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A Site of Convergence: Celebrating 10 Years of the Monash University Prato Centre

(Paperback)

By: Cynthia Troup

ISBN: 9781921867187
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2011
Publisher: Monash University Publishing
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A Site of Convergence is the result of collaboration between writer and editor Cynthia Troup, and the late Jo-Anne Duggan, the Centre's first artist in residence. It is a tribute to the humanist vision that shaped the development of the Centre, and a celebration of Jo-Anne Duggan's photographic art.

American Venice: The Epic Story of San Antonio's River

(Hardback)

By: Lewis F. Fisher

ISBN: 9781595342645
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2015
Publisher: Trinity University Press,U.S.
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The history and evolution of San Antonio's beloved River Walk

Ardkinglas: The Biography of a Highland Estate

(Paperback)

By: Christina Noble

ISBN: 9781780274867
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2018
UK Publication Date: 26th July 2018
Publisher: Birlinn General
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The story of an ancient Scottish estate.

Backpacking California: Mountain, Foothill, Coastal & Desert Adventures in the Golden State

(Paperback, 3rd Revised edition)

By: Wilderness Press

ISBN: 9780899979588
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2021
Publisher: Wilderness Press
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Backpacking California presents 74 carefully crafted backpacking trips to some of the most magnificent landscapes in the state.

Beacon in the West: A Hundred Years of the Stornoway Trust

(Hardback)

By: Roger Hutchinson

ISBN: 9781839830501
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Feb 2024
Publisher: Birlinn General
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From 1918 to the modern day, Roger Hutchinson tells the story of the Stornoway Trust, and of the people who guided their pioneering estate into the relative security and prosperity of the 21st century. In doing so he paints a vivid portrait of a unique landholding experiment, of Highland land struggle and of the island of Lewis itself.

Becoming a University: The Story of UPIKE

(Hardback)

By: Dan Stratton

ISBN: 9781667821597
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2022
Publisher: BookBaby
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Blue and White Transfer-Printed Pottery

(Paperback)

By: Robert Copeland

ISBN: 9780747804499
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2003
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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This book is intended to help all who are interested in blue and white wares, whether collectors or not.

Bob and Helen Kleberg of King Ranch

(Hardback)

By: Helen Kleberg Groves

ISBN: 9781595348173
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2017
Publisher: Trinity University Press,U.S.
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A memoir of one of the largest and most influential cattle ranches in American history

Capital of the Mind: How Edinburgh Changed the World

(Paperback)

By: James Buchan

ISBN: 9781841586397
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2007
Publisher: Birlinn General
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By the end of 18th century Edinburgh had become the marvel of modern Europe, home to the finest minds of the day and their breathtaking innovations in architecture, politics, science, the arts, and economies. This book tells the story of the triumph of this town and the men whose vision brought it into being.

Chili Queens, Hay Wagons and Fandangos: The Spanish Plazas in Frontier San Antonio

(Paperback)

By: Lewis F. Fisher

ISBN: 9781595346728
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2010
Publisher: Trinity University Press,U.S.
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Snapshots of a more colorful time in San Antonio history

Cornyation: San Antonio's Outrageous Fiesta Tradition

(Paperback)

By: Amy L. Stone

ISBN: 9781595348005
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2017
Publisher: Trinity University Press,U.S.
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Half a century of one of Texas's most iconic celebrations

Edmund Fitzgerald: The Legendary Great Lakes Shipwreck

(Paperback)

By: Elle Andra-Warner

ISBN: 9780974020730
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Dec 2009
Publisher: North Shore Press,U.S.
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It's one of the most famous, most talked about shipwrecks in our country's history. The amazing facts and captivating details are all collected here in this incomparable book. Edmund Fitzgerald is a must have, and it makes a great gift too!

Five Hundred Years in the New World, Vol. 1: WHARTON/WHORTON & Allied Families of North Carolina & Beyond, 1684-2021

(Paperback)

By: Lynn Hughes Akin

ISBN: 9781098375454
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2021
Publisher: BookBaby
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From America to Norway: Norwegian-American Immigrant Letters 1838-1914, Volume II: 1871-1892

(Hardback)

By: Orm verland

ISBN: 9780816693252
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Nov 2014
Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
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Glasgow: The Autobiography

(Paperback, New Edition)

By: Alan Taylor

ISBN: 9781780278032
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2023
UK Publication Date: 2nd March 2023
Publisher: Birlinn General
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Glasgow: The Autobiographytells the story of the fabled, former Second City of the British Empire from its origins as a bucolic village on the rivers Kelvin and Clyde, through the Industrial Revolution to the dawning of the second millennium.

Golden: How Rod Blagojevich Talked Himself out of the Governor's Office and into Prison

(Paperback)

By: Jeff Coen

ISBN: 9781613736692
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Dec 2016
Publisher: Chicago Review Press
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Green Stamps to Hot Pants: Growing Up in the 50s and 60s

(Paperback)

By: Genny Zak Kieley

ISBN: 9781932472738
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2008
Publisher: Nodin Press
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Gunfight at the O.K. Corral: In Words and Pictures

(Paperback)

By: Thom Ross

ISBN: 9781555911843
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2001
Publisher: Fulcrum Inc.,US
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Through rich paintings and a vivid telling of the famous Gunfight at the O.K. Corral, Thom Rosss shares his colorful, dramatic interpretations of the event and of the mythic figures who were there-Doc Holliday, the Earp Brothers, the Clantons and McLaurys.

Gunflint: The Trail, the People, the Stories

(Paperback)

By: John Henricksson

ISBN: 9781591933106
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2010
Publisher: Advance Publishing In.,US
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Minnesota's Gunflint region is a rugged, remote place that demands a different lifestyle. It has been home to a great number of remarkable residents. Learn about them in this incomparable book about the trail, the people and their stories.

Hastings 1066: The Fall of Saxon England

(Paperback, 2nd Revised edition)

By: Christopher Gravett

ISBN: 9781841761336
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2000
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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The Battle of Hastings changed the course of English history. Featuring a visitor's guide to the battlefield today, this edition contains new views of the battlefield and gives information on the best-known figures of British heritage.

Insurrection: Scotland's Famine Winter

(Paperback, New in Paperback)

By: James Hunter

ISBN: 9781780276786
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2022
UK Publication Date: 3rd March 2022
Publisher: Birlinn General
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When Scotlands 1846 potato crop was wiped out by blight, the country was plunged into crisis.The dramatic events that followed have long been ignored or forgotten. Now, in James Hunter, they have their historian. The story he tells is, by turns, moving, anger-making and inspiring.

Jos Mara de Jess Carvajal: The Life and Times of a Mexican Revolutionary

(Paperback)

By: Joseph E. Chance

ISBN: 9781595347886
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2006
Publisher: Trinity University Press,U.S.
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A pioneering biography of the Mexican revolutionary Carvajal, a central figure in the development of colonial Texas

Killing the Poormaster: The Depression-Era Murder That Put America's Welfare System on Trial

(Paperback)

By: Holly Metz

ISBN: 9781613736517
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2017
Publisher: Chicago Review Press
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Lake Effect: Along Superiors Shores

(Paperback)

By: Erika Alin

ISBN: 9780816641147
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2003
Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
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