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Here's a heck of a story, which is told using three concepts that appear in all of Waters' work: unity, duality, and the myth of emergence". -- Books of the Southwest

Ohio Enjoys a Rich Artistic Heritage: its inhabitants have made significant contributions in the arts, its schools have produced artists of international acclaim, and its companies have employed progressive manufacturing techniques and pioneering materials in the production of their wares. Ohio's artistic tradition is especially impressive in the area of the decorative arts from the first two-thirds of the twentieth century. The state's econom...

He was called El Leoncito, The Little Lion, by the simple peones of New Mexico who knew a century ago. Manuel Antonio Chaves earned that name in more than a score of battle with hostile Navajo, Ute, and Apache, and there can be little doubt that he was one of the finest Indian fighters the Southwest ever produced.

Traces the lives of some two dozen women who participated in the gold rush as wives, single women, or even as children .... What emerges is no common portrait". -- Choice

Traces the lives of some two dozen women who participated in the gold rush as wives, single women, or even as children .... What emerges is no common portrait". -- Choice

The marshes along the Ohio shore of Lake Erie represent less than ten percent of the vast wetlands that were there two hundred years ago. Virtually unknown outside the region and, indeed, little known even by area residents, the western Lake Erie marshes are among the most mysterious, beautiful, and vulnerable of all the wild lands remaining in Ohio. Constantly threatened throughout the years with destruction by high lake waters or human enter...

Legacy: A Step-by-Step Guide to Writing Personal History is animated by the belief that every life has value and knowledge for others. A personal history is a gift to share. It can restore the connection between generations. What did another time feel like, what did you do to pass the time - or to survive - and how did you feel about your choices? The small joys, triumphs, and turning points in a life have special meaning when shared with thos...

In the late fifties and early sixties, Govan Mbeki was a central figure in the African National Congress and director of the ANC campaigns from underground.

This biography of the Danish literary figure Karen "Isak" Dinesen draws on papers held in private collections and interviews in Africa, Denmark and England to piece together her complex life. The Danish history of romance and masquerade is explored as a theme that recurs in Dinesen's work.

Wyeth People" is the story of one writer's search for the meaning of artistic creativity, approached from personal contact with the work of one of the world's great artists, Andrew Wyeth.

The Laughing West' consists of twenty-one pieces of humorous western writing, along with a general introduction, section introductions and an afterword. Throughout the book, the humor is based on character, and on how our perception of the familiar character types has evolved over the years.

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IN RECOGNITION OF OHIO'S BICENTENNIAL IN 2003, the Religious Experience Advisory Council of the Ohio Bicentennial Commission was established to commemorate and celebrate the state's diversity of religions and faith traditions. The end result of the council's efforts, Religion in Ohio tells the story of Ohio's religious and spiritual heritage going back to the state's ancient and historic native populations, and including the westward migration...

Natalie Petesch is a wonder of a writer. There is absolutely no one like her. She is courageous almost to the point of being fierce, And unbearably honest. And wise. And full of tears. I salute her fine work". -- Gerald Stern "... The subject matter is compelling". -- Kirkus Reviews

In the summer of 1807 more than a thousand subscribers from New England to Tennessee paid for the initial printing of The Life and Travels of John Robert Shaw: A Narrative of the Life and Travels of the Well-Digger, now resident of Lexington, Kentucky, Written by Himself. Shaw had come to Rhode Island as a British redcoat to put down the colonial rebellion. Through various quirks of fate, including being taken a prisoner of war, he ended up fi...

About the author of this award-winning collection, final judge Miller Williams commented:"Meredith Carson writes poems so well-controlled in tone that the language of conversation takes on an elegance rarely found in contemporary poetry, but emphatically contemporary."In

On March 4, 1789, New York City's church bells pealed, cannons fired, and flags snapped in the wind to celebrate the date set for the opening of the First Federal Congress. In many ways the establishment of Congress marked the culmination of the American Revolution as the ship of state was launched from the foundation of the legislative system outlined in Article I of the Constitution.Inventing Congress presents the latest scholarship on the i...

The words of the victims who perished under the great American steamroller of Manifest Destiny and westward expansion. Miss Armstrong has compiled the eloquent protests of the American Indians from the 17th century to the present as they watched their defeats and humiliations multiply across the decades. The occasion for the speechifying is frequently the signing of an extorted treaty - like the one in 1821 which ceded five million acres east ...

The Depression that follows the 1929 stock market crash is emptying Paris of many American expatriates. Two exceptions are Dorothy and James T. Farrell, the naive young couple who have fled their home in Chicago for the fabled liberation that Paris seems to offer.In this telling account drawn from interviews, diaries, and letters home, Edgar Marquess Branch presents a composite view of the life of a young author yet to complete his masterpiece...

This collection of stories by award-winning writer Jane Candia Coleman (No Roof But Sky, Stories from Mesa Country) is about women coming of age. In each one, the protagonist discovers facets, truths about herself and the world that she has not known - finds places in herself where she has never been. "It's long past time for women to explain themselves in fiction", Coleman writes, "particularly literary fiction, to write about the world and t...