books about: guyana     books:       The Jonestown Massacre: the Transcript of Reverend Jim Jones' Last Speech, Guyana 1978 Jim Jones Temple Press UK, 1993 This new edition includes an introduction by Karl Eden putting events in Waco, Texas into context.             Our Father Who Art in Hell4 reviews James Reston Times Books, 1981 Superb! Hell indeed! I liked this book very much. The way I choose to praise it is to write down the text on its front and back flaps. I think it will help the reader to know if this book is what he/she is looking for: "Of the Jonestown Massacre, most people can recall the ghoulish photographs, the headlines that screamed of mass suicide in a tropical land. Later, the spectacular flowering of Jim Jones's People's ...             Crowns of Glory, Tears of Blood: The Demerara Slave Rebellion of 1823 Emilia Viotti da Costa Oxford University Press, USA, 1997 The night of August 17, 1823 saw the start of one of the most massive slave rebellions in the history of the Western Hemisphere, the uprising in the British colony of Demerara (now Guyana), in which nearly twelve thousand slaves took up arms against their masters. In Crowns of Glory, Emilia Viotti da Costa tells the riveting story of this pivotal moment in the history of slavery. Studying the complaints brought by slaves to the office of the ...             The broken god4 reviews Bonnie Thielmann David C. Cook, 1979 Fascinating look at People's Temple from a "daughter" of Jim Jones This is a gripping true story told by a woman who was considered a daughter to Jim and Marceline Jones. Although she left the group a few years before its destruction, she remained on very friendly terms with the Jones' , especially Marceline. She was one of the people who went to Guyana with Leo Ryan. She went in high hopes of being able to diffuse the situation in Jonestown by getting in ...             All the Cowboys Were Indians3 reviews Stan Brock Synergy South, Inc, 1999 Deeply enchanting I received this wonderful book from Stan Brock himself after volunteering with RAM for about a year. I found it to be a deeply rich book filled with stories that explain much of why Stan started RAM and why he returns to Guyana several times each year. Written in a delightful tone that reflects Stan's own understated sense of humor, the book is a page-turner that leaves you feeling as though ...             Six Years With God: Life Inside Jim Jones' People's Temple11 reviews Jeannie Mills A & W Pub, 1979 Excellent! This book is astounding. I have been doing research on People's Temple for awhile now, and pretty much thought I understood the inside workings of this cult. I was very wrong. Six Years With God gives the reader a serious look at Jim Jones and Peoples Temple. I could not put this book down. Jeannie Mills (May she rest in peace)brings us into Peoples Temple like no other. You join the cult with ...             Dear People: Remembering Jonestown9 reviews Heyday Books, 2005 Dear People Remembering Jonestown I have read so many books regarding Jonestown/Jim Jones and I will never understand why this tragedy happened. Dear People, Remembering Jonestown brings you so much closer to the people that were in Jonestown on that tragic day. I loved the personaL letters and interviews. I specially like the personal letters from Carolyn Layton and Maria Katsaris, two of Jims closes and very personal ...             Seductive Poison: A Jonestown Survivor's Story of Life and Death in the People's Temple254 reviews Deborah Layton Anchor, 1999 Compelling and disturbing. I could not put it down. I had seen a documentary a while back on PBS, and Deborah Layton was one of the many former members and survivors who gave commentary on People's Temple and specifically the Rev. Jim Jones. In introducing Layton, there was a marker under her name that indicated she had written a book titled, Seductive Poison, on the infamous death cult. I ordered it. All I can say is that Layton's memoir is an ...             Guyana (Bradt Travel Guide)2 reviews Kirk Smock Bradt Travel Guides, 2008 Excellent guide to a forgotten land. This is the first guidebook that treats Guyana separately as a country, and is very well researched. There is no contest between this and other guidebooks -- the level of detail and coverage of the country is unmatched when compared to the Lonely Planet's "South America on a Shoestring", the only other guidebook I know that covers Guyana well. This book is a must have for anyone visiting or ...             Suicide Cult: The Inside Story of the Peoples Temple Sect and the Massacre in Guyana (201P)6 reviews Marshall Kilduff, Ron Javers Bantam Books, 1978 For an exceptional and POWERFUL read... ...and one that is written from the inside out I would also suggest SEDUCTIVE POISON by Deborah Layton. It has received incredible reviews both on-line and in print. It is a insider's riveting accountof how and why people were caught up in this humanitarian organization. JimJones was a well respected politician and Reverend in teh early 70's and many young Vietnam protesting rebels joined ...             The Costs of Regime Survival: Racial Mobilization, Elite Domination and Control of the State in Guyana and ... Percy C. Hintzen Cambridge University Press, 2006 This comparative study of two republics examines the conditions that determine regime survival in less developed countries. The author looks at the functioning of political élites and the strategies employed, such as ethnic mobilization, patronage and coercion, to gain and maintain control of the state. He argues that political and economic development can only be adequately advanced by the resolution of the conflict between regime survival and ...             U.S. Intervention in British Guiana: A Cold War Story (New Cold War History)2 reviews Stephen G. Rabe The University of North Carolina Press, 2005 U.S. Intervention in British Guiana Finally the unvarnished truth has been told. This is a powerful book which some may say is biased towards the East Indians in Guyana,but I say that someone has finally portrayed history the way it actualy happened.             Going Home and Other Tales from Guyana (Macmillan Caribbean Writers) Deryck Bernard Macmillan Caribbean, 2002 Contains stories of boyhood days in Guyana, of characters such as Joe the gravedigger and Choker the ice vendor; of politics, fighting women and infidelity; of cricket at Bourda and of the harsh realities of digging for gold in the bush.             Buxton Spice11 reviews Oonya Kempadoo Beacon Press, 2004 A Caribbean Classic This sultry story of sexual-awakening is a must-read for everyone. Mothers, but this book for your daughters! It is both poetic and political, you will find it difficult to put down. It is truly a caribbean classic.             The Guyana Massacre1 review Krausse, Stearn Berkley, 1978 A firsthand account of the Jim Jones suicide cult A quick-turnaround mass-market paperback on the Jim Jones cult that committed spectacular suicide in South America in November 1978. Hundreds of U.S. ex-patriots drank cyanide-laced Kool-Aid at the group's jungle compound in French Guyana. Told by Washington Post staff, including the reporter who was with Congressman Ryan at the time of his assassination -- the event which triggered the mass ...             The Cult That Died: The Tragedy of Jim Jones and the People's Temple1 review George Klineman Putnam Pub Group (T), 1980 Very informative, excellent resource I read this book in high school when I chose to write my term paper on Peoples Temple. I found it again while I was moving and read it again with a much more appreciative attitude. I finished reading it today. This is THE book to read if your simply looking to learn all about the Peoples Temple, Jim Jones, and the tragedy at Jonestown. I have read several other books on the subject, but they ...             What's Cooking in Guyana Carnegie School of Home Economics Macmillan Caribbean, 2004             Journey to Nowhere3 reviews Shiva naipaul Simon & Schuster, 1981 Shiva Naipaul's Legacy While Shiva Naipaul's fiction is powerful - I am thinking principally of his first work Fireflies - one can not deny that his legacy lies in the realm of non-fiction. He was, after all, a highly regarded travel writer. I would contend that Shiva Naipaul was much more than a very good travel writer. While Journey to Nowhere uses settings, scenery and environment well to disturb the complacent ...             Gone from the Promised Land: Jonestown in American Cultural History Transaction Publishers, 2004 If we are to learn anything of value from the murders and mass suicide at Jonestown, its history must be salvaged from popular myths, which are little more than superficial atrocity tales. In this superb cultural history, John R. Hall presents a reasoned analysis of the meaning of Jonestown: why it happened and how it is tied to our history as a nation, our ideals, our practices, and the tensions of modern culture. Hall deflates the myths of ...              search for books american, association, caribbean, control, cooking, cultural, demerara, domination, history, intervention, jonestown, journey, macmillan, massacre, mobilization, monographs, nowhere, promised, rebellion, remembering, reverend, seductive, sociological, suicide, survival, survivor, tragedy, transcript, trinidad, writers books:    Kindle - Amazon's New Wireless Reading Device This is the future of book reading. I have used it and love it! randomly chosen book: Whiteout we recommend Compelling and disturbing. I could not put it down. leave a comment home  impressum - about us