Volume I - BiographyRowena Granice Steele (1824-1901)-actress, author, newspaper publisher, suffragist, lecturer on social issues-began her career on stage at Barnum's American Museum in New York and performed with companies around the U.S. and in Gold Rush California and the Sandwich Islands (Hawaii). In 1859 she became the West Coast's first female novelist and over the next 35 years produced more than sixty short stories and four novels. From 1862 to 1890 Rowena and her husband ...

Description: In her forty-year career Rowena Granice Steele, California pioneer, actress, author, newspaper publisher, wrote, by her own estimation, sixty short stories and four novels. Volume I is the story of her life, Volume II is a collection of her short stories and novels written from 1857 to 1873, and here, in Volume III, is the remainder of her life's work published from 1874 to 1893.

TodayOs growing fascination with flows of people, commodities, technology, capital, images and ideas across national and other boundaries poses fresh theoretical and methodological challenges to anthropology. Commodities offer a particularly useful window on globalization because they, unlike electronically conveyed capital, transport cultural messages. These ideological or symbolic transfers are of particular interest to economic anthropology. This collection considers how conceptions and...

This ambitious interdisciplinary volume places population processes in their social, political, and economic contexts while it considers their environmental impacts. Examining the multi-faceted patterns of human relationships that overlay, alter, and distort our ties to urban and rural landscapes, the book focuses especially on the essential experi

The questions that drive Priscilla Long’s Fire and Stone are the questions asked by the painter Paul Gauguin in the title of his 1897 painting: Where Do We Come From? What Are We? Where Are We Going? These questions look beyond everyday trivialities to ponder the essence of our origins.Using her own story as a touchstone, Long explores our human roots and how they shape who we are today. Her personal history encompasses childhood as an identical twin on a dairy fa...

For eReaders... Complete - Astacien wakes from a dream and takes you by the hand to draw you into her story, a fantastic adventure, to be sure, as her idyllic life is turned upside-down. Living in a fantastic world of elves and orcs and wizards, Astacien is quick-tempered but courageous. She has been sheltered her entire life, but that is about to change as she embarks on a journey that she soon realizes is no mere adventure, but a quest to (ultimately) save her world. She bravely faces da...

For recently engaged DI Joanna Piercy, a murder is the last thing she wants to deal with. Especially one with as dark a back story as that relating to calculating landowner and farmer Jakob Grimshaw; a man who managed to make enemies of all his neighbours and what little family he still had. One thing is certain; Joanna has a tough job ahead of her...