Arizona Books

Winning The Dust Bowl is an impressive collection of Native America writer Carter Revard's poetry and prose memorializing Oklahoma Dust Bowl era bootleggers and bankrobbers, Oxford proctors and punters, American Indian Movement activists and agitators; all interwoven and augmented with his own life experiences on the Osage reservation in rural Oklahoma, his academic success as a Rhodes Scholar, Yale Ph.D., and tenure as a professor of medieval literature. Winning The Dust Bowl is both a compelling memoir and a compendium of superb poetry that can be very highly recommended for students of American literature, Native American culture, as well as an heroic and erudite reconciliation of disparate influences and heritages in the life of an exemplary scholar.

One of the best books on development of the`human diet. Fascinating material for anyone who`ever wondered how people decided (for instance) that cassava, a poisonous plant, could be rendered edible by leaching and cooking. Recently reissued as a paperback, retitled`Origins of Human Diet and Medicine.

Love and Art are an inseparable couple and have been throughout history. "Words of Love and Love of Words: In the Middle Ages and the Renaissance" looks at literary endeavors and love in their relation throughout the middle ages. Philosophical, beautiful, even erotic were all forms of writing put down during the time about love, and many's love was simply writing about it. Many wrote simply because they had love to be the desire of human existence, with all the happiness, joy, and harmony that come along with it. A work of history focusing on literature, "Words of Love and Love of Words" is a scholarly and deftly crafted examination of love in writing during the time period.

(Planeta.com Journal) - This anthology is one of this year's must-reads. Contributions from all over the globe show the importance of wilderness. The editors have succeeded in their mission "to reinvigorate the effort to understand, reveal and save wilderness beyond the usual futile polarities." Thumb through the chapter "The Park of Ten Thousand Waterfalls" to find out how one entreprenuer has created one of the largest parks on the globe -- Chile's Parque Pumalin. Other chapters take on taboo topics, such as "Why conservation in the tropics is failing" or eco legends, such as "Recycled Rain Forest Myths." Highly recommended.

This book is so much fun. It takes you to all the World War II sites on Guam and the Marianas Islands. Guam is so full of artifacts from WWII that you don't even have to hike through the jungle to find them. There is some right outside your hotel door. It has dive sites too. It tells you what happened at each site and what your looking at. There are great maps and pictures in it. If you like to learn about WWII this is a great way to do it.

I recently ran across the WPA Guides and they are truly remarkable, not only about the state but about the time.

In doing a project for school I came across this book and found that not only was it an easy read but the photographs and definitions were excellent.

Every tourist coming to Arizona knows about the Grand Canyon, Hoover Dam, Lake Powell, the Petrified Forest, etc. What Sam Lowe offers is a compendium of the lesser-known attractions - giant dinosaurs, frogs, "Mystery Castle," the Kingman Power Plant, Seligman, "Geronimo" (world's largest petrified tree), Peridot, Bisbee's Lavender Pit Mine, Chloride's rock murals, London Bridge, Nowhere, Hi Jolly, etc.

I've lived in Arizona for 37 years and seen most of what's in You Know You're In Arizona" and its worth the time; to make certain I don't miss anything, however, I consult Sam's book prior to leaving the Phoenix area.

I was born on this homestead so I'm a bit biased.My mother still is'nt happy with what my father put her through.Pregnant at 123 degrees,no power,running water or bathrooms,with Willard's cropduster knocking the swamp cooler off the roof,she and other women show the strength and resolve of these pioneers.

33 tales collected by Mr. Powell between 1879 to 1884 when he was posted to the Zuni Pueblo in New Mexico working as a collector for the Bureau of American Ethnology. Mr. Powell was made an honorary member of the Zuni tribe.