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Give Your Heart to the Hawks

A Tribute to the Mountain Men

By: Win Blevins

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Give Your Heart to the Hawks

A Tribute to the Mountain Men

By: Win Blevins

Stunningly portrayed by Leonardo DiCaprio in the Golden Globe Award-winning and twelve-time Academy Award nominated film The Revenant. Mountain man Hugh Glass’s harrowing journey 300 miles to civilization after being mauled by a grizzly bear and left for dead is just one of the incredible adventures Spur Award Winning author Win Blevins explores in the New York Times bestseller, Give Your Heart to the Hawks. In addition to the captivating story of Hugh Glass, Win Blevins presents a poetic tribute to these dauntless "first Westerners" who explored the Great American West from the time of Lewis and Clark into the 1840s. As trappers in a hostile, trackless land, their exploits opened the gates of the mountains for the wagon trains of pioneers who followed them. Here, among many, are the enthralling stories of: * John Colter, who, in 1808, naked and without weapons or food, escaped captivity by the Blackfeet and ran and walked 250 miles to Fort Lisa at the mouth of the Yellowstone River; * Kit Carson, who ran away from home at age 17, became a legendary mountain man in his 20s and served as scout and guide for John C. Fremont's westward explorations of the 1840s; * Jedediah Smith, a tall, gaunt, Bible-reading New Yorker whose trapping expeditions ranged from the Rockies to California and who was killed by Comanches on the Cimarron in 1831. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

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Macmillan + ORM

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146680338X

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Beauty for Ashes

A Novel of the Mountain Men

By: Win Blevins

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Beauty for Ashes

A Novel of the Mountain Men

By: Win Blevins

Trapping beaver was the major source of income for mountain men in the Rocky Mountain West of the 1820s -- the luxuriant, sought-after pelts could make a man rich. But it was a dangerous way to make a living: winter blizzards, hostile Indians, sickness, and starvation lurked at every point of the compass. Only a special brand of man could survive it all. After making a harrowing 700-mile journey alone and on foot from the Sweetwater River in Wyoming to Fort Atkinson on the Missouri River and finding a home in the fur trade, young Sam Morgan is becoming just such a man. Followed closely by Coy, his faithful coyote pup, and trapping with a brigade of mountain men, Sam seeks more than furs and wealth. He is searching for the love of his life, the Crow Indian woman Meadowlark, and with his companions -- the French-Canadian Gideon Dubois, the mulatto Jim Beckwourth, and the Pawnee Third Wing -- he heads for the Wind River country and the village of Meadowlark's people. Sam is put to every test in his journey to the Crow village: fights with Pawnee, Lakota and Blackfeet; captivity and escape from a Sioux camp, buffalo hunts, and the distrust of Meadowlark's family and tribe. He endures the sweat lodge and Sun Dance ceremonies that test his beliefs and self-confidence, and concocts a last-ditch, daring, and foolhardy scheme to win Meadowlark's hand. For all its page-turning action, Beauty for Ashes is the unforgettable story of a boy who becomes a man by necessity in the cruel, beautiful, unexplored wilderness of the Old West. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

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Forge Books

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1466803339

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9781466803336

A Long and Winding Road

By: Win Blevins

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A Long and Winding Road

By: Win Blevins

A Spur Award-winning author continues his Rendezvous series with this fifth novel, which continues the story of trapper, fighter, and survivor Sam Morgan.

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Macmillan

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0765344858

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Beauty for Ashes and Heaven Is a Long Way Off

Two Complete Novels

By: Win Blevins

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Beauty for Ashes and Heaven Is a Long Way Off

Two Complete Novels

By: Win Blevins

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Macmillan

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0765382407

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So Wild a Dream

By: Win Blevins

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So Wild a Dream

By: Win Blevins

An ambitious and daring young man, Sam Morgan leaves his home in 1820s Pennsylvania to seek adventure and a fortune in the frontier West, accompanied by a colorful assortment of companions he meets along the way.

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0765344815

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9780765344816

Tin House

The Ecstatic

By: Win McCormack

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Tin House

The Ecstatic

By: Win McCormack

In our increasingly mediated society, where joy is self-conscious and tweeted about as it is happening, is it possible for the genuinely ecstatic experience? From religious to chemically induced, from biochemical analysis to attempts to capture the ineffable, our issue on the ecstatic will feature poetry, fiction, and essays addressing the ecstatic and its counterparts ? the comedown and ecstasy thwarted, whether by internal or external means. "Tin House" is a beautifully designed periodical that features the best writers of our time alongside a new generation of talent poised to become the most important voices of the future. Content includes short stories, profiles, author interviews, poetry, essays, and unique departments such as Lost and Found, in which writers review overlooked or underrated books, and Blithe Spirits and Readable Feast, which present tales and recipes for drinks and food in a literary way.

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Tin House Books

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0982650787

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9780982650783

Dictionary of the American West

By: Win Blevins

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Dictionary of the American West

By: Win Blevins

Did you ever need to spell “dogie” (as in, get-along-little), or need to know what a “sakey” is? This is the book that can tell you how to spell, pronounce, and define over 5,000 terms relative to the American West. Want to know what a “breachy” cow is? Turn to page 43 to learn that it’s an adjective used to describe a cow that has a tendency to find her way through fences where she isn’t supposed to be. Describes some teenagers we know… Spend hours perusing the dictionary at random, or read straight through to give you a flavor of the West from its beginnings to contemporary days. Laced with photographs and maps, the Dictionary of the American West will make you sound like an expert on all things Western, even if you don’t know your dingus from a dinner plate. Compiled of words brought into English from Native Americans, emigrants, Mormons, Hispanics, migrant workers, loggers, and fur trappers, the dictionary opens up history and culture in an enchanting way. From “Aarigaa!” to “zopilote,” the Dictionary of the American West is a “valuable book, a treasure for any literate American’s library.” (Tony Hillerman)

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Texas A&M University Press

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0875654835

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9780875654836

Heaven Is a Long Way Off

A Novel of the Mountain Men

By: Win Blevins

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Heaven Is a Long Way Off

A Novel of the Mountain Men

By: Win Blevins

Seasoned fur trapper and mountain man Sam Morgan faces the most daunting task of his adventuresome life, as he makes a long trek from Wyoming to Santa Fe, in this harrowing tale.

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076534484X

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My Conscience

An Exile’s Memoir of Burma

By: U Kyaw Win

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My Conscience

An Exile’s Memoir of Burma

By: U Kyaw Win

Since gaining its independence from British colonial rule in 1948, Burma's history has been cursed. The military raped the resource-rich country for fifty years and drove its people to penury. Activists who advocated for democracy were imprisoned, tortured, and exiled. Civil society institutions were ground into oblivion. My Conscience: An Exile's Memoir of Burma is U Kyaw Win's compelling account of the bleeding of his homeland by the military. Born during the waning days of colonial rule, he experienced the brutality of Japanese occupation and the heady early days of independence. He studied abroad and acquired the skills that his country would need, but when the military seized power in 1962, he was made stateless and not allowed to return home for forty years. This memoir tells the story of his lifelong efforts to attract international attention to Burma's destruction and to restore freedom to his homeland. Win's memoir chronicles the struggles that he and those who fought for their country's freedom faced. He recounts the giants in Burma's struggle he met in his pursuit. At this historical moment in 2016, it is uncertain whether the elected civilian majority in parliament will take office and if the military will permit a government of the people's choice to rule.

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Wipf and Stock Publishers

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1498282725

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9781498282727

Compressibility Of Ultra-soft Soil

By: Myint Win Bo

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Compressibility Of Ultra-soft Soil

By: Myint Win Bo

The formation of an alluvial clay deposit normally goes through sedimentation and consolidation. While the bottom portion is undergoing self-weight consolidation, sedimentation continues to take place at the top. However, the compression behavior of such deposits upon loading is not well understood.This book describes the compression behavior of ultra-soft soil upon additional load application. Various types of laboratory compression tests suitable for this type of soil are discussed, such as tests using small- and large-scale consolidometers, hydraulic Rowe cells under different drainage conditions, constant rate of loading and constant rate of strain tests. It also explains how to determine the transition point, which differentiates the two distinct behaviors between slurry state and soil state deformation. Methods to determine the compression indices and coefficients of consolidation at different stress ranges, which are required for the prediction of magnitude of settlement and time rate of settlement, are developed. An equation for predicting settlement of ultra-soft soil in both the slurry and soil stages is elaborated upon. These proposed methods of characterization or analyses — which are validated against published data, laboratory measurements and a case study — serve as useful tools for designing and constructing embankments and for carrying out land reclamation on ultra-soft soil.

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World Scientific Publishing Company

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9813107057

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9789813107052

The US Versus the North Korean Nuclear Threat

Mitigating the Nuclear Security Dilemma

By: Er-Win Tan

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The US Versus the North Korean Nuclear Threat

Mitigating the Nuclear Security Dilemma

By: Er-Win Tan

Although the current world order is still dominated by the US, there is increasing international concern over the possibility of regional security dilemmas arising from smaller powers’ attempts to develop Weapons of Mass Destruction. A study of US-North Korean interaction using the security dilemma as a conceptual frame of analysis is thus not only hugely topical, but also particularly relevant for the 21st century on theoretical as well as empirical grounds. Is there the prospect of a security dilemma contagion if North Korea acquire nuclear weapons capability leading to an Asia Pacific wide nuclear arms race? This book examines this contentious issue in-depth and explores the difficult choices policymakers face as a result of the uncertainty in international politics.

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Routledge

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1134464401

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9781134464401

The Rajneesh Chronicles: The True Story of the Cult that Unleashed the First Act of Bioterrorism on U.S. Soil

By: Win McCormack

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The Rajneesh Chronicles: The True Story of the Cult that Unleashed the First Act of Bioterrorism on U.S. Soil

By: Win McCormack

The Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh and his followers were involved in nefarious activities including prostitution, drug smuggling, sexual abuse of children, and murder conspiracy. The Rajneesh Chronicles explains this behavior--and why the cult that committed the first act of bioterrorism in the U.S. was trying to cultivate a live AIDS virus. Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh, widely known as the "sex guru," fled India in 1981 and came to settle on a ranch in central Oregon, where he and his followers established the illegal city of Rajneeshpuram. In their effort to preserve the city, the Rajneeshees attempted during the 1984 election to take control of the Wasco County government by poisoning two county commissioners and over 700 potential voters in The Dalles, the county seat, with salmonella—the first act of bio-terrorism in U.S. history. Armed to the teeth with semiautomatic weapons, they threatened to defend the city to the death against any governmental intrusion, and hatched a plot to assassinate a U.S attorney. When the commune finally imploded and authorities arrived on the scene, they discovered that the Rajneesh nurse who had cultivated salmonella bacteria in the commune’s biological warfare laboratory was also trying to cultivate a live AIDS virus—which deranged group leaders clearly hoped to unleash on the rest on the world. The Rajneesh Chronicles is a collection of in-depth investigative and analytical articles published in Oregon Magazine covering the entire period from the time of the cult’s arrival in Oregon in mid-1981 to its dramatic disintegration at the end of 1985 (with an introductory chronology that extends the story up to the present). While most press treated the cult’s antics as a humorous sideshow typified by the Bhagwan’s dozens of Rolls-Royces, editor in chief Win McCormack and other of the magazine’s writers systematically exposed the full range of the Rajneeshees’ depraved behavior, including their involvement in prostitution and international drug smuggling, sexual exploitation of children, abuse of homeless people they imported into Rajneeshpuram to register as voters, and the use of brainwashing techniques bordering on torture. The tale of the Rajneesh has become an amorphous legend few inside or outside of Oregon actually understand. The Rajneesh Chronicles fully illuminates the shocking reality behind that legend.

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Tin House Books

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1935639099

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9781935639091

Tin House: Weird Science

By: Win Mccormack

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Tin House: Weird Science

By: Win Mccormack

Tin House is an award-winning literary magazine that publishes new writers as well as more established voices; essays as well as fiction, poetry, and interviews.

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Tin House Books

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0982650760

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9780982650769

Tin House: Summer Reading 2018

By: Holly MacArthur,Win McCormack,Rob Spillman

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Tin House: Summer Reading 2018

By: Holly MacArthur,Win McCormack,Rob Spillman

Throw on your sunglasses and prop up the parasol, Tin House is back with another Summer Reading edition. Enjoy the hottest new fiction, shine some light with uniquely personal nonfiction, and then cool off in the shade with the poets.

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Tin House Books

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1942855206

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9781942855200

The Snake River

By: Win Blevins,Winfred Blevins

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The Snake River

By: Win Blevins,Winfred Blevins

The first Super Edition of the bestselling series that has more than one million copies in print. When mountain trapper and gambler Flare O'Flaherty agrees to lead a group of missionaries down the treacherous Snake River, he faces the greatest challenge of a wandering man's lifetime in the form of Margaret Jewel, a beautiful, strong-willed teacher of Indian children.

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0553297708

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The Powder River

By: Win Blevins,Winfred Blevins

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The Powder River

By: Win Blevins,Winfred Blevins

This is the story of the journey of the Cheyenne back to their native land. With the U.S. Army in close pursuit, the Cheyenne reservation in the Southwest and head north across the plains to the freedom of the Powder River. But along the way, death is commonplace, and the tension between the Indians and the whites escalates.

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0553285831

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9780553285833

Let's Take a Walk

Discover the Habitats, Adaptations, Uses and Folklore of Some Common Wild Plants of Eastern United States

By: Win Carter

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Let's Take a Walk

Discover the Habitats, Adaptations, Uses and Folklore of Some Common Wild Plants of Eastern United States

By: Win Carter

Lets Talk a Walk" covers 15 easily accessible field trips. This book includes personal tours to many different habitats through the seasons with an experienced Audubon field botanist. Some of the communities covered are seashore, bay, roadside, waste places, ponds, etc. with the plants unique to their areas. Attractively illustrated by 75 line drawings. Publisher Gale Winston Carter (Fran Carter) 259 Glendale Dr Bristol CT 06010 Telephone (203) 583-9139.

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0962815306

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9780962815300

The Einstein Factor

A Proven New Method for Increasing Your Intelligence

By: Win Wenger, Ph.D.,Richard Poe

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The Einstein Factor

A Proven New Method for Increasing Your Intelligence

By: Win Wenger, Ph.D.,Richard Poe

The Einstein Factor liberates mental abilities you didn’t know you had. I tried the techniques in the book and they paid off instantly. It’s almost scary." —Duncan Maxwell Anderson, senior editor, Success. New research suggests that the superior achievements of famous thinkers may have been more the result of mental conditioning than genetic superiority. Now you can learn to condition your mind in the same way and improve your performance in virtually all aspects of mental ability, including memory, quickness, IQ, and learning capacity. Intelligence pioneer Dr. Win Wenger has identified the tools you need to reach greater levels of sharpness, insight, and overall intelligence. Using Wenger’s Image Streaming technique, you learn to bypass inhibitions and access the hypernormal capabilities hidden in your own subconscious. Discover how you can: • Improve your memory • Read faster and learn more quickly • Solve problems like a genius • Score higher on tests • Build self-esteem • Induce a state of total creative absorption • Access powerful subconscious insights through visualization • Increase your intelligence The Einstein Factor is your key to living an extraordinarily effective and creative life!

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Harmony

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076150186X

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9780761501862

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