Playing God in Yellowstone: The Destruction of America's First National Park

6 best books like Playing God in Yellowstone: The Destruction of America's First National Park (Alston Chase): Indaba My Children, Making Money, The Story of English in 100 Words, The Gambler, A Werewolf Problem in Central Russia: And Other Stories, The Hidden

Indaba My Children

Author	Vusamazulu Credo Mutwa
ISBN	0862417589

As a young man, Vusamazulu Credo Mutwa, a Zulu from the South African province of Natal, was determined to follow in the footsteps of his grandfather and become a tribal historian in order to keep the rich oral tradition of his culture alive. In this book, begun in response to the injustices against Africans...

Making Money

Author	Terry Pratchett
ISBN	0061161640

It's an offer you can't refuse.

Who would not to wish to be the man in charge of Ankh-Morpork's Royal Mint and the bank next door?

It's a job for life. But, as former con-man Moist von Lipwig is learning, the life is not necessarily for long.

The Chief Cashier is almost certainly...

The Story of English in 100 Words

Author	David Crystal
ISBN	1250003466

The world's foremost expert on the English language takes us on an entertaining and eye-opening tour of the history of our vernacular through the ages.

In this entertaining history of the world's most ubiquitous language, David Crystal draws on one hundred words that best illustrate the...

The Gambler

Author

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

In this dark and compelling short novel, Fyodor Dostoevsky tells the story of Alexey Ivanovitch, a young tutor working in the household of an imperious Russian general. Alexey tries to break through the wall of the established order in Russia, but instead becomes mired in the endless downward spiral...

A Werewolf Problem in Central Russia: And Other Stories

Author	Victor Pelevin
ISBN	0811213943

An anthology of eight short stories by the critically acclaimed young Russian novelist. The writing is colloquial and often whimsical, and many of the stories take supernatural phenomena very much for granted, as with the werewolves of the title story, or another in which the protagonist discovers...

The Hidden

Author	Richard Sala
ISBN	1606993860

This one feels like the most elaborate, strangely beautiful ghost-train ride you can imagine, created by a group of immensely talented, devoted, seriously deranged art-school students. Logic plays a marginal role at best. First you move through a post-apocalyptic landscape that echoes both German...