The name Parr may not be familiar to most readers, but many know Lyndon Johnson's first U.S. Senate election was tainted: this 1948 "Box 13" fraud was perpetrated in the town of Alice in Jim Wells County, Texas, by George Parr, the "duke" of neighboring Duval County. Clark, an assistant federal prosecutor under U.S. Attorney William Sessions (later FBI director) in the1970s, played a key role in the long federal grand jury investigation of the Parr machine and later trials of its leading o...

By the time of the Civil War, the railroads had advanced to allow the movement of large numbers of troops even though railways had not yet matured into a truly integrated transportation system. Gaps between lines, incompatible track gauges, and other vexing impediments remained in both the North and South. As John E. Clark explains in this compelling study, the skill with which Union and Confederate war leaders met those problems and utilized the rail system to its fullest potential was an...

Se estudian piezas como los espejos de obsidiana, las manos y metates, las puntas tipo Clovis, los bifaciales, los raspadores de maguey y las navajillas prismáticas de obsidiana, así como los objetos del Posclásico producidos en el Altiplano; también se presenta un texto con un enfoque geológico de los materiales utilizados.

Enduring Motives examines tradition and religious beliefs as they are expressed in landscape, the built environment, visual symbols, stories, and ritual.Bringing together archaeologists and Native American experts, this volume focuses on long-lived religious traditions of the native peoples of the Americas and how religion codifies, justifies, and reinforces these traditions by placing a high value on continuity of beliefs and practice.Using clues from the archaeol...

用地圖讀懂世界史背後的權謀與智識從製圖者的洞察與偏見，走入經緯度上的真實與野心。人類愛看著地圖探索知識、設定戰略、發想創意、開疆擴土；大製圖師則是地圖背後那位翻轉時代命題，或是為權力者操弄歷史視角的魔鬼畫家！‧一幅地質圖，促成轉折戰局的敦克爾克大撤退‧哈利．貝克創新手法繪製的倫敦地鐵圖，普惠全球交通識別系統‧安迪．沃荷的蘇聯導彈基地圖，顛覆製圖模式，化為諷喻時事的媒介‧德製宣傳地圖，蓄意引發大眾恐懼、合理戰爭行為‧殖民主義時代的歐洲列強，僅憑一張非洲地圖就肆意瓜分領地，開啟黑色大陸百年政治動盪本書收錄百幅最珍貴的關鍵歷史地圖，自上古到現代、橫跨真實地理與想像空間。包括：引領13世紀以後製圖基礎的托勒密「世界地圖」、探討人類與宇宙關係的「天文圖」、奠定北歐神話架構的「九界圖」、製圖師依付費者需求量身打...

"99 Science Fiction Short Stories" brings together some of the finest sci fi short stories ever crafted. Featuring gems from masters of the genre, such as H.G Wells , Robert Barr , PKD, Marion Zimmer Bradley, Norton, and many, many more!

"How can we sing the Lord's song by the rivers of Babylon?"In A Tale of Two Trees, book and album two of The Well Trilogy, we ask: When drought, exile, and confusion have left her parched, what choices will the Bride of Christ make to root herself in Jesus, take up her abandoned harp, and keep what seems like a foolish feast of faith in enemy territory? Will the the singers go silent? Or will they set their hearts on pilgrimage, finding that even ...

Science Fiction and Fantasy stories of STRANGEST ilk.Other Tales: Volume III contains eight bizarre and incredible tales of science fiction and fantasy, including the first ever Conan novella by Robert E. Howard, a science fiction story evidently about autism written in 1955, and an original Vonneguttian tale by author Robert Westley, writer of Natural Magic: A Helminverse Novel.Volume III contains stories by:Leigh Brackett...

If you were looking for the Holy Bible of the horror anthologies, consider yourself lucky, because you just found it!Cosmic horror, supernatural events, ghost stories, weird fiction, mystical fantasies, occult narratives, this book plunges you into dark domains and brings you face to face with surreal monstrosities.This box set includes all the seven volumes of the collection.

Following orders from President Thomas Jefferson, Captains Meriwether Lewis and William Clark set out from their wintering camp in Illinois in 1804 to search for a river passage to the Pacific Ocean. This is the riveting account of their journey.In their own words, recorded in the famous journals of Lewis and Clark, the members of the Corps of Discovery tell their story with an immediacy and power missing from secondhand accounts. All of their triumphs and terrors are here: the thr...

This holiday, we proudly present to you this unique collection of the greatest Christmas stories. Over 250 of them are included by your favourite authors:Charles Dickens, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Leo Tolstoy, Willa Cather, Beatrix Potter, Louisa May Alcott, Lucy Maud Montgomery, Hans Christian Andersen, E.T.A. Hoffmann, O. Henry, Mark Twain and many more!

An anthology of speculative climate fiction and poetry by authors from around the world.Fishing for ghosts. Saving the Agassiz Icefield.A new North strong and sustainable. Robot mermaids with lasers.Teenage solar rogues. Activist archivists.The Queen of the May and the protean Lord of the Sea, struggling to cope with changes large and small.A future West both weird and wild.These greener futures hold all this and more.