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Sacred Monkey River: A Canoe Trip with the Gods
Christopher Shaw · W. W. Norton & Company
Pages: 324
Format: Paperback
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At the border of Mexico and Guetamala lies the Usumacinta river. The river and its tributaries form the region that once supported the achievements of the Maya. Shaw has travelled these rivers by canoe, his story brings together the thrill of adventure travel and the acute eye of the naturalist. |
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The Romanov Sisters: The Lost Lives of the Daughters of Nicholas and Alexandra
Helen Rappaport · St Martins Pr
Pages: 492
Format: Print book
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A New York Times Bestseller for 12 weeks! "Helen Rappaport paints a compelling portrait of the doomed grand duchesses." -- People magazine"The public spoke of the sisters in a gentile, superficial manner, but Rappaport captures sections of letters and diary entries to showcase... |
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The Ruling Race: A History of American Slaveholders
James Oakes · Knopf
Pages: 307
Format: Hardcover
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This study analyzes the market economy of the South, the people and groups that constituted the class of slaveholders, and the paradox of a Southern ideology, rooted in the economy, that emphasized equality of opportunity, patriotism, democracy, and racism |
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The Last American Highway: A Journey Through Time Down U.S. Route 83: The Dakotas
Stew Magnuson · Court Bridge Publishing; First edition
Format: Book
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Descending 1,885 miles straight down the center of the United States from Westhope, North Dakota, to Brownsville, Texas, is U.S. 83, one of the oldest and longest of the federal highways that hasn’t been replaced by an Interstate. Award-winning author Stew Magnuson takes readers... |
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The History of Texas
Robert A Calvert · Harlan Davidson
Pages: 479
Format: Paperback
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The principle that all people make history continues to drive the Fourth Edition of our well-loved text, one that considers carefully the different cultures within the state as well as the unique heritage shared by all Texans. Unlike other surveys of the Lone Star State, The History of Texas... |
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Time America: An Illustrated History
Editors of Time Magazine · Time
Pages: 266
Format: Hardcover
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"Time" illuminates the story of America in a fascinating new way in this magnificent volume which collects the most iconic images in the nation's history. Here are indelible photographs - from the assassination of J F Kennedy to the first landing on the moon. Here are breath-taking... |
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Why Texans Fought in the Civil War
Charles D Grear · Texas A&M University Press
Pages: 239
Format: Hardcover
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In Why Texans Fought in the Civil War, Charles David Grear provides insights into what motivated Texans to fight for the Confederacy. Mining important primary sources - including thousands of letters and unpublished journals - he affords readers the opportunity to hear, often in the combatants'... |
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Entrada: The Legacy of Spain and Mexico in the United States
Bernard L. Fontana · Western Natl Parks Assoc
Pages: 286
Format: Paperback
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This landmark book chronicles and celebrates a prodigious historical and cultural legacy, and directs readers to more than four dozen parks from Maine to Alaska, where this aspect of our American heritage is preserved and interpreted. Illustrated with nearly 100 black and white contemporary... |
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Tituba, Reluctant Witch of Salem: Devilish Indians and Puritan Fantasies
Elaine G Breslaw · NYU Press
Pages: 270
Format: Hardcover
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In this important book, Elaine Breslaw claims to have rediscovered Tituba, the elusive, mysterious, and often mythologized Indian woman accused of witchcraft in Salem in 1692 and immortalized in Arthur Miller's The Crucible. Reconstructing the life of the slave woman at the center of the notorious... |
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Texas in Transition
Bill Broyles · Lyndon Baines Johnson Library
Pages: 226
Format: Paperback
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Among those contributing to the volume are Pulitzer Prize-winning author Larry McMurtry; Journalist Bill Broyles, Paul Burka, Alison Cook, Ronnie Dugger, and Molly Ivins; humorist John Henry Faulk; San Antonio Mayor Henry Cisneros; Texas Agriculture Commissioner Jim Hightower; State Senator... |
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Polio: An American Story
David M. Oshinsky
Format: Hardcover
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Here David Oshinsky tells the gripping story of the polio terror and of the intense effort to find a cure, from the March of Dimes to the discovery of the Salk and Sabin vaccines--and beyond. Drawing on newly available papers of Jonas Salk, Albert Sabin and other key players, Oshinsky... |
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Living Terrors: What America Needs to Know to Survive the Coming Bioterrorist Catastrophe
Michael T Osterholm · Delacorte Press
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover
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This book will tell you what that will mean when the inevitable happens, and what we as a nation can and must do now to protect ourselves, our families, and the basic elements of our society that bioterrorism puts at risk.You will also learn why the billions being spent to combat terrorism... |
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Crazy Horse, Third Edition: The Strange Man of the Oglalas
Mari Sandoz · Bison Books
Pages: 512
Format: Paperback
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Crazy Horse, the legendary military leader of the Oglala Sioux whose personal power and social nonconformity contributed to his reputation as being "strange," fought in many famous battles, including the Little Bighorn, and held out tirelessly against the U.S. government's... |
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Trigger Time
Mick Flynn · Orion Pub Co
Pages: 272
Format: Book
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Now Zad, Afghanistan: a small unit of British soldiers are beseiged on a hilltop, surrounded by Taliban. There is no way out but through ambush country, on roads full of IEDs. In any case, the British have no intention of running: they have promised the local population that they are here... |
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