Charles W. Maynard's Books

Describes the technology developed and used in the Roman Empire, including technology involving agriculture, transportation, construction, communication, and medicine.

The Himalayas are called the roof of the world. The tallest mountain on Earth, Mount Everest, at 29,028 feet, is ones of 14 peaks in the Himalayan chain. The Himalayas stretch 1,550 miles from China to Afghanistan. More than 40 million people live in the Himalayan regions. Among them are sherpas, people of Nepal, who help to guide climbers up Mount Everest. A chapter discusses the record-setting climb of Edmund Hillary and Sherpa guide Tenzing Norgay. Students will also read that it is a Hindu belief that these mountains are the abode of gods.

A biography of American explorer John Wesley Powell, chronicling his life as a soldier and scientist.

A short biography of man who founded the Sierra Club, from his Scottish roots to his boyhood in the Wisconsin wilderness, his travels to California, and his work as a naturalist.

Chronicles the life and adventures of Jim Bridger, a frontiersman and guide who played a key role in the Westward expansion.

Chronicles Zebulon Pike's exploration of territories within the Louisiana Purchase early in the nineteenth century, including his discovery of what is now known as Pike's Peak.

Presents a physical description of the Andes Mountains, the countries which are home to the mountains, and the cultures, plants, and animals that live there.

Presents the history, geography, and ecology of the Appalachian Mountain range.

Presents the history, geography, and ecology of the Alps.

A brief biography of the man who helped open the way west to California and was later elected as a United States Senator from that state.

In Incommunicable, Charles L. Briggs examines the long-standing presumptions that medical discourse translates easily across geographic, racial, and class boundaries. Bringing linguistic and medical anthropology into conversation with Black and decolonial theory, he theorizes the failure in health communication as incommunicability, which negatively affects all patients, doctors, and healthcare providers. Briggs draws on W. E. B. Du Bois and the work of three philosopher-physicians—John Locke, Frantz Fanon, and Georges Canguilhem—to show how cultural models of communication and health have historically racialized people of color as being incapable of communicating rationally and understanding biomedical concepts. He outlines incommunicability through a study of COVID-19 discourse, in which health professionals defined the disease based on scientific medical knowledge in ways that reduced varieties of nonprofessional knowledge about COVID-19 to “misinformation” and “conspiracy theories.” This dismissal of nonprofessional knowledge led to a failure of communication that eroded trust in medical expertise. Building on efforts by social movements and coalitions of health professionals and patients to craft more just and equitable futures, Briggs helps imagine health systems and healthcare discourses beyond the oppressive weight of communicability and the stigma of incommunicability.

The Ural Mountains form the 1,500-mile boundary between the continents of Europe and Asia. Most of these mountains pass through and divide the country of Russia. The Urals are what geologists call folded mountains, created when two of Earths large continental plates bump into each other and wrinkle. Valleys carved from melting ice have created Russias Kama and Belaya Rivers, which form the Volga River. Chapters discuss the mining and industrial history of the Urals, and the efforts by environmentalists to clean up one of the worlds most polluted regions.

Provides the history of Fort McHenry, a national monument and historical shrine, where Francis Scott Key watched the British bomb America and wrote the famous poem now known as the "Star-Spangles Banner.

Follows the life of the nineteenth-century trapper and explorer who earned his reputation on the western frontier.

Book's by Charles W. Maynard

The Technology of Ancient Rome

The Technology of Ancient Rome

The Himalayas

The Himalayas

John Wesley Powell

John Wesley Powell

John Muir

John Muir

Jim Bridger

Jim Bridger

Zebulon Pike

Zebulon Pike

The Andes

The Andes

The Appalachians

The Appalachians

The Alps

The Alps

John Charles Fremont

John Charles Fremont

Incommunicable

Incommunicable

The Ural Mountains

The Ural Mountains

Fort McHenry

Fort McHenry

Jedediah Smith

Jedediah Smith

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