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  • The Country for Me

    Joel Palmer and the Shaping of Oregon

    by William L. Lang ...
    The Country for Me is the first full biography of Joel Palmer (1810–81), born in Canada to American parents, who played a central role in the political and economic shaping of Oregon. Having traveled on the Oregon Trail three times, he wrote a popular trail guidebook used by later emigrants. Palmer’s experience in public life and government service during his first five years in Oregon led to his ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • River of Blood

    American Slavery from the People Who Lived It: Interviews & Photographs of Formerly Enslaved African Americans

    Edited by Richard Cahan, Michael Williams ...
    In the late 1930s, the federal government embarked on an unusual project. As a part of the Works Progress Administration's efforts to give jobs to unemployed Americans, government workers tracked down 3,000 men and women who had been enslaved before and during the Civil War. The workers asked them probing questions about slave life. What did they think about their slaveholders? What songs did they ... Read more

    $8.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Oxford Book of Poetry

    Latin Verse, English Verse, Book of Ballads & Modern Poetry, With Oxford Lectures on Poetry

    by Walt Whitman, Robert Louis Stevenson, Edgar Allan Poe, William Shakespeare, George MacDonald, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Emily Brontë, William Wordsworth, George Meredith, Andrew Lang, Edmund Spenser, Julius Caesar, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Christopher Marlowe, Rudyard Kipling, Robert Burns, Thomas Love Peacock, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Gilbert Parker, Robert Browning, Oliver Goldsmith, John Milton, Virgil, William Blake, Ovid, Geoffrey Chaucer, Alexander Pope, John Keats, T. W. Rolleston, William Butler Yeats, Alfred Tennyson, Sir Walter Scott, Quintus Tullius Cicero, Claudius, Porcius Licinius, Gaius Maecenas, Numa Pompilius, Sir Thomas Wyatt, Sir Walter Raleigh ...
    The Oxford Book of Poetry masterfully curates a rich tapestry of poetic voices and styles, spanning centuries and cultures, to encapsulate the evolving landscape of verse. This anthology showcases the grandeur of classical epics, the intricacies of Romantic meditations, and the quintessential charm of Victorian sentimentality. Within its pages, readers will uncover stirring sonnets, haunting ... Read more

    $1.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Movement for Global Mental Health

    Critical Views from South and Southeast Asia

    Edited by William Sax, Claudia Lang ...
    Series series Health, Medicine, and Science in Asia
    In The Movement for Global Mental Health: Critical Views from South and Southeast Asia, prominent anthropologists, public health physicians, and psychiatrists respond sympathetically but critically to the Movement for Global Mental Health (MGMH). They question some of its fundamental assumptions: the idea that mental disorders can clearly be identified; that they are primarily of biological origin ... Read more

    $64.99 USD

  • Confederacy of Ambition

    William Winlock Miller and the Making of Washington Territory

    by William L. Lang ...
    The promise of opportunity drew twenty-seven-year-old Illinois schoolteacher William Winlock Miller west to the future Washington Territory in 1850. Like so many other Oregon Trail emigrants Miller arrived cash-poor and ambitious, but unlike most he fulfilled his grandest ambitions. By the time of his death in 1876, Miller had amassed one of the largest private fortunes in the territory and had ... Read more

    $26.99 USD

  • Long Day's Journey Into Night

    Critical Edition

    by Eugene O'Neill ...
    Toward the end of the nineteenth century, the British embarked on a concerted series of campaigns in South Africa. Within three years they waged five wars against African states with the intent of destroying their military might and political independence and unifying southern Africa under imperial control. This is the first work to tell the story of this cluster of conflicts as a single whole and ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • Black Urban History at the Crossroads

    Race and Place in the American City

    Edited by Leslie M. Harris, Clarence Lang, Rhonda Y. Williams, Joe William Trotter Jr. ...
    Drawing on significant recent scholarship on African American urban life over three centuries, Black Urban History at the Crossroads bridges disparate chronological, regional, topical, and thematic perspectives on the Black urban experience beginning with the Atlantic slave trade. Across ten cutting-edge chapters, leading scholars explore the many ways that urban Black people across the United ... Read more

    $53.99 USD

  • The Real Musashi III: A Miscellany

    by William de Lange ...
    Series series The Real Musashi: Origins of a Legend
    Miyamoto Musashi (c. 1584-1645) is the most revered and celebrated swordsman in Japanese history; unfortunately, our modern portrait of this folk hero is derived mainly from popular books, comics, and film, with little heed paid to the early records by men who knew Musashi, practiced with Musashi, and went into battle with Musashi.Spanning a period of more than a decade, the author set out to ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Long Day's Journey Into Night

    Multimedia Edition

    by Eugene O'Neill ...
    The American classic—as you’ve never experienced it before. This multimedia edition, edited by William Davies King, offers an interactive guide to O’Neill’s masterpiece.Hear rare archival recordings of Eugene O’Neill reading key scenes.Discover O’Neill’s creative process through the tiny pencil notes in his original manuscripts and outlines.Watch actors wrestle with the play in exclusive rehearsal ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • Histories of Tibet

    Essays in Honor of Leonard W. J. van der Kuijp

    Edited by Kurtis Schaeffer, William McGrath, Jue Lang ...
    Series series Studies in Indian and Tibetan Buddhism
    The thirty-four essays in this volume follow the particular interests of Leonard van der Kuijp, whose groundbreaking research in Tibetan intellectual and cultural history imbued his students with an abiding sense of curiosity and discovery.As part of Leonard van der Kuijp’s research in Tibetan history, as he patiently and expertly revealed treasures of the Tibetan intellectual tradition in ... Read more

    $40.99 USD

  • Lindhe's Clinical Periodontology and Implant Dentistry

    by Niklaus P. Lang, Tord Berglundh, William V. Giannobile, Mariano Sanz ...
    Discover the latest edition of the cornerstone reference on periodontology and implant dentistry that combines scholarship and science with practical clinical instructionThe Seventh Edition of Lindhe's Clinical Periodontology and Implant Dentistry brings together a distinguished team of periodontal specialists and academics who deliver another must-have resource for students, researchers, and ... Read more

    $236.00 USD

  • Cultural Diversity, Heritage and Human Rights

    Intersections in Theory and Practice

    Edited by Michele Langfield, William Logan, Mairead Nic Craith ...
    Series series Key Issues in Cultural Heritage
    This theoretically innovative anthology investigates the problematic linkages between conserving cultural heritage, maintaining cultural diversity, defining and establishing cultural citizenship, and enforcing human rights.It is the first publication to address the notions of cultural diversity, cultural heritage and human rights in one volume. Heritage provides the basis of humanity’s rich ... Read more

    $69.99 USD