453円 To readers of Dorothy Pillsbury's books, the residents of Tenorio Flat in Santa Fe are old friends. The forty sketches that make up this volume, first published in 1959, reintroduce the author's Spanish-American, Indian, and Anglo neighbors, describing their ingenuity in adapting to the modern wa...

619円 First published in 1934, this book tells the story of an American farm woman, her husband and family, and vividly describes farm life and farm psychology. "We Sagebrush Folks tells the experiences of a woman of education, refinement, and culture, who went with her husband to plow up wealth in the...

453円 First published in 1932 and revised in 1956 by Everett J. Edwards' daughter Jeannette Edwards Rattray with a new Foreword, this is a well-researched account on American shore-whaling, with special focus on the small-boat whaling carried on off the eastern end of Long Island from 1640 to 1918ーthe...

604円 First published in 1957, this is the story of how a young West Coaster forsakes civilization for the rugged satisfactions of homesteading in Alaska. Like many other World War II veterans, Gordon Stoddard headed up the Alcan Highway because he found civilian life too tame. He had heard of easy mon...

756円 A witty and fascinating account of nineteenth-century Anglo-American marriagesーfrom the daughter of a Baltimore merchant who married Napoleon's brother to the Baltimore lady who married Edward VIII… In America the young are always ready to give to those who are older than themselves the full ben...

756円 Deservedly one of the outstanding biographers of our time, Hesketh Pearson turns in this book to perhaps the most fascinating, perplexing and dramatic figure of the Victorian ageーa man who was equally famous as statesman, author and wit. Disraeli began political life with everything against him...

619円 Barbara Yambura was truly an Amana Dauther, descendant of a people in whose tradition and lineage she took pride. She delighted in sharing her rich Amana experiences and the vivid memories of her youth and young womanhood. In this personal account, she has been sensitive to the significance of th...

453円 First published in 1956, this is a history of California's official state gold rush ghost town, which was designated a National Historic Landmark in 1961, and in 1962 became Bodie State Historic Park. The account is written by Ella M. Cain, a native of Bodie, whose father-in-law James S. Cain and...

604円 In The Strange Death of Franklin D. Roosevelt, which was first published in this revised edition in 1959, American medical researcher Emanuel M. Josephson addresses his controversial conspiracy theory surrounding the basis of the power of the Roosevelt-Delano Dynasty.

604円 Together with John Howland Snow, Michigan Representative Paul W. Shafer authored this 1953 exposé on the education system of the United States, which was delivered in the House of Representatives on March 21, 1952. In The Turning of the Tides, the authors take the position that the education syst...

5,490円 The United States Marine Corps has a unique culture that ensures comradery, exacting standards, and readiness to be the first to every fight. Yet even in a group that is known for innovation, culture can push leaders to fall back on ingrained preferences. Jeannie L. Johnson takes a sympathetic bu...

756円 Scandalous, shocking, cheeky, impudent are words that will be used to describe this account of the hidden side of our glamorous, riotous capital city. For Lait and Mortimer, famous newspapermen, mince no words, pull no punches, tell their story in their own bold way. They have found out the truth...