S Mcpherson: 15 books
Viewing the Ancestors
Perceptions of the Anaasází, Mokwic, and Hisatsinom
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2014
The Anaasází people left behind marvelous structures, the ruins of which are preserved at Mesa Verde, Chaco Canyon, and Canyon de Chelly. But what do we know about these people, and how do they relate to Native nations living in the Southwest today? Archaeologists have long studied the American...
Under the Eagle
Samuel Holiday, Navajo Code Talker
Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 2013
Samuel Holiday was one of a small group of Navajo men enlisted by the Marine Corps during World War II to use their native language to transmit secret communications on the battlefield. Based on extensive interviews with Robert S. McPherson, Under the Eagle is Holiday’s vivid account of his own...
Both Sides of the Bullpen
Navajo Trade and Posts
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2017
Between 1880 and 1940, Navajo and Ute families and westward-trending Anglos met in the “bullpens” of southwestern trading posts to barter for material goods. As the products of the livestock economy of Navajo culture were exchanged for the merchandise of an industrialized nation, a wealth of cultural...
Life in a Corner
Cultural Episodes in Southeastern Utah, 1880–1950
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2015
Community building in the Four Corners area of southeastern Utah required specialized knowledge and a good bit of determination on the part of settlers who wrested a livelihood from the Colorado Plateau. Robert S. McPherson, the region’s leading historian, draws on oral history and personal archives...
Dinéjí Na`nitin
Navajo Traditional Teachings and History
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2012
Traditional teachings derived from stories and practices passed through generations lie at the core of a well-balanced Navajo life. These teachings are based on a very different perspective of the physical and spiritual world than that found in general American culture. Dinéjí Na`nitin is an introduction...
Lesson Plan
An Agenda for Change in American Higher Education
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2016
American higher education faces some serious problems—but they are not the ones most people think. In this brief and accessible book, two leading experts show that many so-called crises—from the idea that typical students are drowning in debt to the belief that tuition increases are being driven...
At Water's Edge
The Last Elentrice, #1
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2018
A fast-paced adventure for fans of Twilight and The Mortal Instruments.
What if there was another you, in another world?
DEZARAY IS FROM EARTH.
LEXOVIA IS FROM COLDIVOR.
BUT WHEN THEY ACCIDENTALLY TRADE PLACES… Dezaray is thrust into a world on the brink of war. And the...
Mapping the Four Corners
Narrating the Hayden Survey of 1875
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2016
In 1875, a team of cartographers, geologists, and scientists under the direction of Ferdinand V. Hayden entered the Four Corners area for what they thought would be a calm summer’s work completing a previous survey. Their accomplishments would go down in history as one of the great American surveying...
Caught in the Ripples
The Last Elentrice, #2
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2018
How deep does this flow?
When the Exlathars escaped the battle that night, their silhouetted figures merged with the sky, their wings swatted at stars and the Coltis people were too busy celebrating their victory to realise that there wasn't one.
Now the Exlathars are back. And they...
by Daniel M. Hausman, Michael S. McPherson
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2006
This 2006 book shows through accessible argument and numerous examples how understanding moral philosophy can improve economic analysis, how moral philosophy can benefit from economists' analytical tools, and how economic analysis and moral philosophy together can inform public policy. Part I explores...
by Robert S. McPherson
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2017
The canyon country of southeastern Utah is a land of dramatic contrast, with high mountains, tortuous canyons, towering monuments, hot deserts, and freezing alpine temperatures. Raising and herding cattle in this environment is more than challenging. At times, it is death-defying. Fin Bayles, a fourth-generation...
Crossing the Finish Line
Completing College at America's Public Universities
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2009
The United States has long been a model for accessible, affordable education, as exemplified by the country's public universities. And yet less than 60 percent of the students entering American universities today are graduating. Why is this happening, and what can be done? Crossing the Finish Line...
Navajo Tradition, Mormon Life
The Autobiography and Teachings of Jim Dandy
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2012
Born in the early 1940s in northern Arizona’s high country desert, Jim Dandy began life imbued with the traditions of the Navajo people. Raised by his father and grandfather—both medicine men—and a grandmother steeped in Navajo practices, he embraced their teachings and followed in their footsteps....
by Erin Lee, K. L. Bone, Erin McFadden
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2019
Featuring YA fantasy and paranormal works from USA Today, award-winning and bestselling authors including:
Muse by Erin McFadden
Heir to Kale by K.L. Bone
Ascension Rise of the Phoenix by Jessi McPherson
The Ghosts who Raised Me by Erin Lee
Battlefield by Cloud S....
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