Wine: An Introduction for Americans

M. A. Amerine

V. L. Singleton

Cookbooks, Food & Wine

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Intertidal Invertebrates of the Central

Light, S. F.

California Spring Wildflowers

Science & Math

Munz, Philip A.

Biological Sciences

Northern Mists

8vo. 204 pp, I. The Westering of Europe in the Middle Ages; II. The Portuguese at Sea; III. Newfoundland and Farther Coasts; IV. Whaling and Sea Fisheries; V. The Vikings; VI. Greenland and Vinland; VII. Failure of the Greenland Settlements; VIII. Irish Searfaring; IX. Dark Ages and Tenebrous Sea?; index with b&w illustrations and maps. First Edition, 1968. Green cloth with gilt lettering to spine. "The author assembles and evaluates a remarkable network of evidence in documenting his story of early Northern Atlantic sea-faring, including the work of Portuguese navigators and fisherman; Bristol port records which bear on the nature of long westward voyages. He sifts out, from the legendary Norse and Icelandic sagas, what can be treated with some confidence as records of historical fact. He draws upon contemoporary archaeological investigations of Norse settlements in Greenland ;and the still mysterious settlement unearthed at Bell Isle" from the jacket flap.

Sauer, Carl O.

WE have good reason to be grateful to both Canada and the United States for their contributions to peace as well as to war. Among their most precious gifts are the national parks of the glorious West, which they have consecrated for all future time to the service of humanity. The larger examples, such as Jasper, Yellowstone and the Grand Canyon, harbour men and bears on terms reminiscent of the Garden of Eden. The park of Crater Lake, Oregon, covering roughly 300 square miles, of which a tenth is submerged, is too small to share in this particular distinction ; but the blue of its lake and the gay tints of the surrounding cliffs lead some of its devotees to acclaim it as the most beautiful place in the world. Perhaps these enthusiasts have never visited that other park which contains Lake Louise in Alberta ; perhaps they say 'most beautiful' when they really mean 'most fascinating'. Be this as it may, all who have had the privilege of visiting Crater Lake admit its rare loveliness, combined with an intellectual stimulus of quite exceptional quality. It is scarcely possible to stand on the rim of the crater and avoid asking the question: How did it happen?

Crater Lake: The Story of Its Origin

Williams, Howel

General Viticulture

Crafts, Hobbies & Home

Winkler, A. J.

Gardening & Landscape Design

An impressively comprehensive review of Chinese religions. Neither scholars from China nor the West have been able to accomplish such a comprehensive review of Chinese religions as this. No other book offers such a detailed, sustained analysis and functional interpretation of critical facts in order to reveal a pattern of relationship between religion and Chinese social life and organization. Yang's work focuses on the religious systems that have become firmly integrated parts of the Chinese culture, including Buddhism, Taoism, and the numerous cults of the classical religion. His study is primarily concerned with the recent periods of Ch'ing and the Republic--especially the nineteenth and the twentieth centuries--but because the roots of Chinese cultural traits extend deep into the past, historical data and discussion are included when clarification is necessary. Because the concept and structure of all major Chinese social institutions contained religious elements, this much-cited classic will be valuable to any reader who really wants to understand China.

Religion in Chinese Society: A Study of Contemporary Social Functions of Religion and Some of Their Historical Factors.

Yang, C.K.

Religion & Spirituality

The White Devil

An acute reader of contemporary drama and a consummate parodist,Webster achieves in his plays a density of allusion that often producesmoments of brilliant psychological insight and theatrical ingenuity.Working with the established conventions of revenge tragedy, themalcontent youngster and dark sexual intrigue, he created in The WhiteDevil (1612) an exciting, if dramatically flawed, version of a recentItalian scandal involving the Montalto, Orsini and de' Medici families.The introduction to this edition disentangles the various plotlines,illuminates Webster's interest in women as an exploited group withinnate heroic potential and shows how he dissects the misogynistrhetoric of his male characters.

Literature & Fiction

Webster, John.

Dramas & Plays

"Not only has the author steeped himself in contemporary Chinese sources, and read virtually all the secondary material available, but he has brought his formidable understanding of history and sociology to bear on this vitally important subject....." --- The New York Review of Books

Ideology and Organization In Communist China

Schurman, Franz

Frontis. + xi + 292 pp. with numerous illus., 8vo.

Alfred Kroeber a Personal Configuration

Kroeber, Theodora

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