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The Cherokees
In this richly detailed cultural and political history, David Narrett shows how Cherokee nationhood emerged from the pressures of colonial encounter. Cherokee diplomats--including women--take center stage, adeptly managing relationships with European empires and Indigenous rivals and in the process forging solidarities among once-disparate Cherokees.
Fields of Vision
A classic work of history, ethnography, and botany, and an examination of the life and environs of the 18th-century south William Bartram was a naturalist, artist, and author of Travels through North and South Carolina, Georgia, East and West Florida, the Cherokee Country, the ExtensiveTerritories of the Muscogulees, or Creek Confederacy, and the Country of the Choctaws. The book, based on his journey across the South, reflects a remarkable coming of age. In 1773, Bartram departed his family home near Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, as a British colonist; in 1777, he returned as a citizen of an emerging nation of the United States. The account of his journey, published in 1791, established a nat...
White People, Indians, and Highlanders
In nineteenth century paintings, the proud Indian warrior and the Scottish Highland chief appear in similar ways--colorful and wild, righteous and warlike, the last of their kind. Earlier accounts depict both as barbarians, lacking in culture and in need of civilization. By the nineteenth century, intermarriage and cultural contact between the two--described during the Seven Years' War as cousins--was such that Cree, Mohawk, Cherokee, and Salish were often spoken with Gaelic accents. In this imaginative work of imperial and tribal history, Colin Calloway examines why these two seemingly wildly disparate groups appear to have so much in common. Both Highland clans and Native American societie...
Blood on the Irons
Sergeant Jacob Brenner is a twenty-five year veteran of the Indianapolis Police Department. Working narcotics and vice for much of his career, Brenner had always lived on the dangerous edge of life until he met Carla Waltz. A niece to wealthy banker and businessman, William Skiles, Brenner has finally found someone who he loves and more importantly, trusts. On the eve of his proposing marriage, Carla is suddenly killed. The coroner rules her death accidental, but Brenner suspects differently. Why is his investigation met with resistance from the family and the Department? Another death investigation on the Skiles estate leads Brenner to an unexpected meeting with the CIA. Brenner is recruite...
House Rules
“No action is bad in itself; I mean, even murder can be justified...” Set in the familiar setting of a pub, House Rules follows the story of three unlikely heroes who come together and show that it is possible to carry out an evil act, and get away with it. Martin is a computer expert. After his family run into financial difficulties, he believes that he can manipulate the money supply and rise from the ashes, but his psychotic tendencies and reliance on alcohol get in the way. Richard is a public schoolboy, creative soul and leading light in the advertising industry. When the two men become friends in a profound way, they team up to rule the pub with a rod of iron. Joanna and Sabrina, t...
Heatherbound
Heatherbound is an agricultural planet, newly settled by dissidents from Great Britain. Kendell McCreight, a brilliant biochemist, and one of the original colonists, searches for a plant that would be of value to Earth for trade purposes. If he does not find something, Heatherbound could become an economic slave to Earth. In his search he discovers the Dasurainians, a powerful telepathic alien race. They are stranded on Heatherbound, which is to them a very warm planet. Kendell aids them with cryogenics so that they may hibernate until a planet they have genetically altered grows enough fuel for their spaceship to take them home. In exchange for his assistance, they give him a plant that when processed becomes a lightweight metal, stronger than steel. One hundred years later, his grandson, Cameron, races against time to save the Dasurainians, when he hears their telepathic cry for help. Earth covets Heatherbound for the seemingly endless cornucopia of valuable plants and sends a fleet to invade and conquer.
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The Urbanism of Exception
This book argues that understanding global urbanism in the twenty-first century requires us to cast our gaze upon vast city-regions without an urban core.
The Chief's Footsteps
This book recounts the remarkable life of Roy Peck, a quintessential yet extraordinary Canadian. Born into an austere rural situation, he stuck by home and family through tough times and discovered the fun of living and the benefits of choosing well. He received Canada's and Quebec's top honours for his chosen genres in the shooting sports of target archery and rifle. The young athletes of the Northeast Pontiac and Central Gatineau nicknamed him "The Chief" for his winning ways as their coach and mentor, and they still call him "The Chief." And anyone who hired him as their carpenter or builder will testify that all his doors still work very well....
