Color plates of edible plant species supplement their origin, habitat, botanical identity, characteristics, and nutritional value

The Oxford Book of Food Plants

Science & Math

Wallis, Michael

Harrison, Stephen G.

Nicholson, Barbara Evelyn

Masefield, G. B.

Biological Sciences

Oxford Univ. Pr.

Route 66: The Mother Road

Route 66 was the road of dreamers and ramblers, drifters and writers, the road of John Steinbeck, Woody Guthrie, and Jack Kerouac. After 17 years of research, Wallis presents the definitive chronicle of Route 66, from its founding to its interstate-induced demise to its current revival.

Route 66 The Mother Road

Travel

Saint Martin's Press

Pretty Boy: The Life and Times Of Charles Arthur Floyd

A biography of the one of America's most notorious criminals describes "Pretty Boy" Floyd's coming of age in poverty, his descent into petty crime and bootlegging, his stormy marriage, his murders, his jail terms, and more. 60,000 first printing. $50,000 ad/promo.

Pretty Boy: The Life and Times of Charles Arthur Floyd

Politics & Social Sciences

Social Sciences

St.Martin's Press

A biography of one of America's most notorious criminals describes "Pretty Boy" Floyd's coming of age in poverty, his descent into petty crime and bootlegging, his stormy marriage, his murders, his jail terms, and more

Biographies & Memoirs

Historical

St Martins Pr

The definitive book on the most famous road in American history-- now published in paperback to celebrate the highway's 66th anniversary. It began in the early 1920s with a vision of a paved highway that would connect Chicago to Los Angeles and the West. By the time of its completion, the road would cover over 2,400 miles, three time zones, and eight states. It would link the windy shores of Lake Michigan with the waters of the Pacific Ocean-- a two-lane road rolling together through the great American Southwest, tying together the vestiges of America's pioneer passages into one meandering and magnificent highway. Route 66. It was the road of dreamers and ramblers, drifters and writers: the road of John Steinbeck, Woody Guthrie, and Jack Kerouac. A ribbon of American highway that transported the Okies, driven from their land as storms of dust swept across their farms, to the promise of California. It was also the highway of commerce-- of automated ice-cream stands and old "no-tell" motels, salty truck stops, and a neon allure. Phillips 66, Coca-Cola, Burma Shave. It was Bobby Troup's "Get Your Kicks on Route 66." It was the lights and the breeze and the radio and the litany of towns: Joplin, Flagstaff, San Bernardino. A smilin', "Hi-how're-y'all-doin-t'night" big-boned waitress and a steamin' cup of coffee. Route 66, the passage west, the road of flight, the Mother Road. After seventeen years of research, Michael Wallis has compiled the definitive book on the most legendary road in American history. Wallis weaves together a rich tapestry of eight decades that chronicles the road from its founding to its demise with the advent of the interstate system, and to its current unprecedented revival. Route 66 is also a pictorial journey of nearly three hundred images that detail the highway's history, roadside diners, motels, forgotten towns, and most impressively, its people. Two years after its nostalgia-inspiring hardcover publication, Michael Wallis's bestselling Route 66 finally appears here in its first paperback edition. It is a book, unlike any in recent social history, that has spawned a national movement, brought new hope to those pockets of the American prairies where hope had long since vanished, and revived a dying American road.

History

Americas

St. Martin's: Griffin

A collection of essays reflects on the diversity of the state of Oklahoma, from its old-time images of Native Americans and cowboys to such new icons as "new" oil money and Friday night football

Way Down Yonder in the Indian Nation: Writings from America's Heartland

Mankiller

The first female chief of a large tribe, the Cherokee Nation in Tahlequah, tells her life story, from her childhood on Mankiller Flats to her struggle to lead her people into a new century. 75,000 first printing. National ad/promo. Tour.

Mankiller: A Chief and Her People

Mankiller, Wilma Pearl

Community & Culture

Before the advent of frequent-flier miles, eight-lane interstate highways, and cellular telephones, dream vacations took place on America's highways, and no road was greater than Route 66...Then, postcards respresented not only a form of communication, but also a way of telling your friends and family that you had, believe it or not, been there. Route 66 Postcards: Greetings from the Mother Road presents thirty of the finest classic postcards from that golden era of America's past. Come with us as we visit: Chicago's Famous Architectural Skyline The Chain of Rocks Bridge Spanning the Mighty Mississippi Ben Stanley's Vintage Cafe in Miami, Oklahoma The Largest Longhorn Steer Alive, measuring over 6 feet Maisel's Quaint Indian Trading Post in Albuquerque The City of Angels Enjoy the trip, get your kicks, and don't forget to mail one to a friend!

Route 66 Postcards: Greetings From The Mother Road

Wallis, Suzanne

United States

In this outstanding work, Michael Wallis magnificently recreates the vanished, impoverished world of Dustbowl America that has not been as poignantly rendered in prose since John Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath. Wallis evokes the hard times of the era of Steinbeck as he follows the life of Charles "Pretty Boy" Floyd from his coming of age at a time when there were no jobs and no food, to his decent into petty crime, bootlegging, his murders, jail terms, and his own brutal slaying by the FBI in an Ohio field in 1934 at the age of thirty. Pretty Boy is a social history at its best, portraying, with a sweepings style, the larger story of the hardscrabble farmers whose lives were so intolerably shattered by Depression.

The first female chief of the Cherokee tribe recounts her family's relocation to California, her bitterly fought election, her struggle to lead the Cherokee into a new century, and the history of her tribe. Reprint.

Mankiller, Wilma

New York.: St Martins Press

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The Oxford Book of Food Plants

Route 66 The Mother Road

Pretty Boy: The Life and Times of Charles Arthur Floyd

Pretty Boy: The Life and Times of Charles Arthur Floyd

Route 66: The Mother Road

Way Down Yonder in the Indian Nation: Writings from America's Heartland

Mankiller: A Chief and Her People

Route 66 Postcards: Greetings From The Mother Road

Pretty Boy: The Life and Times Of Charles Arthur Floyd

Mankiller: A Chief and Her People