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The California Gold Rush explores how this pivotal era introduced new ideas about work and wealth, luck and greed, and success and failure, into the way Americans looked at their lives, their livelihoods, and most of all, themselves.

On April 12, 1861, Confederate forces fired on federal troops stationed at Fort Sumter near Charleston, South Carolina. With that, the Civil War had begun. For nearly four years, the conflict that divided the United States into North and South would engulf more than 3 million Americans and claim 620, 000 lives. The war marked a defining point in American history, and its effects are still felt today.

It feels like you could touch that cougar's nose. Is that a Miro painting in the background? I'll bet the fox picked the chicken wallpaper. Wow that is one bodacious bird!

This collection of essays examines the practical steps necessary to address the current security challenges of nuclear weapons and to move toward the Reykjavik goal of eliminating all nuclear weapons. The distinguished group of contributors includes former officials of the past six US administrations along with senior scholar and scientific experts on nuclear issues.

Explores the tale of a man accused of causing the fundamental schism in early Indian Buddhism, but not before he has sex with his mother and kills his father. This book investigates the psychological and anthropological understandings of the tale of mother-son incest in light of psychological and anthropological understandings of incest.

Jamestown and Plymouth serve as iconic images of British migration to the New World. A century later, however, when British migration was at its peak, the vast majority of men, women, and children crisscrossing the Atlantic on English ships were of African, not English, descent. Captives and Voyagers, a compelling study by Alexander X. Byrd, traces the departures, voyages, and landings of enslaved and free blacks who left their homelands for B...

In Modernizing Tradition, Adam C. Stanley explores how interwar French and German popular culture used commercial images to redefine femininity in a way that granted women some access to modern life without encouraging the assertion of female independence. Examining advertisements, articles, and cartoons, as well as department store publicity materials from the popular press of each nation, Stanley reveals how the media attempted to convince w...

New insights for understanding and combating Al Qaeda and other contemporary security threats

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For longer than five centuries, Native Americans have struggled to adapt to colonialism, missionization, and government control policies. This first comprehensive survey of prophetic movements in Native North America tells how religious leaders blended indigenous beliefs with Christianity's prophetic traditions to respond to those challenges.

Offers analysis of the works of the Galician-Spanish expatriate writer Sofia Casanova (1861-1958), a transnational poet, novelist, and journalist. This study addresses the scandalous disappearance of Casanova and her female contemporaries from accounts of the emergence of the modern Spanish nation.

Several canonical works of literary fiction have provided their readers with verbal maps that in their depictions of boundary spaces construct indirect images of national territory and geography. This book analyzes fictional texts as a discursive territoriality that shape readers' notions of (and ambivalence about) national and regional belonging.

A highly relevant and much-needed historical study . . . One of the best books on the period to have been written." --"The Economist"To the amazement of the public, pundits, and even the policymakers themselves, the ideological and political conflict that endangered the world for half a century came to an end in 1990. How did that happen? What had caused the cold war in the first place, and why did it last as long as it did? To answer these qu...

Examining Stein's notebooks, manuscripts and letters, this book asks questions and explores fresh ways of reading Stein. It also examines the process of the making and remaking of Stein's texts as they move from notepad to notebook to manuscript.

The dramatic first-person account of life inside an ultra-fundamentalist American religious sect, and one woman's courageous flight to freedom with her eight children.When she was eighteen years old, Carolyn Jessop was coerced into an arranged marriage with a total stranger: a man thirty-two years her senior. Merril Jessop already had three wives. But arranged plural marriages were an integral part of Carolyn's heritage: She was born into and ...

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Native manga: read right to left"--Colophon.

Kai's lover has been murdered! Searching for the culprit, he comes to a town under the control of two groups, the Salts and the Minors. Once there, to get closer to 'Iron Lahti', a man with the same ring as his lover, Kai becomes the man's bodyguard.

Veterinary specialist and animal lover Dr. Lee presents this compilation of practical, offbeat, and often hilarious questions about cats.