United States: Newest books
Tales of Canyonlands Cow...
Richard Negri interviews cattlemen and women about ranching in the rugged canyonlands region of southeastern Utah. Personal stories and anecdotes from the colorful characters who ground out a hard living on ranches of the are in the early 20th century.
(2013)
Recollections of Past Days
For visitors to the Martin's Cove historic site in Wyoming, Patience Loader has become an icon of the disastrous winter entrapment of the Martin and Willie handcart companies. Her record of those events is important, but there is much else of interest in her autobiography. In ...
(2013)
Exploring Desert Stone
_Exploring Desert Stone_ is the first detailed investigation of the 1859 Macomb Expedition into western Colorado and the canyon country of Utah. > The confluence of the Green and Colorado Rivers, now in Canyonlands National Park, near popular tourist destination Moab, stil...
(2013)
Roll Away Saloon
With his animated tales of Zane Grey, Butch Cassidy, and the Robbers Roost gang, Rider creates an engaging and believable picture of the joys and hardships of cowboy life.
(2013)
The River Knows Everything
Desolation Canyon is one of the West's wild treasures. Visitors come to study, explore, run the river, and hike a canyon that is deeper at its deepest than the Grand Canyon, better preserved than most of the Colorado River system, and full of eye-catching geology-castellated r...
(2013)
Utah in the Twentieth Ce...
by Brian Q. Cannon and Jessie Embry
The twentieth could easily be Utah's most interesting, complex century, yet popular ideas of what is history seem mired in the nineteenth. One reason may be the lack of readily available writing on more recent Utah history. This collection of essays shifts historical focus for...
(2013)
Women in Utah History
by Patricia Lyn... and Linda Thatcher
A project of the Utah Women's History Association and cosponsored by the Utah State Historical Society, Paradigm or Paradox provides the first thorough survey of the complicated history of all Utah women. Some of the finest historians studying Utah examine the spectrum of sign...
(2013)
Emma Lee
Now in its eighth printing, _Emma Lee_ is the classic biography of one of John D. Lee's plural wives. Emma experienced the best and worst of polygamy and came as near to the Mountain Meadows Massacre as anyone could without participating firsthand.
(2013)
Uranium Frenzy
Now expanded to include the story of nuclear testing and its consequences, Uranium Frenzy has become the classic account of the uranium rush that gripped the Colorado Plateau region in the 1950s. Instigated by the U.S. government's need for uranium to fuel its growing atomic w...
(2013)
Billy Durant
Praise for the first edition: "A fascinating book [and] a sympathetic look at the man who glued General Motors together and in the process made Flint one of the great industrial centers of America." ---Detroit Free Press "It is refreshing to report that Billy Durant is one of ...
(2012)
Rettungswiderstand
Über die Judenretter in Europa während der NS-Zeit
Arno Lustiger schildert die Bemühungen, Juden im gesamten besetzten Europa das Leben zu retten, aus einer neuen Perspektive. So erweitert er die Kriterien dessen, was in der öffentlichen Wahrnehmung unter "Judenrettung" verstanden wird: Er schildert nicht nur die Akt...
(2012)
Industry and the Creativ...
>The Eccentric Writer in American Literature and Entertainment, 1790-1860
by Sandra Tomc
Industry and the Creative Mind takes a radically new look at the figure of the eccentric, alienated writer in American literature and entertainment from 1790 to 1860. Traditional scholarship takes for granted that the eccentric writer, modeled by such Romantic beings as Lord B...
(2012)
A New England Prison Diary
In 1812, New Hampshire shopkeeper Timothy M. Joy abandoned his young family, fleeing the creditors who threatened to imprison him. Within days, he found himself in a Massachusetts jailhouse, charged with defamation of a prominent politician. During the months of his incarcerat...
(2012)
Politics, Labor, and the...
_Politics, Labor, and the War on Big Business_ details the rise, fall, and impact of the anticorporate reform effort in Arizona during the Progressive reform era, roughly 1890-1920. Drawing on previously unexamined archival files and building on research presented in his previ...
(2012)
Dass ein Pfarrer so verl...
Briefe von Rosi Hänel und Hermann Grundherr aus den Jahren 1933/34
(2012)
China at War
An Encyclopedia
by Xiaobing Li
This comprehensive volume traces the Chinese military and its experiences over the past 2,500 years, describing clashes with other kingdoms and nations as well as internal rebellions and revolutions.
(2012)
The Underground Railroad
A Reference Guide
Full of true stories more dramatic than any fiction, The Underground Railroad: A Reference Guide offers a fresh, revealing look at the efforts of hundreds of dedicated persons—white and black, men and women, from all walks of life—to help slave fugitives find freedom in the de...
(2012)
Das Lohengrinhaus in Gra...
Sizzo Stief: Erforschtes und Erlebtes
"Die Stätten, wo einst Richard Wagner weilte, lernte ich schon mit 9 oder 10 Jahren kennen. Das lag daran, daß ich in ihrer Nähe aufwuchs"…beginnt Sizzo Stief seinen Bericht über die Wagner-Gedenkstätten im Kreise Pirna. Stief nimmt den Leser m...
(2012)
Santa Rita del Cobre
by Terrence Humble and Christopher ...
The Spanish, Mexicans, and Americans successively mined copper for 200 years at Santa Rita, New Mexico. Starting in 1799 with the Spanish discovery of native copper, the Chino Mines followed industry developments first as a network of underground mines and ultimately as part o...
(2011)

