Desert housing
Subtitle: balancing experience and technology for dwelling in hot arid zones
By: Kenneth N. Clark and Patricia Paylore, editors ; sponsored by the University of Arizona Arid Lands Natural Resources Committee.
Contributors: Clark, Kenneth N.; Paylore, Patricia.; University of Arizona. Arid Lands Natural Resources Committee.; University of Arizona. Office of Arid Lands Studies.
Publisher: University of Arizona, Office of Arid Lands Studies
Published: 1980
Place of publication: Tucson, Ariz
Language: eng
Number of pages: 339
Subjects: Architecture, Domestic -- Arid regions -- Addresses, essays, lectures
Description: "Edie Kiglatuk's discovery along Alaska's Iditarod trail leads to a massive, far-reaching conspiracy M. J. McGrath's debut novel, White Heat, earned both fans and favorable comparisons to bestselling Scandinavian thrillers such as Smilla's Sense of Snow and the Kurt Wallander series. In The Boy in the Snow, half-Inuit Edie Kiglatuk finds herself in Alaska with Sergeant Derek Palliser, helping her ex-husband Sammy in his bid to win the famous Iditarod dog sled race. The race takes a grim turn when Edie stumbles upon the body of a baby left out in the forest. The state troopers are keen to pin the death on the Dark Believers--a sinister offshoot of a Russian Orthodox sect--but Edie's instincts tell her otherwise. Her investigations take her into a world of corrupt politics, religious intolerance, greed, and sex trafficking. But just as she begins to get some answers, Edie finds herself confronted by a painful secret from her past. "--

"In The Boy in the Snow, half-Inuit Edie Kiglatuk finds herself in Alaska with Sergeant Derek Palliser, helping her ex-husband Sammy in his bid to win the famous Iditarod dog sled race. The race takes a grim turn when Edie stumbles upon the body of a bay left out in the forest. The state troopers are keen to pin the death on the Dark Believers--a sinister offshoot of a Russian Orthodox sect--but Edie's instincts tell her otherwise. Her investigations take her into a world of corrupt politics, religious intolerance, greed, and sex trafficking. But just as she begins to get some answers, Edie finds herself confronted by a painful secret from her past"--
Notes: Includes bibliographies.
Derived from the University of Arizona's Interdisciplinary Seminar Series on Housing in the Arid Environment.