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How did we get here? In this sweeping, eloquent history of America, Kurt Andersen shows that what’s happening in our country today — this post-factual, “fake news” moment we’re all living through — is not something new, but rather the ultimate expression of our national character. America was founded by wishful dreamers, magical thinkers, and true believers, by hucksters and their suckers. Fantasy is deeply embedded in our DNA. Over the...
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Publisher
Compost Press
Pub. Date
1994
Physical Desc
61 p. : ill. ; 21 cm.
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English
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A history of the town of Moab and Canyon Country as seen through a Coyote's eyes. Do you want to know ... : where Moab's name really came from? ... why Moab wasn't founded by Mormon settlers like the rest of Utah? ... who made Moab an atomic boomtown? ... when Moab hosted a concentration camp? ... when Moab was almost submerged by a major dam? ... when Moab declared war on wilderness? ... who put Moab on the literary map?
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Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
2021.
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xiv, 304 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
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English
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This history of mankind's battles against infectious diseases looks at how epidemics shaped empires and economies and how medical revolutions freed us from these cycles until new threats arose caused by changes in global trade and climate.
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English
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Bill Bryson and his family live in a Victorian parsonage in a part of England where nothing of any great significance has happened since the Romans decamped. Yet one day, he began to consider how very little he knew about the ordinary things of life as he found it in that comfortable home. To remedy this, he formed the idea of journeying about his house from room to room to “write a history of the world without leaving home.” The bathroom provides...
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Publisher
Pantheon Books
Pub. Date
c2012
Physical Desc
352.
Language
English
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The earth has died many times, and it always comes back looking different. In an exhilarating, surprising exploration of our planet, Craig Childs takes readers on a firsthand journey through apocalypse, touching the truth behind the speculation. Apocalyptic Planet is a combination of science and adventure that reveals the ways in which our world is constantly moving toward its end and how we can change our place within the cycles and episodes that...
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Torrey House Press
Pub. Date
2022.
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English
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"Throughout personal essays spiked with humor and natural science, archaeologist R. E. Burrillo widens his range beyond his popular Behind the Bears Ears. After an upstate New York childhood and a bartending stint in New Orleans' French Quarter, seasonal resort work led R. E. Burrillo to the desert Southwest, whose redrock landscapes were a source of stability through mental and physical illness. In The Backwoods of Everywhere, archaeologist Burrillo...
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Pub. Date
2017.
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English
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A trailblazing biologist grapples with her role in the biggest scientific discovery of our era: a cheap, easy way of rewriting genetic code, with nearly limitless promise and peril. Not since the atomic bomb has a technology so alarmed its inventors that they warned the world about its use. Not, that is, until the spring of 2015, when biologist Jennifer Doudna called for a worldwide moratorium on the use of the new gene-editing tool CRISPR — a revolutionary...
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Hiraeth Press
Pub. Date
c2016
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215 p. ; 21 cm.
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English
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Torn between two "soulscapes" -- the canyon country and Alaska -- the author has roamed both for twenty-five years. En route he suffered snowstorms, boat-flips, heat, injury, bobcat tamales, upset raptors, charging grizzlies, the Park Service, heartbreak, hungry mosquitoes, and honeymooners from abroad. Above all, American Wild speaks of one man's desire to see natural wealth and our stories about it preserved.
12) Cheyenne autumn
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Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2006]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (156 min.) : sd., col., stereo. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
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Three-hundred starving Cheyenne men, women and children, forcibly resettled in the barren wastelands of Oklahoma, set out on a desperate 1500-mile trek back to their Yellowstone homeland. A true-life story.
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Publisher
Bonanza Books
Pub. Date
c1996
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374 p., [24] p. of plates : ill. ; 24 cm.
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English
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The Wild Bunch, the confederation of western outlaws headed by Butch Cassidy, found sanctuary on the rugged Outlaw Trail. Stretching across Montana, Idaho, Wyoming, Colorado, Utah, Nevada, Arizona, and New Mexico, this trail offered desert and mountain hideouts to bandits and cowboys. The almost inaccessible Hole-in-the-Wall in Wyoming was a station on the Outlaw Trail well known to Butch Cassidy. To the south, in Utah, was the inhospitable Robbers’...
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The University of Utah Press
Pub. Date
2013.
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pages cm
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English
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The canyon country of southern Utah and northern Arizona — a celebrated desert of rock and sand punctuated by gorges and mesas — is a region hotly contested among vying and disparate interests, from industrial developers to wilderness preservation advocates. Roads are central to the conflicts raging in an area perceived as one of the last large roadless places in the continental United States. The canyon country in fact contains an extensive network...
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English
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"In this exquisitely written book, Robert Macfarlane sets off from his Cambridge, England, home to follow the ancient tracks, holloways, drove roads, and sea paths that crisscross both the British landscape and its waters and territories beyond. The result is an immersive, enthralling exploration of the ghosts and voices that haunt old paths, of the stories our tracks keep and tell, and of pilgrimage and ritual. Told in Macfarlane's distinctive voice,...
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Publisher
University of Oklahoma Press
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
xii, 356 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
Language
English
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For more than a century, trading posts in the American Southwest tied the U.S. economy and culture to those of American Indian peoples — and in this capacity, Hubbell Trading Post, founded in 1878 in Ganado, Arizona, had no parallel. This book tells the story of the Hubbell family, its Navajo neighbors and clients, and what the changing relationship between them reveals about the history of Navajo trading. Drawing on extensive archival material...
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Publisher
Gibbs Smith
Pub. Date
c2007
Physical Desc
xvi, 137 p. : ill. ; 21 cm.
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English
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Fascinating history and compelling storytelling make Wolfkiller, the memoir of a Navajo shepherd man who lived in the Monument Valley region of the Southwest, a page-turning epic. In these stories compiled by Harvey Leake, Wolfkiller shares the ancient wisdom of the Navajo elders that was passed to him while a boy growing up near the Utah/Arizona border. Wolfkiller's story was recorded and translated by pioneer trader Louisa Wade Wetherill, an unlikely...
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Pub. Date
2018
Language
English
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Michael Scott Moore, a journalist and the author of Sweetness and Blood, incorporates personal narrative and rigorous investigative journalism in this profound and revelatory memoir of his three-year captivity by Somali pirates—a riveting,thoughtful, and emotionally resonant exploration of foreign policy, religious extremism, and the costs of survival.
In January 2012, having covered a Somali pirate trial in Hamburg for Spiegel Online
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