Walking the Llano: A Texas Memoir of Place, Paperback

Reducere. When American explorers crossed the Texas Panhandle, they dubbed it part of the ``Great American Desert.`` A ``sea of grass, `` the llano appeared ...

Reducere. When American explorers crossed the Texas Panhandle, they dubbed it part of the "Great American Desert." A "sea of grass, " the llano appeared empt...

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Reducere. Pati Navalta Poblete's world is shattered when her 23-year-old son, Robby, is violently killed. She blames God, gun violence and the town where he ...

A political and personal history of the aclaimed writer, academic and critic, which reveals the influences which have informed ground-breaking work...

Reducere. The award-winning national bestseller, Walking with the Wind, is one of our most important records of the American civil rights movement. Told by J...

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The ideal photo album of Morocco, peppered throughout with `souvenirs' such as ticket stubs, posters, newspapers, labels and postcards.

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Reducere. This is a story of mothers. This is a story of daughters. This is a story of the trauma we carry and the trauma we tend to. So begins this multigen...

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Reducere. A Man's Heart Is Healed by Playing Music for Dying PeopleAs a young man, Steve Litwer wanted to be a musician. Largely self-taught on the guitar, h...

Reducere. When author and historian Bob Royalty fulfilled his dream to walk the Roman ruins of Hadrian's Wall, across northern England from the North Sea to ...

Reducere. The pioneering surgeon Dr. Denton Cooley performed his first human heart transplant in 1968 and astounded the world in 1969 by conducting the first...

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In this unvarnished account as both patient and physician, award-winning Professor of Psychiatry Linda Gask describes her search for her 'right' pl...

In this imaginative and comprehensive study, Edward Casey, one of the most incisive interpreters of the Continental philosophical tradition, offers...

This volume examines senses of place in which people not only perform religious acts in particular places but also understand emplacement / belongi...

Reducere. For some, a sense of place is about travel, about plunging oneself into new settings. For others, it is about being-and knowing-home. This book is ...

Hope is an endangered virtue in today's chaotic world. Yet Christmas provides us with the inspiring reminder that our true hope lies not in the und...

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Reducere. Why does a particular landscape move us? What is it that attaches us to a particular place? Tall's From Where We Stand is an eloquent exploration o...

Reducere. The Undertaker is Laura Del Gaudio's lively story of learning the family business from under the kitchen table as a child. It is how she learned em...

In a career spanning four decades, Gerald R. North contributed groundbreaking research that continues to shape the modern field of climate science....

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Reducere. Born on a farm near Anahuac, Texas, in 1875 and possessed of only a fourth-grade education, Ross Sterling was one of the most successful Texans of ...

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Reducere. An invaluable resource for the home or commercial gardener who wishes to plant native species. Edward W. Chester, Austin Peay State University The ...

In the tradition of a decade of bi-annual gatherings of the International Symposium on Poetic Inquiry, this volume serves as the fifth refereed sym...

Reducere. Increasingly, women and minorities are entering fields where white male power is firmly entrenched. The spaces they come to occupy are not empty or...

Publisher: Random House USA IncAuthor(s): Alora YoungNumber of pages: 160Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 142 x 209 x 21Cover type: Paperback / so...

Doony, Ryder, Wyatt, Bodhi. The names of Kristin Hersh's sons are the only ones included in her new memoir, Seeing Sideways. As the book unfolds an...

A highly anticipated memoir by Gabriel Byrne, award-winning actor. Walking with Ghosts is an exquisite portrait of an Irish childhood and a remarka...

Reducere. In 1858, Charles Darwin was forty-nine years old, a gentleman scientist living quietly at Down House in the Kent countryside. He was not yet a focu...

The master distiller Rob Arnold reveals how innovative whiskey producers are recapturing a sense of place to create distinctive, nuanced flavors. H...

Publisher: Taylor & Francis LtdAuthor(s): Rosy SzymanskiNumber of pages: 230Collection: Heritage, Culture and IdentityPublication date: 2016Dimensi...

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