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The Frontier in American History
The classical study of the ever-expanding American frontier, its influences on the men who settled and governed it, and its indelible stamp on the American character.
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Walden
On July 4, 1845, Henry David Thoreau moved into the cabin he had built on the shore of Walden Pond, thus beginning the most famous experiment in simple living in …
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Nature and Selected Essays
An indispensible look at Emerson's influential life philosophy Through his writing and his own personal philosophy, Ralph Waldo Emerson unburdened his young country of Europe's traditional sense of history and …
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Silent Spring
The essential, cornerstone book of modern environmentalism is now offered in a handsome 40th anniversary edition which features a new Introduction by activist Terry Tempest Williams and a new Afterword …
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A Sand County Almanac
The environmental classic that redefined the way we think about the natural world—an urgent call for preservation that’s more timely than ever. “We can place this book on the shelf …
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Desert Solitaire
“Rough, tough, combative . . . a passionately felt, deeply poetic book.”—Edwin Way Teale, The New York Times Book Review “This is not primarily a book about the desert,” writes …
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Tigers and Ice
Edward Hoagland was legally blind for three years until surgery miraculously changed his life. In this, his first original book published in more than six years, Hoadland serves up a …
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Coming Into the Country
Literary account of Alaska and Alaskans.
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The Diversity of Life
This classic by the distinguished Harvard entomologist tells how life on earth evolved and became diverse, and now, how diversity and life are endangered by us, truly. While Wilson contributed …
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Pilgrim at Tinker Creek
An exhilarating meditation on nature and its seasons-a personal narrative highlighting one year's exploration on foot in the author's own neighborhood in Tinker Creek, Virginia. In the summer, Dillard stalks …
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Best of Dee Brown's West
A collection of articles tracing the history of the Western frontier from early settlements to the Battle of Wounded Knee.
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Bad Land
NATIONAL BESTSELLER • NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD WINNER • Startlingly observed, beautifully written, this book is a contemporary classic of the American West. • "As good a book as …
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Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee
Documented account of the systematic plunder of the American Indians during the second half of the nineteenth century.
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Undaunted Courage
From the New York Times bestselling author of Band of Brothers and D-Day, the definitive book on Lewis and Clark’s exploration of the Louisiana Purchase, the most momentous expedition in …
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Nothing Like It In the World
The story of the men who build the transcontinental railroad in the 1860's.
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Faster
From the bestselling, National Book Award-nominated author of Genius and Chaos, a bracing new work about the accelerating pace of change in today's world. Most of us suffer some degree …
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A Night to Remember
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Powershift
Alvin Toffler’s Future Shock and The Third Wave are among the most influential books of our time. Now, in Powershift, he brings to a climax the ideas set forth in …
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Life on the Screen
a thorough grounding in psychoanalytic theory and philosophy, the author of The Second Self revisits the dramatic changes in our psychological selves and the ways of learning and thinking wrought …
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The Right Stuff
The first Americans in space--Yeager, Conrad, Grissom, and Glenn--battle the Russians for control of the heavens and put their lives on the line to demonstrate a quality beyond courage, in …
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The Prize
Chronicles the history of the oil industry and the forces that have shaped the modern world.