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Publisher
The University of Utah Press
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
xi, 352 pages illustrations (chiefly color), maps ; 23 cm.
Language
English
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"With selections from nearly 50 writers spanning 160 years, this book is the best primer on the extraordinary redrock landscape of Capitol Reef. For 12,000 years, people have left a rich record of their experiences in Utah's Capitol Reef National Park. In The Capitol Reef Reader, award-winning author and photographer Stephen Trimble collects the best of this writing -- 160 years worth of words that capture the spirit of the park and its surrounding...
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Language
English
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In the wake of the Civil War, Captain Jefferson Kyle Kidd travels through northern Texas, giving live readings from newspapers to paying audiences hungry for news of the world. An elderly widower who has lived through three wars and fought in two of them, the captain enjoys his rootless, solitary existence. In Wichita Falls, he is offered a $50 gold piece to deliver a young orphan to her relatives in San Antonio. Four years earlier, a band of Kiowa...
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Publisher
Modern Library
Pub. Date
2000
Physical Desc
xxxiv, 222 p. : maps ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
Offers a brief history of the Islamic religion, beginning with the flight of Muhammad and his family from Medina in the seventh century and concluding with an assessment of contemporary Islam.
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Language
English
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It's been awhile since Doc Sportello has seen his ex-girlfriend. Suddenly out of nowhere she shows up with a story about a plot to kidnap a billionaire land developer whom she just happens to be in love with. Easy for her to say. It's the tail end of the psychedelic sixties in L.A., and Doc knows that 'love' is another of those words going around at the moment, like 'trip' or 'groovy,' except that this one usually leads to trouble. Despite which he...
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Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
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An intimate and revelatory dive into the world of the beaver—the wonderfully weird rodent that has surprisingly shaped American history and may save its ecological future.
From award-winning writer Leila Philip, BEAVERLAND is a masterful work of narrative science writing, a book that highlights, though history and contemporary storytelling, how this weird rodent plays an oversized role in American history and its future. She follows fur trappers...
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Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2009
Physical Desc
xii, 337 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Uranium is a common element in the earth's crust, and the only naturally occurring mineral with the power to end all life on the planet. After World War II, it reshaped the global order. Marie Curie gave us hope that uranium would be a miracle panacea, but the Manhattan Project gave us reason to believe that civilization would end with apocalypse. Slave labor camps in Africa and Eastern Europe were built around mine shafts, and America would knowingly...
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Publisher
Utah State University Press
Pub. Date
c2009
Physical Desc
x, 252 p. : ill. (some col.), col. map ; 28 cm.
Language
English
Description
West of the Four Corners and east of the Colorado River, in southeastern Utah, a unique one-hundred-mile-long, two-hundred-foot-high, serrated cliff cuts the sky. Whether viewed as barrier wall or sheltering sanctuary, Comb Ridge has helped define life and culture in this region for thousands of years. Today, the area it crosses is still relatively remote, though an important part of a scenic complex of popular tourist destinations that includes Natural...
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Language
English
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Eye-opening and compelling, the overlooked world of freight shipping, revealed as the foundation of our civilization. On ship-tracking websites, the waters are black with dots. Each dot is a ship; each ship is laden with boxes; each box is laden with goods. In postindustrial economies, we no longer produce but buy. We buy, so we must ship. Without shipping there would be no clothes, food, paper, or fuel. Without all those dots, the world would not...
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Publisher
W.W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
xx, 389 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
Paper is one of the simplest and most essential pieces of human technology. For the past two millennia, the ability to produce it in ever more efficient ways has supported the proliferation of literacy, media, religion, education, commerce, and art; it has formed the foundation of civilizations, promoting revolutions and restoring stability. One has only to look at history's greatest press run, which produced 6.5 billion copies of Quotations from...
13) March: a novel
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.5 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
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From Louisa May Alcottś beloved classic Little Women, Geraldine Brooks has animated the character of the absent father, March, and crafted a story "filled with the ache of love and marriage and with the power of war upon the mind and heart of one unforgettable man" (Sue Monk Kidd). With "pitch-perfect writing" (USA Today), Brooks follows March as he leaves behind his family to aid the Union cause in the Civil War. His experiences will utterly change...
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Publisher
Pegasus Books
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
xviii, 334 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), portraits ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
A smart and compelling examination of the science of immunity, the public policy implications of vaccine denial, and the real-world outcomes of failing to vaccinate. If you have a child in school, you may have heard stories of long-dormant diseases suddenly reappearing ― cases of measles, mumps, rubella, and whooping cough cropping up everywhere from elementary schools to Ivy League universities because a select group of parents refuse to vaccinate...
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Publisher
The University of Chicago Press
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
xvii, 243 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
When journalist Scott Tong moved to Shanghai, his assignment was to start up the first full-time China bureau for “Marketplace,” the daily business and economics program on public radio stations across the United States. But for Tong the move became much more — it offered the opportunity to reconnect with members of his extended family who had remained in China after his parents fled the communists six decades prior. By uncovering the stories...
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Publisher
Chelsea Green Publishing
Language
English
Description
In Eager, environmental journalist Ben Goldfarb reveals that our modern idea of what a healthy landscape looks like and how it functions is wrong, distorted by the fur trade that once trapped out millions of beavers from North America’s lakes and rivers. The consequences of losing beavers were profound: streams eroded, wetlands dried up, and species from salmon to swans lost vital habitat. Today, a growing coalition of “Beaver Believers” ―...
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Publisher
Southpaw Publications
Pub. Date
c2017
Physical Desc
192 p. : ill., maps ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
In 1854 and 1855 Brigham Young sent 53 men to scout and later build a fort and a farm near The Old Spanish Trail crossing of the Colorado River, the site where Moab, Utah is located today. At the time, the Mormons had been in Utah only seven years and the red rock deserts of southeast Utah were still, for all practical purposes, a blank spot on the territorial maps. It was an isolated and dangerous environment. There were mountains to climb, deep...
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Publisher
Tower Productions
Pub. Date
1998
Physical Desc
187 p. : ill., ports., maps ; 26 cm.
Language
English
Description
The ferry itself operated for 55 years as the only crossing point along 600 river miles of the Colorado with a "road" on each side. Explorers, emigrants, missionaries, promoters, miners, writers, politicians, even notorious outlaws all helped turn Lee's Ferry into a corridor and supply point for the men and women who shaped much of the American West. More than 140 rare photographs bring to life the fascinating history of this unique area. From the...
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Language
English
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"Tom Brokaw is known as one of the hardest-working, most successful people in broadcast journalism. His success is attributed to his work ethic, his instinct for identifying the significance of the news in the lives of ordinary people, and his reputation for always showing up for others. In this heartfelt family story, Tom shows the values and lessons he absorbed from his ancestors, parents, and others who settled in South Dakota and worked hard to...
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