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Showing 1 - 12 of 12 results for “robert bauman”
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  • The Courage to Change

    Personal Conversations about Alcoholism

    by Dennis Wholey, Thomas Tryon, Bob Welch, Robert Bauman, Sid Caesar, Florence Caesar, Billy Carter, Sybil Carter, Graham Chapman, Gary Crosby, Ryne Duren, Shecky Greene, Elmore Leonard, Wilbur Mills, Don Newcombe, Jason Robards, Lois Robards, Doc Severinsen, Grace Slick, Gerry Spence, Rod Steiger, Gale Storm, Lee Bonnell, Pete Townshend, Alcoholics Anonymous, Jerry Falwell, Daniel J. Anderson, Joan Pheney Deffer, Conway Hunter, Jean Kirkpatrick, Vaughan Quinn, G. Douglas Talbott ...
    The classic New York Times bestseller: Real-life stories from prominent people talking about their experiences as alcoholics.As an alcoholic himself, PBS host Dennis Wholey set out to collect the powerful stories of well-known people who have struggled with this disease. Included in this volume are personal accounts by Jason Robards, Grace Slick, Sid Caesar, Pete Townshend, Don Newcombe, Bob Welch ... Read more

    $14.39 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Nowhere to Remember

    Hanford, White Bluffs, and Richland to 1943

    by Laura Arata, David W. Harvey, Michael Mays ...
    Series Book 1 - Hanford Histories
    “There wasn’t that many people, but they were good people.”--Madeline Gilles“First time I ever tasted cherries or even seen a cherry tree was [in White Bluffs]. Or ever ate an apricot or seen an apricot…It was covered with orchards and alfalfa fields.”--Leatris Boehmer ReidEuro-American Priest River Valley settlers turned acres of sagebrush into fruit orchards. Although farm life required hard ... Read more

    $23.79 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Echoes of Exclusion and Resistance

    Voices from the Hanford Region

    by Laura J. Arata, Thomas E. Marceau, Michael Mays ...
    Series Book 3 - Hanford Histories
    Like the rest of the American West, the mid-Columbia region has always been diverse. Its history mirrors common multiracial narratives, but with important nuances. In the late 1880s, Chinese railroad workers were segregated to East Pasco, a practice that later extended to all non-whites and continued for decades. Kennewick residents became openly proud of their status as a “lily-white” town.In ... Read more

    $28.49 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Taking Charge of Your Automotive Repairs and Servicing

    Save Time and Money Without Doing It Yourself

    by Christopher M. Wickham, Robert Bauman ...
    Old Classic cars and Tools layed out with auto parts ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • Fighting to Preserve a Nation's Soul

    America's Ecumenical War on Poverty

    by Robert Bauman ...
    Fighting to Preserve a Nation’s Soul examines the relationship between religion, race, and the War on Poverty that President Lyndon Johnson initiated in 1964 and that continues into the present. It studies the efforts by churches, synagogues, and ecumenical religious organizations to join and fight the war on poverty as begun in 1964 by the Office of Economic Opportunity. The book also explores ... Read more

    $27.99 USD

  • Race and the War on Poverty

    From Watts to East L.A.

    by Robert Bauman ...
    Series series Race and Culture in the American West Series
    President Lyndon B. Johnson’s War on Poverty did more than offer aid to needy Americans; in some cities, it also sparked both racial conflict and cooperation. Race and the War on Poverty examines the African American and Mexican American community organizations in Los Angeles that emerged to implement War on Poverty programs. It explores how organizers applied democratic vision and political savvy ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

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  • Creating Minnesota

    A History from the Inside Out

    by Annette Atkins ...
    Winner of a Spur Award, presented by the Western Writers of America (WWA), for the Best Western Nonfiction Historical Book.Renowned historian Annette Atkins presents a fresh understanding of how a complex and modern Minnesota came into being in Creating Minnesota. Each chapter of this innovative state history focuses on a telling detail, a revealing incident, or a meaningful issue that illuminates ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Women of the Northern Plains

    Gender and Settlement on the Homestead Frontier

    by Barbara Handy-Marchello ...
    In Women of the Northern Plains, Barbara Handy-Marchello tells the stories of the unsung heroes of North Dakota's settlement era: the farm women. As the men struggled to raise and sell wheat, the women focused on barnyard labor—raising chickens and cows and selling eggs and butter—to feed and clothe their families and maintain their households through booms and busts. Handy-Marchello focuses on ... Read more

    $11.59 USD

  • We Were All Like Migrant Workers Here

    Work, Community, and Memory on California's Round Valley Reservation, 1850-1941

    by William J. Bauer Jr. ...
    The federally recognized Round Valley Indian Tribes are a small, confederated people whose members today come from twelve indigenous California tribes. In 1849, during the California gold rush, people from several of these tribes were relocated to a reservation farm in northern Mendocino County. Fusing Native American history and labor history, William Bauer Jr. chronicles the evolution of work, ... Read more

    $23.99 USD

  • Contested Boundaries

    A New Pacific Northwest History

    by David J. Jepsen, David J. Norberg ...
    Contested Boundaries: A New Pacific Northwest History is an engaging, contemporary look at the themes, events, and people that have shaped the history of the Pacific Northwest over the last two centuries.An engaging look at the themes, events, and people that shaped the Pacific Northwest – Washington, Oregon, and Idaho – from when only Native Peoples inhabited the land through the twentieth ... Read more

    $32.00 USD

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  • A History of the Ozarks, Volume 3

    The Ozarkers

    by Brooks Blevins ...
    Between the world wars, America embraced an image of the Ozarks as a remote land of hills and hollers. The popular imagination stereotyped Ozarkers as ridge runners, hillbillies, and pioneers—a cast of colorful throwbacks hostile to change. But the real Ozarks reflected a more complex reality.Brooks Blevins tells the cultural history of the Ozarks as a regional variation of an American story. As ... Read more

    $11.59 USD

  • Indians on the Move

    Native American Mobility and Urbanization in the Twentieth Century

    by Douglas K. Miller ...
    Series series Critical Indigeneities
    In 1972, the Bureau of Indian Affairs terminated its twenty-year-old Voluntary Relocation Program, which encouraged the mass migration of roughly 100,000 Native American people from rural to urban areas. At the time the program ended, many groups — from government leaders to Red Power activists — had already classified it as a failure, and scholars have subsequently positioned the program as ... Read more

    $21.89 USD