A River Running West: The Life of John Wesley Powell, Paperback - Donald Worster

Reducere. If the word "hero" still belonged in the historian's lexicon, it would certainly be applied to John Wesley Powell. Intrepid explorer, careful scien...

Reducere. In an era and an area notable for badmen and gunslingers, John Wesley Hardin was perhaps the most notorious. Considered by many of his contemporari...

Reducere. DescriptionThis work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.Th...

Reducere. Spur Awards"I am hopelessly and forever a mountaineer, " John Muir wrote. "Civilization and fever and all the morbidness that has been hooted at me...

Reducere. With "The Exploration of the Colorado River and its Canyons", readers can explore the one-thousand miles of the Colorado River in its natural state...

Reducere. One of the great works of American exploration literature, this account of a scientific expedition forced to survive famine, attacks, mutiny, and s...

DescriptionExplore one of the nation's greatest natural wonders and celebrate the 100th birthday of Grand Canyon National Park with this grand voya...

Reducere. Hero or Villain? John Wesley Hardin, aka "Young Seven Up, " "Little Arkansas, " "Wes Clemmons" and "J. H. Swain, " was a notorious outlaw and gunfi...

This is the very first book-length biography of John Wesley Gilbert, a man famous as "the first black archaeologist." The book uses previously unst...

Reducere. Nature's Economy is a wide-ranging investigation of ecology's past. It traces the origins of the concept, discusses the thinkers who have shaped it...

Reducere. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is ...

Reducere. *Includes pictures*Includes a bibliography for further reading"My first scene with Bill, a night shot on the back lot, happened before we'd even me...

Reducere. *Includes pictures*Includes a bibliography for further reading"My first scene with Bill, a night shot on the back lot, happened before we'd even me...

It won her an Oscar. She went on to bring her unique grace and high spirits to a number of highly acclaimed films - from Funny Face and The Nun's S...

Reducere. In the mid 1930s, North America's Great Plains faced one of the worst man-made environmental disasters in world history. Donald Worster's classic c...

Reducere. In groundbreaking fashion Donald Capps builds on Erik Erikson's work on the eight stages of life by focusing on the decades of life. This important...

Reducere. One of the most sought-after criminals of the Depression era, Ralph Fults began his career of crime at the improbable age of fourteen. At nineteen ...

Reducere. Historians have long viewed President John Tyler as one of the nation's least effective heads of state. In President without a Party--the first ful...

Reducere. Most water control projects in the American West depend on huge gravity dams, whose stability lies in massive quantities of concrete and earth or r...

*Includes 30 pictures of Wyatt Earp and important people, places, and events in his life. *Explains the background surrounding the Gunfight at the ...

Reducere. *Includes pictures of important people and places. *Discusses Masterson's most famous shootouts and his friendship with famous Westerners like Wyat...

Reducere. A new and engaging collection of sermons that embraces the historic 44 sermons that John Wesley approved, plus the 8 more of the North American col...

Reducere. This biography of the writer of Amazing Grace takes us on a journey worthy of a Hollywood extravaganza with swashbuckling adventures on the high se...

Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

DescriptionJohn Andr was head of the British Army's Secret Service in North America as the Revolutionary War entered its most bitter and, ultimatel...

War, revolution and love - dazzling medieval history from a rising starPublisher: Oneworld PublicationsAuthor(s): Helen CarrIllustration(s): 8-page...

Renowned theologian and author, Donald Macleod explains controversial topics from the life of Christ with clarity and care. Staying true to the bib...

John Wesley (1703-91) is widely recognized as a leader of the eighteenth-century Evangelical Revival and the founder of Methodism. Wesley populariz...

A biography of the poet and libertine the Earl of Rochester.Publisher: Boydell & Brewer LtdAuthor(s): James W. (Customer) James W. JohnsonIllustrat...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Donald E. Knuth&>The bible of all fundamental algorithms and the work that taught many of today's software developers most ...

Reducere. The MMIX Supplement: Supplement to The Art of Computer Programming Volumes 1, 2, 3 by Donald E. Knuth "I encourage serious programmers everywhere t...

Reducere. Charles H. Sternberg was a young man of 28 when he came to look for fossils near the John Day River. Early in his career as an internationally accl...

Contributor(s): Author: Donald E. KnuthThis multivolume work on the analysis of algorithms has long been recognized as the definitive description o...

Reducere. Shortly before Wyoming's Alan K. Simpson was elected majority whip of the United States Senate, he decided to keep a journal. "I am going to make n...

Reducere. DescriptionA work of historical fiction inspired by the life of Colorado Territorial lawman, Rankin Scott Kelly. In the 1850s Kelly traveled west o...

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is ...

The Cambridge Spies continue to fascinate - but one of them, John Cairncross, has always been more of an enigma than the others. He worked alone an...