The great love of Blue Heron and Red Bear sustain an Ojibwe clan as it struggles to survive war, famine, and the coming of foreign explorers bearing deadly diseases.The blood feud between two rival warriors over the love of Ashagi, a strong-willed woman of great beauty and greater determination threads through this story of one Ojibwe clan on the cusp of great change. A young woman from a peaceful village, Ashagi (Blue Heron) is abducted in a raid conducted by the Sioux, the ancestr...

Before the latter half of the 2nd millennium BCE, smelted iron was virtually unknown in the Near East. Yet by the turn of the millennium iron had already begun to displace copper alloys across the region. This Element will explore the extent to which this phenomenon may have arisen as a consequence of technological developments within preceding traditions for the extraction of copper from its ores. It presents a new approach incorporating a reappraisal of current knowledge with a series of...

" The Sun Dog is a masterful conclusion to Downes's three-book saga of Native America set in the 16th century. His fiction combines top-notch historical research, Native language fluency, fully realized characters, and electrifying plot twists."— Joshua Veith, author of the Sudden Quiet trilogyA tale of sorcery, witchcraft, and romance set in the heart of Native America—where myth and truth collide, and the line b...

RAW DEAL explores the theft of Native lands by squatters, speculators, unfair treaties and blatant swindles, focusing on the Indians of the Midwest and the Great Lakes.Although Indian lands were paid for with hard cash and services provided by the U.S. government, it was always for pennies per acre, backed by the threat of removal at the point of bayonets, sabers and guns wielded by government troops and violent militias. Native peoples who bowed to government demands soon...

A sweeping saga of first contact in 16th-century America.The Wolf and the Willow transports readers to 1528, where Willow, a house slave, finds herself caught in the expedition of conquistador Panfilo de Narvaez. Their mission: to colonize Florida and plunder its rumored gold. Amidst this clash of worlds, Willow encounters Wolf, an Ojibwe trader and spy, setting the stage for an unlikely alliance.As they journey through the vibrant civilizations of...

In his late sixties, Sydney Kelpie decides to return to the southwest Colorado ranch on which he was raised and his family still keeps as a historic site. He comes to search through his and his familys diaries to determine if his memories coincide with the entries after his birth in 1945. He finds his past writings and goes on to describe his youth punching cattle and his early days as a soldier in South Vietnam in 1967.

Hope is the journey of a physician complicated by PTSD. It is a heartwarming, insightful and inspirational story.The Epic tells how his family and heritage help him stay the course to success.

A poor old widow, A young black kid, nobody cared about them until they cared enough to fight for each other.Based on a novel by Robert C.S. Downs and 1980 television film that starred Bette Davis and Ernest Harden Jr., this play adaptation is about an elderly white widow named Estelle Malone who becomes a foster mother to an African American foster teen, B.T. Williamson for the support money. When Estelle gets evicted from her apartment, B.T. joins a boxing ring t...

Queer in Europe takes stock of the intellectual and social status and treatment of queer in the New Europe of the twenty-first century, addressing the ways in which the Anglo-American term and concept 'queer' is adapted in different national contexts, where it takes on subtly different overtones, determined by local political specificities and intellectual traditions. Bringing together contributions by carefully chosen experts, this book explores key aspects of queer in a range of European...

A collection of essential writings by the father of landscape architecture and the urban park movement in the United States.Andrew Jackson Downing (1815–1852), a much-sought-after designer, influential writer, and editor of The Horticulturist, was an internationally known shaper of opinion. Robert Twombly has selected thirty-three essays on Architecture and Building, Landscape Gardening, Parks and Other Public Places, Village Beautification, Horticulture, ...

Winter 1917: As a generation of Europe’s young men perish on the Eastern and Western fronts, British spy Jack McColl is assigned a sabotage mission deep in Central Asia, where German influence is strong. The mission only becomes more dangerous the closer he gets to its heart. Meanwhile, the woman he loves, Irish-American radical journalist Caitlin Hanley, is in Bolshevik Russia, thrilled to have the chance to cover the Revolution. Caitlin knows Moscow is where she is meant to be during thi...

Celebrated artist Robert Bateman is renowned internationally for bringing the natural  world to life on the canvas. A naturalist and painter from his youth, Robert has for decades used his recognition to shed light on environmental issues and advocate for animal welfare.Robert Bateman: The Boy Who Painted Nature is the story of how a young child achieved his dream of painting the world around him and became one of Canada's most famous artists.Using Robert's own per...