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American Godsby Neil GaimanISBN 1594970998 (1-59497-099-8)
Hardcover, Public Square Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'American Gods'Book summary:Nota: En los titulos y nombres de autores, los marcos ortograficos han sido omitidos para facilitar las busquedas de Internet.
La vida en la cárcel es dura. Pero siempre queda un rayo de esperanza si sabes que, a la salida, te espera una mujer que te ama, un amigo que te quiere, un trabajo que adoras. . .Todo eso es lo que quiere Sombra, que está a punto de salir de la cárcel. . .Pero un día le comunican que su mujer y su mejor amigo han muerto en un accidente de coche. Entonces, contratado por un extraño anciano experto en timos y estafas que responde al nombre de Wednesday, Sombra empieza un interminable viaje a lo largo y ancho de América, perseguido por el espíritu de su esposa, en el que descubre el límite entre lo humano y los divino, y que las reglas que rigen el mundo de los hombres no son las mismas con las que lose dioses conducen el mundo.
Neil Gaiman vuelve con American Gods a dar lo major de sí mismo y crea una historia en la que dioses y héroes se dan la mano, en la que el destino de la misma alma de Norteamérica está en juego. Con American Gods, Neil Gaiman se ha consagrado como uno autores de terror más importantes del panorama internacional, se ha colocado en los primeros puestos de las listas de los más vendidos de todo el mundo y ha ganado el premio Hugo a Mejor Novela de Ciencia Ficción y el premio Stoker a Mejor Novela de Terror.
Amazon.com's Best of 2001 American Gods is Neil Gaiman's best and most ambitious novel yet, a scary, strange, and hallucinogenic road-trip story wrapped around a deep examination of the American spirit. Gaiman tackles everything from the onslaught of the information age to the meaning of death, but he doesn't sacrifice the razor-sharp plotting and narrative style he's been delivering since his Sandman days.
Shadow gets out of prison early when his wife is killed in a car crash. At a loss, he takes up with a mysterious character called Wednesday, who is much more than he appears. In fact, Wednesday is an old god, once known as Odin the All-father, who is roaming America rounding up his forgotten fellows in preparation for an epic battle against the upstart deities of the Internet, credit cards, television, and all that is wired. Shadow agrees to help Wednesday, and they whirl through a psycho-spiritual storm that becomes all too real in its manifestations. For instance, Shadow's dead wife Laura keeps showing up, and not just as a ghost--the difficulty of their continuing relationship is by turns grim and darkly funny, just like the rest of the book.
Armed only with some coin tricks and a sense of purpose, Shadow travels through, around, and underneath the visible surface of things, digging up all the powerful myths Americans brought with them in their journeys to this land as well as the ones that were already here. Shadow's road story is the heart of the novel, and it's here that Gaiman offers up the details that make this such a cinematic book--the distinctly American foods and diversions, the bizarre roadside attractions, the decrepit gods reduced to shell games and prostitution. "This is a bad land for Gods," says Shadow.
More than a tourist in America, but not a native, Neil Gaiman offers an outside-in and inside-out perspective on the soul and spirituality of the country--our obsessions with money and power, our jumbled religious heritage and its societal outcomes, and the millennial decisions we face about what's real and what's not. --Therese Littleton --This text refers to the Hardcover edition. [via]
The Basic Researcher's Guide to Homesteads & Other Federal Land Recordsby James C. BarsiISBN 0964319209 (0-9643192-0-9)
Hardcover, Nuthatch Grove Press
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Below from Above: Aerial Photographyby Georg GersterISBN 0896596028 (0-89659-602-8)
Hardcover, Abbeville Press, Incorporated
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Book of Migrations: Some Passages in Irelandby Rebecca SolnitISBN 1859841864 (1-85984-186-4)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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In this acclaimed exploration of the culture of others, Rebecca Solnit travels through Ireland, the land of her long-forgotten maternal ancestors. A Book of Migrations portrays in microcosm a history made of great human tides of invasion, colonization, emigration, nomadism and tourism. Enriched by cross-cultural comparisons with the history of the American West, A Book of Migrations carves a new route through Ireland's history, literature and landscape. [via]More editions of Book of Migrations: Some Passages in Ireland:
Book of Where: A Gazetteer of Places Real And Imaginaryby Rodney DaleISBN 1904919219 (1-904919-21-9)
Hardcover, Book Sales
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Canadian Wordsby Bill CasselmanISBN 1552780341 (1-55278-034-1)
Softcover, McArthur & Co Pub Ltd
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Citizenship Papersby Wendell BerryISBN 159376037X (1-59376-037-X)
Softcover, Shoemaker & Hoard
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Collected Poems: 1957-1982by Wendell BerryISBN 0865471975 (0-86547-197-5)
Softcover, North Point Pr
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Country of the Pointed Firsby Sarah Orne Jewett, Douglas AlvordISBN 156792140X (1-56792-140-X)
Softcover, David R Godine Pub
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Country of the Pointed Firs'Book summary:First published in 1896, The Country of the Pointed Firs was considered by Willa Cather to be one of the three novels most likely to achieve a permanent place in the canon of American literature: I can think of no others that confront time and change so serenely... The young student of American literature in far distant years to come will take up this book and say a masterpiece! Long neglected and even ignored by criticism, this enduring classic by Sarah Orne Jewett now appears in a format worthy of its contents.
Set in the small coastal town of South Berwick, Maine, this is as much a series of small, intimate sketches as a sustained narrative. As F. O. Matthiessen pointed out, in these loosely connected sketches, she has acquired a structure independent of plot. Her scaffolding is simply the unity of her vision. Her vision was of a gentle and generous people on a rugged and dangerous coast, of New England character and characters limned in colors of high summer and blue skies. Here, too, you will meet the people of Dunnet s landing; the women, who are probably the most unforgettable characters of her book; and Elijah Tilley (among the very few men in Jewett s cast) who, after the death of his wife, learns the skills of husband and wife, of farm and sea. The black-and-white pencil drawings by Douglas Alvord are nothing short of spectacular. Closely observed and carefully rendered, they possess all of the haunting serenity of Jewett s landscapes. Faithfully reproduced and printed to the highest standards, this is destined to become a standard gift and reading book for everyone fascinated by New England, the rich history of its rockbound coast, and this magical author. [via]More editions of Country of the Pointed Firs:
The Country of the Pointed Firs and Selected Short Fictionby Sarah Orne Jewett, Ted OlsonISBN 1593082622 (1-59308-262-2)
Softcover, Sterling Pub Co Inc
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Country Wisdom and Know-How : A Practical Guide to Living off the Landby Storey Publishing's Country Wisdom Bulletins EditorsISBN 1579123686 (1-57912-368-6)
Softcover, Black Dog & Leventhal Publishers, Incorporated
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Courthouse Research for Family Historians: Courthouse Research for Family Historiansby Christine RoseISBN 0929626168 (0-929626-16-8)
Softcover, Cr Pubns
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Courthouse Research for Family Historians: Courthouse Research for Family Historians'Book summary:Finally--the only guidebook devoted exclusively to research in America's courthouses. Full of essentials starting with preparation, interacting with the clerks, using the indexes, and what to expect to find in each courthoiuse office. But it doesn't stop there. Evaluating the records and using them to solve genealogical problems are included. For those who can't travel to the courthouse personally, use of the Internet, microfilm, and published books of abstracts are discussed.
Tips galore from an author who has researched in more than 500 courthouses. [via]
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Cumbres Borrascosas / Wuthering Heightsby Emily BronteISBN 8420676330 (84-206-7633-0)
Softcover, Grupo Anaya Comercial
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Los lectores tomarán un gran placer en descubrir los clásicos por estas bellas y económicas ediciones de literatura famosa y universal. Se representa una variedad de épocas, temas, y autores. [via]
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Hardcover, Edimat Libros - Cumbres Borrascosas / Wuthering Heights: ISBN 8420676330 (84-206-7633-0)
Softcover, Grupo Anaya Comercial
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Deed Abstracts of Tyron, Lincoln and Rutherford Counties, North Carolina 1769-1786by Brent HolcombISBN 0893080470 (0-89308-047-0)
Hardcover, Southern Historical Pr
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Early Novels and Storiesby Willa Cather, Sharon O BrienISBN 0940450399 (0-940450-39-9)
Hardcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Early Novels and Stories'Book summary:"Let your fiction grow out of the land beneath your feet." Willa Cather's remark describes her own reasons for re-creating in her powerful fiction the Nebraska frontier of her youth. The vast Great Plains, where the earth has only recently come beneath the plow and the sky is huge and open, mirrors the uniquely American ethic of her characters: their heroic aspirations and stoicism, their passion for creativity, their rebelliousness of spirit. This volume, the first in The Library of America's authoritative three-volume collected Cather, includes the story collection "The Troll Garden," her first work of fiction, along with the beloved novels "O Pioneers!," "The Song of the Lark," "My Antonia," and "One of Ours," which earned a Pulitzer Prize. [via]
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East of Eden: An Easy Guide to Car Maintenance And Repairby John SteinbeckISBN 1587245620 (1-58724-562-0)
Hardcover, Wheeler Pub Inc
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Set in the rich farmland of California's Salinas Valley, this sprawling and often brutal novel follows the intertwined destinies of two families -- the Trasks and the Hamiltons -- whose generations helplessly reenact the fall of Adam and Eve and the poisonous rivalry of Cain and Abel. [via]
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Emily Bronte, Wuthering Heightsby Patsy StonemanISBN 1840460210 (1-84046-021-0)
Hardcover, Icon
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Freedom to Roamby Harold SculthorpeISBN 0900384689 (0-900384-68-9)
Softcover, Freedom Pr
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The Gift of Good Land: Further Essays Cultural and Agriculturalby Wendell BerryISBN 0865470529 (0-86547-052-9)
Softcover, Farrar, Straus & Giroux
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Gift of Good Land: Further Essays Cultural and Agricultural'Book summary:In this collection of essays, continuing the argument begun with The Unsettling of America, Wendell Berry writes of the importance of good farming to a healthy culture. By health he means not the mere absence of disease, but the operation of a balanced, nondestructive way of life; his essays on the Amish people of Pennsylvania and Ohio offer a model. "An economy of waste," Berry writes, "is incompatible with a healthy environment"--an environment that operates in balance, within bounds. Arguing for the primacy of family-based, local economies, and for the exercise of intelligence, reverence, and community values, Berry crafts a prose idyll celebrating the pastoral existence. [via]
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Good Earthby Pearl S. Buck, Stephanie Reents, Cynthia Brantley JohnsonISBN 1416500189 (1-4165-0018-9)
Softcover, Pocket Classics
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Good Earth'Book summary:The story begins on the wedding day of farmer Wang Lung and follows his simple, often one-sided view of the Chinese culture, times, and his connection with the land. The land is a recurring theme throughout the novel, seemingly nurtured by the apparent protagonists, rejected and ruined by the antagonists. The author uses the House of Hwang, a nearby house of nobles, to contrast and predict their rise and fall. As the House of Hwang meets its slow and desperate end, Wang Lung rises.
However, as the weather turns disastrous for farming, Wang Lung's family has to flee to the city to scrape out a meager living. Upon returning home, the family fares better. Wang Lung eventually becomes a prosperous man, his rise contrasting with the downfall of the Hwang family, who lose their connection to the land. At the end of the novel, when Wang Lung is an old man, he overhears his sons plotting to sell some of the land, thus showing the end of the cycle of wealth and downfall. [via]
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Hardcover, Reader's Digest Association - Good Earth: ISBN 0899662994 (0-89966-299-4)
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The Grapes of Wrathby John SteinbeckISBN 141770392X (1-4177-0392-X)
Hardcover, Bt Bound
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Grapes of Wrath'Book summary:When The Grapes of Wrath was published in 1939, America, still recovering from the Great Depression, came face to face with itself in a startling, lyrical way. John Steinbeck gathered the country's recent shames and devastations--the Hoovervilles, the desperate, dirty children, the dissolution of kin, the oppressive labor conditions--in the Joad family. Then he set them down on a westward-running road, local dialect and all, for the world to acknowledge. For this marvel of observation and perception, he won the Pulitzer in 1940.
The prize must have come, at least in part, because alongside the poverty and dispossession, Steinbeck chronicled the Joads' refusal, even inability, to let go of their faltering but unmistakable hold on human dignity. Witnessing their degeneration from Oklahoma farmers to a diminished band of migrant workers is nothing short of crushing. The Joads lose family members to death and cowardice as they go, and are challenged by everything from weather to the authorities to the California locals themselves. As Tom Joad puts it: "They're a-workin' away at our spirits. They're a tryin' to make us cringe an' crawl like a whipped bitch. They tryin' to break us. Why, Jesus Christ, Ma, they comes a time when the on'y way a fella can keep his decency is by takin' a sock at a cop. They're workin' on our decency."
The point, though, is that decency remains intact, if somewhat battle-scarred, and this, as much as the depression and the plight of the "Okies," is a part of American history. When the California of their dreams proves to be less than edenic, Ma tells Tom: "You got to have patience. Why, Tom--us people will go on livin' when all them people is gone. Why, Tom, we're the people that live. They ain't gonna wipe us out. Why, we're the people--we go on." It's almost as if she's talking about the very novel she inhabits, for Steinbeck's characters, more than most literary creations, do go on. They continue, now as much as ever, to illuminate and humanize an era for generations of readers who, thankfully, have no experiential point of reference for understanding the depression. The book's final, haunting image of Rose of Sharon--Rosasharn, as they call her--the eldest Joad daughter, forcing the milk intended for her stillborn baby onto a starving stranger, is a lesson on the grandest scale. "'You got to,'" she says, simply. And so do we all. --Melanie Rehak [via]
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The Greening of Africa: Breaking Through in the Battle for Land and Foodby Paul HarrisonISBN 9966831347 (9966-831-34-7)
Softcover, African Books Collective
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Provides a realistic blueprint that could revolutionize Africa's prospects in an affordable future that this major study proves can work. [via]More editions of The Greening of Africa: Breaking Through in the Battle for Land and Food:
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Have-More Planby Carolyn RobinsonISBN 0882660241 (0-88266-024-1)
Softcover, Garden Way Pub Co
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Have-More Plan'Book summary:This 60-year-old back-to-the-land homesteading classic introduces you to the basics of finding land; building a homestead; growing vegetables, fruits, and herbs; raising livestock, fish, and honey bees; building farm structures; harvesting your own firewood; and much more.
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House of Sand and Fogby Dubus, Andre, IIIISBN 1400077354 (1-4000-7735-4)
Softcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'House of Sand and Fog'Book summary:Andre Dubus III wastes no time in capturing the dark side of the immigrant experience in America at the end of the 20th century. House of Sand and Fog opens with a highway crew composed of several nationalities picking up litter on a hot California summer day. Massoud Amir Behrani, a former colonel in the Iranian military under the Shah, reflects on his job-search efforts since arriving in the U.S. four years before: "I have spent hundreds of dollars copying my credentials; I have worn my French suits and my Italian shoes to hand-deliver my qualifications; I have waited and then called back after the correct waiting time; but there is nothing." The father of two, Behrani has spent most of the money he brought with him from Iran on an apartment and furnishings that are too expensive, desperately trying to keep up appearances in order to enhance his daughter's chances of making a good marriage. Now the daughter is married, and on impulse he sinks his remaining funds into a house he buys at auction, thus unwittingly putting himself and his family on a trajectory to disaster. The house, it seems, once belonged to Kathy Nicolo, a self-destructive alcoholic who wants it back. What starts out as a legal tussle soon escalates into a personal confrontation--with dire results.
Dubus tells his tragic tale from the viewpoints of the two main adversaries, Behrani and Kathy. To both of them, the house represents something more than just a place to live. For the colonel, it is a foot in the door of the American dream; for Kathy, a reminder of a kinder, gentler past. In prose that is simple yet evocative, House of Sand and Fog builds to its inevitable denouement, one that is painfully dark but unfailingly honest. --Alix Wilber [via]
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How to Become Wealthy in Real Estateby Stacey ChillemiISBN 1847287190 (1-84728-719-0)
Softcover, Lulu.Com
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The Indian Act of Canadaby Richard H. BartlettISBN 0888802048 (0-88880-204-8)
Hardcover, University of Saskatchewan, Native Law Centre
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John Steinbeckby John SteinbeckISBN 1883011159 (1-883011-15-9)
Hardcover, Penguin Group USA
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Land and Power in Hawaii: The Democratic Yearsby George Cooper, Gavan DavisISBN 0961505206 (0-9615052-0-6)
Hardcover, Benchmark Books
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Land and Property Research in the United Statesby E. Wade HoneISBN 091648968X (0-916489-68-X)
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The Land: Place As Gift, Promise, and Challenge in Biblical Faithby Walter BrueggemannISBN 0800634624 (0-8006-3462-4)
Softcover, Augsburg Fortress Pub
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The Limitless City: A Primer on the Urban Sprawl Debateby Alex S. MacLean, Oliver GillhamISBN 1559638338 (1-55963-833-8)
Softcover, Island Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Limitless City: A Primer on the Urban Sprawl Debate'Book summary:One of the great debates of our time concerns the predominant form of land use in America today -- the all too familiar pattern of commercial and residential development known as sprawl. But what do we really know about sprawl? Do we know what it is? Where did it come from? Is it really so bad? If so, what are the alternatives? Can anything be done to make it better? "The Limitless City" offers an accessible examination of those and related questions. Oliver Gillham, an architect and planner with more than twenty-five years of experience in the field, considers the history and development of sprawl and examines current debates about the issue. The book: offers a comprehensive definition of sprawl in America traces the roots of sprawl and considers the factors that led to its preeminence as an urban and suburban form reviews both its negative impacts (loss of open space, increased pollution, gridlock) as well as its positive aspects (economic development, personal freedom, privacy) considers responses to sprawl including "smart growth," urban growth boundaries, regional planning, and the New Urbanism looks at what can be done to improve and counterbalance sprawl The author argues that whether we like it or not, sprawl is here to stay, and only by understanding where it came from and why it developed will we be able to successfully address the problems it has created and is likely to create in the future. "The Limitless City" is the first book to provide a realistic look at sprawl, with a frank recognition of its status as the predominant urban form in America, now and into the near future. Rather than railing against it, Gillham charts its probable future course while describing criticalefforts that can be undertaken to improve the future of sprawl and our existing urban core areas. [via]
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Locating Your Roots : Discover Your Ancestors Using Land Recordsby Patricia Law HatcherISBN 1558706143 (1-55870-614-3)
Softcover, F & W Publications, Incorporated
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Locating Your Roots : Discover Your Ancestors Using Land Records'Book summary:Locating Your Roots will help researchers find and use American land records in their genealogical research. While these records may not directly give genealogical details, they are a core record group that all genealogists in the United Stated use. With this book, researchers will understand the importance of land records in their family history research, especially for the time period when vital records don't exist and when census records only listed the head of the household. In eleven chapters, which make substantial use of examples and illustrations, this guide will help researchers find land records for their ancestors, and more importantly, how to use and interpret them. [via]
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Measuring America: How an Untamed Wilderness Shaped the United States and Fulfilled the Promise of Democracyby Andro LinklaterISBN 0802713963 (0-8027-1396-3)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Measuring America: How an Untamed Wilderness Shaped the United States and Fulfilled the Promise of Democracy'Book summary:[via]Measuring America is the fascinating, provocative, and eye-opening story of why America has ended up with its unique system of weights and measuresthe American Customary System, unlike any other in the worldand how this has profoundly shaped our country and culture. In the process, Measuring America reveals the colossal power contained inside the acres and miles, ounces and pounds, that we use every day without ever realizing their significance.The most urgent problem facing the newly independent United States was how to pay for the war that won the country its freedom; Americas debt was enormous. Its greatest asset was the land west of the Ohio River, but for this huge territory to be sold, it had first to be surveyedthat is, measured out and mapped. And before that could be done, a uniform set of measurements had to be chosen for the new republic. English, Scottish, German, Dutch, Scandinavian, and other settlers had all brought their own systems with them (more than 100,000 different units are reckoned to have been in daily use), and in his first address to Congress, George Washington put the establishment of a single system of weights and measures immediately after a national defense and a currency as the United States most urgent priority.
The debate on this vital measure took place at a critical moment in the history of ideas, when the traditional, subjective view of the world was being increasingly challenged by objective, scientific reasoning. Thomas Jeffersonsupported by Washington, Adams, Madison, Monroe, even Hamiltonchampioned the new idea of a scientific 10-based system derived from some universal constant such as time or the size of the earth. Such an alliance should have ensured a decimal America, but ranged against them was the invisible genius of Edmund Gunter, the seventeenth-century English mathematician whose twenty-two-yard surveying chain, introduced in 1607, had revolutionized land ownership in Britain and was still used by every surveyor in Americaincluding Thomas Hutchins and his successors in charge of the land survey on the Ohio frontier.
How we ultimately gained the American Customary Systemthe last traditional system in the worldand how Gunters chain indelibly imprinted its dimensions on the land, on cities, and on our culture from coast to coast is both an exciting human and intellectual drama and one of the great untold stories in American history. At a time when the metric system may finally be unstoppable, Andro Linklater has captured the essential nature of measurement just as the Founding Fathers understood it. Sagely argued and beautifully written, Measuring America offers readers nothing less than the opportunity to see Americas historyand our democracyin a brilliant new light.More editions of Measuring America: How an Untamed Wilderness Shaped the United States and Fulfilled the Promise of Democracy:
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Measuring America: How The United States Was Shaped By The Greatest Land Sale In Historyby Andro LinklaterISBN 0452284597 (0-452-28459-7)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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Measuring America tells the fascinating story of how we ultimately gained the American Customary Systemthe last traditional system in the worldand how one man's surveying chain indelibly imprinted its dimensions on the land, on cities, and on our culture from coast to coast.
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Mecklenburg County, North Carolina, Deed Abstracts Books One to Nine 1763-1779by Brent HolcombISBN 0893081086 (0-89308-108-6)
Hardcover, Southern Historical Pr
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The New Practitioner's Guide to Fiscal Impact Analysisby Robert W. Burchell, David Listokin, William R. DolphinISBN 0882851098 (0-88285-109-8)
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North Carolina Land Grants in South Carolinaby Brent H. HolcombISBN 0806311649 (0-8063-1164-9)
Hardcover, Genealogical Pub Co
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› Find signed collectible books: 'North Carolina Land Grants in South Carolina'Book summary:The border between North and South Carolina had long been in dispute and it wasn't until 1772 that the matter was settled. Prior to this North Carolina had issued more than 1,000 grants for land in an area that is now South Carolina--in what are its present counties of Marlboro, Chesterfield, Lancaster, York, Chester, Union, Cherokee, Spartanburg, Greenville, Laurens, and Newberry, an area which was then thought to be in the North Carolina counties of Bladen, Anson, Mecklenburg, and Tryon.
The records of these grants--plats and warrants for the most part--form the basis of this work. The data provided includes the name of the grantee, the file, entry or grant number, the relevant book and page of the original record books, the location of the grant, the names of owners of adjoining property, and the dates of the various instruments. [via]
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Novels, 1942-1952by John Steinbeck, Robert DemottISBN 1931082073 (1-931082-07-3)
Hardcover, Penguin Group USA
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The Moon Is Down (1942), set in an unnamed Scandinavian country under German occupation, dramatizes the transformation of ordinary life under totalitarian rule and the underground struggle against the Nazi invaders. In Cannery Row (1945) Steinbeck paid tribute to his closest friend, the marine biologist Ed Ricketts, in the central character of Doc, proprietor of the Western Biological Laboratory and spiritual and financial mainstay of a cast of philosophical drifters and hangers-on. The comic and bawdy evocation of the main street of Monterey's sardine-canning district has made this one of the most popular of all Steinbeck's novels. Steinbeck's long involvement with Mexican culture is distilled in The Pearl (1947). Expanding on an anecdote he had heard about a boy who found a pearl of unusual size, Steinbeck turned it into an allegory of the corrupting influence of sudden wealth. The Pearl appears here with the original illustrations by José Clemente Orozco.
Ambitious in scale and original in structure, East of Eden (1952) recounts the violent and emotionally turbulent history of a Salinas Valley family through several generations. Drawing on Biblical parallels, East of Eden is an epic that explores the writer's deepest and most anguished concerns within a landscape that for him had mythic resonance.More editions of Novels, 1942-1952:
O Pioneers!by Willa CatherISBN 1593082053 (1-59308-205-3)
Softcover, Sterling Pub Co Inc
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"The land belongs to the future . . . that's the way it seems to me. . . . I might as well try to will the sunset over there to my brother's children. We come and go, but the land is always here. And the people who love it and understand it are the people who own it -- for a little while." -- Willa Cather, O Pioneers!
Willa Cather -- born in Back Creek, Virginia, in 1873 -- was nine when she and her family moved to Red Cloud, Nebraska. She grew up on the plains -- and the plains grew into her as she did. This 1913 novel -- the story of an immigrant family's struggle to save their Nebraska farm -- grew out of her, and, of course, through her: there's a reason that this -- Cather's second novel -- is the famous book it has become. Cather attended the University of Nebraska, and worked six years on the editorial staff at McClure's Magazine in New York City; she won the Pulitzer Prize in 1923 for One of Ours. [via]
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Our Ecological Footprint: Reducing Human Impact on the Earthby Mathis Wackernagel, Williams E. Rees, Phil TestemaleISBN 086571312X (0-86571-312-X)
Softcover, New Society Pub
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Preserving Family Lands Book 2: Planning Strategies for the FutureISBN 0962455733 (0-9624557-3-3)
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Prison Conditions in Israel and the Occupied Territoriesby Eric GoldsteinISBN 1564320111 (1-56432-011-1)
Softcover, Human Rights Watch
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A Sand County Almanac Illustratedby Aldo LeopoldISBN 0915024152 (0-915024-15-2)
Hardcover, Trails Media Group Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Sand County Almanac Illustrated'Book summary:Published in 1949, shortly after the author's death, A Sand County Almanac is a classic of nature writing, widely cited as one of the most influential nature books ever published. Writing from the vantage of his summer shack along the banks of the Wisconsin River, Leopold mixes essay, polemic, and memoir in his book's pages. In one famous episode, he writes of killing a female wolf early in his career as a forest ranger, coming upon his victim just as she was dying, "in time to watch a fierce green fire dying in her eyes.... I was young then, and full of trigger-itch; I thought that because fewer wolves meant more deer, no wolves would mean hunters' paradise. But after seeing the green fire die, I sensed that neither the wolf nor the mountain agreed with such a view." Leopold's road-to-Damascus change of view would find its fruit some years later in his so-called land ethic, in which he held that nothing that disturbs the balance of nature is right. Much of Almanac elaborates on this basic premise, as well as on Leopold's view that it is something of a human duty to preserve as much wild land as possible, as a kind of bank for the biological future of all species. Beautifully written, quiet, and elegant, Leopold's book deserves continued study and discussion today. --Gregory McNamee [via]
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Small Is Beautiful: Economics as If People Matteredby E. F. SchumacherISBN 0881791695 (0-88179-169-5)
Softcover, Hartley & Marks Publishers, Incorporated
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Steinbeck Novels and Stories 1932-1937by John Steinbeck, Robert Demott, Elaine A. SteinbeckISBN 1883011019 (1-883011-01-9)
Hardcover, Library of America
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Successful Small-Scale Farmingby Karl SchwenkeISBN 0882661477 (0-88266-147-7)
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Successful Small-Scale Farming: An Organic Approachby Karl SchwenkeISBN 0882666428 (0-88266-642-8)
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Surveying Your Land: A Common-Sense Guide to Surveys, Deeds, and Title Searchesby Charles E. LawsonISBN 0881501808 (0-88150-180-8)
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This Sovereign Land: A New Vision for Governing the Westby Daniel KemmisISBN 1559638427 (1-55963-842-7)
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Thousand Acresby Jane SmileyISBN 1400033837 (1-4000-3383-7)
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Virginia Land Grants: A Study of Conveyancing in Relation to Colonial Politicsby Fairfax HarrisonISBN 1888265612 (1-888265-61-2)
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The Way of Ignorance: And Other Essaysby Wendell Berry, Daniel Kemmis, Courtney WhiteISBN 1593761198 (1-59376-119-8)
Softcover, Shoemaker & Hoard
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Way of Ignorance: And Other Essays'Book summary:" In a democratic commonwealth, what are the costs and consequences of rugged individualism?[via]
" What, in the fullest sense, is involved in our National Security?
" When considering Weapons of Mass Destruction, does our inventory include soil loss, climate change, and ground water poisoning? And should we add Economic Weapons of Mass Destruction to our list of targets?
" Whose freedom are we considering when we speak of the "free market" or "free enterprise"?
" What is the price of ownership without affection?
These and several other questions lie at the heart of Wendell Berry's latest collection of essays, writing "motivated by fear of our violence to one another and to the world, and my hope that we might do better." Setting aside abstraction in favor of clarity, coherence, and passion, this new book provides a setting of immediate danger and profound hope. The core of this collection "Imagination in Place," "The Way of Ignorance," "Quantity and Form," "The Purpose of a Coherent Community," "Compromise, Hell!" consists of some of the finest essays of Wendell Berry's long career, and the whole offers an exhilarating sense of purpose and a clear call to action.More editions of The Way of Ignorance: And Other Essays:
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Wuthering Heightsby Emily Bronte, F. H. Cornish, John MilneISBN 1405077093 (1-4050-7709-3)
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Cumbres Borrascosasby Emily BrontëISBN 8497644743 (84-9764-474-3)
Softcover, Edimat Libros, S. A.
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Cumbres Borrascosas / Wuthering Heightsby Lion FeuchtwangerISBN 842066605X (84-206-6605-X)
Softcover, Grupo Anaya Comercial
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Las Uvas De La Ira/ the Grapes of Wrathby John SteinbeckISBN 8420676357 (84-206-7635-7)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Las Uvas De La Ira/ the Grapes of Wrath'Book summary:[via]Las uvas de la ira es un hito en la literatura norteamericana que explora el conflicto entre ricos y pobres, analiza la reacción feroz de un hombre contra la injusticia y el estoicismo de una mujer igualmente heróica, y refleja los horrores de la Gran Depresión. Aunque sigue la migración de miles personas del Dust Bowl, Las uvas de la ira se enfoca en la historia de una familia de Oklahoma, los Joads, echados de su hogar y forzados a viajar rumbo a esa Tierra Prometida que era por ese entoncesy que de algun modo sigue siendoCalifornia. De sus desventurasen un país dividido surge un drama sobre la dignidad humana, a un tiempo trágico y majestuoso en su grandeza su valentía moral.
Publicada por primera vez en 1939, la novela reflejó su época como Uncle Tom's Cabin reflejó los años antes de la Guerra Civil norteamericana. John Steinbeck, un escritor que simpatizaba con la crítica fascista y comunista, insistió en que la versión integral del "Himno de batalla de la República" fuese impresa en la primera edición del libro, que adopta en su título unas palabras del primer verso: "Está pisoteando la vendimia donde se conservan las uvas de la ira." La crónica de Steinbeck sobre el avergonzante maltrato de las clases sociales de los años treinta es tal vez el más "americano" de todos los clásicos norteamericanos.
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