West Texas: A Portrait of Its People and Their Raw and Wondrous Land, Hardcover - Mike Cochran

Reducere. The Big Bend, the Big Country, the Big Empty. The High Plains, the Permian and the Panhandle. Cowboys, Cowtown and the curl of a killer tornado. A ...

Reducere. Jarred by the 9/11 attacks, photographer Jack Spencer set out in 2003 -in hopes of making a few 'sketches' of America in order to gain some clarity...

A gripping history of the polar continent, from the great discoveries of the nineteenth century to modern scientific breakthroughsAntarctica, the i...

A single-volume history told in a new way: mingling grand sweep narrative with deep-core, local, personal stories - all woven together with landsca...

Reducere. A gripping history of the polar continent, from the great discoveries of the nineteenth century to modern scientific breakthroughs Antarctica, the ...

Reducere. 'What the Harmandir means to devotees can best be witnessed near the main entrance of the temple. Parties of pilgrims approach, merrily chatting an...

Reducere. The Creole architecture of New Orleans is one of the city's most-recognized features, but studies of it largely have been focused on architectural ...

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Reducere. Crossroads of the continent, Land of Lincoln, hub of commerce--or, as Charles Dickens viewed it, a landscape "oppressive in its barren monotony"--I...

Reducere. A fascinating portrayal of a handsome, timeless house in Chowan County near Edenton and of the people associated with it. Designed by British archi...

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Reducere. DescriptionInternationally renowned photographer Lucian Niemeyer and National Park Service historian Art G mez have combined talents in this stunni...

Reducere. This book remains the definitive history of the deepest of all American gorges.

Historian Mike Cox has been writing about Texas history for four decades, sharing tales that have been overlooked or forgotten through the years. T...

Reducere. America’s forty-third president, George W. Bush, presided over eight of the most dramatic years in recent history, from the 9/11 attacks early in h...

Reducere. From the director of Bone TomahawkA brutal and unflinching tale that takes many of its cues from both cinema and pulp horror, Wraiths of the Broken...

Reducere. In A Haven in the Sun, nature writer B. C. Robison presents a unique portrayal of birds of the Texas Coast. Through the stories of birds that have ...

Reducere. The Texas state constitution of 1876 set aside three million acres of public land in the Texas Panhandle in exchange for construction of the state'...

Reducere. DescriptionWinner, Ottis Lock Endowment Award for the best book on East Texas, East Texas Historical Association, 1985Texas Literary Festival Award...

Forty-three men have served as President of the United States. Countless books have been written about them. But never before has a President told ...

Reissue of a wonderfully evocative book that reflects a place and a taste never to be forgotten once sampled: the perfect book to curl up with in f...

Reducere. DescriptionThe history of law enforcement in the Lone Star State goes back well before photography, dating to Texas's days as part of the Spanish e...

Reducere. DescriptionOn January 10, 1901, near Beaumont, Texas, an unremarkable knoll of earth the world would soon call Spindletop shot a geyser of oil a hu...

Why is the North East the most distinctive region of England? Where do the stereotypes about North Easterners come from, and why are they so often ...

Reducere. To many Americans in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, the West was simultaneously the greatest symbol of American opportunity, the greatest ...

"Terrific." -Timothy Egan, The New York Times "A riveting investigation of both American myth-making and the real history that lies beneath." -Clau...

Reducere. In the heart of Texas, love comes knocking when you least expect it... The Cowboy and His Wayward Bride Country singer Laurie Jensen has never forg...

Even when Big Red was little, he had no shortage of daring adventures. Join Hellboy creator Mike Mignola as he teams with writer Tom Sniegoski, art...

Reducere. From its beginning as one of the most ambitious construction projects west of the Mississippi, the imposing red granite Lone Star statehouse loomed...

Reducere. DescriptionA compelling survey of Texas houses that draw both on the heritage of pioneer ranches and on the twentieth-century design principles of ...

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Reducere. Marfa and the Mystique of Far West Texas, Hardcover

Reducere. Vita Sackville-West, novelist, poet, and biographer, is best known as the friend of Virginia Woolf, who transformed her into an androgynous time-tr...

Reducere. DescriptionWhen Tobe Hooper's low-budget slasher film, The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, opened in theaters in 1974, it was met in equal measure with di...

Reducere. If you want to discover the captivating history of Thailand, then keep reading...Did you know that Thailand is the only country in Southeast Asia t...

Reducere. Barack Obama was the 44th president of the United States and the first African American commander-in-chief. He served two terms, in 2008 and 2012. ...

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Reducere. What if the harbinger of our greener future was a small power plant set in the middle of nowhere in West Texas? Longtime alternative energy executi...

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Reducere. A stunning visual exploration of Canada's most recognized building accompanied by a comprehensive study of its history, in a coffee-table worthy vo...

Reducere. For this absorbing portrait of his mother, David Chandler drew on hundreds of letters that she sent and received, on his own warm memories, and the...

Autobiographical in tone, Joyce's tale of Stephen Dedalus' journey into adulthood explores the intellectual and moral development of an artist as h...

Reducere. (Volume 2 of 2) Killsback, a citizen of the Northern Cheyenne Nation, reconstructs and rekindles an ancient Cheyenne world--ways of living and thin...

Reducere. A new kind of Judaism is emerging in the 21st century.In Israel, the state of the Jewish people, Judaism is undergoing one of its greatest transfor...

This is a cook book to celebrate British farming in all its hardship and glory. The recipes in this book make the most of local and seasonal ingred...