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(0)Jake Page
Author
Publisher
Collins
Pub. Date
c2008
Language
English
Description
Do Cats Hear with Their Feet? traces the evolution of cats from the time they first adapted their feline form about 20 million years ago. Exploring every aspect of a cat's life-from predation, to play, to communication-Jake Page shows us what a cat's daily life is really like. He gives us a cat's-eye view of a bird hunt in the foothills of the Rocky Mountains and explains why cats will hunt even when they are full, and why no self-respecting cat would...
Author
Publisher
Free Press
Pub. Date
2004, c2003.
Language
English
Description
The story of the American Indians has, until now, been told as a 500-year tragedy, a story of violent and fatal encounters with Europeans and their diseases, followed by steady retreat, defeat, and diminishment. Yet the true story begins much earlier, and its final recent chapter adds a major twist. Jake Page, one of the Southwest's most distinguished writers and a longtime student of Indian history and culture, tells a radically new story, thanks...
5) Arid lands
Author
Publisher
Time-Life Books
Pub. Date
©1984
Language
English
Description
Contains photographs, text, and five essays on desert land environments.
Author
Series
Mo Bowdre mysteries volume 1
Publisher
University of New Mexico Press
Pub. Date
c2002, c1993
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Smithsonian Books/Collins
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
Draws on recent scientific discoveries to document new understandings about the historical contributions of dogs, covering such topics as the domestication of canines, the differences between wild and companion dogs, and the intricacies of the canine mind.
11) Hopi
Author
Language
English
Description
Through interviews and photographs, presents an intimate profile of the Hopi people in the 1970s.
Author
Publisher
University of Oklahoma Press
Language
English
Description
David Leeming and Jake Page have provided an introduction and commentary on seventy-two myths drawn from a variety of cultures and language groups. They honor the Native pantheons, cosmologies, heroes, and heroines first as cultural expressions, then as variations on other mythic narratives to which they may be related, and ultimately as expressions of the larger human experience of myth making. In the process Leeming and Page reveal much of the relationship...
Author
Language
English
Description
"In the long, anguished history of the American Indian, the events comprising the resistance of the Chiricahua Apaches against European encroachment and their subsequent punishment at the hands of the United States were the most heroic, violent, expensive...and tragic. As settlers swarmed into the Southwest, the Apaches were forced off their ancestral lands. Led by the infamous warrior Geronimo and outnumbered by five hundred to one, a small group...
14) Navajo
Author
Language
English
Description
Beautifully photographed book of the Navajo people today.
Author
Publisher
Modern Library
Pub. Date
2003.
Language
English
Description
The story of the revolution in thinking that Adovasio and his fellow archaeologists brought about and the firestorm it ignited.
J. M. Adovasio has spent the last thirty years at the center of one of our most fiery scientific debates: Who were the first humans in the Americas, and how and when did they get there? At its heart, The First Americans is the story of the revolution in thinking that Adovasio and his fellow archaeologists have brought about,...
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Pub. Date
1999
Language
English
Description
This marvelous collection brings together the great myths and legends of the United States-from the creation stories of the first inhabitants, to the tall tales of the Western frontier, to the legendary outlaws of the 1920s, and beyond. This thoroughly engaging anthology is sweeping in its scope, embracing Big Foot and Windigo, Hiawatha and Uncle Sam, Paul Revere and Billy the Kid, and even the Iroquois Flying Head and Elvis. In the book's section...
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