Hostiles and Friendlies: Selected Short Writings of Mari Sandoz, Paperback - Mari Sandoz

Reducere. DescriptionHere in one volume are Mari Sandoz's reminiscences of life in the Sandhills country; a study of the two Sitting Bulls (the Hunkpapa and ...

DescriptionMari Sandoz, born on Mirage Flats, south of Hay Springs, Nebraska, on May 11, 1896, was the eldest daughter of Swiss immigrants. She exp...

Reducere. In a blinding blizzard a schoolbus overturns and a young teacher, her seven pupils, and the driver-a mere boy-are stranded in the open country, mil...

Reducere. Slogum House "lay on the winter flat of Oxbow like the remains of some great, hulking animal that had foraged the region long ago, leaving its old ...

Reducere. "No one in our time wrote better than the late Mari Sandoz did, or with more authority and grace, about as many aspects of the Old West, " said Joh...

Reducere. Newbery MedalPraised for swift action and beauty of language, The Horsecatcher is Mari Sandoz's first novel about the Indians she knew so well. Wit...

Reducere. Charmingly, Mari Sandoz tells of a long-ago Christmas in western Nebraska when her father's house was filled with good music. Old Jules had ordered...

Reducere. Crazy Horse, the legendary military leader of the Oglala Sioux whose personal power and social nonconformity contributed to his reputation as being...

Reducere. In the autumn of 1878 a band of Cheyenne Indians set out from Indian Territory, where they had been sent by the U.S. government, to return to their...

Reducere. DescriptionYoung Lance is his father's son when it comes to the daring needed for gaining honors in the war councils of the plains Sioux. Even grea...

Reducere. "The Sioux Indians came into my life before I had any preconceived notions about them, " writes Mari Sandoz about the visitors to her family homest...

Reducere. Love Song to the Plains is a lyric salute to the earth and sky and people who made the history of the Great Plains by the region's incomparable his...

Reducere. Covering more than two centuries, The Beaver Men recounts the beginning of the beaver trade along the St. Lawrence to the last great rendezvous of ...

Reducere. DescriptionMiss Morissa is a dramatic, moving novel of a young pioneering woman doctor on the brawling Nebraska frontier of the 1870s. Fleeing the ...

Reducere. In 1867 conservative estimates put the number of buffaloes in the trans-Missouri region at fifteen million. By the end of the 1880s, that figure ha...

Reducere. The Cattlemen is the story of the cattle industry in America and of the men whose ranches reached from the Rio Grande into Montana, from the early ...

DescriptionA Mess of Relatives is designed to support early literacy skills development and a life-long love of reading. The front cover is more il...

Reducere. Do you associate religion and spirituality with guilt, shame, or abuse? Uncover the dark power of toxic spirituality and its lingering influence on...

Reducere. A Process-Focused Guide to Treating Eating Disorders with ACTAt some point in clinical practice, most therapists will encounter a client suffering ...

Guidebook describing five mountain and coastal treks on the Mediterranean island of Corsica: the 2-day Sentier du Douanier (Custom Officer's Path),...

Reducere. Groucho Marx was a comic genius who starred on stage and in film, radio, and television. But he was also a gifted writer - the author of a play, tw...

A collection of short stories that starts with "Broomsticks and Other Tales of 1925", with its twelve stories, and continues with "The Lord Fish of...

A collection of short stories that starts with "Broomsticks and Other Tales of 1925", with its twelve stories, and continues with "The Lord Fish of...

DescriptionIn A Short and Easy Method of Prayer, Jeanne Marie Guyon explains how her method of quiet prayer helps Christians to enter into the pres...

The history of the Latvian people begins some four and a half millennia ago with the arrival of the proto-Baltic Indo-Europeans to northern Europe....

One of the most important and controversial figures in the history of race relations in America and the world at large, Marcus Garvey was the first...

Hildegard, the "Sybil of the Rhine, " was a Benedictine nun and one of the most prolific and original women writers of the Middle Ages. Arranged th...

Reducere. Selected Writings of Gertrude Stein, Paperback

Reducere. Marking the twentieth anniversary of his assassination in 1980, this volume explores the prophetic spirituality of Archbishop Oscar Romero of El Sa...

Reducere. DescriptionDisintegration threatened the nearly two-year old Anabaptist movement in 1526 in Switzerland and southern Germany. Quarrelling individua...

Reducere. These classic translations of Montaigne are presented with the authoritative French text on facing pages and provide an introduction and extensive ...

Reducere. Excerpts from the novels, plays, and poems of the French convict, prostitute, and literary artist join notes from his film, The Penal Colony, lette...

Reducere. For the first time in one volume in English are the spiritual writings of this outstanding intellectual figure (1401-1464) whose work anticipated m...

DescriptionThough most historians remember her as the mistress of Voltaire, Emilie Du Ch telet (1706-49) was an accomplished writer in her own righ...

Peirce's most important writings on the philosophy of mathematicsPublisher: Indiana University PressAuthor(s): Charles S. PeirceIllustration(s): 3 ...

Reducere. This short history and guide of Providence, Rhode Island brings together a collection of interesting things to see and do while you visit our charm...

Reducere. Still Life with Plums is a vibrant collection of short stories that weaves together the outwardly distant lives of several strangers.About author(s...

Reducere. Nikola Tesla's accomplishments are today still underrated. While Edison is credited with being the inventor of the light bulb, it is Tesla's altern...

Over the course of his distinguished career, Robert Hughes wrote with brutal honesty about art, architecture, culture, religion--and himself. The S...

"Artaud remains one of the significant and influential theorists of modern theatre."--Gerald Rabkin, Rutgers University

Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers IncAuthor(s): E (Ed) GriffinNumber of pages: 160Publication date: 2017Dimensions: 136 x 203 x 12Cover type: Pap...

Reducere. The author views landscaping as an expression of a way of life. This collection of essays is written for the general reader and features articles w...

Like the feast day recalled in its title, this collection of twenty narrative poems venerates the dead. Brenda Marie Osbey invokes, impersonates, a...

Thanks to Boswell's monumental biography of Samuel Johnson, we remember Dr. Johnson today as a great wit and conversationalist, the rationalist epi...

Reducere. This volume contains carefully chosen texts that give a picture of the "essential" St. John of the Cross (1542-1591), a Spanish Carmelite. Included...

Simplicity in forms of worship, opposition to violence, and the importance of compassionate living and thoughtful listening are hallmarks of the sp...

A classic collection of critical essays, poems, and letters from one of the greatest minds of nineteenth-century America.

In Praise of Nahum Tate covers a wide range of reading experiences including poetry, short stories, reviews and politics. It features an eclectic p...