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  • Musing with Charlie

    by Gordon Morris ...
    Gordon Morris wrote this book originally as a kind of diary for himself. It is an account of the antics of his English springer spaniel, mainly on their walks together on Hayling Beach, near Portsmouth. It is also a cautionary tale of the hectic nature of the breed, and the enormous commitment it is to look after such an intelligent, energetic, bloody-minded type of dog. Musing with Charlie is ... Read more

    $5.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Invitation to an Execution

    A History of the Death Penalty in the United States

    Edited by Gordon Morris Bakken ...
    Until the early twentieth century, printed invitations to executions issued by lawmen were a vital part of the ritual of death concluding a criminal proceeding in the United States. In this study, Gordon Morris Bakken invites readers to an understanding of the death penalty in America with a collection of essays that trace the history and politics of this highly charged moral, legal, and cultural ... Read more

    $65.99 CAD

  • The World of the American West

    Edited by Gordon Morris Bakken ...
    Series series Routledge Worlds
    The World of the American West is an innovative collection of original essays that brings the world of the American West to life, and conveys the distinctiveness of this diverse, constantly changing region. Twenty scholars incorporate the freshest research in the field to take the history of the American West out of its timeworn "Cowboys and Indians" stereotype right up into the major issues being ... Read more

    $100.99 CAD

  • Medical Image Understanding and Analysis

    27th Annual Conference, MIUA 2023, Aberdeen, UK, July 19–21, 2023, Proceedings

    Edited by Gordon Waiter, Tryphon Lambrou, Georgios Leontidis, Nir Oren, Teresa Morris, Sharon Gordon ...
    Series series Springer Nature Proceedings Computer Science
    This book constitutes the proceedings of the 27th Annual Conference on Medical Image Understanding and Analysis, MIUA 2023, which took place in Aberdeen, UK, during July 19–21, 2023.The 24 full papers presented in this book were carefully reviewed and selected from 42 submissions. They were organized in topical sections as follows: Image interpretation; radiomics, predictive models and ... Read more

    $96.99 CAD

  • The Gendered West

    The American West

    Edited by Gordon Morris Bakken, Brenda Farrington ...
    First Published in 2001. This anthology of western history articles emphasizes the New Western History that emerged in the 1980s and adds to it a heavy dose of legal history, a field frequently ignored or misunderstood by the New Western historians. From first contact, American Indians knew that Europeans did not understand the gendered nature of America. Confusion regarding the role of women ... Read more

    $329.99 CAD

  • Learning to Ride, Hunt, and Show

    A Step-by-Step Handbook for Riders of All Ages

    by Gordon Wright ...
    Social media campaign.First time in paperback.With a new foreword by George Morris, former coach of the United States Olympic equestrian team.Approximately four million Americans are involved in the sport of equestrian, and approximately three million horses are used in the Us solely for equestrian. ... Read more

    $14.99 CAD

  • The World of the American West

    A Daily Life Encyclopedia [2 volumes]

    Edited by Gordon Morris Bakken ...
    Series series Daily Life Encyclopedias
    Addressing everything from the details of everyday life to recreation and warfare, this two-volume work examines the social, political, intellectual, and material culture of the American "Old West," from the California Gold Rush of 1849 to the end of the 19th century.What was life really like for ordinary people in the Old West? What did they eat, wear, and think? How did they raise their children ... Read more

    $211.99 CAD

  • The Mining Law of 1872

    Past, Politics, and Prospects

    by Gordon Morris Bakken ...
    History has left us a classic image of western mining in the grizzly forty-niner squatting by a clear stream sifting through gravel to reveal gold. What this slice of Western Americana does not reveal, however, is thousands of miners doing the same, their gravel washing downstream, causing the water to grow dark with debris while trout choke to death and wash ashore. Instead of the havoc wreaked ... Read more

    $30.99 CAD

  • Skullduggery, Secrets, and Murders

    The 1894 Wells Fargo Scam That Backfired

    by Bill Neal ...
    Series series
    In 1894, George Isaacs, the penniless black sheep of his family, was running with the worst of the outlaws in the Oklahoma Territory. There, a get-rich-quick scheme that seemed foolproof was hatched up. The plan was for George to present money packets falsely purporting to contain $25,000 in cash to the Wells Fargo office in Kansas City. Wells Fargo was to ship the packets via the Santa Fe ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

  • World History

    A Concise Thematic Analysis, Volume 2

    by Steven Wallech, Craig Hendricks, Anne Lynne Negus, Touraj Daryaee, Gordon Morris Bakken, Peter P. Wan ...
    World History: A Concise Thematic Analysis presents the highly anticipated second edition of the most affordable and accessible survey of world history designed for use at the college level. This text offers a comparative analysis of great civilizations of Eurasia, Africa, and the Americas in an engaging narrative that contextualizes history instead of drowning students in a sea of facts. Themes ... Read more

    $43.99 CAD

  • Interviews with American Composers

    Barney Childs in Conversation

    by Barney Childs, Virginia Anderson, Robert Fink, Kevin Holm-Hudson, Thomas S. Clark, Gayle Sherwood Magee1, Sara Haefeli4, Frances White6, James Pritchett7, Jay M. Arms9, Dave Headlam1, John Schneider2, Ronald Kuivila5, Bruce Quaglia7, Rob Haskins0, Michelle Fillion2, Stuart Dempster4, David Neal Lewis6, Jeffrey Perry8, Peter Gena1, Horace J. Maxile Jr.4 ...
    Series series Music in American Life
    In 1972-73, Barney Childs embarked on an ambitious attempt to survey the landscape of new American concert music. He recorded freewheeling conversations with fellow composers, most of them under forty, all of them important but most not yet famous. Though unable to publish the interviews in his lifetime, Childs had gathered invaluable dialogues with the likes of Robert Ashley, Olly Wilson, Harold ... Read more

    $33.99 CAD

  • Treasure State Justice

    Judge George M. Bourquin, Defender of the Rule of Law

    by Arnon Gutfeld ...
    Series series
    Few works reveal anything about the role of federal judges in the early twentieth-century American West. Arnon Gutfeld fills that void by analyzing the major issues and dilemmas those judges faced as the West moved rapidly from frontier justice to twentieth-century legal realities. George M. Bourquin served as Federal District judge in Montana from 1912 to 1934. He dared to issue rulings that ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD