Unsettled Waters: Rights, Law, and Identity in the American West, Hardcover - Eric P. Perramond

In the American West, water adjudication lawsuits are adversarial, expensive, and lengthy. Unsettled Waters is the first detailed study of water ad...

DescriptionA powerful work of visual nonfiction about three generations of an Apache family struggling to protect sacred land from a multinational ...

Reducere. Most Americans familiar with General John J. "Black Jack" Pershing know him as the commander of American Expeditionary Forces in Europe during the ...

A nineteenth-century attack by Native Americans on a Presbyterian mission in what would become the Oregon Territory proved to be a turning point in...

When cowboys were workers and battled their bossesIn the pantheon of American icons, the cowboy embodies the traits of "rugged individualism, " ind...

The unforgettable story of one woman who leaves behind her hardscrabble childhood in Alaska to travel the country via freight train--a beautiful me...

Reducere. Fisherman Mark Spitzer takes readers on an action-packed investigation of the most fierce and fearsome freshwater grotesques of the American West e...

Reducere. DescriptionLongtime fly fisherman Quinn Grover had contemplated the "why" of his fishing identity before more recently becoming focused on the "how...

Reducere. Spectacular in scope and visually brilliant, this atlas presents a sweeping history of the American West through more than 600 original, full-color...

Unpicking the ever-changing myth of the West in photography, from the 19th century to nowPublished for an exhibition at the Figge Art Museum in Dav...

Reducere. Even among iconic frontiersmen like John C. Frémont, Kit Carson, and Jedediah Smith, Jim Bridger stands out. A mountain man of the American West, s...

Reducere. DescriptionWhen the occult came to the American West: individualism and magic in the art of California, from Agnes Pelton to Jess"It is in America ...

Reducere. Taking a novel approach to the military history of the post-Civil War West, distinguished historian Robert M. Utley examines the careers of seven m...

Imagine a man fascinated with the history and cultures of the world, who spoke multiple languages, and who could express his passion in virtually a...

Reducere. They ride horses, rope calves, buck broncos, ride and fight bulls, and even wrestle steers. They are Black cowboys, and the legacies of their pursu...

Reducere. Countries solemnly intone their commitment to human rights, and they ratify endless international treaties and conventions designed to signal that ...

Presents a very timely overview of legal topics relating to sexual orientation, gender identity and the law. Topics covered include regulation of s...

Contemporary aesthetics is characterized by generic mixing on the level of both form and content. The barriers between different media and differen...

Labyrinths of Deceit. Culture, Modernity and Identity in the Nineteenth century - Richard J. Walker

"Terrific." -Timothy Egan, The New York Times "A riveting investigation of both American myth-making and the real history that lies beneath." -Clau...

For many Americans of both right and left political persuasions, the Russian bear is more of a bugbear. On the right, the country is still mentally...

DescriptionThe historical evolution of copyright has led to a growing disconnect between the legal definitions of economic rights and the business ...

Join Carole P. Roman and travel through time to visit the most interesting civilizations throughout history in her exciting new series. Learn what ...

Reducere. Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCAuthor(s): Llewella (University of East Anglia, UK) ChapmanIllustration(s): 8 colour and 46 bw illusNumber of p...

Proposing a comprehensive account of the global fashion industry this book aims to present fashion as a social and cultural fact. Drawing on six pr...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Charles G. WormanThe gun, like the axe and the plow, was an essential tool in the exploration and settlement of the trans-M...

Suitable as a primer for foreign LLMs - or as an introductory survey for American students of both procedural and substantive law - this book is a ...

International Human Rights Law and Practice - Ilias Bantekas, Lutz Oette

This book presents new, cross-disciplinary research on leprosy in medieval Europe, focusing on questions of identity. It reveals complex responses ...

Reducere. Hardback edition. WHEN THE LEGEND BECOMES FACT, PRINT THE LEGEND. This illustrated Old West trivia book is a must-have reference for western writer...

The first book to present an analysis of images of working people in Roman society and to interpret the meaning and significance of these images. W...

Traces the history of government profiling, the effects of contemporary technologies on surveillance practices, and how the law protects individual...

Reducere. 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 ...

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 ...

A human rights textbook that combines law with practice and several other disciplines, including international relations, economics and anthropolog...

Lush and chilling, with razor-sharp edges and an iron core of hope, this bewitching, powerhouse novel of two girls fighting back against the violen...

New Histories of the Andaman Islands: Landscape, Place and Identity in the Bay of Bengal, 1790–2012 - Clare Anderson, Madhumita Mazumdar, Vishvajit Pa

Reducere. In the middle of the Great Depression, Montana native Julia Bennett arrived in New York City with no money and an audacious business plan: to ident...

Reducere. Who protects the secrets of the Presidency? The Body Man.And he's vanished without a trace.In a town that's obsessed with dark secrets, where the c...

Reducere. The modern effort to locate American liberties, it turns out, began in the mud at the bottom of Baltimore harbor. John Barron Jr. and John Craig su...