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Astronomy: Journey to the Cosmic Frontier with Starry Night Pro DVD, version 5.0
John D Fix

McGraw-Hill Science/Engineering/Math, 2007

Astronomy: Journey to the Cosmic Frontier , 5th edition, provides enough content and background in astronomy so the student will be able to follow current developments in astronomy years after they complete the course. The historical development of astronomy is emphasized to show that astronomy, like other sciences, advances through the efforts of many scientists, and to show how present ideas have been developed.

Feminist Frontiers

2 reviews
Verta Taylor, Nancy Whittier, ...

McGraw-Hill Humanities/Social Sciences/Languages, 2007

Something for Everyone!
This book is a compilation of essays done by both male and female authors. It shows the diversity of topics, issues, and points of views of feminists. This book was my text book for Women's Studies 101 and I didn't have to read all of it for the class, but I found myself reading a lot of the other essays because the topic was interesting to me or I identified with it or it was a topic I wanted ...

Crabgrass Frontier: The Suburbanization of the United States

10 reviews
Kenneth T. Jackson

Oxford University Press, 2008

A classical look at the suburbs of the United States
Jackson writes one of the seminal studies in urban history relating to the suburbs. The end conclusion is that suburbs have not been beneficial to the United States. This tracks things from the start of suburbanization to the downfall of downtowns. Race relations are a big part of the book as is the heralding of the automobile. Jackson writes very well and the book is wonderfully organized. If ...

Does the Frontier Experience Make America Exceptional? (Historians at Work)

2 reviews
Richard W. Etulain

Bedford/St. Martin's, 1999

Reconsidering Frederick Jackson Turner's Frontier Thesis
Wisconsin History Professor Frederick Jackson Turner came up with the "Frontier Thesis," the idea that it was the frontier that was the most important factor in shaping the American nation. Turner linked American democracy, nationalism, individualism, as well as physical and social mobility to how pioneers faced the frontier as they moved the boundaries of the United States westward. Richard W. ...

A Frontier Lady: Recollections of the Gold Rush and Early California

4 reviews
Sarah Royce

Bison Books, 1977

A Great Woman of Faith
I selected this book from a list given in my college English class. The list of books were all nonfiction so I knew it would be a book based on fact. I knew nothing more. As I read, I could not put this book down. The story takes place beginning in Iowa the year 1849. "Gold fever" was born. The Royce family was on the move from their home to the great golden state of California. Sarah has more ...

DC: The New Frontier, Vol. 2

11 reviews
Darwyn Cooke, Dave Stewart

DC Comics, 2005

More Super Hero Action Than Vol. 1, Entertaining But Not Darwyn's Best Work
DC: THE NEW FRONTIER, VOL. 2 has more action and adventure than VOL. 1. If you liked VOL. 1, then this will be slightly better. VOL. 1 seemed to be all about moody foreshadowing, (the superheroes might return...the world before/without superheroes), but it was so moody and low on action that I thought that was the whole point of THE NEW FRONTIER, just to maintain the anticipation of The ...

The Eternal Frontier: An Ecological History of North America and Its Peoples

25 reviews
Tim Flannery

Grove Press, 2002

fascinating read with clear thesis
This is a riveting book that posits a clear interpretation of prehistory and history, and then sets out to prove it. Flannery acknowledges that his thesis is not the only one and that many others disagree with it. I felt as though he at least recognized other theories, even if he didn't give them as much time or space as his own (and why should he?). If you are interested in the ecological ...

DC: The New Frontier, Vol. 1

21 reviews
Darwyn Cooke

DC Comics, 2004

DC's classic heroes presented in a fresh way
I recently enjoyed the "Justice League: The New Frontier" direct-to-DVD movie and decided to finally check out its literary inspiration, the "DC: The New Frontier" comic book mini-series. This volume collects the first three issues of that series. Like the animated film, I found this initial volume to be gripping and involving, and generally a lot of fun. As I said about the film, it was ...

Intimate Frontiers: Sex, Gender, and Culture in Old California (Histories of the American Frontier)

1 review
Albert L. Hurtado

University of New Mexico Press, 1999

Published Reviews of INTMATE FRONTIERS
"Hurtado tackles two of the thorniest of historical subjects--frontiers and sexuality. That he does so with good research, style, and wit makes this an enthralling, sophisticated study." (Anne Butler, JOURNAL OF AMERICAN HISTORY) INTIMATE FRONTIERS "is a truly masterful piece of history that reveals the significance of gender and sexuality in the American West and further proves the importance of ...

Frontiers of Justice: Disability, Nationality, Species Membership (The Tanner Lectures on Human Values)

3 reviews
Martha C. Nussbaum

Belknap Press, 2007

What Constitutes A Life Worthy of Human Dignity?
Martha Nussbaum is a promoter of the capabilities approach, a school of thought that seeks to delineate the conditions for a just and decent world based on what people are actually able to be and to do (their "capabilities") in order to lead a life worthy of human dignity. Amartya Sen has pioneered this approach in the realm of economics where he has proposed to analyze development as consisting ...

Feminist Frontiers IV

3 reviews

McGraw-Hill Companies, 1996

Great Textbook, BUT Not Much Is New In This Edition
As always, Feminist Frontiers is a great collection of essays -- a great textbook for any Women's Studies class. However, not much has been updated in this 5th edition. As far as I can tell, it is virtually the same as the 4th edition. I think getting a used copy of Feminist Frontiers IV (ISBN 0070523797) is a much better value. Either way, you will thoroughly enjoy the readings in this book.

The Perilous Frontier: Nomadic Empires and China 221 B.C. to AD 1757 (Studies in Social Discontinuity)

2 reviews
Thomas J. Barfield

Wiley-Blackwell, 1992

A fascinating recasting of the dynamics of Chinese history
Barfield's primary thesis is that the dynamics of Chinese civilization are not intelligible considered in isoloation. Rather, comprehension requires the distinction between Manchurian and Native dynasties and the role that empires of the steppe played in the changes between them. Of special interest is that by far the best know steppe empire, that of the Mongols under Temujin and his ...

Frontiers: A Short History of the American West (The Lamar Series in Western History)

6 reviews
Robert V. Hine, John Mack Faragher

Yale University Press, 2008

A very good book, whose point of view will irritate many
On its own terms, this book is a huge success. It synthesizes the past 30 years of serious historical research which revolutionized the presentation of the history of the American West by rescuing the experiences of groups who had been relatively ignored by standard interpretations. Indians, women, blacks, Latinos, Asians, workers are dealt with at length and with sympathy. The research of ...

Frontier Woman

18 reviews
Joan Johnston

Island Books, 2001

A really great story!
I thought this was a well written story. It is filled with lots of history and some frontier realities. It has the makings of a wonderful story with strained feelings of love, old enemies and betrayal. The main characters are Creed and Cricket but the story is also very full of Crickets two sisters, her father and Creeds brother Tom and his wife Amy. It's a book that, once started, is very ...

Human Frontiers, Environments and Disease

4 reviews
Tony McMichael

Cambridge University Press, 2001

Ecology - human, animal, vegetable and planetary
This is a tour de force, a brilliant, densely packed account of human evolutionary biology and ecology, setting the progress of the human race and its civilizations and cultures in the context of shifting environmental, climatic, social, cultural and ecological forces over the lifetime of our species. Tony McMichael describes and explains how we have reached the present human situation, the ...

Frontier Orbitals & Organic Chemical Reactions

4 reviews
Ian Fleming

John Wiley & Sons, 2008

The FMO Bible
Provides an outstanding introduction to the concepts of molecular orbital interaction in organic chemistry. Presents the topic such that an organic chemist without a strong background in group theory or math can still follow the discussion.

The Other Side Of The Frontier: Economic Explorations Into Native American History (American & European ...
Linda L Barrington

Westview Press, 1998

A collection of essays by renowned scholars of Native American economic history, The Other Side of the Frontier presents one of the first in-depth studies of the complex interaction between the history of Native American economic development and the economic development of the United States at large. Although recent trends in the field of economics have encouraged the study of minority groups such as Asians and African Americans, little work ...

Cities: Missions' New Frontier

1 review
Roger S. Greenway, Timothy M. Monsma

Baker Academic, 2000

Great urban textbook
In the nineteenth century the church made a great commitment to overseas missions opening new works in many countries that had never heard the gospel. The new challenge in the twenty-first century is to reach the cities which are growing rapidly and the cities of the world are larger than they have ever been before. This book, "Cities: Missions' New Frontier," endeavors to guide the reader to ...

The Ends of the Earth: From Togo to Turkmenistan, from Iran to Cambodia--A Journey to the Frontiers of Anarchy

62 reviews
Robert D. Kaplan

Peter Smith Pub Inc, 2001

wow! how can someone possibly accumulate, sort, and process so much information?
Robert Kaplan is my favorite non-fiction writer. I have read almost everything he has written. This book was the first book of his that I read -- it prompted me to read many more. This author is absolutely brilliant in processing information, making relationships among trends, and communicating them to others. He's also brilliant at survival because he goes to places few would even imagine ...

The Spanish Frontier in North America (The Lamar Series in Western History)

7 reviews
David J. Weber

Yale University Press, 1994

The other North American frontier, or should we say frontiers?
Frontiers, in the plural, might be better. While many of us may call to mind Santa Fe, or the Alamo, the Spaniards were settled in, or exploring or defending, many places in North America. Only tenuously connected to each other, these frontier areas included Florida, the Gulf Coast, Texas, New Mexico, California and Arizona. While New Mexico was reachable from Chihuahua, the Llano Estacado ...

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