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A captivating, illustrated introduction to one of the seven natural wonders of the world, the Grand Canyon National Park. Stretching across a rocky plateau in America, carved deep into the rocks by the rushing Colorado River, lies the Grand Canyon. Its bands of rock tell us about millions of years of our planet's history and the indigenous Hopi, Havasupai, and Navajo tribes that have ties to the land. Today at least five million people visit G...

Renowned for its luxuriant coastal rainforest, the Pacific Northwest also sustains an array of wildflower habitats ranging from mountains to deserts to river canyons. In this collection of flower portraits, landscape photographer Larry Ulrich and nature writer Susan Lamb share their favorites among the shy as well as the showy flora they have discovered in exploring Oregon, Washington, and western Idaho. Born of abundant moisture from the ocea...

Offers a complete ranking of United States presidents from best to worst based on their leadership skills, moral authority, and ability to persuade the public.

We hold tourism in common as we might a currency or a language. Yet rarely have we thought seriously about how it has shaped our lives, our sense of sexual, religious, political, and social alternatives, or our literatures. This book is the first to identify and examine the relations among literature, tourism, and the wider culture in the long eighteenth century. Gendering emerges as a key mechanism here both for those who brought travel home ...

The Grand Canyon State celebrates all four seasons and it's always a feast for the eyes. In this book, we have the photographs to prove it! Author Susan Lamb has written a sensitive, authoritative text describing the state's surprisingly wide-ranging seasons across three key geographical regions: the Low Deserts, the Central Highlands, and the Plateau. She also presents an interesting overview of how the seasons and the geography pair up to su...

This singular collection of original interviews with all nine sitting Supreme Court justices plus retired Justice Sandra Day O'Connor--as well as reporters, attorneys, and historians--gives readers a rare window into the nation's highest court and those who serve there.

Published in conjunction with C-SPAN's year-long celebration of the Lincoln bicentennial, this work offers an enlightening, wide-ranging anthology of essays on Lincoln by top historians.

In this portfolio of color images, Larry Ulrich picks a few of his favorite flowers from the Plateau and Canyon Country of Utah, Arizona, and Colorado.

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Landscape photographer Larry Ulrich celebrates the abundance of wildflowers in Oregon, Washington, and western Idaho.

From February to July, from desert to seashore, interior valley to mountain meadow, the flower images contained in this companion postcard book are the perfect gift for wildflower admirers.