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Wilderness a journal of quiet adventure in Alaska / by Kent, Rockwell, 1882-1971

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Sanctified landscape writers, artists, and the Hudson River Valley, 1820-1909 / by Schuyler, David

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Maya Yucatán an artist's journey / by Hofstetter, Phillip, 1949-

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Adela Breton a Victorian artist amid Mexico's ruins / by McVicker, Mary Frech

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Brazil through French eyes : a nineteenth-century artist in the tropics / by Araujo, Ana Lucia

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Bohemian Los Angeles and the making of modern politics by Hurewitz, Daniel

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Voices rising Asian Canadian cultural activism / by Li, Xiaoping, 1954-

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The Pacific Northwest growth of a regional identity / by Gastil, Raymond D.

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Frontier cattle ranching in the land and times of Charlie Russell by Elofson, W. M.

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The color of loss an intimate portrait of New Orleans after Katrina / by Burkholder, Dan, 1950-

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Rituals of the Past Prehispanic and Colonial Case Studies in Andean Archaeology /

Table of Contents: “…From ritual to ideology : ritual activity and artistic representations in the northern highlands of Peru in the formative period /…”
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Rituals of the Past : Prehispanic and Colonial Case Studies in Andean Archaeology /

Table of Contents: “…From ritual to ideology : ritual activity and artistic representations in the northern highlands of Peru in the formative period /…”
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Transatlantic passages literary and cultural relations between Quebec and Francophone Europe /

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River music an Atchafalaya story / by McCutchan, Ann

Table of Contents: “…Calls -- Roots -- Wildlife -- Basin education -- Outsider artist -- Austin -- Return to the basin -- Field notes -- Cancer and Katrina -- State of the basin -- Turning tides -- Epilogue.…”
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Daring to be different Missouri's remarkable Owen sisters / by Mueller, Doris Land, 1927-

Table of Contents: “…Joseph : the place and its people -- The early years -- Mary Alicia leads the way -- Luella : geologist, explorer, painter, family historian -- "Miss Juliette" : ornithologist, botanist, and artist -- The twilight years -- The legacy of the Owen sisters -- Epilogue.…”
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A sourcebook of Nasca ceramic iconography reading a culture through its art / by Proulx, Donald A., 1939-

Table of Contents: “…Overview of the Nasca culture -- Nasca pottery and its artistic canons -- The discovery of the Nasca style and its chronological placement -- Approaches to the interpretation of Nasca iconography -- A description and interpretation of the major themes in Nasca ceramic iconography -- New insights on Nasca society.…”
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The Tangierman's lament, and other tales of Virginia / by Swift, Earl, 1958-

Table of Contents: “…The immortal dismalites -- The unexpected artist -- The Tangierman's lament -- Bang the drum loudly -- When the rain came -- Playing the last round -- Where is the fabulous Dewey diamond? …”
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Pioneer Jewish Texans by Ornish, Natalie

Table of Contents: “…Introduction to a people -- The adventurers : conquistadors and the search for freedom -- The soldiers : Jews in the battles for Texas independence -- The colonizers : opening Texas's lands west -- The statesmen : constructing a republic and a nation -- The ranchers : giants of Texas's great cattle herds -- The financiers : new frontiers in banking -- The wildcatters : from pipes to oil leases -- The humanitarian : Galveston and the gateway immigration movement -- The great merchants : some called them princes -- The significant merchants : laying the economic foundation for Texas's future -- The educators : the Paul Reveres of education -- The artists : vanguards in the arts -- The doctors and other healers : from the Alamo to the Nobel Prize -- The lawyers : justice for all.…”
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Room 306 the national story of the Lorraine Motel / by Kamin, Ben

Table of Contents: “…The Rebirth -- It's a Magical Place : Julian Bond -- Filming the Lorraine : Lillian Benson -- Managing the Museum at the Lorraine : Beverly Robertson -- Producing The Witness at the Lorraine : Margaret Hyde -- Room 306 and Today's Young Artists : Craig Alan Edwards and Katori Hall -- They Got It Done : Clayborne Carson -- Afterword: The Rain Are Fallin.…”
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Fields of vision essays on the Travels of William Bartram /

Table of Contents: “…Malone -- William Bartram and the forms of natural history / Stephanie Volmer -- Nature, man, and God: the introduction to Bartram's Travels / Burt Kornegay -- Before Bartram: artist-naturalist Mark Catesby / Arlene Fradkin, Mallory McCane O'Connor -- The Bartrams, Clarence B. …”
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