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"In North America there is one large animal that belongs almost entirely to the realm of towering rock and unmelting snow. Pressing hard against the upper limit of life's possibilities, it exists higher and steeper throughout the year th...

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Includes "The Empty Pleasure" by 2010 Nobel Prize in Literature Winner Mario Vargas Llosa The worlds most popular sport, soccer, is also one of the planets prevalent cultural expressions, celebrated and debated as an art form, observed w...

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Sam Moses, a motorsports writer for Sports Illustrated, was assigned to go racing and write about what happened. Fast Guys, Rich Guys, and Idiots is a personal odyssey that peers over the cliff of change and into the pit of obsession. From small-t...

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Lem Purchase is in California when a call comes in the dead of night: his younger, disturbed brother in Nebraska announces his plans to carry out an act of terrorism targeting the state capitol building in Lincoln. This isnt the first time Lem has...

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Hell is other people, Jean-Paul Sartre famously wrote in No Exit. The fantastic tragicomedy Madah-Sartre brings him back from the dead to confront the strange and awful truth of that statement. As the story begins, Sartre and his consort in intell...

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In his three previous memoirs, Floyd Skloot grappled with the brain-ravaging virus that struck him at forty-one. He was, as the San Francisco Chronicle noted, shaping the experience of crippling illness into dazzling literature. Sifting through me...

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Antonio Lpez de Santa Anna (17941876) is one of the most famous, and infamous, figures in Mexican history. Six times the countrys president, he is consistently depicted as a traitor, a turncoat, and a tyrantthe exclusive cause of all of Mexicos mi...

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Engineer Bartley Alexander appears to have a happy life in Boston with a successful career and a beautiful wife. He has been commissioned to design the Moorlock Bridge in Canada, the most important project of his career. With the onset of middle a...

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With the decline of family farms and rural communities and the rise of corporate farming and the resulting environmental degradation, American agriculture is in crisis. But this crisis offers the opportunity to rethink agriculture in sustainable t...

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Hard Air is a book about extraordinary flyingflying under conditions that keep fighters on the carrier deck and rockets on the launch pada book about rescue missions and long, lonely flights to gather urgently needed information, about flights to ...

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2019 Tucson Weekly 40 Essential Arizona Books pick 2014 One Book Yuma selection 2010 Best of the Best from the University Presses (ALA) selection 2010 Caroline Bancroft History Prize Finalist 2009 Southwest Book of the Year "The Blue Tattoo i...

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Although the Antarctic ice pack and some offshore islands had been sighted and even landed upon briefly as early as the 1820s, it was not until an eccentric Anglo-Norwegian explorer, Carsten F. Borchgrevink, went ashore in 1895 that a human being ...

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Frustrated in their attempts to gain official recognition by the United States, a group of Miccosukee Indians met with Fidel Castro in 1959 and were recognized by the Cuban government. The man behind this unprecedented move to provoke the U.S. gov...

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It may be Americas game, but no one seems to know how or when baseball really started. Theories abound, myths proliferate, but reliable information has been in short supplyuntil now, when Baseball before We Knew It brings fresh new evidence of bas...

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The Sound of Music endeared Georg von Trapp (18801947) and his singing family to the world, and it also showed how desperately the Nazis wanted Captain von Trapp for their navy. In To the Last Salute we learn why. Trapps own story of his exploits ...

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Winner of the Douglas Southall Freeman History Award, Gentleman and Soldier is the first biography in more than fifty years of Wade Hampton III (18181902), a Confederate general whose life provides a unique, sweeping insight into the entire histor...

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Every now and then violence erupts in the banlieues of France allowing the world a glimpse into the grimmest corners of these multiethnic suburban ghettos. From such a corner comes the story of Samira Bellil, who by raising her voice and telling h...

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Robert Vivians prose is lyrical and harrowingharrowing in the Biblical sense, Sven Birkerts said of The Mover of Bones, the first book in Vivians Tall Grass Trilogy. That same lyrical power carries this new volume to a place of hard-won hope and r...

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Every spring, the first four days of the NCAA mens basketball tournament attracts a horde of basketball bettors to Las Vegas. From the tip-off of the tournaments first game on Thursday morning to the final whistle on Sunday, throngs of bettorsover...

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"A valuable read for anyone with an interest in the final years of the frontier Army, American imperialism, African-Americans in military service, and American military history in general."A.A. Nofi, Strategypage.com An unheralded milita...

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For most of the twentieth century, West Virginia was a college basketball hotbed. Its major programs were a success, but perhaps even more successful was the West Virginia Intercollegiate Athletic Conference, composed of fifteen schools that rarel...

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Willa Cathers third novel, The Song of the Lark, depicts the growth of an artist, singer Thea Kronborg, a character inspired by the Swedish-born immigrant and renowned Wagnerian soprano Olive Fremstad. Theas early life, however, has much in common...

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In this theoretically sophisticated study of indigenous oral narratives, Julie Cruikshank moves beyond the text to explore the social significance of storytelling. Circumpolar Native peoples today experience strikingly different and often competin...

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On the Ceiling tells the story of a young man who wears a chair upside down on his head. He falls in love with a young woman named Mline, and soon he and his friends move in with her and her family. They are disappointed by the life they find at M...

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Rock, Ghost, Willow, Deer is Allison Adelle Hedge Cokes searching account of her life as a mixed-blood woman coming of age off reservation, yet deeply immersed in her Huron, Mtis, and Cherokee heritage. In a style at once elliptical and achingly c...

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This magnificent, sweeping work traces the histories of the Native peoples of the American West from their arrival thousands of years ago to the early years of the nineteenth century. Emphasizing conflict and change, One Vast Winter Count offers a...

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In this tenth anniversary edition of K. L. Cooks debut collection, the linked stories of Last Call span three generations in the life of one West Texas family. Events both tender and tragic lead to a strange and lovely vision of a world stitched t...

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With eighty men I could ride through the entire Sioux nation. The story of what has become popularly known as the Fetterman Fight, near Fort Phil Kearney in present-day Wyoming in 1866, is based entirely on this infamous declaration attributed to ...

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Winner of the Prairie Schooner Book Prize in Poetry, Shane Books collection, Ceiling of Sticks, is a powerful and unflinching sort of documentary poetics. It bears elegiac witness to the effects of global politics on individual lives. Books poems ...

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Though Venezuela is sandwiched between two soccer-mad countriesBrazil and Colombiabaseball is its national pastime and passion. Yet until the late 1980s few professional teams actively scouted and developed players there. This book is about the ma...

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