Looks at such devastating events as the San Francisco earthquakes of 1906 and 1989, the bubonic plague, forest fires, shipwrecks, air crashes, and more

Product Description: Winner of the Fifth Annual White Pine Press Poetry Prize. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Chartered on April 24, 1834, as a route from Brooklyn to Boston, the Long Island Rail Road commenced in 1836 with service between Brooklyn and Jamaica, New York. The railroad has linked Long Island and New York City through several periods of increasing immigration and population beginning in the 1880s...read more

'Breakthroughs in Technical Analysis explains the new trading methods used by the world's top technicians, encompassing in one volume the investing approaches of ten proven practitioners. More important, some of these techniques have never left their country's borders before and are not known or used in other parts of the world'--Provided by publisher.

Product Description: Keller’s poems captivate the reader with a musical style that asks us to “listen” while reading. The voice shares words with the reader encouraging emersion into the poem, with both style and content that connects us to what is real in the world around us.

Product Description: This book documents a portion of American cultural history not often chronicled. Focused on Seattle's black American Federation of Musicians' Local 493, it is an upbeat story of race, jazz, gender, and union culture, set in the format, spanning the years from the 1880's to the mid-1950's...read more

Product Description: The Long Island Rail Road is the oldest railroad in the country still operating under its original name. As the busiest railroad in North America, it carries 265,000 customers each weekday aboard 735 trains on 11 different branches...read more