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Claiming Turtle Mountain's Constitution

by Keith Richotte Jr.

In an auditorium in Belcourt, North Dakota, on a chilly October day in 1932, Robert Bruce and his fellow tribal citizens held the political fate of the Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa Indians in their hands....

Technocrats and the Politics of Drought and Development in Twentieth-Century Brazil

by Eve E. Buckley

Eve E. Buckley's study of twentieth-century Brazil examines the nation's hard social realities through the history of science, focusing on the use of technology and engineering as vexed instruments of reform...

Telling the Map

by Christopher Rowe

There are ten stories here including one readers have waited ten long years for: in new novel-la The Border State Rowe revisits the world of his much-lauded story The Voluntary State. Competitive cyclists twins...

Freight Brokerage Business

by The Staff of Entrepreneur Media, Inc.

Start a Freight Brokerage Business Today

The experts at Entrepreneur provide a two-part guide to success. First, learn how you can start a successful freight brokerage business right from your home. Then, master...

In These Girls, Hope Is A Muscle

by Madeleine Blais

Originally published in 1995, Madeleine Blais’ In These Girls, Hope is a Muscle is a modern sports writing classic. Expanded and updated with a new epilogue, Blais’ book tells the story of a season in the...

Algonquin Quest 3-Book Bundle

by Rick Revelle

Painting a vivid picture of the original peoples of North America, long before European colonization changed the face of the continent, the Algonquin Quest novels show the traditions, the legends and the intrigue...

True Stories of Old Houston and Houstonians

by Samuel Oliver Young

The stories in this book, historical and personal sketches, owe their being largely to chance. The whole series was unintentionally begun and the letters letters have come from all parts of the state and from...

Seth's Brother's Wife

by Harold Frederic

A strong story of everyday life and one essentially American. Seth Fairchild's experience as a green country boy on a great city daily, of which he finally becomes the editor, is true to the life, and not without...

In the Valley

by Harold Frederic

Harold Frederic has added a most picturesque and interesting region to those celebrated in American fiction. The Mohawk valley of central New York is rich in tradition, in the memory of stirring events, brave...

Historical Sketches and Sidelights of Miami, Florida

by Isidor Cohen

The story of Miami, as related in these pages, is a record of the city's progress; the vicissitudes of its pioneers, their activities, faibles, contentions, ideals and aspirations. This narrative begins with...

History of Orange County, Ca.

by Samuel Armor

Orange County, Ca. of today has a population of more than 3 million people, making it more populated than twenty-one whole states. The county is famous for its tourist attractions and its beautiful shoreline....

The Art of War

by Sun Tzu & Lionel Giles

"The Art of War” is widely known as the masterpiece of the Chinese general and philosopher Sun Tzu. The book is a highly acclaimed tutorial for managing conflicts and winning battles, not only in the military...

Autobiography of an English soldier in the United States Army

by George Ballentine

A Narrative from the Mexican War. There is hardly a book that gives so intelligent and lively a description of the actualities of the war in Mexico, and hardly a work in the English language which presents so...

Reflections on the Liar

by Bradley Armour-Garb

In recent years there have been a number of books-both anthologies and monographs-that have focused on the Liar Paradox and, more generally, on the semantic paradoxes, either offering proposed treatments to...

Haunting Hands

by Kathleen M. Cumiskey & Larissa Hjorth

Haunting Hands looks closely at the consequences of digital media's ubiquitous presence in our lives, in particular the representing, sharing, and remembering of loss. From Facebook tribute pages during public...

African Americans in White Suburbia: Social Networks and Political Behavior

by Ernest McGowen

Despite decades of progress, African Americans living in largely white affluent suburbs still often find themselves caught between the two worlds of race and class. High economic status has afforded them considerable...

Natural Dyes for Textiles: Sources, Chemistry and Applications

by Padma Shree Vankar

Natural Dyes for Textiles: Sources, Chemistry and Applications is an in-depth guide to natural dyes, offering complete and practical coverage of the whole dyeing process from source selection to post-treatments....

Waiting for Walker

by Robin Reardon, Cody Kennedy & Joshua Earle

Micah Jaeger's life is a mess. His folks have split, and his mother is seeing a medium to communicate with Micah's older brother, killed in Afghanistan. He had to change schools for his junior year, which made...

Non-covalent Interactions in Quantum Chemistry and Physics: Theory and Applications

by Alberto Otero de la Roza & Gino A. DiLabio

Non-covalent Interactions in Quantum Chemistry and Physics: Theory and Applications provides an entry point for newcomers and a standard reference for researchers publishing in the area of non-covalent interactions....

Waiting for Walker

by Robin Reardon, Cody Kennedy & Joshua Earle

Micah Jaeger's life is a mess. His folks have split, and his mother is seeing a medium to communicate with Micah's older brother, killed in Afghanistan. He had to change schools for his junior year, which made...