Colorado Books

This book is a fun read. It takes place in the mid 1800s. It is about a young woman who moves with her father to Colorado from Illinois during the gold rush days. It mixes fiction with historical fact about the region. She runs into trouble time and time again, and because of her courage and Divine Providence comes out the winner.

MacKenzie's concordance provides an invaluable new resource to scholars and serious readers of Emily Dickinson. The reference covers all of the over 1000 surviving letters of the poet from the Johnson 3-volume edition.

Not since the Rosenbaum concordance to the poems which appeared in 1964 has a resource been made available that will garner such prolonged interest and use from scholars. With each entry, MacKenzie provides the year (Johnson's dating when the original letter is undated), the frequency of use, the Johnson volume and letter number, page, and line number. In addition, each entry has a brief context from the original sentence in which it appears.

For a poet about whom so little is known and for whom words were so few and so well chosen, a concordance provides surprising and enlightening insights. With the increased attention paid to the letters in recent scholarship, this reference could not be produced and made available too soon for those involved in Dickinson studies.

An extraordinary achievement, this is a reference with a long shelf life that belongs in any university library collection and in private libraries of those who enjoy the richness of Dickinson's words.

This two volume set is the published proceedings of the conference named in the book's title. Over 200 papers were presented in 18 different technical areas. The conference was multidisciplinary with many international participants; despite the title, you can find papers dealing with lunar science, space law, and other topics. The major technical areas of the papers, organized into sections of the book are:
1) Planetary surface structures on the Moon and Mars;
2) Space resources and in-situ materials utilization;
3) Space energy;
4) Space mining and excavation;
5) Space automation and robotics;
6) Life support systems;
7) Lunar-based astronomy, and;
8) Space Education

The importance of the book lies in its value as a "snapshot" of what a broad segment of the space community was thinking about in 1972. The book is excellent for providing us with an overview of important topics and challenges that must be considered for future space development. Indeed, virtually all of the topics continue to garner significant attention and work across the space community, e.g., within NASA, other government space agencies, academia and industry. It is excellent for providing context for practical discussion of space colonization. I frequently refer to it in my own work at NASA

Through some sixteen books and countless short stories Enos Mills did as much as anyone else to define the image we have of the Colorado Rockies. His efforts did as much as anyone else to have part of this magnificant country set aside as the Rocky Mountain National Park.

Mr. Pickering has put together this collection of nineteen of his stories that serve to describe his life better than any formal biography could. Here is the story of his wintertime trip in the high country of the mid-winter Rockies as a snow observer. His instructions for the first trip were 'make notes on those things that are likely to be of interest or value to the Department of Agriculture or the Weather Bureau, and to be careful not to lose his life.'

His article 'Why We Need National Parks,' is as important and as fresh as anything that could be written today.

A selection of photographs from the early nineteen hundreds greatly increases the understanding of the man and how he lived in this beautiful country.

Thoughtful and engaging - this is a smart book that examines our relationship with the natural world -- and it takes on the question of how to find solace in times that can seem bleak - how to feel ALIVE in an age of extinction. This is a searching, seeking sort of book -- and it's a pleasure to embark on such a journey with the author.

What others say:

"Bartholomew demonstrates deep scholarship in the reviews of cross-cultural behavioral conditions ... and is clear, forceful and effective."
-Professor Arthur Kleinman, Chair, Department of Social Medicine, Harvard University

"Exotic Deviance combines immeasurably meticulous scholarship with rich personal experience....
I anticipate [this book] will come to occupy a singular place in the field of social studies of deviance and medicine. Exotic Deviance will appeal to a wide readership, including scholars concerned with the sociology of deviance, medical anthropologists, Southeast Asian specialists, and transcultural psychiatrists (even those of traditional persuasion, who will be irritated at first, but ultimately convinced).
-Dr Robert Barrett, Department of Anthropology, University of Adelaide, writing in Oceania 2003.

[Bartholomew allows us] "to throw off cultural blinkers and look freshly at an amazing human world in which dismay and anguish have to be understood as such and not dismissed as medical disorders requiring simplistic responses."
-Allan Patience, Professor of Political Science and Asian Studies, Victoria University of Technology, Melbourne, Australia

"Robert Bartholomew makes a unique and important contribution. Basing his research on first-hand experience and an impressive command of the literature, Bartholomew extends the medicalization of deviance to nonWestern societies."
--Professor Peter Conrad, Chair,
Department of Sociology, Brandeis University

In 1845, with war with Mexico immanent, the US government authorized three expeditions to explore the boundary territory between the two countries: two of them were relatively famous (Kearny's survey along the Oregon Trail to South Pass and Fremont's expedition to California), but the third (Abert's exploration of the Canadian River in New Mexico, the Texas panhandle, and Oklahoma) was much less known; this interesting and well-annotated book is the official report of that expedition.

Leaving Bent's Fort near the end of August, with the legendary Thomas Fitzpatrick acting as guide, the command of about 30 men made their way through Raton Pass, then southeast to the Ute River, which they followed to where it enters the Canadian near present-day Logan. Turning east, the men marched through the Canadian River Valley across the panhandle of Texas, where Abert reiterated Stephen Long's opinion that this part of the West was a "great American desert." Fearing the Indians at first, Abert writes of pleasant, friendly encounters with the Kiowas and Comanches. After making an unintended detour when the North Fork of the Red was mistaken for the Wichita River, the party got back on course again and by the third week in October had reached their destination of Fort Gibson in eastern Oklahoma.

Abert was a clear, observant writer, and he describes much of the natural scenery encountered, including plant and animal life; he also writes intriguing accounts of the Indians and traders he met along the way. H. Bailey Carroll's excellent and detailed annotations made for the 1941 reprint (which this version copies) are a chief highlight of the book. The only things wanting in this book are good, detailed maps (only one rather cursory map is included). But as an early first-hand description of this part of the country, Abert's official report is magnificent.

Excellent book for those who really want to know about the State of Colorado from a Naturalist's viewpoint. This has helped us really understand the unique qualities of this state we have grown to love.

I don't even live in Colorado yet this book made me feel like I was right there experiencing the changes of a place full of great heritage. The author has a wonderful way of taking you down a historical path, celebrating these places with such a lovely sense of place and roots and an amazing decication to preserving both the past & the present. A very enjoyable read!

When a new American military academy was being planned and it needed a mascot - but not just any old bird; one which would represent the U.S. Air Force Academy's mission of flying and fighting. It seemed the falcon would best fit the bill, and Falconry At The United States Air Force Academy tells of the performing mascot's importance to the Academy, as well as the overall history of falconry.