An endlessly fascinating look at American regionalism and the eleven "nations" that continue to shape North America
According to award-winning journalist and historian Colin Woodard, North America is made up of eleven distinct nations, each with its own unique historical roots. In "American Nat[...]

How the blinding of Sergeant Isaac Woodard changed the course of America's civil rights historyOn February 12, 1946, Sergeant Isaac Woodard, a returning, decorated African American veteran, was removed from a Greyhound bus in Batesburg, South Carolina, after he challenged the bus driver's disrespect[...]

This book, derived from the acclaimed Cambridge Encyclopedia of the World's Ancient Languages, describes the ancient languages of Asia and the Americas, for the convenience of students and specialists working in that area. Each chapter of the work focuses on an individual language or, in some instan[...]

An illuminating history of North America's eleven rival cultural regions that explodes the red state-blue state myth. North America was settled by people with distinct religious, political, and ethnographic characteristics, creating regional cultures that have been at odds with one another ever sinc[...]

Intended as a guide to the interpretation of cardiac MR images, this book features images of normal anatomy and abnormalities. It includes sections on coronary arteries, thoracic MR angiography, three-dimensional surface anatomy, surgical repairs, and imaging protocols. It also incorporates advances[...]

High on a remote butte, a young Sioux waits. Though daring in battle, skillful, and strong, he cannot be a man until his spiritual vision comes. When it appears, he must interpret it correctly to know who he is, and he must deserve it or continue to be called No Name. No Name has his vision, a glowi[...]

The African-American poet and playwright, Amiri Baraka, helped ignite the Black Arts Movement of the 1960s. This work examines Baraka's cultural approach to Black Power politics and explores his role in the phenomenal spread of black nationalism in the urban centres of late-20th century America.[...]

Three of the most imminent researchers in the keeping, rearing, and nutritional studies of pheasant, quail, and partridge have combined their sixty years of experience to produce this handbook of aviculture. These men are the most published authors in their field and have tailored their knowledge fo[...]

This book argues that when the Greeks first began to use the alphabet, they viewed themselves as participants in a performance phenomenon.[...]

* Service improvement -- implying more effective, more efficient and safer delivery of services - is a highly topical subject in health care, with difficult goals to achieve. Even more difficult is engaging patients, or users, in the process, yet this is increasingly becoming a requirement in heal[...]

Despite humanity s gradual ascent from clustered pools of it, slime is more often than not relegated to a mere residue - the trail of a verminous life form, the trace of decomposition, or an entertaining synthetic material - thereby leaving its generative and mutative associations with life neatly [...]