hardcover with dust jacket, blue spine on dust jacket

Edward Fitch Underhill Renaissance Man of Siasconset

Margaret Moore Booker

Nantucket Historical Association

Few avenues of high achievement were open to American women in the mid-nineteenth century, but a young librarian on Nantucket Island, off the coast of Cape Cod, sent a startling signal through the male-dominated world of science when she emerged as a world-class astronomer. Maria Mitchell, from the roof of the family's home overlooking Main Street, peering into the heavens with a rudimentary telescope, showed that she could not only discover a comet, but compute its orbit and exchange scientific observations with the world's leading astronomers. She became an admired figure on the international scene, then a much-beloved professor at Vassar College, and finally a leader in the emerging women's rights movement. In her mind, these achievements seemed all part of a logical whole: the education and expansion of women's minds far beyond the stereotypes of the time and the projection of this new power into modern society. Not a radical, not an establishment figure, but a unique and innovative force in her time, Mitchell is meticulously and expertly portrayed by Margaret Moore Booker in this first comprehensive biography.

Among the Stars: The Life of Maria Mitchell

Biographies & Memoirs

Community & Culture

Mill Hill Press

The traditional arts of the Southwest are brought together in one volume for the first time. Comprehensive descriptions of Native American and Hispano art are accompanied by full-color photographs of art from museums, galleries, and private collections. Lose yourself in the stunning pottery, weavings, jewelry, carvings, and architecture of the Southwest.

Southwest Art Defined: An Illustrated Guide

Arts & Photography

Rio Nuevo Publishers

Photography & Video

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