This book is an excellent resource for beginning and intermediate fencers, with lots of illustrations and thorough glossary of fencing terms. Although one cannot learn fencing from a book, The Revised Foil is a great aid in both learning and teaching fencing. The advanced fencer will also find that it is an excellent reference work. Perhaps most importantly, foil teachers will find this book a great help -- especially if they are interested in developing a group instruction program. When Selberg revised his book in 1993, he saw what was happening in the world of competitive fencing and correctly described the divergence of electrical fencing and standard fencing (what many people now describe as classical fencing) into what are now two entirely separate games. His writing is targeted primarily at the "standard" foilist, but there is plenty for the aspiring electrical fencer as well.

The Revised Foil

Reference

Selberg, Charles A.

Encyclopedias & Subject Guides

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Mines of Death Valley

Science & Math

Belden, L. Burr

Technology

Mines of the Eastern Sierra: The Pioneers, Their Mines & Stories

History

DeDecker, Mary

Americas

A collection of historical anecdotes (many passed down orally) of colorful places and residents of the Old West. A variety of characters appear in the pages in an effort to "show the human side of this ever optimistic brand of rainbow seekers." Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

Death Valley to Yosemite: Frontier Mining Camps & Ghost Towns--The Men, The Women, Their Mines and Stories

Varied

What is it like to live in a place of bare rock, vertical walls, and windswept ledges, where snow covers the ground for much of the year and temperature changes of thirty degrees or more is the daily norm? 
The Alpine Sierra Nevada, the rugged mountain world above treeline, presents this challenge to all living things venturing into its extreme environment. From the tiny meadow vole to the delicate alpine flower growing between slabs of broken rockfall, all that live within this diverse, thin-aired landscape have developed specialized adaptations just to survive. David Gilligan describes the Alpine Sierra Nevada with a naturalist's passion for both personal observation and science. From deep inside an ice-encrusted crevasse on the Lyell Glacier to the airy heights of Mt. Ritter, The Secret Sierra: The Alpine World Above The Trees is dedicated to exploring the high and hidden world of the Sierra Nevada's alpine zone.

The Secret Sierra: The Alpine World Above the Trees

Gilligan, David

Nature & Ecology

It was 1943. In Yosemite National Park, the magnificent Ahwahnee Hotel closed its doors to tourists, transformed into a temporary Naval convalescent hospital. Wartime shortages forced the rationing of gasoline, sugar, and film. Living with his wife, Virginia Best Adams and their children in Yosemite Valley, Ansel Adams, sought ways to help with the war effort. Too old to enlist, he volunteered for a number of assignments in which his photographic skills were put to the country's use. Among his contributions, he both escorted and photographed Army troops at Yosemite training for mountain warfare in Europe; he taught photography to the Signal Corps at Fort Ord, and traveled to the Presidio in San Francisco to print classified photographs of Japanese military installations on the Aleutian Islands. Despite his volunteer efforts, he was frustrated that he could not do more to help the war effort.
That summer, friend Ralph Merritt asked Adams if he would be interested in creating a photographic record of a little-known government facility in the Owens Valley, on the east side of the Sierra Nevada. "I cannot pay you a cent," Merritt told Adams, "but I can put you up and feed you." Merritt was director of the Manzanar War Relocation Center, a collection of hundreds of tar-paper barracks hastily built to house more than 10,000 people, behind barbed wire and gun towers. All were of Japanese Ancestry, but most were American citizens, forcibly removed from their homes to ten relocation centers across the country by presidential order. The resulting effort was the book Born Free and Equal: The Story of Loyal Japanese Americans published by U.S. Camera in 1944 under the direction of the War Relocation Authority. 
While at Manzanar, Adams met Toyo Miyatake, the official camp photographer, interned with his wife and children. A student of the great photographer, Edward Weston, Miyatake had established his own respected professional photography studio in Los Angeles before the war. In the introduction to this book, MiyatakeÕs son, Archie, who was then 16-years old, recalls the visit made so long ago.
 In 1965, Adams wrote in a letter to Dr. Edgar Brietenbach at the Library of Congress: " . . . I think this Manzanar Collection is an important historical document and I trust it can be put to good use. . . " In the autumn of 2000, before the Manzanar photographs of Ansel Adams were available digitally and only available as 8x10 photographic reproductions, editor Wynne Benti spent two weeks in the collections of the Library of Congress and NARA, locating many, but not all of the photographs that appeared in the original book. The book went to press as two jets crashed into the World Trade Center, thus the addition of the American flag behind the cover photograph of Joyce Nakamura Okazaki. Spotted Dog Press republished Adams' work, Born Free and Equal, introducing it to new generations of Americans.

Born Free And Equal: The Story of Loyal Japanese Americans

Arts & Photography

Benti, Wynne

ADAMS, Ansel

Photography & Video

Out From Las Vegas: Adventures A Day Awayis America's favorite guide to the great getaways and scenic trips just a day or less away from downtown Las Vegas. Author Florine Lawlor, a third-generation Nevadan, was born to write about the Silver State. Daughter of a gold miner who once worked at the now abandoned ghost town of Delamar, FlorineÕs grandfather, a pioneer Nevada railroad man, worked for Union Pacific. Geologist Andy Zdon, (Desert Summits A Climbing &amp; Hiking Guide to California and Southern Nevada, Geology of the Las Vegas Region) joined Florine on the update of this new edition.
 Listen to the wind in the spires of Cathedral Gorge or is that the voice of Mrs. GodbeÕs ghost riding over the hill from Bullionville? Look for lost diamonds in the McCulloughs or follow the old road to Alamo. Are there really unidentified flying objects in the evening skies above the remote Extra Terrestrial Highway or are those just members of the mysterious Groom Lake Flying Club? Pack the car, a cooler, and a copy of Out From Las Vegas and be prepared for an adventure for the entire family.
 ÒItÕs hot! Take a look a this gem of a book and begin planning at least a yearÕs worth of day or weekend trips in and around Nevada. I can guarantee youÕll be pleasantly surprised.Ó Nancy Gott, freelance writer/adjunct professor, University of Nevada, Las Vegas
 Ò. . . Lawlor put her lifelong love of the desert to work. . . to give Nevadans a greater appreciation of the beauty and history that exists here.Ó Las Vegas Review Herald 
"Out From Las Vegas: Adventures A Day Away by travel writer Florine Lawlor is an intriguing, informative, and "user friendly" guide to a wealth of interesting landmarks, getaways and scenic geographical significants within a day from Las Vegas, Nevada. Packed from cover to cover with fun and peculiar findings, Out From Las Vegasintroduces the reader to a landscape and entity-based landmark world of Nevada never before known or recognized. Out From Las Vegas is very strongly recommended to all readers interested in travel to the Las Vegas area, or those already living in the area wishing to instill a new atmosphere or experience on their free days. Out From Las Vegas showcases the fact there there's more to do than visit the gaming tables of downtown casinos!" Midwest Book Review

Out from Las Vegas; Adventures a Day Away: Adventures a Day Away

Travel

Lawlor, Florine

Zdon, Andy

Food, Lodging & Transportation

ÒÉGalen Rowell has visited some of the most beautiful and least trampled parts of Alaska, made some breathtaking new ascents, including a reckless speed climb of Mount McKinley . . . High &amp; Wild is a book to be read again and again and to feast on in times of despair.Ó Charles S. Houston, M.D., Leader 1938, 1953 American K2 Expeditions ÒGalen Rowell is the best among those who now chronicle mountaineering expeditions. By perceptively viewing the mountains not only in the historical context of those who sought them, but also in their ecological setting, the landscapes, peoples, wild animals, he imbues the remote summits with lasting life.Ó George Schaller author of The Stones of Silence Ò. . . Hetch Hetchy . . . Half Dome . . . Alaska . . .The Cirque of the Unclimbables . . . in all these places he took stunning pictures, pictures of the inaccessible and the fabulously picturesque. Accompanying these gorgeous shots, composed with a heroic eye on precipices and polar air, are his compelling narratives of the climbs that made them possible.Ó New York Times ÒHe is a superb photographer . . . [High and Wild] admits us to an extraordinary world of great expanse and significance as few books do.Ó San Francisco Chronicle ÒThe impeccable photojournalism of Galen Rowell makes wilderness exploration seem even more majestic.Ó PublisherÕs Weekly ÒFew photographers capture the spirit and substance of high and wild places the way Galen Rowell does. He earned fame first as a climber, and now . . . heÕs possibly the worldÕs best-known photojournalist.Ó Outside Magazine

High And Wild: Essays And Photographs on Wilderness Adventures

Rowell, Galen

United States

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