Authors:David W. Nagorsen, R. Mark Brigham,
Publisher: UBC Press
Keywords: columbia, british, handbook, museum, mammals, bats, royal
Number of Pages: 164
Published: 1993-10
List price: $21.95
ISBN-10: 0774804823
ISBN-13: 9780774804820
In western culture, bats are frequently regarded as symbols of doom and darkness. Undoubtedly, some of the fear and superstition stems from an unfamiliarity with these mammals. In fact, bats are among the most fascinating of animals. They display a number of remarkable adaptations for their unique lifestyle; they are the only mammals equipped with wings, and they are able to fly and find food in total darkness. This handbook presents a comprehensive summary of facts concerning the 16 species of bats in British Columbia, eight of which occur nowhere else in Canada. With numerous drawings, the b
Author: Friends of Columbia State Historic Park
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
Keywords: california, america, images, columbia
Number of Pages: 128
Published: 2005-08-29
List price: $21.99
ISBN-10: 0738530212
ISBN-13: 9780738530215
Columbia started life in 1850 when Dr. Thaddeus Hildreth and his brother set up the camp known as Hildreth’s Diggins in the lovely Sierra foothills. More than 150 tumultuous years later, Columbia is an amazing example of a true gold rush community frozen in time. But this is no ghost town either the downtown area, with its plank sidewalks, ornate hotels, and saloons, is preserved as a California State Historic Park. The town today is a living, breathing, modern community at peace with both its past and its present. It’s easy to imagine characters from the Old West swaggering throug
Author: David L. Anderson
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Keywords: columbia, history, cultures, american, war, guide, vietnam, guides
Number of Pages: 352
Published: 2004-03
List price: $27.50
ISBN-10: 0231114931
ISBN-13: 9780231114936
More than a quarter of a century after the last Marine Corps Huey left the American embassy in Saigon, the lessons and legacies of the most divisive war in twentieth-century American history are as hotly debated as ever. Why did successive administrations choose little-known Vietnam as the "test case" of American commitment in the fight against communism? Why were the "best and brightest" apparently blind to the illegitimacy of the state of South Vietnam? Would Kennedy have pulled out had he lived? And what lessons regarding American foreign policy emerged from the war? The Columbia Guide to t
Author: Robert A. McCaughey
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Keywords: columbia, new, york, city, university, history, stand
Number of Pages: 715
Published: 2003-10
List price: $39.95
ISBN-10: 0231130082
ISBN-13: 9780231130080
-- Merri Rosenberg, Education Update
Authors:David Farber, Beth Bailey,
Publisher: Columbia University Pre
Keywords: columbia, history, cultures, american, 1960s, guide, america, guides
Number of Pages: 448
Published: 2001-07-15
List price: $80.50
ISBN-10: 0231113722
ISBN-13: 9780231113724
A Choice Magazine Outstanding Academic Title of the Year; The 1960s continue to be the subject of passionate debate and political controversy, a touchstone in struggles over the meaning of the American past and the direction of the American future. Amid the polemics and the myths, making sense of the Sixties and its legacies presents a challenge. This book is for all those who want to take it on. Because there are so many facets to this unique and transformative era, this volume offers multiple approaches and perspectives. The first section gives a lively narrative overview of the decade´s ma
Author: Clemente Marconi
Publisher: Brill Academic Publishers
Keywords: columbia, mediterranean, ancient, studies, tradition, classical, center, sponsored, images, vases, contexts, controversies, conference, proceedings, greek
Number of Pages: 190
Published: 2004-05
List price: $182.00
ISBN-10: 9004138021
ISBN-13: 9789004138025
This volume deals with Greek painted vases, exploring them from various methodological points of view and moving beyond the traditional focus on connoisseurship and style. The volume, which represents the proceedings of an international conference sponsered by the Center for the Ancient Mediterranean at Columbia University, is an effort to exploit the immense richness of these vases by using them to study general cultural history.
Author: Gary Edgerton
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Keywords: columbia, american, life, modern, television, history, histories
Number of Pages: 512
Published: 2009-01-30
List price: $27.50
ISBN-10: 0231121652
ISBN-13: 9780231121651
Television is a form of media without equal. It has revolutionized the way we learn about and communicate with the world and has reinvented the way we experience ourselves and others. More than just cheap entertainment, TV is an undeniable component of our culture and contains many clues to who we are, what we value, and where we might be headed in the future.Media historian Gary R. Edgerton follows the technological developments and increasing cultural relevance of TV from its prehistory (before 1947) to the Network Era (1948-1975) and the Cable Era (1976-1994). He begins with the laying of t
