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"Send those on land that will show themselves diligent writers." So urged the "sailing instructions" prepared for explorer Henry Hudson. With distinctive command of the primary texts created by such "diligent writers" as Columbus, William Bradford, and Thomas Jefferson, Wayne Franklin describes how the New World was created from their new words. The long verbal discovery of America, he asserts, entailed both advance and retreat, sudden insights and blind insistence on old ways of seeing. The discoverers, explorers, and settlers depicted America in words—or via maps, tables, and landscape views—as a complex spatial and political entity, a place where ancient formula and current fact were inevitably at odds.

The authoritative biography of James Fenimore Cooper, author of the Leather-Stocking Tales and representative figure of the early American republic"For Franklin, Cooper wasn't just a major American writer; he was one of the supreme inventors of the American imagination."—Christopher Benfey, New Republic James Fenimore Cooper (1789–1851) invented the key forms of American fiction—the Western, the sea tale, the Revolutionary War romance. Furthermore, Cooper turned novel writing from a polite diversion into a paying career. He influenced Herman Melville, Richard Henry Dana, Jr., Francis Parkman, and even Mark Twain—who felt the need to flagellate Cooper for his “literary offenses.” His novels mark the starting point for any history of our environmental conscience. Far from complicit in the cleansings of Native Americans that characterized the era, Cooper’s fictions traced native losses to their economic sources. Perhaps no other American writer stands in greater need of a major reevaluation than Cooper. This is the first treatment of Cooper’s life to be based on full access to his family papers. Cooper’s life, as Franklin relates it, is the story of how, in literature and countless other endeavors, Americans in his period sought to solidify their political and cultural economic independence from Britain and, as the Revolutionary generation died, stipulate what the maturing republic was to become. The first of two volumes, James Fenimore Cooper: The Early Years covers Cooper’s life from his boyhood up to 1826, when, at the age of thirty-six, he left with his wife and five children for Europe.

A definitive new biography of James Fenimore Cooper, early nineteenth-century master of American popular fiction"It will be the definitive biography and foremost study of Cooper’s fiction and nonfiction for the foreseeable future.”— Allan Axelrad, California State University, Fullerton American author James Fenimore Cooper (1789–1851) has been credited with inventing and popularizing a wide variety of genre fiction, including the Western, the spy novel, the high seas adventure tale, and the Revolutionary War romance. America’s first crusading novelist, Cooper reminds us that literature is not a cloistered art; rather, it ought to be intimately engaged with the world. In this second volume of his definitive biography, Wayne Franklin concentrates on the latter half of Cooper’s life, detailing a period of personal and political controversy, far-ranging international travel, and prolific literary creation. We hear of Cooper’s progressive views on race and slavery, his doubts about American expansionism, and his concern about the future prospects of the American Republic, while observing how his groundbreaking career management paved the way for later novelists to make a living through their writing. Franklin offers readers the most comprehensive portrait to date of this underappreciated American literary icon.

Bill Durmer is in over his head. In Midlife Mouse, the debut novel from filmmaker Wayne Franklin, Durmer, an underachieving genius, runs away to Walt Disney World in the mother of all midlife crises. Led by a series of bizarre encounters, a hyper-caffeinated delusion and a mysterious prophecy, Bill goes to the Magic Kingdom seeking his destiny. But a group of Disney haters will do almost anything to stop him. Pirates and princesses, morticians, moms and man-beasts, spacemen and psychos all have a stake in Bill's future ... and those are the good guys. This is not how he planned to spend his summer vacation.A genre mash-up of contemporary fantasy, Southern lit and mystery, Midlife Mouse builds upon real Disney history to create a fictional mythology for the Most Magical Place on Earth. Oh, and there's a mouse in there, too.

Not all corporate managers are self-serving, clueless jerks who put themselves before even corporate goals, let alone their own teams. Learn of a different way of leading where managers succeed in business, with their people, and in their own careers. Roundly successful managers put people first, including their employees, customers, and bosses, and still keep their focus on corporate goals like shareholder value and profit. You can have it all by doing the right thing by all. This is not a comprehensive work on management but a beginning treatise on managing right, a philosophy of leadership built on doing the right thing and serving people.

Publisher's Note: Products purchased from Third Party sellers are not guaranteed by the publisher for quality, authenticity, or access to any online entitlements included with the product.This concise, yet comprehensive review is the perfect tool to prepare for certification and recertification/maintenance of certification, CME, or for use as a clinical refresher. Featuring the insights of the world’s leading authorities, its highly efficient format conveniently condenses and simplifies only the most important content, for maximum yield and comprehension. What's more, the content covers the full scope of pediatric practice.LEARN MORE IN LESS TIME!*Standardized, bulleted format emphasizes key points of epidemiology, pathophysiology, clinical features, diagnosis and differential, and treatment*Highlights and summarizes only the most important concepts, to assure quick absorption of the material and reinforce your understanding of even the most difficult topics*Chapters are logically organized to help focus your study and provide quick access to specific subjects*Content is organized according to the clinical issues seen in pediatric training and practice. *Principles of Pediatric Care*Emergency Pediatrics*Neonatal Critical Care*Pediatric Critical Care*Pediatric Hospital Care*Allergic and Immunologic Disorders*Diseases of the Heart and Great Vessels*Skin Diseases*Disorders of the Endocrine System*Gastrointestinal and Liver Disease*Genetic Diseases *Disorders of the Blood and Blood Cells*Malignancies*Infectious Diseases*Diseases of the Kidney, Ureters, and Bladder*Neurologic Disorders*Diseases and Disorders of the Eye*Diseases of the Bone and Joints*Respiratory Disorders*Behavioral and Psychiatric Disorders*Rheumatological and Autoimmune Conditions*Growth Disorders*Pediatric DentistryAlso of Interest:Rudolph et al: Rudolph’s Pediatrics 21st Edition. ISBN: 0-8385-8285-0

Resource protection and public recreation policies have always been subject to the shifting winds of management philosophy governing both national and state parks. Somewhere in the balance, however, parks and preserves have endured as unique places of mind as well as matter. Places of Quiet Beauty allows us to see parks and preserves, forests and wildlife refuges--all those special places that the term "park" conjures up--as measures of our own commitment to caring for the environment. In this broad-ranging book, historian Rebecca Conard examines the complexity of American environmentalism in the twentieth century as manifest in Iowa's state parks and preserves.

Critically analyzing the relationship between place and art, a study of the work of seven authors from the Midwest--Dave Etter from Illinois, Wisconsin's Norbert Blei, Jim Harrison of upper Michigan, and Linda Hasselstrom of South Dakota, among others--explores how an author's intimate knowledge of place is reflected in their use of environment, language, geography, and behavior. Simultaneous.

'The river, like a keen memory, carries a record of the past.' David Faldet has spent forty years in the basin of the Upper Iowa River, which winds from the flat farm fields of southern Minnesota through the wooded valleys of northeast Iowa to the Mississippi. In this peaceful and inspiring book, Faldet tells the story of the Upper Iowa as it flows through land and people, holding true to Aldo Leopold's conception of land as a community in which water, people, and soil play interactive parts. Whether profiling the chief of the last hunter-gatherers on the river, an early settler witnessing her first prairie fire and a modern wildlife biologist using fire to manage prairies, the manager of the Granger Farmer's Co-op Creamery, or a landowner whose bottomlands are continually eaten away by floods, Faldet steadily develops the central idea that people are walking tributaries of the river basin in which they make their homes. Faldet moves through the history of life along the now-polluted Upper Iowa, always focusing on the ways people depend on the river, the environment, and the resources of the region. He blends contemporary conversations, readings from the historical record, environmental research, and personal experience to show us that the health of the river is best guaranteed by maintaining the biological communities that nurture it. In return, taking care of the Upper Iowa is the best way to take care of our future.

In the hot summer of 2004, David Leff floated away from the routine of daily life just as Henry David Thoreau and his brother had done in their own small boat in 1839. Fortified with Thoreau's observations as revealed in ""A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers"", Leff brought his own concept of mindful deep travel to these same New England waterways. His first-person narrative uses his ecological way of looking, of going deep rather than far, to show that our outward journeys are inseparable from our inward ones. How we see depends on where we are in our lives and with whom we travel. Leff chose his companions wisely. In consecutive journeys his neighbor and friend Alan, a veteran city planner; his son Josh, an energetic eleven-year-old; and his sweetheart Pamela, a compassionate professional caregiver, added their perspectives to Leff's own experiences as a government official in natural resources policy. Not so much sight seeing as sight seeking, together they explored a geography of the imagination as well as the rich natural and human histories of the rivers and their communities. The heightened awareness of deep travel demands that we immerse ourselves fully in places and realize that they exist in time as well as space. Its mindfulness enriches the experience and makes the voyager worthy of the journey. Leff's intriguing, contemplative deep travel along these historic rivers presents a methodology for exploration that will enrich any trip.