An engaging introduction to the ancient hawthorn tree and its varied roles in human history One of humankind’s oldest companions, the hawthorn tree is bound up in the memories of every recorded age and the plot lines of cultures across the Northern Hemisphere. In Hawthorn, Bill Vaughn examines the little-recognized political, cultural, and natural history of this ancient spiky plant. Used for thousands of years in the impenetrable living fences that defined the landscapes of Europe, the hawthorn eventually helped feed the class antagonism that led to widespread social upheaval. In the American Midwest, hawthorn-inspired hedges on the prairies made nineteenth-century farming economically rewarding for the first time. Later, in Normandy, mazelike hedgerows bristling with these thorns nearly cost the Allies World War II. Vaughn shines light on the full scope of the tree’s influence over human events. He also explores medicinal value of the hawthorn, the use of its fruit in the world’s first wine, and the symbolic role its spikes and flowers played in pagan beliefs and Christian iconography. As entertaining as it is illuminating, this book is the first full appreciation of the hawthorn’s abundant connections with humanity.

Hawthorn: The Tree That Has Nourished, Healed, and Inspired Through the Ages

History

Vaughn, Bill

Americas

Yale University Press

World

Training altar workers

Beacon Hill

For everyone who's finally ready to stop making sense and start wasting time, here's the ultimate instructional manual. Windsail on railroad tracks, play golf in corn fields and the spillways of dams, fly to Borneo to wreck the filming of Survivor, wander around in Boy Scout uniforms, and Food Suits loaded with pork and booze, fantasize in public about sex with Meg Ryan, alienate people and seek the company of dogs and horses.

First, a little Chee-Chee Then Some Other Extremely Odd Sports

Politics & Social Sciences

Social Sciences

Arrow Graphics

The only thing the Herrins and the Burkes had in common was their Irish ancestry. Opposites in most ways, the families nevertheless personified two common threads in the history of the West. As the owner of an iconic Montana stock-raising operation—the famous Oxbow Ranch on the shores of Holter Lake—Holly Herrin ruled with frontier violence and legal action over an empire of cattle and sheep that covered thirty square miles. George Burke was a real estate agent, a sheriff, a game warden, and a civil engineer in a family of professionals—newspaper editors, lawyers, and politicians, including a U.S. senator.\nThe country-mouse Herrins voted Republican, the city-mouse Burkes Democratic. Both patriarchs, fighting with their fists and their lawyers, were active players in the far-reaching dramas and ludicrous comedies that shaped the politics and economy of modern Montana. In 1949 the clans joined their fortunes together when rancher Keith Herrin, Holly’s grandson, married George Burke’s daughter Molly, a wire service reporter. It was a union that produced five girls and one boy—an heir. Twenty years later, the marriage and the Herrin ranches were failing.\nThe story of the Burkes and Herrins has never been told before, and the history they made has been largely forgotten. The Last Heir recounts twelve decades of Burke and Herrin triumphs and tragedies: the story of Montana’s Missouri River heartland, a history seen through the eyes and daily lives of those who lived it.

The Last Heir: The Triumphs and Tragedies of Two Montana Families

Biographies & Memoirs

Community & Culture

Bison Books

The Plot Against Native America: The Fateful Story of Native American Boarding Schools and the Theft of Tribal Lands

Pegasus Books

ADO.NET and ADO Examples and Best Practices for VB Programmers, Second Edition brings the popular first edition up to date with fresh insights and tips on COM-based ADOand adds a voluminous section on the new ADO.NET technology. Written specifically for COM-based ADO developers retooling for ADO.NET, this is a developer's book, packed with practical advice on how to make code run faster, yet be easier to write and understand. Veteran author William Vaughn guides you through the data access maze with working examples and numerous discussions of what works and what doesn't. Derived from years of experience working with data access developers, Vaughn's Best Practices are a set of techniques proven to drastically reduce overhead, problems, and confusion―for the developer, the system, and the entire team. While some are quite simple to implement, others require considerable knowledge and forethought to enable.

ADO.NET and ADO Examples and Best Practices for VB Programmers (Second Edition)

Computers & Technology

Vaughn, William R.

Programming

Apress

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