Jake Page: 8 books
Do Cats Hear with Their Feet?
Where Cats Come From, What We Know About Them, and What They Think About Us
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2009
Do Cats Hear with Their Feet? traces the evolution of cats from the time they first adapted their feline form about 20 million years ago. Exploring every aspect of a cat's life—from predation, to play, to communication—Jake Page shows us what a cat's daily life is really like. He gives us a cat's-eye...
by Jake Page
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2011
“Jake Page is one of the Southwest’s most distinguished writers.”—The Denver Post
A bizarre murder leaves two teenagers dead in a desert arroyo, their naked bodies side by side, face up under the New Mexican sun. Near them, etched in stone, is a symbol unlike any Native American marking....
The Invisible Sex
Uncovering the True Roles of Women in Prehistory
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2016
Shaped by cartoons and museum dioramas, our vision of Paleolithic times tends to feature fur-clad male hunters fearlessly attacking mammoths while timid women hover fearfully behind a boulder. Recent archaeological research has shown that this vision bears little relation to reality. J. M. Adovasio...
Makeup Man
From Rocky to Star Trek The Amazing Creations of Hollywood's Michael Westmore
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2017
Headline: A peak behind the Hollywood mask by one of its foremost makeup artists
In Hollywood’s heyday, almost every major studio had a Westmore heading up the makeup department. Since 1917, there has never been a time when Westmores weren’t shaping the visages of stardom. For their century-long...
by David Leeming;Jake Page
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 1999
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 1999
This marvelous collection brings together the great myths and legends of the United States--from the creation stories of the first inhabitants to the tall tales of the Western frontier to the legendary outlaws of the 1920s and beyond. This thoroughly engaging anthology is sweeping in its scope embracing...
A Fabulous Kingdom
The Exploration of the Arctic
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2012
Inconstant and forbidding, the arctic has lured misguided voyagers into the cold for centuries--pushing them beyond the limits of their knowledge, technology, and endurance. A Fabulous Kingdom charts these quests and the eventual race for the North Pole, chronicling the lives and adventures that would...
The Invisible Sex
Uncovering the True Roles of Women in Prehistory
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2009
Shaped by cartoons and museum dioramas, our vision of Paleolithic times tends to feature fur-clad male hunters fearlessly attacking mammoths while timid women hover fearfully behind a boulder. In fact, recent research has shown that this vision bears little relation to reality.
The field of...
The First Americans
In Pursuit of Archaeology's Greatest Mystery
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2009
J. M. Adovasio has spent the last thirty years at the center of one of our most fiery scientific debates: Who were the first humans in the Americas, and how and when did they get there?
At its heart, The First Americans is the story of the revolution in thinking that Adovasio and his fellow...