He runs in the house to his father, yelling, “it's here, it's here!” In the bedroom lies his mother, the most stable, loving influence in his short life. The ambulance is here to take her away. She will not return. Left with a father who does not know how to care for the boy, George is shipped off to live with relatives; a sex-obsessed cousin; a philandering uncle; and an aunt who tries hard to give this motherless child the love and support that he lost. Broken Circle is an emotional journey that will tug at your heart and leave you rooting for George's long, painful search for acceptance.Download Description
It's a typical muggy Carolina morning in 1932. Eight-year-old George Campbell is waiting on the front porch. Ahead, he sees the ambulance approach. He runs in the house to his father, yelling, 'it's here, it's here!" In the bedroom lies his mother, the most stable, loving influence in his short life. The ambulance is here to take her away. She will not return. Left with a father who does not know how to care for the boy, George is shipped off to live with relatives; a sex-obsessed cousin; a philandering uncle; and an aunt who tries hard to give this motherless child the love and support that he lost. Broken Circle is an emotional journey that will tug at your heart and leave you rooting for George's long, painful search for acceptance.|
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Ecology, Economics, Ethics: The Broken Circle
F. Herbert Bormann Manufacturer: Yale University Press ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: B000OS7REU |
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Anorexia Nervosa: The Broken Circle
Anne Erichsen Manufacturer: Faber & Faber ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Neuropsychology
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Riders of the Broken Circle
Tevis Miller Manufacturer: Phoenix Press ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: B000E397IO |
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Broken Circles: Fragmenting Indigenous Families 1800-2000
Anna Haebich Manufacturer: Fremantle Arts Center Pr ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback History
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