Pioneer Books

Reducere. The ladies of the Jolly Jill's Women's Club learned the early day pioneer methods of living from their grandmothers, mothers, and yes, from experie...

In charting the life and times of Gordon Stretton, this text makes a major contribution to both jazz and popular music studies. By asking historian...

Reducere. DescriptionPemmican and pickled plums, sauerkraut and salmi of quail, Swedish flatbread and Bohemian kolaches and Danish meat roll, dishes familiar...

Did God call the Church to be an institution? The Reformation gave Europe national churches, but these came to disappoint enthusiastic believers as...

Reducere. Jack Jefford saw his first plane in 1916 at the age of six and he was hooked. By 1937 he was flying planes in Nome, Alaska and in three short years...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Joanna StrattonFrom a rediscovered collection of autobiographical accounts written by hundreds of Kansas pioneer women in t...

Reducere. Any history of California is incomplete without the story of this dynamic woman who was one of the state's first notable pioneer figures. Jessie Be...

Reducere. Discover the fascinating life of world-renowned scientist Jonas Salk, whose pioneering discoveries changed the world forever. Dr. Jonas Salk is one...

Reducere. Uncle Dick Wootton's tale spans a broad chunk of the 19th-century American frontier. Originally a mountain man, Uncle Dick ran the gamut of wild we...

Newly researched information, good selection of illustrations, good index.Illustrations: 50 black and white illustrations

Reducere. Unearth the Mysteries of Those Who Lie Beneath the Oldest Graveyards in the Lone Star State Texas, the second largest state, both in land mass and ...

Reducere. 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. When Tina Basich grabbed her rented snowboard and headed to the mountains in Lake Tahoe, snowboarding wasn't even considered a sport . . . yet. It ...

Reducere. Unearth the Mysteries of Those Who Lie Beneath the Oldest Graveyards in the Golden State In each of California's 58 counties there are hundreds (an...

Reducere. Your Life Is In Your Hands is a revelatory new book that teaches you the fundamentals of how to read the unique markings found on your hands. Your ...

Reducere. Woody Strode's extraordinary career led him from football field to wrestling ring to Hollywood. In 1939 Woody, Jackie Robinson and Kenny Washington...

Reducere. Winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for History for 1993In the first and most reliable biography of Daniel Boone in more than fifty years, a...

Reducere. As recently as 1940, contact lenses did not exist for Americans. Invisible Vision is the hidden story of the man who brought them into existence, t...

The first detailed biography of this famous BBC correspondent's wartime career, both in the armed forces and as a serviceman.

Reducere. Spur AwardsOnce President Lincoln signed the Homestead Act of 1862, which granted 160 acres of free land to anyone with the grit to farm it for fiv...

Reducere. Mattie "Tootsie" Crosby arrived in Alaska at a time when African American women were viewed as a mere novelty by white people and brown-skinned Nat...

Reducere. Etta Jones was not a World War II soldier or a war time spy. She was a school teacher whose life changed forever on that Sunday morning in June 194...

Reducere. An adventurous single woman who knew how to cook, twenty-three-year-old May Arkwright moved -- alone -- to the remote valleys of northern Idaho in ...

Reducere. This clearly articulated statement offers a hopeful and workable approach to conflict--that eternally beleaguering human situation. John Paul Leder...

Reducere. Few people in the history of the United States embody ideals of the American Dream more than Nathan Harrison. His is a story with prominent themes ...

Reducere. As recently as 1940, contact lenses did not exist for Americans. Invisible Vision is the hidden story of the man who brought them into existence, t...

Reducere. Best known for catching wolves alive with his bare hands, John R. Abernathy (1876-1941) was born to Scottish ancestors in Texas. Raised in the burg...

DescriptionLong before it became the slogan of the presidential campaign for Barack Obama, Dorothy Ferebee (1898-1980) lived by the motto "Yes, we ...

Biography of an aviation pioneer who deserves public recognition.Illustrations: 32 black and white illustrations

DescriptionA twelfth-century German Benedictine abbess, Hildegard of Bingen is widely regarded as one of the true pioneers of holistic medicine and...