Robert Mcpherson: 13 books
River Flowing From The Sunrise
An Environmental History of the Lower San Juan
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2000
The authors recount twelve millennia of history along the lower San Juan River, much of it the story of mostly unsuccessful human attempts to make a living from the river's arid and fickle environment. From the Anasazi to government dam builders, from Navajo to Mormon herders and farmers, from scientific...
Information Security Analytics
Finding Security Insights, Patterns, and Anomalies in Big Data
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2014
Information Security Analytics gives you insights into the practice of analytics and, more importantly, how you can utilize analytic techniques to identify trends and outliers that may not be possible to identify using traditional security analysis techniques.
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Viewing the Ancestors
Perceptions of the Anaasází, Mokwic, and Hisatsinom
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2014
The Anaasází people left behind marvelous structures, the ruins of which are preserved at Mesa Verde, Chaco Canyon, and Canyon de Chelly. But what do we know about these people, and how do they relate to Native nations living in the Southwest today? Archaeologists have long studied the American...
Under the Eagle
Samuel Holiday, Navajo Code Talker
Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 2013
Samuel Holiday was one of a small group of Navajo men enlisted by the Marine Corps during World War II to use their native language to transmit secret communications on the battlefield. Based on extensive interviews with Robert S. McPherson, Under the Eagle is Holiday’s vivid account of his own...
Both Sides of the Bullpen
Navajo Trade and Posts
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2017
Between 1880 and 1940, Navajo and Ute families and westward-trending Anglos met in the “bullpens” of southwestern trading posts to barter for material goods. As the products of the livestock economy of Navajo culture were exchanged for the merchandise of an industrialized nation, a wealth of cultural...
Life in a Corner
Cultural Episodes in Southeastern Utah, 1880–1950
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2015
Community building in the Four Corners area of southeastern Utah required specialized knowledge and a good bit of determination on the part of settlers who wrested a livelihood from the Colorado Plateau. Robert S. McPherson, the region’s leading historian, draws on oral history and personal archives...
Dinéjí Na`nitin
Navajo Traditional Teachings and History
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2012
Traditional teachings derived from stories and practices passed through generations lie at the core of a well-balanced Navajo life. These teachings are based on a very different perspective of the physical and spiritual world than that found in general American culture. Dinéjí Na`nitin is an introduction...
Mapping the Four Corners
Narrating the Hayden Survey of 1875
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2016
In 1875, a team of cartographers, geologists, and scientists under the direction of Ferdinand V. Hayden entered the Four Corners area for what they thought would be a calm summer’s work completing a previous survey. Their accomplishments would go down in history as one of the great American surveying...
by Sidonie Smith, David Palumbo-Liu, Françoise Lionnet
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2014
This issue of Profession contains Sidonie Smith's introduction to her Presidential Forum (held at the 2011 MLA convention) and the essays of forum participants Hillary Chute, Marianne Hirsch, Leigh Gilmore, Craig Howes, Françoise Lionnet, Nancy K. Miller, David Palumbo-Liu, Brian Rotman, Leo Spitzer,...
Music in Our Lives
Rethinking Musical Ability, Development and Identity
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2012
Why do some children take up music, while others dont? Why do some excel, whilst others give up? Why do some children favour classical music, whilst others prefer rock? These are questions that have puzzled music educators, psychologists, and musicologists for many years. Yet, they are incredibly...
Foreign Policy at the Periphery
The Shifting Margins of US International Relations since World War II
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2016
As American interests assumed global proportions after 1945, policy makers were faced with the challenge of prioritizing various regions and determining the extent to which the United States was prepared to defend and support them. Superpowers and developing nations soon became inextricably linked...
Navajo Tradition, Mormon Life
The Autobiography and Teachings of Jim Dandy
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2012
Born in the early 1940s in northern Arizona’s high country desert, Jim Dandy began life imbued with the traditions of the Navajo people. Raised by his father and grandfather—both medicine men—and a grandmother steeped in Navajo practices, he embraced their teachings and followed in their footsteps....
by Robert S. McPherson
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2017
The canyon country of southeastern Utah is a land of dramatic contrast, with high mountains, tortuous canyons, towering monuments, hot deserts, and freezing alpine temperatures. Raising and herding cattle in this environment is more than challenging. At times, it is death-defying. Fin Bayles, a fourth-generation...