First Farmers

Reducere. Since the 1850s, the soothing countryside hamlets of Sonoma County have beckoned settlers of every stripe-farmers, homesteaders, businesspeople, an...

Reducere. (Applause Libretto Library). Rodgers & Hammerstein's first collaboration remains, in many ways, their most innovative, having set the standards and...

Reducere. ``Who Were the Original Foodies?`` Beyond their legacy as revolutionaries and politicians, the Founding Fathers of America were first and foremost ...

Reducere. DescriptionA trade crossroads dating back to Native American times, Santa Clarita may be relatively new in the story of Los Angeles County's suburb...

Call them Native Americans, American Indians, indigenous peoples, or first nations -- a vast and diverse array of nations, tribes, and cultures pop...

Reducere. DescriptionCades Cove came into existence in 1821, when William "Fighting Billy" Tipton was granted 1, 280 acres of fine fertile land in the first ...

Reducere. DescriptionHomesteading the Plains offers a bold new look at the history of homesteading, overturning what for decades has been the orthodox schola...

Reducere. Gig Harbor, located in southern Puget Sound, received its name from the Wilkes Expedition in 1841. History indicates that the captain's gig led the...

Reducere. This groundbreaking history of the Spanish Civil War (1936-39) examines, for the first time in any language, how General Francisco Franco and his N...

Reducere. First published in 1943, "Animal Breeding Plans" contains a detailed guide on animal breeding designed for students with experience of genetics, em...

Reducere. Aurora began as the town of Fletcher, named after the Denver businessman who had staked out the original four square miles for resale along with as...

American Weathervanes: The Art of the Winds, published to coincide with an exhibition at the American Folk Art Museum, reveals the beauty, historic...

Reducere. In the mid-1800s, wealthy farmers and businessmen began bringing their families to North Carolina's Outer Banks to escape the blistering inland sum...

Reducere. These fourteen non-fictional accounts relate to Arizona from the time of the first visit by Spanish explorer Francisco Vásquez de Coronado in 1540 ...

Reducere. The Murray-Darling Basin is under threat. This vast and spectacular geographical region, covering one million square kilometres from central Queens...

Reducere. A look at lives and landscapes bearing secrets and scars of the atomic/nuclear era, Hanford Reach is a reflection upon the complexity of individual...

Reducere. This present translation brings one of the most beloved works of modernGreek literature to readers of English for the first time in its entirety.La...

Reducere. DescriptionJames DeanJames Dean is known as the first rebel. He was a '50s-styled, leather-clad biker rebuking authority. With his black turtleneck...

The West Riding of Yorkshire was the largest of England's historic counties. This volume, the first of two for the area, covers the northern half o...

Reducere. In recent decades, the various strands of the food movement have made enormous strides in calling attention the many shortcomings and injustices of...

It's the twenty-first century, and all over the world, MMORPGs are big business. Hidden away in China and elsewhere, young players are pressed into...

With an Introduction by Doreen Roberts, Rutherford College, University of Kent at Canterbury 'Examine your words well, and you will find that even ...

Reducere. Empires and Barbarians presents a fresh, provocative look at how a recognizable Europe came into being in the first millennium AD. With sharp analy...

Protest Kitchen is an empowering guide to the food and lifestyle choices anyone can make for positive change in the face of the profound challenges...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Silvio CalabiAuthor: Steve HelsleyAuthor: Roger SangerIt's a simple fact: Guns are part of America. Guns enabled the Pilgri...

Reducere. ``Working has been a book, a radio drama, a Broadway musical, and now a gripping graphic novel. I can't speak for Studs, but I suspect he would hav...

Typical books about preserving garden produce nearly always assume that modern "kitchen gardeners" will boil or freeze their vegetables and fruits....

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Frances DinkelspielIsaias Hellman, a Jewish immigrant, arrived in California in 1859 with very little money in his pocket a...

Reducere. DescriptionNow with a new design and updated content, including three brand-new chapters plus a new preface and a postscript from the author. An an...

Winchester Lever-Action repeating rifles are an integral part of the folklore of the American West. Introduced shortly after the American Civil War...

Reducere. DescriptionDomestic Terrorist or American Patriot? Cliven Bundy The Federal Government treats him as a domestic terrorist.The media characterizes h...

DescriptionIn 1835, the United States purchased close to one million acres of land from the Caddo Confederacy of Native Americans; the Louisiana po...

Unlike most flower-arrangement books, which rely on expensive and often nonseasonal flowers from florists, this book presents an alternative that i...

Contributor(s): Author: Julian D. RichardsThe Viking reputation is one of bloodthirsty seafaring warriors, repeatedly plundering the British Isles ...

Reducere. In 1843, the discovery of copper in Tennessee's far southeastern corner sparked a transformation in the isolated area known to geologists as the Du...

Reducere. In the heart of the Great Depression, Rancho Las Moras, like everywhere else in Texas, is gripped by the drought of the Dust Bowl, and resentment i...

Reducere. Your Backyard Farming Experience Begins Here Whether for eggs, meat, fun, or profit, chickens are the perfect addition to any new backyard grower's...

Reducere. George Washington Carver (1864-1943) is best known for developing new uses for agricultural crops and teaching methods of soil improvement to south...

DescriptionFor more than 150 years, Finger Lakes Wine Country has played a major role in American wine history. At its heart are the four deepest F...

Lake Forest: Estates, People, and Culture is the first book-scaled historical survey entirely focused on this notable Chicago North Shore suburb in...

DescriptionTo Leave with the Reindeer is the account of a woman who has been trained for a life she cannot live. She readies herself for freedom, a...

Reducere. Along with all manner of European-American immigrants to North America's Great Plains in the nineteenth century - farmers, miners, gamblers, soldie...

From Norman invaders, religious wars--and the struggle for independence--the fascinating, turbulent history of a tortured nation and its gifted peo...

Reducere. Rogers Park bears the name of Philip McGregor Rogers, an intrepid and enterprising Irish immigrant who purchased the first tract of land in the are...

Reducere. San Francisco Bay is the largest and most productive estuary on the Pacific Coast of North America. It is also home to the oldest and densest urban...

Belmont lies between the South Fork and Catawba Rivers of western North Carolina. The Catawba Indians occupied the area for nearly five centuries p...

Reducere. While blacks have played an important role--as explorers, scouts, Indian consorts, soldiers, cowboys, farmers--in the exploration, conquest, and se...

Reducere. At the turn of the nineteenth century, James Vann, a Cherokee chief and entrepreneur, established Diamond Hill in Georgia, the most famous plantati...

Reducere. Until 1961, Cherry Hill was known as Delaware Township. From its inception in 1844, Delaware Township was an agrarian community dotted with gristmi...

Reducere. Oil palms are ubiquitous--grown in nearly every tropical country, they supply the world with more edible fat than any other plant and play a role i...

Reducere. East of East: The Making of Greater El Monte, is an edited collection of thirty-one essays that trace the experience of a California community over...

Reducere. One of the first towns settled in the lands once known as Connecticut's Western Reserve, Mentor continues to thrive more than two centuries later. ...

Situated on American Revolutionary crossroads, the town of Bedford has always enjoyed a unique history. Blending serene beauty and rolling hills wi...

Learn from home and explore the world with these fun and easy board books! Babies and toddlers get to visit a farm in this lively and informative a...

The first thing you should know about Wayne is that he's a gardener, a grower, raised in a community of farmers and laborers. He lives close to the...

Should the United States be open to commerce with other countries, or should it protect domestic industries from foreign competition? This question...

The global coffee industry, which fuels the livelihoods of farmers, entrepreneurs, and consumers around the world, rests on fragile ecological foun...

Reducere. Romain Rolland, by Stephan Zweig, is a classic literary biography of the great French dramatist, novelist, essayist, art historian and mystic. Roma...

Reducere. Tres Ritos was first settled by the Jornada Mogollon in AD 900, and these ancient farmers left their presence in the form of more than twenty-one t...

Reducere. What the world's most experienced aquaponic farmers know, that you don't..."Aquaponic production of fish and plants is one of the most environmenta...

Reducere. On September 30, 1919, local law enforcement in rural Phillips County, Arkansas, attacked black sharecroppers at a meeting of the Progressive Farme...

Reducere. An intimate memoir by the daughter of one of Oregon's earliest wine families.In 1968, California cabernet and French wines ruled the world. That wa...

On a Clear April Morning, by Marcos Iolovitch, is a lyrical and riveting coming of age story set among early twentieth-century settlers brought to ...

Rodgers and Hammerstein's first collaboration remains, in many ways, their most innovative, setting the standards and rules of modern musical theat...

Valentin Popov's art combines images of the superhero in American society with traditional religious iconic art from his native Ukraine. His work i...

Reducere. They were chosen as the best of humanity. Now they might end up being the last.Project Nomad's grand vision of colonising the galaxy has shrunk to ...

Reducere. In Land of Milk and Money, Alan I Marcus examines the establishment of the dairy industry in the United States South during the 1920s. Looking spec...

Reducere. "How can women wear diamonds when babies cry for bread?" Kate Barnard demanded in one of the incendiary stump speeches for which she was well known...

Reducere. Third Revised EditionDuring the Victorian Era in Berks County, Pennsylvania, a group of gentlemen and farmers shared their findings of the various ...

Reducere. Ancient Mound Builders created thousands of sacred earthen structures all across America. These native Indian cultures flourished for 4000 years be...