Henry J. Kaiser: Builder in the Modern American West, Paperback - Mark S. Foster

Reducere. In the 1940s Henry J. Kaiser was a household name, as familiar then as Warren Buffett and Donald Trump are now. Like a Horatio Alger hero, Kaiser r...

Reducere. Cyprinodon diabolis, or Devils Hole pupfish: a one-inch-long, iridescent blue fish whose only natural habitat is a ten-by-sixty-foot pool near Deat...

Reducere. Evoking Into the Wild and The Monkey Wrench Gang, Dead Run is the extraordinary true story of three desperado survivalists, a dangerous plot, a bru...

Publisher: University of Arizona PressAuthor(s): Robert DormanIllustration(s): mapsNumber of pages: 268Publication date: 2012Dimensions: 161 x 236 ...

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. Mustang is the sweeping story of the wild horse in the culture, history, and popular imagination of the American West. It follows the wild horse ac...

Of interest to architects and non-architects alike, this book heralds a new generation of creative techniques and design technologies that promise ...

DescriptionIn this edited collection, Gioia Woods and her contributors bring together histories, biographies, close readings, and theories about th...

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 ...

Reducere. "Frenchmen were far ahead of Englishmen in the early Far West, not only prior in time but greater in numbers and in historical importance, " writes...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Mark PhillipsIf your vocabulary needs building but you don't like to read, this book is for you. That's because people reme...

DescriptionFor four decades, Petroleum Refining has guided thousands of readers toward a reliable understanding of the field, and through the years...

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

Reducere. DescriptionIn Empire Builder in the Texas Panhandle, author Paul H. Carlson tells the story of Chicago-based William Henry Bush and his role in sha...

A definitive, illustrated, single-volume history of the American West, from the bestselling author of BURY MY HEART AT WOUNDED KNEE, Dee Brown.

Reducere. Some know Oklahoma's Black towns as historic communities that thrived during the Jim Crow era--this is only part of the story. In this book, Karla ...

Reducere. The Civil War tends to be remembered as a vast sequence of battles, with a turning point at Gettysburg and a culmination at Appomattox. But in the ...

Reducere. Renowned storyteller Dee Brown, author of the bestselling Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee, recreates the struggles of Native Americans, settlers, and...

Invataturi despre smerenie de-a lungul unui an Intr-o societate ca a noastra, unde narcisismul domina contextul moral, smerenia este de cele mai mu...

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. In exploring an array of intimacies between global migrants Nayan Shah illuminates a stunning, transient world of heterogeneous social relations--d...

Reducere. DescriptionThis book presents twenty chapters by experts in their fields, providing a thorough and interdisciplinary overview of the theory and pra...

Reducere. Tells the story of the African American soldiers known as the Buffalo Soldiers, who fought against American Indians and protected the Western Front...

Reducere. American lore has slighted the cowgirl, although at least one can still be found in nearly every ranching community. Like her male counterpart, she...

Reducere. Dee Brown's bestselling adult book, Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee, opened the eyes of a generation to the Indian struggle to survive the white man'...

Reducere. The valuable interviews conducted by Nebraska judge Eli S. Ricker with Indian eyewitnesses to the Wounded Knee massacre, the Little Big Horn battle...

Reducere. This book is a true story that reads like a Hardy Boy adventure book. It starts out with Mark dreaming of roaming throughout the country on a motor...

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. The story of their two-and-a-half-year expedition.

Reducere. Crazy Woman Creek is a collection of prose and poetry about real women in the West and their connection to a larger whole. Long troubled by the mis...

Reducere. Are you concerned about the direction America is headed? Who is out there in the trenches fighting for our freedom and holding fast to the Constitu...

Reducere. In 1904 Field and Stream sent Frank Tenney Johnson (1874-1939) to the Rockies and the Southwest. In The Frank Tenney Johnson Book (Doubleday, 1974)...

Reducere. The Weyerhaeuser name looms large in Minnesota, Wisconsin, Washington, and Arkansas, attached to paper mills, cabinet factories, and vast tracts of...

Reducere. In 1924 eight young women drove across the American West in two Model T Fords. In nine weeks they traveled more than nine thousand unpaved miles on...

Reducere. In the style of Barry Lopez, Annie Dillard, and Eula Biss, Surrender explores the changing landscape of the American West and the radical environme...

Publisher: Penguin AdultAuthor(s): John FreemanNumber of pages: 496Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 139 x 212 x 35Cover type: Paperback / softback...

The role of ranching in the West is central to the field of animal history. This volume covers the periods between the early Indigenous acquisition...

Publisher: Lexington BooksAuthor(s): Michael J. BroganIllustration(s): Illustrations, unspecified; Tables; Black & White IllustrationsNumber of pag...

Reducere. This teen and young reader book is a richly illustrated biography about Horace King. In 1807, King was born into slavery on a South Carolina planta...

Reducere. Teddy Roosevelt once exclaimed, "When I am in California, I am not in the West. I am west of the West, " and in this book, Mark Arax spends four ye...

Reducere. Features twenty-one of the West's gun-slinging bad girls, from serial killer Kate Bender to Elizabeth Potts and Ellen Watson, the first women hange...

Reducere. After the Civil War, four geological and geographical surveys, later called the Great Surveys, Undertook the massive task of finding out what lay w...

Conventional wisdom dates the origins of activist federal government to the New Deal. William J. Novak shows that the roots run deeper. Tracing the...

Reducere. This book provides practical guidance and application information when using transistors in electronic and electrical circuit design. This easy-to-...