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The Proto-Neolithic Cemetery in Shanidar Cave
This is a report on the excavation of the Shanidar Cave, nestled in the Zagros Mountains, where archaeologists have discovered artefacts and skeletal remains that offer evidence …
Who Belongs in America?
Through their rhetoric, presidents help to create the frame for the American public's understanding of immigration. In an overarching essay and ten case studies, ""Who Belongs in …
Culture in the American Southwest
Humans create culture, but in the American Southwest, argues the author of this book, the land itself has also influenced that creation. The peoples of the American Southwest share …
Texas Blues
Texas Blues allows artists to speak in their own words, revealing the dynamics of blues, from its beginnings in cotton fields and shotgun shacks to its migration across boundaries …
A Dazzle of Dragonflies
From fossils and folklore to life cycles and the latest in digital imaging techniques, A Dazzle of Dragonflies will take you into the far-reaching and sometimes secret world of one …
Nicolaes Witsen and Shipbuilding in the Dutch Golden Age
In Nicolaes Witsen and Shipbuilding in the Dutch Golden Age, Hoving, master model builder for the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam, sorts out the steps in Witsen’s method for building a …
The Wichita Indians
A history of the Wichita Indians from their first contact with Europeans in 1540 until 1845, when the United States annexed Texas. Offering descriptions of their battles, …
Drinking Water
Over the past several years, the safety of public drinking water has often been called into question. Is fluoridated water safe to drink? Is there lead or radon in tap water? …
The U.S. Army and the Texas Frontier Economy, 1845-1900
Seventy million dollars in fifty-five years. From Texas' annexation in 1845 until the turn of the twentieth century, the U.S. Army pumped at least that much or more into the …
Victory on the Potomac
War is waged not only on battlefields. In the mid-1980s a high-stakes struggle to redesign the relationships among the Joint Chiefs of Staff, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs, the …
Now the Wolves Come Home
In the winter of 1861-62, nine thousand Native Americans in Indian Territory took a chance. Drawing on little else but wits, raw courage, and unshakable faith in the old gods, and …
The Athlit Ram
In November, 1980, the eastern shallows of the Mediterranean near the village of Athlit, Israel, yielded a remarkable artifact of ancient military history: the bronze ram and …