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  • Bedside Manners

    Best Practices for Effective Healthcare Chaplains

    Healthcare in the United States has evolved over the last twenty years, including more holistic models of patient care. Chaplains have been an important profession in the evolution of healthcare delivery. But few people know or understand the years of preparation required to become a professional board-certified chaplain. In his book, Bedside Manners: Best Practices for Effective Healthcare ... Read more

    $14.39 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Voices in the Wilderness

    Why Black Preaching Still Matters

    FINALLY, a scholarly description of the development of Black preaching in the United States that is accessible to the average reader, but also contributes to the academic conversation about both style and theological content. Written from the perspective of a seasoned practitioner and tenured practical theologian, Thomas surveys Black preaching as it has responded to various social and historical ... Read more

    $18.79 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • A Country in the Mind

    Wallace Stegner, Bernard DeVoto, History, and the American Land

    In this beautifully written account, John Thomas details an intimate portrait of the intellectual friendship between two commanding figures of western letters and the early environmental movement--Wallace Stegner and Bernard DeVoto.. The authors of enormously popular works--Stegner most well known for his novels The Big Rock Candy**Mountain and the Pulitzer Prize-winning Angle of Repose and DeVoto ... Read more

    $34.99 USD

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  • Making the White Man's West

    Whiteness and the Creation of the American West

    The West, especially the Intermountain states, ranks among the whitest places in America, but this fact obscures the more complicated history of racial diversity in the region. In Making the White Man’s West, author Jason E. Pierce argues that since the time of the Louisiana Purchase, the American West has been a racially contested space. Using a nuanced theory of historical “whiteness,” he ... Read more

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  • Wilderness and the American Mind

    Fifth Edition

    Roderick Nash’s classic study of changing attitudes toward wilderness during American history, as well as the origins of the environmental and conservation movements, has received wide acclaim since its initial publication in 1967. The Los Angeles Times listed it among the one hundred most influential books published in the last quarter century, Outside Magazine included it in a survey of books ... Read more

    $16.39 USD

  • Beyond the Hundredth Meridian

    John Wesley Powell and the Second Opening of the West

    From the “dean of Western writers” (The New York Times) and the Pulitzer Prize winning–author of Angle of Repose and Crossing to Safety, a fascinating look at the old American West and the man who prophetically warned against the dangers of settling itIn Beyond the Hundredth Meridian, Wallace Stegner recounts the sucesses and frustrations of John Wesley Powell, the distinguished ethnologist and ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Earning the Rockies

    How Geography Shapes America's Role in the World

    An incisive portrait of the American landscape that shows how geography continues to determine America’s role in the worldBook Club Pick for Now Read This, from PBS NewsHour and The New York Times • “There is more insight here into the Age of Trump than in bushels of political-horse-race journalism.”—The New York Times Book Review (Editors’ Choice)At a time when there is little consensus about who ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • Skull Wars

    Kennewick Man, Archaeology, And The Battle For Native American Identity

    The 1996 discovery, near Kennewick, Washington, of a 9,000-year-old Caucasoid skeleton brought more to the surface than bones. The explosive controversy and resulting lawsuit also raised a far more fundamental question: Who owns history? Many Indians see archeologists as desecrators of tribal rites and traditions; archeologists see their livelihoods and science threatened by the 1990 Federal ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • North American Indians: A Very Short Introduction

    When Europeans first arrived in North America, between five and eight million indigenous people were already living there. But how did they come to be here? What were their agricultural, spiritual, and hunting practices? How did their societies evolve and what challenges do they face today? Eminent historians Theda Perdue and Michael Green begin by describing how nomadic bands of hunter ... Read more

    $8.95 USD

  • The Legacy of Conquest

    The Unbroken Past of the American West

    "Limerick is one of the most engaging historians writing today." --Richard WhiteThe "settling" of the American West has been perceived throughout the world as a series of quaint, violent, and romantic adventures. But in fact, Patricia Nelson Limerick argues, the West has a history grounded primarily in economic reality; in hardheaded questions of profit, loss, competition, and consolidation. Here ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Dust Bowl

    The Southern Plains in the 1930s

    In the mid 1930s, North America's Great Plains faced one of the worst man-made environmental disasters in world history. Donald Worster's classic chronicle of the devastating years between 1929 and 1939 tells the story of the Dust Bowl in ecological as well as human terms. Now, twenty-five years after his book helped to define the new field of environmental history, Worster shares his more recent ... Read more

    $17.09 USD

  • The Pacific Northwest

    An Interpretive History (Revised and Enlarged Edition)

    Carlos Arnaldo Schwantes has revised and expanded the entire work, which is still the most comprehensive and balanced history of the region. This edition contains significant additional material on early mining in the Pacific Northwest, sea routes to Oregon in the early discovery and contact period, the environment of the region, the impact of the Klondike gold rush, and politics since 1945. ... Read more

    $21.59 USD