Robert B Townsend: 4 books
History's Babel
Scholarship, Professionalization, and the Historical Enterprise in the United States, 1880 - 1940
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2013
From the late nineteenth century until World War II, competing spheres of professional identity and practice redrew the field of history, establishing fundamental differences between the roles of university historians, archivists, staff at historical societies, history teachers, and others.
In...
Tales from the Great Lakes
Based on C.H.J. Snider's "Schooner days"
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 1996
For more than two hundred years, thousands of giant sailing ships traversed the Great Lakes carrying cargo and passengers. The memory of the romance and elegance of these beautiful ships has almost been forgotten in the search for greater efficiency and speed in our modern world.
C.H.J. Snider...
A Bit of a Twist
Read on the Run
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2016
The twelve short stories presented in A Bit of A Twist are each mostly normal and ordinary, but somewhere in the story is a twist. In "David's Not Here", "Marriage Counselor", "Down Home", "River Road", "Happily Ever After", and "Blind Date",...
by Jorge Soberón, Enrique Martínez-Meyer, Miguel Nakamura
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2011
This book provides a first synthetic view of an emerging area of ecology and biogeography, linking individual- and population-level processes to geographic distributions and biodiversity patterns. Problems in evolutionary ecology, macroecology, and biogeography are illuminated by this integrative...