Böcker av Glenn Alan Cheney

Excerpts from fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and translations by Glenn Alan Cheney, includingThanksgiving: The Pilgrims' First Year in America,Love and Death in the Kingdom of SwazilandThe Cat Caboodle: A Litter Box of Cat Facts and CuriositiesJourney to Chernobyl: Encounters in a Radioactive ZoneJourney on the Estrada Real: Encounters in the Mountains of BrazilThe Merry burial CompendiumNotions from a Time of PerilLurking Doubt: Notes on IncarcerationPromised land: A Nun's Struggle against Landlessness, Lawlessness, Slavery, Poverty, Corruption and Environmental Devastation in AmazoniaQuilombo dos Palmares: Brazil's Lost Nation of Fugitive SlavesLaw of the Jungle: Environmental Anarchy and the Tenharim People of AmazoniaBangs & Whimpers: The Ends of the Earth and Other CatastrophesPassion in an Improper PlaceFrankenstein on the Cusp of SomethingNeighborhood NewsLife in CavesActs of Ineffable LovePoems AskanceTranslationsThe Size Switch, by Monteiro LobatoThe Reform of Nature, by Monteiro LobatoThe Best Chronicles of Rubem AlvesTender Returns, by Rubem AlvesOn Time and Eternity, by Rubem AlvesConcerto for Body & Soul, by Rubem AlvesEx Cathedra: Stories by Machado de AssisTrio in A-Minor: Stories by Machado de Assis

A small family ventures up the Amazon, and then up a tributary, and then another, with The Gumball King. They soon get into lots of trouble with gold miners, timber rustlers, and Indians. At the same time, They're feeling the temptations that tend to come with tropical heat.The story is a rollicking spoof that actually touches on real problems in today's Amazonia.

Just a Bunch of Facts is the only book that answers such questions as:How many beehives equal the weight of one space shuttle?How many Americans can't vote because they've been in jail?Why would you not want Oscar the Cat to sleep on your bed?What did Crown Prince Philip of France's horse trip over?What is Hell Money?Who was the first cat in space and where was she from?Who said "Death makes everything useless"?What's wrong with The Paper Clip Maximizer?If the human population continues to grow at its current rate, when will people equal the weight of the Earth?Why are a few wealthy people buying condos in missile silos?When is National Feral Cat Day?Why is a queen bee's stinger not barbed?How should you greet your cell mate when you go to prison?When did cats first start coughing up hairballs on Cyprian rugs?What's so good about a green burial?This is a great bathroom book. Each "fact" is just a page or two long. With every sitting, you can learn a little something that few other people know.

Brief, insightful notes on prisons, prisoners, and imprisonment, touching on history, atrocities, events, effects, and mostly, the possibilities of reform.

Brazil's Estrada Real is a road built in 1697 to bring gold and diamonds down from the mountains of Minas Gerais to the ports of Rio de Janeiro and Paraty. The road is still there, most of it still unpaved, winding through historic Baroque cities such as Congonhas, Ouro Preto, Serro, and, at the northern end, Diamantina.As the 20th century rolled over into the 21st, life along the Estrada Real was in many ways still in the 19th. Hoping to capture a way of life that was quickly ending, Glenn Alan Cheney hiked much of the road. Along the way, with the special perspective of a foreign Tocqueville, he wrote about the culture, geography, history, foods, and people he observed.Cheney's style is simple, informal, friendly, and informative, and his observations are unique and insightful.

Translations of 21 short stories by Machado de Assis, with Portuguese and English on facing pages. Most have never before appeared in English. Translators include Laura Cade Brown, Krista Brune, David George, Linda Ledford-Miller, Ana Lessa-Schmidt, Nelson López Rojas, John Maddox, Adam Morris, Rex P. Nielson, Leila Osman, Marissel Hernández Romero, Steven K. Smith, Lisandra Sousa, Luciana Tanure, and Nelson Vieira. Stories include Nuptial Song, Among Saints, Xerxes' Tears, Cabriolet Anecdote, Fulano, Ex Cathedra, Live!, Maria Cora, The Second Life, Pecuniary Anecdote, Manuscript of a Sacristan, Galvão's Lady, The Loan, A Lady, Canon or Metaphysics of Style, Trio in A Minor, The Academies of Siam, An Errant, A Visit from Alcibiade, Old Papers, A Captain of Volunteers.

Portraits of missionary sisters as they work in some of the most difficulty, dangerous, and turbulent parts of the world in the 20th and 21st centuries. Central America during the revolutionary period. Northern Mexico during the migration to the United States. Swaziland during the AIDS epidemic. Italy during the aftermath of World War II. Argentina during the military regime. Brazil during the rise in crime and fall of the environment. These stories are fascinating and inspiring-and not at all what you'd expect in a book about nuns. Introduction by Sr. Barbara Staley, MSC.