Missouri Books

This book, written by Paul J. Nance, is one of the best reference books I have ever seen. I recently purchased the book and I find its contents and full color pictures very exciting. Whether you plan on traveling to the Middle East, or if you just want to learn about the culture, this is the book to read.

This book has several first rate accounts of Paul J. Nance's thirty two years in the Middle East. He worked for Aramco Oil Company in Saudi Arabia during this time and he acquired quite a bit of knowledge. Since his return to America he has started a collection of Middle Eastern artifacts and art. The book details many of the artifacts in his Museum, and is extremely helpful in learning about Middle Eastern culture.

This book can change the way you look at the Islamic religion. Before I looked at the book and visited the Museum of Mr. Nance I knew very little about the Arabian Penninsula.

Printed on high quality paper and interspersed with full color photography, The Natural World of Lewis and Clark is an amazing interpretation of Lewis and Clark's famous exploratory expedition to the New World from a modern point of view. The latest cutting edge advances such as DNA research, understanding of proteins, and new laboratory techniques are applied to the expedition's observations in plain terms. Readily accessible to readers of all backgrounds, The Natural World of Lewis and Clark includes in-depth discussion of flora and fauna species mentioned in the expedition's writings, as well as comments on the expedition's interactions with Native Americans. A bibliography and index round out this thoughtful and welcome fresh perspective on one of the greatest voyages of discovery in American history.

NAVIGATING THE MISSOURI: STEAMBOATING ON NATURE'S HIGHWAY 1819-1935 offers a complete history of steamboating for any interested in American history and transportation. From migration routes and the economics and politics of early Missouri steamboating to individual steamboat operator, this in-depth survey offers plenty of detail and insights for any college-level library interested in Missouri history in general and American transit systems in particular.

Diane C. Donovan
California Bookwatch

This book is a treasure trove! For those interested in earthquake phenomena, it gives a great and easy to read description of the different types of faulting, rifting, and earthquake scars the earth displays. A step by step set of maps and guides demonstrate exactly where to go to encounter the remnants of the New Madrid sequence; even 200 years later, the earth still tells the tale.

A fabulous and unique reference guide for anyone interested in earthquakes - snap it up right away!

New Territories, New Perspectives: The Religious Impact of the Louisiana Purchase is an anthology of scholarly essays by learned authors examining how the Louisiana Purchase - which doubled the fledgling America's territory - permanently transformed American culture in general and religion in particular. A predominantly Protestant culture spread westward, further intermixing with the meld that began when French and Spanish Catholic missionaries brought their faiths to native peoples. Individual writings include "Mixed-Race Ecstasy across a Single Line: The Deep South Roots of Pentecostal Tongue Speaking", "Voudou Purchase: The Louisiana Purchase in the Caribbean World", "Spirituality and Resistance among African-Creoles", and much more. "The interweaving of blood and culture between Africans and Native Americans in the plantation regions may not have been as extensive as the interweaving between Africans and Europeans, but it ran deep where it occurred, much deeper than is acknowledged in the average North American history." Thoughtfully researched and engagingly presented, New Territories, New Perspectives is highly recommended especially for college library collections.

ES un muy buen trabajo del Sr Pearson, constituye un especial y detallado aporte al conocimiento de este gran chilenísimo autor, para los lectores angloparlantes

The stories of K. A. Longstreet's NIGHT-BLOOMING CEREUS provide everything I want in a collection: a distinctive voice, on the one hand, and, on the other, a wide spectrum of experience. Her subjects include, among others, an obsessive admirer of the art of Van Gogh, who dyes his beard ginger in honor of his idol; a savvy Serbian war criminal and his American interviewer, himself guiltily conscious of having participated in a long-ago gang rape; a Jewish boy sheltered by a young Dutch woman during World War II; a dying old woman remembering her first meeting with her husband-to-be on a ferry through the Greek isles. Locales range from Paris to Minneapolis to Hiroshima to Switzerland, and the tone is variously lyric, comic, even farcical, and tragic. But NIGHT-BLOOMING CEREUS offers something more: it's one of those books that alters a reader's world. As Longstreet's theme is the power of imagination to save, to complicate, and sometimes to entrap the lives of people in circumstances dire or mundane, so her book embodies that same imaginative force. She makes us aware of the secret riches of our lives, the tragedies and raptures of those whom we brush unknowingly, the miracles waiting to be unfolded in the ignored, the forgotten, the bypassed. I'll never look at paintings the same way again, now that Longstreet has made me aware that a thin line can be seen crossing the brush strokes of WHEAT FIELD AT AUVERS, indicating the passing of a blade of grass across the canvas when it was still wet--proof that the painter was chewing a blade of grass as he applied those famous blobs. Similarly, you will never see the world in the same way after encountering these transforming fictions.

This is a fine piece of literary magic. Dabney does an excellent job with character development, scene descriptions, and mood settings, throughout these 5 shorts.

Very profound, somewhat morbid with explicit sexuality, round out his unique story lines. He brings to life words I had no idea existed, and his ability to jump into the future and from character to character is uncany. A great NYC subway read! Loose Ends One Good Turn 47 The Egg Lady 115 Bed and Breakfast 167 No Visible Means of Support 187

A comprehensive and excellent reference manual for anyone interested in finding hiking and biking trails in North Missouri. .

I discovered this book when I was living in San Francisco, and it convinced me to move back home to the Midwest. Le Sueur is an earthy, populist writer. This is a history of Minnesota, but its doesn't trouble itself with governors and generals. Le Sueur writes about Indians, farmers, cornhuskers, pioneers, the ordinary people who built the Midwest. And her descriptions of nature and weather are beautiful. She loved people, she loved her native country. If you're from the Midwest, buy this book. You'll either get homesick, or you'll be glad you never left home.