Plains Societies and CulturesIndians of the Great Plains, written by Daniel J. Gelo of The University of Texas at San Antonio, is a text that emphasizes that Plains societies and cultures are continuing, living entities.Through a topical exploration, it provides a contemporary view of recent scholarship on the classic Horse Culture Period while also bringing readers up-to-date with historical and cultural developments of the 20th and 21st centuries. In addi...

This book provides a thorough and engaging study of Plains Indian life. It covers both historical and contemporary aspects and contains wide and balanced treatment of the many different tribal groups, including Canadian and southern populations. Daniel J. Gelo draws on years of ethnographic research and emphasizes that Plains societies and cultures are continuing, living entities. The second edition has been updated to take account of recent developments and current terminology. The chapte...

2025 Winner of the Conservation Society of San Antonio Publication AwardAround 1848 Wilhelm Friedrich, a young German immigrant to Texas, completed three drawings that capture unique details of life on the frontier. Friedrich’s sketches feature Comanches, Germans, a captive girl, a wagon train, the landscape and wildlife of the Texas Hill Country, and dynamic scenes of cultural contact. Friedrich is the only artist known to have produced contemporaneous images of a Comanche captive...

Ferdinand Lindheimer was already renowned as the father of Texas botany when, in late 1852, he became the founding editor of the Neu-Braunfelser Zeitung, a German-language weekly newspaper for the German settler community on the Central Texas frontier. His first year of publication was a pivotal time for the settlers and the American Indians whose territories they occupied. Based on an analysis of the paper’s first year—and drawing on methods from documentary and narrative history, ethnohi...

Winner, 2018 Presidio La Bahia Award, sponsored by the Sons of the Republic of TexasIn 1851, an article appeared in a German journal, Geographisches Jahrbuch (Geographic Yearbook), that sought to establish definitive connections, using language observations, among the Comanches, Shoshones, and Apaches. Heinrich Berghaus’s study was based on lexical data gathered by a young German settler in Texas, Emil Kriewitz, and included a groundbreaking list of Comanche words and thei...

Borderlands: they stretch across national boundaries, and they create a unique space that extends beyond the international boundary. They extend north and south of what we think of as the actual “border,” encompassing even the urban areas of San Antonio, Texas, and Monterrey, Nueva León, Mexico, affirming shared identities and a sense of belonging far away from the geographical boundary.In Bridging Cultures: Reflections on the Heritage Identity of the Texas-Mexico Borderlands

"This is the most important pre-reservation document that we have for the Comanche language . . . It should be in every university research library." —James A. Goss, Professor of Anthropology, Texas Tech UniversityThe Comanche Vocabulary collected in Mexico during the years 1861–1864 by Manuel García Rejón is by far the most extensive Comanche word list compiled before the establishment of the Kiowa-Comanche-Apache Reservation in 1867. It preserves words a...

Nesta emocionante sequência de A guerra dos tronos, George R. R. Martin cria uma obra incomparável. A fúria dos reis nos transporta para um mundo de festas e vinganças, feitiçaria e disputas, diferente de tudo que já foi feito.Um cometa da cor de fogo e sangue corta os céus. E, da antiga cidadela de Pedra do Dragão às costas áridas de Winterfell, reina o caos.Em A fúria dos reis, seis facções disputam o controle de uma terra dividi...

O festim dos corvos é o quarto livro da monumental saga de fantasia As Crônicas de Gelo e Fogo, sucesso internacional que deu origem a Game of Thrones. Neste livro, Martin coloca um reino dilacerado à beira da paz... só para ser lançado de novo rumo ao terror e à destruição.Há séculos os sete grandes reinos de Westeros se enfrentam em amargas disputas, batalhas e traições. Agora, com Joffrey Baratheon e Robb Stark fora da jogada e lordes insignificantes co...

A dança dos dragões é o quinto livro da saga As Crônicas de Gelo e Fogo, dando continuidade à trama de O festim dos corvos e trazendo personagens novos e conhecidos em disputas acirradas por um reino à beira da ruína.É outono em Westeros, e a Guerra dos Cinco Reis parece finalmente entrar na reta final. Stannis Baratheon se instala no Norte e jura conquistar o apoio dos senhores da região para continuar sua luta pelo trono, embora seja atrapalhado...

Este é o terceiro volume da série As Crônicas de Gelo e Fogo, que inclui A guerra dos tronos e A fúria dos reis. Já considerada um clássico, a obra emocionante de George R. R. Martin é um dos maiores feitos da literatura fantástica de todos os tempos.O futuro de Westeros está em jogo, e ninguém descansará até que os Sete Reinos tenham explodido em uma verdadeira tormenta de espadas.Dos cinco pretendentes ao trono, um está morto e outro caiu...

Un’esperienza invernale nelle disabitate foreste del nord della Buryatiya permette di assimilare la reale essenza dell’inverno in Siberia. Fiumi e laghi gelati, neve e ghiaccio lucido ovunque. Le temperature oscillano tra venti e quaranta gradi sotto zero.Sasha è il capofamiglia di un gruppetto di cacciatori russo-evenki, alla ricerca di pellicce per mantenere i propri familiari. In un immenso territorio si muovono senza problemi di orientamento, conoscendo a memoria ogni luogo e sp...