2008 American Publishers Awards for Professional and Scholarly Excellence (The PROSE Awards) Finalist/Honorable mention, Business, Finance & Management. The Fundamental Index examines a new approach to indexing that can overcome the structural return drag created by traditional capitalization-base[...]
Terry John Woods and his incredible Needham House, nestled in Vermont's Green Mountains, inspire readers to create a farmhouse style in their own home using antiques, folk art and everyday objects. Needham House, an 1820s farmhouse nestled in Vermont's Green Mountains, is artist Terry John Woods' be[...]
When Dorothy triumphed over the Wicked Witch of the West in L. Frank Baum's classic tale, we heard only her side of the story. But what about her arch-nemesis, the mysterious Witch? Where did she come from? How did she become so wicked? And what is the true nature of evil?Gregory Maguire creates a f[...]
A study not of the institution of the Church but of Christianity itself, this book explores the Christian people, their beliefs, and their way of life, providing a new understanding of Western Christianity at the time of the Reformation. Bossy begins with a systematic exposition of traditional or pr[...]
Two eminent historians, Robert V. Hine and John Mack Faragher, present the American West as both frontier and region, real and imagined, old and new, and they show how men and women of all ethnic groups were affected when different cultures met and clashed. Their concise and engaging survey of front[...]
West and the Weald. The latest in this rigorous, comprehensive and much cherished series.
In 1968, rock promoter Bill Graham launched the Fillmore East in New York City and the Fillmore West in San Francisco, changing music forever. For three years, every major rock band played the Fillmores, performing legendary shows: Jimi Hendrix, the Grateful Dead, Santana, Jefferson Airplane, Led Ze[...]
Tells the stories of a struggling screenwriter who takes in a stray dog, and a young boy who becomes disillusioned by his father's atheist co-worker.[...]
In January 1968, John Corbett and his fellow leathernecks of the 26th Marine Regiment fortified a remote outpost at a place in South Vietnam called Khe Sanh. Within days of their arrival, twenty thousand North Vietnamese soldiers surrounded the base. What followed over the next seventy-seven days be[...]
Published in 1856, this is a compelling account of pioneering Arctic exploration, revealing how Robert McClure and his men survived.[...]
Title: Piloting Directions for the West Coast of Scotland, from the Mul of Cantire to Cape Wrath; the North Coast of Ireland, from Tory Island to Rachlin Island and the Hebrides ... Compiled from the Surveys of Mackenzie ... and others ... Fifth edition.Publisher: British Library, Historical Print E[...]
With a new introduction by the author, this erudite and brilliantly readable book (The Observer, London) astutely dissects the political, economic and social origins of Western civilization to reveal a culture cripplingly enslaved to crude notions of rationality and expertise.
The Western world [...]
A collection of authentic cowboy recipes with an uptown flavor, including such dishes as venison chili and ranch beans[...]
James Burnham's 1964 classic, Suicide of the West, remains a startling account on the nature of the modern era. It offers a profound, in depth analysis of what is happening in the world today by putting into focus the intangible, often vague doctrine of American liberalism. It parallels the loosely [...]
The South West Coast Path is the longest of Britain's National Trails, following the spectacular coastline for 630 miles around the southernmost tip of England from Somerset all the way to Dorset. This volume of the Official National Trail Guide, published in association with Natural England, featur[...]