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A River No More: The Colorado River and the West
Philip L. FradkinEver increasing demands on the river to supply cities in the desert render this new edition all too timely. Philip Fradkin has updated this valuable book with a new preface.
Sagebrush Country: Land and the American West
Philip L. FradkinFradkin revisits the Uinta Mountains to write an epilog for this new edition. What he finds is both comforting and disturbing.
Stagecoach: Wells Fargo and the American West
Philip L. FradkinSweeping in scope, as revealing of an era as it is of a company, Stagecoach is the epic story of Wells Fargo and the American West, by award-winning writer Philip L. Fradkin.
Fallout: An American Nuclear Tragedy
Philip L. FradkinTests in Nevada in the 1950's & 60s spread fallout that effected millions of Americans for decades to come. Fradkin covers the story of one court trail and the US govenrment's coverup.
Magnitude 8
Philip L. FradkinMap. "This superb cautionary tale should be required reading for every Californian. (And smug New Yorkers will be shocked by Fradkin's surprising account of their own seismic vulnerability.)"Mike Davis, author of City of Quartz"
The Great Earthquake and Firestorms of 1906: How San ...
Philip L. Fradkin"In this well-researched book, Fradkin contends that it was the people of San Francisco, not the forces of nature, who were responsible for the extent of the destruction and death."--"Booklist."
Wallace Stegner and the American West
Philip L. Fradkin"Respectful of his subject but never worshipful, Fradkin has given us our first full critical portrait of the man and his protean career.."--Hampton Sides, author of Blood and Thunder: An Epic of the American West
Everett Ruess: His Short Life, Mysterious Death, and ...
Philip L. FradkinFollows the story of Everett Ruess, a naturalist and artist of the early twentieth century whose disappearance sparked a myth of a romantic desert wanderer.
The Seven States of California: A Natural and Human History
Philip L. FradkinA survey of the distinct ecological areas of California looks at the natural features that typify them, and links them to stories about the people found there, from Native Americans to Chinese laborers.
Wildest Alaska: Journeys of Great Peril in Lituya Bay
Philip L. FradkinA stirring travelogue takes readers into the heart of Alaska in search of the region's great natural beauty and diversity and explores how the forces of the natural world--earthquakes, landslides, giant waves, and climate--have shaped the ...
Everett Ruess: His Short Life, Mysterious Death, and ...
Philip L. FradkinW. L. Rusho, ed., Wilderness Journals of Everett Ruess (Salt Lake City: Gibbs Smith, 1998), 42, 58; Everett Ruess to Frances Schermerhorn, May 1934. The first two intimacies occurred in 1932, the last in 1934. 44. W. L. Rusho, ed., Everett ...
The Left Coast: California on the Edge
Philip L. FradkinJoe McKinzie, San Pedro Bay. San Francisco: Arcadia, 2005. Marquez, Ernest, and Veronique de Turenne. Port of Los Angeles: An Illustrated History from 1850 to 1945. Los Angeles: Port of Los Angeles, 2007. Mariners Guide. Los Angeles: ...
Philip A. Fisher Collected Works, Foreword by Ken Fisher: ...
Philip A. FisherCommon Stocks and Uncommon Profits, Paths to Wealth through Common Stocks, Conservative Investors Sleep Well, and Developing an Investment Philosophy Philip A. Fisher. Copyright © 1996, 2003 by Philip A. Fisher. All rights reserved.
A Political Companion to Philip Roth
PreviewAimee Pozorski, “On Philip Roth: Ethics and Elegy after the Holocaust,” Philip Roth, ed. Pozorski (Ipswich, MA: Salem, 2013), 6. 2. “Politics,” in Oxford English Dictionary (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014). 3. Ibid. 4. Philip Roth, I Married a ...
The Cody family in America, 1698: descendants of Philip and ...
Lydia Sarah Codydescendants of Philip and Martha, Massachusetts, biographical and genealogical Lydia Sarah Cody, International Cody Association. 293 Sylvester, b. ... 123 NANCY CODY 5 (John 4, Philip 3, Joseph 3, Philip 1), b. Oct. 6, 1786 at Dudley, ...
Critical Mass
Philip BallPhilip Ball ... l have been encouraged as ever by the good judgement of my agent Peter Robinson and the support of my wife Julia. Philip Ball London, October 2003 1.1 1.2 2.1 3.1 5.1 Picture credits Thomas Hobbes by Acknowledgements.
The Best Spiritual Writing 2012
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Try to Control Yourself: The Regulation of Public Drinking ...
Dan MalleckOn normalization, I draw on the work of Philip Corrigan, notably Philip Corrigan and Derek Sayer, The GreatArch: English State Formation as Cultural Revolution (London: Blackwell, 1985), but also Philip Corrigan, “Viewpoint: ...
Walking Dead Omnibus
PreviewBruce Cooper is just one man—a single cog in the Woodbury machine—but he secretly meant the world to Philip. Other than Gabe, Bruce was the closest thing to a friend Philip had in this world. Philip confided in Bruce, let him see the ...
The Exegesis of Philip K Dick
Philip K. DickBased on thousands of pages of typed and handwritten notes, journal entries, letters, and story sketches, The Exegesis of Philip K. Dick is the magnificent and imaginative final work of an author who dedicated his life to questioning the ...
Materijali za istorijata na Makedonija
More editionsWard, Philip, The Small Publisher: A Manual and Case Histories (sec Ward, Audrey Joan) Ward, Philip, Television Plays, The Oleander Press, 1976. 8ViXl I; I6pp; pa/$3.25 (ISBN 0-902675-45-1); Important new British TV drama. Ward, Philip ...
Literary life of Charles Philip Brown [by himself].
Charles Philip BrownCharles Philip Brown. Kanadi manuscripts stored up in the India House library, of which I framed a Catalogue, at the request of Professor Wilson. The Honourable Court of Directors in March 1837 bestowed upon me their thanks.
Crossroads in Literature and Culture
PreviewDick, Philip Kindred. 1995b. ''The short happy life or a science fiction writer.'' In: The shifting realities of Philip K. Dick. Selected literary and philosophical writings, ed. Lawrence Sutin, 44-53, London: Vintage Books. Dick, Philip Kindred. 1995c.
Narrative of the literary life of Charles Philip Brown, etc
Charles Philip BROWNCharles Philip BROWN. that the art will prosper. I hope that it's effects ... Let them only begin with £ endeavours and full determination ; and God will open e way for their progress and final success. As I £ : had to make my own tools : to write my ...
The Philosophy of Science Fiction: Henri Bergson and the ...
James Edward BurtonLawrence Sutin (Novato, CA: Underwood-Miller). Dick, Philip K. (1991b [1963]), The Game-Players of Titan (London: Grafton). Dick, Philip K. (1991c [1977]), A Scanner Darkly (New York: Vintage). Dick, Philip K. (1991d [1981]), VALIS (New ...
Studies in Numismatic Method: Presented to Philip Grierson
Philip GriersonThis volume of essays, offered by a circle of friends, colleagues and pupils working in Britain, Europe and North America, is intended to pay tribute to Philip Grierson's unique contribution to the study of numismatic method.
Delphi Complete Works of Sir Philip Sidney (Illustrated)
Sir Philip SidneySir Philip Sidney. In 1583 Sidney was knighted, and soon afterwards in the same year he married Frances, daughter of Sir Francis Walsingham. Sonnets written by him according to old fashion, and addressed to a lady in accordance with a ...
Philip Guston's Poor Richard
Debra Bricker BalkenIn 1971, as the race for the presidency heated up, the artist Philip Guston (1913-1980) created a series of caricatures of Richard Nixon titled Philip Guston's Poor Richard.
The Correspondence of Sir Philip Sidney
Philip SidneyA fascinating glimpse of Elizabethan life and politics is provided by the first full edition of Sir Philip Sidney's correspondence.
Financial Accounting and Equity Markets: Selected Essays of ...
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