Passage of Darkness: The Ethnobiology of the Haitian Zombie
10 best books like Passage of Darkness: The Ethnobiology of the Haitian Zombie (Wade Davis): The Leopard, Empire Falls, Awakenings, The Hot Zone: The Terrifying True Story of the Origins of the Ebola Virus, Geisha, a Life, Runaway Horses, Nisa: The Life and Words of a !Kung Woman, Burning Down the Haus: Punk Rock, Revolution, and the Fall of the Berlin Wall, The Tenants of Moonbloom, A House and Its Head
| Author | Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa |
| ISBN | 0679731210 |
The Leopard is a story of a decadent and dying aristocracy threatened by the forces of revolution and democracy. Set against the political upheavals of Italy in the 1860s, it focuses on Don Fabrizio, a Sicilian prince of immense sensual appetites, wealth, and great personal magnetism. Around this...
| Author | Richard Russo |
| ISBN | 0375726403 |
Welcome to Empire Falls, a blue-collar town full of abandoned mills whose citizens surround themselves with the comforts and feuds provided by lifelong friends and neighbors and who find humor and hope in the most unlikely places, in this Pulitzer Prize-winning novel by Richard Russo.
Miles...
| Author | Oliver Sacks |
| ISBN | 0375704051 |
Awakenings--which inspired the major motion picture--is the remarkable story of a group of patients who contracted sleeping-sickness during the great epidemic just after World War I. Frozen for decades in a trance-like state, these men and women were given up as hopeless until 1969, when Dr. Oliver...
The Hot Zone: The Terrifying True Story of the Origins of the Ebola Virus
| Author | Richard Preston |
| ISBN | 0385495226 |
A highly infectious, deadly virus from the central African rain forest suddenly appears in the suburbs of Washington, D.C. There is no cure. In a few days 90 percent of its victims are dead. A secret military SWAT team of soldiers and scientists is mobilized to stop the outbreak of this exotic "hot" virus....
| Author | Mineko Iwasaki |
| ISBN | 0743444299 |
"No woman in the three-hundred-year history of the karyukai has ever come forward in public to tell her story. We have been constrained by unwritten rules not to do so, by the robes of tradition and by the sanctity of our exclusive calling...But I feel it is time to speak out."
Celebrated as the...
| Author | Yukio Mishima |
| ISBN | 0099282895 |
Isao is a young, engaging patriot, and a fanatical believer in the ancient samurai ethos. He turns terrorist, organising a violent plot against the new industrialists, who he believes are threatening the integrity of Japan and usurping the Emperor’s rightful power. As the conspiracy unfolds and...
Nisa: The Life and Words of a !Kung Woman
| Author | Marjorie Shostak |
| ISBN | 0674004329 |
This classic paperback is available once again--and exclusively--from Harvard University Press. This book is the story of the life of Nisa, a member of the !Kung tribe of hunter-gatherers from southern Africa's Kalahari desert. Told in her own words--earthy, emotional, vivid--to Marjorie Shostak,...
| Author | Tim Mohr |
| ISBN | 1616208430 |
It began with a handful of East Berlin teens who heard the Sex Pistols on a British military radio broadcast to troops in West Berlin, and it ended with the collapse of the East German dictatorship. Punk rock was a life-changing discovery. The buzz-saw guitars, the messed-up clothing and hair, the rejection...
| Author | Edward Lewis Wallant |
| ISBN | 1590170709 |
Norman Moonbloom is a loser, a drop-out who can't even make it as a deadbeat. His brother, a slumlord, hires him to collect rent in the buildings he owns in Manhattan. Making his rounds from apartment to apartment, Moonbloom confronts a wildly varied assortment of brilliantly described urban characters,...
| Author | Ivy Compton-Burnett |
| ISBN | 0940322641 |
A radical thinker, one of the rare modern heretics, said Mary McCarthy of Ivy Compton-Burnett, in whose austere, savage, and bitingly funny novels anything can happen and no one will ever escape. The long, endlessly surprising conversational duels at the center of Compton-Burnett's works are confrontations...
Memories of Silk and Straw: A Self-Portrait of Small-Town Japan
| Author | Junichi Saga |
| ISBN | 0870119885 |
Come, sit down by the fire, and listen to the grandparents tell stories about "how it was in the old days" in a small lakeside town just north of Tokyo.
Midwives and pawnbrokers, fishermen and thatchers spin tales of a different world--one that was still very much a part of Japan's ancient...
