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The Missouri River Journals of John James Audubon

By: John James Audubon

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The Missouri River Journals of John James Audubon

By: John James Audubon

The first accurate transcription of John James Audubon's 1843 journals, which includes recently discovered and previously unpublished journal entries detailing his last expedition along the upper Missouri River"--Provided by publisher.

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U of Nebraska Press

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0803244983

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The Fur Trade on the Upper Missouri, 1840-1865

By: John E. Sunder

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The Fur Trade on the Upper Missouri, 1840-1865

By: John E. Sunder

By beginning where the standard works leave off and carrying the story up to its logical conclusion in 1865, this book fills a definite void in the history of the fur trade in the American West. Set in the upper Missouri country, which was bypassed by settlement until the 1860s, it focuses primarily upon the St. Louis firm of Pierre Chouteau, Jr., and Company, usually known as the American Fur Company....This is not the distorted and romanticized approach so typical of much of the literature on the earlier fur trade. Drama is inherent, but it is sound, well-conceived, carefully documented history."-American Historical Review

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University of Oklahoma Press

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0806125667

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9780806125664

Tenacious of Life

The Quadruped Essays of John James Audubon and John Bachman

By: John James Audubon,John Bachman

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The Quadruped Essays of John James Audubon and John Bachman

By: John James Audubon,John Bachman

Daniel Patterson and Eric Russell present a groundbreaking case for considering John James Audubon's and John Bachman's quadruped essays as worthy of literary analysis and redefine the role of Bachman, the perpetually overlooked coauthor of the essays. After completing The Birds of America (1826-38), Audubon began developing his work on the mammals. The Viviparous Quadrupeds of North America volumes show an antebellum view of nature as fundamentally dynamic and simultaneously grotesque and awe-inspiring. The quadruped essays are rich with good stories about these mammals and the humans who observe, pursue, and admire them. For help with the science and the essays, Audubon enlisted the Reverend John Bachman of Charleston, South Carolina. While he has been acknowledged as coauthor of the essays, Bachman has received little attention as an American nature writer. While almost all works that describe the history of American nature writing include Audubon, Bachman shows up only in a subordinate clause or two. Tenacious of Life strives to restore Bachman's status as an important American nature writer. Patterson and Russell analyze the coauthorial dance between the voices of Audubon, an experienced naturalist telling adventurous hunting stories tinged often by sentiment, romanticism, and bombast, and of Bachman, the courteous gentleman naturalist, scientific detective, moralist, sometimes cruel experimenter, and humorist. Drawing on all the primary and secondary evidence, Patterson and Russell tell the story of the coauthors' fascinating, conflicted relationship. This collection offers windows onto the early United States and much forgotten lore, often in the form of travel writing, natural history, and unique anecdotes, all told in the compelling voices of Antebellum America's two leading naturalists.

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U of Nebraska Press

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1496226720

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9781496226723

Professionalizing Medicine

James Reeves and the Choices That Shaped American Health Care

By: John M. Harris Jr.

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Professionalizing Medicine

James Reeves and the Choices That Shaped American Health Care

By: John M. Harris Jr.

This biography of James Edmund Reeves, whose legislative accomplishments cemented American physicians' control of the medical marketplace, illuminates landmarks of American health care: the troubled introduction of clinical epidemiology and development of botanic medicine and homeopathy, the Civil War's stimulation of sanitary science and hospital medicine, the rise of government involvement, the revolution in laboratory medicine, and the explosive growth of phony cures. It recounts the human side of medicine as well, including the management of untreatable diseases and the complex politics of medical practice and professional organizing. Reeves' life provides a reminder that while politics, economics, and science drive the societal trajectory of modern health care, moral decisions often determine its path.

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McFarland

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1476676364

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9781476676364

The International Space Station

Building for the Future

By: John E. Catchpole

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The International Space Station

Building for the Future

By: John E. Catchpole

A comprehensive, highly readable account of complex, technical, political and human endeavor and a worthy successor to Creating the International Space Station (Springer Praxis, January 2002) by David Harland and John Catchpole. This volume details for the first time the construction and occupation of the International Space Station from 2002 through to 2008, when it should reach American “Core Complete”.

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Springer Science & Business Media

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0387781455

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9780387781457

Biographical Dictionary of Modern American Educators

By: Shirley Ohles,Frederik Ohles,John Ramsay

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Biographical Dictionary of Modern American Educators

By: Shirley Ohles,Frederik Ohles,John Ramsay

Widely praised, Greenwood's Biographical Dictionary of American Educators (Greenwood, 1978) quickly became a standard reference work for students and scholars of American education. This new volume includes biographical sketches of more than 400 notable researchers, leaders, reformers, critics, and practitioners from all major fields of education and extends the coverage of its predecessor to the mid-20th century. Its topical range encompasses such diverse areas as psychology, music, health, measurement and evaluation, science, special education, history, and administration. It treats education at all levels, including early childhood, elementary and secondary, higher, and adult. Most of the educators profiled were active in the 20th century, but several dozen have been included from the 19th century. A special effort has been made to include women and educators of color whose contributions have often been overlooked in the past. Each biographical sketch includes information on family background, a description of the educator's accomplishments, and a digest of the person's education and career, professional and civic service, major publications, and principal honors. Each profile ends with a list of references, and the volume closes with appendices listing birth places, states of major service, fields of work, a chronological listing of educators, and a list of important dates in American education. A comprehensive index concludes the volume. Educators are included from all fifty states and were selected from numerous suggested candidates for inclusion. Most of the educators profiled were active in the 20th century, but several dozen have been included from the 19th century. A special effort has been made to include women and educators of color whose contributions have often been overlooked in the past.

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Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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0313005001

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9780313005008

Levin and O'Neal's the Diabetic Foot

By: Marvin E. Levin,John H. Bowker,Michael A. Pfeifer

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Levin and O'Neal's the Diabetic Foot

By: Marvin E. Levin,John H. Bowker,Michael A. Pfeifer

Fully updated, now in full color, this latest edition of Levin and O'Neal's The Diabetic Foot provides diagnostic and management information for the challenging problems faced by patients with diabetic foot problems. The book has a team care focus and offers tips and pearls in every chapter.

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648

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Elsevier Health Sciences

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0323041450

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9780323041454

On the Upper Missouri

The Journal of Rudolph Friederich Kurz, 1851-1852

By: Rudolf Friedrich Kurz,John Napoleon Brinton Hewitt

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On the Upper Missouri

The Journal of Rudolph Friederich Kurz, 1851-1852

By: Rudolf Friedrich Kurz,John Napoleon Brinton Hewitt

In late 1846, Rudolph Friederich Kurz, a young and idealistic Swiss artist, came to the United States to study and paint American Indians. Because he also had to earn a living, he signed on with the Pierre Chouteau Jr. Company (commonly known as the American Fur Company) and traveled northward on the Missouri River to work as a clerk at Fort Berthold and Fort Union in present-day North Dakota. While living among fur traders and Indians of numerous tribes, Kurz filled a sketchbook and kept a detailed journal. On the Upper Missouri, an abridged and annotated version of his journal, is an invaluable source for information about Fort Union, the fur trade industry, and Indians of the northern plains. For this edition, editor Carla Kelly has preserved Kurz’s style but included only those portions of greatest interest to readers today: his lively and detailed observations of people and activities at the fort. The volume also features 97 black-and-white drawings from Kurz’s sketchbook.

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356

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University of Oklahoma Press

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0806136553

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9780806136554

The Blackfeet

Raiders on the Northwestern Plains

By: John C. Ewers

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The Blackfeet

Raiders on the Northwestern Plains

By: John C. Ewers

The Blackfeet were the strongest military power on the northwestern plains in the historic buffalo days. For half a century up to 1805, they were almost constantly at war with the Shoshonis and came very close to exterminating that tribe. They aggressively asserted themselves against the Flatheads and the Kutenais, shoving them westward across the Rockies. They got on fairly well with English and Canadian traders during the heyday of the fur trade on the Saskatchewan River, but on the upper Missouri they took an early dislike to Americans, whom they called "Big Knives." American fur traders, such as Manuel Lisa, Pierre Menard, and Andrew Henry, were literally chased out of Montana by the Blackfeet.

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University of Oklahoma Press

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0806170956

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9780806170954

The Caroline

By: John K. Sutherland

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The Caroline

By: John K. Sutherland

An attempted murder one dark night on the river disrupted the lives of two families and deeply affected the lives of two individuals from those same two families for the next five years. They had been forced to make choices that took them far apart before being serendipitously brought together once more. The would-be murderers, three of them, lost one of their own soon after that night from wounds he had received at the hands of their intended victim. Three years later, a second of them fortuitously became the victim of that same man they would have killed. The third and last one, attempting to recover the failing fortunes of the family in a poker game on the river, saw the means to cheat his opponent and at the same time to be rid of his sister who had unexpectedly shown up again. His first attempt on her life as they had travelled upriver had failed, and a second attempt would be difficult now that she expected it and now that she had a protector. He saw another way to be rid of her: in a poker game where he would wager her away. If only it could be that simple. He had no idea the trouble he would cause by that act. The unexpected outcome of that game brought two individuals closer together and eventually healed the initial disruption that had seen them torn apart five years earlier.

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Xlibris Corporation

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1493115987

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9781493115983

Indian Life on the Upper Missouri

By: John Canfield Ewers

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Indian Life on the Upper Missouri

By: John Canfield Ewers

The Plains Indian of the Upper Missouri in the nineteenth-century buffalo days remains the widely recognized symbol of primitive man par excellence–and the persistent image of the North American Indian at his most romantic. Fifteen cultural highlights, each a chapter made from research for a particular subject and enriched by contemporary illustrations, provide a sensitive interpretation of tribes such as the Blackfeet, the Crows, and the Mandans from the decades before Lewis and Clark up to the present. In an attempt to understand and record the old culture of the Indians, the author has developed, over the past 30 years, a special ethnohistorical approach. The results, as seen here, are enlightening both for other ethnohistorians and for historians of more or less conventional bent. This book is abundantly illustrated from historical sources.

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University of Oklahoma Press

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0806121416

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9780806121413

Creating the International Space Station

By: David M. Harland,John Catchpole

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Creating the International Space Station

By: David M. Harland,John Catchpole

As the most obvious man-made object in the night sky, clearly visible to the naked eye, the International Space Station is of interest to almost everyone. Richly illustrated with around 100 figures this is the first book to describe the technical aspects of its design and construction and details of its day-to-day operation. The text relates the orbital assembly on a flight-by-flight basis, listing all the experiments in NASA's laboratory and explains their objectives. By offering a comprehensive mix of operational work, microgravity, science and future plans, it will satisfy both the space enthusiast, eager for a detailed review of the missions, and the specialist wishing to learn more about this science programme.

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Springer Science & Business Media

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1852332026

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9781852332020

Book's by John Culbertson

The Missouri River Journals of John James Audubon

The Missouri River Journals of John James Audubon

The Fur Trade on the Upper Missouri, 1840-1865

The Fur Trade on the Upper Missouri, 1840-1865

Tenacious of Life

Tenacious of Life

Professionalizing Medicine

Professionalizing Medicine

The International Space Station

The International Space Station

Biographical Dictionary of Modern American Educators

Biographical Dictionary of Modern American Educators

Levin and O'Neal's the Diabetic Foot

Levin and O'Neal's the Diabetic Foot

On the Upper Missouri

On the Upper Missouri

The Blackfeet

The Blackfeet

The Caroline

The Caroline

Indian Life on the Upper Missouri

Indian Life on the Upper Missouri

Creating the International Space Station

Creating the International Space Station

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