Product Description: [Library Edition Audiobook CD in Vinyl case.][Read by Jeff Riggenbach] The tragedy of the Donner party constitutes one of the most amazing stories of the American West. In 1846 eighty-seven people -- men, women, and children -- set out for California and were persuaded to attempt a new overland route...read more

A violent storm sweeps through California, taking on a life of her own. Making her way from the Pacific Coast, she gains momentum as she approaches the Sierra and transforms into a blizzard of great strength, covering mountain ranges and roads with twenty feet of snow. Originally published in 1941, _Storm_ is a rare combination of fiction and science by a master storyteller, drawing upon a deep knowledge of geography, meteorology, and human nature. "In _Storm_ we are…far from freeways, from megapopulation, from sprawl, from beach TV, from stress, from road rage. And we are in touch with a much deeper reality. Of land and water and weather, of humans huddled together on the planet in a dark universe."—Ernest Callenbach, in the foreword

Product Description: The tragedy of the Donner party constitutes one of the most amazing stories of the American West. In 1846 eighty-seven people -- men, women, and children -- set out for California, persuaded to attempt a new overland route. After struggling across the desert, losing many oxen, and nearly dying of thirst, they reached the very summit of the Sierras, only to be trapped by blinding snow and bitter storms...read more

Seventeen-year-old Moses Schallenberger and fifty other people become the first pioneers to cross the Sierra Nevadas by wagon after surviving a year-long journey through treacherous mountains and wild rivers to reach their final destination. Reissue.

An instant classic upon its original publication in 1949 and winner of the first International Fantasy Award, Earth Abides ranks with On the Beach and Riddley Walker as one of our most provocative and finely wrought post-apocalyptic works of literature. Its impact is still fresh, its lessons timeless. When a plague of unprecedented virulence sweeps the globe, the human race is all but wiped out. In the aftermath, as the great machine of civilization slowly, inexorably, breaks down, only a few shattered survivors remain to struggle against the slide into barbarism . . . or extinction. This is the story of one such survivor, Isherwood “Ish” Williams, an intellectual loner who embraces the grim duty of bearing witness to what may be humanity’s final days. But then he finds Em, a wise and courageous woman who coaxes his stunned heart back to life and teaches him to hope again. Together, they will face unimaginable challenges as they sow the seeds of a new beginning. “One of the finest of all post-holocaust novels.” — The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction

Product Description: Canadian, American and Mexican scholars reassess the effects of intellectual property rights on international trade in the light of the GATT and NAFTA agreements. They consider trade and intellectual property policies and practices, between and within North America and Europe, US trade policy toward enforcing intellectual property rights, the dramatic changes in Mexican law, and other key issues regarding intellectual property and world trade...read more

Product Description: In 1846, the nation was turning 70. Herman Melville and Walt Whitman were 27, Lincoln was 37. The first telegraph lines were up and humming. California was still part of Mexico, but already faint parallel lines—wheel tracks left by emigrant wagon trains—marked the California Trail...read more

Product Description: This book covers a critical part of the Battle of Gettysburg.

Places all the more common American given names in their historical and linguistic context, discussing their etymology and usage, emergence in America, and degree of use today

Product Description: Spitcat, a raging forest fire in the Sierra Nevada of California, had a lifespan of merely eleven days, "yet its effects could be reckoned ahead in centuries." So writes George R. Stewart in this engrossing novel of a fire started by lightning in the dry heat of September, and fanned out of control by unexpected winds...read more

Product Description: This book covers a critical part of the Battle of Gettysburg.

Reference work provides the linguistic derivation and meaning of over 12,000 names of towns, rivers, and countries throughout the U.S