On a visit to Paris in 1892, American historian Henry Adams befriends a young woman who then vanishes. He follows her trail through the city's seamier reaches and into the corrupt heart of the Panama Canal scandal. This novel is a combination of history and fiction.

Panama

Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

Zencey, Eric

Mystery

Scepter Pubs

A novel of political intrigue set in late-nineteenth-century Paris follows American historian Henry Adams as he searches for a young American woman whose disappearance is linked to French interests in the Panama Canal

Literature & Fiction

United States

Farrar. Straus & Giroux

Nineteenth-century historian Henry Adams finds himself in the unlikely position of detective in the wake of a French scandal over the Panama Canal involving the disappearance of a woman and a murder. Reprint.

Literary

BERKLEY

A novel of political intrigue set in late-nineteenth-century Paris follows American historian Henry Adams as he searches for a young American woman whose disappearance is linked to French interests in the Panama Canal. Reprint.

Panama: A Novel

Genre Fiction

Berkley Trade

panama

American historian Henry Adams searches late nineteenth-century Paris for a young American woman whose disappearance is linked to French interests in the Panama Canal.

Audioworks

With this remarkable book Eric Zencey changes the way we think about nature by changing how we think about history. “The ecological crisis is also a historical crisis,” he writes. “If we are out of place in nature, we are also out of place in time, and the two kinds of exile are related.”
Zencey’s way home takes us many places: to a starlit mountaintop, where a nineteenth-century sect awaits the second coming; to the northern woods during hunting season; to the salt marshes of a Delaware childhood; to the softball games and abandoned mill ponds of his adopted Vermont. Always we are shown a world outside our preconceptions. In the essay “In Search of Virgin Forest” we see that virgin forest is not the pure escape from civilization that romantics make of it. Like the second-growth forest around it, virgin forest too is a human construct, one whose “different disturbance history” is not natural but is equally the product of human perception and appropriation.
A nationally acclaimed novelist, Zencey has brought together autobiography and philosophy to produce a work at once accessible and intellectually rigorous. Perceptive, urgent, and lyrical, these essays are alive with warmth and wit and the occasional glint of melancholy. Virgin Forest is a passionate call for ecological health. It amply demonstrates (as the final essay has it) “Why History Is Sublime”: if we suffer a postmodern lack of grounding, only a rooted-in-place ecological sensibility can supply our need, and historical understanding is its inescapable prerequisite.

Virgin Forest: Meditations on History, Ecology, and Culture

Science & Math

Biological Sciences

Univ of Georgia Pr

University of Georgia Press

Virgin Forest

Politics & Social Sciences

Social Sciences

Our planet is finite. Our political and economic systems were designed for an infinite planet. These difficult truths anchor the perceptive analysis offered in The Other Road to Serfdom and the Path to Sustainable Democracy. With wit, energy, and a lucid prose style, Eric Zencey identifies the key elements of “infinite planet” thinking that underlie our economics and our politics―and shows how they must change. Zencey’s title evokes F. A. Hayek, who argued that any attempt to set overall limits to free markets―any attempt at centralized planning―is “the road to serfdom.” But Hayek’s argument works only if the planet is infinite. If Hayek is right that planning and democracy are irreducibly in conflict, Zencey argues, then on a finite planet, “free markets operated on infinite planet principles are just the other road to serfdom.” The alternative is ecological economics, an emergent field that accepts limits to what humans can accomplish economically on a finite planet. Zencey explains this new school of thought and applies it to current political and economic concerns: the financial collapse, terrorism, population growth, hunger, the energy and oil industry’s social control, and the deeply rooted dissatisfactions felt by conservative “values” voters who have been encouraged to see smaller government and freer markets as the universal antidote. What emerges is a coherent vision, a progressive and hopeful alternative to neoconservative economic and political theory―a foundation for an economy that meets the needs of the 99% and just might help save civilization from ecological and political collapse.

The Other Road to Serfdom and the Path to Sustainable Democracy

Business & Money

Economics

University Press of New England

Die Panama- Affäre.

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