Roger: 3830 books
Tombstone, Deadwood, and Dodge City
Re-creating the Frontier West
Language: English
Release Date: August 23, 2018
“Shootin’—Lynchin’—Hangin’,” announces the advertisement for Tombstone’s Helldorado Days festival. Dodge City’s Boot Hill Cemetery sports an “authentic hangman’s tree.” Not to be outdone, Deadwood’s Days of ’76 celebration promises “miners, cowboys, Indians, cavalry,...
Indians in the United States and Canada
A Comparative History, Second Edition
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2018
Drawing on a vast array of primary and secondary sources, Roger L. Nichols traces the changing relationships between Native peoples and whites in the United States and Canada from colonial times to the present. Dividing this history into five stages, beginning with Native supremacy over European...
The Foundations of British Maritime Ascendancy
Resources, Logistics and the State, 1755–1815
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2010
British power and global expansion between 1755 and 1815 have mainly been attributed to the fiscal-military state and the achievements of the Royal navy at sea. Roger Morriss here sheds new light on the broader range of developments in the infrastructure of the state needed to extend British power...
The Author's Hand and the Printer's Mind
Transformations of the Written Word in Early Modern Europe
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2013
In Early Modern Europe the first readers of a book were not those who bought it. They were the scribes who copied the author’s or translator’s manuscript, the censors who licensed it, the publisher who decided to put this title in his catalogue, the copy editor who prepared the text for the press,...
The Languages of Literature
Some Linguistic Contributions to Criticism
Language: English
Release Date: August 19, 2016
In The Language of Literature, first published in 1971, Roger Fowler argues that the vitality and centrality of the verbal dimension of literature, and, read as a whole, the papers in this collection imply a consistent point of view on language in literature. The author focuses on the continuity of...
Understanding Trauma
How to overcome post-traumatic stress
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2010
What is post-traumatic stress disorder? What does it feel like? And how can it be overcome? Trauma is a term that many of us find alienating and clinical. But in fact trauma is something most people encounter at some point in life, and post-traumatic stress - far from being a mental disorder - is...
by Roger Henri Trepanier
Language: English
Release Date: July 13, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: July 13, 2016
About the bookThe author looks at war in human history from God’s perspective, as made known in His word. After looking at the root causes of war in time and looking at war through the ages of time, while also providing some plausible explanations on why God has allowed war in the past, even sanctioned...
by Roger A. Brumback, Richard W. Leech
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
The United States Congress designated the 1990's as the "Decade of the Brain" in recognition of the importance of neuroscience to the health and well-being of Americans. It has been suggested that as many as 20% of all patients seeking medical treatment have neurologic problems, either as...
by Roger Pocock
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2013
Finally available, a high quality book of the original classic edition of Curly - A Tale of the Arizona Desert. It was previously published by other bona fide publishers, and is now, after many years, back in print.
This is a new and freshly published edition of this culturally important work...
Everyday Life
A Poetics of Vernacular Practices
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2011
A folklorist and ethnographer who has written about the Southern Appalachians, African American communities in the United States, and the West Indies, Roger D. Abrahams goes up against the triviality barrier. Here he takes on the systematics of his own culture. He traces forms of mundane experience...
Struggle for Democracy
Parliamentary Reform, from the Rotten Boroughs to Today
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2015
Britain's voting arrangements prior to the 1832 Reform Act are almost unbelievable to us now. Only 12 percent of men (and no women) had the vote, a single person controlled a rotten borough that returned two Members of Parliament (one of whom was the Prime Minister), and voting was in public, with...
American Haiku
This Is Roger Madon and This Is What I Think.
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2012
This book is a transliteration of a audio presentations which were prepared for radio and were heard by millions of listeners througout the country.
by T. Roger Smith
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2015
THE history, the features, and the most famous examples of European architecture, during a period extending from the rise of the Gothic, or pointed, style in the twelfth century to the general depression which overtook the Renaissance style at the close of the eighteenth, form the subject of this...
Islands
From Atlantis to Zanzibar
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2013
When Lost’s Oceanic Airlines Flight 815 crashed, the survivors found themselves on a seemingly deserted island. In Defoe’s novel, Robinson Crusoe spends twenty-eight years on a remote tropical island near Trinidad, while in the movie Castaway Tom Hanks survives over four years on a South Pacific...