The West of the Imagination, Hardcover - William H. Goetzmann

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Reducere. The Rise of the West, winner of the National Book Award for history in 1964, is famous for its ambitious scope and intellectual rigor. In it, McNei...

DescriptionThough reaching ever further toward the skies, today's cities are overshadowed by multiple threats: climate change, overpopulation, soci...

Reducere. Christ and Apollo juxtaposes Christian definiteness to romantic mythologizing. A strong warning might be in order: anyone coming to this book expec...

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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...

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Everyone in Kara's class loses a tooth ... everyone except Kara. Then, finally, when she really loses her tooth ... she can't find it anywhere Will...

Description9/12 is the saga of the epic nine-year legal battle waged by William H. Groner against the City of New York and its contractors on behal...

The David Gemmell Award-shortlisted author of Age of Iron returns with West of West, an epic fantasy trilogy in which a mismatched group of refugee...

Between 1787 and 1798, the agricultural writer and land agent William Marshall (1745-1818) published a number of works on the rural economies of En...

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Reducere. Having banished eastern Native peoples to lands west of the Mississippi, President Andrew Jackson's government by 1833 needed a new type of soldier...

Reducere. In Obeah, Race and Racism, Eugenia O'Neal vividly discusses the tradition of African magic and witchcraft, traces its voyage across the Atlantic an...

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Reducere. The definitive history of writing and producing the"Big Book" of Alcoholics Anonymous, told through extensive access to the group's archives. Alcoh...

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The dome of thought is an accessible and lively history of the Victorian pseudoscience of phrenology. It makes extensive use of the popular account...

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Japan's postwar urban imagination through the Metabolism architecture movement and visionary science fiction authors The devastation of the Second ...

Co-authored by four leading scientists from academia and industry, Numerical Recipes Third Edition starts with basic mathematics and computer scien...

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DescriptionOverlooking the Hudson River on the campus of the United States Military Academy at West Point are 12 granite benches, each inscribed wi...

Contributor(s): Author: Willie James JenningsWhy has Christianity, a religion premised upon neighborly love, failed in its attempts to heal social ...

Reducere. In 1860 William Brewer, a young Yale-educated teacher of the natural sciences and a recent widower, eagerly accepted an offer from Josiah Whitney t...

Unpicking the ever-changing myth of the West in photography, from the 19th century to nowPublished for an exhibition at the Figge Art Museum in Dav...

Reducere. Between 1803 and 1806, Meriwether Lewis and William Clark cocaptained the most famous expedition in American history. But while Lewis ended his lif...

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Reducere. AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER! From the acclaimed, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Make Your Bed--a short, inspirational book about ...

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Reducere. From the back cover: 12 Lectures On The Creative Power of Imagination From The World's Greatest MysticFrom beginning to end, the Bible speaks only ...

Publisher: R H WoodAuthor(s): Adrian SmithIllustration(s): 240 illustrationsNumber of pages: 224Publication date: 2000Dimensions: 280 x 226 x 17Cov...

"Impressive. . . . Rich in cultural history and imagination. . . . To Ball, mythic writing is where the conditions of irrationality, superstition, ...

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The Material World of Ancient Egypt - William H. Peck

Reducere. DescriptionThe Buffalo Bill Center of the West is a fount of major collections of art from some of the most renowned painters and sculptors of the ...