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Hobbies and crafts, War
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This third volume in Moller&’s authoritative reference work describes muzzleloading percussion shoulder arms procured by the U.S. government for issue…
to federal and state armed forces in the period that includes the Civil War. These twenty-five years were an exciting time in the history of shoulder arms. During the 1840s, only a handful of American manufacturers were capable of producing significant quantities of arms having fully interchangeable components. By the early 1850s, at least one firm was producing rifles with close enough tolerances to be considered fully interchangeable. And thanks to the invention of the expanding bullet, rifled arms could be used by an army&’s entire infantry. For the first time, line infantry were equipped with arms capable of rapid reloading and of consistently hitting a man-sized target at distances as great as three hundred yards. Like the first two volumes of American Military Shoulder Arms, this exhaustive reference work will be a must for serious arms collectors, dealers, and museum specialists.
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Archaeology
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This edited volume offers archaeologists and archaeometrists the latest technical information, the fundamentals of provenance studies, instrumentation used in these…
investigations, and strategies for the dating and interpretation of archaeological materials in glass studies. The contributors discuss recent advances in obsidian hydration dating, secondary ion mass spectrometry, and infrared photoacoustic spectroscopy, focusing on the application of these technologies to a variety of glass forms and incorporating studies that look at the social and economic strategies of past cultures. With examples from Greece, the Middle East, Italy, Peru, Bolivia, Russia, Africa, and the Pacific region, provenance studies look at regional patterns of glass acquisition, production, and exchange, providing examples that use one or more instrumental methods to characterize materials from ancient societies. Extensive figures and tables included.
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Politics and government biography, Politics and government
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In his thirty-year career representing the citizens of New Mexico in the US Senate, Jeff Bingaman witnessed great things accomplished…
through the legislative process. He also had a front-row seat for the breakdown of governing norms and the radical increases in polarization and partisanship that now plague what was once called the world&’s greatest deliberative body. Breakdown: Lessons for a Congress in Crisis traces the development of congressional dysfunction over more than three decades and provides eight case studies that examine how the crisis affects our government&’s ability to meet major policy challenges. We didn&’t always have a Senate that failed in its basic public obligations, including catalyzing a robust economy, confronting climate change, improving health care, fixing education, preserving public lands, and avoiding unnecessary wars. We do now.Presenting insightful analysis of the causes and consequences of the dysfunction in Congress, Breakdown shows how Congress fails at the tasks Americans expect it to perform and, more importantly, how it might begin again to succeed.
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Short stories
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These stories from four decades are grounded in the geographical, cultural, and psychological American West. Ranging from realism to fables,…
from childhood to senescence, from a faltering rancher to the rich and rocky road of fatherhood, Woodswork is filled with indelible characters keenly rendered. This is not fast-food fiction but a nourishing feast.
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History
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Newly pertinent to today&’s coronavirus pandemic, this study of disease among the native peoples of the New World before and…
after 1492 challenges many widely held notions about encounters between European and native peoples. Whereas many late twentieth century scholars blamed the catastrophic decline of postconquest native populations on the introduction of previously unknown infections from the Old World, Alchon argues that the experiences of native peoples in the New World closely resembled those of other human populations. Exposure to lethal new infections resulted in rates of morbidity and mortality among native Americans comparable to those found among Old World populations.Why then did native American populations decline by 75 to 90 percent in the century following contact with Europeans? Why did these populations fail to recover, in contrast to those of Africa, Asia, and Europe? Alchon points to the practices of European colonialism. Warfare and slavery increased mortality, and forced migrations undermined social, political, and economic institutions.This timely study effectively overturns the notion of New World exceptionalism. By showing that native Americans were not uniquely affected by European diseases, Alchon also undercuts the stereotypical notion of the Americas as a new Eden, free of disease and violence until the intrusion of germ-laden, rapacious Europeans.
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Sports and games
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Why would a successful college basketball coach walk away from a lucrative job in America's most glamorous sport? The burned…
out Rus Bradburd, enamored with Ireland and its music, took a job coaching in the lowly Irish Super League, but was unprepared for what he found. Perplexed by the small town Tralee's Frosties Tigers--a cast of misfits and underachievers more concerned with their day jobs, Gaelic Football, and Guinness--he turned to traditional Irish music for wisdom and solace. Paddy on the Hardwood is partly Rus Bradburd's story of his struggle to transform Tralee's Tigers. But it is also the tale of a man making peace with his own life and career.No reader will come away from this irresistible, honest, and deeply human account without a profound appreciation for Ireland and the beguiling power of its people and culture. Paddy on the Hardwood is a basketball book, to be sure, but also one about questing and, ultimately, finding. And it's all the richer for how it engages things that seem distant from sports, but in the end aren't so unrelated at all.--Alexander Wolff, Sports Illustrated senior writer and author of Big Game, Small World: A Basketball AdventurePaddy on the Hardwood is hilarious, heartbreaking, and touching--I couldn't put it down. I'm an avid reader, and it's the best sports book I've read in a long while.--Jerry West
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Adventure stories, Science fiction, Friendship stories, Suspense and thrillers
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Wren Derecho has successfully time travelled back to the present, confident that the dangerous and powerful orb has been lost…
forever in the broken shards of time. However, her sense of relief quickly turns to horror when she realizes the orb has mysteriously reappeared and things are not the same as when she left them. Now Wren must navigate through the new timeline and overcome the unexpected obstacles and twists it presents. As she struggles to adapt, she learns about Operation Aquarius Deep, a DAWN mission to retrieve ground-breaking tech from the hands of the ruthless Cyril Elton-Blackwood. But things have changed drastically for the worst in this new reality and everything that Wren thought she knew is now unfamiliar and beginning to spiral out of control. Could the orb, an other-worldly power source, be the cause of all this confusion? Or is it possible that even more formidable forces are at play? With the help of her friends, Wren must try to bend time and rewrite fate to avoid disaster. Secrets will be revealed, lives will be stolen, and the past will return to haunt those who wish to forget it.Finalist for the Foreword Reviews Indies Award!
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Journals and memoirs, Nature, United States travel and geography
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When the great environmental writer Edward Abbey died in 1989, four of his friends buried him secretly in a hidden…
desert spot that no one would ever find. The final resting place of the Thoreau of the American West remains unknown and has become part of American folklore. In this book a young writer who went looking for Abbey&’s grave combines an account of his quest with a creative biography of Abbey.Sean Prentiss takes readers across the country as he gathers clues from his research, travel, and interviews with some of Abbey&’s closest friends—including Jack Loeffler, Ken &“Seldom Seen&” Sleight, David Petersen, and Doug Peacock. Along the way, Prentiss examines his own sense of rootlessness as he attempts to unravel Abbey&’s complicated legacy, raising larger questions about the meaning of place and home.
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Poetry
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Rooted in the Midwest but at home anywhere, Glenna Luschei has spent over fifty years writing and supporting other writers…
in the midst of adventures that have taken her around the globe. Now in her late eighties and as vibrant as ever, Luschei has crafted a collection that comprises a retrospective of her life: her youth during World War II; her adventures in New Mexico, Colombia, Cuba, and elsewhere; and her ongoing love affair with the arts. Luschei relives highs and lows through these poems and reminds readers to live life to the fullest as we never know if tomorrow will be our last day. Join Luschei as she embraces the gift of living and a life that is full of hope and love rather than regret in this reflective work.
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Essays
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Rick Bass&’s Fortunate Son is a literary tour of the Lone Star State by a native Texan of exceptional talent.…
The essays encompass a Texas that is both lost and found, past and present. The stories reach from Galveston Bay to the Hill Country outside Austin, and from Houston in the 1960s to today. They are bound together by a deep love and a keen eye for the land and its people and by an appreciation for what is given, a ruefulness for what is lost, and a commitment to save what can be saved.&“This is a journalist&’s Texas scrapbook, then: a firefighting story, a musical pilgrimage, a ramble in Texas&’s tiniest public wilderness (one of only five in the entire state). Fishing with my father and uncle on a lake that is partly in Texas and partly in Louisiana; flying around the borders of Texas—usually defined by water, a resource that will vanish in much of the state within our lifetime; hanging out at my parents&’ cattle farm down near Goliad; reading the work of Texans before me.&”—from the Introduction
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Poetry
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Although highly regarded as a writer of fiction, nonfiction, and drama, N. Scott Momaday considers himself primarily a poet. This…
first book of his poems to be published in over a decade, Again the Far Morning comprises a varied selection of new work along with the best from his four earlier books of poems: Angle of Geese (1974), The Gourd Dancer (1976), In the Presence of the Sun (1992), and In the Bear&’s House (1999).To read Momaday&’s poems from the last forty years is to understand that his focus on Kiowa traditions and other American Indian myths is further evidence of his spectacular formal accomplishments. His early syllabic verse, his sonnets, and his mastery of iambic pentameter are echoed in more recent work, and prose poetry has been part of his oeuvre from the beginning. The new work includes the elegies and meditations on mortality that we expect from a writer whose career has been as long as Momaday&’s, but it also includes light verse and sprightly translations of Kiowa songs.
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Journals and memoirs, Social issues, Psychology
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In the face of clashing family backgrounds and sexual abuse as a child, Marcos's extraordinary memoir maps his journey through…
self-discovery, from his Salvadoran-Appalachian parentage to his success as a writer, his mental illness, and his healing in an extraordinary memoir.In Speak of It, Marcos McPeek Villatoro explores how he channeled his Latino roots to come to terms with the childhood sexual abuse he suffered at the hands of a relative in his home in Appalachia, and he recounts his ensuing struggle with trauma and mental illness.The son of a Salvadoran mother and a Scotch Irish father, Marcos spent much of his life struggling to break away from the trauma he experienced in childhood by striving to get closer to his Salvadoran heritage. His journey includes steeping himself in the Spanish language and Latin American literature, especially the work of Gabriel García Marquez; a stint in Nicaragua with Witness for Peace, followed by missionary work in Guatemala; and social-justice work with Mexican migrant farmworkers in Alabama. Each experience brought him closer to understanding where he came from and to forging an identity as a whole self in the wake of trauma.Riveting, horrifying, moving, and inspiring, Speak of It is a testament to the healing power of language, books, and identity.
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History
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2023 marks the fiftieth anniversary of General Pinochet&’s coup on September 11, 1973. During the wave of mass arrests, torture,…
and executions that followed, people began fleeing Chile. Over the next fifteen years some two hundred thousand Chileans sought exile in countries around the world. Out of their anguish and anger come these moving and powerful testimonies of their fractured lives—the first oral history of the Chilean diaspora, now revised and updated.Many who fled had been tortured, and they clung to the principle that the dictatorship was an evil that had to be destroyed. But their zeal and solidarity with other refugees often failed to sustain families. Many marriages collapsed, and children lost interest in their native land and culture. After civilian rule returned in 1990, many returning exiles felt estranged from a homeland forever changed. This timely update of the 1998 collection continues to remind us of the fracturing legacy and enduring oppression of usurpation and authoritarian rule long after its time has passed.
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Poetry
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&“Welcome to Kate Gale&’s world. There are glass houses, a glass orchestra, sex on the roof. . . . Kate…
Gale knows her Bible and plays whatever music she wants on that musical instrument—but her música is always fresh, and it achieves wisdom.&”—Ilya Kaminsky, author of Dancing in Odessa&“The clipped jumpy rhythm of these poems with their sudden bursts of syntax prove repeatedly that Kate Gale possesses a poetic tone and pace all her own. She is also refreshingly out of step with today&’s poetry of self-absorption, for she is fascinated less by her ego than by the strange variety of the world around us.&”—Billy Collins, former U.S. Poet Laureate
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Food and drink
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For more than ten thousand years, humans have been fascinated by a seemingly innocuous plant with bright-colored fruits that bite…
back when bitten. Ancient New World cultures from Mexico to South America combined these pungent pods with every conceivable meat and vegetable, as evident from archaeological finds, Indian artifacts, botanical observations, and studies of the cooking methods of the modern descendants of the Incas, Mayas, and Aztecs. In Chile Peppers: A Global History, Dave DeWitt, a world expert on chiles, travels from New Mexico across the Americas, Europe, Africa, and Asia chronicling the history, mystery, and mythology of chiles around the world and their abundant uses in seventy mouth-tingling recipes.
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Asian history, History, Politics and government
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This open access book examines the life and work of Koki Hirota, who served as Japan's foreign minister and prime…
minister from 1933 to 1938 - the period that saw the final Japanese diplomatic attempts at achieving a modus vivendi with China before the outbreak of the Second Sino-Japanese War. It looks at the failed attempts to prevent that war from evolving into a protracted conflict. Hirota's actions and inactions during this time resulted in a death sentence at the Tokyo Trials following the end of the Second World War, making him the only civilian official to meet such a fate. Hirota is seen as a martyr-like figure in Japan, but this book counters this public image by showing how, despite initially championing a cooperative relationship with China as foreign and prime minister, he continually acquiesced to the military's demands before being swept away by the rise of populist politics that followed early Japanese success in the Second Sino-Japanese War. As the first biography of Hirota to be published in English, this book provides an in-depth account of Sino-Japanese relations and Japanese diplomacy during this critical period and examines the ultimate failure of the civilian government to check the adventurism of the Japanese army. It is relevant to historians of Japan, and to those interested in diplomatic history, and the Second World War - as well as scholars working in various areas of contemporary East Asian politics.
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Computers and internet, General non-fiction, Physics, Law and crime
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Dieses Buch stellt ein Kompendium ausgewählter spiel- und entscheidungstheoretischer Modelle zur Erreichung und Bewertung der Sicherheit kritischer Infrastrukturen vor. Angesichts…
aktueller Berichte über Sicherheitsvorfälle verschiedenster Art lässt sich ein Paradigmenwechsel hin zu immer heterogeneren Angriffen erkennen. Hierbei werden verschiedene Techniken kombiniert werden, was zu einer fortgeschrittenen, anhaltenden Bedrohung führen kann. Sicherheitsvorkehrungen müssen diesen vielfältigen Bedrohungsmustern in ebenso vielfältiger Weise gerecht werden. Als Antwort darauf bietet dieses Buch eine Fülle von Techniken zum Schutz vor und zur Abschwächung von IT-Angriffen. Ein Großteil der traditionellen Sicherheitsforschung konzentriert sich auf bestimmte Angriffsszenarien oder Anwendungen und ist bestrebt, einen Angriff "praktisch unmöglich" zu machen. Ein neueres Sicherheitskonzept betrachtet die Sicherheit als ein Szenario, in dem die Kosten eines Angriffs den möglichen Nutzen übersteigen. Dies schließt die Möglichkeit eines Angriffs nicht aus, sondern minimiert die Wahrscheinlichkeit eines solchen auf das geringstmögliche Risiko. Das Buch folgt dieser ökonomischen Definition von Sicherheit und bietet eine managementwissenschaftliche Sichtweise, die ein Gleichgewicht zwischen Sicherheitsinvestitionen und dem daraus resultierenden Nutzen anstrebt. Es konzentriert sich auf die Optimierung von Ressourcen angesichts von Bedrohungen wie Terrorismus und fortgeschrittenen, anhaltenden Bedrohungen. Ausgehend von der Erfahrung der Autoren und inspiriert von realen Fallstudien bietet das Buch einen systematischen Ansatz für die Sicherheit und Widerstandsfähigkeit kritischer Infrastrukturen. Das Buch ist eine Mischung aus theoretischer Arbeit und praktischen Erfolgsgeschichten und richtet sich vor allem an Studenten und Praktiker, die eine Einführung in spiel- und entscheidungstheoretische Techniken für die Sicherheit suchen. Die erforderlichen mathematischen Konzepte sind in sich abgeschlossen, werden rigoros eingeführt und durch Fallstudien illustriert. Das Buch bietet auch Software-Tools, die den Leser bei der praktischen Anwendung der wissenschaftlichen Modelle und Berechnungsrahmen unterstützen. Dieses Buch ist eine Übersetzung einer englischen Originalausgabe. Die Übersetzung wurde mit Hilfe von künstlicher Intelligenz (maschinelle Übersetzung durch den Dienst DeepL.com) erstellt. Eine anschließende menschliche Überarbeitung erfolgte vor allem in Bezug auf den Inhalt, so dass sich das Buch stilistisch anders liest als eine herkömmliche Übersetzung.
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Essays
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&“These thirty-three prose inventions of Christopher Middleton constitute the fourth pillar of an extraordinary literary oeuvre, the other three being…
his poetry, translations, and literary essays. Whatever one chooses to call these often astonishing miniatures, they are certainly Middleton&’s wildest, most accessible and entertaining work, and they count as some of his very finest writing.&”— August Kleinzahler, ForewordThese uncategorizable writings by a distinguished poet and translator are lively, erudite, and creative. Like his poetry, Middleton&’s prose pieces are alive with incongruity, collage, and surprising juxtapositions. This extensive collection is the perfect addition to every student&’s, scholar&’s, and avid reader&’s bookshelf.
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United States history, Arts and entertainment, Indigenous peoples
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The distinguished American Indian photographer Lee Marmon has documented over sixty years of Laguna history: its people, customs, and cultural…
changes. Here more than one hundred of Marmon&’s photos showcase his talents while highlighting the cohesive, adaptive, and independent character of the Laguna people.Along with Marmon&’s own oral history of the tribe and his family photos dating back to 1872, Tom Corbett presents archival images and historical research, making this the most complete published history of any southwestern pueblo. Marmon and Corbett also interviewed noted tribal elders and oral historians regarding customs, religious practices, and events of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.The resulting narrative provides a fascinating story of survival through severe natural and man-made adversities, including droughts, plagues, marauding tribes, and cultural invasion. Through it all, Laguna has preserved its culture and retained sovereign powers over the pueblo and its territory.
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Historical biography
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Between 1872 and 1886, before he achieved acclaim for his Wild West show, Buffalo Bill led a troupe of traveling…
actors known as a Combination across the country performing in frontier melodramas. Biographies of William Frederick Cody rarely address these fourteen rather obscure years when Cody honed the skills that would make him the world-renowned entertainer as he is now remembered.In this revision of her earlier book, Buffalo Bill, Actor, Sandra Sagala chronicles the decade and a half of Cody's life as he crisscrossed the country entertaining millions. She analyzes how the lessons he learned during those theatrical years helped shape his Wild West program, as well as Cody, the performer.