Before Alaska became a mining bonanza, it was a scenic bonanza, a place larger in the American imagination than in its actual borders. Prior to the great Klondike Gold Rush of 1897, thousands of scenic adventurers journeyed along the Inside Passage, the nearly thousand-mile sea-lane that snakes up the Pacific coast from Puget Sound to Icy Strait. Both the famous—including wilderness advocate John Muir, landscape painter Albert Bierstadt, and photographers Eadweard Muybridge and Edward Curt...

From 1836...These first-person accounts of a trapper's life in the Rockies were letters written by Robert Campbell to his brother. They were first published as a serial in the National Atlas and Tuesday Morning Mail (Philadelphia), Nov 1 - Dec 6, 1836 giving eastern Americans a view onto the wild mountains of the West..The five letters present an authentic look at the wild frontier of that time period of the early 1800's, and tell much of the bloody...

Two novellas, “I Am a Freight Train” and “The Fields Are Ripe for Harvest,” compose “The Byrds of Victory” -- the stories of Preacher Byrd, who fights in the South Pacific during World War II and returns to his small Texas Panhandle hometown to work as a blacksmith-welder and to join black and Mexican-American leaders and start a farm workers’ union, which results in a great deal of intrigue and ends with a shoot-out; and Preacher’s son Benny, haunted by the tragedy of a drag racing accide...

The Education controversy has been a saddening one. So little has there been of mutual understanding, so much of deep-seated, if not determined, suspicion and bitterness. Now there is a pause for a time; a pause of an uneasy and anxious character.There are, after all, important questions at stake. There is a most serious question of religious liberty. There is even a question of fundamental theological truth. And the pause in itself seems to constitute something more than an opport...

THE TELECOMMUNICATIONS SECTOR constitutes a vital infrastructure for a modern society. It is part of the working mechanism of a decentralized, flexible, and dynamic market economy. It also serves as the foundation for a pluralistic political system with a government accountable to the public. The crucial role of communications is increased by synergistic interaction between globalization of economic processes and the continuing technical revolution in information processing and communicati...

Four lives. Four unique journeys. One thin line between reality and the unexpected. In Imaginary, a collection of diverse short stories, the ordinary moments of life twist into extraordinary revelations. Step into the backyard of a man whose quiet afternoon shatters when a simple squirrel coaxes him into a mini-forest—and into a completely different world. Follow a worker stepping into the office, completely unaware that a routine workday is about to deliver a life-changing surprise. Walk ...

With this book, the gun owner - whether novice or experienced - will learn everything he or she needs to know to safely keep a firearm and, if the need arises, use it with confidence.The Gun Digest Book of Personal Protection & Home Defense provides authoritative information to both the novice and experienced gun owner about personal protection - both inside and outside the home - using commonly available handguns, rifles and shotguns.From discussion of the legal a...

Academic and professional publishing represents a diverse communications industry rooted in the scholarly ecosystem, peer review, and added value products and services. Publishers in this field play a critical and trusted role, registering, certifying, disseminating and preserving knowledge across scientific, technical and medical (STM), humanities and social science disciplines. Academic and Professional Publishing draws together expert publishing professionals, to provide comprehensive i...

"George Buchanan," authored by way of John Campbell Smith and Robert Wallace, offers a complete exploration of the life and legacy of one of Scotland's maximum eminent students and humanists, George Buchanan. Through meticulous studies and scholarly evaluation, Smith and Wallace offer an in depth account of Buchanan's multifaceted contributions to literature, education, and politics in the course of the Renaissance length. The biography delves into Buchanan's childhood, his schooling, and ...

I take my college experience as an athlete and use it as a metaphor for becoming or being a stronger Christian. Whether you play football, another sport, or watch sports, all sports have lines that you have to play within. These lines keep us from going out of bounds, being disqualified, or hurting ourselves. The Bible, the word of God, are our guidelines that keeps us in bounds and becoming more like Him. You will come to understand that when you know Jesus, He makes you new. In this book...

From the author of If Wishes Were Horses comes a novel of long-buried secrets and self-discovery, showing us that sometimes what goes unsaid is more powerful than words. . . .Chelsea Enright never expected to inherit her grandmother's lakeside cottage deep in the Adirondacks—a serene getaway that had been mysteriously closed up decades ago. This is no simple bequest, however, because when Chelsea finds her grandmother's WWII diaries, she's stunned to discover that they hol...

Honor-based violence (HBV) is a crime committed to protect or defend the honor of a family and/or a community. It is usually triggered by the victim’s behavior, which the family and/or community regards as causing offense or dishonor. HBV has existed for thousands of years but has only very recently become a focus of law enforcement, policy makers, and statutory and non-statutory agencies. A volume in the Advances in Police Theory and Practice Series,Honor-Based Violence: Polic...