First Farmers

Reducere. The ancient world comes to life in the first volume in a two book series on the history of Egypt, spanning the first farmers to the construction of...

Draws on a lifetime of research and thought to recreate the story of how a civilization which began with handfuls of semi-itinerant fishermen settl...

From the author of Queen Sugar--now a critically acclaimed series on OWN directed by Ava Duvernay--comes a beautiful exploration and celebration of...

Reducere. Lintong County, People's Republic of China, March 1974Three farmers are digging a well when suddenly their shovels hit something hard. It is a clay...

The transition from a predominantly self-sufficient economy to one primarily dependent on the market in the first half of the nineteenth century wa...

Reducere. Why was Oklahoma, of all places, more hospitable to socialism than any other state in America? In this provocative book, Jim Bissett chronicles the...

The press dispatches of October 1, 1919, heralded the news that another race riot had taken place the night before in Elaine, Ark., and that it was...

Reducere. Meet a host of animals and discover the big machines that help farmers grow and harvest their crops. With over 140 stickers of cows, chickens, goat...

Explore astonishing landscapes teeming with giant insects, dinosaurs, and giant mammals, and see the extraordinary creatures that lived in ancient ...

From the time San Jose was founded by the Spanish in 1777 as California's first civilian settlement, the city has had its share of risk-taking in o...

As development donors invest hundreds of millions of dollars into improved crops designed to alleviate poverty and hunger, Africa has emerged as th...

Reducere. It is with great joy that we present Clive Bonsall this volume, as a token of both our appreciation and friendship, for his contributions to the Ea...

Contributor(s): Author: Stephen ShennanKnowledge of the origin and spread of farming has been revolutionised in recent years by the application of ...

Reducere. That's the last time Amy agrees to do a favor for a stranger...Down South Cafe owner, Amy Flowers is in over her head. Operating a cafe while hosti...

Reducere. These days, rural Oklahoma is the last place anybody would look for leftist revolutionaries, but in 1917 the area exploded into full-blown insurrec...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Edith Eudora Ammons KohlIntroduction by: Clifford T. AmmonsIn "Woman of the Cavalcade, " Edith Kohl describes her dramatic,...

Reducere. DescriptionSurrounded by the beautiful Texas Hill Country, Medina Lake has a rich history of fortunes rising and falling as rapidly and unpredictab...

"The monarch butterfly is in peril and spiraling downward. Our children will determine whether the monarch makes a comeback or becomes one of North...

Reducere. First-generation Japanese Issei immigrants arrived in Florin in the 1890s, after attempts at profitable strawberry cultivation by Florin landowners...

The first and only complete guide to sourcing and using woodchip--an abundant, inexpensive, and ecologically sustainable material--for savvy grower...

Reducere. Professor Franklin Hiram King made important contributions in soil science -- soil physics and soil fertility in particular. This book, perhaps the...

The first archaeological study of the poor whites of Barbados, the descendants of seventeenth-century European indentured servants and small farmer...

Born to a family of farmers, Lincoln stood out from an early age--literally(He was six feet four inches tall.) As sixteenth President of the United...

About eighty million people today can trace their descent back to the occupants of Ireland. But where did the occupants of the island themselves co...

Reducere. Historical accounts of the first successful flight in California's capital city and other notable Northern California flights that followed over th...

Reducere. Poignant, multilayered portraits of America's future farmersA new book by award-winning Minneapolis-based photographer R.J. Kern (born 1978), The U...

" McKibben is] a marvelous writer who has thought deeply about the environment, loves this part of the country, and knows how to be a first-class t...

With contributions from more than 60 contemporary draft-animal-powered farmers and equipment manufacturers Now is a time of exciting new developmen...

The book delivers a history from below for the first half of Egyptian history covering the earliest settlements, state formation and the pyramid ag...

Reducere. Once upon a time, salad was iceberg lettuce with a few shredded carrots and a cucumber slice, if you were lucky. A vegetable side was potatoes--wou...

Storm Splitter is a sharecropper tale about splitting a storm, that gives first hand written accounts, stories, diaries, and other recollections of...

Reducere. Greenwich in the seventeenth century was a lost world with tythingmen and meeting warners, wild horse hunters, herdsmen, townsmen, pounders and pla...

Reducere. "What I smelt and what you smelt, Constable Wragg, was burning flesh!"William Norman dies of shock after being burnt by hot coals. The Mallett cons...

Nevada County's tumultuous wine history includes several booms and busts, starting in the 1850s when gold prospectors brought the first grapevines ...

Reducere. The first orange groves, planted in St. Augustine in the 1500s by Ponce de Le n, were the precursor to what would become an integral part of Florid...

Reducere. John Gould's family first settled in Maine in 1618, so by the time he came along in the early 20th century, the Gould's were well steeped in the ve...

Reducere. One of the twentieth century's most extraordinary Americans, Pearl Buck was the first person to make China accessible to the West. She recreated th...

Reducere. DescriptionAtlanta's cuisine has always been an integral part of its identity. From its Native American agricultural roots to the South's first int...

Reducere. Hemmed in by steep hills, Glen Park is defined by its quintessentially San Franciscan topography. Only 120 years ago this area, as well as neighbor...

Eastern Poconos: Delaware Water Gap to Bushkill provides a visual history of one of the most picturesque areas of the Northeast. With rare insight,...

Reducere. Atlanta's cuisine has always been an integral part of its identity. From its Native American agricultural roots to the South's first international ...

Reducere. Ranch wife, cow camp cook, photo-journalist, and amateur historian Janie Tippett continues her thirty-one years of newspaper columns chronicling th...

Called on by Intelligence services to investigate a mysterious series of UFO sightings in rural South Wales, secret spy, Peter Paget uncovered a ta...

Reducere. A newly revised version of a classic in American historyWhen The American Revolution was first published in 1985, it was praised as the first synth...

Reducere. DescriptionWhen President George Washington ordered an army of 13, 000 men to march west in 1794 to crush a tax rebellion among frontier farmers, h...

Reducere. The First Hunterdon Militia Regiment of New Jersey containing the men from today's Trenton, Ewing Township, Hopewell Township, and Lawrence Townshi...

Reducere. DescriptionFifteen people--plus a class of first graders--tell how local food, farms, and gardens changed their lives and their community . . . and...

Reducere. DescriptionThis special edition of 'Commercial Blueberry Growing' was written by D.H. Scott, A.D. Draper, and G.M. Darrow, and first published by t...

The brilliant creator of NPR's Planet Money podcast and award-winning New Yorker staff writer explains our current economy: laying out its internal...

Reducere. In the first millennium AD, the Classic Maya created courtly societies in and around the Yucatan Peninsula that have left some of the most striking...

Reducere. Historians have often glorified eighteenth-century Virginia planters' philosophical debates about the meaning of American liberty. But according to...

Reducere. The 18th century was a wealth of knowledge, exploration and rapidly growing technology and expanding record-keeping made possible by advances in th...

Reducere. This is the first new introduction to Anglo-Saxon art in twenty-five years and the first book to take account of the 2009 discovery of the Stafford...

Reducere. This richly illustrated book is the first devoted to scenic Third Cliff, a magical meeting place of land, river, and sea, and to those who have cal...

Reducere. Six and a Third Acres was the first modern Odia novel, and has remained at the heart of Odia literary excellence ever since. It was published as Ch...

The town of Westport has long been tied to the sea. Its abundant rivers provided waterpower for cotton and iron manufacturing, and its protected ha...

Reducere. Description Welcome to Sutton Station: One of the world's largest working farms in the middle of Australia - where if the animals and heat don't ki...

Reducere. The first inhabitants of Grosse Pointe can be traced back to the mid-18th century, when French farmers occupied ribbon farms on the shores of Lake ...

Reducere. Britain's best loved rural writer chronicles the progress of the seasons in the Stour valley village where he has lived and worked among artists, w...

Each year Americans start one million new businesses, nearly 80 percent of which fail within the first five years. Under such pressure to stay aliv...

Reducere. Awards🏆Winner (2003) - Books for a Better Life - (First Book)Contributor(s): Author: Francis BokWith: Edward TivnanWinner of the Books for a Better...

Reducere. Catfish Dream centers around the experiences, family, and struggles of Ed Scott Jr. (born in 1922), a prolific farmer in the Mississippi Delta and ...

Reducere. DescriptionYour mission is to go back in time and discover the identity of the man who fired the first shot of the American revolution, and bring b...

Reducere. DescriptionAngie Turner's restaurant, The County Seat, is conveniently located near a first-class farmers market-so her menu is full of fresh ingre...

Reducere. From the establishment of the first permanent English colony at Jamestown in 1607 to the fall of Richmond in 1865, the James River has been instrum...

Reducere. In 1870 Benjamin Turner, who spent the first 40 years of his life as a slave, was elected to the U.S. Congress. He was the first African American f...

Reducere. DescriptionNapa Valley is known for its wine and winemakers, but just beneath the fertile soil lies another, more complex version of its history. U...

Reducere. On a blizzardy morning in 1892, fifty armed men surrounded the cabin on Powder River where two cattle rustlers had spent the night. The first rustl...

Reducere. When Torrington's first English settlers, Ebenezer Lyman Jr. and his wife, Sarah, arrived in the hills of northwest Connecticut in 1737, they found...

Reducere. Although Illinois saw no dramatic witch trials, witchcraft has been a part of Illinois history and culture from French exploration to the present d...