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This fully revised and updated book contains beautiful full-color photos, easy-to-understand descriptions, and interesting facts for around 400 wildflowers frequently encountered in the spectacular Sierra Nevada region.

"As the ultimate getaway destination in the country, Key West offers visitors picturesque lodging, spas, dining, shopping, and beach and sea adventures year-round. While the locals have plenty charms and quirks to be celebrated, Ellen T. White's Picturesque Key West is for the visitors. Those who long to come back to moment they've backed their bags to return home.With stunning photography by Missy Janes, photographer for Pineapple Press' Palm Beach, this book is a visual journey around the island capturing an assortment of hot spots any tourist would want to remember. From the historic Gato Building representing the once thriving Cuban cigar industry in Florida, to cultural hubs like Hemingway House, to iconic eaters like Hog's Breath Saloon, and all the beach photos you could expect from a Key West book, Picturesque Key West is sure to be a keepsake for wedding guests, tourists, and anyone who love the unique island paradise"--

From the biggest bank robbery in the world to the largest money laundering scheme in history, Jukebox Empire follows the many twists and turns in one man's pursuit of the American dream.

Hikes varying from half-hour strolls to full-day adventures, this guidebook is for everyone, including families.

Dive into the most jaw-dropping verbal clashes of rich, powerful, and famous as I Can't Believe They Said That! unveils the outrageous things larger-than-life personalities have said about each other.

The history of fun foods is fast, energetic, and full of surprises. Ever-present and multi-faceted, fun foods have made appearances at birthday parties and lunch boxes in numerous guises, from Twinkies to energy bars. No mere high calorie treats, fun foods were instrumental to the core of how we live, and integral to the influence of Domestic Science, the shifting power of women at home, the use of fun foods as a weapon during war and the corporate swells that swallowed fun foods whole...and turned it into virtually everything we eat today. Each chapter contains recipes, interviews about fun foods with everyone from the 90-year-old daughter of a West Virginia coal miner and an African American great-grandmother raised in a sharecropper family in the South. Fun Foods of America will take them to free web sites to find online cookbooks dating back to the 1600s (with transcriptions!) and those with original paintings, drawings, and photographs of venues such as the World Fairs, where the newest fun food was introduced.

Discover the rolling hills, gorgeous rivers and lush forests of Indiana for a unique hiking experience.

"The first person of color to serve as vice president, Charles Curtis was once a household name but has become a footnote in American history. As a mixed-race person who became a public figure in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, his story is more relevant today than ever. He was constantly forced to choose whether to be Indian or white. Society would not let him be both. When his temper flared it was his "savage nature" coming through; when he presided over the United States Senate with an unprecedented knowledge of the rules and procedures, it was evidence of his "civilized" ancestry. Charles Curtis was born into Bleeding Kansas and came of age during the most turbulent of times. His father participated in the violence, as a Kansas Redleg avenging the actions of Missouri bushwhackers. As Civil War evolved into the Plains Indian Wars, Curtis was an eyewitness as his own people were starving and even the most powerful of tribes were confined to reservations. These forces shaped his philosophy and perspective. To this day he holds the distinction of being the only person of Native American heritage to be elected the second highest office in the land. He served as the 31st vice president of the United States from 1929 to 1933 under Herbert Hoover. Private and pragmatic, he became a respected statesman championing citizenship for Native Americans and rights for women. But his path of inclusion was perceived by others as destroying tribal sovereignty. Perhaps he realized that. But in his experience the most powerful force on earth was the federal government, and he learned to play the government game and to be better at it than almost anyone else"--