A Clearing in the Distance: Frederick Law Olmsted and ...
 Amazon.com Review: Frederick Law Olmsted (1822-1903) is best remembered today as a landscape designer, well known for his plans for New York's Central Park and Prospect Park, the grounds of the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C., and the campus of Stanford [... more]
$28.00
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A Nation Transformed by Information: How Information Has ...
Amazon.com Review: Does the Information Age predate computers? Does it, in fact, predate the Industrial Age? Though this thesis isn't explicitly examined in A Nation Transformed by Information: How Information Has Shaped the United States from Colonial [... more]
$44.50
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Bananas: An American History
Yes! We have the cultural history of bananas!: Who would have thought there was so much to say about the modern love affair between America and bananas? I should have known it, though, for at Mathcamp the staff had entire wars based on bananas and the [... more]
$16.95
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California: An Interpretive History
does "interpretive" mean neglectful? or just PC?: It is true that UC Berkeley is a top ranked school for History. Sadly, this UC Professor misses the mark. This interpretive history does do many aspects of California History justice, but it [... more]
$55.40
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The Civil War on the Web: A Guide to the Very Best Sites
My favorite gift: My wife got me this book for my birthday. I'm a big Civil War buff and even I found sites in this book that I never would have found otherwise. I found so much to read on the Civil War on the web through this book its like getting a 100 [... more]
$25.95
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Hands on the Land: A History of the Vermont Landscape
Glad I Read This: This remarkable book is essentially a history of Vermont told from the perspective of the relationship between human beings and the physical environment, i.e. how succeeding generations have tried to make a living out of a surprisingly [... more]
$39.95
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Pumpkins
Pumpkins, Just Pumpkins, Are Sometimes Enough: All hail the icon of autumn, the pumpkin! This exquisite coffee table book has 72 pages of pumpkins and, thankfully, no text. There isn't much you can say about a food product that once nurtured the native [... more]
$6.98
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Ferns of Hawai'i
Author: Kathy Valier Binding: Paperback Dewey Decimal Number: 587.30996 EAN: 9780824816407 ISBN: 0824816404 Number Of Pages: 116 Publication Date: 1995-06-01 [... more]
$14.95
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Adirondack Camps: Homes Away from Home, 1850-1950
Author: Craig A. Gilborn Binding: Hardcover Dewey Decimal Number: 643.2 EAN: 9780815606260 ISBN: 0815606265 Number Of Pages: 367 Publication Date: 2000-05 [... more]
$49.95
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PURE KETCHUP PB
Amazon.com Review: The marriage of food and pop culture has one of its better moments in Pure Ketchup by Andrew F. Smith. This history proves that a book larded with hundreds of footnotes can captivate. Smith's writing is lucid and clips along briskly [... more]
$16.95
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Republic of Dreams : Greenwich Village: The American ...
Amazon.com Review: New York's Greenwich Village, "the most significant square mile in American cultural history" and "home of half the talent and half the eccentricity in the country," is the subject of Ross Wetzsteon's Republic of [... more]
$35.00
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Water for Gotham: A History
Amazon.com Review: "The chief disadvantage of New York," observed the Swedish botanist Peter Kalm in the mid-18th century, "is the want of good water." The Dutch farmers who settled on Manhattan in the 1600s found the island, which is [... more]
$29.95
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