Examines Indian life in the twenty-one missions Franciscans established in Alta California. In describing how the missions functioned between 1769 and 1848, the authors draw on previously unused sources to…

This scarce antiquarian book is included in our special Legacy Reprint Series. In the interest of creating a more extensive selection of rare historical book reprints, we have chosen to…

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.

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This work develops a general theory to explain the facts of island biogeography. The theory builds on the first principles of population ecology and genetics to explain how distance and…

The new revised fifth edition of Natural Hazards, remains the go-to introductory-level survey intended for university and college courses that are concerned with earth processes that have direct, and often…

This is a new release of the original 1960 edition.

This scarce antiquarian book is included in our special Legacy Reprint Series. In the interest of creating a more extensive selection of rare historical book reprints, we have chosen to…

This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger Publishing’s Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because…