Forty West

product_img5
Radhanath Swami
The Journey Within: Exploring the Path of Bhakti
With illuminating references to Western religions and ideologies, The Journey Within invites readers from all backgrounds to discover the simple truths that unite us. The mysteries of the soul have evaded mystics, sages, and gurus for centuries. Humanity has long yearned to discover the answer t...
$11.98
www.amazon.com
product_img5
Alexander Saxton
The Indispensable Enemy: Labor and the Anti-Chinese Movement in California
Winner, Silver Medal, California Book Awards—Commonwealth Club of California With a foreword by William Deverell The Indispensable Enemy  examines the anti-Chinese confrontation on the Pacific Coast as it was experienced and rationalized by the white majority. Focusing on the Democratic pa...
$22.45
www.amazon.com
product_img5
Stephen Yafa
Cotton: The Biography of a Revolutionary Fiber
In the tradition of Mark Kurlansky's Cod and Salt , this endlessly revealing book reminds us that the fiber we think of as ordinary is the world's most powerful cash crop, and that it has shaped the destiny of nations. Ranging from its domestication 5,500 years ago to its influence in creating Ca...
$15.00
www.amazon.com
product_img5
Steve Korté
What Was the Children's Blizzard of 1888?
The terrifying true story of the deadly blizzard that unexpectedly slammed the Midwest, catching many young lives in its path—part of the New York Times bestselling What Was? series, featuring 16 pages of photos. On January 12, 1888, an unforseen blizzard broke out in the middle of an unseason...
$7.43
www.amazon.com
product_img5
Peter J. Levinson
September in the Rain: The Life of Nelson Riddle
Known for single-handedly saving Frank Sinatra's career in the mid-1950s with his stunning orchestral arrangements, Riddle's "intelligent, seductive style" also attracted such singers as Nat King Cole, Ella Fitzgerald, Judy Garland, Johnny Mathis, and Linda Ronstadt. Peter Levinson, a friend of Ridd...
$8.95
www.amazon.com
product_img5
Glen Ford
The Black Agenda
Black politics are key to recognizing the most important social dynamics of the United States. Over the past forty years, no commentator has been as deeply insightful about the paradoxes and personalities of Black American public life as the journalist and radio host Glen Ford. In this stunning over...
$19.97
www.amazon.com
product_img5
Anna Moore Shaw
A Pima Past
"In simple, unaffected prose, Mrs. Shaw constructs a moving saga of Native Americans caught between their tribal past and a Europeanized present. . . . Some of the most interesting passages deal with the wrenching realities of Indian life on the reservation in the years around the turn of the centur...
$24.95
www.amazon.com
product_img5
Ed Butts
She Dared: True Stories of Heroines, Scoundrels, and Renegades
From a true-life “Survivor Island” tale to the women who flew fighters and bombers for the Allies in World War II, Ed Butts invites you to meet twelve women who dared to live their lives on a tightrope. She Dared takes the reader to the Far North, where a single Native woman put an end to a ru...
$8.95
www.amazon.com
product_img5
William Loren Katz
Black Indians: A Hidden Heritage
The compelling teen nonfiction account of how two heritages united in their struggle to gain freedom and equality in America. The first paths to freedom taken by runaway slaves led to Native American villages. There, black men and women found acceptance and friendship among our country’s origina...
$17.98
www.amazon.com
product_img5
Lars Anderson
Carlisle vs. Army: Jim Thorpe, Dwight Eisenhower, Pop Warner, and the Forgotten Story of Football'sGreatest Battle
In this stunning work of narrative nonfiction, Lars Anderson recounts one of college football’s greatest contests: Carlisle vs. Army , the fateful 1912 gridiron clash that had far-reaching implications both real and symbolic. The story centers on three men: Glenn “Pop” Warner, who came to th...
$13.80
www.amazon.com
product_img5
Allison Lassieur
Westward Expansion: An Interactive History Adventure (You Choose: History)
The era of Westward Expansion was a turning point in U.S. history. When President Thomas Jefferson bought the Louisiana Territory from the French in 1803, it nearly doubled the size of the nation. The president sent Lewis and Clark to learn more about this land. Many people thought it was the nation...
$9.99
www.amazon.com
product_img5
Mary Doria Russell
Epitaph: A Novel of the O.K. Corral – The Epic True Story of Wyatt Earp and the Woman Behind the Legend
Mary Doria Russell, the bestselling, award-winning author of The Sparrow , returns with Epitaph . An American Iliad, this richly detailed and meticulously researched historical novel continues the story she began in Doc , following Wyatt Earp and Doc Holliday to Tombstone, Arizona, and to the g...
$9.69
www.amazon.com
product_img5
Jack H. Lepa
The Civil War in Tennessee, 1862-1863
In 1862, with the outcome of the Civil War far from sure, leaders on both sides began to pinpoint places vital for their army's success. For both Union and Confederate forces, Tennessee was a prize. Drawing on contemporary sources such as memoirs and official correspondence, this book details the s...
$35.00
www.amazon.com
product_img5
David L. Golemon
Primeval: An Event Group Thriller
The New York Time s bestselling author of Ancients and Leviathan returns with another adrenaline rush—the latest thriller in the Event Group Series Twenty thousand years ago, when man crossed the land bridge to North America, creatures called They Who Follow made the great trek as well. B...
$24.99
www.amazon.com
product_img5
Rick Bass
With Every Great Breath: New and Selected Essays, 1995-2023
Winner of the National Outdoor Book Award Longlisted for the Reading the West Book Awards "Master craftsman" ( Los Angeles Times ) and beloved author Rick Bass explores ecological, social, and personal landscapes through this collection that brings together his best-loved essays and brand-new piece...
$24.51
www.amazon.com
product_img5
Saint Athanasius of Alexandra
On the Incarnation
Two names stand above all others in the history of the early Christian church: Augustine and Athanasius. The former was from the West and contended for the doctrine of grace against Roman moralism, while the latter came from the East and became a champion of orthodoxy against Arian attacks on the do...
$8.25
www.amazon.com
product_img5
Dave Bentley
Abandoned Arizona: Secrets of the Desert (America Through Time)
Explores forgotten towns, ghost towns, and historic sites across Arizona's vast desert landscape. Arizona, granted statehood in 1912 as the forty-eighth state, has a rich and fascinating history that dates back much further, into the early 1800s. With ancient Native American civilizations and famo...
$18.77
www.amazon.com
product_img5
David Plowden
Imprints: A Retrospective
Photographs taken over a period of forty years depict America's vanishing and endangered places, from the wastelands of New Jersey to West Virginia factory towns and a Great Lakes steamer After four decades and 19 books chronicling America's small farms, forgotten towns, and aging industrial symbols...
$49.88
www.amazon.com
product_img5
Gary Clark
Texas: A Photographic Journey
The Lone Star State shines in Texas: A Photographic Journey , by award-winning photographers Kathy Adams Clark and Larry Ditto, with captions by Houston Chronicle columnist Gary Clark. These three Texans guide readers on a grand tour from the Panhandle to the Gulf Coast and from Big Bend to the P...
$12.95
www.amazon.com
product_img5
Richard ffrench
A Guide to the Birds of Trinidad and Tobago
"The island nation of Trinidad and Tobago has long served as a window on South American birdlife. Birders have been visiting the two islands in large numbers since the 1960s, when Asa Wright converted an unproductive plantation into one of the first neotropical 'ecotourist traps.' Anyone traveling t...
$27.49
www.amazon.com