Arizona Books

Great book for anyone wanting to travel to Arizona or to give as a gift. Beautiful photos thru out the book. Great photography. I believe anyone will enjoy this book.

We are using this book to plan a family trip through Arizona to celebrate milestone birthdays. Although we have visited the state many times, the photographs of the scenic beauty are second only to an up close and personal experience. From the Grand Canyon's natural beauty to the winds blowing through Tuzigoot to the exhibits of the Heard Museum to the history of Tombstone to the mines of Bisbee, this book covers sites that are of interest to every age group. It is easily a virtual tour of the Grand Canyon state.

Urania: The Story Of A Young Woman's Love & The Novela Of Guilia Camposanpiero And Thesibaldo Vitaliani by Giulia Bigolina is ably translated and edited by Christopher Nissen (Associate Professor of Italian, Northern Illinois Universityk, De Kalb) in this academic edition published by the Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies. Giulia Bigolina (1516-1569) was a married woman of the minor aristocracy who lived in Padua in the Venetian Territory. While none of her writings were published during her lifetime, she gained considerable local renown as a writer of novellas and prose fiction dealing with love and romance. This bilingual edition has the original Italian on one side and English on the facing page. Extensive notes are provided, making this seminal work of literary scholarship fully accessible and a welcome and strongly commended contribution to academic library "Italian Literature" reference collections and supplemental reading lists.

There is little argument on the value of a newly discovered woman Italian Renaissance writer, but which edition to buy on Giulia Bigolina depends on quality. Bigolina is the first Italian woman known to write prose fiction. Nissen's edition on Bigolina is well-researched, thorough and insightful. The large amount of work involved in gathering the background is apparent. For readers who want to see both, this edition provides original text and translation in facing-page format. This book is a complete critical edition with Bigolina's two surviving works which are love stories featuring determined and resourceful woman protagonists who make great sacrifices to rescue the men who they love. Nissen preserves the Italian spellings so readers know Bigolina's style instead of modernizing spellings as some translators do. Nissen refers to a number of important figures in his introduction, such as Angelo Leonico and Luigi Contarini, who wrote on the prominence of Bigolina as a writer at her time. He further includes descriptions of contemporary works which mention Bigolina, including the dialogue "A ragionar d'amore," in which Perenotto and Coraro decide to enlist the most intelligent women in their town in order to mediate a debate between the two men and Perenotto chooses Bigolina. All in all, this edition of "Urania" by Nissen is a book to have at hand on a coffee table and is well worth an investment of a hard copy, for a product to last for many years of enjoyment.

This is an good book for the scientifically minded interested in Venus. It starts from the outside and works in peeling back the layers of Venus like an onion. It makes a clear distinction between the accepted facts and the still debated theories.

It is a little out of date, but is an excellent place to start.

I have to warn those who are not scientific or technical professionals, this is not a book for laymen. Each chapter is written like a scientific paper, which can make for fatiguing reading if you're not use to the style.

I've only read a few of the papers, but they are very good. If you know lots of phyics, this book is everything you want to know about Venus and then some. Most papers are using the Magellion data.

Richard Parrish is a great writer who creates characters that are down to earth and interesting. For individuals like me who live in the geographical location that he writes about, (set in the early days of our community's history)his stories are a real treat. I have read several of his books; the protagonist, Joshua Rabb, is a lawyer for the Bureau of Indian Affairs and the Office of Land Management who must deal with the political problems of the day even when they coincide with his own moralistic beliefs. I would highly recommend VERSIONS OF THE TRUTH or any of Parrish's other novels. Once you start one, you will be hooked!

this book is really a great courtroom thriller. i could not put this book down. Its a real grabber.

In 1968, all cattle and other domestic animals were removed from the 7,800 acre Bald Hill ranch in southern Arizona. The authors moved to the ranch to conduct a lengthy experiment: what happens to ungrazed, unutilized, unmanipulated-by-man land? Not entirely unmanipulated, of course, natural events -- fire, flood, and drought were allowed to go unchecked and their impact evaluated. The results, the authors are quick to assert, are not all in yet -- but many of their findings and observations are interesting and subtle. For example, grazing -- or lack thereof -- has an impact on grasshopper, rodent, and bird populations, both in terms of their numbers and the species that are present. And there is no stability; a fire, a dry year, or a wet year can discombobulate what seemed a "natural" equilibrium.

"The View from Bald Hill" is a fine piece of nature writing with scientific content accumulated during 30 years of mostly passive observation of grass growing and birds buzzing on a a big chunk of semi-desert land. It tackles the long-term confrontation betweeen ranchers and environmentalists in a sensitive and fair way. The authors are environmentalists but not hostile to ranching. They tell us that they find ranchers "more interesting than lawyers, lobbyists, or legislators." Good photographs dot the text and an extensive bibliography and notes refers the reader to sources. This is an important book to read for those are interested in environmental issues in the Southwest.

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THE VIEW FROM BALD HILL: THIRTY YEARS IN AN ARIZONA GRASSLAND, Carl E. Bock, and Jane H. Bock (University of California Press, Berkeley CA 94720, 196pp.): For about twenty-five years, Drs. Carl and Jane Bock (both of them professors at the University of Colorado) have spent their summers in research at the National Audubon Society's 7,800 acre Appleton-Whittell Research Ranch 60 miles southeast of Tucson. Originally part of the Babocomari Grant, the Research Ranch and the land surrounding it had been heavily grazed by cattle for many years until 1968, when the Appleton family, who owned it at the time, removed the cattle altogether and dedicated the Ranch as an environmental preserve and as a lab for ecological research. The Bocks arrived soon afterward. This very readable book relates what they have learned over the years about an arid grassy region left entirely alone to be its natural self. Their book tells an exciting story about an increasingly rare kind of landscape.

If you are planning to travel in Brazil, or if you simply seek a better understanding of its history and its people, you must read this book. Before this, I never realized the impact of drought in Brazil, nor did I appreciate the beauty and the suffering of Brazilians. A creative, inspired, tragic and often funny story - this book will stay with me.

I have traveled in the Northeast of Brasil and found it to be an area that does not lend itself easily to summation or description. The hardship and happiness - the spirit of the people - are best reflected in the oral poetry passed between and through generations. And the politics of the area are painful to observe. But Mr. Arons does a great job of capturing the essential spirit of the people of whom he writes. Capturing their own lyrical history and distilling it into a plaintive, kind book of understanding does a tremendous service to a culture and history that time could otherwise forget.

Anyone interested in the politics of water, an issue of increasing importance in the developing world now and for years to come should read this book. Anyone interested in Brasil (more than just carnaval and other hedonistic fun) should read this book. Anyone interested in oral history MUST read this book.

I found this book to be very moving.It makes you feel as though you are right there with Gary and his fellow firefighters as they try to save their neighborhoods.I found the book to be very hard to put down and found myself thinking about the book during the day.At times, I was brought to tears as I read about the homes that were destroyed and the pets that were displaced by this awful fire. I would highly recommend this book to anyone who enjoys real life adventures.

I am new to living in the Arizona mountains where Gary's story takes place. I have driven through the area of forest where blackened trees still stand and sensed the gothic eeriness of this sad event, and now I know the details of that terrible fire. Gary's story is a page turner and the witness of one volunteer fire fighter's experience. As a former librarian I would highly recommend this book for youth and adults. And you don't have to live in Arizona to appreciate this tale of a volunteer who found himself helping to battle the largest wildfire in the history of the State of Arizona.

I believe William Walker's account of his adventures in Nicaragua demonstrate lucid thinking, an ability to enthrall a reader and a defininite articulacy.

William Walker leaves us with some insight to the level of arrogance he attained during his lifetime. The man betrayed the people who solicited him for support. Only General Munoz suspected Walker's motives, which may have been why the General was murdered. Walker gets 5 stars for the arrogant coward he was and for documenting it.

i am lucky enough to have an authgraphed copy, and i tell you, i could'nt put it down. the things 'tony' did were incredible. anyone entering politics should have this on their mandatory reading agenda. loved it.

I am reading this book and i actually had Joe Stedino sign my book before i even read it. I really think that if you like nonfiction and like crime, then you will like this book

Clare V. McKanna Jr. has been teaching Native American history at San Diego State University since 1987. In White Justice In Arizona: Apache Murder Trials In The Nineteenth Century, McKanne Jr. focuses upon how the judicial system of nineteenth-century Arizona denied Apaches justice. Apaches learned the hard way that their customs and methods for maintaining social control were drastically at odds with a new, alien, and mystifying legal system. Many did not know English, and the public defenders appointed to them were largely inexperienced or neglectful, as there was no money to be made representing indigent clients. White settlers and juries had been conditions to believe, through popular culture, word of mouth, and sensationalized newspaper headlines, that Apaches were the most dangerous and bloodthirsty of Native Americans; and so any Apache accused of killing a white person was likely to be treated as a blood enemy to be destroyed in the all-white courts, rather than innocent until proven guilty. A stark, sharply critical, and edifying look at the iniquities of false justice.

Murder cases against Apache Indians in the territory of Arizona in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century are recounted much as cases against blacks in the South have been done in other books and media. McKanna goes beyond the by-now familiar charge that the Apaches, as a minority ethnic group in lands taken over by white settlers, got no justice to speak of. His main concern is how the system worked against the defendants, even when circumstances and in some cases physical evidence raised questions about the murder charges. The author also views the acts of the Native Americans against the backdrop of ill-defined laws and jurisdiction in the recently-formed territory and age-old Apache culture, which was undergoing a combination of forced and voluntary transition. McKanna's accounts are like popular case-book studies of the cases against the Indians with a sociological factor brought in. He teaches American Indian history at San Diego State U. and has written previous books on the inter-related subjects of crime and race.