![]() ![]() Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. Bright and shiny dust jacket, paper-backed, illustrated, showing only very minor wear, protected by a plastic coat, dust jacket not being price-clipped. Bound handsomely in brown cloth with gilt lettering to spine and illustration to front cover. A superior copy inside and out, being a sterling condition hardcover copy, with unbruised tips, tight binding, and clean internals, showing only very slight shelf- and edge-wear not ex-library. Replete with black-and-white illustrations and drawings. Mayan glyphs found in the ancient ruins of Copan in Central America take shape and are decoded over the span of two decades. ![]() An accessible, racing insider's account of the breaking of the Maya Code and the fight between the giants of Mayan Code decipherment between Yuri Knorosov and Michael Thompson. ![]()
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![]() ![]() They lived and flourished in this tropical paradise according to their ancient traditions and beliefs until, in the early nineteenth century, American missionaries arrived, bringing a new creed and a new way of life to a Stone Age society. ![]() The volcanic processes by which the Hawaiian Islands grew from the ocean floor were inconceivably slow, and the land remained untouched by man for countless centuries until, little more than a thousand years ago, Polynesian seafarers made the perilous journey across the Pacific and discovered their new home. In Hawaii, Pulitzer Prize–winning author James Michener weaves the classic saga that brought Hawaii’s epic history vividly alive to the American public on its initial publication in 1959, and continues to mesmerize even today. ![]() ![]() ![]() He is endangered by the loonies and their lackies, but he finds a way out, despite being severely beaten in one scene. ![]() He uses his connections in the Boston Police Department, Belson and Quirk, to look for her in ways that the police cannot. Spenser admits that "she might be right" about this. Rachel fires Spenser because he is too violent in one scene, a corporate setting in which he manhandles a couple of corporate goofballs. Spenser may be a tough guy on the outside and a cream puff inside, but the cream puff is available to us in a very guarded and controlled way. The relationship between Spenser and Susan is once again so tender that you feel deeply for both of them. The resistance to same sex marriage in the current news is essentially predicted by Parker here. Rachel is kidnapped by some loony "Ritz crackers," in Spenser's words, but these people are very far off at the extreme right wing of this country, deeply bigoted and intolerant to their bones. I don't know how long ago this book was published, but Parker speaks to issues that are so current and so controversial that they could be in the news now. I don't want to say too much about the plot, but I will say a little. She is personally reluctant to hire such a macho guy, but she needs him. Her publisher hires Spenser to be her bodyguard, as she has received death threats for her views. Rachel Wallace is a lesbian feminist who writes books and names names, and gets vilified for speaking her mind. ![]() |