Oberg: 11 books
Professional Indian
The American Odyssey of Eleazer Williams
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2015
Born in 1788, Eleazer Williams was raised in the Catholic Iroquois settlement of Kahnawake along the St. Lawrence River. According to some sources, he was the descendant of a Puritan minister whose daughter was taken by French and Mohawk raiders; in other tales he was the Lost Dauphin, second son...
The Head in Edward Nugent's Hand
Roanoke's Forgotten Indians
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2013
Roanoke is part of the lore of early America, the colony that disappeared. Many Americans know of Sir Walter Ralegh's ill-fated expedition, but few know about the Algonquian peoples who were the island's inhabitants. The Head in Edward Nugent's Hand examines Ralegh's plan to create an English empire...
Native America
A History
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2017
Native America: A History, Second Edition offers a thoroughly revised and updated narrative history of American Indian peoples in what became the United States. The new edition includes expanded coverage of the period since the Second World War, including an updated discussion of the Red Power Movement,...
by Gunilla Oberg
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2011
Environmental issues are inherently interdisciplinary, and environmental academic programs increasingly use an interdisciplinary approach.
This timely book presents a core framework for conducting high quality interdisciplinary research. It focuses on the opportunities rather than the challenges...
Taking Chances
The Coast after Hurricane Sandy
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2016
Humanity is deeply committed to living along the world’s shores, but a catastrophic storm like Sandy—which took hundreds of lives and caused many billions of dollars in damages—shines a bright light at how costly and vulnerable life on a shoreline can be. Taking Chances offers a wide-ranging...
A Beautiful World - Gone
The travels and observations of a young man from Minnesota on his journey throughout Europe at the onslaught of WW II.
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2011
The story of a nineteen-year-old college student's "grand tour" of Europe on a shoe-string as the clouds of World War II gathered and broke. This journal was written fifty years ago. At that time the University of Minnesota's "The Literary Review" published excerpts under the title: "Prelude ... Europe,...
by Doug Achterman, Marlene Asselin, Steven M. Baule
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2007
This collection of enlightening and stimulating articles, written by some of the most important figures in school librarianship, demonstrates how teacher-librarians, classroom teachers, and administrators can work together to create a 21st century school library media program. With topics that emphasize...
by Larry R. Oberg
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2011
The stories in San Francisco, Open Your Golden Gate! recount episodes in the life of a gay man over six turbulent decades, from the Second World War until the present day, and place each in the political and social context of the period. They detail gay life in San Francisco in the 1950s and 1960s,...
Heat-Treatment of Steel: A Comprehensive Treatise on the Hardening, Tempering, Annealing and Casehardening of Various Kinds of Steel
Including High-speed, High-Carbon, Alloy and Low Carbon Steels, Together with Chapters on Heat-Treating Furnaces and on Hardness Testing
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2017
This vintage book contains a comprehensive treatise on the hardening, tempering, annealing, and case-hardening of various kinds of steel, including high-speed, high-carbon, alloy, and low carbon steels. "Heat-Treatment of Steel" is highly recommended for modern metal work enthusiasts and would make...
Native America
A History
Language: English
Release Date: June 23, 2015
This history of Native Americans, from the period of first contact to the present day, offers an important variation to existing studies by placing the lives and experiences of Native American communities at the center of the narrative.
Presents an innovative approach to Native American history...
Écritures du non-lieu
Topographies d'une impossible quête identitaire : Romain Gary, Patrick Modiano et Georges Perec
Language: French
Release Date: August 7, 2014
Trois auteurs, au premier abord on ne peut plus différents, partent à la recherche de leurs racines juives. Effectuant un voyage à travers le Yiddishland, les camps de mise à mort et l’État d’Israël, ils recherchent une façon d’être juifs aujourd’hui. Par le biais d’une étude approfondie...