Product Description: In the heart of North America, the Missouri, Ohio, and Mississippi rivers come together, uniting waters from west, north, and east on a journey to the south. This is the region that Stephen Aron calls the American Confluence. Aron’s innovative book examines the history of that region―a home to the Osage, a colony exploited by the French, a new frontier explored by Lewis and Clark―and focuses on the region’s transition from a place of overlapping borderlands to one of oppositional border states...read more

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Product Description: This collection presents, for the first time, the complete Mazurkas of Frederic Chopin arranged for solo classical guitar. The Mazurka is the only form the composer embraced throughout his lifetime. The distinctive and personal pieces are unimaginably varied and colorful, ranging from brief and vigorous dances to deep and complex extended works...read more

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A critical history of early Kentucky and the trans-Appalachian frontier focuses on the transition from the eighteenth-century, the era of Daniel Boone, to the nineteenth-century, when proponents of industrialization determined the future of the region. UP.