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  • Hellacious California!

    Tales of Rascality, Revelry, Dissipation, and Depravity, and the Birth of the Golden State

    de Gary Noy ...
    "Teems with bittersweet compounds of 19th-century nefariousness, including . . . gambling, knife fights, the demon drink, con artistry, and prostitution." — Los Angeles Review of BooksIn 1855 an ex-miner lamented that nineteenth-century California "can and does furnish the best bad things," including "purer liquors . . . finer tobacco, truer guns and pistols, larger dirks and bowie knives, and ... Leer más

    $12.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • Gold Rush Stories

    49 Tales of Seekers, Scoundrels, Loss, and Luck

    de Gary Noy ...
    From the author of Hellacious California!, deeply human stories of the California Gold Rush generation, full of brutality, tragedy, humor, and prosperity.In less than ten years, more than 300,000 people made the journey to California, some from as far away as Chile and China. Many of them were dreamers seeking a better life, like Mifflin Wistar Gibbs, who eventually became the first African ... Leer más

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  • Sierra Stories

    Tales of Dreamers, Schemers, Bigots, and Rogues

    de Gary Noy ...
    The author of Gold Rush Stories shares tales of the larger-than-life characters from the history of the legendary Sierra Nevada mountain range.With its 14,000-foot granite mountains, crystalline lakes, conifer forests, and hidden valleys, the Sierra Nevada has long been the domain of dreams, attracting the heroic and the delusional, the best of humanity and the worst. Stories abound, and ... Leer más

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  • Social Work in Mental Health Settings

    International Perspectives on Practice

    de Fan Wu, Miao Jian, Shuting Yuan, Jim Campbell, Bodil Irene Høyer, Christos Panagiotpoulos, Jeanette Copperman, Anna Sklair, Laura Tucker, Hannah Jobling, Martin Webber, Ippokratis Efstathiou, Bill Penson, Darren Hill, Patricia Carlisle, Danielle McIlroy, Lorna Montgomery, Paul Best, Gloria Kirwan, Calvin Swords, Tali-Noy Hindi, Ayelet Gur, Cristina Tilli, Barbara Rosina, Maria Patrizia Favali, Alan Maddock, Jean Pierre Wilken, Simona Karbouniaris, Svetlana Kolpakova, Vicky Soutar, Damien Taylor, Lyndon Joel Gumbs, Yu-Ching Liu, Stefan Sjöström, Maria Lúcia T. Garcia, Rita C. Cavalcante Lima, Eduardo Mourão Vasconcelos, Fabiola Xavier Leal, Gary Spolander, Dagny Adriaenssen Johannessen, Joakim Finne ...
    Series series Research in Social Work
    Social Work in Mental Health Settings brings together leading academics and practitioners to explore how mental health social work is shaped and practised around the world. In so doing, it responds to a striking lack of comparative literature in the field and offers readers a timely, global perspective on this important area of practice.Combining macro-level analyses with in-depth country case ... Leer más

    $40.99 USD

  • Gem of the Sierra

    Schemes and Splendor in Nineteenth-Century Lake Tahoe

    Edición de Gary Noy ...
    This anthology features selections from fiction, nonfiction, and government documents of the nineteenth century that chronicle the splendor, the exploitation, and the controversies surrounding this extraordinary and much-loved alpine lake on the California-Nevada border. ... Leer más

    $21.99 USD

  • Nature’s Mountain Mansion

    Wonder, Wrangles, Bloodshed, and Bellyaching from Nineteenth-Century Yosemite

    Edición de Gary Noy ...
    Nature’s Mountain Mansion is the first anthology on Yosemite that focuses exclusively on the nineteenth century, the critical period in which Yosemite was “discovered” by an expanding nation and transformed into one of the country’s most visited national parks. While there are volumes that provide readings about Yosemite in the nineteenth century, few provide critical—sometimes even disparaging ... Leer más

    $21.99 USD

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  • The Pyramids

    The Mystery, Culture, and Science of Egypt's Great Monuments

    de Miroslav Verner ...
    Traducido por Steven Rendall ...
    A "richly illustrated . . . engaging, lucid account" of Ancient Egyptian Pyramids, what we know about them now, what we don't, and what is still debated today ( Kirkus Reviews).Hailed by Science News as "the new seminal text," The Pyramids is a comprehensive record of Egypt's most awe-inspiring monuments and what Egyptologists now know about them today—from their construction and purpose to the ... Leer más

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  • Science and the Modern World

    de Alfred North Whitehead ...
    Alfred North Whitehead (18681-1947) was an English mathematician and philosopher. He is best known as the defining figure of the philosophical school known as process philosophy, which has been applied to a variety of disciplines, including ecology, theology, education, physics, biology, economics, and psychology. He was educated at Cambridge University in England and later became a professor of ... Leer más

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  • The Trials of Thomas Morton

    An Anglican Lawyer, His Puritan Foes, and the Battle for a New England

    de Peter C. Mancall ...
    This "magisterial history" presents a new perspective on Thomas Morton, his colonial philosophy, and his lengthy feud with the Puritans ( Wall Street Journal).Adding new depth to our understanding of early New England society, this riveting account of Thomas Morton explores the tensions that arose from competing colonial visions. A lawyer and fur trader, Thomas Morton dreamed of a society where ... Leer más

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  • More Than the Sum of His Parts

    Collected Stories

    de Joe Haldeman ...
    The ultimate collection of classic science fiction stories and poems from the Hugo and Nebula Award–winning author of the Forever War Series.An omnibus edition of his collections None So Blind and Dealing in Futures, this volume features the best of Joe Haldeman's short speculative fiction, including such gems as the Hugo and Nebula Award–winning "The Hemingway Hoax," in which a forged Hemingway ... Leer más

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  • How to Survive in Ancient Egypt

    de Charlotte Booth ...
    What would it be like if you were transported back to Thebes, 1360 BCE? This time-traveler's guide is a fascinating way to find out . . .Imagine you were transported back in time to Ancient Egypt and you had to start a new life there. What would you see? How would the people around you think and believe? How would you fit in? Where would you live? What would you eat? Where would you go to have ... Leer más

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  • The Craft

    How the Freemasons Made the Modern World

    de John Dickie ...
    Discover the “convincingly researched and thoroughly entertaining” (The Wall Street Journal) history of the world’s oldest and most influential fraternityFounded in London in 1717 as a way of binding men in fellowship, Freemasonry proved so addictive that within two decades it had spread across the globe. Under George Washington, the Craft became a creed for the new American nation. Under Napoleon ... Leer más

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