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1) The height of our mountains: nature writing from Virginia's Blue Ridge Mountains and Shenandoah Valley

Publisher

John Hopkins University Press

Pub. Date

1998.

Language

English

Formats

Book, Adult Reference

2) The riddle of Amish culture

Author

Kraybill, Donald B

Series

Center books in Anabaptist studies

Publisher

Johns Hopkins University Press

Pub. Date

2001.

Language

English

3) Everyday architecture of the Mid-Atlantic: looking at buildings and landscapes

Author

Lanier, Gabrielle M

Series

Creating the North American landscape

Publisher

Johns Hopkins University Press

Pub. Date

1997.

Language

English

4) The rise and fall of Synanon: a California utopia

Author

Janzen, Rod A

Publisher

Johns Hopkins University Press

Pub. Date

2023.

Language

English

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"On a fall day in 1978, Los Angeles attorney Paul Morantz reached into his mailbox to collect his mail and was nearly killed. He was bitten by the four-foot-long rattlesnake that had been put there by members of a cultlike group called Synanon. Chuck Dederich—a former Alcoholics Anonymous member who coined the phrase "Today is the first day of the rest of your life"—established Synanon as an innovative drug rehabilitation center near the Santa...