Sitton: 13 books
Reckless Abandon
A Gospel Pioneer's Exploits Among the Most Difficult to Reach Peoples
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2013
Reckless is right when the cause is Christ. God catapulted 20-year-old David Sitton from the beaches of south Texas to the stone-aged tribes in Papua New Guinea. Sitton traded sand and surf for cannibals, giant mosquitoes, crocodile-infested swamps, malaria, and a hostile sorceress in order to advance...
Lady in the Dark
Iris Barry and the Art of Film
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2014
Iris Barry (1895–1969) was a pivotal modern figure and one of the first intellectuals to treat film as an art form, appreciating its far-reaching, transformative power. Although she had the bearing of an aristocrat, she was the self-educated daughter of a brass founder and a palm-reader from the...
Freedom Colonies
Independent Black Texans in the Time of Jim Crow
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
In the decades following the Civil War, nearly a quarter of African Americans achieved a remarkable victory—they got their own land. While other ex-slaves and many poor whites became trapped in the exploitative sharecropping system, these independence-seeking individuals settled on pockets of unclaimed...
Big Thicket People
Larry Jene Fisher's Photographs of the Last Southern Frontier
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2009
Living off the land—hunting, fishing, and farming, along with a range of specialized crafts that provided barter or cash income—was a way of life that persisted well into the twentieth century in the Big Thicket of southeast Texas. Before this way of life ended with World War II, professional...
Nameless Towns
Texas Sawmill Communities, 1880-1942
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
Sawmill communities were once the thriving centers of East Texas life. Many sprang up almost overnight in a pine forest clearing, and many disappeared just as quickly after the company "cut out" its last trees. But during their heyday, these company towns made Texas the nation's third-largest...
by Shasta Sitton
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2018
Fishing!?! There’s no way that fishing can be as much fun as video games. Can it???
At least, that’s what Wyatt and Grace are thinking as their grandparents get everything packed for their fishing trip. But Wyatt and Grace just might be in for a big surprise... Follow along as they go on...
Marx Today
Selected Works and Recent Debates
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2010
This book provides, in one volume, primary sources by Marx and critical commentary which relates Marxism to contemporary social and political topics. It includes six brief works by Marx and ten articles by scholars, sympathetic to, but critical of, Marxism. For example, the author includes the classic...
by Shasta Sitton
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2018
Follow along with Wyatt as he goes on his first whitetail hunt with his Grandpa. In this exciting journey, Wyatt's morals, hunting intelligence, and firearm skills are put to the test as he experiences firsthand what it takes to be a sportsman.
If you are a parent or grandparent who wants...
From Can See to Can’t
Texas Cotton Farmers on the Southern Prairies
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
Cotton farming was the only way of life that many Texans knew from the days of Austin's Colony up until World War II. For those who worked the land, it was a dawn-till-dark, "can see to can't," process that required not only a wide range of specialized skills but also a willingness to gamble on forces...
Gray Ghosts and Red Rangers
American Hilltop Fox Chasing
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2010
Around a campfire in the woods through long hours of night, men used to gather to listen to the music of hounds' voices as they chased an elusive and seemingly preternatural fox. To the highly trained ears of these backwoods hunters, the hounds told the story of the pursuit like operatic voices chanting...
Oral History
A Guide for Teachers (and Others)
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2011
More than a mode of gathering information about the past, oral history has become an international movement. Historians, folklorists, and other educational and religious groups now recognize the importance of preserving the recollections of people about the past. The recorded memories of famous and common...
Staging and Stagers in Modern Jewish Palestine
The Creation of Festive Lore in a New Culture, 1882-1948
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2015
This fascinating case study describes the work of the people responsible for creating festive lore and its system of ceremonies and festivities—an inseparable part of every culture. In the case of the new modern Hebrew culture of Eretz Israel (modern Jewish Palestine)—a society of immigrants that...
Fire up Your Startup and Keep It Up
Lessons from Twelve Business and Entrepreneur Experts
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2014
Many of us dream of starting our own business, but we only have an 18 percent chance of succeeding, according to the US Small Business Administration. Most successful entrepreneurs and business executives suffer a series of hard knocks before striking it rich, and by learning from their missteps,...