Good, the Bad and the Unready: The Remarkable Truth Behind History's Strangest Nicknames

Easton, Robert

Reference

Penguin Books, Limited (UK)

For many people, Native American architecture calls to mind the wigwam, tipi, iglu, and pueblo. Yet the richly diverse building traditions of Native Americans encompass much more, including specific structures for sleeping, working, worshipping, meditating, playing, dancing, lounging, giving birth, decision-making, cleansing, storing and preparing food, caring for animals, and honoring the dead. In effect, the architecture covers all facets of Indian life. The collaboration between an architect and an anthropologist, Native American Architecture presents the first book-length, fully illustrated exploration of North American Indian architecture to appear in over a century. Peter Nabokov and Robert Easton together examine the building traditions of the major tribes in nine regional areas of the continent from the huge plank-house villages of the Northwest Coast to the moundbuilder towns and temples of the Southeast, to the Navajo hogans and adobe pueblos of the Southwest. Going beyond a traditional survey of buildings, the book offers a broad, clear view into the Native American world, revealing a new perspective on the interaction between their buildings and culture. Looking at Native American architecture as more than buildings, villages, and camps, Nabokov and Easton also focus on their use of space, their environment, their social mores, and their religious beliefs. Each chapter concludes with an account of traditional Indian building practices undergoing a revival or in danger today. The volume also includes a wealth of historical photographs and drawings (including sixteen pages of color illustrations), architectural renderings, and specially prepared interpretive diagrams which decode the sacred cosmology of the principal house types.

Native American Architecture

Arts & Photography

Nabokov, Peter

History & Criticism

Oxford University Press

Quick and the Cat tells of a bounty hunter who kills a mountain lion only to find himself in the cave where she has made her den. In Nobody Danced, modern ranch life is depicted as two men confront each other at a town dance. And a black outlaw bull is the target of a man's quest to rope him in The Legend of Storm.

To Find a Place: Western Stories (Five Star First Edition Western Series)

Literature & Fiction

United States

Five Star

To Find a Place: Western Stories

Presents a collection of the author's stories set in California and the West, including "Quick and the Cat," "Women and Dynamite," and "First Dawning."

Genre Fiction

Thorndike Pr

Max Brand's novels and stories have defined the West for thousands of readers attracted to his bright, vigorous prose. John Cawelti, Russel G. Nye, and other scholars of the Western view his work as key in the development of the genre. Between 1917 and 1944 he wrote prolifically, making Max Brand one of America's most popular writers.
But Max Brand wasn't his real name, and his work extended well beyond boots and saddles. Born Frederick Schiller Faust, he realized his name would be a hindrance when World War I was raging. He took the name Max Brand and made it famous. Along the way he invented characters who became famous, too: Dr. Kildare, for instance, and secret agent Anthony Hamilton.
This volume collects eighteen of the very best of Brand's short fiction, taken from different genres and different times of his life. Included are "Above the Law," "Outcast Breed," "The Sun Stood Still," and others of his greatest Western stories. Brand's versatility is shown with "Internes Can't Take Money" (the debut of Dr. Kildare), "John Ovington Returns," an early story with elements of fantasy and autobiography, and "The Strange Villa," an action-packed spy story.

The Collected Stories of Max Brand

Brand,Max

Easton, Jane

University Of Nebraska Press

Lord of Beasts: The Saga of Buffalo Jones

Brown, Mackenzie

Biographies & Memoirs

Univ of Nebraska Pr

Stated First Edition. Bound in purple boards in fine condition in a fine condition dust jacket. Biography of Frederick Faust.

Max Brand,: The big westerner,

Univ. Of OK Press

Max Brand the Big "Westerner"

Univ of Oklahoma Pr

China Caravans: An American Adventure in Old China

Travel

Asia

Borgo Pr

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