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Blood on the Boulders

The Journals of Don Diego de Vargas, New Mexico, 1694-97

By: Diego de Vargas,John L. Kessell,Rick Hendricks

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Blood on the Boulders

The Journals of Don Diego de Vargas, New Mexico, 1694-97

By: Diego de Vargas,John L. Kessell,Rick Hendricks

Having retaken Santa Fe by force of arms late in 1693, Diego de Vargas faces unrelenting challenges, waging active warfare against defiant Pueblo Indian resisters while maintaining peace with Pueblo allies; providing homes, food, and supplies for 1,500 unsure colonists; and bidding unceasingly for greater support from viceregal authorities in Mexico City. At the head of combined units of Spanish and Pueblo fighting men, the governor in 1694 leads repeated assaults on castle-like fortified sites. Through combat, prisoner exchange, and negotiation, he reestablishes the kingdom. Franciscans reopen some of the missions. Vargas founds the villa of Santa Cruz de la Cañada. Pueblos north and west of Santa Fe rebel again in 1696; wearily, Vargas reports more blood on the boulders. Through The Journals of don Diego de Vargas, translated from official and private correspondence, we are drawn back, through conflict and compromise, into New Mexico's formative era.

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0826318673

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The Roman Community at Table during the Principate, New and Expanded Edition

By: John Donahue

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The Roman Community at Table during the Principate, New and Expanded Edition

By: John Donahue

On its initial publication, The Roman Community at Table during the Principate broke new ground with its approach to the integral place of feasting in ancient Roman culture and the unique power of food to unite and to separate its recipients along class lines throughout the Empire. John F. Donahue’s comprehensive examination of areas such as festal terminology, the social roles of benefactors and beneficiaries, the kinds of foods offered at feasts, and the role of public venues in community banquets draws on over three hundred Latin honorary inscriptions to recreate the ancient Roman feast. Illustrations depicting these inscriptions, as well as the food supply trades and various festal venues, bring important evidence to the study of this vital and enduring social practice. A touchstone for scholars, the work remains fresh and relevant. This expanded edition of Donahue’s work includes significant new material on current trends in food studies, including the archaeology and bioarchaeology of ancient food and drink; an additional collection of inscriptions on public banquets from the Roman West; and an extensive bibliography of scholarship produced in the last ten years. It will be of interest not only to classicists and historians of the ancient world, but also to anthropologists and sociologists interested in food and social group dynamics.

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University of Michigan Press

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0472123173

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Shark Bytes

Tales of Diving with the Bizarre and the Beautiful

By: John Bantin

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Shark Bytes

Tales of Diving with the Bizarre and the Beautiful

By: John Bantin

The popular image of sharks is of a dorsal fin cleaving the surface as it rushes to its next kill, but this is a limited caricature. There are over 500 species to choose from, most of whom are far more frightened of humans than vice versa. In this beautiful book, diving veteran John Bantin recounts many tales of his diving with several species of sharks and other marine animals over the last 4 decades. Accompanied by his own stunning photography, the captivating, spectacular and sometimes shocking encounters show the reader what it is like to get up close and personal to these bizarre and beautiful creatures. The sharks covered range from the great whale sharks to the small blacktip reef shark, in locations extending to all corners of the globe.

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Fernhurst Books Limited

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1909911739

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9781909911734

Ancient Households of the Americas

Conceptualizing What Households Do

By: John G. Douglas,Nancy Douglas

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Ancient Households of the Americas

Conceptualizing What Households Do

By: John G. Douglas,Nancy Douglas

In Ancient Households of the Americas archaeologists investigate the fundamental role of household production in ancient, colonial, and contemporary households. Several different cultures—Iroquois, Coosa, Anasazi, Hohokam, San Agustín, Wankarani, Formative Gulf Coast Mexico, and Formative, Classic, Colonial, and contemporary Maya—are analyzed through the lens of household archaeology in concrete, data-driven case studies. The text is divided into three sections: Section I examines the spatial and social organization and context of household production; Section II looks at the role and results of households as primary producers; and Section III investigates the role of, and interplay among, households in their greater political and socioeconomic communities. In the past few decades, household archaeology has made substantial contributions to our understanding and explanation of the past through the documentation of the household as a social unit—whether small or large, rural or urban, commoner or elite. These case studies from a broad swath of the Americas make Ancient Households of the Americas extremely valuable for continuing the comparative interdisciplinary study of households.

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University Press of Colorado

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1457117444

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9781457117442

Frostlands

By: John Feffer

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Frostlands

By: John Feffer

A devious corporation attacks a farm commune in former Vermont where one scientist just might be able to save the planet. Arcadia’s defense corps is mobilized to fend off what first appears to be a routine assault, one of the many that the community must repulse from paramilitary forces every year. But as sensors report a breach in the perimeter wall, even eighty-year-old Rachel Leopold shoulders a weapon and reports for duty. The attack, it turns out, has been orchestrated by one of the world’s largest corporations, CRISPR International, and it is interested in stopping Rachel’s research into stopping global warming. As Arcadia prepares to defend itself against the next CRISPR attack, Rachel contacts Emmanuel Puig, the foremost scholar of her ex-husband’s work, to get information that she can use to stop CRISPR. Arcadia intersperses the action with short reports from Emmanuel on his interactions with Rachel as they meet, via virtual reality, in different parts of the world—Brussels, Ningxia, and finally Darwin. The novel concludes with an explosive, unexpected twist that forces a re-evaluation of all that has come before. Praise for Frostlands “A worthy sequel to the thought-provoking Splinterlands, Frostlands is triumphant and absorbing science fiction, full of ecological and societal warnings. It is a unique and imaginative look at a future Earth scarred by environmental neglect.” —Foreword Reviews “Feffer expands the urgent environmental warnings of Splinterlands in a slim, standalone sequel that’s equally dire and sinister but more leisurely paced . . . . Devotees of near-future science fiction adventures will root for resolute and energetic Rachel on her quest to save Earth.” —Publishers Weekly “By taking us on a cautionary journey into a future planetary collapse where the term “one per cent” is redefined in a terrifying way, John Feffer forces us to look deeply at our own society’s blindness to ecological apocalypse and greed. But the novel’s enchantment goes beyond dystopia: the quest for salvation depends on a crusty female octogenarian who would make Wonder Woman salivate with envy.” —Ariel Dorfman

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Haymarket Books

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1608469492

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Kiva, Cross & Crown

The Pecos Indians and New Mexico, 1540-1840

By: John L. Kessell

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Kiva, Cross & Crown

The Pecos Indians and New Mexico, 1540-1840

By: John L. Kessell

A meticulous and engaging history of one of the largest and most powerful Pueblos. Richly illustrated with drawings from the sixteenth century to the nineteenth.

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Western National Parks Association

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1877856568

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The Navajo and Pueblo Silversmiths

By: John Adair

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The Navajo and Pueblo Silversmiths

By: John Adair

Probably no Native American handicrafts are more widely admired than Navajo weaving and Navajo and Pueblo silver work. This book, which is now in its third large printing, contains the most important and complete account of Indian jewelry fashioned by the Navajo, the Zuni, the Hopi, and other Pueblo peoples. "With the care of a meticulous and thorough scholar, the author has told the story of his several years' investigation of jewelry making among the Southwestern Indians," says The Dallas Times Herald. "So richly decorative are the plates he uses ... that the conscientious narrative is surrounded by an atmosphere of genuinely exciting visual experience." John Adair is a trained ethnologist who has lived and worked among these Indians. To prepare his book, Mr. Adair made an exhaustive examination of the principal museum collections of Navajo and Pueblo silver work, both early and modem, in Santa Fe, Colorado Springs, Chicago, New York, and Philadelphia. He visited trading posts in the Indian country and examined and photographed silver on the pawn racks and in important private collections. He lived for a time among the Navajo, watched them make their jewelry, and actually learned to work silver himself in the hogan of one of the leading artisans, Tom Burnsides. Many of the photographs he made at the time are used as illustrations in this book. He spent months among the Indians in New Mexico and Arizona and became personally acquainted with many of their silversmiths. Later, as field worker for the Indian Arts and Crafts Board, he studied the economics of Navajo and Pueblo silversmithing; and still later he became manager of the Navajo Arts and Crafts Guild, a tribal enterprise. The Navajo and Pueblo Silversmiths provides a full history of the craft and the actual names and localities of the pioneer craftsmen who introduced the art of the silversmith to their people. Despite its present high stage of development, with its many subtle and often exquisite designs, the art of working silver is not an ancient one among the Navajo and Pueblo Indians. There are men still living today who remember the very first silversmiths. Mr. Adair gives full details, as he observed them, of the methods and techniques of manufacture over a primitive forge with homemade tools. He tells both of the fine pieces made for trade among the Indians themselves and of the newer, cheaper types of jewelry produced for sale to tourists. He discusses standards and qualities of Indian silver and describes the work of the Indian schools in helping preserve traditional design in the fine silver of today. His excellent photographs of some of the most notable pieces, old and new, provide examples for evaluation. This volume, therefore, will serve the layman, the ethnologist, and the dealer alike as a guide to proper values in Indian silver jewelry, and will provide the basis for authoritative knowledge and appreciation of a highly skilled creative art.

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University of Oklahoma Press

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0806122153

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9780806122151

Coastal Fishes of Oman

By: John E. Randall

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Coastal Fishes of Oman

By: John E. Randall

The Sultanate of Oman, at the southeastern corner of the Arabian Peninsula, borders on three different bodies of Ocean: the Arabian Sea, the Gulf of Oman and the Arabian Gulf. This beautifully illustrated book is the first to bring the diverse inshore fish fauna of Oman under one cover. Recent fieldwork by the author and colleagues has increased the number of known shore fishes (defined as those occurring in less than 200 metres) to 930, all of which are treated in this volume. A surprising 52 new species of inshore fishes of Oman (four of which required new generic names) were collected during the recent fieldwork; these had to be described in scientific papers to make the names available for this book. All of the species are illustrated, mostly in colour. The family and species accounts are written to be understood by the layman (a glossary and diagrams are provided to explain scientific terms), but with enough detail and references to serve the needs of professional biologists. Coastal Fishes of Oman will promote appreciation of the unique fish fauna of Oman, provide a much-needed inventory of this invaluable resource, and form the basis for future fisheries management.

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University of Hawaii Press

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0824818083

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9780824818081

The Book of All Books

Inspired by True Events

By: John Warchelak

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The Book of All Books

Inspired by True Events

By: John Warchelak

This realistic amazing story is about the lost TRUE STORIES of our world. It brings the greatest events on earth from our ancient Bible to our lost stories of today, and gives us a FUTURE EVENT--- this is where our story starts: Four friends are camping as an angel guide gives them the book made by the creator of our Universe. This book is far more than just a book-- its an energy ORB that connects to the mind of GOD --- it has all the secrets of the Universe in it, and much, much more.... so as the four friends find out they have unimaginable mission to get earth ready for GOD- who is coming to earth. GOD asks the leaders of our word to make a choice. This choice is to save our SUN & our stars from an Evil Army who is pulling the energy from our Universe to build a new one. MAXIMUS ALEXANDER is leading GOD'S army---------the saga starts...

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Author House

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1481756699

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Gold and Power in Ancient Costa Rica, Panama, and Colombia

A Symposium at Dumbarton Oaks, 9 and 10 October 1999

By: Jeffrey Quilter,John W. Hoopes

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Gold and Power in Ancient Costa Rica, Panama, and Colombia

A Symposium at Dumbarton Oaks, 9 and 10 October 1999

By: Jeffrey Quilter,John W. Hoopes

The lands between Mesoamerica and the Central Andes are famed for the rich diversity of ancient cultures that inhabited them. Throughout this vast region, from about AD 700 until the sixteenth-century Spanish invasion, a rich and varied tradition of goldworking was practiced. The amount of gold produced and worn by native inhabitants was so great that Columbus dubbed the last New World shores he sailed as Costa Rica—the "Rich Coast." Despite the long-recognized importance of the region in its contribution to Pre-Columbian culture, very few books are readily available, especially in English, on these lands of gold. Gold and Power in Ancient Costa Rica, Panama, and Colombia now fills that gap with eleven articles by leading scholars in the field. Issues of culture change, the nature of chiefdom societies, long-distance trade and transport, ideologies of value, and the technologies of goldworking are covered in these essays as are the role of metals as expressions and materializations of spiritual, political, and economic power. These topics are accompanied by new information on the role of stone statuary and lapidary work, craft and trade specialization, and many more topics, including a reevaluation of the concept of the "Intermediate Area." Collectively, the volume provides a new perspective on the prehistory of these lands and includes articles by Latin American scholars whose writings have rarely been published in English.

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Dumbarton Oaks

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0884022943

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9780884022947

Sobrevivira Estados Unidos

Revelaciones sorprendentes y promesas de esperanza

By: John Hagee

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Sobrevivira Estados Unidos

Revelaciones sorprendentes y promesas de esperanza

By: John Hagee

This new book by New York Times bestselling author and pastor, John Hagee, says the United States is heading into a “Perfect Storm.” Titanic. John F. Kennedy’s assassination. 9/11. John Hagee maintains that these American tragedies all have one element in common: they were unthinkable. And in the opening pages of his newest book, Can America Survive? Hagee uses these tragedies to prove two points: that the unthinkable can happen and, given the right conditions, the unthinkable can quickly become the inevitable. In Can America Survive? Hagee asserts that the seeds for tragedy are once again being sown, evidenced by the disturbing economic, geopolitical, and religious trends that now threaten to dismantle the very nation itself. “Think it can’t happen?” Hagee asks in a theme repeated throughout the book. “Think again.” Indeed, Hagee presents alarming examples of recent events, current research, scientific evidence, and biblical prophecy that are gathering to create a “perfect storm” that could bring down the “unsinkable” United States of America. Can America Survive? is not just a warning. It is a wake-up call and a rallying cry to Christian citizens everywhere to prevent the next unthinkable American disaster. After all, as Hagee points out, “those who do not remember the mistakes of the past are doomed to repeat them in the future.” Think it can’t happen? Think again.

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Simon and Schuster

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1476737843

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9781476737843

The History of New Jersey, from its Earliest Settlement to the Present Time. Including a Brief Historical Account of the First Discoveries and Settlement of the Country

Vol. I

By: John O. Raum

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The History of New Jersey, from its Earliest Settlement to the Present Time. Including a Brief Historical Account of the First Discoveries and Settlement of the Country

Vol. I

By: John O. Raum

Reprint of the original, first published in 1877.

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BoD – Books on Demand

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3385553180

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9783385553187

Mr. Wilson's War

From the Assassination of McKinley to the Defeat of the League of Nations

By: John Dos Passos

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Mr. Wilson's War

From the Assassination of McKinley to the Defeat of the League of Nations

By: John Dos Passos

Beginning with the assassination of McKinley and ending with the defeat of the League of Nations by the United States Senate, the twenty-year period covered by John Dos Passos in this lucid and fascinating narrative changed the whole destiny of America. This is the story of the war we won and the peace we lost, told with a clear historical perspective and a warm interest in the remarkable people who guided the United States through one of the most crucial periods. Foremost in the cast of characters is Woodrow Wilson, the shy, brilliant, revered, and misunderstood “schoolmaster,” whose administration was a complex of apparent contradictions. Wilson had almost no interest in foreign affairs when he was first elected, yet later, in proposing the League of Nations, he was to play a major role in international politics. During his first summer in office, without any previous experience in banking, he pushed through the Federal Reserve Bank Act, perhaps his most lasting contribution. Reelected in 1916 on the rallying cry, “He kept us out of war,” he shortly found himself and his country inextricably involved in the European conflict. John Dos Passos has brilliantly coordinated the political, the military, and the economic themes so that the story line never falters. First published in 1962, Mr. Wilson’s War is one of the great books and an addition of major stature to any reader’s library

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Simon and Schuster

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1628735139

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9781628735130

Delphi Complete Works of John Dos Passos (Illustrated)

By: John Dos Passos

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Delphi Complete Works of John Dos Passos (Illustrated)

By: John Dos Passos

One of the major novelists of the post-World War I lost generation, John Dos Passos established a reputation as a social historian and radical critic of American life. His celebrated masterpiece, the U.S.A. trilogy, was ranked by the Modern Library as 23rd of the 100 best English-language novels of the twentieth century. Written in experimental, non-linear form, the landmark trilogy blends elements of biography, song lyrics and news reports to portray a vibrant tapestry landscape of early twentieth-century American culture. For the first time in publishing history, this eBook presents Dos Passos’ complete fictional works, with numerous illustrations, rare texts, informative introductions and the usual Delphi bonus material. (Version 1) * Beautifully illustrated with images relating to Dos Passos’ life and works * Concise introductions to the major texts * All 15 novels, with individual contents tables * Rare novels appearing for the first time in digital publishing, including the unfinished novel ‘Century’s Ebb’ * Images of how the books were first published, giving your eReader a taste of the original texts * Excellent formatting of the texts * The plays and poetry — available in no other collection * Includes a wide selection of Dos Passos’ non-fiction * Features the seminal autobiography ‘The Best Times’ – discover Dos Passos’ literary life * Ordering of texts into chronological order and genres CONTENTS: The U.S.A. Trilogy The 42nd Parallel (1930) Nineteen Nineteen (1932) The Big Money (1936) District of Columbia Trilogy Adventures of a Young Man (1939) Number One (1943) The Grand Design (1949) Other Novels One Man’s Initiation — 1917 (1920) Three Soldiers (1921) Streets of Night (1923) Manhattan Transfer (1925) Chosen Country (1951) Most Likely to Succeed (1954) The Great Days (1958) Midcentury (1961) Century’s Ebb (1975) The Plays The Garbage Man (1926) Airways, Inc. (1934) Fortune Heights (1934) The Poetry Poems from ‘Eight Harvard Poets’ (1917) A Pushcart at the Curb (1922) The Non-Fiction Rosinante to the Road Again (1922) Facing the Chair (1927) Orient Express (1927) Why Write for the Theatre Anyway? (1934) The Men Who Made the Nation (1957) Mr. Wilson’s War (1962) Brazil on the Move (1963) The Portugal Story (1969) Easter Island (1970) The Autobiography The Best Times (1966)

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1801701334

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Star Wars Legends Epic Collection

The Empire Vol. 6

By: John Ostrander,William Haden Blackman Jr.

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Star Wars Legends Epic Collection

The Empire Vol. 6

By: John Ostrander,William Haden Blackman Jr.

Collects Star Wars: Agent of the Empire – Iron Eclipse (2011) #1-5; Star Wars: Agent of the Empire – Hard Targets (2012) #1-5; Star Wars: The Force Unleashed (2008) GN; Star Wars: The Force Unleashed II (2010) GN; material from Star Wars Tales (1999) #11, 15; A Decade of Dark Horse (1996) 2. The Force unleashed! The Empire’s power is at its peak — but not every problem requires military might. Sometimes all you need is the right agent, in the right place, with the willingness to get the job done. An agent like Jahan Cross! But when Boba Fett is framed for murder, Cross finds himself in a situation that even he can’t handle! Plus: Learn the origin of Vader’s secret apprentice, the deadly Starkiller — a story of treachery, deception and the overwhelming power of the Force. And witness the early years of Leia Organa!

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Marvel Entertainment

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1302521128

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Blood on the Boulders

Blood on the Boulders

The Roman Community at Table during the Principate, New and Expanded Edition

The Roman Community at Table during the Principate, New and Expanded Edition

Shark Bytes

Shark Bytes

Ancient Households of the Americas

Ancient Households of the Americas

Frostlands

Frostlands

Kiva, Cross & Crown

Kiva, Cross & Crown

The Navajo and Pueblo Silversmiths

The Navajo and Pueblo Silversmiths

Coastal Fishes of Oman

Coastal Fishes of Oman

The Book of All Books

The Book of All Books

Gold and Power in Ancient Costa Rica, Panama, and Colombia

Gold and Power in Ancient Costa Rica, Panama, and Colombia

Sobrevivira Estados Unidos

Sobrevivira Estados Unidos

The History of New Jersey, from its Earliest Settlement to the Present Time. Including a Brief Historical Account of the First Discoveries and Settlement of the Country

The History of New Jersey, from its Earliest Settlement to the Present Time. Including a Brief Historical Account of the First Discoveries and Settlement of the Country

Mr. Wilson's War

Mr. Wilson's War

Delphi Complete Works of John Dos Passos (Illustrated)

Delphi Complete Works of John Dos Passos (Illustrated)

Star Wars Legends Epic Collection

Star Wars Legends Epic Collection

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