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Product Description: PolÃtica offers a stunning revisionist understanding of the early political incorporation of Mexican-origin peoples into the U.S. body politic in the nineteenth century. Historical sociologist Phillip B. Gonzales reexamines the fundamental issue in New Mexicoâs history, namely, the dramatic shift in national identities initiated by Nuevomexicanos when their province became ruled by the United States...read more
Hardcover:
9780803284654, titled "PolÃtica: Nuevomexicanos and American Political Incorporation 1821-1910" | Univ of Nebraska Pr, October 1, 2016, cover price $90.00 | About this edition: PolÃtica offers a stunning revisionist understanding of the early political incorporation of Mexican-origin peoples into the U.
Product Description: The official nonfiction companion to HISTORYâs dramatic series Texas Rising (created by the same team that made the ratings record-breaker Hatfields & McCoys): a thrilling new narrative history of the Texas Revolution and the rise of the legendary Texas Rangers who patrolled the violent western frontierMarch 1836: The Republic of Texas, just weeks old, is already near collapse...read more
Hardcover:
9780062394309 | William Morrow & Co, May 12, 2015, cover price $27.99
9780387966830, titled "Astrophysical Concepts" | 2nd edition (Springer Verlag, June 1, 1988), cover price $59.95 | also contains Astrophysical Concepts
Paperback:
9780062394316 | Reprint edition (William Morrow & Co, July 26, 2016), cover price $16.99 | About this edition: The official nonfiction companion to HISTORYâs dramatic series Texas Rising (created by the same team that made the ratings record-breaker Hatfields & McCoys): a thrilling new narrative history of the Texas Revolution and the rise of the legendary Texas Rangers who patrolled the violent western frontierMarch 1836: The Republic of Texas, just weeks old, is already near collapse.
CD/Spoken Word:
9781504611374 | Unabridged edition (Blackstone Audio Inc, May 19, 2015), cover price $44.99 | About this edition: In 1836 Texas was hell on earth-- a hot bed of conflict.
Product Description: This book tells the story of the thousands of âhealth seekersâ who journeyed to New Mexico from 1880 to 1940 seeking a cure for tuberculosis (TB), the leading killer in the United States at the time. By 1920 such health seekers represented an estimated 10 percent of New Mexicoâs population...read more
Hardcover:
9780890136126 | 1 edition (Museum of New Mexico Pr, March 15, 2016), cover price $34.95 | About this edition: This book tells the story of the thousands of âhealth seekersâ who journeyed to New Mexico from 1880 to 1940 seeking a cure for tuberculosis (TB), the leading killer in the United States at the time.
Product Description: In 1894, George Isaacs, the penniless black sheep of his family, was running with the worst of the outlaws in the Oklahoma Territory. There, a get-rich-quick scheme that seemed foolproof was hatched up. The plan was for George to present money packets falsely purporting to contain $25,000 in cash to the Wells Fargo office in Kansas City...read more
Hardcover:
9780896729179 | Texas Tech Univ Pr, April 1, 2015, cover price $34.95 | About this edition: In 1894, George Isaacs, the penniless black sheep of his family, was running with the worst of the outlaws in the Oklahoma Territory.
Product Description: Running more than 1,200 miles from headwaters in eastern New Mexico through the middle of Texas to the Gulf of Mexico, the Brazos River has frustrated developers for nearly two centuries. This environmental history of the Brazos traces the techniques that engineers and politicians have repeatedly used to try to manage its flow...read more
Hardcover:
9780826355874 | Univ of New Mexico Pr, May 1, 2015, cover price $40.00 | About this edition: Running more than 1,200 miles from headwaters in eastern New Mexico through the middle of Texas to the Gulf of Mexico, the Brazos River has frustrated developers for nearly two centuries.
Paperback:
9780395819425, titled "Insight Pocket Guides Beijing" | Book&map edition (Apa Productions, December 1, 1996), cover price $12.95 | also contains Insight Pocket Guides Beijing | About this edition: Insight Pocket Guides deliver personal service in a sleek, portable format.
Product Description: Celebrating the celebration of the Old West  In the 1880s, there wasn't much in Anson, Texas, in the way of entertainment for the areaâs cowhands. But Star Hotel operator M. G. Rhodes changed that when he hosted a Grand Ball the weekend before Christmas...read more
Hardcover:
9780896728912 | Texas Tech Univ Pr, November 15, 2014, cover price $26.95 | About this edition: Celebrating the celebration of the Old West  In the 1880s, there wasn't much in Anson, Texas, in the way of entertainment for the areaâs cowhands.
Paperback:
9780816528899 | Univ of Arizona Pr, September 11, 2014, cover price $40.00
Product Description: In the very last year of the seventeenth century a ten-year-old boy in the city of Lucerne, Switzerland, announced to his parents that he wanted to become a Jesuit missionary and save souls in faraway lands. Philipp Segesser got his wish when he was sent to northwestern Mexico in 1731...read more
Hardcover:
9780826354242 | Univ of New Mexico Pr, April 1, 2014, cover price $75.00 | About this edition: In the very last year of the seventeenth century a ten-year-old boy in the city of Lucerne, Switzerland, announced to his parents that he wanted to become a Jesuit missionary and save souls in faraway lands.
Product Description: The definitive, must-have account of the all-time players, coaches, locker rooms and boardrooms that made the Dallas Cowboys "America's Team." Since 1960, the Cowboys have never been just about football. From their ego-driven owner and high-profile players to their state-of-the-art stadium and iconic cheerleaders, the Cowboys have become a staple of both football and American culture since the beginning...read more
Hardcover:
9780316077552 | Little Brown & Co, October 9, 2012, cover price $29.99
Paperback:
9780316077545 | Reprint edition (Back Bay Books, September 3, 2013), cover price $20.00 | About this edition: The definitive, must-have account of the all-time players, coaches, locker rooms and boardrooms that made the Dallas Cowboys "America's Team.
Hardcover:
9780026271912 | Collier Books, September 1, 1989, cover price $18.95 | About this edition: Examines the largest case of corruption in the history of collegiate athletics, the thirty-year practice of illegal payoffs to football players at Southern Methodist University in Texas
Paperback:
9780803248854 | Univ of Nebraska Pr, September 1, 2013, cover price $19.95
Product Description: When Martha Summerhayes (1844â1926) came as a bride to Fort Russell in Wyoming Territory in 1874, she âsaw not much in those first few days besides bright buttons, blue uniforms, and shining swords,â but soon enough the hard facts of army life began to intrude...read more
Hardcover:
9780803241060 | Univ of Nebraska Pr, May 1, 1979, cover price $30.00 | About this edition: In 1874, when Martha Summerhayes came as a bride to Fort Russell in Wyoming Territory, she "saw not much in those first few days besides bright buttons, blue uniforms, and shining swords," but soon enough the hard facts of army life began to intrude.
Paperback:
9780803248687 | 2 edition (Bison Books, March 1, 2014), cover price $19.95 | About this edition: When Martha Summerhayes (1844â1926) came as a bride to Fort Russell in Wyoming Territory in 1874, she âsaw not much in those first few days besides bright buttons, blue uniforms, and shining swords,â but soon enough the hard facts of army life began to intrude.
9781492225171 | Createspace Independent Pub, August 22, 2013, cover price $8.95 | About this edition: "Vanished Arizona: Recollections of My Army Life" is the story of Martha Summerhayes, a Nantucket woman who married a cavalry officer and moved with him to various Army forts in the late 19th century.
9780803291058 | Bison Books, March 1, 1979, cover price $17.95 | About this edition: In 1874, when Martha Summerhayes came as a bride to Fort Russell in Wyoming Territory, she "saw not much in those first few days besides bright buttons, blue uniforms, and shining swords," but soon enough the hard facts of army life began to intrude.
Cassette/Spoken Word:
9780967188515 | Beverlys Ltd, May 1, 1999, cover price $18.00 | About this edition: In 1874 when Martha Dunham Summerhayes came as a bride from the coast of Nantucket to Fort Russell in Wyoming Territory, she learned the hard facts of army life at Forts Whipple, McDowell, Apache, Yuma, Lowell and a summer in Ehrenberg, all in Arizona.
Paperback:
9781933337494 | State House Pr, December 10, 2012, cover price $19.95
Hardcover:
9780387329437 | 4th edition (Springer Verlag, September 25, 2006), cover price $99.00
9780387949437 | 3rd edition (Springer Verlag, June 1, 1998), cover price $99.00
9780387966830 | 2nd edition (Springer Verlag, June 1, 1988), cover price $59.95 | also contains Texas Rising: The Epic True Story of the Lone Star Republic and the Rise of the Texas Rangers, 1836-1846
Paperback:
9781441921994 | 4th edition (Springer Verlag, September 25, 2006), cover price $99.00
Product Description: For sixty million years, the Gila River, longer than the Hudson and the Delaware combined, has shaped the ecology of the Southwest from its source in New Mexico to its confluence with the Colorado River in Arizona. Today, for at least half its length, the Gila is dead, like so many of the West's great rivers, owing to overgrazing, damming, and other practices...read more
Hardcover:
9780517591635 | Orion Books, May 1, 1994, cover price $24.00 | About this edition: Explores the demise of the once great watercourse owing to a variety of causes such as overgrazing, inappropriate agricultural practices, groundwater overdrafting, and damming
Paperback:
9780826352477 | Upd exp edition (Univ of New Mexico Pr, October 15, 2012), cover price $19.95 | About this edition: For sixty million years, the Gila River, longer than the Hudson and the Delaware combined, has shaped the ecology of the Southwest from its source in New Mexico to its confluence with the Colorado River in Arizona.
9780826318428 | Reprint edition (Univ of New Mexico Pr, April 1, 1998), cover price $15.95 | About this edition: For 60 million years, the Gila River, longer than the Hudson and the Delaware combined, has shaped the ecology of the Southwest from its source in New Mexico to its confluence with the Colorado River in Arizona.
Product Description: Insight Pocket Guides deliver personal service in a sleek, portable format. Fun, colourful, informative, Insight Pocket Guides give you the inside scoop on you destination, making it ideal for long weekend getaways or for the traveler with limited time to spare...read more
Paperback:
9780395819425 | Book&map edition (Apa Productions, December 1, 1996), cover price $12.95 | also contains Unruly Waters: A Social and Environmental History of the Brazos River | About this edition: Insight Pocket Guides deliver personal service in a sleek, portable format.
9780395699614 | Apa Productions, September 1, 1994, cover price $9.95 | also contains When the Moon Is Low
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