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Author
Publisher
Chelsea Green Pub
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
"Behind every traditional type of cheese there is a fascinating story. By examining the role of the cheesemaker throughout world history and by understanding a few basic principles of cheese science and technology, we can see how different cheeses have been shaped by and tailored to their surrounding environment, as well as defined by their social and cultural context. Cheese and Culture endeavors to advance our appreciation of cheese origins by viewing...
4) The covenant
Author
Publisher
Not Supplied
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"The exciting, explosive new series from the bestselling author of The Plainsman western series begins with The Covenant... It was a time of uncertainty in the infancy of the growing nation. The wild west was open and beckoning to displaced men and families, and many chose to travel to the unsettled frontier, dreaming of new homes, land, and even riches. But few reckoned on those that had lived in those lands for centuries, the native peoples, Blackfoot,...
Author
Publisher
Basics Books
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"Overlapping with and overshadowed by the First World War, the Allied Intervention in the Russian Civil War was one of the most ambitious military ventures of the twentieth century. Launched in the summer of 1918, it drew in 180,000 troops from sixteen different countries in theaters ranging from the Caspian Sea to the Arctic and from Poland to the Pacific. Though little remembered today, it stoked global political conflict worldwide for decades to...
Author
Publisher
Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"The second in the action-packed new series from Ralph Compton writer, John Shirley, takes traditional Westerns on a wild ride with the epic adventures of master gunfighter, horseman, and Civil War veteran Cleveland Trewe as he and his strong partner, Bernice fight for survival in 1880s Nevada . . . Civil War veteran Cleveland Trewe stumbles onto a bizarre cult in the Sierra Nevada mountains-where the faithful are healed and fates are sealed . . ....
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
A young scout guides a wagon train of pioneers out west; Townsend Harris is appointed the first U.S. Consul-General to Japan in 1856; during the Civil War, a Union calvary brigade stages a daring raid behind enemy lines; a gold miner finds himself falling for his partner's fiancée; a police officer and his prisoner join together to defeat violent whiskey runners in pre-Civil War Texas; the story of the Allied invasion in Normandy during World War...
8) Westbound
Series
Publisher
Warner Bros. Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
"As the Civil War spills our nation's blood, Capt. John Hays (Randolph Scott) fights on a vital but little-known battlefront. He aims to ship gold to Union banks through a small Colorado town, defying Southern sympathizers who aim to stop him"--Container insert.
Author
Publisher
W.W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
From the medieval bazaars of Tabriz, to the mysterious island of Caldihe, where sheep were said to grow on trees, Anthony Bale brings history alive in A Travel Guide to the Middle Ages, inviting the reader to travel across a medieval world punctuated with miraculous wonders and long-lost landmarks. Journeying alongside scholars, spies and saints, from western Europe to the Far East, the Antipodes, and the ends of the world, this is no ordinary travel...
10) Threads
Publisher
Severin Films
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Presents a documentary style account of a nuclear holocaust and its effect on the working class city of Sheffield, England; and the eventual long range affects of nuclear war on civilization.
Publisher
Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"For a quarter of a century, Five Star Publishing, an imprint of Thorndike Press/Gale, has offered readers the best in new voices, as well as many beloved authors, in western fiction. Travel back in time with these fourteen new stories that explore the individual courage and strength the tumultuous American frontier required. These stories are written by award-winning authors and the most exciting new voices in historical fiction. Fortitude and Other...
Author
Publisher
Liveright Publishing Corp
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
With Muse of Fire, Michael Korda takes a novel approach to World War I by telling its history through the lives of the soldier-poets whose verses memorialize the war's unimaginable horrors. He begins with Rupert Brooke and the halcyon days before violence engulfed his generation--destroying the self-contented world of Edwardian England--and ends with the tragic death of Wilfred Owen, killed only days before the armistice brought an end to a war that...
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[1953]
Language
English
Description
An ex-Confederate spy for the Quantrill's Raiders, torched and looted mercilessly for the "Confederate cause" during the Civil War. With the Union victory, he fears he is a wanted man and heads out West, closely followed by his long-time love Josie. He decides to settle in Prescott, Arizona, where he takes a job driving for the Conroy Stage Company. Soon enough, he learns that the town is now in the hands of outlaw gangs. Now he is expected to help...
Publisher
Mill Creek Entertainment
Pub. Date
©2016
Language
English
Description
Six classic westerns starring Hollywood cowboy legend Randolph Scott. Desperadoes: when a bank is robbed, the sherrif's best friend who is an ex-outlaw is the prime suspect -- Nevadan: an undercover operation to discover the location of stolen loot is complicated by a greedy rancher and his beautiful daughter -- Santa Fe: an ex-Confederate soldier begins to work for the Yankee-funded Santa Fe Railroad, enraging his three younger brothers -- Man in...
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
"In the weeks after Japan finally surrendered to the Allies, the world turned to the question of how to move on from years of carnage and destruction. For Harry Truman, Douglas MacArthur, and their fellow victors, the questions of justice seemed clear: Japan's leaders needed to be tried and punished for the surprise attack at Pearl Harbor; war crimes against citizens in China, the Philippines, Korea, and elsewhere; and rampant abuses of POWs. For...
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Coogan's bluff: "Clint Eastwood stars as Walt Coogan, a soft-spoken, straightforward, Arizona lawman who is sent to New York City to extradite captured murderer James Ringerman (Don Stroud). Coogan slips up, Ringerman escapes again, and the hunt is on!"--Publisher's website
The beguiled: "During the Civil War, a wounded Union soldier is sheltered by the headmistress and students of a girls' academy in the South. As his health returns his desire increases,...
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