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Caring for America's Greatest Natural and Historic Treasures
''A clarion call to action, a message that our park system is a living legacy, entrusted to the care of the National Park Service. . . . Read this book, and then bring, if you haven't already, the national parks into your life.'' -- Stewart L. Udall, former U.S. Secretary of the Interior This is the first comprehensive look at America's national ......
''An excellent representation of the interdisciplinary thrust of peace studies.'' -- Paul Joseph, Tufts UniversityViolence is a topic of concern everywhere--in the media, in churches, in the halls of governments. In every land and in every culture violence is considered by most to be taboo, a last resort. Yet under certain conditions, from the ......
Alaska's Commercial Fishing Women Tell Their Lives
Why do women choose an occupation that has been ranked the most dangerous in the nation? What do women give up--and get in return--when they take on the tasks of fishermen? The Entangling Net explores these issues through the stories of twenty women who have chosen to work in this extremely risky, male-dominated profession.Leslie Leyland Fields ......
As an institutional, political, and cultural oral history of the struggle to unionize the River Rouge Plant near Detroit during the 1930s and 40s, this book affords us a rare insight into the difficulties of organizing a union in the face of the then anti-union Ford Motor Company. Against a backdrop of the depression and entrenched racism, history ......
''For Lincoln specialists, The Historian's Lincoln deepens and sharpens familiar arguments. For nonspecialists, it is the most efficient and enjoyable way to 'get right' with Lincoln.'' -- Robert E. McGlone, Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography ''Provides an excursion to the frontiers of Lincoln scholarship, and insight into the passions ......
Violence in Town and Country since the Middle Ages
Along with most of the rest of Western culture, has crime itself become more ''civilized''? This book exposes as myths the beliefs that society has become more violent than it has been in the past and that violence is more likely to occur in cities than in rural areas. The product of years of study by scholars from North America and Europe, The ......
One of the most gifted athletes in the world, Babe Didrikson Zaharias dominated track and field, winning two Olympic gold medals in 1932. She went on to compete in baseball, bowling, basketball, tennis, and particularly in golf. The American public was smitten with her wit, frankness, and ''unladylike'' bravado. She became an American legend. The ......
Lowe has written what may well be the Hurston book for the years to come.'' -- Werner Sollors, Harvard University''Lowe's study . . . smartly begins with the assumption that one reason for the stunning popularity of Hurston's work is the verve with which it addresses serious subjects in a comic style.'' -- Cheryl A. Wall, editor of Changing Our ......
With the assistance of several scholars, including James M. McPherson and Gary Gallagher, and a long-time specialist in Civil War books, Ralph Newman, David Eicher has selected for inclusion in The Civil War in Books the 1,100 most important books on the war. These are organized into categories as wide-ranging as ''Battles and Campaigns,'' ......
