Author: James P. Ronda
Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
Keywords: empire, astoria
Number of Pages: 400
Published: 1993-02-01
List price: $28.95
ISBN-10: 0803289421
ISBN-13: 9780803289420

In his 1836 account Washington Irving immortalized Astoria, but it has been a footnote to the history of western expansion—a doleful reminder of John Jacob Astor’s failed attempt to establish a fur-trading empire at the mouth of the Columbia from 1810 to 1813. Now James P. Ronda makes clear the importance of the Astoria venture in large and complex struggle for national sovereignty in the Northwest. Astoria and Empire is the first modern account and assessment of Astor’s enterprise and the first ever to unravel the tangled skein of Astoria’s international connections. "On t

Authors:Washington Irving, James Ronda,
Publisher: Library of America
Keywords: captain, adventures, bonneville, library, america, astoria, prairie, three, irving, western, narratives, tour, washington
Number of Pages: 1024
Published: 2004-01-26
List price: $40.00
ISBN-10: 1931082537
ISBN-13: 9781931082532

America’s first internationally acclaimed author, Washington Irving, was also one of the first to write about its then far-western frontier. After seventeen years in Europe, the famous author of “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow” returned to America and undertook an extensive three-month journey through present-day Missouri, Kansas, Oklahoma, and Arkansas. Describing scenery and inhabitants with an eye to romantic sublimity and celebrating the frontiersman’s “secret of personal freedom,” Irving published his account of that journey in 1835 as A Tour on the Prairies, an early and distinc

Author: Ronda Chervin
Publisher: CMJ Marian Publishers
Keywords: saints, quotable
Published: 2003-06
List price: $9.95
ISBN-10: 1891280341
ISBN-13: 9781891280344

Author: Ronda Racha Penrice
Publisher: For Dummies
Keywords: dummies, history, american, african
Number of Pages: 432
Published: 2007-04-30
List price: $19.99
ISBN-10: 0764554697
ISBN-13: 9780764554698

Understand the historical and cultural contributions of African Americans Get to know the people, places, and events that shaped the African American experience Want to better understand black history? This comprehensive, straight-forward guide traces the African American journey, from Africa and the slave trade through the Civil War, Jim Crow, and the new millennium. You’ll be an eyewitness to the pivotal events that impacted America’s past, present, and future - and meet the inspiring leaders who struggled to bring about change. How Africans came to Ameri

Authors:David N. Mosser, Ronda Wellman,
Publisher: Abingdon Press
Keywords: annual, preaching, abingdon
Number of Pages: 439
Published: 2008-04
List price: $24.00
ISBN-10: 0687651956
ISBN-13: 9780687651955

Now the most comprehensive and useful aid for sermon preparation Additional Information The Abingdon Preaching Annual, always a trusted resource, is now the most comprehensive and useful aid for serm

Authors:June Price Tangney PhD, Ronda L. Dearing PhD,
Publisher: The Guilford Press
Keywords: behavior, social, emotions, guilt, shame
Number of Pages: 272
Published: 2003-11-04
List price: $30.00
ISBN-10: 1572309873
ISBN-13: 9781572309876

Shame and guilt, while the focus of attention among scholars and clinicians for generations, have only recently been subjected to systematic empirical scrutiny. This volume reports on the growing body of knowledge on these key self-conscious emotions, integrating findings from the authors’ original research program with other data emerging from social, clinical, personality, and developmental psychology. Writing in an engaging, accessible style, June Price Tangney and Ronda L. Dearing offer a coherent new scientific perspective on shame and guilt. Compelling evidence is presented to demo

Authors:Amanda Ashley, Christine Feehan, Ronda Thompso,
Publisher: Love Spell
Keywords: twilight
Number of Pages: 395
Published: 2001-09-10
List price: $7.99
ISBN-10: 0505524503
ISBN-13: 9780505524508

Three of romance’s hottest bestselling authors -- Amanda Ashley, Christine Feehan, and Ronda Thompson -- invite you to explore the dark side, to taste the forbidden, to dive into danger with heroes who fire the blood and lay claim to the soul in these striking tales of sensual passion. A man hunts for a woman. Yet what if he is no ordinary male, but a predator in search of prey? A dark soul looking for the light? A vampire, a werewolf, a mythic being who strikes fear into the hearts of mortals? When day fades into night, when fear becomes fascination, when the swirling seduction of everl