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1421: The Year China Discovered Americaby Gavin MenziesISBN 006054094X (0-06-054094-X)
Softcover, Perennial
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› Find signed collectible books: '1421: The Year China Discovered America'Book summary:The incredible true story of the discovery of America before Columbus was even born. Gavin Menzies's extraordinary findings rewrite history.
On March 8, 1421, the largest fleet the world had ever seen sailed from its base in China. The ships, huge junks nearly five hundred feet long and built from the finest teak, were under the command of Emperor Zhu Di's loyal eunuch admirals. Their mission was "to proceed all the way to the end of the earth to collect tribute from the barbarians beyond the seas" and unite the whole world in Confucian harmony. Their journey would last more than two years and circle the globe.
When they returned in October 1423, the emperor had fallen, leaving China in political and economic chaos. The great ships, now considered frivolous, were left to rot at their moorings and the records of their journeys were destroyed. Lost in China's long, self-imposed isolation that followed was the knowledge that Chinese ships had reached America seventy years before Columbus and circumnavigated the globe a century before Magellan. Also concealed were how the Chinese colonized America before the Europeans and transplanted to America, Australia, New Zealand and South America the principal economic crops that have fed and clothed the world.
Now, in a landmark historical journey, Gavin Menzies, who spent fifteen years tracing the astonishing voyages of the Chinese fleet, shares the remarkable account of his discoveries and the incontrovertible evidence to support them. His compelling narrative pulls together ancient maps, precise navigational knowledge, astronomy and the surviving accounts of Chinese explorers and the later European navigators to prove that the Chinese had also discovered Antarctica, reached Australia three hundred and fifty years before Cook and solved the problem of longitude three hundred years ahead of the Europeans. 1421 describes the artifacts and inscribed stones left behind by the emperor's fleet, the evidence of wrecked junks along its route -- discovered in locations ranging from the middle of the Mississippi River to tributaries of the Amazon -- and the ornate votive offerings left by the Chinese sailors wherever they landed, in honor of Shao Lin, goddess of the sea.
1421: The Year China Discovered America is the story of a remarkable journey of discovery that rewrites our understanding of history. Our knowledge of world exploration as it has been commonly accepted for centuries must now be reconceived due to this classic work of historical detection.
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The American People: Creating a Nation and a Societyby Gary B. Nash, Julie Roy JeffreyISBN 0060473355 (0-06-047335-5)
Softcover, Harper & Row
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Birds of Americaby John James AudubonISBN 0025044508 (0-02-504450-8)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster
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Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American Westby Dee Alexander BrownISBN 0030853222 (0-03-085322-2)
Hardcover, Holt, Rinehart & Winston
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West'Book summary:First published in 1970, this extraordinary book changed the way Americans think about the original inhabitants of their country. Beginning with the Long Walk of the Navajos in 1860 and ending 30 years later with the massacre of Sioux men, women, and children at Wounded Knee in South Dakota, it tells how the American Indians lost their land and lives to a dynamically expanding white society. During these three decades, America's population doubled from 31 million to 62 million. Again and again, promises made to the Indians fell victim to the ruthlessness and greed of settlers pushing westward to make new lives. The Indians were herded off their ancestral lands into ever-shrinking reservations, and were starved and killed if they resisted. It is a truism that "history is written by the victors"; for the first time, this book described the opening of the West from the Indians' viewpoint. Accustomed to stereotypes of Indians as red savages, white Americans were shocked to read the reasoned eloquence of Indian leaders and learn of the bravery with which they and their peoples endured suffering. With meticulous research and in measured language overlaying brutal narrative, Dee Brown focused attention on a national disgrace. Still controversial but with many of its premises now accepted, Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee has sold 5 million copies around the world. Thirty years after it first broke onto the national conscience, it has lost none of its importance or emotional impact. --John Stevenson [via]
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Cartier Sails the St. Lawrenceby Ester AverillISBN 0060201614 (0-06-020161-4)
Hardcover, Harpercollins
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The Cheyennes: Indians of the Great Plainsby Edward Adamson HoebelISBN 0030226864 (0-03-022686-4)
Softcover, Wadsworth Pub Co
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Children in Amish Society; Socialization and Community Education: Socialization and Community Educationby Gertrude Enders Huntington, John Andrew HostetlerISBN 003077750X (0-03-077750-X)
Softcover, Holt Rinehart & Winston
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Colorful Cacti of the American Desertsby Edgar LambISBN 0025676709 (0-02-567670-9)
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The Conquest of America: The Question of the Otherby Tzvetan TodorovISBN 0060151803 (0-06-015180-3)
Hardcover, Harper & Row
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Daughters of the Earthby Carolyn NiethammerISBN 0020961502 (0-02-096150-2)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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Earth Medicine-Earth Foodsby Michael WeinerISBN 0020824904 (0-02-082490-4)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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The Great Gatsbyby F. Scott FitzgeraldISBN 0020198817 (0-02-019881-7)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Great Gatsby'Book summary:In 1922, F. Scott Fitzgerald announced his decision to write "something new--something extraordinary and beautiful and simple + intricately patterned." That extraordinary, beautiful, intricately patterned, and above all, simple novel became The Great Gatsby, arguably Fitzgerald's finest work and certainly the book for which he is best known. A portrait of the Jazz Age in all of its decadence and excess, Gatsby captured the spirit of the author's generation and earned itself a permanent place in American mythology. Self-made, self-invented millionaire Jay Gatsby embodies some of Fitzgerald's--and his country's--most abiding obsessions: money, ambition, greed, and the promise of new beginnings. "Gatsby believed in the green light, the orgiastic future that year by year recedes before us. It eluded us then, but that's no matter--tomorrow we will run faster, stretch out our arms farther.... And one fine morning--" Gatsby's rise to glory and eventual fall from grace becomes a kind of cautionary tale about the American Dream.
It's also a love story, of sorts, the narrative of Gatsby's quixotic passion for Daisy Buchanan. The pair meet five years before the novel begins, when Daisy is a legendary young Louisville beauty and Gatsby an impoverished officer. They fall in love, but while Gatsby serves overseas, Daisy marries the brutal, bullying, but extremely rich Tom Buchanan. After the war, Gatsby devotes himself blindly to the pursuit of wealth by whatever means--and to the pursuit of Daisy, which amounts to the same thing. "Her voice is full of money," Gatsby says admiringly, in one of the novel's more famous descriptions. His millions made, Gatsby buys a mansion across Long Island Sound from Daisy's patrician East Egg address, throws lavish parties, and waits for her to appear. When she does, events unfold with all the tragic inevitability of a Greek drama, with detached, cynical neighbor Nick Carraway acting as chorus throughout. Spare, elegantly plotted, and written in crystalline prose, The Great Gatsby is as perfectly satisfying as the best kind of poem. [via]
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The Harpercollins Reader's Encyclopedia of American Literatureby George B. Perkins, Barbara Perkins, Phillip LeiningerISBN 006019815X (0-06-019815-X)
Hardcover, Harpercollins
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Henderson, Louisiana: Cultural Adaptation in a Cajun Communityby Marjorie R. EsmanISBN 0030028485 (0-03-002848-5)
Softcover, Cengage Learning
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Hidden Cities : The Discovery and Loss of Ancient North American Civilizationsby Roger G. KennedyISBN 0029173078 (0-02-917307-8)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster
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The Hippie Ghetto: The Natural History of a Subcultureby William L. PartridgeISBN 0030910811 (0-03-091081-1)
Hardcover, Holt, Rinehart and Winston
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House of the Seven Gablesby Nathaniel HawthorneISBN 0020517602 (0-02-051760-2)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster
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› Find signed collectible books: 'House of the Seven Gables'Book summary:This is an EXACT reproduction of a book published before 1923. This IS NOT an OCRd book with strange characters, introduced typographical errors, and jumbled words. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book. [via]
The Huron, Farmers of the Northby Bruce G. TriggerISBN 0030316898 (0-03-031689-8)
Softcover, Cengage Learning
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The Hutterites in North Americaby John Andrew HostetlerISBN 0030453917 (0-03-045391-7)
Softcover, Cengage Learning
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Hutterites in North America'Book summary:This case study in cultural anthropology focuses on the day-to-day living patterns of the Hutterites, a German-dialect-speaking Christian sect whose members live communally in the Great Plains of the United States and Canada. The authors describe the Hutterite belief system and how it minimizes aggression and dissension, and protects the members against the outside world. Features: * Hutterites' core social and personal values - nonaggression, selflessness and humility - are a challenge to the central North American mainstream values of achivevement, exploitation and aggression. * Hutterite education of their young, a primary concern of all Hutterite colonies, is an example of how successful education maintains community. * The Hutterites have lived with prejudice since their beginnings four and one half centuries ago, and young Hutterite men who refused military service in North America were persecuted inhumanely as recently as World War I. * John Hostetler, of Old Order Amish parents and an internationally known expert on communal societies in the United States and Canada, was readily accepted by the closeknit Hutterite community, and Gertrude Huntington was accepted by the colony with which she and her family lived as they conformed to Hutterite norms. [via]
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Illiberal Education: The Politics of Race and Sex on Campusby Dinesh D'SouzaISBN 0029081009 (0-02-908100-9)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster
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Land Above the Trees: A Guide to American Alpine Tundraby Ann ZwingerISBN 0060148233 (0-06-014823-3)
Hardcover, Harpercollins
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Little House in the Big Woodsby Laura Ingalls Wilder, Garth WilliamsISBN 0060522364 (0-06-052236-4)
Softcover, HarperCollins Canada, Limited
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Little House in the Big Woods'Book summary:Although the Little House stories are traditionally seen as "girl" books, boys might be happily surprised if they take another peek at their sisters' shelves. Little House in the Big Woods--the first book of the series and Laura Ingalls Wilder's first children's book--is full of the thrills, chills, and spills typically associated with "boy" books. Any boy or girl who has fantasized about running off to live in the woods will find ample information in these pages to manage a Wisconsin snowstorm, a panther attack, or a wild sled ride with a pig as an uninvited guest. Every chapter divulges fascinatingly intricate, yet easy-to-read, details about pioneer life in the Midwest in the late 1800s, from bear-meat curing to maple-tree sapping to homemade bullet making.
Wilder's autobiographical tales ring with truth and excitement. Readers will receive a perfectly painless history lesson, and in fact will clamor for more. Beloved illustrator Garth Williams spent years researching young Laura's pioneering family. His soft-line illustrations bring to life the full, simple days and nights in the family's log cabin. No one can read just one Little House book! (Ages 9 to 12) --Emilie Coulter [via]
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Hardcover, Harpercollins - Little House in the Big Woods: ISBN 006029647X (0-06-029647-X)
Hardcover, HarperCollins Canada, Limited - Little House in the Big Woods: ISBN 0060296488 (0-06-029648-8)
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Little House on the Prairieby Laura Ingalls Wilder, Garth WilliamsISBN 0060000465 (0-06-000046-5)
Softcover, Harpercollins Childrens Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Little House on the Prairie'Book summary:Going West The promise of a new life on the Western frontier beckons Laura Ingalls and her family as they make the long journey across unsettled territory. The vast Kansas prairie is beautiful, but holds hidden dangers as well. The Osage Indians want the settlers to leave the land, and the wild wolves and hungry panthers threaten the Ingalls family. Faced with danger and uncertainty, Laura's family must decide if the pioneer life is right for them.
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Hardcover, Harpercollins - Little House on the Prairie: ISBN 0060277238 (0-06-027723-8)
Hardcover, HarperCollins Canada, Limited - Little House on the Prairie: ISBN 0060282444 (0-06-028244-4)
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Little Town on the Prairieby Laura Ingalls WilderISBN 0060264500 (0-06-026450-0)
Hardcover, Harpercollins Childrens Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Little Town on the Prairie'Book summary:The little settlement that weathered the long, hard winter of 1880-81 is now a growing town. Laura is growing up, and she goes to her first evening social. Mary is at last able to go to a college for the blind. Best of all, Almanzo Wilder asks permission to walk home from church with Laura. And Laura, now fifteen years old, receives her certificate to teach school.
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Mariette in Ecstasyby Ron HansenISBN 0060182148 (0-06-018214-8)
Hardcover, Harpercollins
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Mariette in Ecstasy'Book summary:A novel about convent life at the turn of the century? Hardly the makings of a page-turner, yet Ron Hansen's Mariette in Ecstasy is a gripping, even life-changing book. For the Sisters of the Crucifixion, each day is a ceaseless round of work, study, and prayer--one hardly separate from the other. Their daily life is itself an act of devotion, caught here in a series of illuminated tableaux: hundreds of yellow butterflies alighting on eight gray habits, moving through a field; a sister praying as she "turns over a great slab of dough that rolls as slowly as a white pig"; nuns warming their hands on the flanks of horses, swinging scythes through timothy grass, crushing grapes with their feet.
Into this idyll comes Mariette--young, pretty, devout, but, as her father says, perhaps "too high-strung" for the convent. Prone to "trances, hallucinations, unnatural piety, great extremes of temperament, and, as he put it, 'inner wrenchings,'" Mariette scalds her hands with hot water as penance, threads barbed wire underneath her breasts while she sleeps, and is convinced Jesus speaks to her. Her very glamour disturbs the gentle rhythm of the nuns' lives. But when she begins bleeding from unexplained wounds in her hands, feet, and sides, the convent is thrown into an uproar. Is Mariette a saint? Or just a lying, hysterical girl? Where do we draw the line between madness and faith, mysticism and eroticism, the life of the spirit and that of the world?
It's to Hansen's credit that he never provides easy answers. Mariette's stigmata may or may not be genuine; the novel's achingly gorgeous prose is the true miracle here. Mariette in Ecstasy is a brief, precious book, not a single word in excess, not a single word left out. --Mary Park [via]
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Mountain in the Clouds: A Search for the Wild Salmonby Bruce BrownISBN 0020130953 (0-02-013095-3)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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Never Cry Wolfby Farley MowatISBN 0030554586 (0-03-055458-6)
Hardcover, Holt Rinehart & Winston
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Never Cry Wolf'Book summary:More than a half-century ago the Canadian Wildlife Service assigned the naturalist Farley Mowat to investigate why wolves were killing arctic caribou. Mowat's account of the summer he lived in the frozen tundra alone-studying the wolf population and developing a deep affection for the wolves (who were of no threat to caribou or man) and for a friendly Inuit tribe known as the Ihalmiut ("People of the Deer")-is a work that has become cherished by generations of readers, an indelible record of the myths and magic of wild wolves. [via]
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Otto's Boyby Walter H. WagerISBN 0026225107 (0-02-622510-7)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Otto's Boy'Book summary:A gang of extortionists led by a crazed maniac manages to steal nerve gas from a military convoy, and after killing more than one hundred people, the gang demands three million dollars from a Nevada casino or they will use the gas again. Reprint. PW. LJ. [via]
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Sacred Architecture: Explore and Understand Sacred Spacesby Caroline Humphrey, Piers VitebskyISBN 0007662408 (0-00-766240-8)
Softcover, HarperCollins Publishers Limited
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Should America Pay: Slavery and the Raging Debate on Reparationsby Raymond WinbushISBN 0060083115 (0-06-008311-5)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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The Times Comprehensive Atlas Of The Worldby Uk HarpercollinsISBN 0007157207 (0-00-715720-7)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Times Comprehensive Atlas Of The World'Book summary:Featuring 250 pages of updated detailed mapping and a specially commissioned 72 page introductory section, this atlas presents a comprehensive picture of the world in the 21st century. Since it's first edition in 1967, the atlas has sold over 1 million copies. Its detailed and mapping represents a blend of tradition, authority and style. The 10th edition, published in 1999, was the first completely new edition of the atlas since its introduction. Now this fully revised 11th edition brings all the reference maps and detailed thematic information completely up to date. The preliminary section is introduced by state-of-the-art satellite images of the continents and continues with a series of maps, images, photographs and graphics which present a detailed picture of today's physical world and man's interaction with it. The section also includes an account of the evolution of world maps and of significant developments in cartography, and concludes with detailed geographical information on the world's physical features and the world's states and territories. The reference maps, produced in the distinctive and authoritative Times style, present the most accurate and up-to-date representation of our knowledge of the earth today. The areas shown, and the scale and map projection of each plate, have been specifically chosen to give the best representation of each geographical area. The maps now include a brand new map of the world's physical features. The gazetteer-index to over 200,000 place names and geographical features illustrates the unique scope of the atlas. It includes full cross-referencing with alternative and former names, geographical coordinates of every settlement shown on the maps, and a comprehensive glossary of geographical terms. The atlas includes: a 72-page introductory section; 250 pages of reference maps of continents, countries and oceans; and a 224 page gazetteer index to over 200,000 place names and geographical features. [via]
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A Tree Grows in Brooklynby Betty SmithISBN 0060001941 (0-06-000194-1)
Hardcover, Harpercollins
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Tree Grows in Brooklyn'Book summary:Francie Nolan, avid reader, penny-candy connoisseur, and adroit observer of human nature, has much to ponder in colorful, turn-of-the-century Brooklyn. She grows up with a sweet, tragic father, a severely realistic mother, and an aunt who gives her love too freely--to men, and to a brother who will always be the favored child. Francie learns early the meaning of hunger and the value of a penny. She is her father's child--romantic and hungry for beauty. But she is her mother's child, too--deeply practical and in constant need of truth. Like the Tree of Heaven that grows out of cement or through cellar gratings, resourceful Francie struggles against all odds to survive and thrive. Betty Smith's poignant, honest novel created a big stir when it was first published over 50 years ago. Her frank writing about life's squalor was alarming to some of the more genteel society, but the book's humor and pathos ensured its place in the realm of classics--and in the hearts of readers, young and old. (Ages 10 and older) --Emilie Coulter [via]
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Trees: A Quick Reference Guide to Trees of North Americaby Robert Mohlenbrock, John W. ThieretISBN 0020634307 (0-02-063430-7)
Softcover, Collier Books
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The Two Worlds of the Washo, an Indian Tribe of California and Nevadaby James F. DownsISBN 003056610X (0-03-056610-X)
Softcover, Holt Rinehart & Winston
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Two Worlds of the Washo, an Indian Tribe of California and Nevada'Book summary:This case study of the Washo Indians of western Nevada and the eastern Sierra slopes of California is one of those rare events in the vast professional literature on the American Indian where a picture of a single tribal culture as a whole is presented. Though Washo culture in its traditional form has virtually ceased to exist at all, its disappearance was gradual enough and its relatively full appearance recent enough so that Professor Downs has been able to put the memories of the older Washo together with known history and knowledge of the culture area to form a coherent and dynamic reconstruction of the traditional Washo way of life. But he never forgets history. There is a sense of time in the book, which is so often lacking in attempts to reconstruct traditional cultures. Even as the traditional patterns of subsistence techniques, of rituals and religion of kinship and social organization are described, the reader anticipates the dramatic changes in the Washo world to be wrought by the coming of the white man. Each stage of readjustment brought about by this event is analyzed. The Washo are not seen in isolation, but as part of the development of the region and its economy. They interact with and are interdependent with whites in the earlier stages of contact. But then the needs of the white man's economy change and there is no longer any place for most of the Washo. The Washo adapt to this circumstance, as they have adapted to previous conditions. In doing so they exhibit some continuities with the past and their traditional culture and at the same time adopt new patterns of behavior. This is not a happy world for the Washo. For some poverty and uselessness sap their vitality and destroy motivation, but the Washo identity is retained, and the Washo continue to cope with life as it is. [via]
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Walden, or Life in the Woods, and on the Duty of Civil Disobedienceby Henry David Thoreau, Charles R. AndersonISBN 002054720X (0-02-054720-X)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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Way of the Wasp: How It Made America, and How It Can Save It, So to Speakby Richard BrookhiserISBN 0029047218 (0-02-904721-8)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster
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Bonifacio VIII, I Caetani E La Storia Del Lazio: Atti Del Convegno Di Studi Storici Roma, Palazzo Caetani, 30 Novembre 2000, Latina, Palazzo M, 1 Dicembre 2000, Sermoneta, Castello Caetani, 2 Dicembre 2000by Fondazione Camillo Caetani, Richard Gilly NixonISBN 0000000000 (0-00-000000-0)
Hardcover, L'Erma Di Bretschneider
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