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|  | Images from the Storm by Charles F. Bryan, James C. Kelly, Nelson D. Lankford, Robert Knox Sneden
This illustrated history of the Civil War is made up of the graphic work--drawings, maps, illustrations, etc.--of a Union soldier who was captured and sent to Andersonville, the infamous Confederate prison where thousands died. Sneden survived the war and wrote a memoir, THE EYE OF THE STORM. AUTHOR: Charles F. Bryan, James C. Kelly, Nelson D. Lankford, Robert Knox Sneden
PUBLISHER: Free Press, The
FORMAT: Hardcover
CATEGORY: History 
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 | Critical Path by Kiyoshi Kuromiya, R. Buckminster Fuller
Description not available.A noted designer and thinker examines our crucial political, economic, ethical, and environmental dilemmas to show how we arrived at the present crisis stage and how humanity can correct its unprecedented threats to Spaceship Earth AUTHOR: Kiyoshi Kuromiya, R. Buckminster Fuller
PUBLISHER: St. Martin's Press, LLC
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: History
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 | Awesome Chesapeake by David O. Bell, Marcy Dunn Ramsey
The Chesapeake Bay is certainly an amazing body of water -- the largest estuary in North America. This book, the first of its kind, stimulates elementary and middle school children's interest in the Bay by exposing them to the fascinating creatures and plants found in and around the Bay's 2,500 square miles. Concepts like watershed, airshed, and food web as they relate to the Bay are explained in concise, understandable terms to promote awareness of the human role -- for good or ill -- in this vast system. This book is an effective means for children to discover the interesting traits of some of the plants, animals, birds, and fish they are likely to find in and around the Bay. Outstanding drawings bring the estuary and its inhabitants to life. AUTHOR: David O. Bell, Marcy Dunn Ramsey
PUBLISHER: Cornell Maritime Press, Incorporated
FORMAT: Hardcover
CATEGORY: History
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 | A History of the Jewish People by Haim H. Ben-Sasson
Description not available.A comprehensive, detailed survey of Jewish politics, religion, economics, and society and of Jewish life and achievement, from the second millennium B.C. through the Diaspora, and in the state of Israel AUTHOR: Haim H. Ben-Sasson
PUBLISHER: Harvard University Press
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: History
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 | The Sacred World of the Celts by Nigel Pennick
Description not available.Looks at the history and influences of ancient Celtic religion, including its high regard of women, the bardic tradition, and the pagan calendar, as well as its current revival AUTHOR: Nigel Pennick
PUBLISHER: Inner Traditions International, Limited
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: History
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 | Health of the Country by Conevery Bolton Valencius
Many have written about the settling of early 19th century America, but until now no one has explored these settlers' self-consciousness about what they were doing, what settling and cultivating the land itself meant. In HEALTH OF THE COUNTRY, Conevery Valencius shows that assessments of the sickliness or health of land pervade settlers' letters, journals, newspapers, and literature--evidence of the common sense of another time, when land was believed to have intrinsic health characteristics and the human body was understood to be linked in intimate and intricate ways with similar balances in the surrounding world. Valencius focuses her research on the Arkansas and Missouri territories from the time of the Louisiana Purchase to the Civil War, capturing the excitement, romanticism, confusion, and anxiety of the frontier experience and revealing how these emotions were bound up with settlers' unique relationships with their land. This is a complex and rewarding book, a beautifully written, fresh account of the gritty details of American expansion, animated by the voices of the settlers themselves. AUTHOR: Conevery Bolton Valencius
PUBLISHER: Basic Books
FORMAT: Hardcover
CATEGORY: History
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