First Farmers

Reducere. The Amish community of Lancaster is being terrorized by barn fires. David and Malinda Beiler's barn was the first to go. When a second Amish barn b...

Reducere. Before the development of the first self-governing windmill, settlement of the upland areas of the American West was almost impossible. Windmills w...

Reducere. Hester, the startlingly beautiful Native American who was rescued as an infant by an Amish couple, now lives in downtown Lancaster, Pennsylvania. S...

DescriptionIt's all but certain that the next fifty years will bring enormous, not to say cataclysmic, disruptions to our present way of life. Worl...

Reducere. DescriptionThe decision to write this first-ever biography of J. Irwin Miller stemmed from learning that his children in 2010 had given his papers ...

Reducere. By the late 1810s, a global revolution in cotton had remade the U.S.-Mexico border, bringing wealth and waves of Americans to the Gulf Coast while ...

DescriptionThe Second World War is drawing to a close, but the world is far from safe. Left to fend for themselves, women and children are forced o...

Description"You are about to enter a new genre, that of scientific fables, by which I don't mean science fiction, or false stories about science, b...

Reducere. DescriptionHow could an ordinary fence shape a nation's history? Before the 1870s, much of the American West was an uninterrupted expanse of plains...

This rollicking ride into machine history follows the innovators, entrepeneurs and hucksters who transformed our world with farm machines. Starting...

Exciting investigations in northwest China are set to reveal more of the mysteries of the huge mausoleum of the Qin Emperor, a portion of which was...

Reducere. The Arctic of towering icebergs and midnight sun, of flaming auroras and endless winter nights, has long provoked flights of the imagination. Now, ...

Reducere. DescriptionThe seaside resort of Cape May was named for Dutchman Cornelis Mey, who sailed past this part of southeastern New Jersey in 1616. Origin...

Reducere. For 1, 600 years its message lay hidden. When the bound papyrus pages of this lost gospel finally reached scholars who could unlock its meaning, th...

Reducere. Julia Lapp has planned on marrying Paul Fisher since she was a girl. Now twenty-one, she looks forward to their wedding with giddy anticipation. Wh...

Reducere. Before the War Between the States, there was the war between the U.S. government and Oberlin, Ohio. . . . "A fascinating, gripping narrative."--Jam...

Reducere. Patrick D. Smith, award-winning author of A Land Remembered, Forever Island, and other classic novels about Mississippi and Florida, wrote The Begi...

Reducere. Burton K. Wheeler (1882-1975) may have been the most powerful politician Montana ever produced, and he was one of the most influential--and controv...

Reducere. Description"A storyteller of the first order."--Joshua Ferris "Josh Weil is a spectacular talent."--Lauren Groff Following his debut Dayton Literar...

Set during the first half of the twentieth century, this is the story of the Brunis, a family of farmers from the Italian Padan Plain who have work...

Reducere. During the last decades of the nineteenth century in the Old West, cowboys and Indians, lawmen and outlaws, ranchers and farmers shared the border ...

Reducere. Arizona's rugged Chiricahua Mountains have a special place in frontier history. They were the haven of many well-known personalities, from Cochise ...

Reducere. Nothing runs or reads like a John Deere Lift-a-Flap farm book Introduce your little one to all the friendly animals on the farm with this adorable ...

Reducere. Henrietta Lacks The Untold StoryI really need people to understand the reason behind me writing this book about my grandmother Henrietta Lacks. For...

Reducere. There's a first time for everything. Lark Wainright used to be fearless. Her life was a series of adventures, each one more exhilarating than the l...

Reducere. Mangas Coloradas led his Chiricahua Apache people for almost forty years. During the last years of Mangas's life, he and his son-in-law Cochise led...

Reducere. The SEED To PANTRY Planner is the first-ever planner that helps readers calculate everything from seed to pantry in order to grow, cook, and preser...

Reducere. The Na of China, farmers in the Himalayan region, live without the institution of marriage. Na brothers and sisters live together their entire live...

Reducere. Why must all good things come to an end?In Washington State wine country, Red Mountain is a refuge for searchers and wanderers, artists and lovers,...

Reducere. The child of poor farmers, La Mennulara became a maid for a well-to-do local family when she was only a girl; by dint of hard work and intelligence...

DescriptionAn ode to self-reliance brimming with wit, wisdom, and nostalgia. Sometimes doing things the "old-fashioned way" is still the best way F...

Rick Marrs, Ph.D., has been a soul care provider for decades, first as a Christian counselor and licensed psychologist, then as a pastor and semina...

Reducere. Three years ago, Elaine Acker interviewed Dr. Deb Tolman for a article on keyhole gardening. That article became her most popular article ever. A k...

Reducere. Telling the stories of twelve North Carolina heritage foods, each matched to the month of its peak readiness for eating, Georgann Eubanks takes rea...

Reducere. A new novel by the author of The Loney, which was praised by Stephen King as "an amazing piece of fiction."In the wink of an eye, as quick as a fle...

Reducere. The current wasteful, inefficient, and unsustainable practices in America's food system have us hurtling towards a bleak future. Instead, A Farm on...

Reducere. From chef and food activist Alice Waters, an impassioned plea for a radical reconsideration of the way each and every one of us cooks and eats In W...

Reducere. Inspired by the reading and writing habits of citizens leading up to the French Revolution, The Writing Public is a compelling addition to the long...

Reducere. Nobility. Garden parties. Luxury. Prestige. War breaks out. Merry Hall and its male heirs are now at stake. From the time of William the Conqueror,...

Reducere. Free to a Good Home is about small farms and big dogs; farmers, their families and friends; bird feeders and feeders of birds; dust and rust; stone...

As a groundbreaking chef and beloved cookbook author, Deborah Madison--"The Queen of Greens" (The Washington Post)--has profoundly changed the way ...

Reducere. Solomon has passed judgement.The AI has chosen his ideal humans for Project Nomad, mankind's first extrasolar colony on Opis, forty light years fro...

Reducere. Yugoslavia 1942. Anton Markovic didn't believe in a girl with a gun. How could the Partisans win this war with only farmers, labourers and women fo...

Reducere. I am Dr. Arif Ahmad, a busy cardiologist in Wisconsin, USA, double boarded in Cardiology and Electrophysiology. I am a Fellow of the American Colle...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: John SuscovichInside these pages, you will find step-by-step instructions for a mobile broiler chicken shelter for pastured...

Reducere. The True Story Behind the Powerful Film ALL SAINTSNewly ordained, Michael Spurlock's first assignment is to pastor All Saints, a struggling church ...

Reducere. A story about dirt--and about sun, water, work, elation, and defeat. And about the sublime pleasure of having a little piece of French land all to ...

Reducere. Arkansas' Fields of Dreams...Travel down almost any backroad in Arkansas and you will pass a relic of Arkansas' baseball history. The dilapidated b...

Combining the by-the-bootstraps work ethic of Nikki Haley's Can't Is Not an Option with the military pluck of MJ Heger's Shoot Like a Girl, Joni Er...

Reducere. Have you always wanted to raise pigs but didn't know where to begin? Do you want to know how to turn your pig farm into a profitable business? Look...

Reducere. On March 10, 2013, 6 houses were lost, 7 condemned and 24 were declared to be in imminent danger on Plum Island in northern Massachusetts. But it w...

Reducere. Polish Dumpling Perfection... Pierogi Pierogi have been shared over the dinner table in Poland and other Slavic countries since the Middle Ages. In...