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  • MEZCAL
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    MEZCAL
    CHARLES BOWDEN
    The acclaimed author "excavates his own tormented life—and its relation to the land he loves—in a series of powerful, imagistic autobiographical essays" ( Kirkus Reviews).   "Romping drunkenly into Mexico, protesting the Vietnamese war at the University of Wisconsin, marching on the capitol in Washington, hiking into the Pinacate, returning to the family farm in Germantown, Iow...

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  • JERICHO
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    JERICHO
    CHARLES BOWDEN
    When Charles Bowden died in 2014, he left behind an archive of unpublished manuscripts. Jericho marks the fifth installment in his venerable "Unnatural History of America" sextet. In it he invokes the cycles of destruction and rebirth that have defined the ancient biblical city over millennia. From the ruins of Jericho's walls Bowden reflects on the continuum of war and violenc...

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  • DAKOTAH
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    DAKOTAH
    CHARLES BOWDEN
    “[Dakotah] is about hope, disappointment, impermanence and erasure. . . . This is a meditation Bowden fans will not want to miss.”—Arizona Daily Star “Bowden’s prose—bleak, fierce, surreal like a swirling sandstorm, like an endlessly ramifying arroyo—provided for me, in its rejection of facile theses and clear-cut answers, an honest mapping of our contemporary predicament.”—Lea...

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  • SOME OF THE DEAD ARE STILL BREATHING
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    SOME OF THE DEAD ARE STILL BREATHING
    CHARLES BOWDEN
    The third book in Charles Bowden's "accidental trilogy" that began with Blood Orchid and Blues for Cannibals, Some of the Dead Are Still Breathing attempts to resolve the overarching question: "How can a person live a moral life in a culture of death?" As humanity moves further into the twenty-first century, Bowden continues to interrogate our roles in creating the ravaged land...

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  • THE RED CADDY
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    THE RED CADDY
    CHARLES BOWDEN
    The author of Blood Orchid and Blue Desert presents a biography on his friend, the writer and environmentalist, Edward Abbey. A passionate advocate for preserving wilderness and fighting the bureaucratic and business forces that would destroy it, Edward Abbey (1927–1989) wrote fierce, polemical books such as Desert Solitaire and The Monkey Wrench Gang that continue to inspire e...

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  • DESIERTO
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    DESIERTO
    CHARLES BOWDEN
    The acclaimed author of Blue Desert explores life on the arid borderlands of southern Arizona in this "compelling and wonderfully poetic" essay collection (Ron Hansen, New York Times Book Review). In Desierto, Charles Bowden brings his signature eye for vivid detail and penetrating insight to the Sonoran Desert. Travelling across this unforgiving terrain, he explores struggling...

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  • BLOOD ORCHID
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    BLOOD ORCHID
    CHARLES BOWDEN
    Through stark observations and visceral experiences, Blood Orchid begins Charles Bowden’s dizzying excavation of the brutal, systemic violence and corruption at the roots of American society. Like a nightmarish fever dream that turns out to be our own reality, Bowden visits dying friends in skid row apartments in Los Angeles, traverses San Francisco byways lined with clubs and ...

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  • RED LINE
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    RED LINE
    CHARLES BOWDEN
    The author is joined by a retired narcotics cop as they investigate the assassination of a drug dealer and hit man outside Tucson, Arizona. One of Charles Bowden's earliest books, Red Line powerfully conveys a desert civilization careening over the edge―and decaying at its center. Bowden's quest for the literal and figurative truth behind the assassination of a murderous border...

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  • CLINICAL TRIAL DESIGN CHALLENGES IN MOOD DISORDERS
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    CLINICAL TRIAL DESIGN CHALLENGES IN MOOD DISORDERS
    TOHEN, MAURICIO / BOWDEN, CHARLES / NIERENBERG, ANDREW A. / GEDDES, JOHN
    Poor clinical trial designs result in failed studies wasting hundreds of thousands of dollars in research funds. Poor clinical trial designs limit the rapid advancement of cures for disorders. Yet it’s relatively easy to avoid classic poor designs via education about what constitutes good design and what the potential outcomes are for any shortcuts taken. The proposed book outl...

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  • SONATA
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    SONATA
    CHARLES BOWDEN
    "I believe every sunrise and I remember the smell of wet grass, the color of robins, and rustle of leaves on the big oaks that outlive nations, all this comes with each sunrise." Sonata marks the sixth and final installment of Charles Bowden’s towering “Unnatural History of America” series. While his earlier volumes were suffused with violence and war, Bowden offers here a cele...

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  • BLUES FOR CANNIBALS
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    BLUES FOR CANNIBALS
    CHARLES BOWDEN
    Cultivated from the fierce ideas seeded in Blood Orchid, Blues for Cannibals is an elegiac reflection on death, pain, and a wavering confidence in humanity’s own abilities for self-preservation. After years of reporting on border violence, sex crimes, and the devastation of the land, Bowden struggles to make sense of the many ways in which we destroy ourselves and whether there...

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