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Excerpt from Romance of American Life and ProgressThe air of romance envelops the discovery of the American Continent, the founding of the Colonies, the conquest of the fields and forests and natural resources of this Oldest yet youngest Of the continents, and, above all, it invests the development Of the national life of the United States.Where, too, can be found men and women whose lives supply better material upon which to build entrancing ...

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This is the ultimate compilation of songs that no road trip should be without. The playlist captures the spirit, excitement, and freedom of traveling on the open road. Included are classics such as "I Get Around" by The Beach Boys and "Take the Long Way Home" by Supertramp.

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A fascinating collection of the wooden ritual objects called 'spirit boards' made in the Papuan Gulf of New Guinea. The first book devoted exclusively to the subject sets the individual works in their local context with historical and field photographs.

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In this alternate history, George Washington becomes Lord President George I of the United States in 1789, and this action changes the course of world development: the monarchies of Europe and the New World are never displaced, but evolve into parliamentary democracies. And so, in this strange new universe, when Lord President John IV (Kennedy) travels to Dallas in 1963, the assassin's bullet misses, killing the Lord Governor of Texas instead,...

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Gary Webb had an inborn journalistic tendency to track down corruption and expose it. For over thirty-four years, he wrote stories about corruption from county, state, and federal levels. He had an almost magnetic effect to these kinds of stories, and it was almost as if the stories found him. It was his gift, and, ultimately, it was his downfall.He was best known for his story Dark Alliance, written for the San Jose Mercury News in 1996. In i...

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First developed in the 1880s, repeat photography remains an important and cost-effective technique for scientists and researchers working to track and study landscape change. This volume explores the technical and geographic scope of this important technique. "Repeat Photography" demonstrates the wide range of potential applications, examines new techniques for acquiring data from repeat photography, and clearly shows that repeat photography r...

THIS AMBITIOUS BOOK will enthrall armchair naturalists and river runners alike, offering a stunning tour through the natural, environmental, and human history of Cataract Canyon, a seventeen-mile run of free-flowing river above Lake Powell in the canyonlands of southern Utah. Setting the stage with preliminary chapters on geology and hydrology, prehistory and geography, biology, and river-running history the authors take the reader on a "downr...