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Persian Mosaic: Getting Back to Iran After 25 Years

History

Devine, David

Middle East

iUniverse

In 1875, Charles Crocker, Mark Hopkins, Collis Huntington, and Leland Stanford of the Southern Pacific Railroad Company began taking steps to construct a southern transcontinental railroad line east from California. The implementation problems encountered over the next six years, the company's internal disagreements along with those it had with its rivals, and the anticipated regional economic benefits the tracks would bring comprise the concluding chapters of Slavery, Scandal, and Steel Rails. The book's beginning details how the southwestern territory those rails crossed was purchased from Mexico in 1854. James Gadsden of Charleston, South Carolina started championing a southern cross-country railroad in 1846 to improve his hometown's economy and to export slavery west of Texas. At the conclusion of the Mexican American War two years later, the United States obtained 600,000 square miles of new territory, but not enough to accommodate the southern route. That is why, at the urging of Jefferson Davis, Gadsden was appointed Minister to Mexico. Gadsden's negotiations to acquire more Mexican land were complicated by several factors, including dubious instructions from a secret messenger. He was able, however, to finalize a treaty, which was later substantially altered by the United States Senate, that resulted in the Gadsden Purchase.

SLAVERY, SCANDAL, AND STEEL RAILS: The 1854 Gadsden Purchase and the Building of the Second Transcontinental Railroad Across Arizona and New Mexico Twenty-Five Years Later

Americas

Once considered the "Metropolis of Arizona," Tucson is in many respects a college town with a major military base onto which a retirement community has been grafted. A sprawling city of one million in the Sonoran Desert, Tucson was developed during and especially for the second half of the 20th century, a reality which has left it possibly unprepared for the challenges of the 21st century. 
Tracing the remarkable history of Tucson since 1854, this book describes many aspects of the community--its ceremonies and customs, its early bitter battle to secure the University of Arizona, its multitude of problems, its noteworthy successes and its racial divides. The recollections of those who have made Tucson such a memorable place are included, from political leaders to celebrities to ordinary residents.

Tucson: A History of the Old Pueblo from the 1854 Gadsden Purchase

McFarland Company

Growing Food God’s Way is a compelling biography of accomplished gardener and arborist Paul Gautschi. Known world-wide for his connection with God’s world of nature from the viral documrntary: Back to Eden. This authorized work explores the man and his wildly successful garden and orchard…while applying revealed principles to guide our daily lives as well. This is not a book about gardening, it is a book about life and wisdom, as experienced by Paul and many others. 
Home gardeners in 208 countries agree that you can grow better produce with much less cost and less work if you do it God’s way. The 2nd edition updates most chapters and adds six new chapters! There are now 107 photos, a new bibliography, and a new Index to help you find what you're looking for.\nCAUTION: this book may rock your worldview!

Growing Food God's Way: How Paul Gautschi Takes Us Back to Eden and Beyond

Crafts, Hobbies & Home

Gardening & Landscape Design

S & P Providers

This is a book that can teach you how to become a conjurer in half an hour. It describes fifty baffling card tricks and explains the way to perform them. If you are meeting friends at any sort of gathering and want to be popular or in the ''limelight'', you cannot do better than to study these pages. Complete with simple instructions and helpful illustrations, this book is ideal for the amateur magician and makes for a great addition to collections of magic trick literature. The chapters of this book include: The Index Clue, The King of Hearts, The ''One-Way'' Card Trick, The Faked Pack, The Lost Ace, The Four Knaves, Cutting The Card, The Holy Cards, Their Selection, The Fakes Half-Dozen, Can Cards Fly?, The Disappearing Card, and more. We are proud to republish this antique book now complete with a new introduction on magic tricks.

The Best Fifty Card Tricks

Humor & Entertainment

Puzzles & Games

Davies Press

Historic Tales of Territorial Tucson: 1854-1912 (American Chronicles)

Tucson was originally settled in 1775, and the Gadsden Purchase brought the tiny settlement on the Santa Cruz River into the United States in 1854. In the decades leading up to Arizona's statehood in 1912, the territory's largest city was rife with excitement. A seven-headed, four-hundred-foot-long sea serpent prophesied to the townsfolk. Lady bicyclists caused an uproar with their "divided skirts." The new railroad brought three presidents to town. From the city's brief time in the Confederacy to its crusades against drinking and gambling, from bullfighting rings to sanitariums, author Dave Devine relates stories of the little-known, sometimes lighthearted and often unusual events and personalities of Tucson.

The History Press

Tucson was originally settled in 1775, and the Gadsden Purchase brought the tiny settlement on the Santa Cruz River into the United States in 1854. In the decades leading up to Arizona's statehood in 1912, the territory's largest city was rife with excitement. A seven-headed, four-hundred-foot-long sea serpent prophesied to the townsfolk. Lady bicyclists caused an uproar with their divided skirts. The new railroad brought three presidents to town. From the city's brief time in the Confederacy to its crusades against drinking and gambling, from bullfighting rings to sanitariums, author Dave Devine relates stories of the little-known, sometimes lighthearted and often unusual events and personalities of Tucson.

History PR

Seven Deadly Pens: Thriller, fantasy and mystery stories to keep you up all night

Literature & Fiction

Moretti, Steve

Bradley, K.

Sully, Matt C.

Bujold Clouden, Lara

Tammi, Merja

SMITH, PETER

Short Stories & Anthologies

DWA Media

The Heart Locker

Genre Fiction

Independently published

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