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by Allan Kimball
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2016
This Big Bend primer lays out a slew of recommended daily itineraries, including the best sights, the best hikes and then the best places to hit after a day on the trail or the river. The guide provides tips on what to see and how to do it best, with thorough lists Kimball has collected over the decades...
The Closed Hand
Images of the Japanese in Modern Peruvian Literature
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2012
In her book, The Closed Hand: Images of the Japanese in Modern Peruvian Literature, Rebecca Riger Tsurumi captures the remarkable story behind the changing human landscape in Peru at the end of the nineteenth century when Japanese immigrants established what would become the second largest Japanese...
José Carlos Mariátegui’s Unfinished Revolution
Politics, Poetics, and Change in 1920s Peru
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2013
Comprising six full-length chapters, a comprehensive Introduction and Conclusion, this monograph is extensive in scale and scope. It provides fresh readings of key writings of Mariátegui, one of Latin America’s most important and revolutionary political, cultural and aesthetic theorists, through...
Machu Picchu, Peru Travel Guide - Sightseeing, Hotel, Restaurant & Shopping Highlights (Illustrated)
Machu Picchu, Peru Travel Guide - Sightseeing, Hotel, Restaurant & Shopping Highlights (Illustrated)
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2015
One of the great wonders of the world, the ancient Incan city of Machu Picchu in Peru has a legacy extending back many generations. This UNESCO World Heritage site offers breathtaking views of the ethereal ruins. The ancient "City of the Incas" was constructed in the 15th century in the...
The Falklands 1982
Ground operations in the South Atlantic
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2012
On 3 April 1982 British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher announced that Argentine armed forces had landed on British sovereign territory; had captured the men of Royal Marine detachment NP8901; had run up the Argentine flag; and had declared the islands and their population to be Argentine. An immediate...
Americans All
Good Neighbor Cultural Diplomacy in World War II
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2012
Cultural diplomacy—"winning hearts and minds" through positive portrayals of the American way of life—is a key element in U.S. foreign policy, although it often takes a backseat to displays of military might. Americans All provides an in-depth, fine-grained study of a particularly successful instance...
by George Fetherling
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2014
Most western critics of the junta that has ruled Burma since 1962—violently suppressing the democracy movement and crushing human rights while dominating the international opium trade—have hesitated to visit the country lest the cost of their trip help to prop up the regime. George Fetherling...
by John Monyjok Maluth
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2013
The Scarification Guide, is not a result of a serious research even though the author tried his best, to interview different people from different states of South Sudan. Read it, and experience the pain caused by this graduation act. The author of this book, received the marks on his forehead in November, 1997 when he was about 14.
Georgetown's North Island
A History
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2015
North Island has always been the beacon from the sea leading toward Georgetown, South Carolina. It was an island of exploration for the Spanish in 1526 and the first landing place of Lafayette, France's hero of the American Revolution, in 1777. It was a summer resort for aristocratic rice planters...
Five-Star Trails: Chattanooga
Your Guide to the Area's Most Beautiful Hikes
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2013
Five-Star Trails: Chattanooga is a handy guide for area residents, vacationers seeking outdoor fun, and for business travelers with a free afternoon. With a diverse collection of hiking routes, the book offers choices for everyone from solo trekkers to companions to families with either youngsters...
Best Tent Camping: The Carolinas
Your Car-Camping Guide to Scenic Beauty, the Sounds of Nature, and an Escape from Civilization
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2019
Perfect Camping for You in North Carolina and South Carolina!
The Carolinas provide spectacular backdrops for some of the most scenic campgrounds in the country. But do you know which campgrounds offer the most privacy? Which are the best for first-time campers? Johnny Molloy has traversed...
New Lights in the Valley
The Emergence of UAB
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2007
A scholarly narrative of UAB from its nascent beginnings through the mid 1990s.
While the economy and culture of the post—World War II South changed from an era of material capital (e.g., cotton and iron ore) to a period of social capital (intellectual development and networked approaches...
Discovering North of Chile by Car
Illustrated Tales of a Journey among Andes’ Volcanoes and the Pacific Coast
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2013
“Discovering North of Chile by Car,” is a travel story with more than 50 photos of a remote and fascinating region of Chile. You’ll journey through beautiful landscapes, from Antofagasta up to the border with Bolivia and Peru, from the volcanoes of the Andes, the arid Atacama Desert, to the raging...
The Other Zulus
The Spread of Zulu Ethnicity in Colonial South Africa
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2012
In 1879, the British colony of Natal invaded the neighboring Zulu kingdom. Large numbers of Natal Africans fought with the British against the Zulus, enabling the British to claim victory and, ultimately, to annex the Zulu kingdom. Less than thirty years later, in 1906, many of those same Natal Africans,...