Beloved American novelist Brown revisits some of her most spirited and unforgettable characters--sisters Juts and Wheezie Hunsenmeir, and Juts's precocious young daughter, Nickel--as they come together to cope with a life-defining loss.[...]

Born in 1877 in Geneva, Switzerland, Isabelle Eberhardt became a rebel at an early age. She dressed like a man so she could have access to areas forbidden to women, smoked in public and scandalized Genevan society. Already multilingual (French, German, and Russian), she began studying Arabic languag[...]

This book brings together 57 of the best black-and-white photographs of Marion Patterson, who describes her work as "photographs of the intimate landscape, simple and contemplative like a zen garden." The images focus on the natural surroundings of the central California coast and Sierra-rocks, wat[...]

In the dawn of November 29, 1864, a Colorado militia unit attacked a peaceful encampment of Cheyennes by Sand Creek in southeast Colorado Territory and murdered almost two hundred men, women, and children. In The Massacre at Sand Creek, Bruce Cutler retells, in a powerful narrative, the events surro[...]

Combat history of a renowned German tank regiment in World War II Covers the unit's formation, its campaigns in Poland and France, and its first months with the Afrika Korps Firsthand accounts from tank commanders and crews with hundreds of photographs, many of them not available anywhere else In Se[...]

The massacre of Cheyenne and Arapaho women and children by U.S. soldiers at Sand Creek in 1864 was a shameful episode in American history, and its battlefield was proposed as a National Historic Site in 1998 to pay homage to those innocent victims. Poet Simon Ortiz had honored those people seventeen[...]

Describes the sand foundry, the characteristics of molding sand, the types of mold and pattern making equipment, and the various sand casting procedures for forming metals[...]

It was on 6 June 2004 that BBC security correspondent Frank Gardner and cameraman Simon Cumbers were ambushed by Islamist gunmen in a quiet Riyadh back street. Simon was killed outright. Frank was hit in the shoulder and leg. As he lay in the dust, a figure stood over him and pumped four more bullet[...]

This is the first book in the English language to offer an analysis of a conflict that, in so many ways, raised the curtain on the Great War. In September 1911, Italy declared war on the once mighty, transcontinental Ottoman Empire but it was an Empire in decline. The ambitious Italy decided to add [...]