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This Cold Country - Annabel Davis-Goff PDF Download

The author of the New York Times Notable Book The Dower House, known for her elegant prose and her keen eye for the nuances of class, now adds the lush, large-screen immediacy of a Merchant-Ivory film...

Peak - Roland Smith PDF Download

The emotional, tension-filled story of a fourteen-year-old boy's attempt to be the youngest person to reach the top of Mount Everest. Author: Smith, Roland Publisher: HMH Books for Young Readers Illu...

Benjamin Franklin Pennsylvania and the First Nations: the Treaties of 1736-62 PDF Download

This is an annotated edition of the treaties between the British colonies and Indian nations, originally printed and sold by Benjamin Franklin. Last published in 1938, Benjamin Franklin, Pennsylvania,...

The Old German Baptist Brethren: Faith Farming and Change in the Virginia Blue Ridge - Charles D. Thompson Jr PDF Download

Since arriving nearly 250 years ago in Franklin County, Virginia, German Baptists have maintained their faith and farms by relying on their tightly knit community for spiritual and economic support. T...

Made-from-Bone: Trickster Myths Music and History from the Amazon - Jonathan D. Hill PDF Download

Made-from-Bone is the first work to provide a complete set of English translations of narratives about the mythic past and its transformations from the indigenous Arawak-speaking people of South Ameri...

Unbound Spirit: Letters of Flora Belle Jan - Fleur Yano PDF Download

This volume collects the letters written over a thirty-year period by a second generation Chinese American woman, Flora Belle Jan (1906-50). Her writings illuminate the inner life of a sensitive, unco...

Robert Ashley - Kyle Gann PDF Download

_x000B_This book explores the life and works of the pioneering opera composer Robert Ashley, one of the leading American composers of the post-Cage generation. Ashley's innovations began in the 1960s...

Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, and Sarah Palin smashed through some of the most enduring barriers to high political office, but their exceptional candidacies did not come out of nowhere. In these time...

Transforming Places: Lessons from Appalachia PDF Download

In this era of globalization's ruthless deracination, place attachments have become increasingly salient in collective mobilizations across the spectrum of politics. Like place-based activists, Appala...

Synergicity: Reinventing the Postindustrial City PDF Download

SynergiCity: Reinventing the Postindustrial City proposes a new and invigorating vision of urbanism, architectural design, and urban revitalization in twenty-first-century America. Culling transformat...

Ghost of the Ozarks: Murder and Memory in the Upland South - Brooks Blevins PDF Download

In 1929, in a remote county of the Arkansas Ozarks, the gruesome murder of harmonica-playing drifter Connie Franklin and the brutal rape of his teenaged fiancee captured the attention of a nation on t...

The Rise of the National Basketball Association - David G. Surdam PDF Download

Today's National Basketball Association commands millions of spectators worldwide, and its many franchises are worth hundreds of millions of dollars. But the league wasn't always so successful or glam...

African American Miners and Migrants: the Eastern Kentucky Social Club - Thomas E. Wagner PDF Download

Thomas E. Wagner and Phillip J. Obermiller's African American Miners and Migrants documents the lives of Eastern Kentucky Social Club (EKSC) members, a group of black Appalachians who left the eastern...

Robert Johnson: Lost and Found - Bill Mcculloch PDF Download

In this volume, Barry Lee Pearson and Bill McCulloch examine the full range of writings about Johnson (including books, articles, and record notes) to sift fact from fiction. They compare conflicting...

The 7 Sexes: Biology of Sex Determination - Elof Axel Carlson PDF Download

Few of us know much about the biology of sex determination, but what could be more interesting than to discover how we are shaped into males and females? In this book, Elof Carlson tells the incredibl...

Music and the Skillful Listener: American Women Compose the Natural World - Denise Von Glahn PDF Download

Denise Von Glahn explores the relationship between listening and musical composition focusing on nine American women composers inspired by the sounds of the natural world: Amy Beach, Marion Bauer, Lou...

Wisconsin My Home - Erna Oleson Xan PDF Download

Wisconsin My Home is the story of Thurine Oleson, born in Wisconsin in 1866 to parents who had emigrated from Telemarken, Norway. This much-loved book was first published in 1950 when Thurine was a sp...

Passchendaele - Trevor Wilson PDF Download

No conflict of the Great War excites stronger emotions than the war in Flanders in the autumn of 1917, and no name better encapsulates the horror and apparent futility of the Western Front than Passch...

Tenor: History of a Voice - John Potter PDF Download

From its emergence in the sixteenth century to the phenomenon of the “Three Tenors” and beyond, the tenor voice has grown in popularity and esteem. This engaging and authoritative book—the first compr...

American Caesars: Lives of the Presidents from Franklin D. Roosevelt to George W. Bush - Nigel Hamilton PDF Download

--Modeled on one of the most famous histories of ancient Rome (The Twelve Caesars), Nigel Hamilton?s new book, American Caesars, looks afresh at the lives and careers of the twelve leaders of the Amer...

Arcadian America: the Death and Life of an Environmental Tradition - Aaron Sachs PDF Download

Perhaps America's best environmental idea was not the national park but the garden cemetery, a use of space that quickly gained popularity in the mid-nineteenth century. Such spaces of repose brought...

Winning Strategies for Successful Aging - Eric Pfeiffer PDF Download

For anyone who is approaching a 65th birthday with trepidation, this valuable book offers heartening advice on navigating the later years of life. Dr. Eric Pfeiffer, who for thirty years has cared for...

The Terror Courts: Rough Justice at Guantanamo Bay - Jess Bravin PDF Download

Soon after the September 11 attacks in 2001, the United States captured hundreds of suspected al-Qaeda terrorists in Afghanistan and around the world. By the following January the first of these priso...

Heart to Heart with Robert Wagner - L. Avon Borgo PDF Download

Drawing on their in-depth interviews with Robert Wagner, authors Maychick and Borgo provide us with a rare glimpse into the private and stormy life of a Hollywood legend. We see the good and the bad -...