Wallace Stegner and the American West
10 best books like Wallace Stegner and the American West (Philip L. Fradkin): Where the Bluebird Sings to the Lemonade Springs, Postcards from Ed: Dispatches and Salvos from an American Iconoclast, Liberating the Gospels: Reading the Bible with Jewish Eyes, Thuggin In Miami (The Family Is Made : Part 1), Walt Whitman: Words for America, Hemingway: A Biography, Call Me Burroughs: A Life, A River Running West: The Life of John Wesley Powell, Ethan Allen: His Life and Times, Negro President: Jefferson and the Slave Power
| Author | Wallace Stegner |
| ISBN | 0375759328 |
Nominated for a National Book Critics Circle award, Where the Bluebird Sings to the Lemonade Springs gathers together Wallace Stegner’s most important and memorable writings on the American West: its landscapes, diverse history, and shifting identity; its beauty, fragility, and power. With...
Postcards from Ed: Dispatches and Salvos from an American Iconoclast
| Author | Edward Abbey |
| ISBN | 1571312846 |
“But hell, I do like to write letters. Much easier than writing books.” And write letters Ed Abbey did. In his famous — or infamous — 45-year career, Abbey’s cards and letters became as legendary as his books for their wit, vitriol, and ability to speak truth to power. Published here for the...
Liberating the Gospels: Reading the Bible with Jewish Eyes
| Author | John Shelby Spong |
| ISBN | 0060675578 |
In this boldest book since Rescuing the Bible from Fundamentalism, Bishop John Shelby Spong offers a compelling view of the Gospels as thoroughly Jewish tests.Spong powerfully argues that many of the key Gospel accounts of events in the life of Jesus—from the stories of his birth to his physical...
| Author | R.A. Robinson |
| ISBN | 0985399538 |
After the death of his father, Rich Kid takes his destructive, malicious, and loyal team of hustlers, known amongst them-selves as The Family, to the next level of thuggin. Using his relationships within the drug distribution realm, Richard catapults his growing empire, taking down anyone who stands...
| Author | Barbara Kerley |
| ISBN | 0439357918 |
The pioneering team that brought you the Caldecott Honor-winning THE DINOSAURS OF WATERHOUSE HAWKINS focuses their remarkable skills and vision on Walt Whitman--poet, American, Civil War hero.
Did you know that poet Walt Whitman was also a Civil War nurse? Devastated by his country dividing...
| Author | Jeffrey Meyers |
| ISBN | 0306808900 |
Distinguished by its precision, its graceful use of language, and its resonant depth, the innovative style of Nobel Prize-winning author Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961) radically altered literary conventions and influenced generations of writers. In The Sun Also Rises, A Farewell to Arms, For Whom...
| Author | Barry Miles |
| ISBN | 1455511951 |
Fifty years ago, Norman Mailer asserted, "William Burroughs is the only American novelist living today who may conceivably be possessed by genius." Few since have taken such literary risks, developed such individual political or spiritual ideas, or spanned such a wide range of media. Burroughs...
| Author | Donald Worster |
| ISBN | 0195156358 |
If the word "hero" still belonged in the historian's lexicon, it would certainly be applied to John Wesley Powell. Intrepid explorer, careful scientist, talented writer, and dedicated conservationist, Powell led the expedition that put the Colorado River on American maps and revealed the Grand...
| Author | Willard Sterne Randall |
| ISBN | 0393076652 |
On May 10, 1775, in the storm-tossed hours after midnight, Ethan Allen, the Revolutionary firebrand, was poised for attack. With only two boatloads of his scraggly band of Vermont volunteers having made it across the wind-whipped waters of Lake Champlain, he was waiting for the rest of his Green Mountain...
| Author | Garry Wills |
| ISBN | 0786261196 |
In "Negro President," the best-selling historian Garry Wills explores a controversial and neglected aspect of Thomas Jefferson's presidency: it was achieved by virtue of slave "representation," and conducted to preserve that advantage.
Wills goes far beyond the recent revisionist...
| Author | Daniel Mendelsohn |
| ISBN | 0061456438 |
Whether he's on Broadway or at the movies, considering a new bestseller or revisiting a literary classic, Daniel Mendelsohn's judgments over the past fifteen years have provoked and dazzled with their deep erudition, disarming emotionality, and tart wit. Now How Beautiful It Is And How Easily It...
| Author | Kenneth S. Deffeyes |
| ISBN | 0691116253 |
Geophysicist M. King Hubbert predicted in 1956 that U.S. oil production would reach its highest level in the early 1970s. Though roundly criticized by oil experts and economists, Hubbert's prediction came true in 1970.
In this revised and updated edition reflecting the latest information...
Out of Gas: The End of the Age of Oil
| Author | David Goodstein |
| ISBN | 0393326470 |
Our rate of oil discovery has reached its peak and will never be exceeded; rather, it is certain to decline—perhaps rapidly—forever forward. Meanwhile, over the past century, we have developed lifestyles firmly rooted in the promise of an endless, cheap supply. In this book, David Goodstein,...
| Author | Alfred North Whitehead |
| ISBN | 0823216462 |
This classic text in American Philosophy by one of the foremost figures in American philosophy offers a concise analysis of the various factors in human nature which go toward forming a religion, to exhibit the inevitable transformation of religion with the transformation of knowledge and to direct...
Language of Post-Modern Architecture 6
| Author | Charles Jencks |
| ISBN | 0847813592 |
En el clasicismo moderno un edificio se suponía que obedecía a un código global, mientras que con la posmodernidad tenemos una multiplicidad de códigos. Esto puede suponer o bien una multiplicidad (ambigüedad) de significados –lo que Charles Jencks llamaba la «metáfora aludida» (¿la...
The Greeks & Greek Love: A Bold New Exploration of the Ancient World
| Author | James Davidson |
| ISBN | 0375505164 |
For nearly two thousand years, historians have treated the subject of homosexuality in ancient Greece with apology, embarrassment, or outright denial. Now classics scholar James Davidson offers a brilliant, unblushing exploration of the passion that permeated Greek civilization. Using homosexuality...
| Author | Doug Henwood |
| ISBN | 0860916707 |
With compelling clarity, Henwood dissects the world's greatest financial center, laying open the Intricacies of how, and for whom, the market works. The Wall Street which emerges is not a pretty sight. Hidden from public view, the markets are poorly regulated, badly managed, chronically myopic...
| Author | Bill Minutaglio |
| ISBN | 1586487175 |
She was a groomed for a gilded life in moneyed Houston, but Molly Ivins left the country club behind to become one of the most provocative, courageous, and influential journalists in American history. Presidents and senators called her for advice; her column ran in 400 newspapers; her books, starting...
