Not much can be said with certainty about the life of Claudius Aelianus, known to us as Aelian. He was born sometime between A.D. 165 and 170 in the hill town of Praeneste, what is now Palestrina, abo
For sixty million years, the Gila River, longer than the Hudson and the Delaware combined, has shaped the ecology of the Southwest from its source in New Mexico to its confluence with the Colorado Riv
Numerous job opportunities can be found in the fast-growing field of renewable energy, from blue-collar to white-collar positions. Grab this handy book and discover how clean energy can be a part of y
Food has functioned both as a source of continuity and as a subject of adaptation over the course of human history. Onions have been a staple of the European diet since the Paleolithic era; by contras
Daily vocabulary lessons range from witty, to thought-provoking, to sometimes just plain weird as language lovers glean entertaining insights into everyday words, cliches, expressions, and brand names
Language lovers will delight in the Word Origin 2018 Day-to-Day Calendar’s stimulating word trivia. The daily vocabulary lessons range from witty and thought-provoking to sometimes weirdly bizar
Offering language lovers a stimulating year of word trivia, The Word Origin 2017 Calendar’s daily vocabulary lessons range from amusing to thought-provoking to sometimes plain bizarre.Learn the
In this entertaining history, Gregory McNamee explores the many ethnic and cultural traditions that have contributed to the food of the Southwest. He traces the origins of the cuisine to the arrival o
Art Wolfe’s immersive photos capture the wonder humans have felt about trees for millennia.From the biblical Tree of Life to the Native American Tree of Peace, trees have played an archetypal ro
Food has functioned both as a source of continuity and as a subject of adaptation in the course of human history. Onions have been a staple of the European diet since the Paleolithic era, while the o
Once upon a time, an Apache story tells us, the trickster called Coyote killed a bear so that he could make a suitable quiver for his magical arrows. You shouldn't have done that, someone warned Coyot
?We travel the world,” writes Gregory McNamee, ?and wherever we go there are snake stories to entertain us.” Here are some fifty diverse and unusual accounts of serpents from cultures across time and
Mike Burns--born Hoomothya--was around eight years old in 1872 when the US military murdered his family and as many as seventy-six other Yavapai men, women, and children in the Skeleton Cave Massacre
Full-color images by renowned photographers Stephen Strom and Stephen Capra unite with text by prizewinning nature and geography writer Gregory McNamee to document the subtle landscape of 1.2 million
