"A bold study of an eco-visionary at a watershed moment in US history."-Nature

A timely, thrilling account of a man who, as an explorer, dared to lead the first successful expedition down the Colorado through the Grand Canyon--and, as an American visionary, waged a bitterly-contested campaign[...]

From the creator of "Family Guy" and director of "Ted" comes a hilarious first novel that reinvents the Western.
Mild-mannered sheep farmer Albert Stark is fed up with the harsh life of the American frontier, where it seems everything and anything can kill you: Duels at high noon. Barroom brawl[...]

The shocking story of one of the few people born in a North Korean political prison to have escaped and survived. North Korea is isolated and hungry, bankrupt and belligerent. It is also armed with nuclear weapons. Between 150,000 and 200,000 people are being held in its political prison camps, whic[...]

Boys and girls ages 2 to 5 will love this Little Golden Book based on an episode of Disney Junior s newest hit show, "Sheriff Callie s Wild West, " in which Toby learns that keeping promises is more important than drinking lots and lots of milk shakes "[...]

This successful book, now available in paperback, provides academics and researchers with a clear set of prescriptions for estimating, testing and probing interactions in regression models. Including the latest research in the area, such as Fuller's work on the corrected//constrained estimator, the [...]

"A very intelligent, spirited woman who saw realities that few other chroniclers suggest. This is a valuable bit of social history."--J. Frank Dobie, Guide to Life and Literature of the Southwest "Highly recommended. After starting this delightful true story, you just can't put it down."--Wyoming [...]

"A story of epic proportions and] an awesome feat of biographical reconstruction."--"The Boston Globe"
A classic of its kind, "The Long Gray Line" is the twenty-five-year saga of the West Point class of 1966. With a novelist's eye for detail, Rick Atkinson illuminates this powerful story throug[...]

There has long been a need for a new textbook on West Africa's history. In "Themes in West Africa's History," editor Emmanuel Kwaku Akyeampong and his contributors meet this need, examining key themes in West Africa's prehistory to the present through the lenses of their different disciplines.
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The volume opens with an appreciation of Conrad's Polishness by Jerzy Buzek, The President of the European Parliament. Its first section provides new illuminations of Polishness in Conrad's personality and oeuvre: from the szlachta cultural heritage of his ancestors and Polish contextualizations of [...]