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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... |
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Mexican American Youth Organization: Avant-Garde of the Chicano Movement in Texas
Armando Navarro · Univ. of Texas Press
Pages: 296
Format: Book
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Among the protest movements of the 1960s, the Mexican American Youth Organization (MAYO) emerged as one of the principal Chicano organizations seeking social change. By the time MAYO evolved into the Raza Unida Party (RUP) in 1972, its influence had spread far beyond its Crystal City,... |
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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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The Disuniting of America: Reflections on a Multicultural Society
Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr. · W W Norton & Co Inc
Pages: 208
Format: Hardcover
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In an expanded version of his best-selling essay, the two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning historian offers a critique of multiculturalism, arguing that the rise of ethnic awareness threatens to overturn America's celebrated melting pot. |
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Paris and the Countryside: Modern Life in Late-19th-Century France
Fronia W Simpson · Portland Museum of Art
Pages: 135
Format: Paperback
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It has long been observed that Impressionists and their followers heeded Charles Baudelaire's call to paint "modern life." "Paris and the Countryside" explores modernity, a cultural notion, with a parallel emphasis on the development of modernism, an art historical... |
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The Kingdom of Speech
Tom Wolfe · Little Brown and Company
Pages: 192
Format: Print book
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The maestro storyteller and reporter provocatively argues that what we think we know about speech and human evolution is wrong.
Tom Wolfe, whose legend began in journalism, takes us on an eye-opening journey that is sure to arouse widespread debate. THE KINGDOM OF SPEECH is a captivating,... |
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Over the Edge: Death in Grand Canyon
Thomas M. Myers · Puma Pr; 1st edition
Pages: 408
Format: Paperback
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Gripping accounts of all known fatal mishaps in the most famous of the World's Seven Natural Wonders. Two veterans of decades of adventuring in Grand Canyon chronicle the first complete and comprehensive history of Canyon misadventures. These episodes span the entire era of visitation... |
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Philip Nolan and Texas Expeditions to the Unknown Land, 1791-1801
Maurine T Wilson · Texian Pr
Pages: 189
Format: Hardcover
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Expeditions to the Unknown Land, 1791-1801. Historical account of Phillip Nolan and the Texas Expeditions 1791-1801, his subsequent death and the Texas Revoluation by Maurine T. Wilson, 978-0872440791. In the closing decade of the eighteenth century a few bold Americans began to push westward... |
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In the Days of Victorio: Recollections of a Warm Springs Apache
Eve Ball · University of Arizona Press
Pages: 222
Format: Hardcover
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Chief Victorio of the Warm Springs Apache, has recounted the turbulent life of his people between 1876 and 1886. This eyewitness account . . . recalls not only the hunger, pursuit, and strife of those years, but also the thoughts, feelings, and culture of the hunted tribe. Recommended as general... |
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Harriet Tubman: The Road to Freedom
Catherine Clinton · Back Bay Books
Pages: 8
Format: Paperback
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Celebrated for her courageous exploits as a conductor on the Underground Railroad, Harriet Tubman has entered history as one of nineteenth-century America's most enduring and important figures. But just who was this remarkable woman? To John Brown, leader of the Harpers Ferry slave... |
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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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Rebel Yell: The Violence, Passion, and Redemption of Stonewall Jackson
S. C. Gwynne · Scribner; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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From the author of the prize-winning New York Times bestseller Empire of the Summer Moon comes a thrilling account of how Civil War general Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson became a great and tragic American hero.Stonewall Jackson has long been a figure of legend and romance. As much... |
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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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