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Howard Blum

When the Night Comes Falling

"Timed for a trial that will capture national attention, [this book] examines the mysterious murders of ... four University of Idaho students. Having covered this case from its start, Edgar Award-winning …

John M Glionna

No Friday Night Lights

John M. Glionna tells the story of eight-man football at McDermitt High School on the Fort McDermitt Indian Reservation located on the Nevada-Oregon border.

Robert S McPherson

Power, Prayers, and Protection

The San Juan River Navajos-residing in the vicinity of Aneth, Montezuma Creek, Bluff, and Tódahidíkáanii-have a fascinating history shaped, in part, by the water they lived near and the land they depen…

Keja L Valens

Culinary Colonialism, Caribbean Cookbooks, and Recipes for National Independence

Culinary Colonialism is the first book-length analysis of Caribbean cookbooks, tracing the multitude of ways they represent national identity, creolization, and working-class women’s food culture. Includi…

José Martí

José Martí Reader

This anthology of the writing of José Martí’s features bilingual poetry, political essays, writings on Latin American culture, and his letters. José Martí organized and unified the movement for Cuban ind…

East and West in the Early Middle Ages

Bringing together the scholarship of historians, archaeologists, art historians, and manuscript researchers, this volume analyses written accounts, archaeological findings and artefacts to provide new per…

Julie Brugger

Public Land and Democracy in America

Julie Brugger explores what democracy means to ordinary Americans by analyzing conflict over public lands and the management of Grand Staircase-Escalante Monument in southern Utah.

Bryce Andrews

Holding Fire

"Bryce Andrews was raised to do no harm. The son of a pacifist and conscientious objector, he moved from Seattle to Montana to tend livestock and the land as a cowboy. For a decade, he was happy. Yet, whe…

Amanda Bellows

The Explorers

A fascinating new history of America, told through the stories of a diverse cast of ten extraordinary—and often overlooked—adventurers, from Sacagawea to Matthew Henson to Sally Ride, who pushed the bound…

R S a Garcia

The Nightward

"Sturgeon, Nebula, and Ignyte Awards finalist R.S.A. Garcia's fantasy debut novel--the first in a duology--in which Caribbean mythology meets The Witcher, introduces a world where women warrior-magicians …

Bernhard Bitzel

Das Ding mit Noten

Howard Blum

When the Night Comes Falling

Instant New York Times Bestseller “Compelling. . . . Blum capably maintains the suspense and thoughtfully probes into the motives of key players in this intriguing yet profoundly unsettling story.”—Kirkus…

William L Fox

Playa Works

In eight brilliant essays, Fox explores many of the major playas of the American West, examining locations as diverse as Nellis Air Force Base and Frenchman Flat, where the federal government has tested e…

Michael A Messner

The High School

Taking over a century’s worth of yearbooks from his alma mater, Salinas High School, as a historical archive, acclaimed sociologist Michael A. Messner discovers a not-so-distant time when all the cheerlea…

Douglas Brinkley

Silent Spring Revolution

"A work of stunning erudition by one of our most brilliant chroniclers of the American past. By meticulously detailing how courageous activists sparked an environmental revolution that fueled the legislat…

William S Sax

In the Valley of the Kauravas

In Western Himalaya, local gods are seen to rule as kings, communicating with their subjects through their human oracles. They remain central in modern society, and In the Valley of the Kauravas explores …

Maarten Prak, Jan Luiten van Zanden,

Pioneers of Capitalism

How medieval Dutch society laid the foundations for modern capitalism The Netherlands was one of the pioneers of capitalism in the Middle Ages, giving rise to the spectacular Dutch Golden Age while usher…

Richard Grant

A Race to the Bottom of Crazy

"When Richard Grant and his wife moved with their four-year-old daughter back to Tucson, Arizona, where the couple first met, he expected to easily rekindle his love of the region. Instead, he found a hou…

Mark T Johnson

The Middle Kingdom Under the Big Sky

The Middle Kingdom under the Big Sky seeks to deepen understanding of the history of Chinese immigrants in Montana by recovering their stories in their own words.